Asklemmy

1454 readers

64 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
!lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

430

What's a scam that's so normalized that we don't even realize it's a scam anymore? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by mastermind@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

330 comments fedilink hide all child comments

(page 7) 30 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] Rocky60@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Brake service

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

College

[–] lazylion_ca@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Mortgages needing to be renewed every 5 years so that banks can jack the the interest rate. Cap residential mortgages at 25 years max and 2% interest for the duration.

[–] deadcatbounce@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Democracy. /s

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Then start somewhere. Require new construction to be built for humans first. Then bit by bit change.

The Netherlands did this back in 1960 and look at it now. They too had to start somewhere and they did

It requires investment in your infrastructure which well, in the US that's a joke.

load more comments