ALoafOfBread

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where *does* the money come from?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  True! Co-ops are great

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where *does* the money come from?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It also depends on the state the company is incorporated in, but yeah that’s true.

  And it is a duty to the corporation (legal entity), notably not to the workers themselves; so while the interests of workers and the corporation may align sometimes - you don’t have to do what’s best for the workers if it isn’t best for the company.

  You still need to operate lawfully, and you can’t pay so little that you can’t hire/retain anyone, and you need to pay enough that you can hire people skilled enough to do the job, but you need to pay (ideally) only that amount and no more. Anything else takes away from profits and, you could say, makes the company less likely to succeed - if the company doesn’t succeed, then no one would have jobs. Or so they’d argue.

  The same as for goods, the price of labor is treated by employers as “what the market will bear”. For goods, that means higher prices, for labor it means lower prices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where *does* the money come from?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The reason for this is pretty simple: necessity.

  Companies have a fiduciary duty to maximize profits for shareholders.

  If no union exists, that means depressing wages as much as possible while meeting staffing needs.

  If a union is forming, it means spending as much as you need to stop it since, if you don’t, you’ll be unable to depress wages over the long term.

  When a union exists, well then they have to negotiate to continue operations and so workers get paid more fairly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man posts his incorrect opinion online⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Dobles para defensa del hogar también

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The developers of PEAK, explaining how they decided on pricing for their game. ⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not saying it’s rational, it just feels like more money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The developers of PEAK, explaining how they decided on pricing for their game. ⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Little different for me:

  $1 - 5 = $5

  $6 - 12 = $10

  $13 - 20 = $20

  $21 - 50 = $50

  $51 - 70 = $100

  $70 = $1000

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this Boss Baby's troubled cousin?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Why does he look like methhead Mr. Bean in profile

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He lid⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sbren Sbeve

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is crazy. Why don't you just take their car ?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a really good point. Sliding scale payment maybe (with no cap on income - if you make a million bucks a year and are always speeding, you’re going to be paying a hefty fine)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is crazy. Why don't you just take their car ?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like the better option is to have local government foot the bill - but the driver owes the value of the device if it’s lost or damaged. In theory, insurance would have to cover at least some of this and they can still use their car. AND if they drive safely, they should owe nothing long-term.

  That’s idealistic though. I’m sure the “tough on crime” crowd would want the individual to foot the bill.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is crazy. Why don't you just take their car ?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And speed is highly correlated to the lethality of car wrecks. Also, it sounds like the devices wosuld be installed in the cars of people who… speed frequently.

  So, it is directly addressing the problem without asset seizure or jail time. Sounds like an ideal solution, actually.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can anyone explain why?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Idk. I think people get legitimate prescriptions and sell pills, mostly. If it’s not buying from someone you know who sourced them that way, idk how you’d verify it’s what they say it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can anyone explain why?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I know some Gen Z college kids, and I will attest they definitely spend significant money on alcohol. And cigarettes.

  I wouldn’t be surprised if the vice money is just split between alcohol, cigarettes, weed, vape carts, and adderall.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LETS GO GAMBLING!!!! 🤩🌟😋⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh yeah for sure. Just make sure it isn’t sorbitol or you’d spend the same time on the toilet that cigarettes would shorten your life by

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LETS GO GAMBLING!!!! 🤩🌟😋⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Idk, seems like a variable reinforcement schedule to me. They are typically more effective at building lasting behaviors.

  I think this would just get you addicted to gum while tapering you off nicotine (assuming you decrease the number ofnicotine gum pieces).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The forbidden fourth leche⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Definitely dinstinct leches. Also plant milks: almond, oat, coconut. Coconut cream should also count IMO. Then there is condensed coconut milk as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Humans rank between meerkats and beavers in monogamy ‘league table’, but sheep are sluts.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Idk I bet there are lots of beavers sluttier than me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A swing and a miss⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That is a bit of a misnomer since figuring things out requires at least a double-digit IQ and I don’t have one of those. –TheGreatWhiteNorthFreePress

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon thinks we're being bamboo-zled⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  First mention by hhhhwhite people was in 1869, apparently. But mentioned in chinese texts as early as like 2000 years ago

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My wife is on the ace spectrum. She enjoys sex, but only experiences reactive sexual desire (i.e. she’ll get in the mood once sex is basically already happening). Effectively she does not experience sexual desire in the way people typically mean that.

  That’s been a struggle for us. We don’t do scheduled sex, but it’s something we’ve considered. Even though we have very good (if infrequent) sex, the frequency isn’t the thing that’s hard for me to deal with. The hardest thing is not feeling desired in ways I am used to in relationships. That has made me feel insecure and just overall is not great. But it’s something we’ve had to work through.

  So all that goes to say: yes, if you find the right person you’ll be able to make it work. The key, in my opinion, is talking about it and being very clear about how you’re wired and that it isn’t anything wrong with them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A place for conservatives⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Overton window got yeeted so far to the right it ended up in 1930s germany

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA: The Dangers of The Devil's Lettuce⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It stops taking as much effort eventually. Then you can tune out the noise and think about stuff. Or it never does because everyone is different, I guess, but then you just do what you have to do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s true. But finding inner quiet is an even more necessary skill in those situations. But, I’m autistic, so I totally get if the stimulation is just too much. Though I went through a lot of discomfort to be okay in environments like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s good to enjoy quiet and not be constantly surrounding yourself with noise. It’s an important skill to be able to sit in silence and not rely on external stimulation to feel okay.

  You’re probably not a buddhist, but the buddha warned about this like 2300 years ago. He said that “going to festivals” (they didn’t have recorded music back then of course, so that’swhere you heard it) and hearing the music is nice and enjoyable, but doing it too much would prevent you from spiritual development & mindfulness. Monks were even forbidden from singing, dancing, etc. and laypeople were just encouraged to stay mindful of their consumption.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hmmmm⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  ¡Hola, compañeros perritos!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨But why⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Stephen King is not a good writer. He has good story ideas. But his actual writing is poor and he does weird things that are unsupported by the narrative - like writing in sewer gangbang scenes with children so that they can defeat the bad guy with the power of eskimo brotherhood.

  You can explain that in a less derisive way that sounds a bit more reasonable, but it doesn’t make it a good narrative choice.

  Another example is 11/22/63. People on reddit cream their pants over the book, but it’s literally just King writing himself in as the main character so he can (totally uncritically) reminisce over how great small town America was in the 50s/60s and have a fantasy relationship with this incredibly weak/badly written female character and repeatedly “make poundcake” with her. It’s an 800+ page book supposedly about time traveling to stop the Kennedy assassination, but like 700+ pages are filled with asinine garbage and the actual plot is thin and pretty bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I always wondered why hotel rooms had bibles⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mormon Jesus made this deal too. LDS church gives tons of bibles to hotels worldwide to put their fanfic right next to the original boring version.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨... huh...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  🅱️ U S S Y

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unified Theory of American Reality⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. Although way fewer than I’d expect. Would recommend.