dream_weasel
@dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Who are the "middle class" supposed to support in the class stuggle? 29 minutes ago:
I guess I’ll find out!
- Comment on Who are the "middle class" supposed to support in the class stuggle? 8 hours ago:
My very affordable mortgage (2.175% interest, thx COVID) with insurance and small savings for house repairs is 3k per month. I’ve got a wife and 2 kids under 5. Daycare costs are about $600 per week for us both to work. Groceries with fresh produce for the kids and not much out of a box or can (and diapers and wipes) are about $800 per month. Yeah it’s gratuitous for groceries, but I ate a ton of hot pockets and lunchables and shit like that as a kid, but my kids don’t have to.
I’m already at 75k per year right there.
We own our cars outright, we are healthy and no medical payments, and we don’t regularly eat out. We have extended family overseas. One or two vacations a year (visit family every other year). We don’t spend money to medicate in any fashion :).
I remember living fine on 24k per year when it was just me on grad school, but now it takes a hell of a lot more. People can and do make it work for less, I wouldn’t personally want to downsize to retire earlier.
- Comment on Who are the "middle class" supposed to support in the class stuggle? 14 hours ago:
You CAN do it but that sucks. 40k a year is not enough money unless you’re happy to live like you’re poor, but just don’t have to go to work every day.
Financially independent, sure. But I don’t plan to retire to sitting in my van reading a library book eating rice and beans until I give up the ghost, you know? Color me entitled, but I think we can draw the hypothetical lines a little higher than you have set them for you.
- Comment on No brainer 22 hours ago:
Lol perpetual 7 inch teleport
- Comment on Use this science wisely. 2 days ago:
“you forgot the R, you halfwit!”
- Comment on Do you think he'll respond? 6 days ago:
You got me. I was taught incorrectly in high school. I always assumed it was the same thing as different pronouns in those particular cases for, as an example Spanish “se” vs “le”. You’ve made me a better member of the alt write, formerly grammar nazis.
- Comment on Do you think he'll respond? 1 week ago:
Who*
- Comment on Out of 10. Be specific! 1 week ago:
Because that fork has trisomy 21.
- Comment on Why aren't you creating more workers?? 1 week ago:
Frames like that are excellent birth control.
- Comment on Why aren't you creating more workers?? 1 week ago:
Full auto.
- Comment on In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses 1 week ago:
Thank you! I skimmed for that and gave up.
- Comment on Caption this. 2 weeks ago:
And he was this big!
- Comment on Think about it 3 weeks ago:
Maybe it’s a glass of isopropyl.
- Comment on "ok, imagine a gun." 3 weeks ago:
We don’t even SAY bollocks in the US.
- Comment on One Angry Man 3 weeks ago:
1 man 1 jar
Oh wait…
- Comment on One Angry Man 4 weeks ago:
Groose
Tap for spoiler
Grease
- Comment on Iron 4 weeks ago:
How bad could it be? Ethan Hawke succeeds in the movie even though he’s got no real genetic qualifications.
- Comment on 🐀🔥🔥🔥 4 weeks ago:
Yeah it’s totally a mistake.
I bought some stupid hot sauces out of curiosity a few years ago (last dab kind of sauces, they are fairly hot but still edible) but was not prepared for the heat. I tried some milk and bread and whatever and it didn’t help clear my mouth. It was on my tongue and my lips and I wanted it OFF.
So having watched some of the “plutonium” hot sauce videos I put my obviously very big brain to work. In some of those videos, capsaicin crystals are dissolved in alcohol. I thought to myself, “alcohol dissolves capsaicin, my mouth is hot from capsaicin, I have an idea”. It was not a good idea.
I swished and swallowed a shot of vodka.
As you say, it really helped the spicy coat my ENTIRE mouth and top of my throat. If you have never had spicy pain in between your teeth and coating your entire gumline, it is really something else. 2/10 would not recommend.
In any event, a lesson was learned that day that I doubt I will forget.
- Comment on 🐀🔥🔥🔥 4 weeks ago:
I think the problem lies with calling things like the 1 chip challenge or “melt you wussy butthole” varieties of spicy challenges “food”.
I mean I guess you ingest them, but that’s kinda like calling magic mushrooms food or ipecac syrup food. They are things that you eat for a specific purpose that is not nourishment.
- Comment on 🐀🔥🔥🔥 4 weeks ago:
This variety is for the challenge of it, not the enjoyment of eating it.
- Comment on hygiene 4 weeks ago:
Ah I see. You weren’t making an allegory, you were being direct.
Sorry I didn’t mean to pique your ideological perspectives by suggesting to burn a chair from a totally different thread as a joke.
- Comment on hygiene 4 weeks ago:
No, that would be telling you that the chair stinks because you haven’t rubbed ENOUGH shit into it and big clean is just trying to swindle you out of your money.
What I’ve described is the revolution solution.
- Comment on hygiene 4 weeks ago:
I suggest a small alteration:
Start with 70% rubbing alcohol, set the chair on
its side and soak then compress / scrub…fire.Buy a new chair.
Wash your ass with soap.
- Comment on hygiene 4 weeks ago:
A shower with soap is best, preferably after a different method. But whatever it’s your house, you can shit direct to shower if you like.
If you got poop on you anywhere else. Dry wiping it would not be sufficient. Rinsing it off and patting it dry would not be sufficient. You would wash with soap.
- Comment on Hate to see all the suffering 5 weeks ago:
Geeked off… the yart. Mhmm.
Is that what you would call a high rizz activity?
- Comment on Be nice 5 weeks ago:
The rental market immediately dries up as everyone with the ability to move into a rental place does so. Owners of apartments and rental houses immediately divest at the earliest possible time since properties are no longer lucrative. In the meantime, they fail to put any effort into the pretense of basic upkeep except whatever makes their rentals sellable.
The market becomes immediately saturated with previous rental properties now available for individual sale and high supply lowers cost dramatically. The idea of sunk costs makes owners unlikely to sell at rock bottom prices so apartment complexes and the like go out of business, evict everyone and sell their copper from their air conditioners to modestly recuperate the last few months of expenses (water, electricity, leading office staff, etc) and burn them down for insurance money. Single family homes are donated for the use of younger relatives until the market recuperates enough to sell.
It’s a wild ride for about $24 worth of months for all renters, then, ultimately, the price of housing comes down but renting is no longer a “thing”. Some renters can now afford to buy their own houses (Yahoo!) but without changing the pay structure of society, the most vulnerable of wage workers are now homeless (Crap).
Or something, idk.
- Comment on Be nice 5 weeks ago:
The world economies slow down probably.
At negative inflation there is no incentive to spend your money because is becomes increasingly valuable the longer you hold it. With high inflation, there’s incentive to spend because the longer you keep your money in the mattress the less it’s worth to you.
At zero it just is, but that’s less than the usual goal of a couple percent of inflation year over year.
Or maybe I’m full of shit idk.
- Comment on WrestleMania was running wild on you 5 weeks ago:
Sorry for a second I confused sunshine and beaver and was gonna argue with you lol. I just remember you made a very sane first mod post there or I would have just blocked the community.
- Comment on WrestleMania was running wild on you 5 weeks ago:
This is the guy that saved c/vegan on .world after the fiasco where the community basically imploded and moved to ML land. I’m not even a vegan (or vegetarian), but I know that :). Technician has done some Lemmy work.
- Comment on Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC 1 month ago:
Honestly not sure. I haven’t done a side by side with plain old chromium in years.