Mongostein

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[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 11 points 7 months ago (6 children)

Man, I wish I was a deluded narcissist. Life sounds pretty good for them.

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 6 points 7 months ago

No doubt. Whoever’s making these memes obviously wasn’t around when Incognito/Private browsing was introduced. It was never advertised as hiding anything from your ISP.

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago

COVID was a special situation

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I’m guessing they live in a country that doesn’t hate it’s citizens

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 9 points 7 months ago

Yeah I’ve long felt that The Forgotten Realms could be a cinematic universe to rival the MCU.

They just gotta make good movies. I thought Honour Among Thieves was good, but an adaptation of the Dark Elf trilogy would be even better.

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 11 points 7 months ago (6 children)

I’m not sure what the timeline is between BG3 and the Honour Among Thieves movie, but an undead elf would be pretty easy to include in a sequel as long as BG3 is first in the timeline.

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago

Yup. That’s pretty much the state of it.

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah that’s pretty much what I’m saying. The elites are doing better than ever while we struggle.

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

My situation isn’t going to be all that helpful for you.

My take-home has actually dropped by about $60,000/year, but that’s because I went back to school during that 8 years for a career change after hitting a dead end.

Now, I work far fewer hours than I did in the old career as I’m still working my way up in the new one. Hourly though, I make about 25% more in the new career than the old.

Now I’m single with no kids, so going back to school was an option for me. It won’t be an option for everyone.

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 22 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

I’ll chime in here.

So… I buy the cheapest bologna I can buy for my work lunches.

I switched to the cheapest brand I could in 2016 when I consciously made the decision that I don’t care if my lunch is good as long as I have sustenance to get me through the day.

The bologna I used to buy for $1.25/pack in 2016 is now $3.29 at the same store.

My wages have gone up, but they have not more than doubled since 2016 like the price of bologna has. I think this is a good metric for comparison because we truly do live in a bologna economy.

A side note: expecting strangers to give you exact numbers about their wages on the internet is pretty ridiculous.

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 53 points 7 months ago (3 children)

You say this as corporations are making record profits.

The US recovered just fine, the elites just didn’t think it necessary to include us in that recovery.

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 months ago

Oh ok so that’s when Valve starts to enshittify. We’re ok for a few more years.

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