[-] BigBenis@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago

I know you think you're being pragmatic but it's really just coming off as depraved.

[-] BigBenis@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

This guy has the perpetual look of somebody who is actively shitting themself.

[-] BigBenis@lemmy.world 49 points 2 days ago

"WhAt CoUlD pOsSiBlY bE gOiNg On???!"

[-] BigBenis@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

This feels like it's supposed to be a dig on Star Wars if it weren't for the fact that it's got both Carrie Fisher and Natalie Portman.

[-] BigBenis@lemmy.world 72 points 2 days ago

It's like the trolley problem, except on one track is somebody's beloved father and on the other is some executive's 5th yacht.

[-] BigBenis@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Lol what a fucking dweeb

[-] BigBenis@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

I like to imagine we'd all be happier and better people if city infrastructure wasn't designed around trying to get cars from A to B instead of people.

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I was doing some math in my head. I've been thinking about housing prices and wanted to assess the rough value of my city neighborhood block.

Assuming the average value of a house in my neighborhood is a flat $500k, that means 2 houses = $1M.

Counting the houses on my street I estimated there are about 20 houses per-block, which means 1 block = 20 houses = $10M.

Continuing to scale that up by factors of 10, we get:

10 blocks = 200 houses = $100M

and

100 blocks = 2000 houses = $1B

I opened up a map to visualize 100 blocks and it's practically my entire city neighborhood. Billionaires shouldn't exist.

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[-] BigBenis@lemmy.world 137 points 10 months ago

For reference, $10M is 1% of $1B. Jeff Bezos is worth $225B, so that would be 1/225 of 1% for him to foot the bill. Considering there are many other multi-billionaires living on that island, that brings our fraction of a single percent of their collective wealth closer and closer to effectively zero.

The greed of billionaires is unfathomable.

[-] BigBenis@lemmy.world 178 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I remember hearing about basically this literally a decade ago. Nothing's been done about it since then. Nothing will be done about it now. Not unless we make a fuss about it at which point they'll pretend to give a shit about us and make grand gestures towards transitioning away from receipts made from hazardous materials. Meanwhile, they'll continue to knowingly expose us to some other hazardous material for the next decade until some independent research team uncovers how it's slowly poisoning everybody who comes into contact with it. And thus the cycle continues.

Under capitalism, there is no incentive to do anything for the benefit of humankind when it comes into conflict with the ultimate goal of accumulating as much wealth for yourself as humanly possible. It will always corrupt.

[-] BigBenis@lemmy.world 207 points 1 year ago

Easy fix, don't buy from Amazon.

[-] BigBenis@lemmy.world 175 points 1 year ago

It's great to see the Democrats have learned absolutely nothing and continue to refuse to evolve.

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My summer squash has taken off over the last several weeks and overtaken the neighboring carrots. So I hadn't checked in on them in a while. Found a few good ones this morning!

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