SCmSTR
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- Comment on Nice Going Buddy 21 hours ago:
Religion makes predators
- Comment on Nice Going Buddy 21 hours ago:
SEE??? PROOF.
CHECKMATE, ATHEISTS
- Comment on The Bane Of My Existence 1 day ago:
Wasn’t he the victim of a series of botched surgeries? Like in a very sad way
- Comment on Dwarf Fortress' creator says the industry's in shambles over AI and layoff-happy CEOs: 'Everyone I know, their bosses are slowly getting psychosis' 2 days ago:
As long as it isn’t based on and continually trained on privacy violations, stolen property, and a continually growing list of ethical transgressions against humanity in a race to the bottom to fulfill greed and laziness
But, you know. It’s fine, I guess.
- Comment on Dwarf Fortress' creator says the industry's in shambles over AI and layoff-happy CEOs: 'Everyone I know, their bosses are slowly getting psychosis' 2 days ago:
Lmao replacing people in creative industries with ai is like chef’s kiss of stupidity
- Comment on currently busy 😅 2 days ago:
“Daddy?”
- Comment on Just checking in to see if anyone cares that the mumbling turtle is still on full salary while being MIA for two-and-a-half months 5 days ago:
Just wait until this shit starts happening to supreme Court justices :(
- Comment on Anon comes into some money 1 week ago:
I lived on chef b for like a year. Apparently they grow their own tomatoes.
- Comment on You can't let the ghosts in 1 week ago:
Did he actually say that
- Comment on Yes, I use Debian stable. How'd you know? 1 week ago:
If somebody can still fully operate with this stuff, I’m jealous.
It means they’ve figured it out and they’re immune to almost all of the bullshit.
There’s bound to be some bridge, somewhere, but even then, that only needs to be minimal. These people are heroes and have a special power.
- Comment on Boycott Starbucks 1 week ago:
I started boycotting them years ago when I found out they were union busting.
Now, because I can’t start doing it twice, I’ll just get somebody I know to boycott them next time they ask.
- Comment on Well if that isn't just about the most evil thing you could openly admit to doing. 1 week ago:
If an elementary school teacher starts offing these people, I would not convict
- Comment on if only people knew how based He is 1 week ago:
Jesus was a guy. So were the thousands of random crazy streetside people yakkin about whatever random shit.
There is no god. There is no such thing.
There is no afterlife. There is no such thing.
There is only this life and right now.
THIS. IS. YOUR. LIFE.
RIGHT. NOW.
No sky dadddies, no mythological creatures. Just society and not being a terrible fucking human to others.
Morality and therefore ethics are made up by all of us, dynamically, variably, to exact control, unity, and to benefit that which we want. Don’t get that confused and all fucked up with cults. Religion is all cults, and always has been and always will be, because it’s FAITH. You have to take something as true with no evidence. That’s what faith is.
Be offended. Be upset. Struggle, cope, grow, find real purpose, and stop wasting your life on cult abuse. Fuck religions. They can be interesting, fascinating… Hell, even appealing. But it’s all fake, made up bullshit to affect peoples’ behavior in some way.
The stuff that matters and is real is staring you right smack dab in the face. So take a deep breath, know that you’ve been had. Accept it, mourn the lie and the loss, and try to do and be better. Morality exists well and healthy completely outside of religion, you just have to actually think about it.
And for those of you who have or will have kids, please please please consider teaching your kids how to be good people and find real happiness. It’s definitely possible and happens all the time.
Welcome to your life. The horrors of being aware of your own real mortality, and what that means. It’s hard, but it’s also the most meaningful thing you’ll ever have. It’s a shame to waste it in delusion.
So don’t.
Go outside. Smile at somebody who’s having a hard time. Build community. These things are real.
Have a potluck. Go see a movie. Pretend you believe. It’s okay sometimes. That’s the power of being human… And being truly alive.
This stuff takes time to unpack, unlearn, consider, and relearn how to live. Religion is everywhere. Class war is everywhere. Fucked up stuff is everywhere.
If you decide this isn’t for you, that’s okay, you can go back. But if you do, please please please understand that your worldview can absolutely hurt others when you think you may be doing the right thing or even do nothing at all. Every action, word, inaction, silence, and thought really happens, and can affect yourself and others.
Being alive is a great adventure. But remember that, just like walking ancient halls or along the earth’s surface in this solar system, in this galaxy, in this universe, we, our minds, our somewhat self aware nervous systems, being alive for however long we have left - are all just visitors here. We don’t exist, then we do, then we don’t, again… We are visiting. Until, someday, we must say goodbye, and take the forever sleep.
When I hit submit on this comment, I’m gonna stretch, and feel my body for what it is and what it’s capable of, all my limits, and appreciate that I can feel it at all. I’m alive, for now. And that’s awesome. And you should do that, too, if you can. And if you can’t, do whatever you can do, and know that you’re alive, too, for now, and that’s awesome.
I hope any and all of you who read this have the best possible day you can.
Breathe, drink more water, stretch, and appreciate being alive.
- Comment on Anon is Japanese 1 week ago:
I don’t know much about Japanese work or family culture, but… Why does everybody hate you, including your wife AND kids? Either you’re a giant piece of shit, or everybody else is.
- Comment on The Vancouver Police 2 weeks ago:
Cops “going after” drug addicts? Like giving them help and treating them like humans?
- Comment on This is who you are now. 2 weeks ago:
JoJolaluigi
- Comment on Flat earthers 2 weeks ago:
Lmao jfc, they might as well say the undesirables
- Comment on business is business 2 weeks ago:
Okay, I’ll try to do this an easier calculation using $20/job instead of $12/job
$20/7miles (include in-between jobs distance, 7mi is average total real per-job) = $2.86/mi(gross) - $0.76/mi (operating) = $2.10/mile (subtotal), subtracting another 15.8% of gross from subtotal ($0.44/mi) = $1.66/mi (net)
So if you drive (7miles x 4 jobs) = 28 miles hourly, you make 28 x $1.66 = $48.48/hour, which is significantly better. But keep in mind, you’re still fucking your vehicle driving 28mi/h and so another 58k miles a year commercially with thousands of people fucking up your shit.
That’s $96,678.40net/year with a $40,000 every ~ 4 years (250k mi sell point) (you might make an extra 10k on the sale!) (let’s call it $30k every 4 years, so -$7,500/year, assuming you have no payments and bought outright), and an accelerated degradation and depreciation of your vehicle, assuming you drive 40hrs/w and are basically nonstop driving jobs.
In short, ($12 -> $20)/7miles makes a big difference at scale. Takes it from making peanuts and scraping by if you aren’t too unlucky, to actually looking like you can save if you don’t get superfucked by something.
However, if you were saying $15-20 per hour TOTAL revenue, that’s a very different equation.
Honestly, 97k/year is probably top end. Ah I just realized I didn’t include tips. I don’t know how tips work in that company, but I seem to remember some of those companies just stealing them.
I’ll be honest, if you couldn’t tell, I’m pretty biased against that whole delivery/courier/driver industry and cautious about people thinking it’s viable. That stuff is always a trap. Otherwise, Uber would just make people actually employees and absorb costs rather than passing it to the
employeeworker. Taxis had it figured out, and even then it wasn’t great. And semi trucking can be viable, but that’s a WHOOOLLLE different series and scale and severity of traps. Super predatory stuff. - Comment on business is business 2 weeks ago:
Twelve bucks? That’s … Probably not a livable wage with cost of operating a vehicle. Let’s assume you do four of those in an hour for 8 hours, that’s 32 jobs a day, grossing 8 hours a day for $384/day and just under 100k/y… But you have overhead. You have to pay for the vehicle and it’s operating and insurance costs, and your own operating costs and insurance. If you live in any sort of American wider metro, 100k alone isn’t cutting it.
So let’s say you drive 6 miles per $12 on average. Operating a new car for a business is about $0.76/mile, so you subtract $4.56 of your $12 right off the bat, leaving you with $7.44/job.
That doesn’t include accidents or your tax, either. Let’s assume you get in one medium accident a year and you have minimal insurance. You pay out of pocket for your own repairs glhf.
Now you also pay 15.3% tax on your earnings because you aren’t an employee and Uber says to go fuck yourself. So on your 100k a year, you pay another $15,275 in tax.
That leaves you $46,625/year, driving full time.
If you bought the car on a loan, you make negative money.
If you get in an accident, you make negative money.
For full time.
Enjoy.
- Comment on Flat earthers 2 weeks ago:
I’m significantly more awake and just realized this is a shitpost. The human mind is an interesting thing.
Do you still have evidence of the old posts or any of the old models of how orbits work?
- Comment on Flat earthers 2 weeks ago:
Well hold on. I may have just woken up, but, if earth were a disc, couldn’t the disc just be rotating and or flipping?
- Comment on go watch Twin Peaks 2 weeks ago:
Same, but hated every minute of the two eps of tp that I forced myself through.
That, combined with the extremely high praise from a LOT of people leads me to believe that I’m the one not getting it, and that just continues to bother me. I have had multiple people try to explain it to me, one ex even reluctantly gave me away the twist at the end. Nah. Still feels like nails on a chalkboard and then the end going “I meant to do that the whole time”.
Maybe I’ll go at it again, someday. But, until then, people praising it continues to be enigmatic.
- Comment on Anon doesn't have a plan 2 weeks ago:
I wonder why the son resisted. Could it have anything to do with shitty parenting? Nahhhh
- Comment on Smug bastard 2 weeks ago:
Mann… I don’t know about the rock anymore. Something’s seriously off with that guy. Anybody in that sort of position who isn’t outspoken on politics can only be inspoken about politics and beliefs.
- Comment on Never Gonna Give You Up 2 weeks ago:
Not a teenager. If you’ve kept up at all on music and listened to the stuff we did in the 90s, yeah it holds up great, but holy shit does a lot of it sound old in comparison. Like bowling for soup’s 1985 released in 2005 was only 20 years, but it has been 21 years since 2005. Time goes on, the pile of backlog gets taller.
Watch, read, listen, do as much as you can in this life you have, it’s the only one you get. Even if you’re religious and believe in an afterlife… You don’t know you’re right, you have to take it on faith. So hedge a little bit and live your damn life like there’s no afterlife.
…That doesn’t mean fucking dead deer, though.
- Comment on The price of soda in 2017 2 weeks ago:
I still wait for those sales to come back. I don’t know who in their right mind pays current prices, it’s insane. Over a dollar a can? You gotta be kidding me. I still remember at a local grocery store before I moved out, it was 5/$5 12-packs. I only saw that once or twice, and have been holding our ever since. After I moved out, I remember being the kid in line with like 50 of the store brand 2L that were like $1 or less. Keep in mind, the 20oz bottles were already over a dollar at that point, so under a dollar for a 2L was hilarious to me.
- Comment on How hopeless is getting a job with a CS degree? 2 weeks ago:
Whatever you do, don’t be evil.
- Comment on culture 2 weeks ago:
:c
- Comment on culture 2 weeks ago:
Wait is that actually supposed to be 1 guy 1 jar
- Comment on Luigi Mangione sacrificed his freedom for Nothing. 2 weeks ago:
Legendary.