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- Comment on Video games 1 day ago:
Sigourney Weaver enters the chat
- Comment on Minimum wage isn't survivable anymore 1 day ago:
You’re welcome to post the calculus for your area. It is overly simple, but the point is correct. The economics are atrocious.
- Comment on Minimum wage isn't survivable anymore 1 day ago:
If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you. Lyndon B. Johnson
It works for poor versus rich too. Convince their depressed earnings are due to immigrants, etc. and they’ll attack them and (not us rich folks). It’s a redirection by the rich.
- Comment on Minimum wage isn't survivable anymore 1 day ago:
And some of GenX got part of the Boomer economy where they practically handed you a job for simply asking and things were affordable.
- Comment on Minimum wage isn't survivable anymore 1 day ago:
Loan sharks love this desperation of that $23-33/mo in the budget for clothes, etc.
That’s why the 2008 Recession occurred, the subprime mortgage – people who were risky to begin with were cut mortgages; the liquidity of the bottom workers flopped, and it echoed up the financial food chain. And it’s predatory as hell. The same shit happens to student loans. Students yearn for higher education to improve their lives, and when they leave, they can’t find jobs so the liquidity flops again. The problem with education debt is that it is non-dischargable; you can’t go bankrupt on student loans. WTF!!!
- Comment on Anon questions the epidemic 1 day ago:
Capitalism demands a lot more from us than it did even 50 years go.
Because we’ve lost bargaining capacity for better living of everyone. When we go toe-to-toe for a pay raise, we’re alone against a rich institution. Unions granted us more than we’ve accepted it had.
- Comment on Anon questions the epidemic 1 day ago:
Yeah, can you imagine living in a house with a glass wall full of strangers? And you feel like the last member of your species?
- Comment on Anon questions the epidemic 1 day ago:
They don’t have friends. And even if they have friends, where’s the love? Everybody is doing their own thing. Even a married man can feel loneliness, and if they do, it’s good to start a conversation.
- Comment on Anon questions the epidemic 2 days ago:
The feeling of loneliness is likely the basis for “I missed you.” Forelorning.
- Comment on An insurance I don't love 2 days ago:
Canadians often have to buy traveler’s insurance when visiting the US. There would be a market for private insurance, I’m sure.
- Comment on Nice Going Buddy 2 days ago:
Sure, but they also are trying to force you on the same leash so… 🤷♂️
- Comment on That would be petrifying 3 days ago:
Just data centers humming on geothermal and a desert wasteland.
- Comment on Rich ppl live longer 3 days ago:
I guess the US is not a civilized world. Makes sense since they had “gladiator-like” fights on the South Lawn.
- Comment on Rich ppl live longer 5 days ago:
I had a nepo coworker gloat about spilling $500/bottle champagne in NYC for his birthday party. I said, “why aren’t you drinking that?” Sick.
- Comment on Gotta catch 'em all... 5 days ago:
Wait so did they just delete user data from that stop, which may have included victims as well as abusers?
- Comment on Gotta catch 'em all... 5 days ago:
They all destroy unsold because if they gave it away, everyone would wait for it to be in the unsold pile.
- Comment on Forever relics 6 days ago:
Do it. It’s starting to feel like a different kind of mine.
- Comment on How do I join a "subreddit" I found on a different lemmy? 6 days ago:
An instance is the server hosting your account. It records your interactions in the fediverse.
- Comment on Anon meets the candy man 6 days ago:
Man, that shit is a one-way ticket to the heater.
- Comment on A reminder 1 week ago:
That’s a lot of words, and in Idiocracy, they have a word to use.
I appreciate this well-articulated argument, though.
- Comment on Just checking in to see if anyone cares that the mumbling turtle is still on full salary while being MIA for two-and-a-half months 1 week ago:
I found him in Limbo, I think? He’s probably a vegetable.
- Comment on Just checking in to see if anyone cares that the mumbling turtle is still on full salary while being MIA for two-and-a-half months 1 week ago:
Yeah, it’s so weird. Cops get to unionize, but normal workers? F- them, I guess? The place is screwy, like Hell.
- Comment on Just checking in to see if anyone cares that the mumbling turtle is still on full salary while being MIA for two-and-a-half months 1 week ago:
Kentucky should be furious, bleet.
- Comment on What is the best and worst USA state to live in? And why? 1 week ago:
Everything is imported so, no, unless you’re rich.
- Comment on Anon has seen it all before 1 week ago:
I mean, the word size on the Voyager space crafts seems to have gone further than anything today.
- Comment on The Price of this Candy Bar 1 week ago:
Why is it SNAP eligible?
- Comment on The Price of this Candy Bar 1 week ago:
No, it doesn’t. They influence the FDA and it’s “generally as safe” stuff.
- Comment on the trump agenda is working 1 week ago:
I have one vote, which means it’s binary. If I had ranked-choice voting, we can have a deeper conversation/candidates. But then, dummies would get angry in their confusion.
- Comment on the trump agenda is working 1 week ago:
But then, we might have to send them through?
- Comment on Pie in the face. 1 week ago:
And in the Epstein Files.