@Voltan I got the I-phone 11… I’m not really a ‘phone-y’ and it was the only available model where I wouldn’t have to pay more on my contract. In all honesty I only really crossed over to use that shiny new PlayStation themed-backbone.
The phone arrived yesterday and still in the delivery bag… it’ll probably stay in there until I receive the backbone which is due to arrive at the end of the month.
@Voltan that’s cool, I used apple products when editing video in Uni (and thereafter when I started a small business) and I did feel the way you’ve mentioned there.
I have star trek and marvel stamps and even though they are completely useless to me and annoying to store because I have such a small and specific collection of stamps that they basically get left on a shelf between some DVDs or bagged and boarded in a comics box, I think transformers might round the set off nicely. I'll just go in for the £12.50 set of all the different stamps though.
I seem to have acquired more books since I last moved. 23 boxes worth. Thank goodness games are digital. Well at least everything else will be a breeze to pack and just sofas and a bed to shift. It's came round quickly but off from Wednesday through to 6th of September (get the keys this Friday)!
@Kairu Eventually things will have to give way. Either a general strike to force bigwigs to stop taking record profits for themselves or widespread rioting. Been a while since we had a riot.
There's a construction site across the street from me. New apartment buildings.
The apartments are extremely expensive - which is not unexpected, it's a nice area with a subway station on one side and a nature preserve on the other, probably one of the best spots to live in the city, even if it's technically on the outskirts.
As I was picking up my dinner from the local burger place, I saw two bicycles hauling mobile billboards advertising said apartment buildings.
Now here's the thing - they didn't advertise them as a nice place to live for families or anything like that. Instead they're apparently "a safe investment for your capital". They know damn well it's all going to landlords and high end AirBNB owners and no common folk can afford one, not even trying to keep a facade anymore.
Meanwhile, people in their 30s squat in tiny rooms they don't even own and any attempts at making housing affordable by the government is "communism" and apparently unfair to rich people.
I realize this isn't a huge issue compared to some actual ones in the present but it just made me not wanna live on this planet anymore for a minute.
Rant over, sorry.
@Voltan I disagree mate, it is a big issue and your rant is totally justified. I mean like you alluded to, nobody (nobody who lives in the western world anyway) wants communism… but unbridled capitalism is very very dangerous also.
@ThereThere Well violent crime is already on the rise as can be seen by the recent horrors like that old bloke getting stabbed in his mobility scooter and now two shootings in Liverpool. People are frustrated and that leads to unrest. I know people have been apathetic for years now but it’s starting to hit the middle class now and that’s when actual change happens. Nobody cares what happens to us lot but they’ll care once they can’t have their holiday to Tenerife anymore.
@Voltan The issue is we're building houses at a record rate and the prices aren't coming down.
If the supply is going up and up but not getting cheaper it's because the demand is outpacing it. We currently have around 250-300,000 net immigration per year. It doesn't take a genius to work out that's unsustainable long term.
There's also other issues like housing benefit from UC being exploited by landlords which inflates rent prices in areas.
Looking at the system if you made benefits only claimable by UK citizens and stopped paying housing benefit as part of said benefit and instead at a flat rate (varying by region I imagine), house prices would crash and a lot more people could afford property.
Communism is never the answer to any problem. History (and the modern countries who have embraced it) teach us this.
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. – Seneca
@ThereThere I really feel for you situation and it must be horrible. We're reaping the rewards of decades of political short sightedness and other things out of our control.
All I can say is nothing lasts forever and nor will this crisis. Hang in there.
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. – Seneca
It’s a kind of perfect storm of chaos, and it shows just how fragile the world economy is. A few idiots in office, a global health crisis, a war, or all of the above will just rattle the foundations of civilization.
How about we all just jettison this dumpster fire of a world we have and set up a Communal Nation of Push Square on the moon? I nominate @kyleforrester87 for mayor.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
@The_Moose To clarify then: I never said I want communism - just that any kind of a social program or attempt to regulate raging capitalism in general is being called that, often in bad faith.
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