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- Comment on This is what those who experienced 9/11 look like today 17 minutes ago:
I need some of these 🖕🖕 with age spots apparently…
- Comment on *Damn you all to hell!* 1 day ago:
The old Toys R Us are too old and poorly maintained now if they are still empty. The Spirit Halloween is now at the old Rite-aide.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
I am pretty sure it just counts as annoying, distracting, and fucking stupid.
- Comment on Rich ppl live longer 1 week ago:
The amount of shit science being published today is appalling. It’s always been a significant issue, but it has gotten worse with time. I have read articles published in the top journals who’s methodology should have made a 1st year graduate student cringe. I have no idea how they made it past peer review and were published.
- Comment on German joke 1 week ago:
Haven’t been there yet so I don’t know. I’ll go find out if you want to sponsor me.
- Comment on Emo music 🔥🔥🔥 1 week ago:
A real punk fan would tell you “I’m Cool” but you need to “Fuck Youself”, “I Hate You”, and “Go Away”.
- Comment on German joke 1 week ago:
German humor is usually not funny and a bit mean.
The Dutch have compensated for their neighbors with an over-developed sense of humor.
- Comment on Almost 38 & This Is Where I'm At Now 1 week ago:
I’ve climbed the corporate ladder and traveled all over the world until I got near the top where the nepotism is thick. Said ‘fuck that’ and bailed out early.
New plan: “Work for myself.” Took me a decade to get here because of little things like health care and capital.
Been on my own for almost 2 years now and it is glorious.
- Comment on Waiting and getting treated is better than waiting and going bankrupt 1 week ago:
The first thing I noticed when I was over in europe 30 years ago, is the hospital waiting rooms are small compared to American standards in larger cities.
The reason: routine non-emergency care is handled at the clinics because those are free/inexpensive too. So emergency rooms tend to have less traffic as people don’t wait as long for care. Earlier intervention = better health outcomes.
The regular clinics had very short wait times. You could get a routine appointment within a few days. The clinic was busy but you weren’t waiting for 2-3 hours for a regular appointment. (Maybe 15 minutes).
- Comment on Every payment option has a fee 2 weeks ago:
My wife worked in Insurance for a while. The companies tend to follow two two business models:
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Advertise like crazy to get new business in. Then refuse to payout claims and pay substandard rates. Lose customers as quickly as you gain them. Mitigate these losses by having 100’s of brand names/shell companies to mask your activities.
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Do minimal advertising and rely on word of mouth and sales distribution network. Pay out fairly and give decent customer service.
Generally any company that you recognize the name from advertising is going to fuck you over. Most of the other company names you’ve never heard of are the same companies trying to fuck you over.
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- Comment on New Delhi - during lockdown vs now 2 weeks ago:
They also got more exercise as more of the population was engaged in physical labor (women’s land army) and factory work to produce food and war goods.
- Comment on World record 💯 3 weeks ago:
Let’s see what requirement in parenting skills/knowledge are in order to have kids.
Requirements to have children:
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Functional gonads.
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P in V sex.
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Not quite 10 months incubation time. (Yeah the 9 months is a lie got repeated several times the last few weeks before delivery by my wife).
Welp that sums it up: No parenting skills or knowledge required.
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- Comment on YUM 3 weeks ago:
Back a long time ago I ended up in meetings with Mount Olive. There I met one of the plant managers in North Carolina. He gave me a tour of the pickle plant. Of course between the sound of the equipment, his gnarly thick southern accent, and the giant wad of chew in his mouth, I have no fucking clue what he said.
Oh and don’t eat the relish. Seriously just don’t. The things I saw that went into the relish…
- Comment on It's great to see a politician that's progressive and Not a Millionaire. 3 weeks ago:
It was designed so that wealthy landowners could attend sessions more easily. Just like the u.s. senate does not represent the population, but the land area. The writers of the national and state constitutions were almost all wealthy landowners.
In my opinion, given the size of the population and the complexity of the economy, full time politicians who are paid very well combined with draconian anti-graft laws are needed.
- Comment on It's great to see a politician that's progressive and Not a Millionaire. 3 weeks ago:
Most elected positions don’t pay enough in the U.S. today. This is expecially true in state legislature where most politicians start before attempting a national run. The only people who can afford to run for underpaid positions are either independently wealthy or corrupt. For example let’s look at some of the most corrupt states in the U.S.
Texas - state senators & representatives $7,200 salary and $221/per diem when in session.
Louisiana- senator and representatives $16,800 + $178/per diem and $6000 slush fund.
Utah - state senators and representatives $0 salary and $301/per diem.
Nevada - State senators and representatives $0 salary and $130/per diem.
This lack of pay for positions is deliberate to keep “working class” out of government. It lead to open corruption and conflict of interest being normalized.
- Comment on How do people easily find out that I'm an easy to pick up on? 3 weeks ago:
Your coworkers called it out but you did not. So the aggressors thought “you are fine with it.”
Social nuances are difficult to manage. When social ribbing goes to far you have to learn to set limits.
The key is to show that you are displeased with their behavior and address it immediately.
“What the hell, not cool.”
“That’s an asshole thing to say.”
“That’s not necessary.”
“That’s inappropriate”
Non-verbally you can just give them a stare, then frown, and slowly shake your head. Treat them like a naughty child getting in trouble with the teacher.
Once you communicate your limits, it sets boundaries for them to be comfortable with.
If they don’t stop. You can get much more aggressive.
“Just a moment, my lawyer wants me to write down what you say as soon as I can for the harassment lawsuit.” Said with a big innocent smile, this scares the shit out of most people.
- Comment on Those moutains are so quaint 3 weeks ago:
South America looks at both and snorts… “You call those mountains!!” These babies are started with the breakup of Pangea and are still growing.
First time I was flying into Santiago, I was amazed when we hit 3,000m and looked way up at the mountains out the window.
- Comment on Those moutains are so quaint 3 weeks ago:
I just died.
- Comment on Dodo Had Surprisingly Keen Sense of Smell and Owl-Like Vision, New Study Reveals | Sci.News 4 weeks ago:
Like in other places, the sailors introduced non-native species into a closed ecosystem.
they introduced other animals, including dogs, pigs, cats, rats, and crab-eating macaques, which plundered dodo nests and competed for the limited food resources.
- Comment on We can save Social Security. Scrap the Cap! 4 weeks ago:
Slight modification.
For SS the employer and employee pay 50/50. So the actual number is double that.
If they lifted the cap the person making $5,176,000 would pay $731,369
- Comment on No one could have seen this coming 1 month ago:
If what I want to buy is under $200 and locked up, I usually go to another store to buy the item. I am not waiting for an employee to show up and unlock $200 item.
It often only takes a few months of huge losses in sales for the shelves to all be unlocked at a store.
- Comment on Progression 1 month ago:
Those are pretty decent results.
When I went to college my net worth was $0.
10 years later after college my net worth was -$45,000.
- Comment on Phew that was a close one 1 month ago:
My wife is a teacher to teenagers (high school). She gets called mom on a regular basis. Especially when she wakes one of them up from a little classroom nap. It happens often enough the kids don’t even give each other a hard time.
Now when they call her grandma… She doesn’t find that endearing.
- Comment on It's rigged 1 month ago:
They do murder brown people inside the country and nearby it’s borders as well.
- Comment on Fuck yea bro! 2 months ago:
Brings me back to how we sung a song in grade school. Edit out Ears with Balls and you get:
Do your balls hang low? Do they wobble to and fro? Can you tie them in a knot? Can you tie them in a bow? Can you swing them over your shoulder like a regimental soldier? Do your balls hang low?
- Comment on Molting 2 months ago:
The head is normal molting. The beak damage can be from mite.
- Comment on Molting 2 months ago:
Probably mites.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
My wife (146cm) can confirm that opinion (I am 190cm).
- Comment on Unexpected item in the bagging area! 2 months ago:
Shifting the bonus compensation to long-term performance instead of “this year or even this quarter” is surprisingly very difficult. People are trained to game the system. It’s how sales forces operate in most companies.
It doesn’t matter what system you implement, somebody is constantly attempting to figure out how to maximize their profit at the cost of everyone else.
The more money involved, the more convoluted the games are.
- Comment on Sprout 🌱 2 months ago:
That is a picture of cucumis melo.