FridaySteve
@FridaySteve@lemmy.world
- Comment on Say, the country/countries you have citizenship in, decided to not want you anymore and threw you to some random "3rd world country", how do you survive? 4 days ago:
Depending on where they are and how much they want to pay, they can get it.
- Comment on Say, the country/countries you have citizenship in, decided to not want you anymore and threw you to some random "3rd world country", how do you survive? 4 days ago:
You should have said that. If I can’t access banks, it’s a way different picture.
- Comment on Say, the country/countries you have citizenship in, decided to not want you anymore and threw you to some random "3rd world country", how do you survive? 4 days ago:
Compounding that is the notion of privilege, which exists. I’m a cisgendered white male with a university degree and I speak English natively, I don’t have a persistent mental illness or a chronic disease, and I don’t have a physical handicap. The deck is stacked in my favor no matter where I am in the world. Taking away enforced regulations on housing, employment, and banking makes things easier for me, not harder. It’s way, way, way different if you belong to a group with less social power.
- Comment on Say, the country/countries you have citizenship in, decided to not want you anymore and threw you to some random "3rd world country", how do you survive? 5 days ago:
The phrase has been corrupted from its cold war origins to mean (putting it politely) the “developing world”. Whereas I’ve moved countries seven times, I’ve seen a lot of places, and I can say from experience that outside of specific prejudicial circumstances (being a woman in Iran, Uyghur Muslim in China, being anyone in North Korea, for example) there are paths to success everywhere.
- Comment on Say, the country/countries you have citizenship in, decided to not want you anymore and threw you to some random "3rd world country", how do you survive? 5 days ago:
It’s cute that you assume I wouldn’t. OP never said anything about that.
- Comment on Say, the country/countries you have citizenship in, decided to not want you anymore and threw you to some random "3rd world country", how do you survive? 5 days ago:
Spend my dollars on an apartment and a house cleaner, start networking with other folks, get a job. It’s not hard.
- Comment on Anon's job has perks 6 days ago:
Because restroom is less crude. Being crude where it’s unnecessary is associated with antisocial behavior.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 1 week ago:
If you want a government with the kind of regulatory power to “put all this nonsense on hold” why not use that regulatory power to generate cleaner energy and solve the problem? The current clean energy sources we have right now are cheaper than what’s currently being used for energy generation. They’re also faster to get online and can be put in more places. The reason we’re not using those sources right now is because of politics, not economics or technology. The solution to environmental damage caused by energy production is to use cleaner energy. Stopping people from using technology on the user level won’t do much of anything.
- Comment on The show I was watching went from "Free" to "Paid" *while I was watching it* 1 week ago:
The only thing you need to be careful of is falling out of touch with modern life because you’re still watching 90s films in the 2050s. Part of my enjoyment of the niche entertainment I consumed in the 90s came from seeking out new people to enjoy it with, searching for it on the proto-internet, and forming communities around the experience of watching it. I find that nowadays I can watch the film again but it just doesn’t bring the same kind of enjoyment that it did when I watched it 30 years ago. I hope I live long so I can see more new entertainment options come out and try those too, and my dvd collection gets lost and broken and water damaged from being left in the closet where it belongs.
- Comment on Why does everyone put celery in soup stock? 2 weeks ago:
Me too, I often skip it and my soups are fine.
- Comment on Why does everyone put celery in soup stock? 2 weeks ago:
They do it bc that’s how they learned it in culinary school / that’s how the recipe goes. It adds a bitter flavor to balance onion and carrot. You don’t need it and you can replace it with something else.
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 2 weeks ago:
I can’t imagine having trouble understanding that word but let me know if you actually need clarification.
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 2 weeks ago:
I’m really waiting for this idea to catch on. I got online in the late 80s to get away from normies and their boring, repetitive normie mind-viruses. Back then it was just nerds talking to other nerds. Nowadays you can’t even talk to your friends here. This whole thing is for people to get angry about politics and buy products. The sooner all these people leave, the sooner we can get back to what originally brought us here.
Hopefully soon, going on social media will be seen as a bad antisocial habit like smoking.
- Comment on We're going backwards 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know if you’re going to find anything that explicitly states that the security cameras are intended for security, but
news.airbnb.com/an-update-on-our-policy-on-securi…
you’re looking for this.
- Comment on We're going backwards 2 weeks ago:
Which part are you suggesting is false?
- Comment on Is gold investing a scam? 2 weeks ago:
Anyone who buys gold online should have a tester, and there are reputable bullion companies like JM who don’t charge a lot of markup. If you’re on ebay trying to buy gold bullion there’s a chance it’s probably fake / silver wrapped with gold and stamped. There’s videos on the internet of folks cutting those bars in half and seeing what’s inside.
A way to increase your chances of buying real product is to buy coins that are in bad enough shape where there’s no numismatic value left. Whereas every country that mints coins has strict laws against counterfeiting them and you can go to prison for doing it, making “novelty” gold bars and rounds is perfectly legal and there’s almost no risk if you get caught scamming people with them (most often just a platform ban).
- Comment on Is gold investing a scam? 3 weeks ago:
In the event of a collapse like you describe, I’m going to need something I can eat or wear, something tangible I can trade. If you can get enough people together that agree gold is a valuable bearer instrument then you’ve got a government. That’s not really a collapse.
- Comment on French Anatomy 3 weeks ago:
They missed a bone.
- Comment on The Fuck Jar 3 weeks ago:
Imagine the jar you can’t open is the swear jar and you yell out FUCK and put a dollar through the slot and try to open it and then yell FUUUUUUCK and then put in another dollar…
- Comment on Why isint lemmy more popular? 3 weeks ago:
Popular platforms have big expensive algorithms that monitor user behavior and present content they’re most likely to interact with when they’re most likely to interact with it. Participation in those platforms isn’t a deliberate act anymore.
- Comment on So now that it's that time of year again in the US, what are some tips and tricks for dealing with that one relative who goes on about the same bullshit for hours and won't shut the fuck up? 5 weeks ago:
There’s a lot to be said for watching sports. Before covid I never watched a baseball game all the way through. Now I’m into it. It’s a fun thing to talk about and enjoy socializing around. I’ve watched all kinds of sports from different countries, all around the clock, with people I’d never interact with otherwise. It really brings people together in a community.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
In the early 90s in sex ed they told us all, as a group, that men are only looking for sex to get a load off and women are nothing but submissive cum dumpsters except and of course obviously your life partner who you submit to on your wedding night and stay with forever. Literally we were taught this in public school. It’s no wonder people view sex and gender the way you do. Nowadays thankfully we view both sex and gender as individual.
To respond to your original idea, it sounds like a compromise. When you find the right person (and there’s someone for everybody) you won’t have compromise on that core, basic level. That’s what sexual compatibility is.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
You’d have to also find a man who is only interested in sex to “get his needs met” which is much more rare than Hollywood leads people to believe.
- Comment on Dude read the rules of woman only community and decided to post anyway 5 weeks ago:
I saw that post too. I noticed it was a woman-only space and muted it. Godspeed to them, people deserve to have communities like that.
- Comment on What ever you do, don't think of the number 37. 5 weeks ago:
There are many words you can use that don’t involve ableist language. If you’re using that word against someone you don’t like, you’re exposing that you have a problem with the folks the slur is intended to describe. Anyone who uses bigoted speech is no comrade of mine, and I don’t care who it’s used against.
- Comment on It's Fun For The Whole Family 1 month ago:
Ok but I think making that joke using someone else’s minority status is pig behavior. But I was a teenager in the 90s when someone else thinking you’re gay could get you an ass-beating or get you fired from your job or worse (Matthew Shepard). Being an ally to lgbt folks in a lot of ways meant keeping your mouth shut way more than it meant speaking out. Maybe it’s different nowadays.
- Comment on be a friend to the animals 1 month ago:
In Brazil the property owner is responsible for everything up to the edge of the road in a lot of places, including building and maintaining sidewalks…they go to shit and nobody fixes them lol
- Comment on It's Fun For The Whole Family 1 month ago:
Or your cousin with the conservative parents who isn’t out and still lives at home…
For God’s sake please don’t do this.
- Comment on be a friend to the animals 1 month ago:
Ok but please clean your sidewalks, people. Don’t use the environment as an excuse to be a bad neighbor. We still need to use the sidewalks.
- Comment on The moment we've all been waiting for: you now can have targeted ads on your 2k smartfridge 1 month ago:
I’m sitting at home in my tracksuit watching my Andrew Dice Clay tapes and an ad comes on but I’m so deep into a quart of Red, White, and Blue that I can’t find the fast forward button on the remote. Better post on lemmy
Call the nurse, smells like grandpa needs to be changed again.