ronl2k
@ronl2k@lemmy.world
- Comment on Anon observes a coworker 5 days ago:
Sounds like a man who knows what he likes and doesn’t want social involvement with people he doesn’t like. Why does that behavior have to have a name?
- Comment on "Being vegan is unnatural" 5 days ago:
“omg thats so cool, can i bring my kids to watch and maybe they can try?”
Context is everything. “The Bible: In the Beginning” (1966) contains a long fully nude Adam & Eve scene, but schools were encouraged to send kids to see it. My school did. But nudity in movies was very rare in 1966 and such a scene would normally have been prohibited by government censorship if not for the biblical framing.
- Comment on Get on my level 1 week ago:
As an American I mostly use MM-DD-YY, but I occasionally use YYYY.MM.DD if I want to sort.
- Comment on A succulent meal 2 weeks ago:
I doubt anyone today eats a whole chicken for lunch.
- Comment on Wokeness ended, check mate leftists 1 month ago:
I guarantee you’ve turned your head at a trans girl… and had no idea.
Meh. I’ve seen men catcall and honk at guys who simply had long blond hair running down their back.
- Comment on If I go crazy will you still call me Superman? 1 month ago:
Would have been a more useful list if OP had excluded eating, since humans can be killed by eating almost everything not intended as food.
- Comment on What is with these videos where it's just someone reaction to shit someone else is doing? 1 month ago:
I think you described those comedy videos inaccurately. The fun of those vids is seeing someone use only their face to pass judgement on stupid behavior. And the behavior clips they’re observing are mercifully short. Such videos aren’t nearly as popular as you’re implying them to be. The vast majority of reaction videos are enjoyed for their commentary.
- Comment on What is with these videos where it's just someone reaction to shit someone else is doing? 1 month ago:
I’m talking about videos where a useless pile of flesh takes up half the screen, nodding along, or laughing while saying nothing at all.
Such videos almost always consist of a watchful observer offering their opinion of the behavior going on in the video clip. Their opinions are what creates their fans.
- Comment on Anon tries to understand credit scores 1 month ago:
Unless you live off grid
It’s quite easy to pay cash for stuff and forget that credit cards and credit scores exist, even when living in a big city.
- Comment on Anon tries to understand credit scores 1 month ago:
Credit score bad. Next.
I started paying cash for everything about 30 years ago. Haven’t needed my credit score since so I froze my credit score access. There have been no downsides.
- Comment on Is this real life? 2 months ago:
If he was cremated, he’s black now.
You’ve obviously never seen cremated remains.
- Comment on Is this real life? 2 months ago:
I’ve always assumed that posts that began with “as a black man” were posted by a non-black person. Trying too hard, and invading their own Internet privacy at the same time.
- Comment on We can play that game too 2 months ago:
but that necessarily means that other people are now paying for their Social Security.
Who is “their?” Currently Social Security is designed for workers to pay for their own retirement.
- Comment on We can play that game too 2 months ago:
Social Security was designed to have winners and losers in the contributions game. My mom died at 64, and my dad died at 59. They both contributed to Social Security during their entire working lives without collecting a cent from it. That’s the way it goes.
- Comment on We can play that game too 2 months ago:
retirees started receiving benefits even if they never paid into the system, which was paid for by the current workers who were paying into the system.
The vast majority of current boomers have fully paid for their own Social Security pension.
Social Security is also not a pension.
That’s a distinction without a difference.
- Comment on We can play that game too 2 months ago:
boomers between years 1946 and 1964, which have actually paid more than they’ll get in benefits.
So boomers 79 and younger are fully paying their own way. According to Google, the average US longevity is 78.4 years. I don’t see an unfairness problem. Google also states that only about 4-5% of the U.S. population is 80 and older. You also assume those over 80 have paid nothing toward their pension.
I don’t think we should universally hate boomers just because the economic situation they were in happened to favor them in some ways
Again, most boomers pay their own way. And many seniors are living below the poverty line. And speaking of being favored, male boomers were required to risk their lives for their country. Current US males can take that risk optionally. Do you have any idea of how many young men had their lives cut short during WW2 and Vietnam?
there are just fewer workers paying in to the system than there are people taking money out, and that number only grows as people get older
Obviously false. Most seniors have already fully paid for their pension. If everybody is paying their own way, what difference does it make whether there are fewer workers? You falsely assume that current workers are paying for current seniors.
it’s not looking like we’ll be any better as we grow older
Whatever happens to you, it won’t be because of the boomers who are paying their own way.
- Comment on We can play that game too 2 months ago:
They could not afford to survive off only what they put in.
That’s why many senior citizens live below the poverty line.
- Comment on We can play that game too 2 months ago:
The money the Boomers paid into the system went to paying benefits for the previous generations.
False. The pension is fully vested by the workers receiving the pension, based on the taxes that they contributed. In fact, many elderly would be better off if the amount they contributed were invested in a hedge fund instead of Social Security.
- Comment on We can play that game too 2 months ago:
No need for the unnecessary hostility. It’s obvious that plenty of young people are voting for your rich politicians too. US politicians can’t win with only 28% of the vote. And US elderly make up a substantial portion of those below the poverty line, and they don’t all vote alike anyway.
- Comment on We can play that game too 2 months ago:
we’re still paying money into social security that we will never receive
You don’t know that you won’t receive Social Security. That’s just pointless scaremongering. In any case, vote for legislators who will manage Social Security better instead of blaming everything on boomers.
- Comment on Trump wants the NFL to change its name so that soccer is the only sport called football: ‘We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff’ 2 months ago:
I’m convinced that Trump is a big-time troll.
- Comment on We can play that game too 2 months ago:
Current boomers have paid for 100% of their Social Security pension from payroll deductions from their working years. Social Security pensions are not dependent on young taxpayers.
- Comment on We can play that game too 2 months ago:
Boomers are only 28% of the US voting population. Try again.
- Comment on We can play that game too 2 months ago:
boomers are a chunk of the reason that the rich and powerful continue to be able to grasp and maintain power.
Boomers are only 28% of the US voters. Explain why their chunk is more responsible and the younger 72%.
- Comment on Amazing 2 months ago:
I’m neutral on the Metric System.
The US uses metric for military specs, automotive repair parts, US science specs, medicine/pharmacy, jewelry and most grocery products. The US dollar is also metric.
- Comment on Hi, Jeffrey! 3 months ago:
Your anonymous country works exactly the same way. That’s why you didn’t mention it.
- Comment on Hi, Jeffrey! 3 months ago:
If we don’t have a government, Russia or China will give us one.
- Comment on Anon finds a bot 3 months ago:
Public stalking-enabling was always the worst aspect of reddit.
Are mods of one subreddit still able to stalk your history of another subreddit in order to permaban you for joining a subreddit that they don’t like? It seems counterproductive for advertisers but that’s exactly what the r_bitcoin subreddit does. It’s a well-known echo chamber and those mods want to keep it that way.
- Comment on Anon finds a bot 3 months ago:
I’m not seeing any proof the Twitter is doing well as a company.
- Comment on After Today's meeting where Trump fell in love with Mamdani, this is MAGA tomorrow morning. 3 months ago:
Why do all those MAGAs in the pic look like Andrew Tate?