Maeve
@Maeve@kbin.earth
- Comment on Stigma against benefits has made devastating poverty acceptable in Britain, researcher says 2 days ago:
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Look at your own policies and how they were shaped and why they were instituted. Or what happened to the world's economy when the US economy was in trouble. You don't have to like it. I don't like it. Ignoring facts doesn't change them.
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Perhaps you might look into the origin of that spelling, or what Hitler's policies regarding certain races were modeled after.
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- Comment on Stigma against benefits has made devastating poverty acceptable in Britain, researcher says 2 days ago:
"When population is high and income low, there's another war," was the way of it. My child is over thirty and has never known a time America wasn't at war. Also about to clean up the post you responded to. AI autocorrect is rubbish.
- Comment on Stigma against benefits has made devastating poverty acceptable in Britain, researcher says 2 days ago:
Welcome to amerikka. What I mean is, the allied nations had a choice, and made it after WW2. Europe went one way, the USA another. We have expired our "freedoms" to you. We have shown our true have, at home and abroad. Ball is in your court. I'd say now is your defining moment. Choose wisely, you are approaching the event horizon.
- Comment on Man makes money buying his own pizza on DoorDash app 3 days ago:
That's on you
- Comment on Man makes money buying his own pizza on DoorDash app 4 days ago:
In some ways, loss leading can be done in more or less ethical ways. For instance, a small mom n pop hardware loss leading on lumbar or hammers and taking a reasonable profit on ten penny nails. Or something, maybe a better example is the Costco 1.50 all beef foot-long dog and soda but their memberships are reasonable profit for those who would go often enough and buy enough to make it worth it. It's late and I'm tired, I hope you get the general gist. But yes, doordash is just double-dipping on the sleazy. And maybe loss leading isn't ever acceptable, but I'm simply unaware/haven't thought of reasons that make it so. I'm willing to hear any argument against any of it, though.
- Comment on Man makes money buying his own pizza on DoorDash app 4 days ago:
That's your takeaway? It's like Walmart moving into a town and undercutting indie business prices until the indie businesses close, then raising prices.
What doordash is doing is scraping restaurants' websites for prices, taking a temporary loss, then going to the restaurants saying, "We got all these orders, it's a win for both of us!" to sell the contact, then raising prices and tacking on extra fees, making money off the restaurants and the customers
- Comment on Man makes money buying his own pizza on DoorDash app 4 days ago:
The way I've heard the saying is, "They talked trash about Jesus, why wouldn't they talk trash about you?" Is this some new take on that?
- Comment on Anon meets his gf's parents 5 days ago:
Red state. Nuff said.
- Comment on Anon meets his gf's parents 5 days ago:
It's wholly realistic, where I live, autism or not!
- Comment on Anon meets his gf's parents 5 days ago:
There's my daily literal lol. Thanks OP!