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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

"Oh, he he, I'm so giggly. Getting coffee today is just sending me"

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

100$ for coffee? Someone has GOT to rein in Starbucks!

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[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 18 points 1 week ago (8 children)

I had to take out a loan to replace my water heater. The only reason I can afford the payment is because I just paid off my car. I need to keep that old car running but I already have car repairs piling up that I can't afford.

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 95 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Payday loans making a comeback, eh?

And because they don't appear on your credit check you can take a dozen out from different companies! What could possibly go wrong?

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 56 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Payday loans making a comeback, eh?

They never left. The financial vultures just keep renaming them and finding other loopholes to skirt regulations and keep trapping victims in their endless debt spirals.

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[–] endeavor@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

I don't have a single friend who takes loans for anything except morgage, wedding or an affordable car. I haven't met anyone who has said taking a loan and having a credit score is anything but bad.

[–] Speculater@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Well, it's not uncommon for poorer people to see payday loans as a bandaid. I took some out in my twenties and everyone in my family has at one point. I'm now in a position that I'd never need one but they're not targeted at people with money. Which should tell the public how absolutely predatory they are.

[–] PagPag@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I haven't met anyone who has said taking a loan and having a credit score is anything but bad.

Wut. How old are you?

[–] ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Don't know about them but I did once work with an old hippie lady who never had a car, credit card, anything like that. Story was at one point she was helping a friend get a loan and the bank asked how she could co-sign with no credit. She called her bank (was several years back) and had them read off her balance. Had well into the 6 figures just sitting in an account since she never spent on anything. Was the type that rolled her own cigarettes by hand and such.

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[–] DavidGarcia@feddit.nl 16 points 1 week ago

Seeing Amazon offering a 3 month payment plan for 25 bucks cat hair removers yesterday blew my mind.

[–] morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 180 points 1 week ago (6 children)

awesome, that will go nicely with my 6-month financing for last week's Papa Joe's pizza

[–] frunch@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Considering i don't plan on retiring, this is fine -- i will leave as much debt as possible in my wake when i move onto the great gig in the sky 😇

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Except for the fact that you'll eventually have everything you own taken away AND be put in jail.

Debtors prison called debtor's prison might be illegal, but tons of de facto debtors prisons that de jure go by other names are becoming the standard way for US local and state governments to punish people for existing while poor.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't have, and won't have children.

When I get into my older years, I'm just gonna grab a couple thoussnd loans, and be done with life. Fuck it. I'm gonna spend my elderly years lonely, high off my ass, and giving the middle finger to society.

I figure I'll go to base ball games, and start drinking lemonaide with tea in it. And also take some drugs.

Look man. Don't even get me started about the damn 2020 rules that have stuck around.

I don't understand why they felt the NEED to play baseball during a global health pandemic, but if we're starting out already establishing the fact that they had to play baseball in that....THEN I say the 2020 rule changes made sense. For 2020.

But now??? Fuck the pitching clock. Fuck the extra innings man on second! I do NOT want my game sped up. I do not want a faster game. I want to sit in the sun, and enjoy a slow breezy summer day, in my happy place watching baseball. Look, I'll be 85. And now you're telling me my damn baseball ticket which cost me $30,000 because of inflation by 2067, now means I only get 2 hours of baseball??? Hell, thats hardly even enough time to find my seat! You know I don't walk so fast. I don't mean because I'll be 85. I'm 41 now, and I didn't walk so fast 20 years ago.

But now you tell me, after 85 years on this planet. Living through 9/11, a global pandemic, 6 terms of a trump presidency, global warming making winter in the north 115F degrees, and after all that bullshit, you wanna make my baseball shorter??? Oooooooh, and you wonder why us old timers are cranky! Boy let me tell you when I was a young spruce, I'd have pounded 15 shots of whiskey, drank about 24 beers, and then proceeded to mop the floor with you! Well lucky for you, I've only had 10 shots of whiskey, and 15 beers, but I also took some other extra ciricular activities, and now I'm not sure if you're a person, or if I'm talking to a lamp post again!

I'm gonna be a grumpy old man, who yells at the youth for not understanding things they weren't alive to experience.

It's gonna be great!

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 6 points 1 week ago

I like the pitching clock. I don't expect to be able to afford to go to baseball games in my old age. And drugs will be sketchier because of all the other prescription medications I'll likely be on.

[–] hawgietonight@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

should have gone to Mahjong's Pizza, you would have got a lower APR

[–] ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago

Looking for angel investors for my new business idea: if we offer the lowest pizza down-payments in town, we can edge everyone else out of the market by 2034 and be the market leader!

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[–] robocall@lemmy.world 100 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I wish Reddit wouldn't disable comments under ad-posts. Such a shitty website and so happy I left it for Lemmy.

[–] glowie@h4x0r.host 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I barely go on X anymore, but I did the other day and saw a community note on an Ad and it virtually said it was a scam. I actually lol’d out loud.

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[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

There's so many ads now! It's crazy

[–] itsathursday@lemmy.world 51 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Same thing with YouTube. I wish I could vent to the people responsible for putting rubbish in front of me. They deserve to hear my opinion as much as they think they have the right to serve me that ad.

[–] sturlabragason@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago

You’ve discovered the reason why comments are disabled 😅

[–] SpatchyIsOnline@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

For web, use Firefox (or a Firefox based browser, such as Zen) with uBlock Origin and sponsorblock extensions.

For Android, use YouTube ReVanced (has ad blocking and sponsorblock built in)

For Android TV/FireTV/Google TV use Smarttube (also has ad blocking and sponsorblock built in)

If you're on iPhone/iPad/Apple TV you're still out of luck as far as I'm aware.

[–] PagPag@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I don’t see ads in YouTube while using ddg video filter in search. iOS

No yt account and proton vpn with secure core on always and additional settings.

There are other options, but I haven’t kept up with it in awhile so I’m hesitant to suggest them.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago

They know exactly what they're doing and they absolutely don't give a flying fuck about what you or I think of it.

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