cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/13611200
You’ve got to do more than just forego that expensive avocado toast!
But if suggest rich people should be slightly less rich, they go into a frothing rage
frothing rage? foaming at the mouth?
It’s like frothing but with a lisp
The price of cars is going up so what you should do is take the car you have and turn it into cash. Yeah, fucking great idea.
And if you’re in the US you can use our amazing public transportation to get around!
Yeah! It can literally get me from… wait. There’s no bus service at all in my county. Cool.
Good thing we don’t have all those buses clogging up our roads around here. More cars!
Here’s some long winded bullshit. I have a lot of feelings and I’m taking this opportunity to let them out. This can be safely ignored. TL;DR: public transportation in the southern US is a fucking hellscape.
There’s a lot of buses in my county. If I worked downtown I’d have to take an Uber a few miles to the bus stop or spend about an hour walking, spend a couple of hours on buses and hope I make all my transfers, then spend up to 20 more minutes walking to wherever I work. Then do it the opposite way coming home.
That’s the worst case scenario from my door. Best case still has me ubering or walking an hour to sit on a bus for an hour and a half.
The alternative is that if I go in early by car I can spend 25-30 minutes on the road headed in and an hour home in traffic.
If we had rail from the burbs to any downtown location it would be much more feasible and much quicker than driving. If they would reimagine the bus system it could be about the same as taking a car but with less stress and fewer people on the road. But they won’t. Too much oil money in this town to ever do that.
On to the next long-winded story!
Where I grew up it was all rural. I love being out in the country (not so much the people, but out in the country they’re easy to avoid). However, there aren’t enough people to have a public infrastructure. Hell, where I grew up there was no city government and I don’t remember the county doing anything except collecting trash (we were on well water). There’s no Uber, no buses, no taxis and the nearest real grocery store is half an hour away by car. If they sold their cars they would have no way to get to work or to get any groceries that aren’t provided by the local unaffiliated grocery store that’s twice the price of the stores in town, mostly dry and canned goods with very little fresh food, and half the food is out of date. Hell, even to get to that shitty store would be a four hour round trip walk from the hovel I grew up in. It was a half hour walk down a two lane highway with no sidewalks through tick and snake infested ditches for a little kid in either direction to get to a school bus stop where I grew up. Guess how I know that.
CEOs wonder why people hate back to work initiatives. Journalists wonder why we can’t just sell our cars and eat less avocado toast (at less than a dollar per serving, avocados are cheap as hell) to get by. Because rural communities with the working poor and middle class exist. Because even living in the fifth largest metro area in the US has a nightmare of public transportation that turns my workday into literally half of my life if I’m dependent on it.
I guess if I want zero quality of life I can sell my vehicles. That’s not how it should be but that’s definitely how it is currently.
they must not be doing so well if they resort to ragebait
They should sell their cars then.
and pet their dogs
Is Bloomberg spinning off an onion competitor?
To be fair, I’d rather put my dog down than put it through chemo.
Humans can understand the agony is for a reason. Your pet can’t. Don’t keep your pets alive for yourself.
Also, is it really so shitty for a publication to provide tips on cutting costs when the economy is in the shitter? Im sure most news sites are barely hanging on by a thread, so it’s not like they’re benefiting from the economy being fucked.
fyi, chemo for pets is much milder than for humans
This. The primary goal of chemotherapy in pets is to minimize symptoms to improve their quality of life. It’s nowhere near the high dosage that humans undergo in order to completely eradicate their cancer.
My cat is technically on chemotherapy. She gets a pill 3 times a week and a blood test every 3 months to check that it isn’t causing issues with her bone marrow.
So far, no symptoms. Without it, she’d probably have died a year and a half ago. When I used to hear about a pet getting chemo, I had a mental image of a really sick pet, but it’s pretty much the opposite.
Yes, it is, and you’re a huge bootlicker for trying to side with fucking Bloomberg, of all sources.
Instead of calling them a bootlicker you could try to explain why you feel they are wrong.
Chemo is awful to go through. If my pet got cancer I rather make it quick for them rather than prolong the agony.
Not looking for sympathy here. Had to put one of mine down for the same reason. The very said that maybe she would get better, but she was completely miserable already and wouldn’t have understood.
OK, buddy
You should be in jail for your love of animal abuse.
I don’t think you should put dogs through chemo. I also don’t think Bloomberg is anything but evil pro corporate propaganda. And thirstily jamming the cocks of the elites down your throat every chance you get is cowardly and shameful and I’m not going to pretend that it isn’t.
Also, trying to give a dog medical attention isn’t animal abuse that deserves jail time, shut up forever with that shit. What a stupid thing to say.
I mean, Bloomberg and The Economist are two of the most old rich white man places you can get your news.
Do NOT eat the rich, they are bad for your health 🤣
Would it be ethical to make them into dog food?
Slow cooked rich. Still tastes bad, but has some protein.
Chilling
Bread? Typical bread in America is not normal bread. It’s too chemical.
Not sure what you mean by “typical bread,” but the US is lousy with bakeries that make fresh bread. Even corporate owned supermarkets have them inside, and they bake fresh bread and things daily.
Nobody is forcing you to buy Wonderbread.
Often the flour that they’re using is bromated flour so you don’t get away from it even when fresh baked.
Bromated flower is banned in Canada, the UK, the EU, Brazil and China… But not the U.S.
So yes the bread you get in the United States is specially chemically because of this.
lol you can get plenty of good bread in the US. try going to asia where its basically a luxury item and way too sweet
It’s probably still made with bromated flour though…
Bro where do you buy your bread? We have good bakeries here.
Also, stop voting Democrat and Republican.
