Never said it was inexpensive. It’s just not nearly as expensive as you all make it seem. 15% of the country does hit this number and 25% are close.

Y’all out pretending nobody is buying houses.

You don’t need remotely close to that income level. 200k household income will get you a nice home at a reasonable price.

Because most people do not react the way you do. You do your best to teach kids why it’s wrong and have them correct behavior but letting them do whatever they want and not escalating when needed is a bad strategy as well. This works well in most children. To expect most parents today, much less 30 years ago to be able to closely identify what might be going on under the surface as well as a professional is unrealistic.

Meh. I work 35 actual hours in front of a keyboard. I have my days but I’m happy and mostly fulfilled.

I like apps for stores I frequent. Most people do.

Having 150+ is a personal problem.

They know what they did.

Getting paid 130k+ a year is a pretty good life for writing emails.

Yeah but in the grand scheme of things the Reddit app is good enough for most. Decentralizing content is a good idea but in practice it cause issues for most users. Niche topics have almost zero chance in this environment. The big news subs dominate and duplicate posts from other instances and topics gets quadruple posted. I also don’t like the ideas of tankie and fascists having their own personal feeds to grow. I also really dislike the idea of everyone posting their furry habits on servers. To each their own but it’s a privacy nightmare, but most seem okay with the zero accountability of the instances. Lemmy.world is the only one I know of paying attention to that at all.

Anyway this turned into bitching about Lemmy which wasn’t my intent. I just wish there was a better in-between.

It’s easier. They developed better apps and ux. It became centralized and instead of 20 forums you have a few apps. BBCode was a pain in the ass.

Unfortunately it is, and the way you think humans should react isn’t actually how they do.

And yet the world goes on and cameras still exist.

If you get political, people will react 🤷‍♂️

Is your expectation that Apple will send in troops to raid phone stores inside of Russia?

Which search engine was running without ads? Were any of those streaming sites paying content creators? Was your streaming site handing traffic for more than 10 users? What was your outgoing bandwidth bill from your ISP?

And did you pay those people? How much money were they able to make off their artistic efforts?

What services were free and not ad supported that survived unlimited VC funds from the 90s?

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I’m not saying there isn’t crap in the private sector, but in my experience government really sucks managing IT.

Have you ever worked for government IT? Most of it is ages behind private sector.

It seems like it was one of those old systems from the earlier days that somehow was overlooked. It’s not great but I understand how it happens if they didn’t have strong monitoring and system ownership.