PeriodicallyPedantic

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[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

The people here who think that marketing doesn't affect shit like this, or that they're not affected by marketing, are exactly the kind of easy marks that marketing preys on.

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago

Everywhere I've seen indigo (or hotspot) around Halifax, they've supported both pay at a physical terminal, or pay via phone (which gives you extra features like feeding the meter remotely, or refunding unused time).

Personally I think it's a pretty good system.

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 0 points 10 months ago (11 children)

The bar is on the floor for men, and unreasonably high for women.
Women put some of those restrictions on each other, but largely as a byproduct of the society they were raised in.

It's a privilege in the same way that having a shoulder to cry on is a female privilege.

If you're going to try to argue that society doesn't push people into certain roles or to think in certain ways, or that men aren't also involved in creating the parts of society that determine roles for women, then I don't think we can have a meaningful exchange.

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago

You did it 👏👏👏👏

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Does invidious work for Tiktok? Does it take away from the corporation without also taking away from the creators I like?

Sharing a Tiktok link doesn't require someone to make an account.

While I generally like privacy focused proxies and FOSS services, this kind of reaction to sharing a link on a link aggregator seems prime neckbeards attitude. People don't have to click the link of they don't want to, simple as.

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

In my experience, indigo parking is also accompanied by an indigo pay machine for exactly this purpose. It spits out a little ticket you put in your windshield.

Idk about this case specifically, but their pay machines are all around Halifax.

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca -2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's simply not true. That culture didn't form in a vacuum. It's the result of decades of marketing and other societal forces. Everyone bears some responsibility for all subcultures.

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 7 points 10 months ago (13 children)

Both can be true at the same time. Nothing exists in a vacuum.

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I'd like to draw a distinction between nerds and neckbeards. Nerds are generally understanding about a lack of options.

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 14 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Instructions unclear, I got my dick caught in the number 8.

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

The problem is loopholes, but I'm not a tax lawyer, which is why I provi such a vague answer.

I think that ostentatious wealth is a sign you're not doing your share to help the society that supports you, so the disgustingly rich shouldn't exist. But I'm not opposed to a little inequality as reward for doing important work or going above and beyond, but what we have now is crazy.

I wouldn't really say that California's tax is especially progressive compared to taxes in the past, like the golden age of the USA. But even then, lobbyists have opened so many loopholes that it doesn't even really matter what the tax rate is

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