ChexMax
@ChexMax@lemmy.world
- Comment on Same Shafeeq, same. 1 day ago:
I don’t think it’s intuitive that fruit comes from flowers. I think that’s something you have to observe or learn, otherwise you’d think fruit and flowers are separate things
- Comment on type shit 4 days ago:
Literally no thoughtful or reasonable sexual partner is going to say they prefer the type of penis it’s impossible for you to have, so that data is wildly biased.
I’m a woman and I’ve been with both. I don’t really care either way (and I feel confident most women who have actually been with both don’t really care) but my best lasting lover by far was uncut. I will not circumcise any sons I have.
- Comment on Confirms to Marxist theories regarding the proletariat. 6 days ago:
My thought as well. Humanizing yourself makes me think about the situation you’re in to be driving door dash and the situation I’m in to be ordering it. I ran into my diaper wipes deliverer yesterday and though should I tip? For delivery from a website, something i don’t tip for. But I made contact with the driver and I was grateful for their service in delivery. I think it’s human nature to be easier to tip light if you can forget a human person was involved
- Comment on Northern Ireland becomes first part of the UK to offer paid miscarriage leave 1 week ago:
This is great! Even at 8 weeks there’s a lot to pass, and it’s painful for days.
At 12 weeks, you can be quite overcome with grief, it’s painful, and you’re in a diaper for days while you pass clots the size of golf balls. You need a heating pad and comfort food, not to sit in your office chair and pretend nothing is happening while you grieve the loss of the future for which you had planned and sacrificed.
- Comment on What did people think dinosaur bones were before we officially recognised dinosaurs? 3 weeks ago:
My grandfather did (does?). There are a whole lot of people who believe the earth is only a few thousand years old. I have no further details cause you couldn’t pay me to broach the subject with him.
- Comment on How do wealthy people know if the people they meet are wealthy or not? 3 weeks ago:
Maybe old people just look like that? I went to a rich kid college and they were certainly more attractive on average. Everyone’s teeth were white and straight, people’s skin and hair were beautifully maintained, clothing (including sweats) were well fitting and flattering. Glasses were flattering. No one was making due with anything, they just had whatever they needed.
- Comment on Sitting in traffic 3 weeks ago:
My husband is blue collar. He goes where things need to be fixed. Sometimes his commute is 15 minutes, but it’s often 2 hours, when you factor in distance and traffic. A lot of blue collar deals with this, and yeah. We choose that shit over being homeless. His tech field laid him and everyone else off a few years ago.
- Comment on Anon misses flash 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, I love the clones, it’s like bonus levels
- Comment on Anon reads Into the Wild 1 month ago:
And I think also shared what food he had. Yeah, the kid was under prepared for sure, but apparently he had studied the food sources and terrain somewhat. He got unlucky. Not being prepared for unlucky is very very dumb. But most people I hear mad about this think he was zero prepared
- Comment on Pornography depicting sexual relationships between step-relatives set to be banned 1 month ago:
Idk what the ulterior motive is, but if your goal is to protect children this is like the third or fourth least damaging porn of all. Like ban all other fetishes first
- Comment on Anon reads Into the Wild 1 month ago:
Yeah, I read that hypothetically consuming the plant (which resembled a nontoxic look alike) could have made it so he was too weak to scavenge what he needed to survive. He could have survived otherwise. He was certainly gambling with his life being out there alone, but I read the claims of him being totally unprepared were exaggerated.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Women are able to perpetuate misogyny. Your comment seems like you think misogyny can only happen to a women from a man. Not sure of your actual intent, but it comes off that way.
- Comment on Is there a science educator who shows in a video how they hand wash dishes? 3 months ago:
The Costco pods are like magic and they’re so cheap. They changed my life (literally, I save many minutes every day and my mental health is better. I hate dirty dishes so much. I don’t even rinse before loading my dishwasher now. )
- Comment on Mom with the real questions 3 months ago:
There’s always money in the banana stand
- Comment on The way my fuck-ass pharmacist makes up the remaining pills in my bastarding prescription 3 months ago:
Why doesn’t the customer just take the couple of minutes at the beginning of the month to dispense the blister packs into a daily pill box organizer?
Or just take a pair of scissors and round off the edges?
Just saying the problem is as easily or more easily solved by the customer as it is by the tech.
Certainly no medication should just be thrown out because the packaging is inconvenient. Making the techs take more time just means making the meds more expensive than they already are.
Obviously the real answer is to overhaul the whole system, but we live under an oligarchy here. Individual people have no power past barely the local level.
- Comment on How about the digestive system? 3 months ago:
Plus a hole for peeing i hope
- Comment on Why isn’t "Democrats would never get away with this" seen as a problem for the left?” 3 months ago:
Most people are not cheaters. They’re saying most or all politicians on the national level are cheaters. Seems like everyone but Bernie and AOC. idk how cheater-y Romney was.
I think carter was actually honest. That’s why the right hates him so much.
- Comment on why the heck do cockroaches fly 3 months ago:
My science teacher in high school told me all the kinds can fly, it’s just a matter of age. So maybe that’s why it’s only the big ones? Idk i don’t see the little ones flying either but apparently the little ones are the absolute worst to have around
- Comment on Anon lives on a budget 3 months ago:
15 bucks is like double minimum wage in most places. But yeah, I’d love $750 rent, but he obviously lives in the middle of nowhere
- Comment on 5 months ago:
If you can’t taste the flavor of mayonnaise you might be the one with the unsophisticated palate. You’re welcome to say you don’t like it, or that it doesn’t have a good or intense enough flavor, but not being able to discern its flavor at all is a you thing.
- Comment on what's a good answer to placate the c-suite if you're accused of lacking motivation and being unfriendly? 6 months ago:
Maybe, but you could say I really wanted a job with these hours, so I looked around. I’ve always taken pride in my cleanliness and to be honest, I’m a bit fastidious, so this job seemed like the perfect fit for me.
Just find something about it to make it seem like you want this job over another job
- Comment on Is there a drink with taste of energy drink without caffeine? 6 months ago:
Maybe try aspartame instead of sugar?
- Comment on Anon is exploited 6 months ago:
I hear you, And heck even pull out is pretty effective. Mix that with one actual contraceptive and you’re basically golden. Unintended pregnancies aren’t that hard to avoid.
I still think your comment sucks. Basically implies poor people don’t deserve to have children, and the literal driving force of our species should be reserved as a luxury for people who can afford to have one adult not work.
- Comment on Anon is exploited 6 months ago:
The hours taking care of children thing seems very small to me as well, but there was a lot less to raising kids back then.
Parents weren’t expected to participate in educational or self-esteem raising play specifically for their kids. Sure, playing blocks with my daughter is better than scrubbing on a washboard, But it’s not something I would pick to do without her. Parents are spending way more time with their kids than they were in the '70s, so I can’t imagine how much of what we would consider neglect today was happening in 1900. It’s still a chore. This is about time, not difficulty. I’m not arguing that things aren’t better now. I’m just arguing that we don’t have a lot more time.And I don’t know if you manage your household, but scrolling on Amazon for the thing you need sucks. I don’t like doing it, and it absolutely counts as a chore. I wish it was someone else’s job. I’m not saying it’s hard, but it is not leisure. Emptying and filling the dishwasher are both very easy tasks, but they’re not leisure. Our chores are way easier, but they still occupy a crazy amount of time considering how little time we have. Part of that is because our houses are bigger which is definitely nicer, but part of why our houses are bigger is because our communities are smaller/ non-existent.
It’s all trade-offs, but frankly I’m pretty sick of the argument that because things are better than they were in the past. We should all just be happy and satisfied with things that are crappy.
- Comment on Anon is exploited 6 months ago:
Yes! If society wants any firefighters, teachers, doctors, artists, whatever 30-50 years from now, parents and children of today need better community support, mental health resources, and better free education
- Comment on Anon is exploited 6 months ago:
A lot harder to agree with this statement when the abortion laws have regressed so much so recently.
- Comment on Anon is exploited 6 months ago:
Oddly, though the work type has changed, there’s only about 5 hours less a week of housework than there was in 1900. Heck that’s less then 45 minutes a day difference, even with everything you mentioned.
I agree the work is far less physically demanding, but modern standards dictate about the same amount of time burden, the difference lies mainly in that men have picked up 13 more of those hours a week, and that it’s more rare for only one adult to work outside the home.
- Comment on Anon is exploited 6 months ago:
I think it’s more likely that people saw their parents or grandparents living on a single income, so between two people there was a lot more “free” time. When one adult is managing the home, and the other is making money, both get to be more off duty after work. The grocery shopping, meal prepping, social calendar finagling, and cleaning were happening simultaneously with the money making job.
Managing a household is a whole ass job and a lot of people are expected to do it on top of their day job and that’s why we feel like we have no time. I don’t think we’re comparing ourselves to celebrities, just our own family members.
- Comment on Anon is exploited 6 months ago:
I think they mean it’s a cop out for people to say “parents need to parent” as a solution. The solution is “society needs to provide more support to parents.” Parenting your kids was a lot more possible when one income covered the fiscal needs of the household.
- Comment on Why is the human body so incredibly bad at responding to colds? 6 months ago:
Thank you for sharing this! A good read.