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- Comment on Anon checks up on a childhood friend 1 day ago:
Avoid the trap though. Things won’t just “happen” to make your life better. It takes actions and effort on your part to guide your life in the direction you want it to go.
- Comment on Virginia Teen Narrowly Defeats His Former Civics Teacher in County Election 1 day ago:
“The student has become the master!”
- Comment on Efficacy unparalleled 1 week ago:
I’m unable to upvote this. I’m part of the control group.
- Comment on I Ate: Burrito. Am I happy now? 1 week ago:
You should have a burrito.
This is sound advice. I will follow through with it tomorrow!
- Comment on I Ate: Burrito. Am I happy now? 1 week ago:
My only problem is that I’m obsessed with health & fitness.
That might be a problem if it rises to the level where causes you trouble interacting with society peacefully.
I choose not to adapt to a sick obese society.
If you’re talking about your own personal choices and consumption, no one is asking you to be obese. More importantly, the picture or the post the OP made also also doesn’t advocate for an obese society, so your assumption that it is would be projection on your part, no?
If instead you’re saying you won’t tolerate other people in society being obese, that a very large problem because you don’t get to make those choices for others.
And if that makes me an outlier and you think I need to be medicated in order to conform to all the fat slobs in the world,
That’s a nice strawman, but it belongs to you, not me.
I suggested you need might want help because you saw a fairly innocuous wholesome picture of a cartoon character that enjoyed a meal and you wrote an entire narrative about how it would lead to the subject becoming obese and unhappy in life. That’s not a reaction most folks have. Does that seem okay with you that you saw something that would otherwise be considered cute or happy and you only saw darkness in it?
I’m frolicking at a nude beach right now and you probably wouldn’t feel comfortable here.
Continue to do that if it brings you joy and fulfillment and doesn’t hurt anyone.
- Comment on I Ate: Burrito. Am I happy now? 1 week ago:
If this is where your mind goes when presented with with the otherwise wholesome image in the OP, I’d really recommend you talk to someone. If you have clinical depression, it isn’t your fault. Its a chemical imbalance and there is help available. We’re all broken in some way. Some people wear their challenges on the outside, other are invisible on the inside. There is zero shame in seeking help.
- Comment on Don't try to stop me 1 week ago:
papyrus font is triggering
- Comment on Ok, boomer 1 week ago:
Just using the interest rate is an unfair comparison. You have to go get median house prices and median incomes as well to make a proper comparison. Just saying the rate was higher at some point is useless if we don’t also compare the prices and incomes because what really matters is affordability. Not saying your whole comment is wrong, just trying to say that this particular part seems to be biased in favor of the Boomers.
I’d written a big post already, and diving into all the details and nuance was too much to put in the initial post. You’re right that the interest rate alone isn’t a determining factor, but I’d also disagree that its objectively in favor of Boomers, perhaps subjectively though. Another factor to consider is that in the downpayment requirements. Today we talk about the “best practice” of putting 20% down on a home, but that’s today. The alternative of putting less-than 20% down and using PMI didn’t even exist as a concept until 1971. It grew in popularity later, but in the early days it wasn’t common. Further, with higher interest rates it meant that much lower pay down of the principal was occurring in the first few years of the mortgage because of amortization. It was the beginning of the age of moving more frequently for jobs, which meant less equity build up as each house sale cycle robbed them of that benefit of wealth, arguable the most valuable investment asset of the working class.
Median home price to median household income ratio This ratio is a key indicator of housing affordability
I appreciate you doing and sharing that analysis.
I think we both agree that its difficult to do an absolute comparison on the home buying/owning experience between the Boomer era and today’s Millennials (or GenZ) simply because so many conditions are different. We didn’t talk about Stagflation or unemployment rate in 1982 being 10.8% compared to today’s 4.3%. I pointed out the interest rate being higher because most folks approach new information as “all else being equal” conditions. The audience already knew that housing price was less in the Boomer era, additional it was known that income was higher proportionally to living expenses than today’s Millennials (or GenZ), what I doubted was common knowledge was the sky high interest rates compared to today. Thats what I was communicating.
- Comment on Ok, boomer 1 week ago:
Lead pipes are less of an issue that it would seem, as the pipes quickly develop a layer of calcium salts on the inside, preventing the water from actually coming into contact with the lead.
This right here.
If people remember the lead in drinking water contamination in Flint Michigan, its because they had lead pipes that were well coated with the protective layers and had no trouble with lead in water. Then the newly elected city manager changed water sources to cut costs against the advice of the water engineers in the city. The other source of water was more acidic and stripped out all that protective coating and suddenly there’s huge amounts of lead in the drinking water from the pipes.
- Comment on Ok, boomer 1 week ago:
I guess it’s to be expected. Boomers were raised in pure bliss, spent half their lives relatively stress-free. Everything was easy and cheap. When you live an easy life, you get used to being dumb, uninformed and lazy. The same would have probably happened to all zoomers in the same situation.
I’m not a boomer, but this isn’t quite a fair characterization. Yes, they had cheap college, affordable cars, housing, lots of upward mobility that most of us would love to have today, but they lived through some shit too. Boomers were in their youth when humanity had its closest brush with global nuclear war when the bombers were in the air flying during the Cuban Missile Crisis. They lived everyday with a really good chance the world was going to end in nuclear war. They were the last generation to see a compulsory military draft and many know high school friends that were drafted and died in Vietnam. We think interest rates are bad these days making borrowing expensive. No shit they were having to get mortgages with a minimum of 18% and 19%:
This says nothing about the many racial and sexual discrimination issues that those groups faced making basic life even harder. In Canada it wasn’t until 1964 that a woman could open her own bank account without her husband’s consent. In the USA, redlining preventing people of color from buying homes in better areas denying them untold billions of dollars of generational wealth from real estate appreciation.
Absolutely give the out-of-touch boomers that are dismissive of the problems young people are facing today the shit boomers deserve. They did so much to harvest the benefits of the last century and leave the bill to the younger generations while simultaneously destroying environment for the later generations to thrive the way they did. Just don’t forget that each generation has its problems too and there hasn’t been a generation yet that has been entirely carefree.
- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 2 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Anon shops for diamonds 3 weeks ago:
Fantasy Football (gridiron) was started upon the NFL game stats. There have been repeated citations of injuries to players, including many CTE cases, and these players frequently come up through the ranks from poverty as a method to earn scholarship education and income. The exploitation occurs because for many players, this may be their best path out of low economic conditions and are coerced to play when injured, and frequently discarded by football when they become injured leaving them with nothing.
- Comment on Anon shops for diamonds 3 weeks ago:
She absolutely might be, and anon should have a discussion with her to make sure that matches her preferences and desires.
- Comment on Anon shops for diamonds 3 weeks ago:
None of those are industries build on (modern) slavery and exploitation though.
You haven’t looked very deeply at the American Football industry where Fantasy Football derives its data/basis from then, then I take it.
- Comment on Anon shops for diamonds 3 weeks ago:
Shared values are certainly important. However, Anon may quickly learn that his importance on spending money on Fantasy Football, Warhammer, or automotive tuning (or whatever his hobby/vice may be) may also quickly get met by his alternate shared-values compatible wife when he finds one that doesn’t want a diamond engagement ring for being wasteful.
If anon is worried about the resale value of a wedding ring after the purchase, I’m not sure if he quite understands the purpose of a wedding ring.
- Comment on Anon shops for diamonds 3 weeks ago:
Anon hasn’t figured out that what is important to her is what should be important to him on this one. Trying to rationalize with her that the diamond ring she wants from this (potentially) most important event in her life isn’t worth it is a sure fire way to ruin this for her.
- Comment on Order two anyway 3 weeks ago:
“our fries”.
- Comment on The crab housing market 4 weeks ago:
desires a system where the larger and stronger crabs should have their pick of the housing market and less powerful (smaller) crabs simply have to take whatever smaller, less desirable housing is left over.
Power and strength have nothing to do with it, they aren’t fighting over who gets the bigger shell, they’re trading.
If there are two crabs each with a need for the large shell, they will fight over it. Power of the winner can absolutely determines the outcome of who gets the shell (or who may die trying).
“In the field, we also occasionally observed 2 or 3 tug-of-war queues radiating out from a single vacant shell, with the largest crabs in each queue struggling to gain controlof the vacant shell. Such tug-of-wars between multiple queues appeared to inhibit vacancy chains as in some cases this situation lasted up to 4h without any crabs moving into the vacant shell. These findings indicate that the formation of hermit crab queues and other linear dominance hierarchies involves more complex social interactions than previously thought(Chaseetal.2002).”
source: Social context of shell acquisition in Coenobita clypeatus hermit crabs.PDF
Smaller doesn’t mean less desirable, [snip] They want a shell that fits there size, not the biggest one.
It doesn’t always, but it can absolutely mean less desirable. If two equal size crabs both have a need for the larger shell, and there is only one larger shell, then shells that are too small are less desirable (undesired?).
otherwise the small crabs would not give up the big shell voluntarily.
Apparently there are circumstances when the smaller crab doesn’t give up voluntarily, and is instead ripped in half by the larger crab.
This system takes into account size as opposed to our current housing system, which is all about power (in the form of wealth). We’d be better off if we considered size as we have a lot of small families in big houses (wealthy empty nesters) and big families in small houses (poorer families just starting off in a small apt) and redistribution those could help both parties.
Your are stating a subjective opinion. Your opinion is certainly valid, but it is not a fact.
The problem is that we are in a “bigger is better” mindset, and that empty nest family doesn’t want to give up their house even though they don’t need it.
Its not nearly as simple as “bigger is better” for that empty nest example. If it were, we’d see empty nesters (which are typically at the height of the lifetime wealth) automatically purchasing even larger houses when the kids leave into adulthood. That isn’t typically what happens. They keep the current home they had when they had children.
- Comment on The crab housing market 4 weeks ago:
Again, I’m playing devils advocate here to highly a cynical take. This isn’t my position.
The crab that waved the others down doesn’t benefit more than any other crab, it’s just a mutually beneficial redistribution of shells
You’re assuming a perfect distribution of resources equal to the needs of all, but studies show it doesn’t always work out that way and there’s a hierarchy and a struggle for the prime resources in the hermit crab society.
“In the field, we also occasionally observed 2 or 3 tug-of-war queues radiating out from a single vacant shell, with the largest crabs in each queue struggling to gain controlof the vacant shell. Such tug-of-wars between multiple queues appeared to inhibit vacancy chains as in some cases this situation lasted up to 4h without any crabs moving into the vacant shell. These findings indicate that the formation of hermit crab queues and other linear dominance hierarchies involves more complex social interactions than previously thought(Chaseetal.2002).”
source: Social context of shell acquisition in Coenobita clypeatus hermit crabs.PDF
Once again, I don’t have a horse in this race, I’m just participating in the discussion, not advocating policy or reflecting my views on our human society.
- Comment on The crab housing market 4 weeks ago:
The crab story could just as easily be cynically re-written as an example of capitalism/free-market approach.
- Comment on The crab housing market 4 weeks ago:
Conclusions are in our own interpretations. Here’s an example of a cynical take of the same situation:
I just learned that if a hermit crab finds a new shell that is too big, it will wait for other hermit crabs
So a less powerful crab cannot take full advantage of the shell, but recognizes its value to larger more powerful crabs. This is also an argument for scalping. If you find an expensive console or GPU which you can’t afford long term, but you know you could carry the debt temporarily, you could buy it yourself then sell it to someone else later who could afford long term and you would personally pocket the profit. It could be argued that thats what the original-large-shell-finding small crab here is doing: scalping.
who need new shells to gather and then they will organize themselves by size and trade shells.
The original smaller crab knows that larger crab will cast off its current shell, which would be substantially better than the shell the smaller crab has, so it can still personally gain from finding the big shell it can’t use, but its accepting a hand-me-down cast off only when the larger more powerful crab gets something better.
and I am pissed that the crabs have a better housing market than we do.
So the poster desires a system where larger and stronger crabs should have their pick of the housing market, and less powerful crabs simply have to take whatever smaller, less desirable housing, is left over.
Again, this is just a different interpretation for the meme. I’m not advocating for a position.
- Comment on Literally every nsfw post: 4 weeks ago:
You…are aware that in this posting the original image is blurred right? No amount of settings will change that for this joke post @cm0002@sh.itjust.works. Are you trolling me instead?
- Comment on Literally every nsfw post: 4 weeks ago:
I mean, if you don’t want it blurred in the thumbnail, turn off that option in your Lemmy profile:
- Comment on Drake's lawsuit over Kendrick Lamar diss track Not Like Us is dismissed 4 weeks ago:
Regarding Lamar’s song, Judge Vargas said: “Even apparent statements of fact may assume the character of statements of opinion… when made in public debate, heated labour dispute, or other circumstances in which an audience may anticipate the use of epithets, fiery rhetoric or hyperbole.”
I really appreciate this opinion coming from a judge. This is modern day debate and storytelling. No one believed it was necessary to start an arson investigation on Eminem with his accomplish Dr Dre when he had the line “With a can full of gas and a hand full of matches.”
- Comment on wish 4 weeks ago:
Is she the one with the superpower to make things slightly warm? Like heating up a cup of tea?
- Comment on Well fuck me then 5 weeks ago:
Rookie mistake If the can owner turns the can over they’d find a P38 can opener to easily open and enjoy their beverage. /s
- Comment on Not rule 1 month ago:
As you get older, something else happens. The people that were present at that cringy moment of yours die off. You may find yourself the only living person witness to the event. It helps. Not as much as it should but it does help.
- Comment on I baked eye ball cookies for Halloween 1 month ago:
“eye ball” cookies
- Comment on Trump Says the U.S. Will Institute $100,000 Fee for Skilled Worker Visas 1 month ago:
Suddenly American companies are going to start re-embracing “work from home” as long as “home” is your home country. Multinational companies will increase offices in foreign countries and just have their non-US workers work there. I see Canada, Mexico, and a number of countries in Central and South America that operating in the same time zones as the USA benefiting.
