I have friends who quit working. Two kids in daycare, you got a clear 30k take-home to make it work, and if you’re barely making it work with that, on top of killing yourself, that income stream just doesn’t make sense. It’s dumb.
I had a friend who was the director of a YMCA daycare, and I have no idea how they kept functioning. I crunched numbers and they barely had enough to pay their teachers. She made jack shit. It was crazy. And we still paid a fortune to go there.
That is a good point. I see a lot of people suggesting it hasn’t been a thing since the '90s, when for me it stopped probably shortly before or shortly after COVID, and mainyl because I have kids. But I won’t disagree that shits expensive everywhere, and I’ve certainly said to myself “Yeah, that ain’t worth that.” So I’m with you there.
I think I could still hop on down to my local watering hole and meet up with some friends and put some beers away though. The beers there have always been expensive, and so that at least hasn’t changed.
When I was younger, certainly before kids, yeah, we had a couple different restaurants or bars where we’d meet up fairly regularly, for either a couple beers or some food, or both, or more.
This thread highlights the reality of Lemmy, and how it’s representative of only a sliver of the population. The number of people saying “Friends?” is depressing.
Childcare is closer to 1500 per child, FYI, at least in Jersey.
Yeah, this seems like part “things are bad” and part “I’m bad with money.”
I believe it means something.
You reawoke memories of summers on Reddit, hard to believe that was a thing, because it’s been all year summer for the last decade it feels like.
I still post. There’s niche subs that I still think are quality. I completely understand anyone deciding to leave, though, it’s really a shell of it’s former self. The algorithm that decides what’s on top of your feed kinda ruined everything. I can sort by new, and somehow it’s not sorted chronologically. It doesn’t make any sense.
Yeah, but also 2 would never be true. Nobody is a primary guitarist and hobbyist astronaut. Astronaut is always someone’s primary, and the rest is an afterthought. At least “real” astronauts, not space tourists.
Reddit used to be different too. It may seem stupid, but you used to get criticized on Reddit for making posts that were completely devoid of grammar and whatnot. It kinda functioned to a similar level of editorial sources, despite much of the information conveyed being silly memes and whatnot.
Personally, I think that people taking the time to write out things in a cohesive, thought out manner, versus shortening words (like “stg”, looking at you OP) and the like, to me ends up with a better discourse. You’re not rushing to spill out as many words as quickly as possible if you’re taking a second to type it out correctly. Maybe just me.
But as with all things, popularity up, quality down.
I scan some legit QR codes and the URL preview is nonsense, because everyone uses link shortners and whatnot. I also don’t scan random QR codes because I don’t need any more information right now, I’m informationed out.
AMEX killing it again. Just sucks they got beef with Costco, who also kill it. I don’t want to be asked to take sides.
I was a first responder for a while. Not sure I ever hated a patient. I sure as shit got mad when the call came over, and my annoyance was reinforced when I showed up and assessed the patient. But even the most malingering of folks were sad at best. Despite how I come off, I’ve always been empathetic to a fault probably, and while sometimes that wars with my short fuse for bullshit, I’d still ultimately just feel bad for some of these folks.
I was only a volunteer though, maybe 100-110 calls a year for about seven or eight years (non-consecutive). I hated being the treasurer of my rescue squad a lot more than any patient.
Jersey City, in Journal Square, when they adopted the JSQ 2050plan in like 2008, included mandatory zero parking.
There are community bonuses for things like parks and theaters that allow developers greater density and height. There’s a million bonuses, not all necessarily community giveback, but with an idea around building a more walkable city.
The amount of pushback they’ve gotten since then had been crazy, but it’s been great to watch their boards and council be pretty good about sticking to it. It’s a difficult thing for a lot of people to understand, but if you build it, they will come very much applies to parking.
Jersey City has really tried to push itself to the forefront of smart planning over the last 20 years, modeling ordinances around things they’ve seen around the country that have worked, as well as taking a hard line on certain ideas. Project Zero has been huge in JC, and while they’re not there yet, taking a city that, 30-40 years ago, was dangerous as fuck and recovering from being essentially a train depot that built Manhattan, they’ve come a long way. I’ve gotten to watch a lot of this take place from up close and it’s been a real pleasure.