BorgDrone

joined 2 years ago
[–] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 4 points 9 hours ago

if you retire at 67

But you won’t.

By the time I’m 67, the retirement age will be 75, by the time I’m 75, the retirement age will be 80. The whole thing is a scam. The boomers get to enjoy retirement and they have us pay for it which is why they keep dangling that carrot in front of us, but realistically it will never happen for my generation or anyone after. Due to advances in medicine people get older and older, while costs keep rising. It’s simply not sustainable anymore to have that large a part of the population not working while simultaneously costing a lot of money in care.

[–] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 2 points 9 hours ago

Pensions in theory are nice, because it guarantees you a certain quality of life after you retired.

Yeah, that’s the scam. They say you will get some income after retiring, what they fail to tell you is that they will never allow you to retire. The retirement age will keep getting pushed back. The truth is that you will have to work till the day you die.

[–] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 7 points 10 hours ago (5 children)

We should just abolish pensions.

Every month the government takes money out of my paycheck to supposedly pay for my pension. Every month my employer puts money into a mandatory pension scheme.

My expected pension age according to a government website is 68 years and 6 months. By the time I reach that age it will probably have been raised to 70+.

My parents died at 72 and 70. I will never see once cent of the money taken from me during all those year working. Pensions are a scam, let’s acknowledge that fact and just get rid of them. pay out that money every month so I can enjoy it instead of saving for something that will never happen.

[–] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 4 points 10 hours ago

If you write it down it’s even more clear that he’s rambling like a lunatic.

[–] BorgDrone@lemmy.one -2 points 1 day ago

It’s actually quite rare for cats to kill birds, it’s a skill very few cats have. None of our cats has ever brought back a dead bird, while they have gone on an absolute killing spree among the local mouse population.

The birds around our house (mainly jackdaws, which are wicked smart) like to taunt the cats though.

[–] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That series was so, so bad. It had absolutely nothing of what made Stargate fun. It was just a bunch of people whining and talking about their feelings against a shallow sci-fi backdrop.

[–] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 6 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Don’t treat it like an action game, treat it like a rhythm game.

[–] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 13 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Don’t think Epic is somehow a white knight trying to liberate the poor consumers. Both parties here suck.

Epic’s whole business model is getting children addicted to ~~gambling~~ loot boxes and Apple’s IAP system is a roadblock to that. With their own payment system they can simply get little Jimmy to enter mommy’s credit card number so he can get all the loot boxes he wants without being stopped by Apple’s pesky parental control system.

[–] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 12 points 6 days ago

Imagine not being able to speak or understand dutch. ಠ_ಠ

[–] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I’ll be watching the first two episodes of Murderbot tonight.

[–] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 4 points 1 week ago

Any day now…

 

Hope this is the right place to report this, as this community is mentioned on the contact page of join-lemmy.org.

If you go to https://join-lemmy.org and click on 'run a server', this results in a 404. This is a shame as it puts up a roadblock for those wanting to create their own Lemmy instances.

 

I'm trying to subscribe to some of the communities linked here.

When I click on any of them, there is no working subscribe button. There is a 'subscribe' text, but it's not clickable. (see attached screenshot) The button does show up on local communities, but not on federated ones.

Tested on Safari iPadOS 16.5.1 and macOS 13.4.1

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