• Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
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          Though I admit, part of the reason I don’t buy diamonds is specifically to fuck the diamond industry. Because fuck those scammers.

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          Maybe they’d have money for cars and homes and diamonds if it weren’t for all that damn avocado toast!

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          Is applebees dead yet or do we have to continue the war on “family restaurants”?

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            You must tip your microwave at home. Like the one at applebees, a microwave is a slave of the service industry that relies on panhandling your dinner table to survive.

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        AFAIK similar articles (about driving less) were also penned about millennials and genxers.

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      That’s the real issue. It is 100% not that they’re more environmentally cautious. Between less 16 year olds having jobs and cars and gas and insurance being so much more, less can afford a car. E bikes probably even have more to do with it than environmentalism does.

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        The Internet replacing the need to go places (e.g. chatting on social media vs. hanging out in a dead mall) probably helped too.

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          You also have ride hail services that weren’t available a generation ago. You can get places in a car without owning a car.

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          True enough. Cruisin, video gaming on split screen, and malls got replaced by social media and online gaming with voicechat.

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      Lucky to get a hand-me-down as well.