mechoman444

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨corporate America just posted record profits this week. The stock market is at all time highs. If your paycheck didn't do the exact same thing, take a wild guess why. Their record margins are literal…⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Your distrust if the official source is irrelevant. Completely. That’s the information literally every single financial institution is using regardless of it being real or not.

  share.google/7t3RegNapCQ2Awhkr - us congress share.google/F2BIAgdWq9SC9IQwm - usfacts share.google/YFvXxBKn6r8Er14XU

  It’s 3.4%. across the board. Believe it or not it’s a fact.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨corporate America just posted record profits this week. The stock market is at all time highs. If your paycheck didn't do the exact same thing, take a wild guess why. Their record margins are literal…⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  So I don’t like dealing with “trust me bro” arguments but I think you’re confusing what inflation actually is.

  Current U.S. Inflation Rates: 2000-2026 share.google/KYoH4YRuDcDl8tJje

  But here’s an official link to what the inflation rate is and was.

  The reason you’re feeling like things are significantly more expensive despite the relatively small inflation rate is that inflation works somewhat like compound interest.

  For example, if a product cost $100 in 2025 and inflation was 5%, the price would rise to $105. If inflation is then 2.3% in 2026, that 2.3% increase is applied to the $105 not the original $100. The new price would be about $107.42.

  That’s why a lower inflation rate doesn’t mean prices are going back down. It simply means they’re increasing at a slower rate.

  Prices generally don’t go down just because inflation falls. They go up more slowly. The notable exceptions are things like gasoline and hand grenades.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just Think About It⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The second movie is all about spies, which means there was a Cold War, and if there was a Cold War, there was a Russia, and if there was a Russia, there was a Stalin and a Lenin, which means there were communists, and eventually a Red Scare and a McCarthy, which means there was a nuclear scare and, naturally, nuclear weapons.

  The Porsche girl character, I can’t remember her name because I’m 40, had one of those lower-back tattoos, which opens up a whole other series of “which means” implications that I absolutely do not want to get into.

  This rabbit hole goes much deeper than Pixar intended.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨corporate America just posted record profits this week. The stock market is at all time highs. If your paycheck didn't do the exact same thing, take a wild guess why. Their record margins are literal…⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I sense sarcasm.

  But seriously, inflation went up like 8%. Not 33%!

  Then again inflation is just when they print more money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨corporate America just posted record profits this week. The stock market is at all time highs. If your paycheck didn't do the exact same thing, take a wild guess why. Their record margins are literal…⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I kid you not, the price of dumplings at the supermarket where I live went from $12 last year to $16 this year.

  Four dollars! That’s a 33% increase in the price of dumplings! What the hell happened that they suddenly need 33% more money per bag?

  Or take Dollar Tree turning into the $1.25 Tree—and sometimes even more! Some balloons cost five dollars at Dollar Tree. FIVE DOLLARS!

  At this point, some of these companies are just making shit up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You Used To Be Cool. Pfft, Sell Out⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Google (www.google.com) is a pure search engine - no weather, no news feed, no links to sponsors, no ads, no distractions, no portal litter. Nothing but a fast-loading search site. For now. Give it a decade.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Billionaires hate democracy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The whole point is to avoid paying. It’s a special little club these fuckers belong to and they sit around with brandy and a monocle laughing maniacally about how they got away with not paying taxes.

  They’ll spend more money on avoiding paying taxes then actually paying the taxes which in and of itself is… Evil.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oneiric | AI Sci-Fi Short Film | Higgsfield Originals (2026)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol. They don’t like AI around here. It was good though.

  Most people don’t understand that media like this isn’t just a prompt put into grok. It’s 100s of hours of actual work, scripting voice acting editing and a pipeline of different applications and programs to achieve something like this.

  Gossip.goblin on YouTube is ridiculously good. Highly recommend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doesn't add up⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Jesus Christ. You calling me stupid is like a participation trophy calling someone unsuccessful.

  And you responded to me jackass. You don’t want to talk to me block me and go back to eating paint chips under the overpass.

  Also, what the fuck does your friend’s bank statement have to do with overhead costs for daycares?

  You realize your comment sounds so incredibly dumb that I thought English was your second language. And don’t tell me you did that shit on purpose. You didn’t. You’re just stupid.

  Jesus fucking Christ you’re what’s wrong with the world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨onions⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m 40 and I hate just about everything about onions. I can’t stand the taste the smell the texture especially.

  The thing I have to grow up about is that there can’t be food without them there would be no flavor. So unfortunate… I love food and I hate onions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to get attention around here.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes but you’re capitalizing on the uploads. 😀

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨92% of American adults aren’t going to a doctor because they cannot afford it. The health insurance industry must be dissolved & all of its executives criminally prosecuted for murder, conspiracy, an…⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly. There was an arrival on here that said that self check out saved grocery stores 300 billion dollars a year when total revenue for the entire grocery industry is a trillion dollars.

  This sub needs significantly better fact checking and moderation. This is obviously a nonsense article with a nonsense number with a % sign after it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Housing prices⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Nothing broke everything worked exactly as it was supposed to.

  This is what corporatocracy looks like. Absolutely no regulation or control over the industries that sell things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doesn't add up⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sandra?

  I’m going to give you the benefit of the doubt and the fact that English isn’t your first language that this was some kind of spelling or auto correct error or translation issue and not some sort of feeble attempt to emasculate me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time flies⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  20 years ago was 2006. This came out in 1991.

  Sorry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When y'all gonna learn⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re never going to change their minds. That’s not the point. The point is to push back against them. So people who see the interaction will see the rebuttal and the pushback against the insanity. That’s the important part.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doesn't add up⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know what country you’re in. I’m in America and that’s what I was basing my comment on. Which is what the original post was commenting on.

  Maybe in your country it’s different and overhead for daycare is Non-Existent… I don’t know.

  In any case your disbelief doesn’t make my statement untrue unless you can bake up your claims with some kind of evidence. Instead of “nuh-uh”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's one cliche "Moral of the story" in media that you hate more than anything else?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A great power comes great responsibility.

  Yeah I get it unless you’re a morally corrupt psychopath.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hmmm⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  AND YOU GET AN UPVOTE!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hmmm⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You get an upvote!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how to cut aluminum pipe with hardly any comments about flock cameras⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Those who give up Liberty for safety deserve neither.

  Write that down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Certified post about shit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Dawg. There is no way in 40 years of life have you never taken a naked dook. No way.

  I’m sure as a child it must have happened.

  And before a shower, or in the middle of the night.

  I’m calling bs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Certified post about shit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I am also currently naked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Certified post about shit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But if you do take an emergency dookie at the Chevron you still get naked right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doesn't add up⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re trying to say that parents need a second job or supplemental income to pay for daycare you might be correct. Maybe, probably this does happen. I don’t know. But that has nothing to do with what I was saying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doesn't add up⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What? Nothing you said was ironic… Or made any sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doesn't add up⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually can.

  The daycare my kid goes to is considered a cheap one. It’s $1,000 a month for my son because he’s three, and it’s even less for older children.

  They have about 15 kids enrolled, including two or three babies they care for.

  I’m guessing they bring in around $15,000 a month in revenue. They have four employees. Three of them are probably making around $20 an hour, and one manager is likely making a little more than that. Four employees working 40 hours a week is already consuming most of the revenue they bring in each month.

  Maybe I’m missing a lot of variables here, but when you add in rent, utilities, insurance, food, supplies, licensing, maintenance, and everything else it takes to keep the business running, it doesn’t seem like there’s much left. Aside from payroll, they’re probably making very little, maybe only a couple thousand dollars a month in profit.

  Businesses like daycares and nursing homes, anything that provides quasi-medical care, generally make very little profit. They’re there to fill an essential need, not necessarily to generate massive profits like you see with many internet businesses.

  I’d even argue that if you doubled tuition to $2,000 a month, it wouldn’t dramatically increase how much money they actually make. Higher wages, insurance, regulatory compliance, facilities, food, equipment, and other operating costs would still consume a significant portion of that additional revenue.

  They take care of kids man… It’s a hard job and they’re already getting paid bullshit for it.

  Like I said in my original comment, if you want to change this, we need to change it from the fundamentals, not the business model itself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hanging plants⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Dude. Fuck the internet 🤣🤣🤣🤣 how did you… Never mind!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doesn't add up⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, no, it can’t.

  But I don’t disagree with you. We let things get totally out of control.

  What we need is sweeping legislation, and it needs to start with the legislators themselves: term limits, harsher penalties for abuse of power, and reforms to executive authority, especially the use of executive orders.

  Lobbying should be outlawed entirely. It should be illegal for elected officials to trade, own, or even discuss individual stocks.

  There also need to be much stricter limits on what corporations can do and how much market power they can accumulate.

  Did you know the U.S. has some of the weakest antitrust enforcement among developed countries? You know why? Lobbying by corporations that want to become monopolies. It’s complete insanity.

  And the worst part is they’ve figured out ways to limit the American people’s ability to speak out against it. Most major media is owned by large corporations. People are drowning in debt and diabetes. Sports are on around the clock across multiple channels. We’re distracted. We’re unhealthy, and we’re uneducated.

  To add insult to injury, a small minority of people have somehow been convinced that their race is more important than others’ in a country made up of people from every race and background.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doesn't add up⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve said for years that daycares and nursing homes are extremely expensive, and they’re probably not charging enough. The profit margins for both of these businesses are extremely thin.

  I think posts like this are narrow-minded because they don’t take into consideration the cost of operating these kinds of facilities.

  Fundamentally, the reason daycares and nursing homes are so expensive is because the overhead is insane, much like in the American healthcare industry. A portable X-ray machine at a hospital can cost over $100,000, and even the metal slab they slide under you can cost around $10,000.

  These machines don’t cost nearly that much to produce. The manufacturers are milking the system.

  My gas company charges a minimum monthly fee. I’ve never paid less than $70, no matter how little gas I use.

  If you want to make these kinds of services cheaper, especially in America, you have to start with the fundamentals and bring down the cost of the things these businesses are forced to buy and pay for.