toadjones79

@toadjones79@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you're still on Lemmy...⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  But old people like me quote cliches with wreckless abandoned. And don’t feel guilty about at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you're still on Lemmy...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s me, I’m the problem… (Sorry I’m old and couldn’t help it)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The pipeline⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Alpha male is the easiest way a person can say they either had shitty parents or they ignored everything they were taught to be shitty all by themselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Excellent analysis. I often remind people that every economy that has allowed the wealthy to rule unrestrained for long enough has undergone a socialist revolution, which resulted in horrible conditions. The only exception was England, which adopted a new economy invented by Smith (capitalism, the most misunderstood/misrepresented economic concept on the planet right now). We don’t have capitalism in the US, we have slid back to what it replaced, which is a class system ruled by autocracy and oligarchy.

  I think people often fail to understand just what they are asking the wealthy to give up. Yes, they should give it up, and never should have gotten it. But they have the power to prevent the government from taking it away from them, and that blinds them to the dangers of revolt. For them those changes would feel similar to how the average person would feel about inviting a random homeless person into their home. Sure, most of us could make that work. We probably have the room even if it is a squeeze, and it might even benefit us if they help around the house (my parents used to take in homeless people and give them off jobs in the hotel I grew up in. They usually stayed for a few weeks to a couple of months. They paid for their room and board, gave them free meals at the restaurant next door, and an hourly wage). But most of us will never do that (including me) for a number of reasons. Same with the wealthy. They could give up their profits, they definitely have enough to never need another dime. But the concept is so abhorrent to them they will never even consider it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who can I ask or where can I find help in moving to a new country?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I would suggest considering completing the licensing before moving. I have seen just way too many times when people jumped the line in similar ways and it ended up biting them in the rear eventually.

  You may end up wanting to return in a couple of decades. Or it could streamline something if you move again to another country. Or you could end up being needed while traveling. Or being offered a position that needs that license for some online work without ever moving back. You could have a death or illness in the family that forces you to return. Or any of a million other reasons that you would want that, and not getting it now could mean eliminating options in the future. I knew a guy who’s wife was a doctor in another Mexico for years before immigrating to the US, and she had to start over from scratch. Just something to consider.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It happens...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As a dad I can say you better think twice kids!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Number of toilets is an approximation of wealth⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It can construed as a side step around the protected classes. Which means it could open up the opportunity to be sued. Since there are so very many lawsuits on the books about this, there is a likelihood that there is a precedent that would hurt someone who tried to use this side stepping idea. So most (wise) employers would avoid doing this to avoid the risk. It isn’t black and white.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I stop having expectations at the workplace?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  For me, deciding that everyone around me is an incompetent imbecile has been quite freeing. I don’t care what anyone thinks of me. I am always pleasantly surprised when they do a good job. And I am extra vigilant, take responsibility for the safety of those around me at all times.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has a patent office ever refused to grant a patent to something on the grounds it was too obscene?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I have no idea. It may have even be n a false claim. But I do believe the government can pay claim to a patent if it wants to. Like, if you invented a new kind of bomb, like say you figured out how to make a device that could create a decent amount of antimatter in a second row two, specifically loaded into a warhead, I’m pretty sure the government would take that from you and all your research. And it would be illegal to publish the design.

  But I’m no lawyer and am merely guessing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has a patent office ever refused to grant a patent to something on the grounds it was too obscene?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I knew of someone who had a patent for a device that attached to a forklift to aid in large scale floor remodeling (scraped up old vinyl flooring). The US military used Eminent Domain to steal that patent and use it for military operations (still just remodeling old floors, not even for combat operations).

  I don’t know any more specifics about it. (I have a feeling there were more details that would have made that more understandable). Just that they can take a patent if they feel they need to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Future generations will look at people who fear AI/Robots the same as how we today view people who fear other races/ethnicities⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it is more accurate to fear the transition. Economically speaking, there will be turbulence. We have already seen some companies try to eliminate all their employees and replace them with AI. But we have already been here before. I work in railroading, and in the 80s they all got rid of huge portions of their employees by replacing them with computers. Those people found new jobs, and some of them fell on hard times, while some made out better. There are whole industries that were completely transformed due to technology changes in the past forty years. But it wasn’t the end of the world. It was just turbulent for some.

  So for me, I’m not worried, but I am weary. I welcome AI as a new tool for humans to use. I just don’t welcome poor decision making from shareholders and shitty management.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sometimes I wish it was real⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I am religious, and for me he’ll is sort of where we already are. Like, heaven is more a concept of achievement, like being healthy and balanced. Hell is the regret for what could have been, and was always open to you.

  As far as the political Christianity that has overtaken republican politics, I think most of it is what Jesus was talking about when He said nothing angers God more than claiming you are a follower of Christ for the vanity. They (the Republican party) do not represent the teachings of Christ in any way at all. Not one part of their platform was taught or encouraged by Christ. (Except a very misunderstood adaptation of race politics that ignores Christ’s actual words regarding it).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cheers lads⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Long story. But basically I took a few of my friend’s friends out on rented snowmobiles at night and we all shared a bottle of jägermeister. My friend was a 30 year old mother of two with a husband in jail for violating a restraining order she had on him. Her two friend had recently had a threesome with her. (I chose not to have sex with her months before despite her throwing herself at my 18 yo self). This resulted in them getting into an argument, and I decided we should all leave. On the way back, mistakes were made (the two stopped suddenly in the middle of the trail to argue and I overcorrected to avoid them) and she fell off and hit her head. The two dicks sped off leaving me alone in the woods with an unconscious woman, who’s brain resorted to animalistic screams and flailing arms, holding her head/neck at an angle so she didn’t stop breathing. Some time later we were found, then the cops and paramedics arrived. I was sober by then, so didn’t go to jail. But she got life flighted half a state away and spent a month in the hospital.

  I sort of changed my life after this. I don’t really think of this as the moment it all changed. Rather it is other events (finding a belief in God and wanting to become a better person as a result) that precipitated those changes. But truth be told, I probably would have continued to go downhill if not for this incident. Typing that all out made me realize just how messed up my life was back then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cheers lads⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A very long time ago I was a stupid young man. I got a little drunk and ended up putting my friend into a coma for a week (on snowmobiles). That was the last drop I ever drank. It’s been over 25 years, but I will never forget how invincible I felt, and how foolish that feeling feels every time I think back on it. Don’t mess around with this shit. Like ever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What vacuum should I buy for 66% carpets in 1500sqft condo? Sub $500⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Shark Vertex. I landed in the AZ2002 a couple of years ago and it has worked extremely well for our home. Same carpet percentage, and we have a dog. Poodle, which has hair instead of fur, but we still end up with a lot of hair from regular grooming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Think about it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fairly common knowledge. Even portrayed in movies like Kuru and Seven Years in Tibet. Unfortunately the whole thing has been wrapped up in lots of misinformation. The Tibetans have both accused China of atrocities and claimed that they didn’t happen. Outsiders looking in on this could argue that they were trying to appease the Chinese to maintain the paltry religious autonomy granted by the Seventeen Point Agreement. Here is a link to a PDF from the Tibetan Bureau in Geneva listing their atrocities. It is worth noting that even these claims are impossible to verify. The Chinese government has worked tirelessly to scrub the world knowledge base, and most search companies are more than willing to cooperate with such large governments with huge resources. Additionally, sensationalism is equally attractive, meaning it is easy and tempting to over report and exaggerate war crimes.

  But the simple fact remains that May Zedong openly opposed religion and claimed that his annexation of Tibet was a “liberation” from what he called “religious oppression.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Think about it⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not even true. Like not even close. The Chinese liberation army forcing Tibetan children to murder their parents to “liberate” them from “religious oppression” is one example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some of the most realistic fictional movies ever made?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I got called to Minnesota to serve two years as an LDS missionary back in 2000. I absolutely loved the place. But my first day was I was stationed in Brainerd MN, and my apartment was on the edge of a frozen lake. I took a picture of it, and colored in the old brick BBQ to look like a wood chipper with feet sticking out of the top, and a large red stain across the ice, and sent it to my sister. That picture sat in her cubicle for years after that. I can’t think of that scene without thinking of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you could add, remove, or alter one single bodily function, what would it be?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Haha. Not what I meant but I guess it works too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you could add, remove, or alter one single bodily function, what would it be?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There was a sci-fi book a while back where all humans were gone, and all that was left was a thriving android civilization expanding across the solar system. The main character was built on the base of a sex bot, and had the ability to set the speed of her hair growth, and color. At one point she gets tied to some tracks (a city on Mercury that traveled around the planet) to be eliminated (she was a spy) and ends up getting away by forcing her hair to grow at a rate so fast it came out weak and easy to tear. Super weird book, but I thought of it when I read the comment I was responding to. And yes, on/off was part of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At this point I think I would⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Who the hell thought that anyone wouldn’t download a pirated house? How out of touch do they need to be?!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are Nintendo's $80 online game prices a result of tariffs or is Nintendo just using them as an excuse to price gouge as corporations do?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Taxer-in-Cheif can be a moron at the same time that corporations rape our wallets without either of them excusing the other.

  Prices are set by graphing a demand schedule and the supply. You graph how many sales you will get at each price point (sales go up as price goes down). Then you graph how many a company will produce at each price point (the more it costs, the less they will be willing to make/risk). The point where those two graphs intersect is the equilibrium. Which is the best price to charge. Taxes shift the cost, increase the price where they intersect.

  Digital is weird. Iirc, the risk is more in pirating. The more copies that exist, or the easier they are to access, the more pirated content will be out there. Don’t forget to include shareholder profits in cost, and the cost of other parts of the business (like a beloved endeavor that doesn’t turn a profit, Costco hot dogs for example).

  I’m not an economist and welcome any better explanations or corrections to this. It’s been a while since I took that class. But I love the topic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you could add, remove, or alter one single bodily function, what would it be?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sneezing/snot production. Sure, it can feel amazing. But the sudden urgency to stop everything I’m doing and focus on my nose or risk a disgusting eruption of green mucus all over my face in a public setting is something I could do without.

  Also, I’m waiting for someone with medical knowledge to come in here and mention Prions or something else silently devastating to the body.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you could add, remove, or alter one single bodily function, what would it be?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Welcome to 22 hour work shifts, with twenty minute breaks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you could add, remove, or alter one single bodily function, what would it be?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or just have the ability to control how fast it grows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man, buying anything is going to absolutely suck⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just to be clear, most of us aren’t even remotely surprised. We have been losing our voices telling the idiots we live and work around that this isn’t stupid as hell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I was supposed to pick him up from preschool today? Whoops.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Iirc that was the back page of a MAD Magazine. They used to publish tons of fake magazine covers like this so you could flip the last page around and make it look like a real magazine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You probably brighten peoples' day in ways you probably don't even know, just like this one lonely maga!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know, right?! I can only imagine how utterly disappointing reddit is to MAGAts. Probably about as disappointing as it is to the rest of us lemmings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why would an all loving god create hell?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For me he’ll is a place of our own making. Like, heaven is a state of being we grow into. Like dieting and exercise changes us for the better, commandments are there just to help us grow into a better being that is heavenly (more and more like God). Hell is the state of missing out on that eternal progression. Which means is is always an option available to us, and it doesn’t come from God but ourselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will We See Restrucutred UN in Near Future?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You started out strong on your first half. But we don’t need war, we need wise leadership. The power really is in the voters here. But decades of infighting (in each nation) over political stances have allowed scumbags to control all our nations’ UN interactions. We need to eliminate veto, or extend it to a three or four nation minimum (you need three nations voting to veto to block something) that is available to all nations.

  Down voting because war is always stupid and no one should ever sell the lie that innocent people need to suffer.