Dyskolos
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Homo Homini Lupus Est
- Comment on save the planet 🌎 3 days ago:
I’m not that tolerant to half-assed :) If it wouldn’t net the wanted result, why even bother wasting precious time for something half-cooked? But probably depends on the what, where, when and why.
- Comment on grocery shopping 4 days ago:
Sounds annoying. But we just recently introduced those selfcheckouts. We’re probably still midage and changes like those will come.
- Comment on grocery shopping 4 days ago:
I’m no murican…
- Comment on grocery shopping 4 days ago:
How could one boycott food? Especially if literally everything went up? I can stop buying cars or whatever else, but not food.
Hence yes, it’s stealing. Not in a technical sense OFC. And it’s not because a good became more scarce or anything, but just greed. Plain and simple.
Also yes, it’s not the grocery’s fault. But as said, can’t rob a factory or a CEO. And as everyone is raking in record profits, it’s fine.
As a sided note: I didn’t raise prices of my stuff and I also didn’t raise rents of my apartments (I’m still just at covering costs, not earning). We’re doing good, employees happy, why should I? To expand? To have more stuff? Greed has no limit, and with things like rent or food, people have no choice to “vote with their wallet”.
- Comment on grocery shopping 4 days ago:
Interesting. Sounds pretty foolproof. Wonder why they don’t do such thing here. You just scan or you don’t.
- Comment on Sad but true 5 days ago:
True. But I’d argue having money is way worse. Doesn’t even matter if you’re ugly as shit, people will always try to rent an apt in your arse. At least when they know you’re loaded. Then it’s game over. Can’t trust anyone anymore. Ever.
- Comment on grocery shopping 5 days ago:
Interesting. Where are the weighs? Do you HAVE to out your bag on a special place?
I wonder we don’t have that yet too. But then again, overworked and understaffed. Noone cares if anything beeps or not. Even if the door-alarms go off, nothing happens. In no store, ever. It’s just that the vast majority of Germans are so obedient, they instantly stop, go to the next employee and explain themselves.
- Comment on grocery shopping 5 days ago:
might work, but that’s a bit of overkill. I prefer sleigh-of-hand or simply not scanning many things. People are already overworked and understaffed, noone’s gonna check anyway. The cameras are just scare-tactics too.
- Comment on grocery shopping 5 days ago:
Monopolize? Great. Should I ever visit the US (no I would not), I’d go there and steal a lot :)
- Comment on grocery shopping 5 days ago:
lol. Well I’m not old enough to go for the “confused”-route :)
- Comment on grocery shopping 5 days ago:
Whatever a “Kroger” might be, but luckily the world has morally intact people like you! And I’m not frustrated, it’s not about the money, it’s the principle. Someone in the chain did raise prices for items I can’t boycott, I don’t care who. Also I don’t need justification. To whom should I justity? to you? lol.
- Comment on grocery shopping 5 days ago:
You’re right, we just lack dedication 😫
- Comment on grocery shopping 5 days ago:
I have no idea who uncle Leo is 😞
- Comment on grocery shopping 5 days ago:
Aye, simple as that.
- Comment on grocery shopping 6 days ago:
They beep so fucking loud here, this would not fly well with a cashier (or can) that watches well 😁
But we came up with different ways to do it over time. And yes, self checkout mostly, but we also do it at register if we have to. The most brazen one was a whole fucking door we drove by the cashier while my wife distracted him with questions and her charme 😁
We should not be proud of that, but we are. We probably wouldn’t even have noticed the price hikes. But I absolutely despise that they force you to pay more for things you can’t boycott. I can just not buy a car, but I can’t not buy food to protest. Fucking greed.
- Comment on grocery shopping 6 days ago:
We do steal every time. Somewhat around the amount everything went more expensive. Not because we need to, but out of principle. Mostly around 20% of what we buy. We are old and don’t look stereotypical enough, so we never get controlled.
They rob us, we rob back. It’s only fair. And yes, we know it’s not the shops that rob us, but the manufacturers. But we can’t rob a factory.
- Comment on Every day... 1 week ago:
Am I supposed to do anything more? Does gaming count? 🤔
- Comment on save the planet 🌎 1 week ago:
If it would REALLY mean a thing? Yes. I would. I already work for free in a place where abused people end up broken and alone. Also gift away money to them, anonymously. They don’t even know from whence it came. Guess that counts as a “less attractive” option 😁
But some half-assed wanna-be-feelgood thing? For some social-media-points? Naaah.
And yup, misanthrope here. And we indeed need substantial changes. We all, no matter where, most of everything is bad anyway.
- Comment on No One Wants A $100 GTA 6, Analysts Say 1 week ago:
I wouldn’t trust them with <anything>. But also I won’t trust most of the reviews too. Guess they will use denuvo anyway, so no piracy to check-before-buy. Unless then, they can sadly go fork themselves. But screw single-player, the money was in the shark-cards…sigh
- Comment on No One Wants A $100 GTA 6, Analysts Say 1 week ago:
The single player part might be decent though. I hope.
Will totally not get it at release though. For neither of the overcooked asking prices…
- Comment on The wrong generation 1 week ago:
Who would actually do that? Aren’t they expensive enough already?
And what if you want another pizza in those 6 weeks while you’re still paying off the debt of the previous one?
- Comment on Get a job 2025 political compass 2 weeks ago:
You could do the same. You’d just have to adapt your financial expectation a bit more. And by “adapt a bit more” I meant “forget completely”.
- Comment on save the planet 🌎 2 weeks ago:
Sure you could tweak here and there, but you’d need to turn it completely around to make it attractive to me. And then, a car is still more appealing to me. But as said, we have limited space and growing numbers of people. It’s room to live or more trains. And trains are only used by the lower classes, so nobody actually cares…
- Comment on More Online CO-OP Games should have option to pause 3 weeks ago:
As long as it’s communicated amongst the participants. Yes! If anyone could just pause it because they wanna go see a movie now or make a baby? NO!
Solution: everyone in a sessions needs to enable this. So a friends-group can actually take a break for a tinkle. Or that everyone has to enter the menu or such and then the game pauses.
- Comment on Halloween is coming up, folks. So here's your fifth idea for a Group Costume 3 weeks ago:
Nailed it 😒
- Comment on Halloween is coming up, folks. So here's your fifth idea for a Group Costume 3 weeks ago:
Lol I hear you, that is indeed one of the very rare exceptions where I wish I would’ve had kids. Too adorable and I couldn’t stop grinning the whole time 😁
- Comment on Halloween is coming up, folks. So here's your fifth idea for a Group Costume 3 weeks ago:
Not to spoil your hopes, but the chance for it to not suck is infinitesimal. It’s just another quick cash-in with a close-to-guarantee-success. Not that I wouldn’t hope for the opposite…
- Comment on Spotted parked out in front of our local Dollar General today. They didn't even try... 3 weeks ago:
Here in Germany, we’d just say “well, it’s a BMW”, shrug and move along.
- Comment on What's your test for people? 3 weeks ago:
So far I manage to avoid “high class” most of my life 😁 And at best we’re two people, I guess I can’t do much wrong stacking two plates or so. But if that’s seen as rude, OK. Can’t know beforehand, but would assume most waiters are fine with it. If not, I’m not a psychic and just try my best to be polite. Can’t please everyone.
- Comment on What's your test for people? 4 weeks ago:
That’s sad. And that’s coming from a misanthropist that can’t stand his own species. Doesn’t mean I mustn’t be polite to them.