RE: Daily Steem Price Update 21/8/2025
Hm :)
Checklist seems to be a general symptom across the board today. I'm not sure if we can call the "millenials" buzzword because actually after gen-Z and milennials we should have "gen ABC (just ack chatGPT!)" right now.
I get the impression almost everyone i meet thats in a profession doesnt really know what they're doing. They have the manual , they have the book from school and ... the checklist ! left to them by the previous generation who was chained to that same desk.
Repairing is out of fashion, tho, for instance the guy who runs the only computer store this salems-lot clone town has ever known. Last time i saw him (he barely ever opens the store for walk-in clients anymore) when the old man needed a new laptop and i figured for the same price you might as well get someone who knows their stuff (the guy was at it when he was 16 or 17 selling computerparts from his moms living room ... one of the few who would have done great outside belgium , i know one other guy who got declared legal adult at 17 b/c he was making too much money for a few years already and they couldnt just keep that off the books lol, so they had him declared legal adult with consent of him and parents and he could actually run a business with vat number and what not)
So we went there to get a new laptop and well ... i bought my second pc there long ago, loose parts already, an mmx board with cpu and memory to stick into the case of old p60 ... thats quite a while ago so i know the guy for a while)
From what i understood he makes more money fixing stuff than selling b/c simply no one does it anymore, bus mostly knows how to lol , most probably dont know how to slot a card into a motherboard or which end of the screwdriver is used to turn the bolts.
The cornerstores are all gone, the supermarket is like one-franchise of Carrefour everywhere and no one realizes carrefour ( ISNT FRENCH!) is actually owned by a UAE holding because their selling point is "van bij ons" ( = "products from your local tralala") ...
Last time i ordered (i'm almost dutch, most flemish would think me weird for looking at prices and comparing , it makes me look as if i'm poor, very shameful ... dutch and morcos seem to have less issues with that culturally) i noticed the potatoes they were selling "van bij ons" had two kinds :
one was from spain but packaged here, they cost €2.50 for a bag, the other was actually grown here, but didnt have the BIO label (incredibly enough, spain, with the loose restrictions on pesticides and all had BIO in big letters on it, so maybe they meant the bag because its a paper bag) and the local ones cost €4.50
But b/c they hadnt been transported across the continent they didnt start sprouting after 3 days either ....
Silly huh ?
and stranger : Margaret Thatcher (someone you probably know heheh or heard of at least depending on generation) always seemed to know the price of groceries still when she was in office ... so if that's what japan's Taka-ichi means by being a fan of Thatcher it could get interesting overthere
THAT SAID ...
the medical bs, i cant get any straight answers anywhere, not about health insurance not about nothing, wether im still covered next year or for the next two years or wether i have to pay membership to do so, its been a question bouncing round 3 times and they still havent answered straight.
At this rate i might be without income until i'm 69 or so ... i'm in a total void and somehow the less options the less i seem to care
honestly ... if someone dropped Taka-ichi in Japan last week or the government HERE fell last month i wouldnt even know b/c i totally ignore the world of humans
i think it's a sub-conscious defense mechanism, or coping mechanism
i bet they tried to brute-force another effect
i think there's a heap of misery coming as a small tsunami across the country and this ain't nothing yet
But the cat is happy :)
Your right the checklist is everywhere, it makes it feel like none of these people actually know anything about their profession. This is why I call them zombies, they follow the checklist but don't understand anything out of it, making them essentially brainless idiots. The checklist is even seen now in movies, a series, a book even video games.
I think it was in the 80s there were a few tv programs about fixing things and using tools, it was often seen that men would take fixing things as a hobby. Now there are only a few hidden spaces where it seems mostly men lurk who still enjoy fixing things on the cheap. I guess the companies don't like that, it means less profits for them. Down-town we used to have multiple shops that would fix things, I think the last one standing was one for fixing laptops. I'm sure that one closed down and one for fixing mobiles appeared but also closed.
Wow but of course he was not allowed one more year off the books, the greedy government wants it all, even those who were making a few bucks on ebay now have to report to the government.
Haha yes there are a few out there who will pass the dirty look if you are seen to be comparing prices, but I think over the years there is less of this since many more are also falling into the same boat with the extreme price hikes on food.
It's likely you cannot get a straight answer because they don't know themselves, they make these things complicated and difficult to understand so that some idiot somewhere can either flip a coin to make a decision or their own biased opinion on the day.
It's a good coping mechanism, there are a lot of things that should bother me but it doesn't, there are obviously still things that do.
The cat is happy because most animals have it down right, they do not care for the social mess that are humans, they just want some food and love.