ZombieTheZombieCat

@ZombieTheZombieCat@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't know how to deal with what to me is a thin skinned and gossip coworker.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve already heard her saying I’m not friendly and I don’t know who should I react.

  I don’t understand why we can’t just do our jobs and go home.

  Self aggrandizing people being gossipy and passive aggressive…sounds like grad school.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘The View’ Host Joy Behar Scoffs at Young People Feeling ‘Left Behind by the Economy’: ‘Oh Please, Get a Job!’⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Barbara Ehrenreich wrote a great book about this called Nickel and Dimed. She was a full time journalist and set out to get a job at a diner and find a place to live on the salary. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel_and_Dimed

  Matthew Desmond’s books Evicted and Poverty, By America are amazing, well researched, easily readable books about poverty in the US. I can’t recommend them enough. https://www.npr.org/2023/03/17/1158230630/poverty-by-america-book-review-matthew-desmond-evicted

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Waffle Squarf⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Used to be one in Citrus Heights. It was gross. Wouldn’t expect any less.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A mother used her EV to power her son’s dialysis machine amid storms and a blackout | Electric vehicles with bidirectional charging can be life-saving, especially in times of power cuts and natural...⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Would still be a little difficult for people living in apartments. I always think about this when it comes to EVs, and owning “dumb” cars and maintaining them yourself, which I would like to do. My apartment complex has 3 or 4 EV chargers, which are assigned. So you would have to rent the apartment that comes with the EV spot, which I’m sure makes the rent go up by far more than it’s worth. And no way is there room to work on your own car within the assigned spaces. No guest parking either. I guess it’s just more stuff to add to the “cycle of poverty” list

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone wish they could go back to the beginning of schooling and re-live their education/school experience from the start?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would not go to grad school. Especially not in the city the program was in. Unless you’re an MBA or in engineering or something ultimately pretty lucrative, I wouldn’t recommend Academia Extended Stay to any sane person who values their own time, money, and dignity.

  If I had to do it again, I would have gone for a more specifically skill. Not the skilled trades. I know everyone’s all about that now, but we weren’t all born to be electricians. Just something more specific like a counselor, Auto CAD, etc etc

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone else feel like 90% of the population is stupid?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know, I think this a lot when I’m on here. Especially the whole “don’t vote for Biden because Israel” thing. I just saw some comments saying that Trump would be better to have as president because he’s just dumber and wouldn’t be able to carry out any kind of war. I honestly can’t tell anymore whether a real person would actually say that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it normal that I feel pretty bad for ignoring homeless people begging for money?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for talking about it. It’s more than I could do. It’s interesting and aggravating to have spent most of your life in a certain situation, then working to help other people in that situation, then studying it…then reading a bunch of comments by people arguing over it who are so certain they’re all right when it’s obvious that most of them have never come close to experiencing it.

  This must be what it feels like to be a lawyer and have to talk to a sovereign citizen or something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And this is why I no longer have cable.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I vaguely remember MuchMusic becoming Fuse at some point