If you can afford it, it will be exactly that expensive.
When government of my country passed a bill that gives monthly payouts of X per child to parents who both work and have at least one child, all daycare centers in the country raised their prices by X next month citing inflation.
Supply and demand do not set the price, when people have no choice but to buy anyway.
Fair enough. When I moved into the city I had an urge to block exhausts of every car around.
I see “banned from community”
I look inside
Hating on americans
Like my wife? Or my neighbour?
Americans can’t do anything en masse.
And this means, horses also create jobs!
Like our cities, full of cars and trash, do not stink already.
You know what horse can do that no car, electric or not, can do?
You can get on a horse, or horse-drawn carriage, completely wasted drunk out of your mind, or high, or just too tired to drive. Tell horse “home” and he will go to the stable he came from, dragging you with it all the way.
Horses consume no gasoline, no diesel, they just eat literal grass and drink tap water. And their shit is often packaged and sold as fertilizer.
How the fuck in the times of high energy prices, both gas and electricity, people are not just turning back to horses is beyond me. Horses are economically viable and sound, just grab the horses from working type, not sport type. Smarter than AI, calmer than Trump (and more reasonable), grass-to-fertilizer converter, biological motorbike.
Signs of AI Writing - just grab a book on corporate way of speaking/writing e-mails and you will find it exactly the same.
If you want a “traditional family” in your country to become a norm you need to bring back a few “traditional rules” back:
But we can’t have that in the big squeeze economy, right?
I am inclined to believe that he didn’t choose to be born to this specific family.
Has he tried pulling himself by the bootstraps?
I think it’s narcissistic and egocentric to think that you yourself should change the world. It’s like a single grain of sand believing themselves able to dam amazon river at it’s delta. Unplug yourself with the world news. You cannot affect anything beyond your home town, and even that would most likely require initiative, will and time not available for most people. You can worry about the whole world, but that will only be detrimental to your mental health.
So to answer your question - how do I stay optimistic? By focusing on my place in the world and not caring about anywhere and anyone outside it. My daughter just got her first computer and she is learning interface fast. My wife is selling paintings she made for fun as a side gig. My cherry tree is doing well. This is what matters and this is what makes me happy.
Americans are too apathetic to change anything in their country though… Too tired, too exhausted to even move away from the whip that hits them every day.
Everyone is “I need someone who I can vote for!”
Why not run yourself? I bet there is a considerable amount of people willing to vote for a random person who has no known connections to oligarchs, pedophiles or billionaires
DuckDuckGo gains traffic not because it somehow gotten better recently.
Google entered heavy enshittification stage and honestly… it’s sad to watch.
Controlling something worthless is pointless anyway.
And giving it away to everyone will score political points.
You know they will agree and give everyone stakes exactly when bubble is about to pop
“We should put our country and people of our nation first. Foreign corporations must adhere to our law or their local branches will be taken over by government. No foreign influence shall hold sway over our free and democratic elections, and thus we must put foreign-owned media under direct scrutiny to curb any misinformation and propaganda.”
It starts like this. And honestly, I can ask AI to re-write this in incoherent deranged vocabulary to sound more like modern politicians.
Sometimes I wonder why all the poor and homeless don’t just commit some crimes and get free food and shelter in prison. If the government cannot create livable conditions for people, then force it.
And then I learned there is a literal waiting list to get to prison in many USA states…