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You can’t just say “hurt durr Americans are just irresponsible;”

Actually, I can. That’s why americans are more obese and have more credit card debt - it all boils down to irresponsibility.

I’m trying to have a conversation about what it would take to actually solving the problem here

Solving the problem would be rather simple, subsidize healthy food so a cucumber doesn’t cost 6$. Make mandatory cooking classes in school so kids know how to cook, at least to some extent. The magical word is “education”.

even if the problem really were that Americans were more irresponsible on average compared to people from other countries

There is no “if”. They are.

there would have to be a systemic reason why

No. It boils down to people eating shitty food and not knowing/having no interest in knowing how to cook.

Like, we can argue all day about american processed food being full of additives and sugar and high fructose corn sirup etc, which is certainly the case, but at the end of the day, the people who eat it know that this is the case, so they are irresponsible, and if they don’t, it once again boils down to education.

Time to look for other services then.

Good. Maybe we can go back to paying for our services instead of getting tracked everywhere we go.

Eating health is a responsibility of an individual.

Trying to blame the omnious evil system instead of the responsibility of each individual is absolutely missing the point.

Hard to attack an atomic super power

You can’t take an offensive against the information war because that would quickly result in authoritarian practices where certain kinds of information are suppressed - you do not want to go there at all.

Social media killed media literacy, that’s the issue. We need to rebuild that.

missing out on great debates

There’s no great debate to be had with someone who wants to defend this clearly anti-consumer behavior. There is no way to justify this in any way, shape or form.

Yes, you learned that one person has 5 rentals - that’s one more person. That’s why I said these people exist, but in small numbers.

A vast majority of apartments is controlled by large corpos.

Depends a lot honestly - in my experience, there’s two types of landlords.

1. The person that inherited/bought an apartment, but doesn’t want/can’t live in it right now (because it’s really remote, for example). They often buy these as “retirement homes”, so something they can live in when they no longer work. While they don’t live in it, they rent it to other people. The reason for that often is because their job requires physical presence and renting an apartment near their job is just cheaper if you factor in rent from the bought property.

2. Large corporations that buy up houses left and right, make a few minor changes that classify as “modernizations” and then jacking up the rent by 33%. Those can go fuck themselves.

This omnious “landlord” that owns like 10 properties and only lives off of the rent is rare. I know a single person that does that, he inherited a company from his dad, sold it like 30 minutes after he became owner, built 3 houses with 4 apartments each and is now chillin. And I don’t even feel like that’s a “bad” thing, because he has literally built those houses - they would not even exist without him.

Because in many cases, the weight is the problem.

Being obese has so many related sicknesses. From having sleeping problems to back pain to knee pain to more serious stuff like cardiac arrests - being fat brings so many health problems.

which points squarely at an environmental cause

No, it points to people eating processed food and other shit. Guess what, you can still be healthy if you eat healthy.

Wait that’s a question? Of course they are doing that.

Russia is also behind man of the far-right parties in europe, like the AfD in germany and the GRN in france. It’s old news at this point honestly.

Good thing I still have the exploitable one with hekate installed.

Nintendo will have to visit me personally and pry my switch from my cold, dead hands.

All in all, I don’t think it’s totally anti-consumer behaviour

Lick the boot.

A company being able to remotely lock down your device is incredibly anti-consumer.

Since the snow white disaster, rachel zegler.

Also, I can’t really watch til schweiger movies. Or most german “comedy” movies.

clearly PalWorld takes more than a little “inspiration” on a bunch of different Pokemon IP

There’s 1025 Pokemon at this point in time - how the hell are you supposed to create a unique pokemon at this point in time? Even pokemon can’t create unique pokemon anymore.

Good work doesn’t excuse shit behavior. Hell, if you dig deep enough, you will probably find some good things done by musk or trump.

I will not give a single cent to people who defend russia in their aggression against ukraine, no matter what “good deeds” they otherwise do.

How exactly are appimages annoying? I think they are awesome tbh

What is so bad about “Cold in here”?

Not as far as I know, sadly. I wish we’d just defederate from blahaj. That place pretends to be a “Nice safe space for everyone UwU” but is nothing but a breeding ground for hate and negativity. Hexbear at least doesn’t pretend to be a good place …