[–] 2 points 1 week ago

Absolutely not. Brexit was a massive fuckup that I can't believe the UK did to themselves, and I'm glad Alberta voted against going the same way (though I wouldn't be surprised if Danielle gets ousted at some point as that's what the right seems to like to do to themselves and they have another one later). I'm not sure what other separatism you might be thinking of if I'm honest.

What about my comment makes you think I might be a separatist? Or indeed right-wing?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (5 children)

    I'll start by saying that I absolutely don't mean to diminish anyone's personal circumstances. Being poor sucks.

    I think one thing that a lot of these kinds of articles miss is that this is predominantly an American perspective. The US (and to a lesser extent Canada) seem to have had a disproportionately better quality of life in the past — I see a lot of anecdotes about how someone's grandfather was a postman and they had 7 kids and 2 houses and a boat and took 3 vacations a year, etc. and all on one income. This is absolutely not how it was at the same time in the UK, for instance.

    I'm a Gen Xer, and in the mid 90s I was a software developer for a decent-sized company in London, and my ex-wife was a university professor — but we still lived "paycheque-to-paycheque". I was 30 and she was 35 when we had our Gen Z daughter. If anything I'd say she and her husband are doing as well or better than we were at their age — decent house, far too many TVs, 2 cars, pets, recently got married (with a much bigger wedding than I had) and thinking about kids. Maybe the difference is that they're in Canada.

    I hate to say it, but I think this is the US catching up with the rest of the world.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    I’m a nebula subscriber, I like the idea and I will try to watch stuff on that over the same video on YouTube, but if I’m brutally honest I probably watch a good 20x as much YT as I do nebula. It just doesn’t have enough of the stuff I want to see, and a lot of what I try to watch on there just doesn’t do it for me.

    YMMV.

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    Another Saturday pick-up. I was lucky enough to see Bratmobile when they played in Exeter, UK, in July 1993. I'd never heard of them before, but they blew me away with their energy. I had their Peel Session CD (recorded around the same time) for a lot of years, but this was the first time I'd seen the album.

    According to Discogs, this is a 2024 re-press, limited to 500 copies.

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