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[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 97 points 2 weeks ago

My jerk boss got fired yesterday so that’s getting better.

[-] BucketBong@p.hobo.social 37 points 2 weeks ago

Mine just got covid and won't be here for a week, it's a good day today, well for me.

[-] KombatWombat@lemmy.world 54 points 2 weeks ago

World hunger, global literacy rates, number of people living in extreme poverty, deaths to malaria, investment in renewable energy, the hole in the ozone, homicide rates, etc.

Things going well just don't get talked about as much.

[-] swearengen@sopuli.xyz 29 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Most of those things were improved with the help of USAID, with that gone and other countries either not picking up the slack or straight up cutting their funding as well we're probably looking at the peak for most of those.

Aside from renewables and the ozone layer I expect most things you listed to backslide year after year for the foreseeable future.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2026/07/01/musk-escalates-unproven-usaid-claims-in-fiery-posts-as-studies-link-doge-cuts-to-child-deaths/

https://theconversation.com/malawis-education-choices-in-the-wake-of-aid-cuts-284725

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 2 weeks ago

Aside from renewables and the ozone layer I expect most things you listed to backslide year after year for the foreseeable future.

About that..

[-] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 47 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

At the risk of jinxing it:

Linux, Tor, and Godot

Possibly housing markets.

Though improvements to TOR are mostly for Android which is about to heavily enshitify since last year's changes to AOSP and unofficial app policies. Still, I think the number of TOR volunteers enabling the network have grown? Definitely feels faster than before.

[-] IncogCyberSpaceUser@piefed.social 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Housing markets isn't getting worse?

[-] zikzak025@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Looks at "Housing Prices Hit All-Time High" news article from a few months ago

The kicker? The only reason there haven't been more recent articles about it is because every day is a new record high.

[-] SorryQuick@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

Am I dumb or is that not supposed to be normal? With inflation you don’t expect it to go down, you expect it to go up a little bit every day.

“The housing market is doing better” doesn’t mean prices are going down, but rather that it isn’t going up as fast as it used to.

[-] SystemDisc@feddit.org 4 points 2 weeks ago

I think the point is that the pricing is much higher than it ought to be, so to get genuinely better the prices either have to go down or you have to have a very long period of them not going up as much as inflation.

[-] zikzak025@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

This. It's not just inflation in isolation, but the fact that wages are rising slower than inflation, while cost of housing is rising faster.

Adjust for inflation and you'd see wages dropping, while housing continues to go up. This creates a growing and unsustainable affordability gap.

[-] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Obviously this is regionally dependent, but housing supply is set to overtake the growing demand in the next few years.

Heres a random source I googled which cites Mortgage Banker's Association crying over loss of potential future profits if they accidentally build enough units for housing to become cheap again: SOURCE

[-] Anivia@feddit.org 3 points 2 weeks ago

Still, I think the number of TOR volunteers enabling the network have grown? Definitely feels faster than before.

Or the number of compromised exit nodes has increased 👀 😬

[-] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Would it even matter? The network gets routed between multiple nodes and the site traffic itself is encrypted, so unless a sufficient number of nodes total were comrpomised then tracking who is visiting where would be an effort in futility, no?

The only notable case of a TOR user being tracked down that I can think of was a Silk Road user using his personal email address in malicious activity.

Plus, you can use both VPN and TOR.

[-] Anivia@feddit.org 2 points 2 weeks ago

so unless a sufficient number of nodes total were comrpomised then tracking who is visiting where would be an effort in futility, no?

Yes, I was being hyperbolic, its probably unlikely enough nodes are compromised

The only notable case of a TOR user being tracked down that I can think of was a Silk Road user using his personal email address in malicious activity.

There was another one: https://blog.torproject.org/tor-is-still-safe/

But this was also technically a case of user error

[-] Zephyr@sh.itjust.works 38 points 2 weeks ago

It's a sad day to see review brah down in the dumps

[-] Tm12@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 weeks ago

Surprised he’s alive given what he’s ingested.

[-] mbp@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 weeks ago

He might be pickling from within

[-] HisThiccness@lemmy.zip 32 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)
[-] Alk@sh.itjust.works 27 points 2 weeks ago

My van. It got a new horn today. That's one thing.

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago
[-] Alk@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago

Unfortunately not, it sounds kind of like a normal horn but WAY louder. I can't stop on a dime so if someone cuts me off I need them to know they are in danger haha. But honestly I'd love an awooga horn.

[-] dismay3915@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Bididididii, bidididiidiii, Bidididididi

[-] black0ut@pawb.social 23 points 2 weeks ago

Well of course! The profits of the Epstein class are always growing, and Felon Musk is a trillionaire. Won't anybody here think of the rich?

[-] ollie@pawb.social 19 points 2 weeks ago

my mental health, for once ^^

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I thought he was talking about things in general, but he meant fast food places specifically.

[-] QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

Fast food can screw off, honestly. It sucks, expensive, shrinkflated, and is a gross reflection of America's excessive consumerism.

[-] Notyou@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 weeks ago

Well he is a fast food reviewer.....I could see how that this screenshot doesn't show that though.

[-] zakobjoa@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago
[-] Wakmrow@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

That's actually just a thumbnail

[-] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago

My disappointment is immense, and my day is ruined

[-] Slovene85@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 weeks ago
[-] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

Gahh I knew it didn't sound right lol

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

My disappointment is immense and my day is immeasurable!

[-] fizzle@quokk.au 12 points 2 weeks ago

Healthcare, outside the US.

[-] nullspace@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

I was gonna say we're living in the gooner golden age, but payment processors enforcing arbitrary decency standards have regressed us in recent years as content producers self-censor and content platforms censor legal content.

[-] sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 weeks ago

He still looks pretty timeless. Does he have Benjamin Button trait?

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 weeks ago

I mean things are looking up if you're a sadomasochist.

[-] flango@lemmy.eco.br 2 points 2 weeks ago

getting worse is getting better

[-] roserose56@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago

Let's all sit and watch, sit and watch. No one is going to do nothing about it, riots belong to the past, as internet is a place to complain and raise awareness, but do absolutely nothing.

[-] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

No one is going to do nothing about it...[the] internet is a place to complain and raise awareness, but do absolutely nothing.

you should do something about that other than complain about it on the internet.

[-] Fleur_@aussie.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago

This is a recession truth nuke

[-] Thunderbird4@lemmy.world -1 points 2 weeks ago

Hilariously, that video is just about fast food getting worse. I get staying in your lane and that fast food is this guy's thing, but of all the things to focus on right now…

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