DagwoodIII
@DagwoodIII@piefed.social
- Comment on They all look like this 1 day ago:
- Comment on They all look like this 1 day ago:
Same thing with cars.
They used to be really colorful and fun. Now I’m surprised when I see a red car.
- Comment on AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH 1 day ago:
- Comment on she has risen! 1 day ago:
Funny story.
Edison was trying to make Tesla’s Alternating Current look dangerous, unlike Edison’s safe Direct Current.
Edison paid a stooge to push through a bill in the New York Legislature ot make AC electric chairs the official form of execution.
- Comment on Work Hard, Enjoy Never 2 days ago:
It’s been mentioned so many times.
Monica got that great apartment because her aunt [grandmother?] put Monica’s name on the lease when Monica was still a kid. Chandler was an executive with a couple of assistants and he could barely afford the smaller place next door.
And the reality is that up until 1968, a high school graduate in the USA actually did have a good chance of becoming a home owner.
When Nixon came in he doubled down on LBJ’s policy of paying for the Vietnam War by printing money and not raising taxes. This lead to inflation. The inflation got much worse when the Arab Oil Boycott hit.
Jimmy Carter hired Paul Volker to run the Fed. Volker’s plan worked, but only after Carter was out. Reagan took credit for the economic miracle, then turned around and gave the banks the right to print money with his deregulation.
By 1992, after four GOP Presidents, ‘middle class’ had gone from one job supporting a family to both parents working full time.
- Comment on Work Hard, Enjoy Never 2 days ago:
Remember, when ‘The Simpsons’ first came out, a high school graduate with a blue collar job owning a house and two cars was considered normal.
- Comment on Trust me, there is no plague 3 days ago:
So, he’s got War and Plague and Death.
Just needs a Famine card.
- Comment on Make Congress Earn Average American Wage. 4 days ago:
No.
The only reform we need is to take money out of politics.
If you get X number of people to sign your petition, you get y dollars to spend on a campaign. The spending is well monitored, so the candidate can’t buy themselves a Lambo and call it a legit expense.
- Comment on Machines 5 days ago:
I guess we’re not that friendly.
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- Comment on Machines 5 days ago:
I’ve gotten pretty friendly with the woman who manages to self checkout area.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Realistically, work is going to be a thing for the foreseeable future.
I lucked into finding this book, “Discover What You Are Best At” by Linda Gale. It’s free in most libraries.
It lead me to a job that I actually liked doing. Yes, I would take random mental health days, and complain about the bosses, but most Mondays I’d get up without hating myself.
- Comment on We both republicans, right? 1 week ago:
This is why any discussion of political labels outside of a classroom is meaningless.
The Chinese Communist Party is full of billionaires; Hitler called himself a Socialist; North Korea calls itself a Democratic Republic.
It’s like you have to go out and look at the people running for office and pick based on that, and not their Party.
- Comment on Minimum Wage Isn't Living Wage 1 week ago:
‘No Business Which Depends for Existence on Paying Less Than Living Wages to Its Workers Has Any Right to Continue in This Country’
Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- Comment on Slash. 1 week ago:
[not really off topic, but kinda]
“The 7% Solution” by Nicholas Meyer [who also directed the movie]
Fantastic story. Holmes’ cocaine habit has become a full on addiction. It’s up to Drs. Watson and Freud to cure him.
- Comment on Not saying this is Hell, but it's pretty fucking close 1 week ago:
But I thought all the Boomers were rich landlords?
- Comment on According to the New York Times, Game of Thrones is the 6th best TV show of the 21st century 2 weeks ago:
What part of ‘so far’ confuses you?
- Comment on According to the New York Times, Game of Thrones is the 6th best TV show of the 21st century 2 weeks ago:
Also, Orphan Black.
- Comment on According to the New York Times, Game of Thrones is the 6th best TV show of the 21st century 2 weeks ago:
I really like that The OA got on the list.
Almost no one I know has even heard of it.
- Comment on According to the New York Times, Game of Thrones is the 6th best TV show of the 21st century 2 weeks ago:
Yes. Bojack Horseman.
- Comment on I Guess It Really Wasnt 2 weeks ago:
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
There were plenty of people living in the New England colonies before they started referring to themselves as ‘Americans.’
- Comment on SBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA 2 weeks ago:
Obligatory…
- Comment on I Guess It Really Wasnt 2 weeks ago:
The Romans.
There were a bunch of people living in the area, farming and worshipping the gods, who shared similar values and felt a certain unity. Those folks got together and started building a city.
- Comment on I Guess It Really Wasnt 2 weeks ago:
“Hold on! I think Simplexus is on the something here…”
- Comment on I Guess It Really Wasnt 2 weeks ago:
“Look at this guy! What next, Mr. Innovator? How about we wear clothes when we exercise? Or maybe throw away our valuable urine?”
- Comment on I Guess It Really Wasnt 2 weeks ago:
“Wait ‘til those fucking Persians see what we got planned!”
- Comment on I Guess It Really Wasnt 2 weeks ago:
“Hell of a start guys! Good effort all ’round! Let’s keep the energy going, okay?”
- Comment on SBA #246 Sins and Virtues 2 weeks ago:
https://bookshop.org/p/books/night-s-master-tanith-lee/4d3f6fd45f5e56bb
Night’s Master by Tanith Lee.
A Demon Prince spends his days in his lavish Underearth palace, and his nights tormenting and/or seducing humans.
- Comment on What a way to go 2 weeks ago:
Vamperella has entered the chat…
- Comment on Is it okay for a teenager to suck their thumb in public? 3 weeks ago:
Context matters here.
A teenager with profound mental disabilities or one who expects to be get a job in the future?
Also, long term thumb sucking can impact dental development. I knew a kid who had to have braces for years because they kept sucking their thumb until age 10.
- Comment on Like there was any doubt 3 weeks ago:
Joker Fish are Batman canon.
If an actor can’t do Joker Fish, they aren’t right for the role.
