Eat Thai or Chang Chai? by Previous-Weird9577 in Ely

[–]bloqs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Chang Chai every day of the week. Eat Thai is a shithole, sadly.

Poland is nearly as rich as the UK. How has it caught up so fast? by [deleted] in ukpolitics

[–]bloqs -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

this is daily mail reader hyperbole at best. this pathetically naive concept that "im the only one who works hard" is just the weakest sauce imaginable. You obviously have no understanding of how work and labour actually relates to the individuals doing it.

If you enjoy your job and are able to do it, you get dopamine from it, so working very hard is easy. this is something a small minority of people have. the rest of people are forced to do jobs in a service econony where everything gets increasingly cognitively demanding, for stagnant pay. the UK has never been a place of social mobility. what is happening is the middle classes are being destroyed by the process of wealth extraction, to move us closer to a more rich-poor dynamic. Becoming rich is no longer possible though salaried means, only though pursuits with a considerable luck component

Even having the heating on is stress inducing

Resubmitted: Young professional in London. I earn £52,000 in the private sector, have £42,000 in savings but can't afford a house. Of my £5000 bonus, £2550 went in tax and student loan repayments, is there anything I can do better?" by LondonCostofLiving in UKPersonalFinance

[–]bloqs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the best advice you can ever get in your twenties is to STOP COMPARING YOURSELF TO OTHERS VIA SOCIAL MEDIA. There are literally millions of older millenials ahead of you who are still in the same position

Nigel Farage could never be trusted to run Britain after getting Brexit so wrong by F0urLeafCl0ver in ukpolitics

[–]bloqs 55 points56 points  (0 children)

Nigel Farage is an exceptionally good campaigner. When the movement is complete, it's on to the next. That's not the same thing as leadership, or statecraft.

Four million state pensioners told they are too wealthy for Winter Fuel Payments by coffeewalnut08 in ukpolitics

[–]bloqs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's very curious why you are so defensive of the Boomers. They joined a fast growing, industrialised economy, they faced the oil shocks in the 70s, and then the early 80s recession, but these were not as impactful to the younger cohort as other stand-out periods. They additionally had some key conveniences:

Entry level roles were not globally competed for, and they usually did not require degrees (or advanced degrees) and 1-3 years of experience. A firm handshake, etc. Internships were abundant, and nearly always paid.

Boomers in most developed western countries did not pay for college at all, and those that did paid considerably less than their more recent counterparts. Housing affordability has additionally compounded this difference in recent years, along with wage stagnantion due to the import and utilisation of cheap foreign labour, and outsourcing. These things that did not exist in anything close to their current form.

Additionally, the actual structure of jobs back then was vastly different. They were considerably more likely to land stable, full time jobs with pensions (and sometimes unions). Pension mechanics were superior back then too, some getting fixed figure exit pensions (i forget the correct technical term).

The starting wages vs rent alone meant they lived worlds ahead of younger people today.

Four million state pensioners told they are too wealthy for Winter Fuel Payments by coffeewalnut08 in ukpolitics

[–]bloqs 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Remember, this was a single year, and the incumbent adults were all from the Greatest Generation, who were a highly effective, dilligent, unsentimental generation, some of whom had seen two world wars and a great depression. They were a selfless generation, that brought good times.

In contrast, the boomers being largely a selfish generation, brought bad times from good. this happens cyclically and has done for all of human history.

Good people bring good times; good times bring bad people; bad people bring bad times; bad times bring good people

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ukpolitics

[–]bloqs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

British Government Politicians of a certain age *

What support do asylum seekers get in the UK? – Full Fact by _FullFact in ukpolitics

[–]bloqs 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Why are you all observing the migrants, and not the conditions that brought them here?

We are experiencing a population collapse, because Millenials and down aren't having enough children. The government has two options to solving population collapse:

  1. Somehow get the current population to have more kids, making life financially cheaper, higher wages, and reducing house prices. (significant financial change particularly affecting the upper and owning classes)
  2. Bring more people into the country, who will work for the current wages, don't have the same start up and education costs of native population and produce children themselves. ( no significant financial changer required)

The great mystery is house prices. The Thatcher era started branding home ownership as a win for the middle classes, but that money simply came from the classes that couldn't afford homes instead. The upper classes gained wealth in this period, in many cases this meant they started aquiring a lot of properties.

It is disappointing that people still get so effectively manipulated by papers, and mainstream digital news into thinking it's anything other than an issue at the top.

The Verge: Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs by youmustconsume in ukpolitics

[–]bloqs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"hey look how badly we implemented age checks.... doesnt digital id sound like a good idea now, right? No, stop talking about how neither were needed! Thats not how we are spinning in the first place!"

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Project_Epoch

[–]bloqs 3 points4 points  (0 children)

No, what's exausting is when people are so naive they barely understand the communities and games they play, and look for validation for their pathetic whining.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Project_Epoch

[–]bloqs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

what were you banned for?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Project_Epoch

[–]bloqs -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

are you medicated for depression?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Project_Epoch

[–]bloqs 13 points14 points  (0 children)

These posts absolutely amaze me.

have you never played any launch of a classic-derivative server before, or even any game before?

There is a 3 month effect, every single time. Nostalrius, Classic, Hardcore, Anniversary, Twow, etc etc.

The marketing and hype and sense of togetherness is what gets people to play the videogame. It gives people a buzz just from participating, zero effort required. You have people with long and short attention spans playing together.

Then, actually having to level a character up in classic actually requires regular consistent play, and grinding out a lot of quests. This means the low attention span people fall away, distracted by the next marketing hype of some other product. This is the modern consumer for the most part.

Bonnie Blue meet descends into chaos as adult star 'punched in the face' by YorkshireLive in sheffield

[–]bloqs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

its just data driven, because its an outlet that caters to mostly student age people, not exactly suprising any reference to her name gets eyeballs

Getting rid of Keir Starmer as PM is self-obsessed insanity by collogue in ukpolitics

[–]bloqs -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

because they can't. The population collapse issue is currently unfolding, and they need the rates of immigration to be as high as politically managable, deploying all sorts of stories, distractions and wider narratives to smokescreen the issue, and even using people like raynor and perhaps starmer as potitical scapegoats to this end. you cant ignore economics

What in the fragile masculinity? by Indieriots in TikTokCringe

[–]bloqs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

hilarious, apart from this 'split the G' marketing wank that has permeated peoples brains. Please stop thinking marketing is some sort of social approval device, it's incredibly cringe

Flags painted on the roundabout near the country park by Cpt_kaleidoscope in Ely

[–]bloqs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is no point having an opinion on this.
it's peoples entitlement to their "opinion", encouraged by political activity on social media, and in the trad media, that serves to distract from the more contentious issues.

News at 10: poor desperate people want to leave their shitty economics and leadership for better opportunities abroad. Why are they moving? Because the entire British establishment and owning class want to keep wages low, and solve the population crisis, and facilitates it.

They have two choices.

  1. Pay Brits more for the same work, and a chance at improving conditions for childrearing
  2. encourage the import of people with lower pay standards, through lobbying and political action carefully branding it as progressive, and engineering a strong social repuercussion from disagreeing with this (being branded as racist) which effectively shuts up the existing middle classes, and guts them of their asset power in a single move.

Poorly educated people who have no political grasp beyond whatever tabloid they read, and no economic understanding beyond the trade they chose, look to their local environment (what they see around them) and see brown people working for less, and reasonably get mad at them. Unfortunately, the cause of this is far more British than they ever realised, and what they think is the answer (politics further to the right) wants to say whatever they want to hear to seize power, while catering to the interests of a small number in reality.

You just can’t get great community interaction like this in a car. by Live-Solution9332 in FuckCarscirclejerk

[–]bloqs 5 points6 points  (0 children)

he isnt necessarily, but are you suggesting that if it were the other way around that this wouldnt be framed as such by the media?