RBWells

@RBWells@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The other shoe drops, and this time it is covered in dog shit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  This is my life. A few years ago I decided to think about it differently - something happens, but I have the money to cover it. Gave up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do we even do mens vs womens sizes for clothes?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The fuck is a “woman-shaped woman”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do we even do mens vs womens sizes for clothes?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Shapes need to be different, as others have already said. So men’s and women’s clothes do need different construction. But sizes could be just measurements. Absolutely. Yes.

  Shoes, no. They should all be length in cm and then a narrow, medium, wide, xwide.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was Donald Trump ever cool?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not as far as I can remember, first memory of him was some story about him stiffing vendors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨is it likely that someone like this will change? what would be her possible mindset for doing all this?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It sounds to me like she needs a scapegoat, for lack of a better word, and she’s chosen you to dump on. Do your best to ignore her and don’t feed it. Her opinion doesn’t determine your worth in any way, it’s irrelevant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why am I like this?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh I feel seen.

  I was underweight a few years ago, and while it was not entirely healthy, I was indulging in the look and found some XXS Tall pants, in a beautiful blush color. Felt like a fucking supermodel on my way to work. Bought a chai latte, spilled it all over the pants before I ever got to work.

  Also covered these white cropped pants. Got them, same sort of thing.

  Decided I am not qualified for white pants.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Be honest and tell us what you see⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I see I see I see DP!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sounds logical to me⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely yes IMO. Straight is not the same as never experimenting. A test run makes sense if you aren’t sure. He fucked and found out quite literally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hypothetically, if you are in prison and want to communicate with the outside world without being detected, what are some ways to hide a message within an innocuous letter?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You’d need to arrange the code ahead of time with whoever you were communicating with. I can imagine a few ways to do it, the number of letters in the words, the arrangement of the spaces between words, first letter of first word, second letter of second word, up through five words and start over, prearranged code phrases of course but nothing that would work with an unwitting recipient.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Save the Bees, Murder the Wasps"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I was a wasp agnostic until I saw them pollinating the flowers in my yard. They aren’t all assholes. Some hornets are aggressive but most wasps are chill and helpful. Everyone loves bats though, don’t they?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All things have a right to grow. The blossom is brother to the weed.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  i love spiders, they are such helpful creatures.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come in most school in the USA (at least mine) they teach Spain Spanish instead of Mexico Spanish? Would not Mexico Spanish be an obvious choice to teach?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
  • Who says it, Spanish people?

  Well, yes? It is the European colonizers that brought it here, I think Spain Spanish is “the Spanish” just like I think England English is “the English” and American English is an offshoot though it’s what I know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I did accounting because you can do that for any company, it’s such a flexible career. I’ve done jobs that were mostly IT and jobs that were mostly numbers in Excel, for different companies in different industries and have never had to work anywhere I think is evil, nor at any location with a long commute.

  So if you enjoy that sort of work, accounting is a good degree. Technically my concentration was accounting systems, but right now I am doing more just accounting with a really good group of people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would you suddenly disappear and ditch everyone in your life without them noticing?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just here to say this made me immediately think of the awesome Parker Millsap song Disappear.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Musk shares post that Hitler didn’t kill millions, public workers did. Union rages⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It sounds like a pretty good argument for pushing back against the administration and not following orders.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In my experience, you make friends by being a friend. Some people just acquire a collection of friends to do things with, those are good people to start with. I invited one of our gay coworkers to a concert (because he liked the band) and now all my kids love him and we also go to yoga together. He is definitely someone who collects friends, he does hang out still with other people who used to work here.

  Someone like that is a good place to start, to practice having friends. Once you are more comfortable with people it will be easier. You only have to be involved at the level you want, but basically I’d say if you want someone who would change your medical dressing that needs to be someone for whom you would do the same. That’s how you would know it’s ok. For me I would get an appointment with the walk in and pay, instead of asking someone who doesn’t know what they are doing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come in most school in the USA (at least mine) they teach Spain Spanish instead of Mexico Spanish? Would not Mexico Spanish be an obvious choice to teach?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We learned American Spanish when I was in school, no vosotros, no soft S, because we learned it from Cuban teachers. My kids got a mix but mostly, as you are saying, Spain Spanish. I think part of the reason is that Spain Spanish is one thing - canonical Spanish, yes? But in the Americas it’s varied, different in the US from Mexico, from Colombia, from Argentina, Costa Rica. Dialects.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I a bad artist 😂?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Any homemade card is more thoughtful than a purchased one. So I don’t think it matters if you are a good artist or not. It’s a thoughtful message and you created it yourself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You guys have to end it⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well I’m certainly not having any more of them!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You guys have to end it⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I dunno, it seems way more possible to set up some solar charging arrangement for an electric vehicle than to somehow find and pump gas into a gas powered car!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You guys have to end it⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I always drive manual but my husband likes automatic. My kids learned on his car but my penultimate daughter drives mine to school now. I dunno, shifting seems easy to learn once you know how to drive in general - I learned it because everyone else was drink one night so I had to drive home, when I was a teenager, and the drunk kid’s car was manual.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Here the increases are capped at 3% per year if you live in the house. I lived in a shitty house we bought for 35k in the 1990s crash, and property taxes when we sold it in the breakup 20 years later were still under 1k a year, though insurance was crazy high. With husband we had to buy a much more expensive house, there are no shitty ones for sale anymore, all are snatched by corps to flip and rent. So now it’s high but in 20 years maybe it will seem low again. Especially if the market crashes and it’s re-assessed more reasonably.

  It’s just inflation, I do think someone owning a home costs the city in roads, trash, transit, other services, Is not crazy to tax on property ownership.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is sort of what I saw in California - where I’m from, Hispanic people were “the white people”, and people descended from Africans were “the black people” and I wasn’t aware of any sort of prejudice against Asians, they got lumped under the big umbrella of “white” . But when I was in California it was more like black and white guys considered themselves Americans, all one thing, and discriminated against Mexicans and Asians.

  It’s all made up, to keep people divided. Not to say there are no historical reasons reverberating still - institutional wealth comes from the past and slavery, so descendents of slaves have legitimate grievance- but the categories/rules of in groups and out groups and who is discriminated against are not the same all over the US.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are entertainers paid so much?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For every one making millions, there are millions making near nothing.

  People at the top of every industry DO make that much. Think about the UHC guy, you don’t think he was pulling that much?

  Inequality is baked in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨low iq in love with high iq person, is that bad??⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I got some crazy genius IQ score when I was a kid because I was very good at taking tests and read a lot, good with language. Just happened to be good at what they were testing.

  If you like to do programming, create things, are curious and interested in things, you ARE NOT STUPID. Not everyone’s intelligence runs to language or something tested by those tests. They are not really tests of potential, and the only reason my mom got us tested, the only reason I got two of my kids tested, was to get us into the better classes in school because they will only do it as an accommodation for a learning difference in.the public schools here. My other kids went to schools that promoted them based on their performance in class, which makes so much more sense.

  Now - my friend had a legit genius boyfriend and he was a raging asshole, I think because he had nobody who thought like him, he was alienated. But the problem was that he was an asshole, not that he was a genius. So as long as your partner is nice and you can talk to each other, there is no problem, don’t borrow trouble and don’t think of yourself as stupid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨conflicted about my coworkers' overpunctuality⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with this. Don’t work off the clock, no. Absolutely no. But 5 minutes early with 5 minutes overtime is good not bad, (unless it really is impossible with your commute.) there is no way I would complain about that. Your coworkers are basically showing that the job costs more than management thinks it does, that they need the prep time to do the job.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨gigadee⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, it depends on how old you are, right? I did a 22 year monogamous stretch, but before that and between that and my husband now (10 years so far monogamous) got around some & had fun, my # would doubtless be shocking to many if I could even figure it out but it doesn’t mean I can’t be in a stable relationship, I was before and am now too. Husband similar story.

  Some of us can enjoy recreational sex and also enjoy committed relationships.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon investigates a random goth girl⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah my husband seems to think onlyfans is easy money, like I could just post a nude and money would come rolling in magically, talks about how much big earners are making on YouTube too, but hustling like that is so much harder than having a job, you have to be organized and ambitious and then for every one person making thousands, there are many thousands of people making pennies.

  It’s so much easier to just have a job.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop touching your stuff!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe not to heaven but you might get close?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I love the future.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I looked and it’s made of natto? And aspergillus? Isn’t that what ferments sake? Maybe just go out to a Japanese restaurant. And the advert then says the only proven blah blah blah get the spike protein out is autophagy, which would imply that simply fasting would work, so even if you believe it you could just buy nothing and not eat for a few days, save money instead of spending it.