Fluke
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- Comment on Burnham to make some benefits conditional and ‘get serious’ about cutting welfare 2 days ago:
Because if you boil it down to the bare basics those the country is in hock to; those that run the investment funds that own the country’s debt, as well as most of it’s essential services (power, water/sanitation, transport, etc.) have the entire country held hostage.
They simply threaten to melt the country down if the status quo isn’t protected.
Every single person’s pension/savings/entire life’s worth is dependant on these people not fucking everyone over. The actual country’s debt is in the same hands.
Shy of complete a meltdown and reset they have complete control over how the country is run, which is why things are the way the are.
- Comment on Why don't politicians during a hearing let the person they are questioning actually answer questions and speak? 3 days ago:
The more I learn about how American politics doesn’t function, the more I’m affirmed in my belief that Trump is doing the rest of the world a “yuge” favour by destroying the US’ international advantages and alliances with his ignorant, egocentric tantrums and “quiet part out loud” corruption.
- Comment on Got fired over a peproncini today so expect a lot of bullshit for the next couple days. 5 days ago:
Because they’ve mostly been individually convinced if they just work hard enough they too will be one of the rich few, and that everyone but them personally deserves nothing but contempt and hate for not working hard enough.
This ensures each individual vociferously defends the rich, as they too will soon be one of them, which flat out kills any collective action to better everyone’s position.
- Comment on Badge of Honor 5 days ago:
I’m on the list!
I’m a literal nobody… Man, I’m so proud right now… 😁
- Comment on Finally HR does something right 2 weeks ago:
It’s time I can’t be doing things I’d like to be, because It’s in the middle of a workday.
The company wants me to pay it for any inconvenience I cause it, the same should apply in the other direction. I already give up time for nothing in the commute they insist on in order to validate the existence of middle management and their investment in real estate, you want me to take the break I biologically need to be effective at work as unpaid too?
Shill harder.
- Comment on Urine Luck 2 weeks ago:
No, not all of them, you’re right. They’re now just another thing only the rich have access to.
I wouldn’t even know where to start, being a poor.
- Comment on Urine Luck 2 weeks ago:
Actually bananas used to taste kinda like what banana flavouring tastes like.
But they all died, so now we have another monoculture variety, because they learned fucking nothing the first time.
- Comment on Urine Luck 2 weeks ago:
See, I went through a phase of absolutely loving banana flavoured milk. I realised at the time that it made my pee vivid yellow, from the Vitamin B2 (Riboflavin) they used to colour the product.
Now, I never got a chance to test it, but I wanted to have to have a blood sample taken, to see if my blood was bright orange if I drank enough banana milk.
I know, I know. Dumb as fuck, but I thought it’d be a laugh.
- Comment on Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president? 3 weeks ago:
Again, not even close to the number of people the Nazis killed. Auschwitz probably killed more people a month than Trump and his regime have been responsible for to date.
- Comment on Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president? 3 weeks ago:
Not even close to the number the Nazis killed, directly or indirectly.
- Comment on Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president? 3 weeks ago:
He has yet to reign over the deaths of millions of people for being in the out-group.
Don’t misunderstand me, Trump is a walking bag of syphilitic, pus filled, nazi cumsocks. But he’s not attained quite the level of warcrimes Hitler did. Not yet anyway.
- Comment on Belgium national team's officialsocial media post after beating theUSA national team in the World Cup:"Overturn this" 3 weeks ago:
Can I get some of that copium? It looks like particularly good shit.
- Comment on The same adult daughter who has trouble loading a dishwasher efficientlyly... 3 weeks ago:
Your Dad apparently did some parenting, unlike the sperm/egg donor responsible for this.
- Comment on The same adult daughter who has trouble loading a dishwasher efficientlyly... 3 weeks ago:
I am totally fucking here for this comment.
Right on the fucking button.
- Comment on Which gun would you use in a shtf scenario if AI went rogue 3 weeks ago:
Ah yes, the home particle accelerator everyone owns. Tweaked right, you can do some damage with it, up to about 10 feet away…
- Comment on "influencers" are setting us back 4 weeks ago:
The only reason there is any “fierce debate” about either of those topics, is because vested interests are spending a lot of money to have voices shout very loudly but knowingly in the wrong, in order to prolong the status quo.
The oil industry, for example, is one of the most heavily subsidised, highly profitable industries. That only remains so if the world’s demand for oil and gas remains insatiable.
Time and again, leaks, lawsuits and increasingly rare/dangerous investigative journalism have shown various oil and gas companies up to the fucking elbows in corrupt practices -ranging from skewed science to outright murder- to deny the extraordinary effects of burning their fuels, let alone the absolutely insane list of environmental damage that is accruing from all the non-fuel petroleum products society has been conditioned to be reliant on.
There is no disagreement on human caused climate change besides “Just how utterly fucked are our grandkids?”.
- Comment on "influencers" are setting us back 4 weeks ago:
I was one of those “gifted children” according to every assessment I was subject to.
In my shitty crab bucket of an ex-mining town, “no child was left behind”. Meaning, every “top set” class has two or three knuckle dragging cunts whose every waking thought appeared to be “How can I be as much of a disruptive prick as possible?”
This led to 90% of our lessons being taken up by the poor teacher having to basically babysit three animals intent on destroying equipment and furnishings while we taught ourselves.
These dickhead should have all been in a remedial class together, where they could be taught at a level they all understood, with a length of 2"x2" as far as I give a fuck.
- Comment on Water Boss Handed £270k Bonus Despite Parasite Outbreak 5 weeks ago:
She willingly took on responsibility for the shitshow, risk/reward. She happens to be holding the bag when the music is stopping, I couldn’t care less how long she personally has been in the role.
It’s not like this class of people works harder than others, so that massive fucking pay packet has to be for something. I assume it’s for the risk of taking on the responsibility.
- Comment on Water Boss Handed £270k Bonus Despite Parasite Outbreak 5 weeks ago:
“Something went wrong” with the system they’re ultimately responsible for, the system that they’ve stripped to the bone in search of growth in a saturated naturally monopolistic market.
Loss of bonuses should be the least of their fucking worries. -.-
- Comment on I used to be an uber eats driver and lowkey 5 weeks ago:
My aunt did fine getting shopping delivered, until she had a stroke that took out 20% of one hemisphere. Using a kitchen knife after that was downright dangerous. Is she supposed to avoid providing pizza or similar for her kids’ birthday parties in your world?
Just one real world example that took me but seconds. Think beyond your bubble.
- Comment on I used to be an uber eats driver and lowkey 5 weeks ago:
What if the customer is incapable of some or all of the chain of tasks required to produce the home cooked equivalent?
Could be they work pretty much their whole waking life, running 3 or more jobs.
Could be they’re disabled and can’t do grocery shopping, or food prep, or cooking.
Before you judge someone, spend a few minutes imagining why exactly the circumstances are the way they are, and aim for a bit beyond the hateboner fantasy you already had in mind, yeah?
- Comment on I used to be an uber eats driver and lowkey 5 weeks ago:
It takes two. You’re obviously aware of compromises made, referring to an example as you did. I’m reasonably sure someone aware of -and willing to discuss- such things is someone who makes an effort with others’ feelings and wishes. That alone puts you above most people I meet, so give yourself some credit. 💛
- Comment on Fafo 1 month ago:
Nope. Leaving that one alone. Not today.
- Comment on Dutch gamers file €220 million claim against Valve, operator of game platform Steam 1 month ago:
No-one is forcing certain titles to only release on Steam, that is the developer/publisher’s choice, to make their own lives less complicated. Perhaps they’ve run the numbers and reckon that Steam’s cut is cheaper than doing all the infrastructure (and everything else steam does) themselves?
Your argument essentially boils down to; You’re angry that Etsy is a “monopoly” because the guy who sells particular shirts you like only sells via an Etsy storefront thing.
- Comment on Dutch gamers file €220 million claim against Valve, operator of game platform Steam 1 month ago:
People genuinely choosing a certain option en masse doesn’t mean they have a monopoly, it means the competition are doing a fucking shit job.
A monopoly is where there isn’t a choice, like water and sewerage companies, for example. This isn’t like that at all, and is therefore not a monopoly.
- Comment on Royal Mail investigated again as almost a quarter of first-class mail arrives late 1 month ago:
I’d imagine so. It worked well for the energy backbone of the country, the water supply and sewage system, and the education system, to name but a few.
(giant neon flashing “/s” for clarity)
- Comment on An 82-year-old YouTuber grandma was raided by police and SWATs during her live stream last night where she plays Minecraft to raise money for her grandsons cancer. Authorities brought 20 police cars 2 months ago:
Murica!
- Comment on average red state university 3 months ago:
Rightly so. If the scientific method is applied to religious claims, they fail as untestable assertions. Every time.
- Comment on Meanwhile in California 3 months ago:
Maybe if Obama had spent as much time on the links as Trump, you all wouldn’t be in this mess.
LMAO
- Comment on Meanwhile in California 3 months ago:
Remember when all the coal rolling micropenises were whacking “I did that!” stickers stickers on everything?
Wonder what they’re all blaming now their man, Mango Mussolini and his team of cum-guzzling sycophants and fascist handlers are fully in charge?
Is it still somehow Biden’s fault? What’s their play here?