Ah but when the prices can't go any higher they can always remove content, paying their suppliers less and getting cheaper hardware. I wish I was joking but these are the options that are left.

It doesn't help that Google tries to guess what you actually wanted to search for.

Many sub contractors live on the mercy of the companies they supply. That forces them to show more goodwill than they want.

I remember a couple years back when Ericsson unilaterally decided that they would stop paying their bills after a month and instead changed it to three months. So, do you want to piss off the biggest company in the region or do you just say "Thank you, sir"?

As an aside, what kind of amoral sod goes around teaching companies what bills they can ignore and how morally bankrupt must you be to listen to them?

You remind me of chatting with a friend from Hong Kong and how surprised she was that I, as a young man, knew how to cook and did it for fun.

An infuriating part of it is that IMF, money lovers that they are, published research on this at least ten years ago.

But you can teach someone something that their job depends on them not knowing.

Never ask questions you don't want an honest answer to.

I find it interesting that in Swedish the opposite of sunwise is "motsols", i.e. counter sunwise or literally "against the sun". Sunwise is called "medsols", lit. "with the sun".

Agreed

By their logic games like civ with its turn based fighting "had no right to exist" because counterstrike is popular...

Some people just enjoy being able to plan their actions and having a bird's eye perspective on things.

Have you ever heard of the just world fallacy?

You seem to have made some good choices but you don't seem to understand how much luck has to do with the outcome.

It doesn't take very much to wipe out savings or destroy a plan, especially before you got any funds to handle the unexpected and even more so in the US and it's low de-comodification.

Get hit by a car by no fault of your own, rack up a high medical bill and be fired due to not being able to work. It's not that an outlandish scenario and one that most can't plan for or have money in reserve for.

And that's of course even harder for someone growing up in a poor household and working minimal wage jobs.

My kids school in Sweden, at least age 6 to 12 have a school day from 8 till 13, or 14 for the older kids, and still no homework.

But long days would be counterproductive. Learning is hard work, that's part of the reason a new job is so exhausting. Doing that long hours for years would only burn kids out even more.

Agreed. I find it fascinating how hard it is for some people to understand the difference between "lawful" and "morally right".

As much as I dislike Facebook I really don't agree with the idea that they should pay for linking to news articles.

One could flip the argument in article and ask if having a post on Facebook is worthless for the newspapers, then why are companies paying Meta for ads on Facebook?

I also feel that this goes against the concept of the internet. If Facebook has to pay then why shouldn't I when I'm linking to a page from my blog? Why shouldn't Lemmy?

The problem for the rest of us is that big companies can handle the payment, and they can handle the admin for getting paid. The rest of us won't get paid but we'll all have to pay. The barriers for entry will only become bigger and only the big boys will be allowed to play.