Maggoty
@Maggoty@lemmy.world
- Comment on I just learned 37% of Americans fear vaccinating their dog will cause the dog to develop autism. 😐 3 days ago:
Even if that’s true.
Autism
Or
Rabies
What the actual fuck?
- Comment on Feeding my family alone is expensive. I can't afford to feed all of y'all. 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think many people realize that cost of living has increased so much that the lifestyle we used to associate with the middle class now isn’t available until 100k without kids or significantly more with kids. Income for the 0-89th percentile has gone down in real terms for decades. 90th to 99th has held stagnant against inflation. Only that top 1 percent has been beating inflation, and they’ve been really beating it. Rand estimated that there’s been a transfer of something like 47 Trillion USD (not a typo) from the rest of us into the top 1 percent since 1975.
- Comment on Feeding my family alone is expensive. I can't afford to feed all of y'all. 2 weeks ago:
Anyone who thinks this was the norm also thinks that women didn’t enter the workforce until World War 2. The real story here is how cost of living is now coming for echelons of society that didn’t have to worry about it before because greedy billionaires require multiple super yachts and support vessels.
- Comment on The poop psa absolutely no one asked for 7 months ago:
From what I can find you’re talking about sale pricing. Which also happens to other proteins.
- Comment on The poop psa absolutely no one asked for 7 months ago:
I’d love to know where you live that one of the most marketable pieces of pork is cheaper than chicken and ground beef. Because that would be amazing.
- Comment on The poop psa absolutely no one asked for 7 months ago:
Pork loin is 7 dollars a pound. Ground beef is cheaper. Chicken or tofu are by far the cheapest proteins.
And I’m sorry but you cannot survive on spinach, oranges, pork, rice, and beans. Not to mention that rice is a 20 minute cook and dried beans take literal hours.
You can’t just say something is cheap when the knock is time, money, and mental energy. You sound like those yuppis born into money, just telling people to buy a house to get on the financial freedom train.
- Comment on The poop psa absolutely no one asked for 8 months ago:
It’s really not cheap. We have the studies about how it’s more expensive and about how food deserts exist. And time? Lmao. You get home from an 8-5 job at 6-7 depending on your commute. Which means you have 2-3 hours for relaxation, food, exercise, social activity, bills, and house chores before you have to go to sleep so you can get 8 hours.
And expecting someone to work all day and still have abundant mental energy is just pure toxic positivity. That’s not the experience of most people. We also have historical studies showing we didn’t “work” as much in pre-industrial times and that with the rise of shift work comes the rise of prepared food as a calorie source.
The answer here is plainly to regulate the prepared food, not blame people for their lack of a pocket universe operating on a different timescale.
- Comment on The poop psa absolutely no one asked for 8 months ago:
That takes money, time, and mental energy. None of which are in high supply for most people working shift jobs or 8-5. The best personal solution is to make and freeze your meals on your off day so you can just heat them up whenever. The best systemic solution is to guillotine a capitalist for producing toxic food that masquerades as healthy and delicious, then ask the others if they have any questions about the new food regulations.
This is far less of a problem in other countries. We don’t have to let corporations treat us as an exploitable resource.
- Comment on America is fucked 8 months ago:
There are cities that use medics on motor bikes for this exact reason. They can’t evac someone but getting there quickly to use a defibrillator or control bleeding could make a difference.
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 8 months ago:
That’s part of my point now though, he’s going to have the very best and about ten times the people on the job as compared to his security detail back then.
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 8 months ago:
I mean, it takes all kinds right? A desire to go out big can manifest in so many ways and he didn’t go after an A list actor, or a CEO, or any number of other high profile people. There is a reason he decided on Trump, even if his original impetus was suicide.
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 8 months ago:
Marketing aside, any normative young person can pass boot camp. (And basic training) The military gets worried when the pass rates for those courses gets low. Versus keeping pass rates low for schools like special squirrel.
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 8 months ago:
It’s hard to say. He’s definitely closer to it than any president since JFK. But security is way better these days. And before the FBI comes knocking on my door, this is just an objective analysis.
We’ve already had a shooter with a near miss. So clearly there’s the will to do this among some segment of the population. Probably a conservative who feels betrayed or person who is truly far left, (not just a progressive).
However, security during the campaign and for JFK was a lot less than it is now. It’s going to be a lot harder to get close enough with a rifle. If you think of a plan the USAA has already thought about it and probably has a counter of some sort.
So while he’s definitely the closest, I don’t think we’ll see another president assassinated unless they do something truly stupid like gut the USSS.
- Comment on Help i am STUCK! 8 months ago:
Yup
- Comment on Friendly reminder 8 months ago:
Jokes on them. I got a hard time for a formation in hell.
- Comment on while we were watching for threat from China, here comes Philippines with a steel chair! 8 months ago:
You could look at it as them building future US military bases…
- Comment on How to love 8 months ago:
I had to check the sub. I was loading the proverbial shotgun. You got me OP. :)
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 8 months ago:
Hand washing clothes with a scrub board.
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 8 months ago:
Hello officer? I’d like to report a suspicious person in my retirement community!
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 8 months ago:
I get zero points. Elder millennials rally at the landline we’ll have two drinks and fall asleep at 10pm!
- Comment on Heyyy! 8 months ago:
Well yeah. Once you’re famous enough that’s what a short appearance in a show is called.
- Comment on If these mother fuckers are trying to make me pay for Healthcare to talk to fucking ChatGPT I swear to god ChatGPT is going to write me so many scripts for opioids its won't be funny. 8 months ago:
Shock implants. Mandatory at birth.
- Comment on If these mother fuckers are trying to make me pay for Healthcare to talk to fucking ChatGPT I swear to god ChatGPT is going to write me so many scripts for opioids its won't be funny. 8 months ago:
Oh post money gay space communism is only available for billionaires. Every one else has to starve.
- Comment on Now that's an interesting question 8 months ago:
That’s interesting and all but many Spanish speaking people have had family on this side of the border since California was a Mexican territory.
- Comment on Now that's an interesting question 8 months ago:
For reference, San Diego and Tijuana back right up to each other and have one of the busiest border crossings in the country.
You’re going to hear Spanish there.
- Comment on They know I'm not cool, I know I'm not cool. Cool. 8 months ago:
You don’t make faces at them? If it gets out of hand you could always hold up a sign that says, “gEt GoOd sCrUb!”
- Comment on Why aren't there mass protests in the USA? 8 months ago:
There are. I’ve been to a few. They don’t get covered by the media.
- Comment on Late 1900s 8 months ago:
I’ll just be over here checking into an assisted living home. Don’t mind me.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
What will people do there? The same thing people have done for 10,000 years. Alcohol, sex, and games.
- Comment on The gentrified forest near me removed the bins. .. From their café/picnic area 8 months ago:
That’s not how human behavior works…
Someone thinks they’re very clever and they aren’t.