Hey I tried to DM you but couldn't. Zoe I think You're cool. Don't let these idiots get to You. Post away and enjoy. Just block these arseholes if all else fails that or ignore. Like literally ignore them.
Considering how crazy expensive accommodations have become the last couple of years, concentrated in the hands of greedy corporations, landlords and how little politicians seem to care about this problem, do you think we will ever experience a real estate market crash that would bring those exorbitant prices back to Earth?
Housing and affordable housing should totally be a human right. Look at all the global inequality and how it keeps on growing, the Rich 🤑 / wealthy are accumulating and consolidating wealth 🤑 ... Locking people out of opportunities 😕😔😔😐 n the governments do nothing to protect their citizens from the legal corruption... In fact they help the corporations out.
If people who built nations and kept them running ( the workers / ETC) were compensated properly we'd all have housing, food, clean water ETC. It's called sharing the profits / wealth. But that's not what monopolies and people at the top 🎩 🔝 of industries do.
I mean US still got child labor 😭 till this day.
People that keep the countries running need to go on a strike / protest all at once for a week or two and demand some kind of equality from their government or otherwise no work no running economy!!
It's been done before and it can happen again if we can brave sharing food and water with each other for a week or more.
Seems like just about everyone has a video doorbell and/or other cameras monitoring their property. Took it for granted in my youth without even knowing it.
Last year, more middle-aged adults were binge drinking, using marijuana or consuming hallucinogens than ever before, according to a new report. Cannabis use surged among young adults under 30, alongside historic rates of vaping, as well.
I am just saying in general; there are nasty diseases that get passed around by sharing food, water, bottles, glasses, cups , smokes ETC. Bad idea to share with strangers, friends and EVEN family members.
Was just stating this in case anyone didn't know already.
The way I see it is the ruling class helped to shape most of our systems in society ; they're the ones that turned capitalism into "cut throat capitalism / ultra capitalism"
We all need to go on a protest / strike for a week or two and demand seperation of BIG BUSINESS/Corporations and government. We need to demand affordable education, medication, health care and housing. We need to protest/ go on a strike before the AI face recognition won't allow us to. IK this will likely never ever happen, but I don't see any other way the people in US can make their demands heard. We need to stick together n share food n water for just a week or so with our neighbors, homeless ETC; with our fellow Americans*
What is an ellipses ?
If You mean the triple dot... It's just as a pause... Maybe about the same as punctuation/dot/period... Idk... Makes it easier to express myself I suppose..
Some ppl think 🤔 it's sarcasm ... But it's not how I use it; or what I use it for...
I guess this is my writing/ typing style... Maybe 😏🤔 a bad habbit I formed talking over social media over all these years... IDK TBH
A shroom community was removed from lemmy.world as it was considered “illegal” content by the admins. The logic behind this is boggling, to say the least....
Like banning pics n photos of MUSHROOMS whether psychedelic or not is FUCKING BAZAAR to me ... I don't get it... Are amanita mascaria banned, how about blue meanies , or is it just cubes ? Banning nature / biology / science(mycology) is idiotic
Is there magazines about alcohol, vaping and or tobacco ?
Cause I assure You (Lemmy) shrooms been consumed by humans for far longer then any substances that You allow discussions over, and it's one of those organic substances that's more good than bad (obviously it's not for everyone) but it's a great 😃👍 substance... "
"several antibiotics have already been isolated from various mushrooms and microfungi (including penicillin and griseofulvin, which are isolated from microfungi)"
Are you gonna ban the discussion over antibiotics next ?
Went to a restaurant in LA today and when I got the check I noticed that it was a bit higher than it should be. Then I noticed this 18% service charge. So… We, as customers, need to help pay for their servers instead of the owners paying their servers a living wage. And on top of that they have suggested tip. I called bs on...
pay them , what You want to ... And increase the price on your menu ... BUT DO NOT STICK 😞 YOUR CUSTOMER WITH A HIDDEN FEE ...
Especially when we(customers) HAVE to pay tip 😉 ... {{ Like 'TF was the person who came up with the hidden fee even thinking... 😞🤔 ? }}
Makes me think 🤔 if I went to a grocery store and they charged me a membership like Costco without actually disclosing it... Sounds like fraud if they don't disclose this service charge / fee at the very beginning... They should have it plastered big all over the place because looks like most of us wouldn't expect something like this...
"Restraunt" food is expensive as it is IMHO, even fast food isn't a great deal unless you buy with a coupon or some 2 burgers deal 🤝... Otherwise it's not worth it... Not to me anyways ... :/
" The announcement and change in billing language comes after a Los Angeles Times article published on June 21 about the class-action lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court against Joint Venture Restaurant Group Inc., which owns Jon & Vinny’s. The workers claim that the company denied them tips and therefore shortchanged them on their take-home pay because of confusion resulting from the 18% service fee.
California’s gratuity law requires that tips be remitted in full to non-managerial service staff. "
SMH ... What a bunch of assholes; screwed their customers and then their staff...
Ye... idk 😶😐 n or get how someone might like and or support communism , like even if they support the idea on paper or the karl marx communist menefesto. Most ppl think 🤔 of communism as soviet union , china or north korea, vietnam , cuba ETC ... n 😭 none o' those countries are worth living in (IMHO). I mean they've no freedom n or democracy or hope of democratizing. Sure some countries are flawed democracies, even some in western Europe, n US also is another. But at least these countries have a potential to get to a Full Democracy status.
Like when I hear about communism, it makes me wanna throw up ... what's wrong with trying ( for any country) to be a democracy / act democratically towards the people n neighboring countries... (Meaning democracies working with/ or along side other democracies n trying to improve one another by different means )
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As someone who was born in n during soviet union , I seriously 😒😳 don't get how anyone thinks communism is a good idea
I get the fact that evil powers picked up communism n twisted the idea to something else completely in some ways/aspects...
But ....
Big BUT; I'd love to see an example of one, just one flourishing communist country in the world RN or in the past. Cause I can give You a list of plenty of countries that turned to democracy n are doing somewhat OK considering what's happening with the world today. Or even in the past...
If only we could all rely on each other n our communities ( to share food and water ) , n if we could all go on a massive strike / protest all at once ... Maybe then we could get the government to listen to us... But that ain't happening... We're all too divided to act as one
And now with mass surveillance and AI; I figure we really don't stand a chance when 🪧 protesting...
I've no hope that things will get better... For Us or Them (other countries)... Global inequality is growing each year quickly
I've read somewhere that it's become quite dangerous to be a pedestrian/cyclist over the last few decades in the USA
Where I live we have a major intersection and the drivers looking to make a right turn are looking left to see if any cars are coming ( at 40 mph ) they're not looking right where a person is standing waiting for the walk sign to come on. When the walking sign comes on , the drivers make the right turn and only notice that a person is walking then; they swerve around you in shock and disbelief... IK this because it's happened to me numerous/countless times...
The Russian occupying forces are actively conducting “military and patriotic” education of children in the occupied territories of Ukraine with the goal of then recruiting them into the Armed Forces of Russia.
Mi mum's once told me "the threat of hell is ridiculous; we've been living in it, n will continue living in hell until the universe/ cosmos comes to an end"
I've had some people tell Me not to use it, had Reddit go nutters and ban Me for maybe using it too much.. at least that's how I feel / felt ( that's my guess that they banned me for this reason )
Anyways 🤨🤔 when I got bullied / mocked by my best friends ( at least whom I thought was my best friend ) I began to despise / resent / hate that person. Now despite the feeling I've in my head / heart ; I certainly don't want anything bad to happen to my ex best friend / friend.
It's the same with the country 😦😔 I live in; I think it's hurt n hurting a lot of people n I hate the policies and brutality the stark/great inequality it has. However I do wish shit would get better for all in this country; first and foremost.
So I guess I am saying / asking.... Just because I hate someone/ something / some place ; soooo that's not the same as hate speech right?
tldr: I hate how some people act like You shouldn't use that word (hate) n or act like it's inappropriate or what ever. Drives me nuts.
Brand new to KBIN n Fedivers concept in general. Am looking to find a magazine for friendship / pen pals / friendship advice. But I realize I've no idea how to look and or search for that community. Would anyone please point me in the right direction and/or teach me how to browse look for magazines?...
Temperatures in parts of Chile and northern Argentina have soared to 10°C–20°C above average over the last few days. Towns in the Andes mountains have reached 38°C or more, while Argentina's capital, Buenos Aires, saw temperatures above 30°C—breaking its previous August record by more than 5°C. Temperatures peaked at...
Tucker Carlson Interview with Donald Trump. 24/08/2023 (twitter.com)
Italians are literally braver than cops (hexbear.net)
Do you think we will ever have affordable housing again in our lifetime?
Considering how crazy expensive accommodations have become the last couple of years, concentrated in the hands of greedy corporations, landlords and how little politicians seem to care about this problem, do you think we will ever experience a real estate market crash that would bring those exorbitant prices back to Earth?
It's probably more difficult for kids to throw house parties nowadays when their parents are out of town due to how accessible security cameras are.
Seems like just about everyone has a video doorbell and/or other cameras monitoring their property. Took it for granted in my youth without even knowing it.
Marijuana and hallucinogen use, binge drinking reached record highs in middle-aged adults, survey finds (www.cnn.com)
Last year, more middle-aged adults were binge drinking, using marijuana or consuming hallucinogens than ever before, according to a new report. Cannabis use surged among young adults under 30, alongside historic rates of vaping, as well.
Never forget. (lemmy.world)
This time they are sending ALL of us to the ovens.
The Taliban’s war on women in Afghanistan must be formally recognized as gender apartheid (theconversation.com)
Graffiti's quality of art and sentiment has fallen in the modern era (lemmy.world)
Please fix Rule 1.
A shroom community was removed from lemmy.world as it was considered “illegal” content by the admins. The logic behind this is boggling, to say the least....
What does reduce mean in Kbin ... Is that a downvote? (media.kbin.social)
What does reduce mean in Kbin ... Is that a downvote? (media.kbin.social)
higher wages for the servers... by the customers. Fnbs (lemmy.world)
Went to a restaurant in LA today and when I got the check I noticed that it was a bit higher than it should be. Then I noticed this 18% service charge. So… We, as customers, need to help pay for their servers instead of the owners paying their servers a living wage. And on top of that they have suggested tip. I called bs on...
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Shrooms - A place to discuss the growing, hunting, and the experience of magical fungi. (sh.itjust.works)
A new home for the Shrooms Community! All psychoactive species welcome! Discussion and Cultivation of magical fungi. No Sales Allowed.
6 days of growth (sh.itjust.works)
Just reposting some of my content lost on the old community
What simple changes should people do in their lives to make a positive impact on climate change?
I do believe the biggest impact would come from regulating large companies and billionaires, but it’s not one or the other.
Two people (lemmy.world)
Russia is preparing children from occupied territories to fight against Ukraine (www.pravda.com.ua)
The Russian occupying forces are actively conducting “military and patriotic” education of children in the occupied territories of Ukraine with the goal of then recruiting them into the Armed Forces of Russia.
US Department of State: security guarantees for Ukraine should stay in place even if Trump is elected (www.pravda.com.ua) Ukrainian
How do I find / search for magazines? (kbin.social)
Brand new to KBIN n Fedivers concept in general. Am looking to find a magazine for friendship / pen pals / friendship advice. But I realize I've no idea how to look and or search for that community. Would anyone please point me in the right direction and/or teach me how to browse look for magazines?...
One of 2023's most extreme heat waves is happening in the middle of winter (phys.org)
Temperatures in parts of Chile and northern Argentina have soared to 10°C–20°C above average over the last few days. Towns in the Andes mountains have reached 38°C or more, while Argentina's capital, Buenos Aires, saw temperatures above 30°C—breaking its previous August record by more than 5°C. Temperatures peaked at...