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Cake day: July 4th, 2023

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  • Shit like this is why i’ve been trying to convince my wife to leave.

    We have these traffic violation “google maps cars” driving around giving fines to everyone in the vicinity of the person breaking a rule. To fight an unlawful fine can take weeks or even months for us citizens, yet they get the right to just blanket send them to everyone who’s license plate is visible in the image.

    Fuck that, take your responsibility back and do it right.

    The same goes for public transport, they will add fees for a detour and expect you to not check on them even though you don’t have to pay for it as a detour is on them. If you want to set it right you need to put in an appeal which again can take weeks or even months.

    And now they expect me to trust them, hell if they roll this out i’ll falsely end up in jail before the week is over.





  • It seems Lemmy doesn’t like it either.

    The internet should have always been taken with a grain of salt, but nowadays half of society lives on the web and have made it into the shitshow it is now.

    I was unemployed for a couple weeks and spent them on my phone wasting away time between interviews so to say, i lost touch of reality so quickly to the point where just being allowed to live your life had become alien to me. I currently work at a construction company and i’ve quickly realized you can still live your life even though people don’t agree because they have no control over you.

    The internet is a dangerous place











  • Imo paying a monthly fee and not getting something in return you can still use if you fall on bad times in such uncertain times as today makes zero sense. Rent more than doubled in the past 3 years and my wage actually went down, there is zero oppertunity to build a better life and now every silly business wants me to increase my monthly expenses by another 5/20 bucks per service per month, compared to an era where we just bought shit for cheap from the discount bin when we didn’t make a lot of money.

    I’ll “ARRRR!” the whole way until they behave and life becomes affordable again.

    I stopped working out because i can’t afford the food needed to properly benefit from a workout. Whey used to be a cheap way to get protëine and it went up 350% in the past 2 years. Eggs, chicken, peanuts, vegetables all doubled in price. I’m left eating a roll of cheap cookies just to get some food in me half the time.


  • There is no value in spending money anymore, you used to get some long term benefits. You bought movies, music and games for example and got to use them however long you want to. Now you pay significantly more under the guise of: “it’s only x amount per month” and own nothing.

    For me, something like Spotify is far too expensive, considering i could buy an album from the discount bin for like €2 and play it for a full year until i got slightly bored (you still owned and got to use it after that). Spotify is €11 a month, times 12 compared to a single €2 permanent purchase. I usually only bought one or 2 albums per year.

    I’m not saying you need to agree with this, but for me it makes absolutely no sense to pay this much especially when i look at my wage not going up and the cost of living having doubled over the past few years.