@enggirlfriend I was in SF recently, had to give instructions to the uber driver how to find where I was. Next to embarcadero. In Spanish.
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Thomas
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i remember a time when uberX drivers were totally normal, had acceptable driving skills, clean cars
now every uberX i get into is a bad or horrible experience. drivers watching youtube while driving, very smelly cars, talking on the phone very loudly
is uber purposely degrading the uberX experience to get people to ride uber black?
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Bitcoin under $60k for the first time in years
Time to buy? Or time to get a plot of land and some chickens?
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This is what the future could have looked like everywhere
Richard Amador@acuriocabinet
Can’t believe humans actually built this
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@thecoastguy He had no shortage of gout if I recall, big fan of the drink
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Henry VIII: in a world without the refined sugars that blight us now, what do we think he was gorging on to achieve his legendary obesity. Or was it something else?
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@FiatLuxGenesis @unusual_whales I've got more than one income stream, it's called investment property.
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@unusual_whales This basically should read "Americans have to keep more than one job to survive inflation and skyrocketing fuel and grocery prices."
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Americans with more than one income stream now number 51 million, up from 41 million two years ago, per FP
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@ChrisBr03460427 @Azzodran84 Here in the US both of those refrigerant have been phased out. Same with r410 and r22. Now its all about r454b and r32. Neither of those are technically freon and both are environmentally friendly.
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AC is one of the biggest greenhouse gas contributors on the planet.
An AC unit in every dwelling.
They don't last forever and eventually leak.
CTV News@CTVNews
European summers are getting brutally hot. So why is air conditioning so rare? ctvnews.ca/climate-and-en…
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@JerkstonH @cheapncheerless Whoa whoa, next thing you'll tell me is that it's not state-owned. Crazy talk.
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@silvaeobscurae @cheapncheerless It's a British publication
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European football fans visiting America are discovering the mass affluence of the country’s suburbs. The wealth enticing holidaymakers troubles European elites. America, once a peer, seems to be racing ahead
The Economist@TheEconomist
European football fans visiting America are discovering the mass affluence of the country’s suburbs. The wealth enticing holidaymakers troubles European elites. America, once a peer, seems to be racing ahead economist.com/finance-and-ec…
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Capitalism is great because everyone can boil to death so we can have a trillionaire
Met4Cast - UK Weather@Met4CastUK
The Met Office have released a theoretical forecast for 23rd June 2056. Based on current climate change trends these temperatures will be plausible during intense summer heatwaves in just a few decades.
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@malmesburyman Yes all this.
I'd buy a summer house in narbonne but live there full-time? Most certainly not.
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Americans tend to regard the European lifestyle as quaint and charming, fun to dabble in while studying abroad or vacationing; but our revealed preference is for leafy suburbs and chain stores with ample parking. To the extent there is any American “discourse” about Europeans “cheating somehow”, it is that Euros freeride on American defense spending to sustain their own more generous social welfare systems.
The perception in Europe that Americans are “anxious” about these lifestyle differences actually springs from European over-reliance on liberal US media outlets and conversation with liberal American visitors to form their perception of America & Americans. Liberals do have this anxiety because they are alienated from middle-America, which they regard as unsophisticated and retrograde.
Most Americans meanwhile have respectful and positive views of Europeans and the European lifestyle, however there is no real desire to sacrifice the significant material advantages of the American lifestyle. Especially when for a middle-American who wants a taste of that lifestyle, it’s always just an eight hour plane ride away.
Baudrillard Forever@GroovySciFi
No. The driver of Europoor discourse is American anxiety over the fact that even though Americans are much richer than Europeans, Europeans live better lives on average. This leads to the suspicion that Euros must be cheating somehow, that there is a hidden wealth transfer.
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NEW: Woman who was caught on video dumping out a Knicks-themed trash can & stealing it during the parade revealed to be a JPMorgan Chase DEI executive — who has since been fired.
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@icanvardar I ran a marathon while I was fat as hell.
Didn't make me skinny
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hot take:
running gets you skinny
lifting gets you looking fit
most people confuse the two
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@FranceLumieres I only have two, thank you very much.
The big house is good. I've done the small city apartment thing, for years, from new york to Singapore; I'm not in my 20s anymore though, so..
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Another instance of "me life better because big house, 5 cars".
I swear they're unable to grasp it.
Alex Portz@AlexMP_1
European elites lie to themselves by claiming the US only works for the top 0.1%, but many of them have never been to the Midwest, Florida or Texas etc. They only know NYC, SF, Boston etc. The life of American families with decent jobs in these parts - spatious house, multiple cars, BBQs every weekend, loads of leisure pursuits for adults + kids, national parks etc. - economically and lifestyle wise dwarves what a large part of Europe offers. Life is great there 😊 Not saying the US is perfect, there are well discussed drawbacks. But the compounding effect of a more dynamic and individualistic economy can’t really be ignored.
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genuine question: why is every asian american girl into matcha?
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@CacheThatCheque I'll be the tall, muscular, incredibly handsome sweaty westerner tyvm
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The world cup. Boston. It's 19 degrees and raining. Perfect footballing weather. Why do they need a hydration break?
Bloody American adverts.
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@MBolo1267508 @crypt0wu Posting bogus "world bank" table getting around today.
Thomas@silvaeobscurae
@StatisticUrban looks spurious. Per BLS the median individual income is 63k pre-tax. OECD median equivalized household disposable income takes after-tax income and adjusts for economies of scale has it sitting between 46-50k (adjusted for PPP). Even in Euros this doesn't align with your table
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@TheMindScourge I stayed in Rome, in the summer, in an old apartment across street from parliament and it was definitely noticeable. But yes, it wasn't soulcrushing like it would be in Virginia.
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Not having AC in Europe just isn't the same as not having AC in the US.
I've spent entire summers in Italy without AC and not thought about it. Wouldn't happen in the US. I'd notice right away
I remember one hotel in particular in Rome I stayed at for a month. High ceilings, thick stone walls, real plaster, a window (shutters, no screen) that opened onto a gravel path lined with cypress. No AC of course. But you never thought about it. Didn't need it - or want it.
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