JayDee

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[–] JayDee@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

The big reason is that you're choosing to spend several hundred dollars to put your still perfectly performant phone in a land fill so you can have a percentage or two more performance.

Your dial up comparison is not really a fair comparison, either. The S9 is not dialup in comparison to Samsung's new galaxy phones. You'd have to go down to like a BlackBerry or a Nokia flip phone to have that comparison make sense.

[–] JayDee@lemmy.ml 51 points 2 years ago (30 children)

I've been running a galaxy S9 for years and have never run into a bottleneck with it.

Why do y'all keep needing more and more power packed into your phones? It doesn't make any sense to me.

[–] JayDee@lemmy.ml 25 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (10 children)

Does this include tax filing? Please include tax filing...

It does not. Good for everyone else, but we seriously need to flip how we do taxes here.

[–] JayDee@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Living in the US, where we revoke the voting rights of Convicts, Jerrymander to rob the voice minority groups, and refuse to instate direct democracy over an electoral college. It is very hard for me to believe this was ever not the case. The only time peoples' opinions seem to change is when they start being unable to put food on their plates.

[–] JayDee@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

What a fantastic and beautiful piece.

[–] JayDee@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Because they're fucking awesome and people tend to love em'

Might as well ask why kids love the taste of Cinnamon Toast Crunch

[–] JayDee@lemmy.ml 24 points 2 years ago

Good. Line em up on the wall, they're just a nuisance to every resident that doesn't own one.

[–] JayDee@lemmy.ml 108 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You're walking on a path. That's traceable. Beginner mistake

[–] JayDee@lemmy.ml 24 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Chuck tingle does it again. Nearly cried when reading "Pounded in the Butt by my own Butt" back in the day.

[–] JayDee@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

I've seen this all over YouTube, every time I looked up "DIY tire Mead breaking". When you don't have the right tool, you make it.

[–] JayDee@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Nationalizing Oil is also not going to be appealing to Americans. Moderate liberals and everyone right of them will parade such efforts as Communist and/or facism. Those efforts will die before they even make it to the table

I would say even eliminating oil subsidies would be an insane fight to take on at the national level.

The more realistic fights are most likely going to occur at the local level, with workplaces unionizing, pushes in cities and towns to move away from car-centric urban design, and various other efforts which whittle oil dependance away.

It's only when those local fights are widespread that we'll start seeing national changes, and those changes will more than likely revolve around how taxation is distributed than around subsidies.

[–] JayDee@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

I don't really see your point. Oil companies jack the price of oil up anyway, regardless of subsidies. The subsidies seem to only allow oil companies to expand their enterprises on US citizens' tax dollars (apologies if your in a different country, just change "US" to wherever you live). We're literally funding the expansion of industries that are actively killing our planet.

From another perspective, the only reason everything rises in cost when oil prices raise is due to oil dependance. It would be a momentary hardship, but oil prices rising would be a strong incentive for individuals and businesses to become oil-independant, which would mean using greener means of transportation, lowered plastic use, etc. It's actually long-term the best thing we could be doing right now.

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