LifeInMultipleChoice
@LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
- Comment on Time for a road trip 1 day ago:
Shit I forgot. Cigarettes are 21 now as well I believe.
- Comment on Time for a road trip 1 day ago:
Are there any respectable places in Tennessee that you can’t buy both beer and guns? I mean hell, Walmart is supposed to be the low bar. If you can get a 12 pack, a shot gun and a few hundred shells and walk out without needing anything but an ID showing your 18, well this ain’t America
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- Comment on turned them into their final form! 3 days ago:
Never seen those before, I expected you were going to show the other things on the rollers, toquidos rollers or what not? Not sure
They usually have: Hot dogs (pork/beef/jalapenos/cheese) Sausages of some kind Buffalo chicken rollers or such Toquidos Jamaican beef patties
All of which are not very good, unless you are drunk, then you don’t understand why you don’t eat them more.
- Comment on turned them into their final form! 3 days ago:
Well it’s good to know they came out as expected
- Comment on That's not oxidized plastic... 1 week ago:
The object, of the substance. The object appears to be a cars windshield wiper, I would say blinker, but it’s on the right. As for the substance covering it, fucking no idea
- Comment on Is this what every election is like? 2 weeks ago:
A whole lot of “not state rights” are coming
- Comment on "The American experiment endures," Biden said. "We're going to be OK." 2 weeks ago:
I mean, what part of that is a communist idea? And of course they are all inventions that we are trying. Every country around the world is hoping their government system works best for their population. That said they are all for the most part different.
- Comment on Realistically... How fucked is the US? 2 weeks ago:
The lowest energy costs are in solar and renewables, which he has promised to slash all investments that Biden put into place for those. So energy costs would go up long term…not down. Also the impact on the environment will be more for fossil fuels so it will cost more to clean up long term. (more expensive, not cheaper)
As for cutting taxes on Social Security, what is it going to do? He’s also mentioned cut backs to social security, but we haven’t seen any numbers for it, so we don’t know yet. We do know Obama tried to up the the salary limit for minimum wage from 23,000 to over 47k but the Republican courts blocked it. Then Trump set it at 35k. Biden has upped it to 55,000. Trump has said he wants to bring that back down. You know, because all those hard working Americans who make 40k a year don’t deserve to make overtime I guess.
- Comment on Haters will say it’s fake 2 weeks ago:
I agree with you. Born and raised in Florida, moved to Tennessee. I was one of those who didn’t want Biden, but was afraid taking him out of the race would escalate sexist/racist voters to sway. I think we can clearly say it swayed about 10 million people who previously voted for Biden.
Harris would have been a better president long term for this country, Biden got shit done. Now we are in the end of times. I’m no Democrat, but fuck did I hope they could pull off a win. 10m also is likely the number of people who will be murdered in Ukraine if all our support is pulled. Fortunately Putin and Trump don’t give 2 fucks about people, so they will work the long game and he will settle in first, and slowly pull away the blanket. And the dumbasses who voted for him will keep choking on the blanket trying to claim it isn’t true. Russia stepped back and settled in for the long war how long ago? The long game is for them now.
Iran will keep kicking them everything they need, what they don’t have, China will. Flip side is Israel. If Trump doesn’t get his family’s waterside properties they scoped values on in Gaza a few years ago… Israel will be left to the wolves as well. And don’t worry, just like last time, Hitrump doesn’t dislike Jews, it’s just good for his business. And no business matters but his
- Comment on Realistically... How fucked is the US? 2 weeks ago:
The first year will be him living off Bidens reduction of inflation. EVERY policy Trump has discussed increases prices. So we will have hyper inflation.
Name One policy he has discussed that will cut costs in his 4 years please.
- Comment on Why is it difficult to get low-level remote jobs 2 weeks ago:
I got paid a lot more than that doing similar for a while before the pandemic. Since the pandemic companies got caught up in the forcing people back into offices for no reason. When you are assisting people across the nation and there is information that cannot be allowed to be accessed outside it, they have to keep the jobs in the country to keep government contracts. There is no point in hiring someone in the city and have them drive in when it costs more to live in the city, it’s cheaper to pay someone who lives further away.
Why pay someone $35 an hour in a city that they can barely afford to live in and are always looking for a way out the door to find a better rate, when you can hire someone elsewhere who can live comfortably off $35 an hour and considers themselves lucky.
I spent 3 years with a company that I never went into an office once.
- Comment on Why did the pope announce anime mascots? 2 weeks ago:
Im getting dorra the explorer vibes. But maybe since they see how well shows like Bluey captivate a young audience, it make sense they would want in.
Animated characters allow for the bright flashy lights that keep attention of kids while also allowing you to not use a person who is fallible. You never have to worry about a person doing something nafarious in their personal life and it staining their organization. (Subway, Papa Johns, Sham Wow).
They are a company that basis their decisions on profits after all.
- Comment on Why is the term "bloodline" often used instead of "family tree"? 3 weeks ago:
When your family tree looks like a christmas wreath you understand why some of the lights are flickering.
- Comment on Most of the trick-or-treaters have been skipping my house, and I finally figured out why 3 weeks ago:
I moved to this place 2 years ago starting a lease on November 1st. Got here a day early, so third Halloween. Bought candy both of the first 2 years, and never got a knock on the door. Figured they just don’t do it in this area, all going to local Halloween events or such. So I didn’t buy candy this year, and poof sudden knocks on the door and I felt like absolute poop telling the kids sorry. Waited till they got down the drive and turned off the entry light so no one knocked after. I’m guessing since it rained all night (including when they came) some of the Halloween events may have been canceled, which made the kids finally come trick or treating… leaving me tricked and the kids without treats.
- Comment on American house 3 weeks ago:
Neanderthals were fairly progressive, mancaves came later.
- Comment on American house 3 weeks ago:
Id imagine it exists everywhere the Catholic Church went. Most places likely didn’t commercialize it to people like we did though.
Think it’s called All Saints day in some places
- Comment on Where does a man get a proper shoe horn that will not break 3 weeks ago:
My grandparents from Poland, and my grandparents from Italy had them, my parents and brother have them. I’ve never owned them. But I grew up in Florida, so you don’t need them for flip flops
- Comment on How come people who are against abortion are in favor of the death penalty? Kind of seems like a contradicition/ 4 weeks ago:
So was the guy they executed the other day right? So innocence might not be it either
- Comment on Why are peole hating on .world? 1 month ago:
Yeah that makes more sense when I re-read it. I was tired, I know there is basically subs mocking the abuses on Reddit, but didn’t know of one for Twitter, so I figured I’d ask. Elon is on to many posts for sure, so they could have just meant any technology sub being used to talk about his crazy.
- Comment on Why are peole hating on .world? 1 month ago:
Haha nah, when I first got to Lemmy I created an account on .ml, then .ca, made one on hexbear to understand who they were, one in world, and finally one on dbzero. Figured it couldn’t hurt to find a community of people that was nice. Oh wait, forgot fedia.io when I wanted to figure out what they meant by seeing upvotes/downvotes and who was making them so I could understand more about the interworking of the instances.
- Comment on Why are peole hating on .world? 1 month ago:
Left of center: means of production owned by the public.
Right of center: means of production owned by private companies.
Democrats and Republicans are both capitalists, they are right. What you may have been confused by is what the term liberal means to others. Liberalism at its core is government that leaves the people be while not trampling on the majorities will. It is intrinsically capitalistic as well. Locke… Franklin… whoever you really look at. France has a lot to look at there.
So in the U.S. we misuse the term to call democrats leftists, as leftists would view them as right of center. Center being the 0 point.
- Comment on Why are peole hating on .world? 1 month ago:
What lies are said about Twitter?
- Comment on Why are peole hating on .world? 1 month ago:
You can just create another account in another instance and run them side by side in a singular app. Switching back and forth is simple. I have a couple, reasons can vary, one would be that .world decided to take pirating communities off, to protect themselves. Whether they needed to or not, doesn’t matter, it’s their choice. I just hop to another instance to see those, but most of the content will be the same for me across instances because I haven’t hunted to much for new subs. Probably should eventually.
- Comment on If Republicans have Project 2025. Why don't Democrats have their own guide book? 1 month ago:
They didn’t put one out for 2020, and said “same as 2016” I haven’t looked at their new one.
- Comment on If Trump loses the election and flees to another country to avoid his sentencing in his (multiple) lawsuits, does the Secret Service have to go with him? 1 month ago:
I imagine they would just arrest him and hand him over for protection. Any member who allowed it would be breaking their oath and supporting an enemy of the state at that point would they not?
- Comment on Important information 1 month ago:
Yet I still eat soup with a fork when I can. I eat the contents, then drink the broth from the bowl. I’m a tad in the wackadoo side maybe
- Comment on Every show with a suicide now has a disclaimer with a suicide hotline at the beginning. Is there any evidence that these warnings make a positive difference? 2 months ago:
It’s been argued for years, The section about involuntary placement was to long to copy and paste here but here is the bill:
The section one would argue unlawful is 1394.467 www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=D…
- Comment on Every show with a suicide now has a disclaimer with a suicide hotline at the beginning. Is there any evidence that these warnings make a positive difference? 2 months ago:
You lose the ability to refuse treatments in any scenario the emergency responders / doctors deem you unfit to make a decision in the best interest of your/someone else health. It’s why “baker acting” in Florida is so controversial. Taking someone against their will and locking them in a facility for a minimum time without any real need of evidence.
Someone calling and telling them you said you were going to kill yourself is often all the evidence they need to start the process, whether they really said that is up to the emergency responders. For my friends that was 9 cop cars in the middle of the night. They dragged him out of bed at 4am because his partner at the time said he hadn’t been responding to her texts and she told them he was depressed so he might kill himself.
Once he got out he told me about it all and I’m fairly certain he won’t ever sleep with his phone on silent/vibrate again. (He broke up with them immediately after, but that has nothing to do with consent)
- Comment on Every show with a suicide now has a disclaimer with a suicide hotline at the beginning. Is there any evidence that these warnings make a positive difference? 2 months ago:
Tone matters, like the difference between telling someone they should consider seeing a therapist, and telling someone they need a therapist.
In text it is still hard, but convincing someone to talk to a professional (not saying they are all doctors or something) because you don’t feel equipped to handle the situation on your own shouldn’t be devastating if you go through a small course like that. Never taken one but just off the cuff I’d say offering to call with them and staying for the conversation until you/they agree they feel comfortable carrying on with the help line or what not on their own before walking away would probably be a decent step in the right direction.
