Critical_Thinker
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- Comment on Republican Senator callously says 'biblically, we are supposed to work' to millions set to lose health care 4 weeks ago:
Healthy enough to work or sick enough to die.
That’s what they want. Work or die. It’s that black and white for
slaveworking class. - Comment on I'm gonna mute this one 4 weeks ago:
If you were right it would be happening and they would be winning.
It just doesn’t happen. If you aren’t D or R you’re not getting party funded, and running independent is fucking hard. If you’re D or R You’ll get primaried to death by a better funded same party opponent who doesn’t mess with the source of said party funding.
- Comment on I'm gonna mute this one 4 weeks ago:
All I want is a party by and for the people Never going to happen.
Political parties are run by the wealthy elite, not “the people”
There’s nothing to allow for a candidate who is sincere but not connected to big money to succeed at anything but the most local of elections.
If someone were to win a bigger federal level election with word of mouth and no money, be sure that whatever social media platform that allowed their word to go out and grow was on their side and working in the shadows of their ‘formula’ that promotes some content over others.
- Comment on All this produce is going to spoil at the food bank where I volunteer 1 month ago:
This same thing plays out at many major food banks countrywide.
Find out where the manufacturer’s warehouses and production plants actually are, and the nearest large food banks will be the recipients of their trash.
- Comment on All this produce is going to spoil at the food bank where I volunteer 1 month ago:
Tax write off of retail value, instead of tax write off of actual cost. I wouldn’t be surprised if the writeoff is net zero for them from retail value.
- Comment on All this produce is going to spoil at the food bank where I volunteer 1 month ago:
Amazon perishables are mostly whole foods. The UNFI cyberattack is going to cause likely hundreds of tons of spoiled product nationwide as they have no idea where to ship anything, and the production line doesn’t just stop having fresh product to process.
- Comment on All this produce is going to spoil at the food bank where I volunteer 1 month ago:
I don’t think restaurants are going to want hundreds of pounds of product at the very end of life in terms of freshness. This is the product the manufacturer couldn’t sell to a store for various reasons.
- Comment on All this produce is going to spoil at the food bank where I volunteer 1 month ago:
This is because if something goes bad from the food you give away the business will get sued for not having cold chain verification or a quality department to make sure the food was not altered in any way. Warehouses (aka ‘distribution centers’) typically have that kind of process, but retailers do not as Quality department employee salaries are typically several times what retail employees make, and often substantially higher than department managers, shift managers, and other low level retail management roles.
- Comment on All this produce is going to spoil at the food bank where I volunteer 1 month ago:
this has nothing to do with churches.
This is companies maximizing their tax deduction by donating at retail value instead of writing off the loss of actual cost.
- Comment on All this produce is going to spoil at the food bank where I volunteer 1 month ago:
The branding is one aspect, they definitely publicize the food bank donations and it’s often one of the few things food manufacturers do that sounds good. The rest is just profit and employing mass contract labor at near minimum wage.
If they threw out thousands of pounds of product it would look like a bad number if publicized… if they donate ten thousand pounds of tomatoes a couple days before they go bad they get to look like they donated ten thousand pounds of tomatoes in value, and then they get to write that off as a donation.
I’m pretty sure when they do said “donations” they get to write off the retail value, whereas if they just wrote it off as a loss to the business it would only be the actual cost.
- Comment on All this produce is going to spoil at the food bank where I volunteer 1 month ago:
They do this because they can write off the “donation” (e.g. garbage disposal)
All of this produce was going to go bad, they know what date it’s going bad, but they overproduce or customers cancelled orders or under ordered.
UNFI, the massive breached company, is going to have this same thing play out across the board from product wasting away in their warehouse.
- Comment on Apple TV+ is painful as fuck 2 months ago:
Foundation is pretty excellent as well.
I go with the path of least resistance for top quality. I don’t think a subscription can give you this.
- Comment on 7 for me 2 months ago:
This needs to be run through 4chan, twatter, facebook and reddit, then put back here.
- Comment on How are Americans so outgoing and extroverted and how can I become the same? 2 months ago:
Immersion therapy man. Go find a board game meetup, exercise meetup or sports meetup or something that puts you in a situation where you’re gonna be able to have casual conversations.
Loads of people just like you with social anxiety and who are introverted though in the US, and honestly any nation in the Americas… and probably the world.
- Comment on This one we can all agree on 2 months ago:
lmao don’t worry we’re not alone, I was just being a little shit in spirit of the post :)
- Comment on This one we can all agree on 2 months ago:
The person in the photo needs to cut their nails.
- Comment on Even Starfield's community patch modders are growing 'disenchanted' with the sci-fi RPG, as volunteers depart in droves: 'If nobody comes forward, we may have to retire the project' 2 months ago:
I bought it on pre-release on steam and refunded it right before go live.
Love how try before you buy works now. Charge me for early access to play a couple days early? Well shucks… guess I get a free trial period.
By the end of the weekend I was disillusioned. No meaningful exploration in a space game is insane.
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 2 months ago:
Imagine how terribly different games would be if someone had patented “A action where a user presses a button to swing their weapon, and if that weapon hits an enemy, that enemy takes damage.”
I’m sure nintendo will have a patent for using a command for a menu to use an effect that buffs, heals, or harms. That way they can prove they are the ones who invented JRPGs too.
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 2 months ago:
Why is there nothing in place to punish Ninendo for doing shit like this?
Patent law is rigged. Legal monopolies shouldn’t exist.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Welcome to how the world works. I promise it gets worse as you look around.
Humans are evil.
- Comment on Want happier employees? Start with a 32-hour workweek – and 4 weeks vacation. 2 months ago:
Yeah, the nuance is kind of nuts but i’ve got a relative who had and lost about 5m. Could have cashed out at the 5m number but didn’t. Got about 40k at the end of all of it.
- Comment on Want happier employees? Start with a 32-hour workweek – and 4 weeks vacation. 2 months ago:
I’ve seen this happen to multiple people. Join a startup with good perks, listen to the siren song of “the stock price will go up!” while the owners are out getting offers for their shares, then the owners sell out or the company tanks and you’re left with nothing despite having millions just a couple years ago on paper.
The key is to sell out once you have enough that it makes enough to impact your life. 500k or more is enough to escape poverty for almost anybody for life.
Even if you just sold it as it vested you would probably be better off.
- Comment on Nintendo confirms $90 price for full Breath of the Wild experience on Switch 2 2 months ago:
It’s the year 20X6.
I, his inheritor, am sorry to inform you that GabeN has passed. I’ve realized that I want an even larger pile of money, and it’s come to my attention that you aren’t paying for us to maintain your account.
You have 30 days to download your content or subscribe to Steam Plus at a cheap $X9.99/mo to avoid account deletion.
- Comment on Nintendo confirms $90 price for full Breath of the Wild experience on Switch 2 3 months ago:
You’re literally not their market. That’s why so much of what they focus on are digital only sales, consoles, deals and schemes. They want buy once at full price, never resell.
- Comment on Nintendo confirms $90 price for full Breath of the Wild experience on Switch 2 3 months ago:
They aren’t your friends, they don’t care about you - they care about the money in your pocket.
They know they are too big to fail, so they are gonna raise prices 50% no problem.
- Comment on Nintendo confirms $90 price for full Breath of the Wild experience on Switch 2 3 months ago:
Steam is not free. Steam is 30% cut to businesses.
Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft offload their costs via yearly subscription costs as well as developers paying a protection fee to launch on their platform. Steam just has the highest protection money scheme. You wouldn’t want anything to happen to the games you’re publishing through them, would you?
- Comment on America is fucked 3 months ago:
Sure and Santiago is a horrible example. I was just there a few months ago. It feels the most like boston of anywhere else in latin america. When I was in el salvador I thought I was gonna get robbed at the airport, where they pat you down at each departure gate.
The wages are livable, the neighborhoods are safe(mostly), the housing is affordable, the food is terrible (compared to lima anyway.) I couldn’t get enough of the mountains.
- Comment on America is fucked 3 months ago:
Education quality is a tip of the iceberg.
Talk to someone who went to a public school in say the dominican republic. I’ve heard stories of years of kids just waiting around with next to no actual teaching involved from someone who was physically there in their childhood. If you don’t go to a private school odds are you aren’t going to get any real education or structure beyond what you pick up at home… and odds are your parents were in the same boat.
The US education system has been nothing like that, it is going to get like that in the south though.
- Comment on America is fucked 3 months ago:
You should see major cities in latin america if you think that’s bad. In many countries it’s like they don’t even care.
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 3 months ago:
Back then I don’t know who could have picked up the reins and taken over.
Vance didn’t have the following he has now.
Ramaswamy wasn’t white enough (I don’t think it’s possible for the right or center to vote non-white-male for president.)
Nikki wouldn’t have worked either, she couldn’t be dumpy and she also didn’t have a penis.
So it’s hard to say. I think the magat mentality is here to stay regardless of if dumpy is around, but the absolute control of the party probably wouldn’t survive him.