PapaStevesy
@PapaStevesy@lemmy.world
- Comment on THIS JUST IN: FBI suspects Kirk was likely targeted, more info to come 2 weeks ago:
So Trump’s gonna send NG troops to Utah right? The crime in these red states is really out of control.
- Comment on How to poop outdoors in a way that won’t harm the environment and other hikers 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, maybe…unfortunately my only advice is to walk around in or near feces until you get some hookworm, because that’s all I know about them. And I’m using the word “know” very loosely.
- Comment on A conundrum 2 weeks ago:
renting the equivalent place would probably be extremely expensive too.
Right, like I said, mortgage is not cheaper, certainly not half as cheap. The market I’m in is a metropolis, it contains every range of the market, it just depends how much gun violence you prefer.
- Comment on A conundrum 2 weeks ago:
Well in my very recent experience it is extremely, painfully, unavoidably true. That’s why I said it. We just bought a house, 150k less than we qualified for, and our monthly payment is 33% higher than we were paying in rent. Rent is far from cheap, there’s just no such thing as an inexpensive house unless you want one in a terrible neighborhood or an hour drive outside the city. In the first case, not only is it a bad idea just to live in these neighborhoods, the chances of making money on the resale are next to nil. The burbs option of course offers more for your money, but that comes with more maintenance, yardwork, housework, gas money, transit stress, etc. We worked with very knowledgeable, trustworthy realtor and mortgage brokers and there’s simply no math in the current market that gets mortgage payments lower than the rent we were paying without buying a literal, active crack house.
And to claim there’s no extra fees involved with buying and owning a home compared to renting is either utter delusion or repugnant gaslighting.
- Comment on A conundrum 2 weeks ago:
I hate to break it to you, but mortgage payments are not cheaper then rent anymore. Obviously depends on your mortgage and money down and all that, but if you expect to pay half as much for mortgage payments as you did for rent, you’re going to have a very bad time.
- Comment on Like a heart 2 weeks ago:
No they pee, they just can’t store it. That’s why they need tampons and such, it just falls right out.
- Comment on How to poop outdoors in a way that won’t harm the environment and other hikers 3 weeks ago:
Leave it less than six get away from where they commonly walk around barefoot and they could get hookworm. If I remember the Radio Lab correctly anyway.
- Comment on McDonald’s CEO is grappling with a ‘two-tier economy’ as he slashes prices on value meals—and signals backing for a minimum wage increase 3 weeks ago:
Even Henry fucking Ford understood that
- Comment on No Man's Sky: Voyagers update releases today, introduces customizable "colossal, fully furnished, completely bespoke Corvette-class starships" 4 weeks ago:
You got hyper-jets on that thing?
- Comment on It's why the thrift store has so many of them 5 weeks ago:
Honestly, I think a big part of what makes this funny, to me anyway, is the “slighted” phrasing. It’s kind of an underused/archaic usage, so it sounds inherently a little funny in this modern context. But it also carries the implication that the original wrongdoing that they’re attempting to punish wasn’t very serious. Which actually makes sense, as this isn’t that annoying, just mildly inconvenient. It will still get hot in there, if you’re worried about food cooking unevenly, just turn it 180° halfway through.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Which is a kind of dress
- Comment on Don't you remember that whole lemmy loving beans thing? Too late, you do now. See this photo of beans. Actually a lot of beans. Some of them I am not fully sure if they are actually beans. B E A N S 1 month ago:
- Comment on Spoilers without context 1 month ago:
It’s either pod racing or Bob Odenkirk
- Comment on Tried naming the states from memory as a European 1 month ago:
And the “desert” is really plains. But they’re definitely racist.
- Comment on Political Views 1 month ago:
You don’t vote for spiders!
- Comment on Bill and Melinda French Gates and Warren Buffett’s Giving Pledge after 15 years: Only 9 of the 256 billionaires actually followed through on giving away half their wealth 1 month ago:
They’re saying the tax rate should be 0 for 5-figure incomes.
- Comment on My boss: You have to write now. Me: 1 month ago:
Good thing I don’t run. Either way, it ain’t a haiku.
- Comment on My boss: You have to write now. Me: 1 month ago:
That’s 5-5-5
- Comment on Soup of Theseus 1 month ago:
Would it still be soup once there’s no soup? No, it’d just be water then.
- Comment on You Don’t Remember Being a Baby, but Your Brain Was Making Memories 1 month ago:
Yeah, I kinda figured, I certainly don’t remember learning what spoken language is or how to understand it.
- Comment on twitter 1 month ago:
Or fucking Venmo
- Comment on twitter 1 month ago:
No they said in 2025, it must be like a country or something
- Comment on Anon thinks about elephants 2 months ago:
Animals that fuck more propagate their genes more. If they’re also violent, they’re probably taking out their competitors, and the non-violent ones are likely first to go.
- Comment on I asked for no sauce and got these instead 2 months ago:
If you serve the same person enough to know they always order extra ranch, bring extra ranch the first fucking time. If they ask for it, give it to them, if not, give it to the next one. As long as you didn’t put it on the table, it’s fine.
All these hypothetical customers seem to be gladly paying for the extra sauce, idk what all the bitching is about. Servers live on tips, tips are frequently determined as a percentage of the bill, bigger bill, bigger tip. This is literally you as a server making more money, just get the damn ranch jesus christ
- Comment on I asked for no sauce and got these instead 2 months ago:
Most people know how much ranch they want
If that were true, we wouldn’t be having this discussion. It’s impossible to know how much condiment you need when you haven’t seen the portion size.
most restaurants give about the same
Experience has taught me otherwise. Most restaurants use the same-sized container for condiments, but you don’t know if you’re gonna get three ounces or half of one. Regardless, a table waiter complaining about waiting tables is not something that triggers my empathy.
- Comment on I asked for no sauce and got these instead 2 months ago:
Assuming you’re talking about waiting tables and not fast food, how do you expect people to know both how much ranch they’ll need and how much comes in a single order before seeing the food? Plus any decent server knows to check in shortly after the food comes out to see how first bites are, so it’s really not a wasted trip. There are plenty of reasons to bitch about restaurant customers but not knowing ahead of time exactly how much ranch they’re going to want is not really a very compelling one.
- Comment on Viewers like you 2 months ago:
For someone who’s so “societally aware”, you’re really a sack of shit. But I guess that might be the point…
- Comment on Who discovered/"invented" fire? 2 months ago:
Some monkey
- Comment on Wisdom 2 months ago:
Frog strap!
- Comment on Wisdom 2 months ago:
But howthe hell could a tetrapod…be able to blend in?