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- Comment on How do people actually dumpster dive to get free food? Are there any other cheap/free ways like this to get food? 5 days ago:
There’s definitely some variance out there. Some managers care about their employees and have a conscience, which would make them more likely to sympathize with a hungry dude who can’t pay. Others are the typical Scrooge McDuck caricature and go out of their way to be cruel to others.
I think generally in my experience chain restaurant managers tend to get promoted from within the company and start at the lowest position, so they have more perspective on what it’s like to be at the bottom rung of society and have a bit more empathy for those who have unfortunately sunk even lower than that. Private business managers on the other hand, it depends. Some are guided by their own morality, while others have a chip on their shoulder about how they made it without help and so can everyone else (which is total nonsense, in order for there to be winners in capitalism, there must also necessarily be losers, so not everybody is going to make a success of themselves in that way no matter how much effort they expend).
- Comment on Why does the government of the USA stand by the country of Israel? 1 week ago:
As much as people hate to hear the “it’s complicated” answer in regards to anything regarding Israeli affairs, well, it’s pretty complicated… But to name a few reasons:
Religious fundamentalism/Zionism in the United States has been forcing politicians to take sides or else alienate their constituents - Christian fundamentalism is bizarrely in favor of a Jewish state because it fulfills their own doomsday prophecy, not for any logical reasons or out of a genuine desire to help the Jewish people.
Weapons manufacturers and arms dealers are lobbying to keep Israel as a partner considering they are almost always mired in some kind of conflict. It’s a multi billion dollar industry and the people who make guns, bombs, artillery shells and ammunition are not keen of giving up their cash cow.
Consider of course the historical ties and diplomatic agreements, which if flippantly broken send a message of unreliability to other allied nations (I’m not sure I totally agree with this one, as the USA is basically a schizo nation flipping back and forth once every 4-8 years between isolationism and globalism depending on which party holds office).
Lastly, since the Cold War, the USA has kept Israel close to project their own influence in the middle east. Countries like Egypt or Saudi Arabia would have to think twice about provoking the United States considering who their neighbor is. Great strategic location bordering the Mediterranean Sea that makes it easy for USA to get soldiers on the continent if it ever comes to that.
- Comment on How do people actually dumpster dive to get free food? Are there any other cheap/free ways like this to get food? 1 week ago:
A lot of restaurants end up throwing out food that would otherwise be perfectly edible.
If you’re a polite and patient individual, you might be able to build up some rapport with the owner or the workers. When my friend was in college, he could barely afford to feed himself most of the time. He was friendly with the cashier at a local fast food place and asked if they could set aside any orders that get sent back (due to being wrong) and give them to him instead of tossing them in the garbage. Not everybody will do this for you, but it’s worth asking. I think generally store employees and managers are sympathetic enough to not care about what happens to product that was destined for the garbage anyway so they typically agree.
- Comment on I am the thing that goes *thump* 'Fuck!' in the night 2 weeks ago:
You would have a step ledge
What are you doing step ledge? 🤭
- Comment on Just 2 people. 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, this was my first thought as well as soon as I read the image. We have tons and tons of literally empty housing units. Even if you take away the ones that are only temporarily vacant while searching for a new tenant, you’re still left with a bunch of housing units that sit empty, waiting to be flipped for a profit by real estate investors.
- Comment on Okay, but Mötley is a pretty awesome name. 1 month ago:
Didn’t some celebrity just name their kid Raddix?
I just Googled it, it was Cameron Diaz.
When I hear Raddix, I think Raditz from DBZ.
- Comment on Anon buys an air fryer 1 month ago:
They are fried. The store-bought kind are essentially just being reheated from frozen whether it’s in an oven or in an air fryer.
- Comment on Anon buys an air fryer 1 month ago:
The drawer-style air fryers are kinda dumb but the ones with the rotating basket on the inside really do cook french fries way better than you could in a regular oven spread out on a sheet pan and without having to heat up a bunch of oil in a pan to get similar texture.
- Comment on Will Smith Zombie Game No One Has Heard Of Bombs 1 month ago:
95% of the budget went to paying Will Smith.
- Comment on She did her best ok? 1 month ago:
I never appreciated this as a kid even though there was plenty of pizza to go around for everyone back then. If any teachers are in this thread reading this comment, thank you. Thank you. It does make a difference, even if it’s a small gesture.
- Comment on What are y'all buying on the steam sale? 1 month ago:
Night in the Woods is an okay story/adventure game, but man the soundtrack for that game is a real earworm. Years later now and some of the town jingles still pop into my head randomly. RIP to the composer who passed away way too young.
- Comment on Star Citizen's first-person shooting is getting backpack-reloading, dynamic crosshairs, procedural recoil, and other improvements to 'bring the FPS combat to AAA standard' 2 months ago:
Why don’t you show us all how it’s done, chief? Since you’re such a legal expert and all…
- Comment on Yep, makes sense 3 months ago:
I’m so not used to this not being accompanied by Bugs Bunny in a tuxedo with a flintlock pistol.
- Comment on Anon likes bikes 3 months ago:
For real. No matter how much I rode when I was really into cycling, I always got saddle sore pretty bad by the end of the session. Dunno why bike seats are designed so poorly in regards to comfort.
I’d still love a bike-centric infrastructure though.
- Comment on As if the tip actually goes to the dashers. 4 months ago:
We should really not be normalizing calling money paid in advance to not have your food arrive late/cold a “tip”. It’s extortion.
Tipping culture in America is fucked beyond belief. Pay everybody a fair wage and let’s get rid of tipping so nobody ever has to deal with this bullshit again.
- Comment on How to keep a man 4 months ago:
Raw chicken, maybe it’s been boiled if we’re being extremely generous.
Two different kinds of boxed macaroni and cheese.
Canned creamed corn, likely cold or lukewarm at best.
I’d maybe eat the mac, but since it’s touching a biohazard, probably not a good idea.
- Comment on A perfect article reading experience 4 months ago:
It will open Firefox or whatever your default browser is if you delete chrome or freeze it.
I’ve tried this solution and it doesn’t work. Chrome is running within the Google News app. Even if you modify Chrome on your phone to have adblockers, the version of the browser that Google News opens is unmodified.
- Comment on A perfect article reading experience 4 months ago:
Click where? If this is from an in-app web browser, like Google News for instance, there’s no way to link it back to Firefox AFAIK.
- Comment on And I will die on this hill. 4 months ago:
The only thing I could think of with the whole “1000 Mozarts” comment is that there’s a very real chance that if the world Musk and Bezos envision came true, those Mozart level geniuses would be working in an Amazon fulfillment center or a Tesla assembly line, wasting their talents as a slave to capitalism.
- Comment on Is it safe to use pans with peeling nonstick coating? 5 months ago:
Eggs are indeed tricky on the stainless. I have found that ceramic or a well-seasoned cast iron pan is a lot better for eggs if you aren’t good at hitting that exact temperature that they need to be at to cook and release on their own with just a minimal amount of oil/butter. My parents have a single teflon pan that is just for eggs, but they cook eggs so frequently that they need to replace it all the time because it starts to peel and flake in no time flat.
- Comment on Is it safe to use pans with peeling nonstick coating? 5 months ago:
My stainless steel cookware set has worked better and lasted longer than every non-stick pan I have ever owned.
- Comment on How does dog pee ownership work? 5 months ago:
It’s not really ownership, per se. It’s really more like planting a flag to say “I was here”. They’re leaving their scent behind to let other outsider dogs know that they are around the area, like a calling card. Sometimes the pheromones in the urine can let other dogs know if they are in estrus, so it has a useful social/mating component to it.
- Comment on We're going in the wrong direction 5 months ago:
If the site that hosts the video you want me to watch doesn’t have an audio slider, I won’t fucking watch it.
- Comment on What happened to the flat earthers who demonstrated that the earth is round in the netfilx documentary ? 5 months ago:
Hi Dad. It’s me, you.
- Comment on Transform your life. 50/40/30. 6 months ago:
Landchads love this one simple trick!
- Comment on This concept for budget double decker airline seating 6 months ago:
Looking over my original post, perhaps my phrasing wasn’t clear. Yes, this is one way to decrease costs, but it comes at the expense of comfort. Airline companies are no stranger to this process, and have been rolling out new methods of packing as many passengers onto a plane as physically possible since the very first commercial airplanes took flight.
Awkward and regressive ideas like this, where the airlines are contemplating stacking people in uncomfortable looking double-decker seating to save precious inches of space are only coming out now because no significant strides have been made in making air travel less expensive to operate as a whole. It is always going to be easier to shave off a few inches of legroom and pack in another row of seating in the next generation of jet airliner than it is to invent a new type of jet fuel that is cheaper and burns cleaner without sacrificing performance, or developing a new more efficient fuselage that can fly just as far as a conventional plane while carrying less fuel, etc.
It would be nice to see air travel improve for a change, rather than continue to get worse and worse over time out of necessity.
- Comment on This concept for budget double decker airline seating 6 months ago:
Uh, you know, it is possible to care about two things at once. Wanting airline travel to be cheaper/more comfortable and also less environmentally unfriendly are not mutually exclusive positions.
As others have pointed out, making it more expensive isn’t going to get rid of air travel, it’ll just be reserved for the ultra-wealthy who will not give a damn either way.
- Comment on This concept for budget double decker airline seating 6 months ago:
The newer version from the link looks less bad than this picture, but still dystopian as fuck. We need to make airline travel cheaper somehow rather than having the airline industry come up with their own ideas to try and pack people in like cattle.
- Comment on Why do people say that "return to office" is about raising commercial real estate prices? 6 months ago:
I think this is it too. A lot of big business is just a game of follow-the-leader. My small company recently instituted a return-to-office program when before they were encouraging employees to work remotely if they wanted since our jobs can be done from anywhere. When I asked about why they were doing this move now during my performance review, the answer I got was “A lot of other companies are making the same request of their employees.”. When I asked why those companies were doing it, they couldn’t give me a good answer.
It’s pretty infuriating that it took a global pandemic to finally prove to these corporate whip-crackers that you can indeed work from home and still be productive, and now they are trying to claw that back away from us a day or two at a time until we’re right back where we were.
- Comment on Amazon anti Union propaganda 7 months ago:
You have no guarantees on pay, benefits or work rules without unions either. The company can change those at any time or never change them at all.
At least a union will fight for those things on your behalf. A company has no incentive to do so and will actively oppose such things if it hurts their bottom line even slightly.