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   Fish in the percolator (lain@lain.com)'s status on Wednesday, 29-May-2024 19:28:51 JST Fish in the percolator
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     kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Wednesday, 29-May-2024 19:35:34 JST kaia

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     @lain but US has much higher rents and grocery prices? hotels are at least 50% more in my experience
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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Wednesday, 29-May-2024 19:40:39 JST iced depresso

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     @kaia @lain if you make 50k in the city i live in, the first thousand a month is eaten by the government, the next 1.5k-1.9k is eaten by the landlord
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     teknomunk (teknomunk@apogee.polaris-1.work)'s status on Wednesday, 29-May-2024 19:50:09 JST teknomunk

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     > The Bureau of Land Management is giving geothermal energy exploration a categorical exclusion from environmental review under NEPA.
     
     Good. Geothermal is baseload, non-variable renewable power. This is required to get away from depleting fossil fuels while retaining anything close to our current standard of living.
     
     https://x.com/AlecStapp/status/1780048314768969885
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     Fish in the percolator (lain@lain.com)'s status on Wednesday, 29-May-2024 20:22:48 JST Fish in the percolator

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     @kaia i'm not so sure about that, rent is very hard to think about just because the US is so huge and diverse, and groceries can be very cheap (costco, walmart) (also, at least according to this, it's not that different from 'rich europe' https://commodity.com/blog/food-prices/).
     
     I think that the US and americans in general are meaningfully richer than EU-europeans, but it's hard to bake it all into one number that can be compared. For example, average food expenses are higher in france than in germany, but not necessarily because of higher prices for basic goods, but because the french care more about good food than germans.
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     kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Wednesday, 29-May-2024 20:39:55 JST kaia

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     @lain I'm curious how Japanese compare to US, seeing it's an even more steep income disparity. but still JP seem to be able to afford travel and certain luxuries? from etic view they seem wealthier?
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     Fish in the percolator (lain@lain.com)'s status on Wednesday, 29-May-2024 20:45:07 JST Fish in the percolator

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     @kaia japan has been living in the year 2000 for the last 40 years...
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 29-May-2024 21:08:30 JST 翠星石

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     @kaia >still JP seem to be able to afford travel and certain luxuries?
     Housing and food is reasonable (日本 is the home of the NEET for a reason) and if you are a full time wagie, you do receive a decent wage despite all the unpaid overtime.
     
     They also have a large amount of airports, which I guess would have some level of competition between themselves (considering that you can just hop on a train and go to a different one with a better price easily).
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