EndlessNightmare
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- Comment on Is America currently a Plutocracy? And is currently rounding the base toward an Ochlocracy? How did we let ourselves get here? Has any other country been through this? And came back? 5 hours ago:
- Comment on Supermarkets destroy food if it doesn't sell. We can always feed the world. We just don't. 12 hours ago:
Hypermarket? How does that compare to a supermarket?
- Comment on Supermarkets destroy food if it doesn't sell. We can always feed the world. We just don't. 16 hours ago:
Yes. This isn’t a “capitalism” problem, this is a “see animals as products” problem.
- Comment on Supermarkets destroy food if it doesn't sell. We can always feed the world. We just don't. 16 hours ago:
Final thought: the best way to decrease meat consumption is to make the alternatives easy to prepare and alluring to more of the population.
I learned long ago that ethics won’t win out. It comes down to cost and convenience. Alternatives need to be cheap and easy.
- Comment on Why is leadership valued so much over expertise? 1 day ago:
Broader reach and generally more responsibility.
I’m definitely on the “expertise” track at work and have specifically avoided management because it simply doesn’t mesh with my skillset or lifestyle. At my company at least, the people getting the calls late in the evening or over weekends are the managers. They are the ones that have to deal with scheduling conflicts, budget overruns, or fixing the big issues.
While execs make a lot and probably don’t have the big stress, the juice isn’t worth the squeeze for middle management. They often don’t make that much more and IME are the most stressed group at a company.
- Comment on Is America currently a Plutocracy? And is currently rounding the base toward an Ochlocracy? How did we let ourselves get here? Has any other country been through this? And came back? 1 day ago:
I would describe it more as a kakistocracy
- Comment on Supermarkets destroy food if it doesn't sell. We can always feed the world. We just don't. 1 day ago:
A lot of that “destroyed food” is animals who lived their entire lives in tiny, filthy cages just so that they could be killed and rot in a plastic bag.
- Comment on We do not get a choice of how we come into this world or who we came into this world by but how come we can't go out on our own, wouldn't that be a full life doing everything u wanted 2 do? 6 days ago:
The illegality is mostly relevant in the sense that it prevents other from providing assistance and may impose some sort of duty to intervene, even if said intervention is simply calling emergency services.
- Comment on battlecheat 6 days ago:
Does 1 hit cause damage to all the ships in the stack that occupy the hit space? Or does only the top-most ship take the damage such that the top ships shield the bottom ones?
- Comment on Motherfucker trying to 100% life 1 week ago:
A modern renaissance man
- Comment on The ole Morning Constitutional 1 week ago:
Constitutional
I think Constitution is their dump stat
- Comment on Lawyer here: I concur! 1 week ago:
Convergent evolution
- Comment on Lawyer here: I concur! 1 week ago:
Introducing the new Apple AirPort
- Comment on How did we get "bike" from "bicycle"? 1 week ago:
And why is there William / Will but no Billiam / Bill?
- Comment on How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done? 1 week ago:
I guess reproduction didn’t make the cut, hence the crashing birth rates.
- Comment on How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done? 1 week ago:
Jobs paid enough so one person could stay home is how it worked.
Sure, but you get send your stay-at-home spouse to the doctor or dentist on your behalf. They can manage tasks that are more household than personal though.
- Comment on How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done? 1 week ago:
You highlighted why I want a 4/10 schedule so much. A designated day for this sort of thing would be a huge boon.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Because your question is based on a faulty premise
- Comment on Why exactly are nursing aids paid so poorly? 2 weeks ago:
I agree with much of what you said, particularly:
Why is it often worse? With dental tourism you get no follow-up care. You also have no recourse if they fuck up your mouth.
The reason it may be enticing for many is because of the enormous disparity in cost such that it becomes a risk assessment. Sometimes the alternative to medical tourism may be long-delayed or no treatment at all, though I realize that low-quality treatment is very often worse than no treatment.
- Comment on Why exactly are nursing aids paid so poorly? 2 weeks ago:
Not sure if we are talking about daycare or elder care at this point in the thread, but it applies to both: they work with vulnerable populations and entail a lot of risk, thus have significant insurance costs and regulations to comply with.
- Comment on Why exactly are nursing aids paid so poorly? 2 weeks ago:
The dual income trap
- Comment on Why exactly are nursing aids paid so poorly? 2 weeks ago:
Society’s hyper-competitiveness to “get an edge” is ultimately self-cannibalizing.
- Comment on Why exactly are nursing aids paid so poorly? 2 weeks ago:
“Parenting as a Service” is peak capitalistic hellscape…
JFC, I could see someone unironically marketing this.
- Comment on LA is proposing a subway system for Dodger Stadium. This will allow people to commute from the stadium parking area to the stadium 2 weeks ago:
🎵 Pave paradise
🎵 And put up a parking lot
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
And that is a good example of a false cognate
- Comment on indoor mushroom farming 2 weeks ago:
In a row?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
South Park has an episode like this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qw-vyB5TD3c
- Comment on Seattle housing be like... 2 weeks ago:
That housing is more than my total expenses for everything.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
a part from much better power management
That’s not a small thing. This translates into lower heat generation and longer battery life.
- Comment on What is it about Mark Zuckerberg's appearance or demeanor that creeps people out? 2 weeks ago:
Elon is far more ‘normal’ in this regard.
Uh, people talk harshly of Elon as well. I don’t know too many people who would think of him as anything approaching normal.