Amikke @Amikke@qoto.org

#shitpost

Americans make fun of british food then eat this

MICROSOFT

Someone on fedi said that ads pollute webpages and I think marketing emails are the same for inboxes. They make checking your email a massive chore when it should be a pleasant experience.

I have absolutely zero respect for most people in marketing and advertising. Their entire job is taking up more and more of our already limited attention. These people and companies compete to steal our attention away from things that actually need it, from open source projects, from work, from your personal business, and from friends. Our collective attention is worth so much to these assholes that there's literally an entire economy built around it. Most of us don't mind giving it away left and right because we don't even realise how valuable it is.
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_economy

Imagine how pleasant things could be if we got rid of "cold email campaigns" and daily newsletters and "here's what you missed!" and "check out our weekly deals!" and massive billboards on the side of the road and big banner ads on the news and three 20 second interruptions to our videos and sponsored products surrounding pictures of our friends' newborn and on and on and on

Little by little, these things actively make our lives more and more unpleasant, but because they've crept up on us and because they're small things here and there, we don't even notice them any longer.

fediverse expectation: social media without algorithmic corporate torture nexus

fediverse reality: hell is still other people

@shibao only an LMG and SMG, neither had any use

I had not suffered enough for my sins apparently

@LoliHat @tk
>The building codes are for safety. You are thinking of zoning, which makes sure someone does build a 24/7 factory next to your house.

Are you seriously pulling "It's for your own safety" card?

Yes, zoning laws are needed to keep harmful things away from residential areas, but America's laws are extremely prohibitive to the point where it's a detriment. Literally every other country, even the most greenest and humanitarian, in the world allows for "Mixed-use development", which allows for quiet and benign businesses like cafes and grocery stores to exist within neighborhoods. This allows for small businesses from neighborhoods to easily cater to the needs and desires of their folk along with fostering a community of people breaking bread with each other instead of multiple neighborhoods contorting themselves to a mega-conglomerate bigbox store like walmart or target.

Why is Ren from the Japan able to able to get his neighbors better in his local tea house in his suburb, but not us? Why is Francesco from Italy not be able to grab a quick munch by walking downstairs from his flat to the restaurant on the ground floor, but not us? Why does Cholë from the Netherlands able to buy a few ingredients for a stew for her husband and kids from her grocery store owned by his Neighbor Sven outside her door, but not us? Why is America, the Freest country on earth, forbid something as basic as a fucking store for an entire neighborhood despite it being a staple everywhere around the world? No, That would encourage people to not use their cars and potentially encouraging more dense and convenient infrastructure, destroying car-dependency that America has artificially built artificiality. And I do mean artificially. We have to make walk-ability illegal

Building codes in America are absolute bullshit, too. Part of the reason why America is reliant on cars is because we force everyone either into an tiny apartment/condo in the city or a fuck-off big single-family home in the suburbs. There is ABSOLUTELY no in-between nor any mix matching. This building code is completely absent in most developed countries, or almost all countries, in the world.

Let's say you're student fresh out of college and want a job within a city, an apartment would be a decent fit. After a few years, you're a bit richer and want to live somewhere a bit bigger but still within a city, like a Terraced home or a Duplex. Or maybe you're a suburbanite that wants to live in a city due its economic opportunity but still want a house to yourself. In most countries, neighborhoods often have types of housing that allows people within the same street, catering the needs and wants of people, not to mention nearby businesses that could be walked to. Not in America, you only can live a apartments or a detached home, not because there's no supply or lack of demand, but it is the LAW that prohibits anything else. So if you want to live in a city with a walk-able and yet a nice decently sized-home, Tough luck.

If you live in the suburbs, you're chained to your car that bleeds you and the government dry, to drive down ugly and miserable, rotting roads that are constantly stuck in traffic to get to an eye-sore big-box store to have the privilege to buy food.

Let me Emphasize this, once and for all, America's dependence on Cars is wholly artificial. If lobbied legislature and life-supported tax dollars were to suddenly stop the support the unbelievably expensive life-support of car-centric sprawl, suburbia would be in disrepair. If we simply allowed walkable places to exist and built proper infrastructure, people will come and it'll be extremely lucrative. It's work for every other developed nation in the world, it'll work here.

>You seem upset that people have dining option other than what overpriced crap

Ah, Yes. I love choosing the variety of chain-resturants I've never seen before; Like Mcdonalds, Bugerking and starbucks. Who can forget the never-before-seen Who would want to eat like golden carol and crackerbarrel? What peasant would want to eat a locally owned business with unique foods ha-ha.

>they have to get that is within walking distance.

Yes.

>Nothing is stopping mom n' pop shops. There are plenty in many suburbs and non-dense cities.

There is a lot stopping a small business owner, and that's because of precisely car-centric suburbia. In most of the world, buildings can be changed and are flexible to change at someone will's, A restaurant can become a shop, a shop can be a office or even a house. Not here in car-centric, Almost all buildings along suburban roads are built exclusively for and by big corporation for their design. A big box store by walmart, for walmart, can never be leased and maintained by the average "pull-by-the-bootstraps" joe and are too expensive to renovate into something smaller. Not to mention that there are countless regulations that, to a giant corporation

was asked to make an image of the shitpost so here you go

glad to hear mastodon is finally fixing its flatulence problem

@furgar
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