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- Comment on Housing prices 6 days 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago:
And all that extra money goes to building social housing.
- Comment on Anon is 23 2 weeks 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 5 weeks 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? 5 weeks 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 1 month 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! 1 month 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! 2 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! 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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.
- Comment on wage theft 2 months ago:
There’s employment insurance, but it’s only 55% of your most recent salary and only up to a certain number, as well as the amount of time it lasts is related to the level of unemployment up to a maximum of around 6 months, I believe. But getting a job is hard as hell right now, especially with how all these companies are behaving.
It’s not a net, it’s a parachute with some holes in it. Not there to catch you, just there to slow the eventual crash.
I’m glad to hear you aren’t a piece of shit, though. Each business owner who acts right is a real-world example of what we could have.
- Comment on wage theft 2 months ago:
You can sue while working there, and then they magically find some other reason to let you go.
I’m in Canada. They fired me for “restructuring” but it was really because the fragile people in charge couldn’t handle my absurdly gentle requests for improving our standards or asking for slightly more money. They got really mad when I told a senior engineer that I can’t continue working on his project until he updates his paper building code from the 2012 version to the ammended 2023 version. I sent them to the professional engineers association for that one, after I had left, and they got officially chewed out for it, but that didn’t help me keep my job.
The world is not the ideal “should” that it needs to be. I scream and yell for it and I will never say we should just take it, or that it needs to be that way forever, but at this exact moment it’s still what it is. Doesn’t mean we shouldn’t fight right now, before it gets even worse, either, but it’s still not an easy thing.
- Comment on wage theft 2 months ago:
Without a job you have zero support system and you have to be worried about other jobs not hiring you. It’s why strict rights and laws from a government need to be there, so that everyone has them and companies can’t just ignore the people who actually fight back.
I have a friend who had to deal with this here in Canada. He has plenty of money saved up and could actually afford to go after them, especially as he could use the time to relax and basically have a vacation. And we can only expect it to get worse under Carney and the Liberals as their now entirely unchecked conservatism is just rolling through our rights.
- Comment on Green herons 2 months ago:
Except that it’s very obviously not the same idea as the post. Your great blue friend should practice basic media comprehension before butting into a conversation to talk about themselves.
- Comment on DNAddy 2 months ago:
Being incredibly close, genetically, probably helps a lot. Cancer is just ones own cells that turn into a parasitic mass BUT there’s entire dog STI that’s actually a thousands of years old boneless dog(the dog’s cancer cells) which was likely originally spread through a bunch of domesticated, inbred dogs.
So his immune system’s like “eh, close enough”.
- Comment on Im a weekly showerer 3 months ago:
For me it started with not breathing well through my noses so my mouth would taste awful when I woke up from being all dry and weird. Then it became an excuse to get my ass out of bed and moving.
- Comment on Wonder why? 3 months ago:
Again though, he cut programs that were in motion so as far as we know stuff could have been decently close and is gone now. Also important is the fact that he’s literally a guy who constantly talks and act like prescription drugs are evil and yet is using China having more of them as a good thing for them and a bad thing for his country.
- Comment on Wonder why? 3 months ago:
Is he not directly responsible for defunding a lot of the research and programs that would have helped here? Weird that Captain All-Natural cares about having less drugs than China.
- Comment on Theories on Theories 3 months ago:
Alternatively, with capitalism giving all the power to the richest: “The law is true because I’ll hurt you if you try to defend yourself and I have plenty of class traitors to help me.”
- Comment on Think Bold 3 months ago:
Just type “helicopter hog hunting” into any search engine lol
- Comment on Think Bold 3 months ago:
Humans with guns and preferably a helicopter.
- Comment on North America contains some of the longest continuous decididous forest records on the planet. 4 months ago:
Oof.
- Comment on North America contains some of the longest continuous decididous forest records on the planet. 4 months ago:
Woof. Deflect all you want, it doesn’t change that your country is a result of ineffective centrists allowing conservatives to get away with murder, if they aren’t doing it themselves. Harris was still going to use your tax money to kill innocent children, she just wasn’t going to post about it on Truth Social and you would be able to tell yourself that she was the best of two options, and now you don’t need to care anymore. This shit happened when Biden got in, and Harris was right there saying she wouldn’t do anything differently.
I know ya’ll have a hard time learning, but how obvious do things need to be for you to see how bad things are?