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For me it's more like I feel that the money could've been used better elsewhere. There is also the nagging feeling that I overpaid for something and I end up checking the price for a while after buying the item to see if it gets cheaper. This only gets more maddening with algorithmic pricing.

The urge to save up is definitely strong and it isn't helped by all sorts of people screaming about how we all need to save for retirement and being responsible with money which is contradicted by the economy depending on spending. If everyone was a big saver, then those companies wouldn't be reporting high profits and these already unjustifiably high valuations would be even less justifiable.

Money should be a means to an end, not an end itself. I save because I value early retirement highly, but I still spend money on other things to enjoy myself while I'm still young. Constrained spending helps you figure out what is most important to you, but overdoing it drains the enjoyment that would otherwise be there.

At Davos, NVIDIA, Microsoft CEOs deny AI bubble in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] hark@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is davos a gathering of villains hell-bent on making the world a worse place?

Ford CEO Says Its $30,000 Electric Truck Has Reached the Prototype Stage in c/cars@lemmy.world

[–] hark@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Good luck to them, but I have a feeling it will be about double that price when it exits the prototype stage and is actually being sold.

Stocks sell off globally as traders digest Trump message saying he wants Greenland because ‘your Country decided not to give me the Nobel’ in c/world@lemmy.world

[–] hark@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

The market will shrug it off like it did with the tariffs (which were also supposed to tank everything) because line must go up no matter what. Maybe if the market regained some semblance of rationality it would recognize how bad things are, but that's not where we're at, so it's pointless looking at the market as some sort of measurement of anything to do with reality.

Americans are paying more than ever for cars. Cheap models are disappearing in c/news@lemmy.world

[–] hark@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

BYD and Xiaomi profit from their EVs.

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Banned for being a "known tankie" (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by hark@lemmy.world to c/yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I saw this post titled "Scratch a anti-harm reductionist and a fascist bleeds" (https://lemmy.world/post/33320759)

I commented that "harm reduction" apparently means sending billions in weapons to israel while they commit genocide and shutting down campus protests speaking out against that genocide. I said that seemed pretty fascist to me.

Within an instant, they downvoted my post and banned me. Guess it's my fault for posting in a circlejerk community, but I'm still scratching my head on how that makes me a tankie. Something tells me this mod would be calling in the tanks to suppress any dissent if they could.

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!world@lemmy.world mod enforces own opinion by modding opposing opinion as "misinformation" (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by hark@lemmy.world to c/yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Context: https://lemmy.world/comment/14613536 Screenshotted context just in case:

A user claims that the killing in Palestine stopped under Biden now. I point out that biden had full-throatedly supported the genocide for over a year. A mod deletes my post and says that biden didn't "state" (keyword here) full-throated support for genocide.

I counter by saying I consider sending billions in support of genocide counts as full-throated support for genocide. I also point out that I didn't say Biden stated his support for genocide and that he didn't need to outright state it because actions speak louder than words.

I receive a temp ban for that counter and the mod adds a response where they claim the weapons were "provided for defense from Iran, full stop." which sounds to me like actual misinformation because how the hell does bombing hospitals in Gaza defend Israel from Iran? I'm not bothered by their stupid opinion, but I am bothered that they are enforcing it through moderation.

I ran into a similar moderation problem on the Political Memes community also on .world, but I didn't bother making a post here for that because that's just a dumb meme community and I was better off just blocking it, but now this is concerning a world news community and it's awful to see something like this happening in a community that's supposed to keep people aware of the news.

But hey, maybe I'm wrong and it actually is misinformation to say it's full-throated support of genocide to send billions in weapons to a country using those weapons to commit genocide. Please let me know what you think!