bustrpoindextr
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- Comment on This may just not be the best packaging idea... 9 months ago:
They don’t really do anything at all to make you feel full enough that they actually satisfy hunger
That was my experience with Soylent, but huel works for me.
- Comment on If a question is downvoted on !nostupidquestions, is the question too stupid or was it not stupid enough? 9 months ago:
Okay but like, how often do I actually have to wash a hoodie?
- Comment on The four houses dads belong to. 10 months ago:
I believe the cutoff is in the 80’s?
- Comment on The four houses dads belong to. 10 months ago:
All of their tools are completely unrelated to what craftsman used to be.
- Comment on The four houses dads belong to. 10 months ago:
Old craftsman or new? Because if new you might not be Craftsman very long. Old craftsman tools will outlive us all and if you can find them at a garage sale, buy em.
New craftsman tools are pretty much just junk.
- Comment on Sophie's choice 70s edition 10 months ago:
That combined with the pseudoscience that was spewed by Merritt Clifton, that everyone still quotes today, and you’ve got yourself some statistical issues.
- Comment on How do I breathe quietly through my nose? 10 months ago:
Yeah I have to agree with everyone else. If this is a question you’re actually asking, it’s probably a question for your doctor, because the actual answer should just be “just breathe dude”
- Comment on Is it normal that I feel pretty bad for ignoring homeless people begging for money? 11 months ago:
I mean you attacked me because you didn’t like a logical, obvious, critique of something. Which again, I never said it was bad, I just said it could be improved. And you said things that I just repeated back at you, and now you can’t handle your own words?
Goodness me indeed.
- Comment on Is it normal that I feel pretty bad for ignoring homeless people begging for money? 11 months ago:
Of course the CEO equivalent exists in government. It’s just a management position. Equivalent services will need equivalent management.
A CEO is not a manager. You’re already embarrassing yourself here 😉
Perhaps you didn’t read my comment. I’ve been a treasurer for a number of medium size charities. I know exactly how much money is needed to support the charities objectives.
I did read your comment, but I kinda assumed you either were lying or getting really defensive. There’s a lot of waste that wouldn’t exist if they were consolidated into the government.
Do you realize that there are multiple charities for the same thing, which just means more and more waste?
For example?
Yeah sure, since it’s already been brought to. The red cross does blood donations, but they’re only 35% of America’s non profit blood donations, there’s also America’s blood centers and vitalent and more! So much overhead! If they were all one organization, you could eliminate much of the overhead and more effectively coordinate the blood donations.
Sorry mate, this is just an absurd thought bubble borne of naivety. Get involved in a charity and you’ll understand why it exists.
Sorry mate, but you’ve got your head up your ass and you’re getting defensive.
I have been involved in both charities and government.
- Comment on Is it normal that I feel pretty bad for ignoring homeless people begging for money? 11 months ago:
I mean, you can look anywhere, whether it’s upwards of 70% of medical donations not being used: academic.oup.com/inthealth/article/11/…/5420717?l…
Also you can dive into the problems with definitions of “the cause” hbr.org/2009/06/beware-of-highly-efficient-cha
A charity can loosely define what counts as their cause which means they can tell you that 95 cents on the dollar go to the cause, even if it’s only 20 cents.
Moreover it’s really suspect that the rich keep getting richer even in the “nonprofit” sector: vox.com/…/big-charities-best-charities-evaluation…
Furthermore, even from an innocent standing. When you have multiple charities working on the same thing, that’s crazy inefficient.
Let’s talk about the Red Cross, great organization. One of the things they do is blood donations. They’re responsible for about 35% of the blood donations in the US, the rest come from other non profits.
That means there’s competition among the non profit blood donation organizations to provide blood for emergencies. Whether they want to compete or not, they have to.
Just from a blanket statement, if you moved all of those blood donations under a single entity, you remove a lot of inefficiencies.
You don’t need to advertise for multiple organizations, you don’t need to coordinate with all those different organizations during a crisis, you don’t have the same overhead for the same problems across multiple organizations. It’s just by design, inefficient. It’s not their fault.
- Comment on Is it normal that I feel pretty bad for ignoring homeless people begging for money? 11 months ago:
So first off, you can totally volunteer for government things. I mean, I can volunteer at my local government library for instance, there’s nothing about a government contract that removes the ability to volunteer.
But I wouldn’t need to have volunteers if the red cross and all competing charities were swallowed up into one thing.
There are a bunch of organizations that do the same or part of what the red cross does. That’s a lot of wasted time of resources, that would be better spent lumped together as a collective unit.
Charity is simply one of the places you absolutely don’t want competition/capitalism. You want oversight and efficiency, that’s the government.
- Comment on Is it normal that I feel pretty bad for ignoring homeless people begging for money? 11 months ago:
That was the point of my comment.
- Comment on Is it normal that I feel pretty bad for ignoring homeless people begging for money? 11 months ago:
I think ideally the point of charity organizations should be a stop gap measure that identifies issues the government needs to address, and then temporarily addresses them.
- Comment on Is it normal that I feel pretty bad for ignoring homeless people begging for money? 11 months ago:
I’m not saying the soup kitchen shouldn’t exist. It’s absolutely necessary, it should just be part of the guaranteed baseline, provided by the government.
- Comment on Is it normal that I feel pretty bad for ignoring homeless people begging for money? 11 months ago:
The CEO equivalent doesn’t exist in government. Your entire argument is pointless.
Do you realize how little a CEO does?
Do you realize how little the actual money donated to an organization trickles down to the cause?
Do you realize that there are multiple charities for the same thing, which just means more and more waste?
In fact in pretty much every instance of a modern government taking over a service, it becomes cheaper and more efficient. That’s why many governments run utilities, and healthcare.
Look I’m not saying your service is useless, but I am saying it would be more efficient elsewhere.
- Comment on Is it normal that I feel pretty bad for ignoring homeless people begging for money? 11 months ago:
So then we should ignore Kant and give money to individuals because it’s better than nothing
- Comment on Is it normal that I feel pretty bad for ignoring homeless people begging for money? 11 months ago:
Kant had a point there, but I think he also fails to address the problem.
The existence of charitable organizations means that the government has failed that group of people. Charitable organizations are extremely inefficient and sometimes are prone to the exact problems he brings up with donating directly to individuals, or they may prioritize certain individuals with certain religious beliefs over others.
Charitable organizations need to be folded and replaced with government programs. We don’t need to be paying CEOs salaries when we’re just trying to help someone on the street.
- Comment on It's dangerous to go alone. Take this. 11 months ago:
The glasses are OP, everyone’s like “the coin bruh”
Nah bruh, you know the power of speeches? Now have it so everyone’s on your side all the time. There’s no cooldown, it’s just always active.
You can just talk your way into anything. You don’t need money if you don’t have to pay for anything, if you want money you can still talk your way into having it. You wanna be president? Why not! Etc etc. The glasses are unreasonable.
- Comment on 💀💀 2006 was 18 years ago 11 months ago:
I was clearly exaggerating for humor. You seem fun.
- Comment on 💀💀 2006 was 18 years ago 11 months ago:
I mean… It’s not not normal. It shouldn’t be a frequent or common thing, but a one off? Yeah, shit happens.
- Comment on 💀💀 2006 was 18 years ago 11 months ago:
That means you still have 9 good years left. Live for me, wake up without your back hurting, stay up until 2 and have it not affect you. Eat garbage food and not gain weight, or spend the morning on the toilet.
- Comment on I finally own a "Kleinsche Bottle" :D 11 months ago:
Well fill 'er up!
- Comment on Why people say good morning (or something like that) on chat after a night? 11 months ago:
That’s why instead of “good morning” I just send SYN
- Comment on Choose wisely! 1 year ago:
It’s just a big container
- Comment on You guys need to stop 1 year ago:
Oh same, I lived in Philly for years lol
- Comment on You guys need to stop 1 year ago:
Yeah they’ve been more fuel efficient for awhile now, but you can take my 6 speed from my cold dead hands 🤣
I just like it.
I have an auto truck because I needed a truck and that was what was available for the price I wanted to pay, but my daily driver is a stick and imma drive it till one of us dies lol
- Comment on They won't teach you this in Drivers Ed 1 year ago:
Breaks a I’m you idiot fucking
- Comment on They won't teach you this in Drivers Ed 1 year ago:
I’m an idiot you fucking breaks
- Comment on The Peasant Life 1 year ago:
- This is a shitpost community
- See point 1
- Comment on America is so great we privatized taxes 1 year ago:
They didn’t though…