NABDad
@NABDad@lemmy.world
- Comment on Citizens United was never about helping people 3 days ago:
The employees aren’t members. The stockholders are.
Your point may still be valid, but the motivations of the stockholders are likely different than the motivations of the employees.
- Comment on What is the most common stupid question you hear/see? 1 week ago:
How could it be not working when it was working before?
- Comment on The town and HOA only have two settings for a holiday: Jesus and Troops. I guess Labor days is a "Troops" holiday. 1 week ago:
A work colleague is the president of his HOA board. I get to hear about the other side of the conflicts.
I’m only hearing his side, but the things he tells me about make it seem like some of his neighbors are just idiots.
Like people parking in no-parking areas that are supposed to be kept clear for emergency vehicle access. He’s warned people that they can’t park there, and they treat it like he’s being a fascist. He just doesn’t want to hear their bitching when they get towed.
There’s a rule about not being on or near the power transformer. The reason is because people could be injured. However, when he tells someone to keep their kids off it, he’s being a tyrant.
He’s only the president of the HOA board because no one else wants the job. He’s not running around issuing fines because he doesn’t have time for that shit.
People threaten to sue the HOA for bullshit, and he’s baffled. It’s like they think there’s some income stream apart from the fees they pay. If they sue the HOA, they are suing themselves and their neighbors.
I always think about him when I read people complaining about their HOA.
Don’t get me wrong, I would never buy a property in an HOA, but if they do, it’s not like they’re helpless. They can read the rules, organize a resistance, vote the fascists out. They can take charge. They can show everyone how much better their leadership would be.
- Comment on Walmart Shopping Carts Left Feet Away from the Cart Corral. 1 week ago:
It does get a little more complicated when you’re alone with three kids, but it’s not impossible. Put the kids in the car and walk the cart to the corral. If you’re in a parking lot where it isn’t safe to leave the kids alone in the car for 10 seconds, I’d recommend that you avoid shopping there.
- Comment on Walmart Shopping Carts Left Feet Away from the Cart Corral. 1 week ago:
I was at a grocery store that had those. I didn’t realize at first. I figured the wheels just got stuck.
I guess I’m more of a gorilla than they expected, because I just kept pushing it to where I was parked. An employee ran out to unlock it before I ground the wheels flat.
- Comment on Walmart Shopping Carts Left Feet Away from the Cart Corral. 1 week ago:
In case you weren’t aware, the cart corral is not there to make it more convenient for the cart wranglers. The reason it’s there is to make it more unlikely that a cart will roll free and slam into a parked car.
The people not returning their carts to the corral are dickheads because the carts they abandon could damage someone else’s car.
The people putting their carts over the curb or in the grass or wherever are lazy, but they are at least considerate enough to make sure the abandoned cart won’t roll into someone.
- Comment on Waiting and getting treated is better than waiting and going bankrupt 3 weeks ago:
Also, you don’t know what happened an hour before you showed up. Triage doesn’t mean a serious case doesn’t have to wait or a minor one does.
- Comment on Pie in the face. 3 weeks ago:
Cow pies
- Comment on What are examples of anachronisms you've seen from movies depicting historical settings? 4 weeks ago:
Like in The Patriot when the British officer confronting Mel Gibson tells him his slaves will be seized, but then we find out he just has a bunch of free blacks who work for him because he’s such a damn nice guy.
This despite him being a wealthy farmer in South Carolina at a time when it was essentially impossible that he wouldn’t have owned slaves.
The character was most heavily inspired by Francis Marion
- Comment on Easy Delivery Co. I'll just be a little car driving a kei truck around a mountain town. 4 weeks ago:
Freeciv. So… Conqueror of the world?
Fear not. I will be a benevolent ruler. Maximum luxuries for all my citizens. I will even let you pretend to have a democracy, much like your current rulers do today.
- Comment on Team Car! 4 weeks ago:
It varies by state.
- Comment on Team Car! 4 weeks ago:
Where do you live that the police do more than file the report?
Where I am they don’t do anything if a car hits you unless the damage is beyond a cost threshold or someone is killed.
- Comment on Team Car! 4 weeks ago:
What about fat kids on young bikes?
- Comment on Team Car! 4 weeks ago:
I do this, but only if I can see their eyes.
- Comment on Team Car! 4 weeks ago:
I’ve had two bicyclists run a red light right in front of me as I was pulling out on a green.
One was horrified and apologic.
The other yelled at me for almost hitting him.
- Comment on I need an adult 5 weeks ago:
You mean those green flowers?
-ancient Greek guy (probably)
- Comment on Text spam aimed at my ex 5 weeks ago:
The last time one of these folks wanted to buy my house, They were calling me, my wife, and my brother (which was particularly strange since he doesn’t live near me and has nothing to do with my house).
I finally responded so they’d leave my brother alone. I told them I wouldn’t entertain any offer less than $1 million.
My house is not worth $1 million. Maybe if it was in absolutely perfect shape. It’s a Victorian house. It used to be the pastor’s rectory for a church across the street. When the church wanted to tear it down to build an addition, they moved it instead.
However, it probably needs around $200k-$300k of work to get it to perfect shape.
They can pry my ~3% fixed rate mortgage out of my cold, dead hands. I’m not selling it unless I get enough to buy the next place without a mortgage.
- Comment on President Trump reacts to President Biden’s cancer diagnosis: "I don't feel sorry for him" 5 weeks ago:
Agreed. The problem was the appointment.
- Comment on President Trump reacts to President Biden’s cancer diagnosis: "I don't feel sorry for him" 5 weeks ago:
Failing to prosecute a known criminal out of a fear of appearing nakedly partisan/political is, as it turns out, as bad as corrupting the justice dept to make it nakedly partisan/political.
Biden should have had an AG who went after criminals regardless of the political consequences.
- Comment on Way too easy 5 weeks ago:
Actually, more accurate would be President Pedo doing it to himself.
- Comment on Housing prices 5 weeks ago:
A guy bought the property next to my house. He was going to tear down the house that was there, but our historic district stopped him. He had to restore that house and convert it to a duplex. Then he squeezed another house in the strip of land in between.
It is hideous. When my mother-in-law visited, she asked why they were building an office building next door.
It sold for $799,000.
- Comment on Take cover 5 weeks ago:
My first job out of college was back in the days when you bought a newspaper and looked in the classifieds.
I set up a mail merge in word to generate cover letters for hundreds of jobs. Each entry in the database had a single sentence related to the job to make the cover letter look like it was written just for that job.
Years after I was hired, my boss told me that they received hundreds of applicants, but I stood out because I took the time to write a cover letter to go with my resume.
It was an IT job, so I always figured it was less cheating and more a confirmation of my skills.
- Comment on What would happen if you maxxed out your credit cards and line of credit then moved to some village in the phillipines? 5 weeks ago:
Yeah that dude is right. One of the things they look at is available credit. If you close an account with a $20k limit and zero balance, your score will drop.
For any future/current parents with good credit: if you add one of your kids to your credit card, their credit rating gets a boost.
- Comment on Friends. 5 weeks ago:
Imagine if Peter Dinklage got implants. You’d be in heaven.
- Comment on "Digital Signatures" just ask you to type your name into a box now. Am I right in thinking this almost-completely defeats the purpose of a signature? 1 month ago:
I scanned the responses, and didn’t see anyone who mentioned this.
The point at which the U.S. allowed you to “sign” your name by typing was when the E-Sign Act was passed. That was in 2000, long before LLMs were really a concern.
The reason was to make online commerce easier. Verbal contacts could and continue to be enforced, but enforcement requires more effort than with a written contact.
At the time I thought the law was passed by people who didn’t understand technology and how easy this made it for people to commit fraud or screw over consumers. However now I realize they just didn’t give a fuck.
- Comment on How to move a sofa 1 month ago:
In Philly you stop wherever you are and do whatever you’re going to do.
It’s not unexpected to find people just parked in a lane blocking traffic while they unload.
- Comment on How to move a sofa 1 month ago:
If you are moving ALL your stuff, hire movers.
In my experience, that’s what Dad is for.
It starts with Dad moving you to and from dorm rooms. Then apartments.
When my wife and I moved to our house I hired movers. It was a lot easier and not terribly expensive.
When my wife moved her business to a new building, my mom told me my dad insisted on helping us move, so I didn’t hire movers as I had planned. When we were moving the tons of furniture, cabinets, and massive boxes stuffed full of files, my dad mentioned that my mom told him I had asked him to help me move. I have never been able to determine why my mom manipulated us into nearly killing ourselves.
Now I’m the dad. I’ve moved kids to and from dorm rooms and apartments. I’ve rented trucks for huge moves. My daughter and I are moving a couch, a dresser, an end table and all her cooking utensils on Saturday.
Not only do I have a truck, I also have straps, furniture dollies, moving blankets, mattress bags, etc.
My most recent purchase was a shoulder dolly. If you haven’t seen one, picture two harnesses with a wide strap running between them. Two people squat on either end of the item being moved with the wide strap running under it. You take up the slack in the strap, and just stand up to lift it off the ground. It’s a game changer.
I’ve become my own moving company.
- Comment on The light at the end of the tunnel is getting much closer. KEEP PUSHING 1 month ago:
I take it to mean Democrats who are not Democratic Socialists, but it’s an odd way of saying it.
Maybe they are including people who aren’t registered as Democrats but tend to vote for them?
- Comment on Do americans living in Red States really despise american living in Blue States? 1 month ago:
Here there are no stupid questions, just stupid answers.
- Comment on Why was AID's pigeonholed to be a gay disease in the 80's? Even after knowing a person can get it from blood transfusion. 1 month ago:
Others have answered, but you reminded me of some disturbing audio that I had heard.
It’s audio from Reagan’s white house press conferences when a reporter asked for comments about the growing AIDS crisis. It’s disturbing because it shows how casually people joked about gay men dying.
It’s worth listening to. It both shows how far we’ve come and also shows how important it is to not lose any ground in the fight to protect marginalized groups.