FridaySteve
@FridaySteve@lemmy.world
- Comment on Is gold investing a scam? 17 hours 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? 20 hours 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 1 day ago:
They missed a bone.
- Comment on The Fuck Jar 3 days 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 days 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? 2 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] 2 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] 2 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 2 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. 2 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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.
- Comment on The moment we've all been waiting for: you now can have targeted ads on your 2k smartfridge 3 weeks ago:
What the fuck
- Comment on I hate it when people use pictures showing the condiments only on top of a hot dog. 3 weeks ago:
I admire the direct approach.
- Comment on I hate it when people use pictures showing the condiments only on top of a hot dog. 3 weeks ago:
What do you do? Slide them straight down your gullet and eat the bread separate like Kobayashi?
- Comment on She strongly disagrees 4 weeks ago:
Look up subreddit of the year 2008. Pass it on.
- Comment on She strongly disagrees 4 weeks ago:
Christianity is more about the beattitudes. The 10 commandments by themselves are Jewish.
- Comment on She strongly disagrees 4 weeks ago:
This is why the Bible is kind of a drag without the new testament. God is emotionally volitile, punitive, and illogical. Jesus provides a framework for redemption, which is what people need here in this life. Reading the new testament, even without the magic and miracles and omnipresent sky-god can give people real ideas about how they should interact with others in this corporeal existence. The old testament feels like kind of a bizarre fairy tale with some historical elements.
- Comment on LEGO Star Trek Enterprise REVIEW 4 weeks ago:
On the 1701-D they baldly go.
- Comment on I love fucking pasta 4 weeks ago:
Use expressive hand gestures. 🤌
- Comment on Law 4 weeks ago:
The expression may not be genuine but the hips don’t lie.
- Comment on How come NK doesn't just come out and say we are in trouble and need help? Like their lack of food and stuff? I really don't see a downside for a country admit they were wrong and need help 5 weeks ago:
A handful of ultra-rich people would lose a little bit of power and their entire social structure would collapse. That country won’t open back up without tremendous suffering, especially as long as the rich people in power stay rich and powerful by keeping things the way they are.
Similar to everywhere else.
- Comment on A hypothesis 5 weeks ago:
Vic-20 here. What a time to be alive.
- Comment on Always question those who are the "teachers" 5 weeks ago:
Ok, this is where we have a disconnect. Do you know how many translators, pop idols, and artists who sell there work at any kind of price there are? It’s not many. Look up how much the average author gets paid for their first book at a publishing house and you’ll see why pretty much all writers teach. You can be really good at STEM and make more than a teacher in your field, but the same isn’t true at all for arts, foreign languages, writing, phys ed… Even history and social studies.
- Comment on Always question those who are the "teachers" 5 weeks ago:
🙄
- Comment on Always question those who are the "teachers" 5 weeks ago:
Art? Language? Music? Physical Education?
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 5 weeks ago:
No sane person should leave something that important to the sole responsibility of someone else no matter who they are.