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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Delicious⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh …. Then I remember all those cakes I made as a kid with my moms help were so much better than crap from a grocery, but I no longer have time or practice to fonthst

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is what Democratic voters are saying. Will the party listen?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And yet we can afford $T tax cuts for the wealthy.

  Or I know, maybe there’s a cause and effect here

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We can save Social Security. Scrap the Cap!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s stick with that: “scrap”. You know they’ll eventually “compromise” by raising the cap a little, putting the onus on people who earn just a little more without actually affecting the wealthy. Thats not ok. At some point wealthy people need to pay their share

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The size decrease of fast-food over the last 5 years.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Compared to chicken from other fast food restaurants, it’s top of the line. I don’t even like it but it’s so much better than I’ll like McDonald’s, burger thing, windys

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Screw you peasants⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t get it either. Maybe people closer to median income think six figures is well off but it’s really not anymore. None of the people i know with six figure income think they’re well off, especially not in an expensive state like Massachusetts.

  As a society we do a poor job of providing for our people, so there’s always another fee or subscription or tax. There’s always another person looking for a tip or to extract a profit from your needs

  We had decades of headlines about the orange clown being someone you wouldn’t trust to make money from a casino, honor a contract, or pay the taxes he owed . He was always a grifter and narcissist, always considered himself above laws and regulations . Maybe all those years of negative headlines never went as nationwide as I thought but anyone in ny, nj, New England area knew what he was and have no excuse

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Screw you peasants⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I was just watching a video on that jet …… I knew it was a scam that the government was paying for so the orange clown can take it with him, but …… apparently he just want to use it as decoration to build a hotel around

  Which is another scam …… typical donors pay for a presidential library or museum but he doesn’t want those. He expects donors to pay to build him a hotel to keep enriching himself through politics

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Screw you peasants⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean there’s a lot of truth to that. I was always skeptical that Bernie could work well with others enough to be productive, since he’s spent so much of his long career standing against every politician

  Then the weird part is there was a surprisingly large overlap of people who supported both Bernie and the orange clown. So strange when you’re thinking opposite gaols, but perhaps it’s just that both were outside the establishment

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Screw you peasants⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like 2024 was such a pivotal year. Economy going well inflation getting under control, interest rates falling. We were finally investing a little in our infrastructure, our future. Progress toward getting college costs under controlEV sales and renewable energy were gangbusters, record amounts of public land protected from drilling. The 2035 goal for many states to phase out new combustion vehicles looked achievable. Federal state and local incentives were helping more homeowners switch away from fossil fuels, to even free solar for low income. More locally we had passed a millionaires tax going toward transit improvements and free school lunch. Some amount of free public university…… it was a great time to be alive!

  We had made so much progress that 2024 was the first time in my life I thought America was ready for a progressive

  I was so very very wrong

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why can't I change the terms and conditions in a pre-signed contract with a corpo?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A significant counter example is click wrap. You can’t see the terms before you buy and you can’t reject it and get your money back.

  Every instance of trying to set terms after purchase should be unenforceable in any just society

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why can't I change the terms and conditions in a pre-signed contract with a corpo?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the argument that it shouldn’t be an enforceable contract. The company is unilaterally establishing terms with no opportunity to negotiate, which is not a valid contract. Unfortunately it seems to be treated as one in our dystopia

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boys will be boys⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m surprised I haven’t heard this happening from my teens. They’re not especially into junk or fast food, but do like lean proteins: eating an entire rotisserie chicken each would be entirely consistent, and cheaper.

  The only unrealistic thing here is that I almost never see that many chickens out on the warming shelves at one time

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you use the "uno reverse card"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That was our one customization

  • normally we draw one, following the rules
  • if we’re in more of a hurry, draw until you match can make the game faster
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you use the "uno reverse card"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never heard of anyone playing like that. My understanding was inline with the rules.

  • reverse just reverses order
  • but that means I can now attack you next time around
  • you can no longer attack me (assuming more than two people playing)
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doesn't add up⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So true. When we had our second kid, we found the cost of daycare for two younger ones was approaching her salary as a teacher. That’s ridiculous. Luckily I made enough to support us and she always said she didn’t mind staying home to care for them, but most people probably can’t afford that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doesn't add up⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Supposedly “The Villages” in Florida has phased life care where you can live in a setting for the care you need, then move up to more care as needed.

  This is directly from a friend, so I don’t know the facts behind it, but also the claim that it makes in-home care much cheaper. You not only have appropriate settings for the care you need but there’s a lot of them in one spot, and of course it’s Florida so the caregivers are probably exploited to hell and back, so it’s all cheaply available.

  While there’s a lot of negativity to that specific retirement area, I really think they have something by doing it at scale

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doesn't add up⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As counterpoint, I know at least a couple home daycares, which were more convenient and less expensive for their customers but:

  • my aunt had an unhealthy basement rec room after multiple floods, and was not very mobile

  • an old college friend had gone conservative and refused to either get Covid vaccinations or to require any vaccinations of their customers. Can you imagine if you found out you were sending your kids to a germ factory where any kid could have anything?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doesn't add up⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Like a group home?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why have we as a society just accepted the increasingly blinding bright lights of cars?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, same logic as car brains, same continuously escalating arms race. Fuck everyone else

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨📡📡📡⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can tell she’s not beautiful because she doesn’t have highly styled fluffed up hair or a plunging neckline. If you want a depiction of very unattractive, she’d be wearing glasses

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We cornin⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s just regular corn after the grill has had a flare up

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ticket windows are always outside (where I am). You don’t even get into the lobby without a ticket

  I suppose that’s where advertising the popcorn with chemical pee is important: the movie brought you in, now is the time to extract profit. But that doesn’t work if they’re not getting people in

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with the other guy here. I don’t go to the movies often so have no reason to keep up with what is showing. While I know how to look it up, why would I?

  Yes, I am an example where advertising what is showing some place I can see it with no friction could make a difference in whether I go

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come people have so called "sex addiction"? So much they have rehab places for it. Why not just masturbate and be done with it?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I suppose it depends on your definition but you start calling it as an addiction, treating it as a problem, when it interferes with your life.

  By all means, have all the sex you want in whatever variety you want, but it’s an addiction, a problem, when you decide it to the detriment of something else. It’s a problem if it interferes with work or home life or social life or hobbies, or if it causes harm to yourself or others.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s usually a signat the ticket booth. Maybe it’s alone, maybe title only,maybe it’s only visible from being at the window …. It’s generally not useful to pick an unexpected/unknown movie.

  A good movie poster shows a snapshot of the genre, the basic plot, the main characters, all of which I might use to pick a movie

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This may also be why they overly focus on blockbusters. Without traditional means of seeing what’s playing, I’m only aware of a movie if it’s been heavily advertised. You’d think trying the cheap route would be … cheaper

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess I’m not the target demographic either then. I don’t think I ever was really, but as a parent of teens, if I do go in, it’s likely to be a family’s worth of tickets.

  Maybe you think the rest of us are a minority that doesn’t matter but it seems short sighted to disregard potential customers

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I usually goto the theater for a specific show, usually buy the ticket online ….

  BUT, there are times, such as when I didn’t get a ticket ahead of time and my show is sold out, where I’m in front of the theater deciding whether to go in. It I see an interesting looking movie, I might see that. If the food advertising worked, it would have the opposite of the intended effect “why don’t we goto a restaurant instead ?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That may be so, but the popcorn with chemical “pee” has never been what pulls in customers. The movies were always the draw, even if food was the profit. Advertising that food seems short-sighted: who cares if you sell popcorn to a higher percentage of customers but you’re pulling in fewer customers

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I just discovered a new function on my car - when I listen to music, a small rectangle appears with audio controls …… apparently it a tile that can be scrolled left and right to see other data. I never would have thought to try that if I didn’t read it somewhere, no visual cues