some_kind_of_guy
@some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world
- Comment on onions 1 week ago:
Where my shallot gang?
- Comment on Anon follows the rules 1 week ago:
I suppose I’d have to disagree with that last statement, as someone who lives in a functioning multi-generational household lol. It’s not going to work for everyone every time, depending on circumstances, but having 3 generations in the house pooling resources is how most of the world does it.
It certainly helps to have a separate space/entrance for privacy and such, but now that we’re settled in, it’s far better than it was when we were going it alone. We have everything covered between the 4 adults, and then some.
- Comment on Anon follows the rules 1 week ago:
There are plenty of fun substances with a fraction of the risk presented by alcohol
- Comment on Anon follows the rules 1 week ago:
That’s typically an economic issue, not a personhood issue. Not that it’s a bad thing to share housing between generations, it should be normalized as it was not long ago.
For us we have three generations under one roof because it works. Everyone pitches in, and having a grandparent around for occasional childcare is a godsend. Eventually we will be the care as they get into advanced age. There was a period of learning to let go of individual cultural hangups, but we all got over it in our own time.
The idea of every couple having their own individual single-family home and kicking kids out the moment they turn 18 is not just cruel, it’s completely unsustainable.
- Comment on Mars Bar from the 1990s found during house clearance - shrinkflation in action 1 week ago:
There’s a large number of people talking glp-1s (ozempic et. al) and they actually are looking for smaller portion sizes, which is driving a huge trend in grocery now of boxing up larger quantities of smaller items.
Of course the industry has used this to their advantage. Instead of just offering a 4-pack of frozen dairy treats at 2 oz each, they can offer an 8-pack at .8 oz each and sell it alongside that one for even more.
- Comment on Theft 1 week ago:
Great, now I have way too much piss, zero gold, and InfoWars’ revolutionary “turn your piss into gold” program is sold out
- Comment on A real, 100% unedited promotional picture from Kohler toilets 1 week ago:
It sure is hung alright
- Comment on Is there a reason why toilets are made out of one of the most resonating materials possible while also being made in a shape that makes a small fart sound like a damn trombone? 1 week ago:
Floating ballcock, patented? I may be violating Mr. Crapper’s IP right now
- Comment on Ecosystem services 1 week ago:
Yes, that’s RFK Jr. The stomach acid burns his throat though
- Comment on Languages 1 week ago:
That’s un oeuf
- Comment on Languages 1 week ago:
I’m curious where the ‘s’ was dropped first, in speech or writing? Written French is quite prescriptive with phonetics so I would guess it dropped from spoken language first? (And each little ‘hat’ is just a ‘tip of the hat’ to the lost letter? (Ok, I’ll see myself out lol))
- Comment on Ciao 1 week ago:
Why not use filtering? A block is extreme IMO
- Comment on how to cut aluminum pipe with hardly any comments about flock cameras 1 week ago:
Don’t forget the hi-vis
- Comment on There's always money in the banana sta... Flock cameras 1 week ago:
If you can find out for sure what they are, you can submit corrections to the map. It’s crowd-sourced data.
- Comment on There's always money in the banana sta... Flock cameras 1 week ago:
Only once though
- Comment on Local Walmart just installed cameras in the aisles… 2 weeks ago:
Pinch of thermite should do it
- Comment on Local Walmart just installed cameras in the aisles… 2 weeks ago:
I’m not sure how many shop there because it appeals to them
- Comment on Anon institutes the draft 2 weeks ago:
Yeah rodents have interesting behavior like that. They have absolutely no qualms eating a friend or their own offspring if they need the resources.
I once had two mice. The next morning, I still had two mice, but one of them was missing its head.
- Comment on Anon institutes the draft 2 weeks ago:
There’s absolutely nothing wrong with having strong morality. I think it’s perfectly acceptable discourse.
You had to go and make things weird.
- Comment on No Spoiler 👁️⃤ 2 weeks ago:
Had a French teacher in high school who was from Morocco, and Muslim. He had some pretty harrowing stories from the years following 9/11. The most extreme of them involved him and his family being targeted in a drive-by shooting. Said some of the rounds missed his daughter by inches where she was sleeping. Recounted the feeling of being hunted as prey by bat-guano crazy rednecks…
That vibe quieted down by the 2010s, but now it’s come roaring back. MAGA is like three 9/11s in a trench coat.
- Comment on Doesn't add up 2 weeks ago:
My state has a framework for at-home daycare operations, but good luck finding one that’s not already at capacity. I’ve heard of other states scrapping their programs or not creating one to begin with, citing imagined “potential for abuse”. It’s always easier to just sit on your hands instead of improving things, and “think of the children” does an insane amount of heavy-lifting while managing to hurt the children and families it claims to protect.
- Comment on Doesn't add up 2 weeks ago:
Labor is often the biggest expense, but it’s far and away not the only one. They may pay extractive rent, property upkeep costs, property taxes, administrative costs like bookkeeping and legal advisory, and insurance. (Any business involving the safety and well-being of more than a couple kids has to have unbelievable premiums just for liability.)
I wouldn’t be so quick to point fingers at the people running a fucking daycare ffs. If they run a tight ship, the owners are making at best a moderately decent salary - they’re not fleecing parents because they literally can’t. Look instead at all those auxiliary industries which are required for legal compliance - especially the “consultant class” - legal, tax/accounting, and insurance. They have leeches attached all the way up the chain, starting with individual workers.
- Comment on Doesn't add up 2 weeks ago:
True facts. The “missing” money in the equation is all the boring expensive stuff. Rent, property taxes, legal, administration (bookkeeping, compliance), insurance (child safety/liability is a convenient excuse for sky-high premiums).
- Comment on It really ties the universe together 2 weeks ago:
Dessine-moi un mouton?
- Comment on Men are generous 2 weeks ago:
Momentous occasions can bring joy, but also added stress.
- Comment on Men are generous 2 weeks ago:
I’ve noticed a distinct trend of high-quality incel-bait in this comm, and I’m here for it.
Those users just can’t seem to resist. not only is it funny as fuck to see their hands get slapped… the new tags next to their usernames are worth their weight in pure gold!
- Comment on Men are generous 2 weeks ago:
You can take the friend out of the fuck, but you can’t pull the fuck out of the friend… or something
- Comment on Men are generous 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Men are generous 2 weeks ago:
Hmm… maybe all those women you dated have something in common
- Comment on I can't believe this is the only comm that will not throw a hissy fit about this. 2 weeks ago:
It depends. SAR in my state is coordinated by our Fish & Wildlife Department and staffed with volunteers.
They will bill you if they determine you willfully caused the situation leading to you having to be extracted.
