Signtist
@Signtist@bookwyr.me
Formerly /u/Signtist@lemm.ee
- Comment on Always works and tastes better 2 days ago:
My dad’s got that exact style that he uses when camping. I didn’t drink coffee, but he says it’s great.
- Comment on Retro Gaming is a Playground for Billionaires and Nazis 5 days ago:
Well, the work I did last month made my company over 4 million dollars, and my salary earned me about 7k. That’s a normal salary for my position, but if you and a partner made that much money together and they took 99.8% of the share, it’d feel pretty scammy, right?
I’m not sure how much money my ISP, electric company, grocery store, or hospital make, but I can imagine that they have a similar issue where the people doing the work get way too little of a piece of the pie. We consider it normal because it’s so prevalent, but it used to be that the CEO and other executive suite members had a much smaller piece, allowing for everyone else to get relatively more.
Sure, the higher-ups always took the biggest chunk and always will, but at this point our economy is entirely based on the idea of extracting as much wealth from the people generating it as possible, which is definitely a scam.
- Comment on You are allowed flavor 5 days ago:
A Hawaiian corset tests hundreds; indie hero icon hence absolved.
- Comment on Retro Gaming is a Playground for Billionaires and Nazis 5 days ago:
I’m sitting here wondering why I ever trusted one that didn’t.
- Comment on If vegetarians eat vegetables, and humanitarians eat humans, what do Bavarians eat? 1 week ago:
Bavarian cream-filled donuts
Source: I’m classified as Bavarian by diet
- Comment on I would also be confused 1 week ago:
Usually when someone is contacting someone else while working on making peace with their feelings about that person’s behavior, it’s because they want to have a discussion with them about it. It’s unusual for it to be a one-and-done text without expectation of a response. But if a response is expected, it’s then unusual to follow up that text with another concerning a completely different topic. If I were in this situation, I’d find it hard to begin a discussion about her annoyance, which is valid and deserves to be explored, when the current topic is now a winery van.
- Comment on Please hold 2 weeks ago:
My work office has a full kitchen that nobody ever uses, so one day I decided to just make cookies for everyone while I was on the clock. As I suspected, nobody wants to be the one to reprimand the guy giving out cookies for wasting company time. I work mostly remote now, but once a month when I come in for a meeting I’ll spend a couple hours in the morning making cookies, and everyone’s always excited for it.
You’d be surprised what you can get away with by just doing stuff without asking if it’s okay first. Asking first usually gets ideas shot down, but once you’re already in the middle of doing something, most people assume someone gave the go-ahead. Worst case scenario you can pull the “I thought it’d be fine” line, but I almost never have to do that.
- Comment on I've wondered since I was a youngin 2 weeks ago:
There’s a reason it’s pushed so hard, and it’s because people in power don’t want to lose the golden goose that is American apathy. They can oppress us as much as they want, and we think having the moral superiority of taking it on the cheek makes us strong. It doesn’t.
- Comment on If only 2 weeks ago:
That’s why Trump’s smart - he knows that the American people are fine with invasions without any explanation at all!
- Comment on anon is hungover 3 weeks ago:
I had to check to make sure this wasn’t how I first heard of our latest invasion.
- Comment on You mean it's not? 3 weeks ago:
It’s clearly Spanish for Big Aryan.
- Comment on What a great idea 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, I can remember one or two specific instances of people choosing the worst place to stop and have a conversation, but the reason I remember them is because they happen so infrequently. I might need to say “excuse me” every so often, or squeeze by someone who didn’t leave a lot of space, but it’s never inconvenient enough to warrant remembering.
- Comment on Anon files a lawsuit 4 weeks ago:
I mean, if the siblings are similar in age then yeah, I could see it being like a childhood best friend, but even a difference of, say, 4 years would be great enough that grooming could very well be in play.
- Comment on Anon files a lawsuit 4 weeks ago:
Haha! I appreciate it as well.
- Comment on Anon files a lawsuit 4 weeks ago:
We’re definitely in agreement with that. Abuse is a tough subject to broach, and requires a lot of tact to do it right, but if someone is well-meaning, I don’t think the conversation itself should be shunned.
One time my sister’s husband got frustrated while trying to load a bunch of stuff into his car, and ended up throwing something in his frustration. It wasn’t at anyone or anything, but it was such a stark difference from how he normally acts that I felt the need to subtly take my sister aside and ask if he ever hit her. It was a bit awkward, but she knew that my heart was in the right place, so she assured me he wasn’t abusive, and even told him what I had asked to show him how his action looked to a third party, which caused him to take me aside to apologize and thank me for looking out for my sister.
All that to say, it’s good to care for your loved ones, and having mutual respect can let you poke your nose a bit deeper than usual so long as its for the right reasons. As a society we simply try to keep those situations from being necessary in the first place, which is why we tend to be uncomfortable with relationships that are at a higher risk of being abusive.
- Comment on Sharing is caring 4 weeks ago:
Took me a while to realize it’s a reference to how birds feed their young. At first I thought it was some sort of body snatchers thing.
- Comment on Parents... Huh... 4 weeks ago:
My buddy’s parents were like this. They’re very religious, and damn near disowned him when his younger brother snitched to them that he saw a condom wrapper in his trash. This was despite the fact that their older brother was born full-term less than 9 months after their parents got married…
- Comment on Anon files a lawsuit 4 weeks ago:
Who are we to worry about the wellbeing of our loved ones? We’re well-meaning adults in a situation where we can’t be certain they weren’t raped. We might be wrong and sticking our nose where it doesn’t belong, or we might be right and end up being the one person dedicated enough to save another person from a case of grooming. Those cases specifically rely on a person to dig too deep - they wouldn’t be uncovered otherwise.
It’s a difficult place to be in, which is why we shun those relationships from the get-go. Nobody wants to be in that situation, and there are enough people in the world to have sex with that we can afford to say “not anyone who specifically had a hand in influencing what your developing brain considered ’normal.’”
- Comment on Anon files a lawsuit 4 weeks ago:
Sure, people can just be that weird, and maybe most instances are, but any time you’re dealing with a situation where someone is having sex with a person who knew and had influence over them during childhood, it’s difficult to say they didn’t push a little too much to end up at this result.
It’s like a young adult dating an old friend of their parents; most people’s minds immediately go to that one time 10 years ago where they both disappeared for an hour in the middle of a barbecue and got kinda defensive about it afterward…
- Comment on Elijah Radcliffe 5 weeks ago:
Danijah Woodcliffe
- Comment on Good point 1 month ago:
He originally wanted to call it the Spermy Long Legs.
- Comment on Do Costcos usually have an ATM machine? 1 month ago:
The ones in my area all have a Wings Credit Union ATM by the food court.
- Comment on Nvidia GeForce Now’s Time Limit Will Stop Gamers After 100 Hours Each Month 1 month ago:
I know a lot of people who would consider 3 hours of gaming a day to be plenty, and I know a lot of people who buy Nvidia products. They are not the same people.
- Comment on On the wall in every kitchen 1 month ago:
I had one of these in my house growing up that was used as the family telephone before we all got cell phones, and I’m one of the younger millennials.
- Comment on OP has a realization 1 month ago:
You can definitely make up some reason why this UFO would be able to match the Earth’s speed without requiring all of physics to be wrong, but it’s actually pretty easy to get people like this to believe that everything we’ve been taught is a lie to cover up some grand truth that’s being kept from us. It makes them feel smart and validates their common paranoia that world is against them.
It benefits the grifters leave these inconsistencies in because it weeds out the people who weren’t fully hooked, and makes the ones who do continue to believe more delusional, isolating them from their support network and making them more reliant on the grifter. I unfortunately watched this happen with my mom, who ended up dying after spending most of her money on random scams claiming to cure cancer because she’d been convinced that the conventional treatments were the real scams.
- Comment on Apparently your hobbies becomes less interesting if you're forced to do them all the time? Who knew? 1 month ago:
People always ask why I don’t turn my hobby into a job, and this is the response I give. If the thing I do to unwind from my job becomes my job, what will I do to unwind from my job?
- Comment on Kiribati 1 month ago:
Looks like one of those disposable flossers.
- Comment on Make me feel like a man 2 months ago:
- Comment on Make me feel like a man 2 months ago:
- Comment on My Religion 2 months ago:
The issue is that the vast majority of people don’t view religion as “what I should or shouldn’t do.” They view it as “what should and shouldn’t be done.” They can’t just follow the tenants themselves; in order to follow their religion - at least not the way they interpret it - they need to make sure the tenants are being universally followed. That’s why religion is always at odds with society as a whole unless that society is already overbearingly religious. It will never change unless there are no major groups within society with different beliefs than the norm.
