Imma gonna call him winnie the pooh all I want and you can’t stop me

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Cake day: June 21st, 2023
  • Taleya@aussie.zonetoMildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Sure, WSJ. Next do an article on Selection BiasEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Yeah i earn more than my parents combined for my entire childhood but guess what gobbled that shit right up.

    The house i grew up in cost $20,000.

    The one my husband and i bought cost $1,000,000.

    Both 3 bedroom postwars in slightly dodgy neighbourhoods yaaay inflation

    For the curious: $1,000AUD in 1980 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $5,125.00 today, an increase of $4,125.00 over 44 years. The Australian dollar had an average inflation rate of 3.78% per year between 1980 and today, producing a cumulative price increase of 412.50%.

    This means that today’s prices are 5.13 times as high as average prices since 1980, according to the Bureau of Statistics consumer price index. A dollar today only buys 19.512% of what it could buy back then.

  • Taleya@aussie.zonetoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.ml•9, 8, 7, 6, 5...
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    2 months ago

    Last time i watched youtube unprotected it had a higher fcking ad frequency than television. And they were put in the stupidest places imaginable, making the video unwatchable. And i’m fucking genx, so i grew up way before the concept of avoiding ads.

    There’s funding your product then there’s just being a piece of shit

  • Taleya@aussie.zonetoMemes@lemmy.ml•How i feel on Lemmy
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    3 months ago

    I literally pissed a slow day at work away pointing out the many, many flaws in the USSR to a lemming whose primary response was LALALALA I CAN’t HEAR YOU, GO READ THIS BOOK

    There is definitely a cadre of extremely disillusioned and extremely ill informed users who think the USSR was legitimate sunshine and candy communism

  • Taleya@aussie.zonetoMemes@lemmy.ml•Already feels like this sometimes
    22·
    3 months ago

    It was not genocidal either.

    Do you know what decossackization was.

    Do you know what the Kazakh famine was.

    Do you know what the Holomodor was.

    Do you know what the Finnish, Estonian and Polish Operations were.

    Do you know what the Khaibakh massacre was.

    Do you know what the Deportation of the Crimean Tatars was.

    Do you know what the Sumgait pogrom was

  • Taleya@aussie.zonetoMemes@lemmy.ml•Already feels like this sometimes
    23·
    3 months ago

    the utter irony is what killed the USSR is reforms that would have brought it into line with how you THINK it operated. In reality it was an imperialist genocidal monolith that ran roughshod over many of its “member” states that were in fact for the most part occupied territories. Lets be very clear about that right now.

    I have no idea what timeline you are dealing with, but I would also like to remind you that a forcibly oppressed population is not consent. And as soon as the repression began the lift, the riots for independence started and countries broke away. The fact that even after the dissolution of the USSR the majority of former member states wanted absolutely nothing to do with a “free” Russia should be a very large hint for you.

    I was not talking about wealth disparity. I was talking about quality of life. This is very well documented.

    The founding member states of the soviet union were Belarus, the Russian SFSR (roughly what we consider to be Russia today), the Transcaucasian Federation (Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia), and the Ukraine. You know that “union” part of USSR? Yeah, it actually refers to a union of states. And they were the ones who pulled the plug.