FlashMobOfOne
@FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
Artist, musical performer, and former derby skater from the Midwest.
I’m single, childless, and married to freedom and adventure.
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- Comment on YSK: US Senate offices pay attention to how many constituents are calling them on a topic. Democracy doesn't end at the ballot box 2 days ago:
I think the lack of correlation between public opinion and government policy is more than satisfactory to demonstrate how much our federal legislators care about your phone calls, yes.
- Comment on YSK: US Senate offices pay attention to how many constituents are calling them on a topic. Democracy doesn't end at the ballot box 2 days ago:
LOL
Sure they do.
- Comment on This is a simple and satisfying way to fight Trump and Musk | It's time to delete X 2 days ago:
Deleted mine two years ago.
Kinda surprised it took everyone this long, TBH.
- Comment on Why are people preferring Blue Sky over Mastodon? 3 days ago:
I can only assume BlueSky feels more familiar.
Mastodon requires a bit of effort, lacking an algorithm to drive content toward users, so you have to do a bit more yourself.
- Comment on Is it cheaper to use a plug-in oil radiator to eat an individual room, or run the central heater to heat an individual room and living room? 2 weeks ago:
bundle up everywhere else.
It should be noted that if you don’t need to heat the room you’re in, you can also get an electric blanket for $30 or less, and those babies work infinitely better at keeping you warm than a space heater.
- Comment on Robinhood admits it’s just a gambling app. 2 weeks ago:
Please go look up the Dow as if October 1994.
Thank you.
- Comment on Robinhood admits it’s just a gambling app. 2 weeks ago:
In gambling, the house always wins, by extracting value from the players. In stock trading, the players (capitalists) collectively always win, by extracting value from labor, technological growth, and natural resources. These are not the same picture.
Excellent analogy. People who equate the stock market and gambling should go look up where the DJIA stood in October 1994. The slot machines in Vegas don’t magically start spitting out profit just because you’re patient, but stocks generally do over time.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Every two years the US votes for capitalists, then capitalist things happen, and people clutch their pearls as if this isn’t precisely what they voted for.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO's pay rises 63% to $79m, despite devastating year for layoffs: 2550 jobs lost in 2024 3 weeks ago:
This is the shit we need to be thinking about when we read about a black person getting shot by a cop for stealing a loaf of bread, if you ask me.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO's pay rises 63% to $79m, despite devastating year for layoffs: 2550 jobs lost in 2024 3 weeks ago:
Also that CEO has an eminently punchable face.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO's pay rises 63% to $79m, despite devastating year for layoffs: 2550 jobs lost in 2024 3 weeks ago:
When I entered the work force in 2005, it was with a company that had never had a layoff in its thirty-year history.
Then, in 2009, they had their first layoff, and I learned later our CEO had taken an 80% pay raise that year.
Taxes aren’t theft. Literally firing people and taking their salaries is theft.
- Comment on YSK that United has significantly escalated their war against basic economy passengers 3 weeks ago:
Same.
I will road trip or take a train instead of flying. I’d rather be on the road twelve hours than in a plane for one.
- Comment on Location tracking of phones is out of control. Here’s how to fight back. 3 weeks ago:
Just that the cheap ones suck. I got a two-pack from Walmart and the first one I used started falling apart in weeks.
I’d get one handmade off Etsy. They’re a little pricier, but the less expensive ones are garbage.
- Comment on Location tracking of phones is out of control. Here’s how to fight back. 3 weeks ago:
That’s good. I wasn’t even aware such a thing existed, but thankfully I know now.
- Comment on Location tracking of phones is out of control. Here’s how to fight back. 3 weeks ago:
I have my location turned off for everything and keep mine in a Faraday bag.
It feels good when I have to use it and, for a moment it says “no service”, like kicking the tech assholes in the dick.
- Comment on Baidu CEO warns AI is just an inevitable bubble — 99% of AI companies are at risk of failing when the bubble bursts 3 weeks ago:
If you’re invested in these stocks, make sure you have your stop loss orders in place, 100%.
I imagine the bubble bursting will be quick and deadly.
- Comment on Will COVID death rates of Republicans have a significant impact on the outcome of the presidential election? 3 weeks ago:
Fair point. I’ll delete my comment.
- Comment on People assume that the secrets of the universe will be revealed to them in an afterlife, but you might just remain your same dumb self and have to spend eternity going to church. 3 weeks ago:
There is no afterlife.
So don’t waste your precious time sitting in a pew feeling bad about yourself.
- Comment on Majority of Americans Feel Worse Off Than Four Years Ago 3 weeks ago:
Yep.
Too bad Kamala spent the first two months of her campaign repeating memes instead of advertising plans to benefit the working poor.
People can’t eat joy.
- Comment on My parents never did any extravagant trips like to Disney world or Sea world. Knowing what I know now I'm kinda grateful for that. 4 weeks ago:
It’s been a long time, but I was in a dance troupe as a kid and we performed at Disney World in the late 90’s. I’m not sure if they still do it, but when you traveled to perform there, they put your troupe name and the members’ names in the park program for the day.
My mom and I took the tram back to the park at dusk every night we were there to get a milkshake and watch the fireworks. TBH, those were some pretty neat experiences.
DW was a neat place before it got enshittified.
- Comment on Is American politics really as seemingly satirical of itself as it is portrayed? 4 weeks ago:
Nailed it.
Both parties are heavily funded by the 0.01%, and that’s neither a lie nor a coincidence.
- Comment on You'll have to use pto time to drown, but make sure it's approved first 1 month ago:
Can’t blame the people not voting when they can’t afford to miss work to vote.
If you’re a wage earner, you’ve watched the last two decades as both Democrats and Republicans have made it explicitly clear that they’re comfortable with you being paid poverty wages.
- Comment on You'll have to use pto time to drown, but make sure it's approved first 1 month ago:
There’s some truth to that.
- Comment on You'll have to use pto time to drown, but make sure it's approved first 1 month ago:
Dems: We Are Capitalists
I mean, capitalism is going pretty great for the Bloombergs of the world.
- Comment on You'll have to use pto time to drown, but make sure it's approved first 1 month ago:
Can’t really expect change when all we vote for are capitalists. If we want our culture to change, we have to make different choices in the ballot box.
- Comment on You'll have to use pto time to drown, but make sure it's approved first 1 month ago:
99% of the country votes capitalist every two years, and then everyone clutches their pearls when capitalist things happen. Guys, this is the world you wanted.
- Comment on Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate 1 month ago:
I canceled my Prime membership earlier this year because of that decline in quality. I wish everyone could, but thanks to the loss of retail throughout the country many can’t afford not to have it.
- Comment on They say “anyone can become president”, but this will be the first presidential election since 1970s, where there is no Bush, Clinton, or Biden on the ballot. 1 month ago:
It pays to have an electorate that can’t think their way past a brand name.
- Comment on And you will never catch up as Bezos make 8,000,000 per hour 1 month ago:
Right you are. Luckily it appears most people can derive my meaning by context.
But I’ll edit it if that missing zero is too confusing for you.
- Comment on And you will never catch up as Bezos make 8,000,000 per hour 1 month ago:
100% why it needs to happen.