GreenShimada

@GreenShimada@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2 North American 4 you has been created⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Now do Chop Suey.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Withdrawals⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that a zoo where each shitcoin is in its own paddock? That sounds fun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fuck, can I have a do-over?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If someone said this to me, I would laugh so had I couldn’t resist the sale.

  Shit your feets, my guy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We will never know the name of a human that lived 50,000 years ago⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  John Q. Sapien? The guy they named the species after?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rent is theft⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I hear you on this. I was homeless as a kid, and in college I had a friend who I just didn’t understand was wealthy, as I hadn’t learned the subtle social cues outside of a small town context. I was sort of still processing the fact that yes, living for years in the back of a store and not a house was not the experience that other people had, and it is defined as being homeless. Though certainly not as bad as living out of a car or on the streets. “Homeless lite” maybe? Anyway, I told her this one day and she immediately came back with “Oh! Me too! We lived in a hotel for 3 months while looking for a house to buy!” Even trying to get a bit deeper…nope. Steamrolled into her Eloise story.

  A year or so later, another friend got it out of her that she, indeed, did have a “small” trust fund for college. To her credit, she wasn’t a shitbag at least. Meant well, but just zero wherewithal about the discrepancy between paying daily to live somewhere and making up a bed every night of camper seat cushions and a sleeping bag

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rent is theft⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  and all the ‘rent is evil’ idiots i know in real life… took mommy and daddy’s money and became landlords themselves and now they complain about how taxes are evil

  Yeah, the turn that the Trustifarians take is always so fast. Like you can not see them for a few weeks and suddenly the locks are gone, toes confined to shoes, and they’re already clamoring for trappings as a totem of having forsaken their “sordid past.” All the whiplash from suddenly realizing that your paths in life end in the same few places, simply because your ideals force others to push you away.

  It’s really not too dissimilar from Flat Earthers - outrageous ideas that at first put you in a fun and weird community, but long term are the thing that makes everyone your enemy. Though, since Flat Earthers don’t specifically reject economic methods are part of their idealism, they can fare well for longer it seems. Though I don’t have data to back that up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rent is theft⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  People aren’t defending landlords per se. People are defending the opportunities afforded by having extra space and letting someone else pay what it costs to live there.

  Renting as a concept goes back to antiquity, and this is an absolutist stupid take that makes it sound like OP doesn’t understand how real life works.

  Not everywhere is a large city. Not all renters live in the same place for 20 years. Not all landlords are evil shitbags or faceless corporations. Sure, plenty are. Some are just families that are lucky to not have to sell their house if they move for work that lasts only a couple years.

  I end up moving every couple of years, and so I’ve had to sublet the last part of a lease I’ve had, and gladly rented places from friends, random people on Craigslist, whatever, for weeks or months at a time. So I’m a thief because I sublet an apartment for 3 months? So dumb.

  Long-term renting is really more the issue as landlords do just sit and leech and renters get nothing to show for it. But the fact remains that renting a room or an apartment is something that has since literally ancient times made more sense than huge amounts of unused housing you aren’t allowed to use. So this is actually a nuanced argument against a particular class of people and corporations. Meaning that the premise is flawed enough for most people to roll their eyes and ignore it.

  The whole “rent is theft!” trope doesn’t even make sense from a political messaging viewpoint. What’s your suggested alternative? That’s not apparent at all. So this ends up sounding like saying “I want hot spaghetti for dinner!” and just expecting it to happen.

  Also, a rather large number of people have rented something out, rented a room out, etc. thanks to AirBnB that this messaging makes enemies out of a whole lot of normal people by using absolute terms. People like me ask “Did my friends that helped me out steal from me? Of course not.”

  If you think that anyone who thinks a reasonable exchange of a service for an agreed up on fee are committing theft, then you’ve alienated 98% of people with the premise alone by calling them criminals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People espousing that unions don't work should have a look at police unions.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In some cities, typically heavily Democrat ones like Chicago and LA, they’re the monopoly holders, and push their own politics up and force the City Council to take it or accept the political costs of fucking with a union or of fucking with the perception of security and crime. Police unions flip everything you think you know about unions on its head. Unlike normal worker unions, the city can’t close up shop and move if the labor costs get too high. And yet in many large cities police are incredibly ineffectual at everything short of harassing the general public over smalltime BS because it’s easy for them.

  Ironically, another Chicago union, the Teacher’s Union, treats themselves with the same level of monopolistic power occasionally, and then asks for a raise and gets smacked down quickly because no one actually cares about schools or learning. Even though most residents support the Teacher’s Union, they are nothing close to holding the same power as the Police Union.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People espousing that unions don't work should have a look at police unions.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What commander wants to go against senior guys? What Union wants to throw members under the bus?

  And now it means it’s time to hire more officers! /s

  That’s the problem with making anyone or any group untouchable, is that you lose the ability to weed out corruption, or even make small changes that affect a few bad actors because the group sees any action against one as an action against all. Which is the point of unions in the first place.

  Unions are double-edged swords, and when set in a monopolistic situation like this, you can’t just close the Police Department like you can a coal mine in WV if costs get too high. In Chicago the Police Union IS the monopoly holder - and the same happens in many other cities, like LA. Police reforms become a suicide pact. It’s one of a few situations where everything is flipped from the usual company owner vs. union scenario, and then instantly becomes a national-level “Ah, but we’re a UNION!” when bothered in the slightest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How accurate is this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  FWIW, if one’s foodservice experience is bartending, you are given significantly more license to stand your ground and kick people out. Legally defensible license to do so. I genuinely enjoyed bartending most of the time, especially when it wasn’t a high-volume place.

  When it’s at a bar/grill restaurant, if you and the cook don’t run tag-team being bad-cop on every table that gets weird to spare the server staff, you’re doing it wrong. You are a weapon to be wielded. A 6-top often loves the suggestion that someone not getting a tip is a mutual villain making drama and that the server is the only person making magic happen against all odds. It’s theater, right? You provide dinner and a show.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People espousing that unions don't work should have a look at police unions.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, not really. Someone that worked with Chicago PD was telling me that a lot of the more senior officers (this was also 10 years ago) leverage accruing enough leave to cover half the year. So they collect a salary 6 months of the year, and a lot end up getting second jobs because they want more money. These are taxpayer-funded services, so I’d rather not give ample avenues to abuse the system because politicians have no spine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People espousing that unions don't work should have a look at police unions.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is true, though police unions typically leverage the “fuck you all” nature of being a union, that Dems won’t touch, and being police, that the GOP won’t touch. So no one stops policies that give wacky amounts of leave.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Draw!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Especially when in a hiring mindset, employers can see it as you being undesirable or lazy, maybe even covering for quitting before getting fired and being out of work suddenly and without a plan. “If you were such hot shit, why aren’t you jumping from job to job, higher and higher up the ladder?” That kind of thing.

  What’s important to keep in context is that typically one provides relevant job experience on a resume. Not all job experience. So gaps might be actual work, even.

  Typically if you can have a good excuse and say you did something productive with the time, it’s fine. “I was looking for work for 6 months after we moved and it was a tough market. I spent free time helping with a local community gardening project” would be totally acceptable. “I took a 3 month break to go work on an organic farm” is still work, just not relevant to your job application at Cinnabon or whatever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That assumption relies a lot on thinking that Elon isn’t a fucking idiot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible that the rich are so rich that they have created inflation?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Right, so I’m talking about real inflation. What you’re talking about would be fraud. The way companies commit this fraud is by leaning on the "well, prices of manufacturing went up! Won’t you think of the shareholders?!?! 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 " But the input price data is generally seen as proprietary data, so it’s not public shareholder data.

  Still fuckin’ fraud, though. It also takes coordination and collusion, which is price-fixing, and is illegal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible that the rich are so rich that they have created inflation?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll agree with “no, not really.”

  Inflation happens when demand for something goes up, and/or cost of production goes up (or speculation on the cost of production or restocking something). So with RAM, a few companies bought it all up, so the prices went up. In January 1848 shovels and picks were normally priced in San Fransisco - then the gold rush started and prices went up because people showed up to buy them faster then they would be made. Uber surge pricing is based on the same idea.

  The argument against the minimum wage going up is that it would cause inflation because increased wages would make things cost more - AND that shitbag stores would see people with more money buying more things and say “see? more demand. Let’s raise prices!” While COVID and post-COVID inflation is unique, a lot of that was tied to increased costs because supply chains fell apart and made it hard to get all sorts of things, everything from groceries to plastic goods shipped from China. This was a global thing, not just in the US. Why did the price of locally produced coconut cookies go up in Nigeria in late 2020? Because there were no plastic containers from Nigeria to put them in to sell.

  So inflation can happen either across the entire economy, or on singular things. So for the rich getting richer, inflation would be more likely on things they go in for. So RAM is one example. Exotic sports cars are another example, the number of cars made is kept low, which increases price. Especially if there’s a trend where every rich person wants a specific Ferrari, the price on that goes up and others wouldn’t.

  Based on this, what is money not being spent going to affect? Nothing other than people with rich people goods over-pricing them on spec, which is just trying to lure rich people into spending money, or if everyone knows rich people are hoarding wealth, they’ll raise prices for them since they expect them to be able to pay more. That’s risky, as it has to be coordinated and targeted. Rich people are also usually finicky assholes, so it’s easy for them to just talk shit about the high-priced thing that’s only high-priced for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Y'all got one, right?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I see what you did there 🫘🫘🫘🫘🫘🫘🫘🫘

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sexting⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry, no. Only in person at 666 Mockingbird Lane.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sexting⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Rickets?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sexting⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ooooooo, sorry, no. It’s always soggy apple cobbler with 3 pieces of corn that somehow made it into the cobbler square.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sexting⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but square in the sense that they will all be still partially-frozen 1960’s style TV dinners in the foil.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sexting⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Clearly this person is a keeper. As in, they’ll keep you locked in a dungeon in a castle somewhere while laughing maniacally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And it's delicious⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sometimes bread tastes better than skinny feels.

  But I only know what bread tastes like, not the other one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Technically, you’re a 9.8/10. But I can round it up to 10/10 ;)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨doing god's work Greg⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He was already on probation for having stuck his dick in the enchanted goo tub.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thanks 🙏🏻⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, what even is “standing still”? I’m sitting in a chair in a spaceship made out of silica, metal, gasses, and water traveling around 220km/s relative to Sagittarius A.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thanks 🙏🏻⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s why the Romans didn’t use salt as a condiment, but fish sauce. The umami+salt is different and objectively better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thanks 🙏🏻⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Three questions:

  1. Zahi Hawass - was he just “on” as official national tour guide, or was he able to act like a real human, and if so, what was your read on him?

  2. While out and about in the Sahara, ever hear of or run into a guy named “Camel Steve”?

  3. Do you have a few JHMCS helmets with manufacturing flaws that you take home and let the kids run around with and play jet pilot?

  Also, thanks for being a dude with stories on Lemmy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chomp!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Good choices are still choices. Ride the high, you earned it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨low beans⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  🎼 Swing looooooooow, sweet can of beans,🫘 coming to meme me home. 🎶