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- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 3 days ago:
Yeah it’s a cropped AI upres of a video still, this is the original.
It’s the Curiosity Rover team celebrating a successful world-first rocket crane landing.
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 3 days ago:
No, but our Treasury Secretary recently floated the idea. I believe there are already some 40-year mortgages, but they’re rare. The 30-year mortgage has been an American institution since it was standardized under FDR’s New Deal.
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 3 days ago:
They’re considering offering a 50-year mortgage product to a market where the average first time buyer age is 40. Like no joke they’re aiming to lock people into a mortgage that would cost more per month than renting the same property until they’re 90.
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 3 days ago:
Probably because it’s a cropped section of a shitty AI upres of a video still, here’s an original.
It’s from 2012 when the NASA JPL team did a successful first-ever “rocket crane” landing to get the Curiosity rover to the surface of Mars. It was actually a really touching / exciting moment, there’s lot of other photos out there of the team hugging and celebrating.
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 3 days ago:
The guy who facilitates your mortgage contract isn’t getting your mortgage payments. The corporation that employs them is. The guy is making a wage or maybe just an hourly salary, plus commission.
By your logic, the checkout worker at costco is skimming off your wages to gate your access to food and clothing.
Even a sleezy car salesman who is trained to convince you to sign an extortive contract isn’t oppressing you. He isn’t betraying you at a class level. His plight is exactly the same as yours.
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 3 days ago:
Being able to tell the difference between a fellow worker and a class traitor isn’t bootlicking!
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 3 days ago:
No, they’re not. A lot of them don’t even have a degree in anything.
Your personal financial advisor is a person you should be able to trust with your important financial decision. They guy at the bank handing you a contract to sign is a bank employee with a script on rails, a manager, and a commission structure.
In a better world it wouldn’t be like that but in a better world I don’t think I’d be going to a bank in the first place.
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 3 days ago:
Yeah every commissioned salesperson you don’t like is literally nazi ss. Go off, moron.
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 4 days ago:
Bank workers are, at best, getting a small bonus when you sign that mortgage. Your fellow worker isn’t the enemy.
- Comment on fragile masculinity 4 days ago:
Half of them I did wait, yeah. Plus they were indoor hydroponic grown (People think I’m growing weed in that room but really I grow everything else), so I presume supercharged.
- Comment on fragile masculinity 4 days ago:
I refer more to growing flowers for sale. Most people I know who garden use flowers in the way you described.
I do however have one extremely “dudebro” guy friend who literally grew almost nothing but flowers, specifically to sell them to a florist :P
- Comment on fragile masculinity 4 days ago:
I grew jalapenos and no joke, they were too hot for me. Way hotter than store bought.
- Comment on fragile masculinity 4 days ago:
I believe it. My credit score had a knock against it because, and I quote: “Months since oldest auto trade opened”.
I guess cyclists who outright own two cars (A hatchback and a truck) are a credit risk.
- Comment on fragile masculinity 4 days ago:
I’ll be honest, I’ve never come across this.
- Comment on Read the Jeffrey Epstein Emails That Mention Trump 4 days ago:
Everybody already knows that Trump is a rapist.
Democrats could have leaked this last week to put more pressure on the budget resolution.
Instead they release it this week to distract from the fact that they caved on the budget resolution.
- Comment on I've heard New Yorkers are devastated 5 days ago:
Guessing the real story is that the show didn’t sell enough tickets to be profitable.
- Comment on A hypothesis 1 week ago:
Or AmigaOS?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Depends where you live but often your municipal, county, or state Department of Transit website will have an online form / email address / phone number where you can request or identify a road for repave. Usually the DOT already has a repave schedule for their roads, but sometimes they do take into account requests or send out someone to confirm the issue, and may then expedite the schedule. But road repaving can be very expensive, a single report probably won’t move the needle. See if you can get anyone else to join in, if you’re the only voice.
- Comment on Just in time 4 weeks ago:
Speak for yourself!
- Comment on Just in time 4 weeks ago:
I technically disagree, most periods human history had “good times” and the happiness of those people was relative to their expectations and equilibrium with the social and technical possibilities of their moment. You might be miserable if you were teleported to a relatively comfortable life in the year 1500, but they were probably every bit as content as some financially comfortable credentialed working class individual today.
- Comment on i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too 5 weeks ago:
Isn’t acorn flour edible after you rinse out the toxins?
- Comment on And I won't delete them either for nostalgia reasons 5 weeks ago:
Maybe she should read her emails in case her intern has to inform her of a sick day.
- Comment on It's about time we showed concern for the men 1 month ago:
- Comment on It's about time we showed concern for the men 1 month ago:
Is this loss?
- Comment on Anon gets rid of drop box 1 month ago:
I discovered that Helldivers 1 ran fine on Linux despite having an anti-cheat, because when the anti-cheat failed to launch the game just says “fuck it” and runs anyway. Though other games like PUBG refuse to run when their anti-cheat fails.
- Comment on Anon gets rid of drop box 1 month ago:
Everyone will have a different experience based on their hardware, distro, and game preferences; But for me Linux has been a far less headache-inducing gaming platform than Windows literally for years at this point.
- Comment on Anon gets rid of drop box 1 month ago:
Ironically, from what I understand (haven’t done direct comparisons myself), a lot of games written for windows run just as well or better on linux.
Yes, Wine/Proton translates DirectX calls to Vulkan calls, and Vulkan is so efficient that native Windows games sometimes run better on Linux than they do on Windows.
- Comment on Have you ever noticed 1 month ago:
Only like the front inch of your tongue actually hits your palate. When I try it, I can breathe around the sides of my tongue.
- Comment on Have you ever noticed 1 month ago:
It’s supposed to. Some people have a short lingual frenulum (The ligament that connects your tongue to your jaw), preventing proper tongue positioning which can cause problems like sleep apnea, speech impediments, tooth decay, and even poor posture. Inability to put your tongue at the roof of your mouth is one of the indications of this. Can be corrected with a fairly simple noninvasive surgery (They just snip the ligament a bit to lengthen it).
- Comment on Anon doesn't fit in 1 month ago:
Sounds like anon is way over-thinking all of this and just needs to learn to accept themself.
