Professorozone
@Professorozone@lemmy.world
- Comment on Over the past week I have spent considerable time contemplating this 1 week 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? 1 week 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. 2 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? 2 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? 2 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? 2 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? 2 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 3 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. 3 weeks 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 1 month ago:
Ummm $16k is barely above the US Federal poverty level.
- Comment on Rich people don't understand us at all. 1 month ago:
Thank you. It’s actually quite reasonable when you put it that way.
- Comment on Rich people don't understand us at all. 1 month 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.
- Comment on just temporarily embarrassed billionaires, one good idea or lottery ticket from making it rich 2 months ago:
No disagreement there.
My disagreement is with the meme and anyone who spreads it thinking it’s ok to lie to make a point.
- Comment on just temporarily embarrassed billionaires, one good idea or lottery ticket from making it rich 2 months ago:
And?
- Comment on just temporarily embarrassed billionaires, one good idea or lottery ticket from making it rich 2 months ago:
Fuck yeah!
- Comment on just temporarily embarrassed billionaires, one good idea or lottery ticket from making it rich 2 months ago:
Yup and that’s probably the biggest injustice the world has ever seen. But that doesn’t erase the fact that Bezos, does not have an income or even a net worth of $1.5T, which is what it would take at 4.7% to make $70B.
This meme could just as easily have said, for instance, that “just Bezos alone could personally fund this program for three years and he’d still be a billionaire. Imagine if we forced that on every billionaire.” It would still make a powerful point without spreading a lie to do it. Because if you think a whole bunch of people who saw this and didn’t fact check it AREN’T going to repeat it to other people, your kidding yourself.
- Comment on just temporarily embarrassed billionaires, one good idea or lottery ticket from making it rich 2 months ago:
I don’t believe that vehemently disagreeing with the other side gives you a license to spread misinformation. It is my belief that if you have to lie to make your point, maybe you should reconsider your point. This is my belief whether it’s MAGA doing the lying or their opponents.
AND just because I’ve pointed out that this meme is demonstrably incorrect doesn’t mean that I don’t agree with the sentiment. I just believe this administration and it’s followers are doing plenty of factually horrible things, there’s plenty of factually good points to make on that topic without having to resort to making shit up. Period.
- Comment on just temporarily embarrassed billionaires, one good idea or lottery ticket from making it rich 2 months ago:
Here we go again. No sources.
According to his site:
…senate.gov/…/sanders-make-college-tuition-free/
It would cost $70B/year.
According to this site, he makes about $9.8B/year, so even a 100% tax wouldn’t do it.
The problem is how do you calculate his taxes? He’s already doing that and paying his $800 or whatever it is. So you have to make assumptions about how much you would tax at 4.7%.
I therefore assumed this meant if his entire net worth were taxed at 4.7%.
According to here which tracks it real time: www.forbes.com/profile/jeff-bezos/
It’s currently $270B.
$270B x 0.047 = $12.7B.
So no, you couldn’t fund it just by taxing him 4.7%. I think we’ll need to create a special tax on billionaires to cover the rest.
- Comment on Hexagonal slotted misalignment 2 months ago:
Finally something that is truly MILDLY infuriating. Upvote!