MNByChoice
@MNByChoice@midwest.social
- Comment on Reality vs Fantasy 1 day ago:
What could the motivations of the owner be, if not to make money?
Please add to my list:- prestige
- tax avoidance
- boost retirement savings (in the USA, business owners can stuff their retirement accounts with LOTS of cash.)
- Create and disguise a "sex pad"
- improve the community by providing jobs and/or needed services (start a coffee shop so that there is a coffee shop.)
- time filler
Of those, I think a very healthy 401K contribution from the employer to the employee would be motivating to those already paid well.
Many employees already use the business as a sex pad. (Conference rooms can be gross.)
- Comment on Reality vs Fantasy 1 day ago:
Seems the pink paper has a backing on it to stiffen it. Upper left corner seems to show the backing, which may be pink cardboard. Given the mounting location, I would expect it to be “floppy” like the “lined” paper without a stiffener. All of my above to say, I think someone put a “lot” of effort into the pink sign.
- Comment on Los Angeles paid $400M+ in 4 years to people hurt/killed on the streets. LA spends more money paying off people injured or killed by its street designs than it spends making streets safer. 4 days ago:
Interestingly, not a video about police brutality, but about known unsafe roads.
- Comment on Missouri governor repeals paid sick leave law approved last year by voters 4 days ago:
Ballot actions do nothing if Regressives are elected.
Ballot actions AND Progressives!
- Comment on Anon listens to the radio 6 days ago:
Do Grannies listen to “imagine dragons - radioactive”?
… There are old Grannies and there are young Grannies.
- Comment on Can it take months to get over being laid off? 1 week ago:
Greif and loss. The first year is the worst.
Might be time to focus on processing the loss of your previous hopes, dreams, relationships, and projects.
- Comment on Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman 2 weeks ago:
Sometimes the only way to win is not to play.
But also Johnson is stupid.
- Comment on Might be time to find another job 2 weeks ago:
Trent the milk guzzler arrives at 6 and drinks it all.
Fuck you Trent!
- Comment on Might be time to find another job 2 weeks ago:
New interview question: “please show me the inside of the common refrigerator.”
- Comment on Finally paid off my Costco hotdog 🙏 2 weeks ago:
Back in the day, one could get a credit history by being listed as an authorized user on someone elses card. One never needed physical possession of the card, nor needed to use it.
- Comment on Finally paid off my Costco hotdog 🙏 2 weeks ago:
Tge issues with TLS is that they overlap.
POS
- point of sale
- piece of shit
- priate on starboard
- Comment on Bernie Sanders says that if AI makes us so productive, we should get a 4-day work week 2 weeks ago:
Make sure to use AI to solve the issues flagged by AI.
- Comment on What a scam 3 weeks ago:
Bullshit. Whatever you are doing, you are getting better at it. Even if those skills only apply at work, or begging on the street.
- Comment on What a scam 3 weeks ago:
Yup. It is really odd when one notices they have leveled up in a skill. Some task is suddenly far easier than one remembers it being.
- Comment on Good boy 3 weeks ago:
Date 2015. I hope you are free now. (Also fake)
- Comment on Why does America feel the need to control the world? Do what they say? Instead of taking care of their own problems at home? When did the US become police officer of the world and enforcer? 3 weeks ago:
The USA was securing international trade lines. After WW2, they started doing it to counter communism and build friendships. (Cannot attack your trading partners.)
This was not entirely popular with Americans, see “Team America: World Police”.
Another country or coalition could step up. Just build a navy that rivals the USA one to secure shipping lanes.
- Comment on Are there Designs for Kiddie Pool Water Filters? 4 weeks ago:
Will do, thank you.
- Comment on Are there Designs for Kiddie Pool Water Filters? 4 weeks ago:
Ah, thanks for some names of items!
- Comment on Are there Designs for Kiddie Pool Water Filters? 4 weeks ago:
Thank you. I have heard that the chemicals are nearly impossible to dose correctly in smaller volumes.
Elsewhere some have suggested aquarium filters…
- Comment on Are there Designs for Kiddie Pool Water Filters? 4 weeks ago:
Thanks. I will likely continue watering the plans.
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- Comment on Why do some people hate drinking water? 4 weeks ago:
The water in some USA cities does taste terrible. Some rural and city water is unsafe to drink. Grow up in one of those places, and one may hate it.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Strongly filter and limit the news you consumes. Do not spend hours watching or keeping up on it.
Do prepare yourself and your chosen community. Build relationships. Fix your life, body, finances. Get as ready as you can to catch yourself and those falling.
Do get into a group that tells you when local events are happening.
Do find joy.
- Comment on Foreign Office staff told to consider resigning after challenging UK policy on Gaza 5 weeks ago:
The reply did not address the substantive complaints by staff.
We’ve changed nothing, but your leaving has mildly put us out.
- Comment on Not sure exactly what they are selling 5 weeks ago:
What is up with the storefront? A statue holding a sign and a man behind bars.
- Comment on We really did 5 weeks ago:
If the trip was short, and roads in a grid (Midwest, not California), one could just memorize the major turns and wing it.
This is how some went hundreds of miles in the wrong direction. (Gotta cross check with city names.)
- Comment on where are worker rights parades? why are we focusing on very limited issues? 5 weeks ago:
Yes! Sadly, at least as near as I can figure, this is on purpose.
People with disposable income can organize businesses, demonstrations, and communities. They may threaten the status quo.
People that must work daily to not starve cannot organize anything. They may not even know their neighbours. They are exposed and vulnerable.
Remember how in the early 2000’s, it seemed we were on the cusp of a great turning point? More people, not nearly all people, had access to good paying jobs and disposable income? It seemed progress may finally start. Then 2008 wiped many people out. The new wealth was concentrated. (I am leaving a lot out.)
Anyway, there are not as many people that can organize as one may assume. There will not be until fewer people are financially vulnerable.
- Comment on Girl power! 5 weeks ago:
Don’t think Leia poops her pants. She was calm and cool.
- Comment on where are worker rights parades? why are we focusing on very limited issues? 5 weeks ago:
Feel free to organize one.
Then you will have insight into why there are few. Or you will kick off a whole thing.
Organizing things is hard. I am sure there are lots of reasons.
- Comment on Can't fathom it 1 month ago:
That is great! Could be no big deal.
Could be nondiabetic hypoglycemia (controversial if it exists). Could be another thing.