Bubbaonthebeach

@Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨True love⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t agree that the younger have zero agency. Their youth is worth quite a bit. They can leave, find somone else, start over. Youth targets age almost as much as age targets youth. One side usually has more wealth, social standing and the other has more vitality. Both parties often find it is to their own personal benefit. To get rid of all the power imbalances that could happen in relationships, we’d have to have everyone date their equal in intelligence, wealth, social standing, occupation, looks or someone would always have the possibility to have the upper hand. Maybe what’s needed is giving children (under 18s) the knowledge to be able to push back against wrong situations. I used to feel it was age that was the predator but I know quite a few people in recent years, male and female, who have been targeted for relationships with younger people simply because they are perceived to have more financial means.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I a bad person for instantly thinking sexual thoughts when I seen this ad promoting Christianity?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Definitely aimed at heterosexual young men. Docile and relatively good looking young woman with hint of hourglass shape. Word line across her breasts and fingers pointed at her vagina. Nothing at all suggestive there /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The myth of "consensual" choking⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I hear of more and more young women who are foregoing relationships and one big reason is the pornification of sex. It seems that no one born into the always online porn generation has real old fashioned sex anymore. It’s all porn mimicry. And not surprisingly, the majority of women don’t enjoy it since most porn isn’t about women’s enjoyment but their degradation and pain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It used to be a library⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You should before the tech bros turn into a store or subscription service along with everything else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WAR! What is it good for?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I said to my kids the first time Trump was voted in that there is the market of suckers that will but any garbage so long as you Mega market it. My kids are good people so didn’t take advantage of that but we have seen so, so many businesses that have popped up, not just Trump family stuff, to take advantage. Sometimes I wish I wasn’t moral and ethical. The grift is so easy against 25% of the population in (every?) country.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has Australia considered sharing a firefighting aircraft fleet with a country in the northern Hemisphere such as Canada?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve often read about crews coming and going but not equipment like planes. We do hear of power company trucks heading to the US to help out in disasters there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If college is a scam, where do you go to get better education?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Education doesn’t guarantee a job. It is meant for you to learn how to learn and retain knowlege and depending on the program pick up some skills. Being able to apply that in the workforce is on you. Some people can do all of that without paying someone to help them get there but most of us need guidance, hence college & university. The part that has played havoc with the last 20 years of grads is that they were sold on the concept that degree = high paying career and that there are dream jobs obtained by attending dream programs at dream universities while going into debt at levels equal to buying a family home. Anything you ever do that needs financial credit needs to be fully understood and analyzed with payback determined before that debt is taken on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wealth inequality will destroy America.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Most people in the lower 50% believe that anyone that has any money, especially $1M+ is part of the 1%. The complete lack of understanding of income and wealth escalation in the last couple decades is what keeps many people voting against their own interests. Many $1M-aires believe that with the right government policy and lower taxes, always lower taxes, they would quickly become part of the 1% and be “just like Musk”. They believe that the system that aides and abets billionaires would equally benefit themselves and cannot see that they are part of the riff raff, the same as a homeless person, in the eyes of the billionaire class.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hate when this happens⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t buy snacks but that doesn’t help because I always have baking staples on hand and end up eating a whole batch of cookies or a cake instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not saying this is Hell, but it's pretty fucking close⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I call BS. He’s a Boomer. He must be wealthy. /S

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US being left behind in EV charging speeds as China goes sub-5 min to 70%⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In fairness, the US has been lagging since before Trump’s first term. He might be the worst of the lot but there hasn’t been a president for quite some time that actually moved the US forward.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shut Up Boomer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like my life in my 20s (minus the LGBTQ). Unlike the current pile that we all had like so easy. What happened is that we eventually paired up so two people were paying the bills and we eventually got paid more and built equity and now 40 years later retirement is looking like a viable option. Certainly didn’t feel that way 40 years ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alcoholic billionaire says he wants to shove a camera up every workers ass.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It isn’t enough to not work for them. You must stop buying from them but no one wants the inconvenience of going without and so they keep sending trillions of dollars to the very despots that are ruining their lives.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the approach to nudity and sex in films and tv so vastly different between the US and Europe?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The US was settled by several Christian versions of the Taliban. They still seek to control by religious edict while not living it themselves. Nudity, sex, women as people are all problematic for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inviting my friends over for dinner and putting this out ❤️⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m guessing you no longer want to have friends?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honk at me again you long neck fuck, see what happens.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why are you abusing the local wildlife?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I don't answer questions"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know this is a joke, but, no it is your job as a driver to know how fast you are going. It is one of the basic rules of having the privilege to drive. Of course the fact that so many drivers seem to think this is some kind of infringement is why there are so many fatal accidents. Which wouldn’t be so bad if they only maimed and killed the speeders & drunks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fact Check⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought it was American Evangelicals that thought sinful liberals deserved it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Theft⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Economically, Americans are already serfs. Wealth inequality was slightly better for serfs than current Americans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Like Karen Carpenter. So sad to see in happen but not much that can be done by fans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doesn't add up⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  First, there is corporate gouging. Anyone owning stocks wants to see a return, not a moderate one but a big one, on their investment. Second, it isn’t a straight one to one employee to patient ratio. 24 hour care is 8760 hours per year and full time work is 2000 (with 2 weeks paid vacation) meaning 4.38 employee years for 24hrs, 365 days. It isn’t quite that much because staffing is never 1:1. If it were 1:1, at $20 per hour paid to the caregiver, with vacation, sick days, health care, CPP, EI, WCB, it is a minimum of $58,000 per employee. That alone would work out to $4800 per month without housing, food, cleaning, equipment. It isn’t cheap to house people who cannot live independently. We need a different model for care to keep the costs lower while providing care that is necessary. This used to all be “free” in-home by older women (Boomer, Silent Gen, Greatest Gen) and still often is, if they cannot access care for family members. Much like child care, that again women used to do for 'free", it costs real money to have someone else cover that work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  See your doctor. This is not normal aging. Getting a Hypothyroid diagnosis can take years if you are one of the people for whom the blood test is garbage. Insist that your doctor get the full T4, T3 testing done. Sleep apnea is also one that can be hard to diagnose but leave you feeling fatigued.
  You don’t have a husband or live in partner that might be drugging you? In this day and age, it isn’t as far fetched an idea as it once was.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨modern classic⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Change out the carpet, fine, but why that God awful laminate?Update the cushions, great. Paint the beams and fireplace, short term thinking to destroy something that will now forever need work and updating. I hope you drywalled over the wall panels and didn’t just slap paint on them. It is a current “look”. Will be out of date/trend in a couple years - far shorter than the other look that took 30 years to be dated and now would be retro.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How often is normal to masturbate?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Enough to take the edge off, not so often it interfers with your life. The number will be different for every person and different at every stage of life for a person.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will the next president of America have to do a world wide apology tour for this administration? Kind of like celebs do when they get their ass in a sling.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know that it would help. The longer Americans keep Trump in power, the more their former allies realize that it isn’t “just Trump”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Satan's Ballsack⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If she is selling transportaion or food - fare, other products - ware (but I could be wrong).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨America continues to fall behind the rest of the world⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh come on. The US leads the world, by a healthy margin, in number of billionaires.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Taking a spin around the pond in my boat⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t it an AI photo?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The real deal⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Obviously OP has not gotten home and found a cracked egg or two in the dozen they just bought. I always check.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How not to advertise 101!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I cannot tell you anything about any ads I have seen in the last few years online. If they pop up and I can’t shut them off, the single thing I am paying attention to is when the skip now button shows up. I literally cannot tell you anything about any of the ads, neither company nor product. Back in the day, you’d run to the other room and do things while the ads came on in TV shows but you were still hooked in because of the jingles. To this day I can remember many of the jingles from the 70s. New online ads, absolutely no idea.
  However in the car I listen to radio and have recently started listening to a new station. I am starting to recognize some of the higher rotation ads. The ones I like, I might eventually try the business if it offers a product I need, but the much longer list is the one of companies that I will never do business with since their ads annoy me so much. Name recognition isn’t great if all it promotes is loathing.