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- Comment on To be happy… 1 hour ago:
I have an old toaster oven that has a really weak convection fan but it moves so little air it is nowhere near an air fryer. The timer doesn’t work anymore and it’s ugly but I have another timer and it just works. I don’t own an air fryer and I’m not going to buy one until my toaster oven dies.
- Comment on Minimum wage isn't survivable anymore 2 days ago:
If your rent is that low you’re clearly not in the US. Why would people with rock bottom cost of living need higher wages? Sounds like you’re living like a king compared to bthe working class here.
- Comment on Minimum wage isn't survivable anymore 2 days ago:
It’s still $7.
- Comment on Minimum wage isn't survivable anymore 2 days ago:
Uh, no.
- Comment on Minimum wage isn't survivable anymore 2 days ago:
You couldn’t be more wrong. I make less than I made 25 years ago, and I’m not even close to minimum. Jobs around me mostly hire at $11-12. Maybe $16 if you’re a welder or something.
- Comment on Minimum wage isn't survivable anymore 2 days ago:
I’m in a state where minimum is under $11 and yes lots of people earn minimum. I moved out when minimum was around $4, I made maybe $0.15 over minimum. I had two roommates and we lived in a really terrible neighborhood but we made it work. I walked to work back then. Where I live now, walking or biking are not options. It just keeps getting worse.
- Comment on Minimum wage isn't survivable anymore 2 days ago:
Most jobs in my area pay $11-$13. It isn’t $7, but it isn’t $15 either. Also, who can manage transportation on $300? I spend that much in fuel. This meme paints WAY too easy of a picture. Life is much harder than that in most of the US. I see people from developing nations saying Americans are spoiled because they’re so rich, but what they think is rich is absolutely destitute poor here. You’ll likely be homeless and hungry if all you earn is $30k/year.
- Comment on Anon questions the epidemic 2 days ago:
As if married men or men who have had sex at least once can’t be lonely. “You got your dick wet 20 years ago, what’s the problem?!”
Dudes don’t have friends. That’s the epidemic.
- Comment on How about instead, a longer healthier retirement? 3 days ago:
Don’t worry, I can’t afford to retire without working at least a few extra years. My honest retirement plan is I work til I’m dead.
- Comment on How about instead, a longer healthier retirement? 3 days ago:
Don’t worry, I can’t afford to retire without working at least a few extra years. My honest retirement plan is I work til I’m dead.
- Comment on Rich ppl live longer 4 days ago:
In what country is having insurance superior to having care? The care is always the goal.
- Comment on Rich ppl live longer 4 days ago:
I would change “health insurance” to “health care”. I have had better care when uninsured and negotiating prices in cash than when I had terrible health insurance I couldn’t afford to use and never got any care.
- Comment on Food served to US service men & women. 6 days ago:
Everything is better than our miltary’s trash
- Comment on Food served to US service men & women. 1 week ago:
We have it in some of our northern states and we are not impressed. You can do better than that.
- Comment on Brilliant‼️ 1 week ago:
Damn I wish. There are zero options but cars where I live.
- Comment on business is business 2 weeks ago:
At my house there are no buses. There are no light rails. There are no sidewalks, no bike lanes. You can walk in the easement of people’s front yards but it’s mostly a ditch, full of water when it’s raining. I live inside the loop highway that runs around my 2+ million population city. Cars are the only option, even most of the homeless have cars here.
- Comment on sometimes nature is a tattle tale 2 weeks ago:
The sluttiness is rarely the complaint. It’s the ones who promise faithfulness we hate. Be your slutty self but be real about it. This isn’t about women, it’s about people - it goes for men too.
- Comment on sometimes nature is a tattle tale 2 weeks ago:
Sometimes women aren’t complete sluts.
- Comment on Anon doesn't have a plan 2 weeks ago:
I moved out at 17, got married at 20, bought a house at 22. I also have been working since I was 12. After forty years of working, I still have nothing saved except some home equity.
- Comment on All workers deserve the same Paid Time Off deal as Mitch. 3 weeks 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. 3 weeks 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. 3 weeks 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. 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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… 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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.