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  • "The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

    Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

    But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet."

    GNU Terry Pratchett



  • Its kind of already happening here - just for different reasons.

    There is very little engagement on Lemmy besides in a few communities. What little engagement there is - is driven by a few users.

    Even broad conversion topics get very little engagement.

    I get not everyone wants to be a topic “starter” (i know I don’t), but they can’t even bother to either:

    1: just post a tiny comment (look at “what are you watching” in the movies / TV subs on piefed.Social; seems like a real easy topic for anyone to engage in and yet there’s only ever like 10 posts and zero upvotes)

    2: upvote topics or posts; While the points don’t matter - they still show and promote engagement.

    Its honestly rather frustrating.





  • No you really didn’t “try to hint at it”.

    Honestly you sound like a teenager who just discovered drugs and really enjoys them so you went down the research rabbit hole.

    And there’s nothing wrong with that in and of itself, but everything you said sounds like it’s coming from an arrogant/privileged place.








  • When idiots ride my ass I slow down.

    Im driving the speed limit in the right hand lane and you ride my ass - I let off the gas to the minimum speed (here its usually 45mph)

    Im actively passing in the left lane and you ride my ass I let off the gas.

    When the idots back off I speed back up. If they start riding me again I slow back down. After a few times of this they usually pull their heads out of their asses and back off/ properly change lanes.


  • The problem with that is people would still do the same stupid shit behind the pace cars which would just cause the same issues.

    The only way traffic pace cars would work is with better fundamental training (and enforcement of that training [meaning cops would actually have to regularly ticket people for tailgating]).

    Especially here in the usa there are hardly any barriers to getting/keeping your license.

    There is a massive amount of drivers who either shouldn’t be on the road at all or with heavy restrictions like not allowed to drive at night, not allowed on the highway, not allowed to drive certain classes of cars (kinda like other countries do for motorcycles because there is zero reason for any joe schmoe to just be able to legally get behind the wheel of something like a supercar on public roads)