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[–] 98 points 2 months ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 54 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 29 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 47 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (9 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago* (5 children)

    Housing markets isn't getting worse?

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago* (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months 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.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    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 👀 😬

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months 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

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  • [–] 38 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

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    [–] 27 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 23 points 2 months 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?

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  • [–] 19 points 2 months ago

    my mental health, for once ^^

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  • [–] 15 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    My disappointment is immense, and my day is ruined

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago

    Healthcare, outside the US.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months 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.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

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

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

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

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    getting worse is getting better

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months 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.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    This is a recession truth nuke

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  • [–] -1 points 2 months 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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