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- Comment on Aged Like Milk 1 month ago:
Even when that person is putting others at risk, both directly and indirectly?
I mean…if some anti-vaxxer survives a bout with covid only to spread it to one of your immunocompromised loved ones, who isn’t so lucky and dies from it?
In that hypothetical, harsh as it may sound, I’d much rather the one with agency to take preventative measures and chose not to take them be the one to suffer the consequences of their selfish inaction and poor decisions.
I’m not saying they deserve to die, I’m just looking at it from the angle of how this person will use the life they’ve managed to hang onto and how they’ll negatively impact society and the people around them with the time they have.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 month ago:
This is a good point, although maybe I’m just unlucky, but quite a few times over the years, I’ve encountered friends, and friends of friends, who were vegetarian or vegan and seemed to make a primary hobby out of shoe-horning that information into any and every conversation they could. And every time, it was very deliberately and openly presented in a way to praise themselves and demonize anyone not like them.
Not only is food very foundational, as you’ve said, but I also strongly feel that a reason this particular set of -isms is such a lightning rod is because (perhaps due in large part to that foundational aspect of food in society), it seems like vegetarianism and veganism very much becomes who someone is, as opposed to simply describing an aspect of their lifestyle.
Not only that, but it becomes a part of their Identity in a way that frequently impacts the people around them.
So someone is a Catholic. That’s cool. I’m not one and I might have my issues with the Catholic church, but unless they’re extremely devout, chances are, their Catholicism is more “how they worship” and less “who they are” in everyday interaction. It just isn’t likely to affect me, and as such I’m much less likely to really care. As such, I’m cool with Catholics. Add to that: most Catholic people aren’t painting their religious belief in superiority either overtly or implicitly these days. They’re just going to mass on Sunday and doing their thing.
On the other hand, someone is vegan. That’s also cool. I might have preferences and a lifestyle that conflicts with their views and vice versa but we can coexist, and our preferences on what to eat won’t ever lead to conflict between us, right? Well…if they’re a coworker…or a member of a friend group, now any and every time that group of people wants to eat, that foundational aspect of society, now the group must accommodate that -ism which they don’t share. And that’s probably fine for everyone in the group sometimes…and some of the group all the time…but generally speaking, looking at all of the group, all of the time, that’s statistically likely to eventually rankle at least a few people. Then, depending on the individual, there’s a very real chance that they eat with this group, some of which may already be annoyed by having their food options limited by the choices of this individual…and on top of it, that individual takes that opportunity to make a comment that invokes morality into the situation…and it should come as little surprise that this type of person gets a generalized negative reputation.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 month ago:
If you’d like to break the stereotype of insufferable vegans, you might consider starting that process by not being one.
- Comment on Aged Like Milk 1 month ago:
It’s nice that you didn’t die from it
Is it really, though?
- Comment on We see what you're doing 2 months ago:
In a just world, he’d unpack the court, by force.
Not just saying “anyone who disagrees with my politics”, but Thomas, Kavanaugh, and Barrett have absolutely no business there.
- Comment on Elder scrolls 3 months ago:
I am not a fan of the general trend of de-buttoning.
Like… isn’t the entire point to make things consistent and intuitive? Make a clickable button visually distinct!
- Comment on Delicious. 3 months ago:
childern*
- Comment on Without fail 3 months ago:
Great suggestion!
- Comment on Without fail 3 months ago:
That’s an important lesson from the early days of the pandemic: assume you’ll get zero reaction from the group, so set up your questions/requests/etc. in such a way that a non-response gives you the answer you want.
“Okay I’m getting ready to start here, speak up if you can’t see my screen.”
“I’m setting our target completion date for next Thursday. Anyone have any issues meeting that deadline?”
“This new wrinkle seems like something that is mostly within the area of expertise of Bob’s team, so I’m going to ask that they resolve it before our next meeting. Bob, do you have any issues with adding that to your list?”
- Comment on Capital One is set to acquire Discover, merging 2 of the US' largest credit-card companies 4 months ago:
Another Discover hater here.
Many many years ago they bought some of my student loan debt and they’ve been impossible to try to work with. Even something as simple as shifting a due date by 3 days to better coincide with a pay schedule, or literally just to make it easier to pay them, they have been awful in every instance.
Of course since those early days I’ve changed jobs many times, tripled my pay, paid off 2 vehicles (the far more expensive of which was financed, ironically enough, by Capital One) and now have excellent credit, good income, etc. So now Discover floods me with mail to open a credit card with them…while still being fucking horrendous to deal with on the student loans!
The last time I actually had to talk to someone at discover they even tried to get me to sign up for a credit card on the call. The woman finally gave up when I told her that I’d rather lose everything and live on the street and survive on a diet of small bits of rocks and sticks than have any more business dealings with Discover.
- Comment on Capital One is set to acquire Discover, merging 2 of the US' largest credit-card companies 4 months ago:
Would it be the FCC or the FTC or the SEC?
- Comment on Diablo 4's new mount costs more than the actual game 4 months ago:
It worries me that you assume video games reproduce and raise offspring and develop and receive education at a rate that matches their human analogues.
- Comment on Windows 11 24H2 goes from “unsupported” to “unbootable” on some older PCs 4 months ago:
The Linux proselytizing combined with the rabid impractical political hive mind have combined to slowly take my usage of Lemmy from “increasing and replacing Reddit time” to “flattened out, going back to Reddit a bit” and now it’s moving solidly into the territory of “definitely using and visiting Lemmy less, spending more time back on Reddit”.
This platform has so much potential, but the community sucks. Which is saying something, given that the chief comparison is the reddit community.
- Comment on Windows 11 24H2 goes from “unsupported” to “unbootable” on some older PCs 4 months ago:
I bet you’ll sleep easier tonight knowing that your computing decisions are deemed to be acceptable by some rando on the Internet according to their standards.
- Comment on Real! 4 months ago:
It’s the cloaking.
- Comment on Ozzy gave THIS GUY permission, but not Ye? The hell? 4 months ago:
Vacuum losin’ all its suction!
- Comment on Fact 4 months ago:
Not yet.
- Comment on 'It's definitely backfiring': Seattle ordinance intended to help app delivery workers is 'hurting' them 4 months ago:
“No fair! Our business model was very simple: price gouge the customer while exploiting our labor force!”
- Comment on Where are the good political songs? 4 months ago:
Oh man I need to dig out my old Distillers stuff and listen to it again!
- Comment on "tHeRe'$ n0 rEpL@CeMeNt FoR dIsPlaCeMeNt!!!1!!!1!!“ 4 months ago:
It’s actually the easiest way to swap to electric.
Eh, I feel like that way is still narrowly edged out in terms of ease by trading in your ICE vehicle for an EV at a dealership.
- Comment on Microsoft revives aggressive Windows 11 upgrade campaign with intrusive popups for Windows 10 users 4 months ago:
Eh I’m glad that’s for you and you’re happy, and I know Lemmy might as well be the Linux fan club, but for me personally?
I’ve tried to switch to Linux on 2 occasions in the past (mid to late 00s and again in the mid 20-teens) and both times I found the conversion process tedious, the experience within the system to be one that felt like I was constantly fighting the system to accomplish my goals, and ultimately after giving it a few months each time, was absolutely relieved and delighted to finally give it up and go back to Windows each time. I tried at least 4 different flavors as well, so I don’t think it was so much that I just happened to not like one specific software, but rather that my primary annoyance was that I just wanted Windows and none of the Linux substitutes were it.
I’m sure a lot of that is simply being used to Windows after using it since the early to mid 90s, and I’m not saying Windows is perfect by any means…but for me at least, even a slightly annoying Windows experience will remain preferable to me over a third attempt to switch to Linux for the foreseeable future.
- Comment on Viggo Mortensen has be in The Road, On the Road, and about a dozen road genre movies. 4 months ago:
Green Book certainly counts.
All three LotR films.
In Hidalgo he kinda probably wished he had a road?
- Comment on TikTok Is Destroying Itself From the Inside Out 4 months ago:
YouTok has entered the chat.
- Comment on A sad tale 4 months ago:
Or maybe you’re just Ben Shapiro
- Comment on Best service for filing taxes? 4 months ago:
H&R Block forever earned themselves a place on my shit list a few years back when they plastered “free tax returns!” posters all over my area, got me to set an appointment, went into their office and waited over an hour past my appointment time, then brought me in, asked all the questions, established that I had a dead simple return…then informed me that their fee to do my taxes would be like $220.
When I asked what happened to the “free tax blah blah” that was on every bus stop and billboard in the area, I got some convoluted explanation that basically said, “oh it’s free to walk in and sit down and have the consultation you just got, but any actual filing would be a minimum fee of $200”. The guy added that part of the reason he was running so late was having to explain all this to everyone else who came in today as well. Basically admitting it was all just a massive bait and switch.
Walked out of there with my stuff and never looked back.
For anyone who’s basically just working at one job and not planning to itemize, I feel like doing it yourself is really not significantly more difficult than going to an accountant. You still have to answer questions and supply documentation…so if you can read and understand what “enter the value from box 4 here” means, you can do everything the accountant is doing for you.
- Comment on ‘The View’ Host Joy Behar Scoffs at Young People Feeling ‘Left Behind by the Economy’: ‘Oh Please, Get a Job!’ 5 months ago:
It could be done with roommates.
While it’s a stretch, that’s not the most glaring thing here…health insurance at $20/mo is an absolute joke that should’ve never gotten past any of the eyes that had to look at this thing before it went out.
The last time I had to pay for health insurance out of pocket, my premium was closer to $250/mo.
Granted that was for good coverage, but even a “just the basics” plan was at least half that.
One of the other things that “breakdowns” like this miss too is that these places typically don’t have sick days or paid vacation at all. You don’t come in, you don’t get paid.
So getting seriously ill is a major issue. If you catch the flu or covid and you’re down for two weeks, that’s half your month’s budget, from both jobs, gone. Plus your expenses are likely spiking for one or more doctors appointments, covid tests, medicine, etc. that you wouldn’t normally be spending on.
Add to that that a shitty manager might also just decide that missing two weeks makes you unreliable, so they just fire you, or just decide not to schedule you anymore, and now your future income is gone too.
…all because you caught an illness.
- Comment on ‘The View’ Host Joy Behar Scoffs at Young People Feeling ‘Left Behind by the Economy’: ‘Oh Please, Get a Job!’ 5 months ago:
This is why it infuriates me so much when people argue that some jobs, “Aren’t meant to pay well and live on.”
From the social standpoint: then if that’s your argument, anyone looking to support themselves had better be able to find a job that pays better for the skills they have. This not being the case, it suggests that these people are in fact trying to support themselves, they’ve just found themselves on the wrong side of the capitalist meat grinder, and the argument of the job being one that “isn’t supposed to support you” is nothing more than a distraction so you don’t have to say the real reason: because you’d rather have the person that serves your diner breakfast be trapped in an endless cycle of poverty than pay an extra dollar for your meal. You’re complicit in the process and you like it.
From the individual standpoint: ignoring for a moment the questions of who gets to decide these sorts of things and where the cutoff lies…isn’t it really just creating a convenient circular excuse for greed? These jobs have low pay because they’re not meant to support oneself on…but the reason they’re not meant to support oneself on is because they have low pay? And that’s good enough of an explanation?! People, especially older boomers, like to paint with broad strokes and imply that service industry jobs are “for teenagers in the summer and college kids putting themselves through school”, as a way to somehow justify low pay. Now regardless of the demographics of the employee (and we won’t even touch the idea of working at any job, much less service industry, to pay for college as you attend in this day and age)… regardless of all that…doesn’t it make sense that whoever is doing the work, if the same work is being done the pay should be the same? Granted there’s room for seniority, experience, skill, dependability, etc. but the point I’m getting at here is: isn’t it ridiculous to say that a kid should be paid less for doing a given job just because they’re a kid?
And regardless of where you stand on the exploitation of child labor, either answer leads you back to the same point: either it’s not okay to exploit kids, so kids should make the same as an adult for the same work, so we can pay these workers fairly…or you think it is okay to exploit child labor, in which case, that only makes it okay to short the kids’ pay…not the adults. Either way, the only explanation left for subsistence pay for adults is: the system is victimizing the working poor like an elephant sized parasite latched onto an ant, and justifying it by suggesting that if the ant doesn’t like it they should just try, you know, making more money.
- Comment on Waffle Squarf 5 months ago:
The grease adds water repellency.
- Comment on August 20, 1672 5 months ago:
I like to think they all just correctly frowned at the question itself and were too creeped out to reply, so the guy just stood there until the awkward silence was too much to bear, at which point he just thanked them for their time and got back on the boat and left.
- Comment on The four houses dads belong to. 5 months ago: