If life gives you lemons, buy melons.
Not even a big melon
Submitted 1 month ago by nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de to [deleted]
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brokenwing@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
“When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I’m the man who’s gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I’m gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!”
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
When God gives you lemon you FIND A NEW GOD.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
If life gives you melons, you may be dyslexic.
PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space 1 month ago
If life gives you melons, make melonade.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
No lemons, on melon.
Too bad I hid a boot.
Lisa Bonet ate no basil.
War sir is raw.
Was it a car, or a cat I saw?
andros_rex@lemmy.world 1 month ago
My mother has somehow never held down an actual full time job, but has a house.
I have routinely worked 60, 80, 100 hour weeks much of my life. I sleep on the floor in a studio apartment.
Vespair@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Jesus christ, can’t a woman even make a scathing critique of the failures of American capitalism without some guy talking about the size of her melons?
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Nice melon.
DrCake@lemmy.world 1 month ago
A whole melon? In this economy?
Tiger666@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Did you not see the picture, its clearly only half.
Gates9@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Lotta educated and unemployed people walking around, I wonder what they might get up to if the price of food and fuel goes up much more?
Nautalax@lemmy.world 1 month ago
vagrancyand@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Nothing, the American populace is incapable of rebellion without bourgeois leadership telling them to rebel. Until the ruling class is splintered enough that a rebellious faction is willing to take the risk in recruiting the working class while somehow avoiding class consciousness, the US populace would never dare to go against its owners
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
They already took that risk on January 6th. The main splinters are the liberal owners and the fascist usurpers.
trackball_fetish@lemmy.wtf 1 month ago
This idea has been tickling my brain recently.
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Stay out of school kids!
LORDSMEGMA@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
You shouldn’t be in any kids ever
YoureHotCupCake@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Tell that to Trump
lost_faith@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
this is where a strategic " , " makes a BIG difference
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Or a hyphen
MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I guess I cant afford to have teeth.
ArchsageRamases@lemmy.world 1 month ago
[deleted]Signtist@bookwyr.me 1 month ago
The cost is a scam, and the current work environment is a scam, so if you think of college as only being useful as a way to pay money for a better job, then sure, it’s a scam, but it’s more than that. It’s about learning for the sake of learning, and taking your first real steps into adulthood with a group of people doing the same.
It sucks that boomers talked about it like it’s some sort of “get rich quick” scheme that doesn’t even work, but even during their own halcyon days of higher education, the job opportunities were only the secondary benefit next to college’s actual purpose of being a useful extra step between childhood and functional adulthood.
Krono@lemmy.today 1 month ago
You’re mostly right about the benefits of college, but this idea of a transition into functional adulthood is outdated. It reflects a bygone era of the job market.
After graduating college and being unable to find a job, I am much less functional and significantly less adult.
wjrii@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The DeBeers-ish sentimental marketing is also a bit of a scam, which ends up working nicely with the cost being a scam. I am very happy with my 25 year old English Lit degree; it was was what I was able to get through with where I was discipline-wise, and I did learn all those critical thinking and life skills, and it even opened adequate doors, career-wise. I reckon my grades were inflated somewhat by my professors’ sheer relief that I was engaging with the material and, for all their flaws, my papers were obviously my own work. Still, I think my memories would be very different if I had graduated with $180k of student loan debt from a bucolic college somewhere in the New England hills instead of a $2k balance on a Discover Card, incurred over 4.25 years of nonsense at local state U.
I’m all for college, and not just STEM and business. Frankly some our current generation of tech leaders could use to have taken a few more philosophy classes (except for Peter Thiel… oh my) or at least smoked a few more bowls with the liberal arts kids. Still, people need to be clear-eyed about what a degree will and won’t do, and they need to understand that you absolutely can and should put a price-tag on the experiences.
xylol@leminal.space 1 month ago
One of the biggest benefits of college is networking, its much harder to get a job without knowing someone so its important to get out of your comfort zone a bit and meet people that might help you if they get a job somewhere or you may help them get in
theloneyank@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
I heard in europe they don’t have prom. They got trains too.
slothrop@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Totally depends on who’s painting the collage. Some are quite well done.
One’s best bet though, is to attend college and not chance bad painting.
AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Ok we can have the homeschooled surgeon operate on you. Don’t worry, he got his certificate online.
Higher education is absolutely necessary for certain fields. The cost and number of different degrees is where the scam is.
zeroConnection@programming.dev 1 month ago
America is a scam. FTFY
Captain_Buddha@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I like to imagine all of the down votes are specifically because you wrote “collage” instead of “College” in your statement… (a bit of irony in that’n.) And so the people with Art degrees are FUMING about their love of a good collage.
ArchsageRamases@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Oh well bye 👋
theloneyank@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
it is but learning is not.
zeroConnection@programming.dev 1 month ago
No, just not everyone is an American here.
troglodytis@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Pfft, learning! What maroons
YoureHotCupCake@lemmy.world 1 month ago
My life got significantly better from getting an education. I went from a job that pays $13 an hour to one that pays 85k a year with benefits after receiving my degree. Its not a scam at all.
ArchsageRamases@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That is you for many they don’t especially nowadays
ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Indeed, the act of creating a new picture from components of other pictures, is fraud.
Brown_dude69@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I can’t even afford that 🥹
1984@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Gen z in America is hard mode, for sure.
Tabooki2@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Understood. Most of my time was with large companies where lots of people want to move up the ladder. Still very team oriented but also tried to stand out to get up a few rungs. Always willing to help out, jumping in where applicable to help solve problems that aren’t in my area, sticking around during disasters etc etc
Tabooki2@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Education is not the same thing as relentless hard working and drive
Tiger666@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
How does that boot taste?
Tabooki2@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Ah so working hard makes you a bootlicker. Gotcha.
Enjoy your poverty.
YoureHotCupCake@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I mean it takes relentless hard work and drive to get an education.
Tabooki2@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yeah, but that only proves to an employer that you’re able to learn. Once you get in the door then you have to climb and compete
HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I have neither.
Tabooki2@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That’s all right. You don’t need an education to get a good job. You just need a skill that’s in demand. Time to become an expert in something you enjoy.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 1 month ago
more than a handful’s a waste
EfreetSK@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Don’t wory, I got this
ehm
“There are people who have it worse than you”
Hope this helps
Beardsley@lemmy.world 1 month ago
BRB, gonna go say this to a child with cancer.
backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Average American health insurance agent on their way to inform a 6yo they’re not covered.
W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
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lonefighter@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
When I was in my early 20s I was near tears in my doctors office telling her that the health issues I was dealing with were ruining my quality of life and that I was so exhausted and in so much pain all the time that all I could do was go to work and come home and go straight to bed and had been like that for months. I was near suicidal and extremely depressed. She said “stop being dramatic, you could have cancer”.
fartographer@lemmy.world 1 month ago
“Buck up, Fuck-o! Some kids can’t afford chemo”
EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
I got kicked out of my in-laws for yelling at my spouse s sister for saying this.
My response was “What the fuck did you just say to her? Other people have it much BETTER than you do so why the fuck are you acting so fucking happy? That’s how fucking stupid you sound.”
For context, she had spent the entire 7 hours she had been awake sitting in a hot tub drinking wine and tequila instead of being a parent, and basically dumped all the responsibilities for the children of the day onto the only othertwo adults present, one of whom was having a panic attack. I was les than happy when I showed up after work to pick my spouse up and walked into chaos and her sobbingand hyperventilating in the bathroom.
My In laws are terrible people.
AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Pain is relative, not a competition.
youcantreadthis@quokk.au 1 month ago
Cool let’s burn it all down for them then.
caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
I’m gonna burn it all down today
Down today okay
I’m gonna burn it all down today
Sweep all the ashes away
theloneyank@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
Ahhh they always do that… fuq