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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨America’s Decline in 1 graph⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The US owner class and the conservative/centrist governments have always hated unions. The Pinkertons aren’t storybook stuff, they’re real thugs who did real violence(and who still exist today). Strike-breaking, incredibly weak laws around protecting people who try to unionize, and aggressive “individualism”(it only serves to isolate people because we’re weaker apart) are all great ways to slowly discourage people from standing up for themselves.

  In some ways, people did decide that it wasn’t worth it, but that wasn’t really tied to the union being bad, more out of the fear of being punished. Jobs were shipped overseas, and poor people who can’t afford US-made goods only hastened the downfall of the US manufacturing as they chose cheap products from department stores and allowed all their local equipment and knowledge to rot away.

  The graph is pretty on point. Our productivity, all over the world, has been sky-rocketing and pay has barely moved. Even today, unions are still important for keeping various industries held to SOME kind of standard, but they’re rare enough that it’s still not lifting the entire economy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Min wage in most states is so sad⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Make it 70, but they have to live off the same pensions as everyone else after 60 years old.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon gives a piracy history lesson⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, I am 1,000% aware that no corporation needs to survive. Telling Arizona Iced Tea, one of the few wide-spanning businesses that’s actually decent, that they need to sell at a loss to make you feel good is immensely stupid and there’s mo two ways about it.

  Maybe they suddenly started jacking up their prices to make huge profits and stopped treating their employees decently, but I missed that news in that case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Minimum wage isn't survivable anymore⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And we need to be clear that “vacations” does not mean travelling. People will do basic tourist crap in Italy and call themselves worldly, whatever. But people do need money to just exist in their own space without working for a week(longer, obviously). People can’t even be tourists in their own cities and towns.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Tf???”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not a doctor, but am in various situations where I have to pick sounds out. There’s something very valuable about having a natural example, especially if the person listening has to find that example all on their own.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon gives a piracy history lesson⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Whomp, that sucks. It’s about on par, and yea I’ve noticed for a while but unless they’ve changed hands, at some point they do need to survive. In the same way I think wages should go up with inflation, I do understand the need to raise prices from time to time as well. The issue I have is with predatory price jumps, shrink-flation, etc. and doubly when the only people who benefit are the super wealthy at the top.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Waiting and getting treated is better than waiting and going bankrupt⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In the US, if the wait time is ever quicker it’s because a lot of people who SHOULD be there just died at home or at least tried to tough it out and will live with those consequences for the rest of their lives.

  And yea, conservatives(lowercase, to not exuse anyone not in the Conservative party) are constantly fucking over our public instiutions. That includes healthcare, and frankly those politicians doing the damage are just murderers for hire. We have to do better, but at least we aren’t the US.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Well if that isn't just about the most evil thing you could openly admit to doing.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Conservatives hate teachers because teachers don’t need to work when kids aren’t in school for the summer. That’s the only complaint I’ve ever truly heard from them. Meanwhile, those same teachers are up stupid early, on time every fucking day, dealing with over-filled classes of every type of child, and then doing even more labour in the evenings as they aren’t officially given much of any time to create plans or mark work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Philips shouldn't exist. Torx plus is the best fight me⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Anyone normal” and a side-eye emoji. Not “for the layman” or “in case anyone doesn’t know yet”, but “anyone normal” with attitude.

  God, I know literacy levels are in the fucking toilet but are you serious?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Philips shouldn't exist. Torx plus is the best fight me⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Dumbing the world down for Benny is only hurting the both of you. I truly believe that some people are just shockingly stupid and that’s the end of it but you say Roberston enough times, without being an asshole, and even they will figure it out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Philips shouldn't exist. Torx plus is the best fight me⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So, I wanted to go at the guy for not reading your article but in reading it myself I did find possibly missing something. Like, they talk about them fitting within one another but then show that there are definitely differences. Maybe it’s a case of the same number screwdriver not being equal but +/- 1 number gets you back on track, I dunno.

  The article definitely isn’t fully selling me on what they’re saying, though. I own a 1986 Ninja 1000 and have done extensive work to it(engine in half, whole bike in pieces at one point) and there was definitely something up with the bolts. I replaced them all with new button-head and socket-head hex bolts and life was much easier.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Philips shouldn't exist. Torx plus is the best fight me⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Robertson = Robertson. “Square-head” is not clear enough, same as saying “hex-head” and not being able to say definitively whether you need an allen key or a socket. It’s not that difficult, just learn things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Simply Bananas⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The thing is fake moon landing people are also flat earthers and shit. To them, the money isn’t the important part, it’s the hiding of some sort of special knowledge. When you say it would cost more that implies that there’s an option that costs less which is possible in the first place.

  To them, there’s always another layer of justification they can add. Russia would have said something? Well, you see, the Russia/USA beef is manufactured by a secret cabal of, I dunno, Freemasons. It would have been leaked? Don’t worry, everyone involved was replaced by obidient clones.

  With a good editor, some conspiracy theorists could be decent writers if they weren’t using their creativity to be insane.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Housing prices⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bro, get the fuck outta here. You said the opposite of what you now claim you were trying to say and are now being a pissy little baby about it. Wah wah, don’t fucking care.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Housing prices⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can you, like, read? I didn’t say identifying the problem was the problem, I said bitching and not offering actual solutions. You are a stranger on a forum, not only can no one read your mind, we don’t even know where you’re coming from. Your first comment was excuses for why things are more expensive and the one I replied to was you, again, talking about bad politicians like there was nothing that could be done.

  Solutions are good, lead with that next time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Housing prices⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem with people who take your approach is you never actually use your negativity to offer solutions. Then you act like you’re “being realistic and just trying to help”, such that if someone calls you out you can try to deflect and feel smart. You aren’t contributing anything to the conversation but telling everyone things they already know.

  Example of something even vaguely close to genuine participation in the conversation: “Hmmm, the NIMBYs won’t like that. We’d probably also want to include a rule that demands a certain amount of social housing per neighbourhood, or [other actual solutions]. We could also use town halls as ways to lure them(they love to complain in public) in and then explain exactly what market-rate housing is. There are answers for sure, maybe places like Vienna can show us how they got theirs in place.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Housing prices⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I like how we’re making a scenario where things might actually go well and you’re still trying to find ways to lose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Housing prices⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If we’re already living in a world where we can tax homes at 100%, 200%, etc. then we’re also living in a world where we can pretty easily tell NIMBYs to go fuck themselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Housing prices⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And all that extra money goes to building social housing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is 23⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  We can’t even get gamers to stop pre-ordering games from even just the shitty companies. They literally can’t simply go play any of the thousands of other amazing games because they’re too busy letting themselves get rat-fucked by companies like EA and Ubisoft who actively hate their customers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not a single one⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re in the comments trying to act like you’re more noble, but if your very first angle and the one you built your post on is about profitability then you’ve already lost. You made a strawman and are just mad that it was called out.

  Yea, renewables would be better, for sure. Talk about that, then, if that’s what you really care about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chat, is this accurate?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t lick lead as a hobby, but a quick one wouldn’t be the end of things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Femality is stored in the nipples⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My guy put on the diving suit and for some reason the one thing that clipped through was his big ol’ bingus.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To cosmic shreds, I say!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If the one-electron theory is true you could just double its charge and see what happens. Would only need to do it in one place for it to be everywhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alpha AF⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There was a quote I saw recently that said something along the lines of the idea that if your satire becomes indistinguishable from that which you’re satirizing it ceases to be a joke and just becomes more fuel for your target.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Damn straight!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s more about the owner class than anything. If you deny support to politicians seeking to raise the minimum wage and/or vote for politicians who talk about how the minimum wage concept is evil then you almost certainly are not taking any actions which are anti-billionaire/anti-owner class.

  They think rich people are really smart and deserve what they “worked very hard for”. They genuinely believe that the rich “assume the risk so deserve the money” despite them never facing consequences while having incredibly basic ideas. They hate that someone “beneath” them would make money and can’t think hard enough to understand that that would mean they’d get to demand more pay, too. There are even people who think that owners can do whatever they want as long as its legal and they deliberately ignore any nuance regarding what legality is and they jump straight over the concept of baseline morality to tell you that it’s your fault for not changing jobs, as if that’s something you can just do easily(and is if there are better bosses readily available).

  All of those examples are what you get when you listen to centrist and conservative media that’s shilling for aggressive capitalism(with state-funded safety nets for corporations, of course). If you say “I don’t think billionaires should be allowed, but all the systems which lead to them are fine” then you’re a complete moron.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Damn straight!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oddly, though, they’re all massive bootlickers and will try to find any reason why billionaires are totally fair and good hardworkers. TheyMre just pathetic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Steam Deck is objectively excellent, what the hell are you talking about? Yea, that’s way more expensive that it was only a few years ago and people need to not accept the price, but still.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a paramedic⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  One night I had the weird headache out of nowhere. Still don’t know what it was or where it came from. No idea why, but I ended up on the couch just thinking “everything is bad, I’m bad, why even bother, I fucking suck at everything, etc.”

  I’m pretty good at separating myself from my own thoughts, especially when things get out of hand, so I knew to just sit and let it blow over. This was very, very good because in that moment I caught a glimpse of where someone might be if they were thinking of commiting suicide. It was such a strong force of self-hate and hopelessness all I could really do was lie there and hope it would pass.

  Had a normal day after that, but holy hell. There’s not a lot of logic to it, the best you can really do is be kind to people and pray they see the lighthouse in the storm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨wage theft⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People are in a cycle built by “rugged individualism” which leads many to attack others instead of lifting them up. They contribute to, and reinforce, the system which makes them so scared to lose their job.

  Searching for a job right now is horrific. We have spmething like 8% unemployment in Canada and so many job posts aren’t even real, just there for the companies to get people’s information and see what the market looks like. You could be qualified and apply a hundred times and not even get ine interview. Then you have to ask yourself if you should switch careers, but that comes with the very valid fear that the new career will be just as difficult except now you have to start from scratch. It’s a huge mess out there.