Professorozone
@Professorozone@lemmy.world
- Comment on Do rich people only wear designer clothes? Like, every piece? 1 week ago:
Oooo, so I guess I can call that a victory!
- Comment on Do rich people only wear designer clothes? Like, every piece? 1 week ago:
You have no idea what I know. Anyone with a $50M net worth and I’m assuming that’s what you are talking about, that can’t generate more than $500k a year, is a friggin moron. It’s not hard to believe since she’s related to you and there is no real requirement to be smart to be rich. You just have to lack a moral compass.
- Comment on Do rich people only wear designer clothes? Like, every piece? 1 week ago:
I never said I knew more about her life, but please keep putting words in my mouth.
A $50M net worth should absolutely be bringing in $2M/year income which is plenty to charter flights and buy yachts. I never said it had to be chartered trans Atlantic or that it had to be a super yacht.
But sure I guess your poor sister just can’t swing the money to fly first class with her measly little $50M. How embarrassing for her. You should clip some coupons for her to get by.
I mean how much do you think you need? Seriously.
- Comment on Do rich people only wear designer clothes? Like, every piece? 1 week ago:
Ummm $50M is yacht and charter flight levels of rich. I guess she just doesn’t know it somehow.
- Comment on Why do cops still ask for registration during traffic stop? 1 week ago:
Most I imagine.
- Comment on Why do cops still ask for registration during traffic stop? 1 week ago:
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- Comment on Why do cops still ask for registration during traffic stop? 1 week ago:
Pulling people over for traffic violations is largely a money making scheme. Why remove the law from the books when computers are widely available when you can still add a fine for people who either don’t have theirs or have an old one?
- Comment on Over the past week I have spent considerable time contemplating this 3 weeks ago:
That’s funny. Our washer sings as little song when it’s done but I can honestly say in many years of ownership, I’ve never gotten up immediately to empty it. I wonder how long mine takes to unlock.
- Comment on If your city has terrible tap water, how do you fight for better tap water? 3 weeks ago:
I second that. I absolutely love my RO filter. Very tasty.
Also, why would the government improve your water when they can install Flock cameras instead?
- Comment on Wealth inequality will destroy America. 4 weeks ago:
Nice job homogenizing 350 million people. Every single one the same and deserving of ridicule. Sure.
- Comment on What is your interesting fact or knowledge that is completely useless that you wish to share? 4 weeks ago:
But couldn’t they just be over-coordinating. That’s what it feels like.
Either way, I’m glad they came up with salt water systems. Much nicer.
- Comment on What is your interesting fact or knowledge that is completely useless that you wish to share? 4 weeks ago:
Thank you. This sounds like the kind of useless knowledge I can use.
- Comment on What is your interesting fact or knowledge that is completely useless that you wish to share? 4 weeks ago:
I don’t know. Sounds kind of useful to me.
- Comment on What is your interesting fact or knowledge that is completely useless that you wish to share? 4 weeks ago:
Ok, but why then when you open a bottle of bleach or container of chlorine pellets, does it smell like chlorine. Do they add the piss ahead of time?
- Comment on My people need me 5 weeks ago:
Ok, but have you discussed this with your entire generation? You can’t do this alone.
- Comment on The reason the right are so anti Mamdani is obvious: they don’t want you to see what your tax dollars being put to work the right way would actually look like. Then everyone would want it everywhere. 1 month ago:
And as usual I don’t know if I should be outraged that a private company is involve that may lead to questionable practices or happy that at least they are 1000 affordable units available. Both maybe? I guess I’m cautiously optimistic.
- Comment on Donald Trump telling everyone they're gonna get "lots and lots of money" if they vote for his party 1 month ago:
Isn’t it illegal to buy votes? Not that they would care.
- Comment on It's never been about helping people 2 months ago:
Ummm $16k is barely above the US Federal poverty level.
- Comment on Rich people don't understand us at all. 2 months ago:
Thank you. It’s actually quite reasonable when you put it that way.
- Comment on Rich people don't understand us at all. 2 months ago:
That’s it! I’m calling my old roommate to tell her what a bitch she was for only making her own bed.
- Comment on What is my purpose? 2 months ago:
Hey at least he HAS a purpose.
- Comment on Anon doesn't have a plan 2 months ago:
No. He has no debt. I meant that as a general statement about how things were more affordable for me than for millennials. It was easier for me to forge out on my own than it is for today’s youth. I’ve just heard of people graduating with $100k. It really makes you switch your thinking. Before, I would have expected any child of mine to go to college. Now I would understand if he or she didn’t want to. I have no children, so I dodged that bullet. LOL.
- Comment on Anon doesn't have a plan 2 months ago:
My nephew is in exactly this position. My sister and her husband make plenty of money, they felt emotionally attached, he’s diagnosed as ADHD, so he gets a pass on some things. He’s 32.
I know millennials hate that older people criticize them and I get it, but every millennial I know is in exactly this position and I don’t understand how anyone can hold his head high knowing he essentially can’t take care of himself.
On the other hand, I grew up in a different time. I graduated with $9k of debt, not $100k. I devoted decades of my life working to make someone else rich. So who’s smarter, me or my nephew?
I mean, if they’re ok with him living there, who am I to judge? My only real complaint is that he feels entitled to things he hasn’t earned. My sister plays disc golf with me. He played with us briefly. He won’t let her use “his” discs. The discs she paid for. He demands to sit in the front seat of the car sometimes, not request it. I’m sorry, but if Mom says she wants the front seat, Mom gets the fucking front seat. Not sure if this is generational or just him. But as a genX, I try to be understanding, because I see how the country has gone, but it can be tough sometimes, because from my perspective, he’s getting a 100% free ride and should be friggin grateful.
- Comment on Anon doesn't have a plan 2 months ago:
I think we can infer, based on the fact that a grown ass man is still living with his parents and clearly not helping financially since he has no clue how to get a job.
- Comment on Anon doesn't have a plan 2 months ago:
I think I fall in the middle of this. I think this kid (and I think he is still a kid) had 38 years to transition to independence. But the same could be said about the parents. Why are they kicking him out now instead of after schooling? Now they are doing this almost cold turkey. Why not tell him he has until his birthday to stay paying rent. Then later impose more restrictions until ultimately sending him on his way.
I’m old so I feel it’s ridiculous for a 38 year old to still be living at home without substantially contributing. At the same time they let him do it and it’s kind of unfair allow it to get this far. He probably had a reasonable expectation of living with them until he or they died.
- Comment on California just passed a law forcing mandatory DRM in 3D printers 2 months ago:
I friggin hate this authoritarian shit. And California no less. Sounds like some civil disobedience is called for.
Like what if I want to print a play gun for cosplay? Sorry, you live in a free country. Go buy a real one instead. And worse, someone might want to print a shape very similar to a gun but completely unrelated. Nope.
- Comment on California just passed a law forcing mandatory DRM in 3D printers 2 months ago:
Guess Californians need to grab an old printer real quick and hang on to it.
- Comment on just temporarily embarrassed billionaires, one good idea or lottery ticket from making it rich 2 months ago:
I’m guessing it would cost more then for all the 90 year olds and toddlers to go to college with the rest of America.
- Comment on just temporarily embarrassed billionaires, one good idea or lottery ticket from making it rich 2 months ago:
You think 370 million Americans are all going to go to college?
- Comment on We're told to "Work Harder" by the rich who hardly work at all. 2 months ago:
Don’t have to actually imagine it.