shalafi
@shalafi@lemmy.world
- Submitted 18 hours ago to [deleted] | 7 comments
- Comment on People who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be rich and how close middle class is to being below the poverty line. 22 hours ago:
My wife is fighting for her 10-year green card right now. It’s a fucking nightmare.
- Comment on Very popular in colder weather 23 hours ago:
The hands are drawn over the mittens with a marker.
- Comment on Baby boomers want to axe property taxes. Millennials and Gen Z would pay for it. 1 day ago:
Kids are 10 and 12 ATM and we’re 54. Kinda screwed for a deal like that. Also, my Social Security check will take good care of us in the Philippines.
- Comment on Baby boomers want to axe property taxes. Millennials and Gen Z would pay for it. 1 day ago:
I’d also go for no property taxes past a certain age and below a certain income.
- Comment on It's been downhill from that day 1 day ago:
One of the only times I life I woke up thinking, “Oh thank god, what a fucked up dream.” Took me a few to re-internalize it.
- Comment on People who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be rich and how close middle class is to being below the poverty line. 1 day ago:
It’s not fabricated, these people honestly think one can live the “welfare queen” lifestyle. Reagan said the words and it resonated with the Republicans, Fox News ran with it. But really, this isn’t some master plan. Unless you’ve been through it or tried getting welfare, you can’t know how hard it is and how little you get. I’ve talked to many people like this.
You have to earn below 130% of the poverty line to get food stamps. More you make, less you get. I will say that when I first moved here I was getting a ridiculous amount for a single guy, and they just kept sending it, no questions asked for 6-months. Those days are long gone.
God knows what you have to do to get an actual check, but you have to be worse off than merely needing food stamps. And those checks are paltry. Unless you’re renting a room in someone’s house, you’re not making rent.
Unemployment is a fucking joke. In Florida, employers have to pay $7,200 when you first start, and they have 6 months to get it all paid into the unemployment fund. I would have got a MAX of $4,200, then it’s over. That was less than a month’s pay from my last job.
These is a gauntlet to be run to get a single penny. And you have to keep running that gauntlet, over and over again. I could go on and on, but I figured out 3 decades back that it’s easier, less time consuming, and more profitable, to work a shit job 40-hours a week.
- Comment on A man can dream, can’t he? 2 days ago:
Keep the big ones, I want a goth gf that’s flat as a board.
- Comment on Over the past 5 years, police in the U.S. have killed over 9,000 people 2 days ago:
Which led to the AR-15 being the most popular rifle in America! Weird that. The weapon was available to civilians since the 60s, no one gave a shit.
Got mine after Uvalde. “Well hell. They might actually ban the thing this time, better get grandfathered in.”
And liberals have no idea how their ideas backfire. Weird that.
Advertising: The AR-15 is the finest multipurpose rifle on Earth. Not the best at anything. It’s the Toyota Corolla of rifles. Meh, it’s OK. Any idiot can use it, never fails. No real punch, but it can run filthy on any ammo. No kick, anyone of any size can work it well enough.
If you go far enough left, you get your guns back. Do what you will with that information.
- Comment on Is it normal to see this static when you close your eyes? 2 days ago:
Aight! I want to heart from people thinking this is normal, or not, and if you can actually see pictures in your inner space. I feel a doctoral dissertation could be written here.
- Comment on Baby boomers want to axe property taxes. Millennials and Gen Z would pay for it. 2 days ago:
Probably taking my wife home to the Philipines to retire. Won’t have money for shit else, and I’ll miss my kid’s young adulthood. Probably what we’ll have to do.
- Comment on Robotics Company Builds Straight-Up Terminator 2 days ago:
It looks the a Terminator “under the hood”. I doubt anyone was trying to sell a “living tissue over metal endoskeleton” kinda headline.
- Comment on Trump threatens ABC News in Oval Office meltdown 2 days ago:
Given his dementia, I’m truly surprised this rates as a “meltdown”. It’s not Presidential, utterly unacceptable, but I’m expecting a total screaming loss of control at any moment. It was said he was throwing shit around the Oval Office during Zelensky’s last visit. Hell, first admin he was eating records he didn’t like!
Having Malignant Narcissistic Personality Disorder combined with Pre-Frontal Cortex Dementia, how long can his handlers allow him in public?! I laugh at some of these comments regarding what Trump is thinking or doing. He is “thinking” whatever is in the moment in his brain and he’s “doing” what his handlers tell him to do. There is no Trump anymore, he’s gone.
- Comment on Robotics Company Builds Straight-Up Terminator 2 days ago:
If the robot is tough enough for production they should have no fear of stripping the clothes off with a box knife. The whole scene was still pretty impressive, especially compared to last week’s Russia bot! 🤦🏻♂️
But still, were I heading this project, I’d insist on toughness at this point in development. (Talking out my ass, looking to the end game, no idea where they’re at ATM.)
- Comment on Robotics Company Builds Straight-Up Terminator 2 days ago:
That’s the most “Terminator” looking robot I’ve ever seen.
- Comment on Robotics Company Builds Straight-Up Terminator 2 days ago:
I get you! She’s extraordinarily beautiful, and not just in a blonde hair/blue eyes kinda way. I have an admiration for any man or woman who works hard to maximize their appearance. It’s fucking hard and Swift could do nothing to be any more attractive.
Turns out I like her music too! Kids listening to something, “That’s cool, who’s that?”
But sexy? Maybe she’s too perfect? I like a woman that’s “off” in some way. Maybe a big nose, wide-spaced eyes, pouchy mouth, gimme some imperfections that stand out.
- Comment on Baby boomers want to axe property taxes. Millennials and Gen Z would pay for it. 2 days ago:
I have to pay about $200/yr. on my 2.5 acres of swamp. If I ever get to the point I can’t pay that, I forfeit my land, sold to the highest bidder on the steps of the county courthouse. Sorry about your meager inheritance kids, mom and dad had to eat food.
ATM, I don’t pay property taxes on my Habitat for Humanity mortgage. Think that ends once it’s paid off. So as I enter old age, you all think I should be stripped of my home if I can’t pay property taxes, forever? Think on that. Imagine being 85-years old, can’t scrounge $1,000 extra every year, lose it all.
BTW, this home has nearly doubled in value since I bought it 8 years ago. And exactly what fucking good does that do for me? If I sell, I can’t get another home for that much. I would be like having a car worth $100,000 when new cars cost $120,000.
- Comment on Baby boomers want to axe property taxes. Millennials and Gen Z would pay for it. 2 days ago:
Yes, because all Boomers are filthy rich.
- Comment on Google is collecting troves of data from downgraded Nest thermostats 3 days ago:
I have a Sensi thermostat. Highly recommended.
- Comment on Does Porn Logic sometimes happen in real life we just don't notice it? 4 days ago:
Closest thing I can think of in my life was the Mexican chick downstairs bringing her cute young friend over one Saturday night. I was utterly hammered on vodka, so I was clueless until I looked over and saw Maria deep in her friend’s pussy. And away we go!
Been in all sorts of freaky sexual situations, but that one could have been filmed as a porno.
- Comment on How has there not yet been a leak of the Epstein files? Surely there is someone with access to them that could have been subject to worldwide pressure to let something out. 4 days ago:
Epstein was allowed to kill himself. Someone whispered in his ear that he should do the right thing, hint, hint, or face monstrous consequences.
- Comment on Don't you hate it when you delve too greedily and too deep, and the toilet paper tears? 4 days ago:
Nearly bled out from hemorrhoids, got the surgery, and as a Vietnam vet I heard say, “It was worse than anything that happened to me over there.” Never been to war, but the pain was the worst in my long life of broken bones and whatnot.
Now I take a coffee cup shot of psyllium husk of an evening. My shit literally doesn’t stink and wiping is almost optional. Also provides an impetus to get my ass out of bed in the morning.
“Just a little longer…”
“NOW!”
- Comment on Don't you hate it when you delve too greedily and too deep, and the toilet paper tears? 4 days ago:
How rough is your ass?! I’m imagining Antarctic hikers probing for dangerous crevasses. “Close one guys! Stay to the left!”
- Comment on The MP944 was the ‘real’ world’s first microprocessor, but it was top secret for nearly 30 years — F-14 Tomcat's chip lived in the shadow of the Intel 4004, but was eight times faster 4 days ago:
I thought NASA was well stocked with 486 CPUs? Quite a cut about the 386! (I know the ISS is not all NASA.) In any case, the wide wires make for less bit flipping. :)
- Comment on Pure contentment 4 days ago:
I’ve had 50 lovers, so according to me, Wikipedia is right! So? A woman still likes a solid banging now and again. I know, some guys make that their whole MO, gross, never met a woman who loves that every time. Give her some orgasms during the whole thing, of course! 100 ways to make love, bouncing 'em off the walls is only one.
Funny thing, I dated a woman who could have vaginal orgasms, forever. Gave her 8 or 10 one night, was afraid I broke her. Gods was fun in and out of bed.
- Comment on What do you do when you have a cold and can't take medicine? 4 days ago:
For symptoms:
Mom made me a shot of whiskey, honey and lemon juice as a child. (We did not drink in my household. Ever.) Works a charm.
My wife makes me hover over a steaming bowl of salt water, towel over head. Does seem to work well. Can’t hurt to expand your lungs with the hear and get some salt air in there, right? A trip to the beach, especially in the water, cures a great many ills.
The cure:
What breaks my fever is curling up in bed under a ton of blankets and knocking myself out. When I get to dreaming heavily I’ll wake up soaked in sweat. Not mildly moist, I mean to say soaking wet, really gross, have to get up and towel off. That’s how I know I’m on the other side and getting better.
- Comment on Pure contentment 4 days ago:
This might be news to you, but women often like to be submissive and get tossed around the bedroom. If you’re not doing that now and again… Also, don’t neglect to eat that pussy! Rookie mistake.
- Comment on What if tRump is Secretly bisexual but forced to be deeply ashamed of it like the rest of his generation? 6 days ago:
Said much the same yesterday. The poster child for narcissistic personality disorder getting on his knees? LOL. No fucking way.
- Comment on How bad is it really to listen to music with headphones? My mom told me if I keep doing that I'd go deaf... Is that fearmongering? 6 days ago:
The harm in OP’s example is immediate.
- Comment on How bad is it really to listen to music with headphones? My mom told me if I keep doing that I'd go deaf... Is that fearmongering? 6 days ago:
Bad logic, yes, but it stands in this case because the harm is immediate, not in some future decade. Given such widespread use, headphones must be OK or doctors would have been sounding the alarm decades ago after seeing young people with blown out ears.