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- Comment on All workers deserve the same Paid Time Off deal as Mitch. 3 days ago:
I’ve lived in both Germany and the Netherlands, a year in each. I think you just see them with rose colored glasses. I have many criticisms but I’m not trying to tear anyone down. People love to tear the US down because we dominate the world in many ways.
- Comment on All workers deserve the same Paid Time Off deal as Mitch. 4 days ago:
We feed people with no strings attached. There are a million places where people who qualify can get help. But the guy who is working but he just had to replace his HVAC and has no money left, or maybe the lady whose transmission just went out and she has no money for food but doesn’t qualify for assistance - we help a lot of those people too. And we help people who would qualify for government aid, but we still don’t ask. We also serve community meals regularly and lots of people come from all income brackets. Most of the wealthier people who come are supporters.
- Comment on All workers deserve the same Paid Time Off deal as Mitch. 4 days ago:
Eh, I’ve lived there a couple of times. They don’t have everything figured out.
- Comment on All workers deserve the same Paid Time Off deal as Mitch. 4 days ago:
I’m for better paid leave. But do companies pay it or is there a national fund? Because as someone who runs a very small nonprofit organization that feeds our community with a handful of employees, if three of them went out on paid leave and I had to pay them plus temporary replacements long term, we would go under. There’s a reason we don’t have more employees. We paid two people on long term leave last year for good reason, and we lost 65% of our savings.
- Comment on Paying the bills 4 days ago:
Playing survival but being willing to use console commands just a tiny bit to make it less painful, that’s the sweet spot for me. I give myself some coins. I’m the dragonborn, it isn’t a stretch to think I might have also started out life with a little money. I mean my parents clearly had a heroic bloodline, they should have been successful. And when I’m building homesteads I console command most of the supplies. It’s rich privilege. It’s real. But I can still freeze to death or starve like anyone else navigating Skyrim.
- Comment on 92% of American adults aren’t going to a doctor because they cannot afford it. The health insurance industry must be dissolved & all of its executives criminally prosecuted for murder, conspiracy, an… 5 days ago:
I’ve been to the doctor twice in the last 20 years and one of them was an emergency. It has been longer for the dentist.
- Comment on law enforcement partners 5 days ago:
I’ve seen these parking spots at every Walmart I’ve been to recently in multiple states (I go camping a lot and they’re very useful if I need any food or supplies or if I need to replace a piece of gear). It seems like corporate just made a decision to put them at every location. I have yet to see police park anywhere except the fire lane though, I once saw fifteen cop cars parked in front of my local Walmart in the fire lane, it was just they were all buying Christmas gifts to donate I found out later.
- Comment on law enforcement partners 6 days ago:
It’s 99% shoplifting. But the police in my area don’t use those parking spots anyway, they always park in the fire lane.
- Comment on Paying the bills 6 days ago:
Pardon me, I’ll be back later. I’m off to play a bit on my most recent survival playthrough of Skyrim… I love having to ride my horse places that don’t have carriage access which is 95% of them. You could do five playthrus using fast travel and you wouldn’t know the world a quarter as well as after one survival playthrough.
- Comment on Housing prices 6 days ago:
Yes our earning power is trash compared to the 70s, and I think there are more reasons for that than what you stated. But your answer didn’t really address why homes specifically have dramatically outpaced the general rate of inflation.
- Comment on Housing prices 6 days ago:
Several things. Unrestricted illegal immigration through our completely open border during the Bush and Biden years put dramatically more demand on our system. Corporate and private investment added to that pressure. COVID and the related emergency spending and shutdowns rapidly increased the cost of new construction. I don’t know how many of you needed to buy wood in that time frame, but the cost quadrupled.
The rules of supply and demand are still king in the market, and in a relatively short period of time we ramped up demand and increased the scarcity and cost of new supply. I read earlier today about a study that showed rents have gone down in areas that ICE has targeted. I know that isn’t a popular reality for many on Lemmy but whatever.
- Comment on Delicious 6 days ago:
My son still plays Roblox at 16. And other games, but he has some friends who like to play Roblox together.
- Comment on Delicious 1 week ago:
My son had beaten both Portal & Portal 2: before his fourth birthday. He’s 16 now and I guess he likes cats.
- Comment on Delicious 1 week ago:
As an adult, I can’t stand cake and refuse to eat it no matter whose birthday or wedding or whatever it is, and I don’t care who I piss off.
- Comment on "I don't answer questions" 1 week ago:
Sure, know how fast you’re going. But don’t ever answer that question if you were speeding, you’re admitting guilt. It’s actually illegal for cops to ask that question in some states.
- Comment on Different strokes 1 week ago:
I worked at the hospital and switched all the babies so dads could get out of child support.
- Comment on It's been a very wet summer around here 1 week ago:
Yeah I had one swoop by me at the rim of Crater Lake in Oregon once. It came up from below me on an air draft and swooped by almost within arms reach. That was the first time I’d ever seen one in nature. I was not prepared.
- Comment on It's been a very wet summer around here 2 weeks ago:
You’re getting sharks in the fields? I’m getting bald eagles - Murica! Image
- Comment on This Is Why I Sit Down To Pee Pee 2 weeks ago:
Man in the 70s and 80s, especially at things like concerts and sporting events, they would just give men a long trough that continuously sprayed a little water. You could walk all the way around it and pee from any direction. Even as a kid I thought that was an uncomfortable number of dicks all pointed at the same thing.
- Comment on This Is Why I Sit Down To Pee Pee 2 weeks ago:
Buc-ee’s has entered the chat.
- Comment on The most unrealistic part of Odyssey is the journey taking 20 years 2 weeks ago:
Ok I’ll throw in mine too, SHERP!Image
- Comment on Yeah I see you... 3 weeks ago:
Oh man I wish any of my hobbies cost onder $20k.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
I know that looks dumb but I find it painful to sit for long periods of time and they don’t let you be stand around on the plane. I always get an aisle seat so that I can stand as soon as it lands. I know I’m not going anywhere for awhile but I can’t sit any longer.
- Comment on Gotta go sad! 4 weeks ago:
The whole fucking world defaults to the US. But I don’t know anyone that thinks of Africans or even Australians when they hear “southern”. Granted, having lived in northern Germany among other places, they mean something different when they say the south and I’m sure other nations refer to their southern residents as southerners. But I’m guessing you knew what I meant and just wanted to be a dbag
- Comment on Heh heh 4 weeks ago:
Or just pour it on the lawn somewhere. Don’t keep using the same spot.
- Comment on Finally HR does something right 4 weeks ago:
Lots of companies have use it or lose it policies. I have been working about 40 years and I have never been able to bank paid time off from year to year.
- Comment on Finally HR does something right 4 weeks ago:
Is it a paid lunch? I’m willing to do a little work if it makes my life better. Is it unpaid? Not only am I not working, if you interrupt my lunch and cause my food to be one minute less fresh, you are replacing my lunch on your time and expense.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Are you suggesting paying for porn? Because, no.
- Comment on Gotta go sad! 5 weeks ago:
Southern US. Race doesn’t matter. White, black, brown or whatever. The walk is the same. Not many 200kg women in Africa.
- Comment on It's rigged 5 weeks ago:
Most people only pay half of that and their employer pays the other half. Self employed people pay all of that, that’s me. I don’t have any separate retirement accounts or health insurance benefits either, but none of that is factored into my taxes.
