Earthwormjim91
@Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world
- Comment on Anon steams up the sauna 7 hours ago:
Saunas in the US are virtually never nude though either.
- Comment on Min wage in most states is so sad 1 day ago:
Who said anything about making them miserable? That isn’t, and shouldn’t be, the goal. The goal is to remove incentives to be corrupt.
A nice dorm and high quality food provided to them removes some of that.
Locking assets into total market funds removes incentive to inside trade, because you can’t.
- Comment on Minimum wage isn't survivable anymore 1 day ago:
I’m not sure you’ve ever been in a McDonald’s in rural Oklahoma, because that was my entire high school experience working there lol.
- Comment on Minimum wage isn't survivable anymore 1 day ago:
We had two guys with Down syndrome, an active crack head that would run out and smoke crack behind the dumpster during shift, a bunch of teenagers, and an 80 year old. And that was just my shift. McDonald’s literally hires anyone they legally are allowed to.
- Comment on Minimum wage isn't survivable anymore 1 day ago:
My first job was McDonald’s when I was 16. It is about the bottom of the barrel for jobs lol. There’s a reason they hire literally anyone and everyone they can.
- Comment on Minimum wage isn't survivable anymore 2 days ago:
I’m saying I have never ever in my life see anyone pay less than McDonald’s, you illiterate fuck.
McDonald’s is the minimum because people would just work at McDonald’s than anywhere else paying less.
- Comment on Minimum wage isn't survivable anymore 3 days ago:
There you go. Even higher lol.
- Comment on Minimum wage isn't survivable anymore 3 days ago:
Sorry I was actually wrong.
McDonald’s starts at $19.29. Because that’s the minimum wage where I am.
- Comment on Minimum wage isn't survivable anymore 3 days ago:
McDonald’s is literally right at the bottom. “Doesn’t even compete with fast food” is a bar in hell.
- Comment on Minimum wage isn't survivable anymore 3 days ago:
Lmao fucking what. McDonald’s starts at $18.
- Comment on Minimum wage isn't survivable anymore 3 days ago:
Listen, I don’t give a fuck about what the rural hicks make. Where most people live, in cities, the minimum wage is significantly higher.
Further, virtually nobody makes minimum wage anyway. Fewer than 1%.
- Comment on Minimum wage isn't survivable anymore 3 days ago:
And most major metro areas have their own minimum wage separate from the state.
- Comment on Minimum wage isn't survivable anymore 3 days ago:
It’s higher than $15 in most places
- Comment on A reminder 1 week ago:
That’s not how net worth works…
If you have a mortgage, that offsets it and your net worth would only include the equity you hold.
- Comment on Food served to US service men & women. 1 week ago:
Nah, my kids’ district has really good food. But we also have high property taxes that pay for it.
- Comment on Food served to US service men & women. 1 week ago:
I will say, that experience varies wildly by branch, and even chow hall to chow hall within a branch. I was in the Marines, and the “new” chow hall on Pendleton mainside (they opened it about a year after I got there, but that was 15 years ago now) was really pretty good. Solid breakfast burrito line, an omelet station where you could get real eggs, etc. Lunch and dinner had a few options, and a panini bar.
The chow hall we had before that one opened was a dump.
But then, I went TDY to an Air Force base. And let me tell you, that was better than most restaurants I’ve been to.
- Comment on This drip coffee is now $5 dollars, up from $2.50 3 years ago 1 week ago:
Coffee on the otherhand tastes awful
Well that’s highly subjective. I’m not a big coffee drinker, but good coffee absolutely tastes great.
smells like ball bearing grease
Again, highly subjective. Most people, even the ones that hate how coffee tastes, generally like the smell of fresh coffee. It’s a great aroma.
If you don’t drink it, your tummy hurts for it
Never experienced this
If you drink it you mind runs crazy and your heartbeat is not steady
You probably just have a caffeine sensitivity. Most people do not experience this.
- Comment on The Price of this Candy Bar 1 week ago:
It’s literally used in the UK, wheee it fucking came from.
- Comment on Rich people don't understand us at all. 1 week ago:
Because it’s not a fact lmao. The commenter is only 33. At no point in their life has having roommates meant you were gay. Maybe another 20+ years before them, and if you were a man in your 30s or older with a roommate. But that’s because the assumption is generally that if you’re living with someone in your 30s, 9 times out of 10 they’re your partner. Most people find a long-term partner by then that they live with.
- Comment on Solar panels for surveillance but none for affordable power 2 weeks ago:
Also, solar farms ARE going up.
There’s about 1,000x as much solar capacity going up every quarter in the US as there is total solar capacity on all flock cameras combined.
- Comment on Solar panels for surveillance but none for affordable power 2 weeks ago:
And the rest of the math:
The US currently is installing around 7GW of solar power. Per quarter.
7,000MW. Over 1,000x the entire output of all Flock camera solar panels, being added to the US every 3 months.
The government and a myriad of other entities are currently rolling out green infrastructure 4,000x as fast as flock.
- Comment on Solar panels for surveillance but none for affordable power 2 weeks ago:
I mean, possession is 9/10 of the law. Possessing stolen goods is a crime, whether you stole them or not.
- Comment on The Price of this Candy Bar 2 weeks ago:
And I never said otherwise. You just made it up to argue against for some reason.
- Comment on The Price of this Candy Bar 2 weeks ago:
Um. Ok?
Not sure what any of that has to do with this conversation. The whole thing was about
Ya…and you can only get snap if you work 80 hrs a week, have written consent from your boss, your past 4 bosses, the blood of a tainted saint, the pubes of a dead god, the hymen of a virgin, And 3 hearts from a slain dragon.
Which is just flat out not even true. And that was my only point. It’s not 9 thousand impossible hoops to jump through.
- Comment on The Price of this Candy Bar 2 weeks ago:
Of course she’s lying to them lmao. She’s a tweaker. Has been for 20 years. She also gets disability because her stupid ass hurt herself 15 years ago during one of her mandated community service assignments when she got arrested for possession, and that disability waives her work requirement. Even though her only actual disability is that she’s dumb as fuck.
But I’ll also give you context. I grew up in Oklahoma. Half the state is on meth. The overlap of people on SNAP in Oklahoma and people on meth is almost just a single circle.
- Comment on The Price of this Candy Bar 2 weeks ago:
Lol tell that to my meth head mother that gets SNAP without having held a job in her life. She sells her snap for more meth.
- Comment on The Price of this Candy Bar 2 weeks ago:
I’m willing to bet not even a super market. Probably some overpriced gas station/quick stop kind of place. Those are the ones that tend to inflate the prices like this, catching people getting gas that want a quick snack.
- Comment on The Price of this Candy Bar 2 weeks ago:
Prices in general are nuts, but cherry picking outliers like this doesn’t help.
- Comment on The Price of this Candy Bar 2 weeks ago:
This particular store is either not in the US, or heavily inflated. The exact same bar at the store by me is $3.29.
It’s also 6 servings worth, and the whole bar is 720kcal.
- Comment on The Price of this Candy Bar 2 weeks ago:
They’re about the largest ones you can buy lol. It’s a super king sized that is two full sized bars in the package. Roughly 150g total, and 720kcal for the whole thing.
This particular store is also inflated. The same thing is $3.29 at the store by me.