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Pissnpink , in A man bought a metal detector to get off the couch. He just made the "gold find of the century" in Norway.

I know what your thinking, but just stop. This won’t happen to you. You’ll just get all sore and sweaty from walking around. Maybe even sunburned. Return to the couch like the good lord intended.

moody ,

I don’t want to get off the couch either, but I’m sure he was thinking the same thing.

SpaceNoodle ,

This, but with “you’re” used correctly.

SheeEttin ,

I went metal detecting in my back yard once. I found a rusty spoon and a 12" length of pipe!

I also went on an old farm and found half an ox shoe. Neat!

SpaceNoodle ,

I didn’t know they made shoes for half-oxes.

electrogamerman ,

Thats just two less shoes than for a complete ox.

SpaceNoodle ,

It’s more likely two fewer.

electrogamerman ,

Technically fewer shoes are also less shoes (at leastif I translate to my language lol)

SpaceNoodle ,

No, shoes are countable, so it’s “fewer.”

sharkfeek , in One of Louisiana’s only pediatric cardiologists has left the state over anti-LGBTQ legislation
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Soon they’ll find themselves crossing state lines for life saving procedures, just like women needing life saving abortions already do in their states.

Ertebolle ,

And I bet in some cases they'll end up running afoul of laws passed to stop people from crossing state lines for abortions.

FlaminGoku ,

And they will be angry at the doctors being so far way instead of realizing the true root of the problem.

wetnoodle ,
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Unfortunately you’re definitely right, they’re gonna be mad that all the doctors were ‘indoctrinated’ into not agreeing with trans genocide and forced births

creamed_eels ,

Until they pass a law preventing the movement of people to other areas for healthcare because it’s too woke or something. We simply can’t have people getting liberal heart transplants, it’s against the freedom…of…the right to…bear freeze peach…I dunno

JJROKCZ ,

Interstate commerce is pretty much the reason the federal government exists, if states start seriously restricting interstate travel then the feds will have to step in. A few abortions isn’t enough to warrant a federal response yet but stopping a good portion of interstate medical care might gets the feds involved

Earthwormjim91 ,

You really think the current SCOTUS is going to give a fuck?

Wooki ,

Wait until the next election and tell me how bad it is then

ElectricCattleman ,

Religious conservatives used to be against all sorts of medical and scientific practices, saying they were an abomination or an afront to God’s plan.

gowan , in Bodycam: Pregnant woman accused of shoplifting shot by police
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Why are we shooting shoplifters? What kind of immanent threat did she present?

madcaesar ,

The shareholders would lose 0.000000001% profit

BillyTheSkidMark ,

You joke, but this number is probably still too high. In fact I wouldn’t be surprised if shareholders technically lost money due to the interruption of potential customers by all the commotion.

WallsToTheBalls ,

The hitting a cop with a car part

gowan ,
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With a car at a near stand still there was no risk to their life. They murdered her for shoplifting food.

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  • gowan ,
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    She escalated the situation but there was never enough space for this to be a risk of a fatality.

    Specal ,

    Well I suppose you’re right, pointing a firearm at someone doesn’t mean you’re gonna kill them and isn’t escalating the situation.

    SCB ,

    No police officer was actually struck by the car, if you read the article. The car only moved when she died, because her foot was on the brake.

    Imagine if they just got her license plate and showed up at her house and arrested her later for the misdemeanor of fleeing the scene. Everyone lives.

    robbotlove ,

    I’m just relieved that the property was protected.

    S_204 ,

    Her driving at the officer is a pretty immediate risk…

    gowan ,
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    No it isn’t. The distance she could travel was not sufficient to achieve the force needed to make a lethal incident possible. Unless the cop decided to place their head in front of the wheel there is no way for the car to kill them.

    CaptPretentious ,

    A car at rest vs unhinged cops with loaded guns who have no issue killing… Hmmm 🤔

    Maybe next time I go hunting instead of bringing a gun, I’ll just bring a car.

    Malfeasant ,

    To be fair, it’s often said, if you want to get away with murder, do it with a car… Sprinkle some bicycle next to the body for good measure.

    megalodon , in Muslim call to prayer can now be broadcast publicly in New York City without a permit

    I find the call to prayer more offensive than inclusive

    downvotee ,

    You will hear it and you will like it.

    Cleverdawny ,

    To me it sounds like a particularly angry donkey

    790 ,

    The German word for actions like that is “Konfrontative Religionsbekundung”. My layman translation would be “confrontational exhibition of religious faith”.

    Thisiswhatyoucallme , in Girl, 13, gives birth after she was raped and denied abortion in Mississippi

    And the nurse’s comment on finding a 13 yr old pregnant? “What have you been doing?” For fucks sake, I hate the world.

    Kit ,

    Ah yes let’s slut shame the 13 year olds instead of doing our due diligence as mandated reporters. Smh.

    Naura ,

    and it’s her rapist’s child. a stranger nonetheless. These folks just lack humanity.

    Maiznieks , in Girl, 13, gives birth after she was raped and denied abortion in Mississippi

    Is this what they want? Ruined lives? Fucking idiots.

    veloxization ,
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    Yes. The cruelty is the point.

    Aceticon ,

    The poor are supposed to be punished via all sorts or laws that keep them poor, for the “crime” of being poor.

    Kinda reminds me how in my country - Portugal - during the Fascist Dictatorship abortion was illegal but the daughters of the wealthy (and you could only be wealthy if part of the regime, so these were the very same people who made the laws) could just go next door to Spain to get an abortion whilst the rest (almost all of them, as there was crushing poverty in the country back then) couldn’t afford to.

    Whilst the outright Evil of the people passing this kind of law is bad, it’s the hypocrisy that really makes it trully disgusting.

    sebinspace ,

    god has a plan or whatever

    idiomaddict ,

    It’s literally what they want. You think that girl’s going to stand up for herself at work when she’s got a kid at home?

    Colorcodedresistor ,

    well shit. you nailed it, i was that kid at home and my mother beat the shit out of me to vent her frustrations from the apathy work gave her. what’s worse than being abused. seeing those around you foster that abuse because, lol single mother = prey.

    ZILtoid1991 , (edited )
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    In theory, they want the girl to give up the baby for adoption.

    In practice, they instead often end up being shamed to keep it, and so on, and so on...

    Burn_The_Right ,

    Yes, actually. Conservatism flourishes most when people are suffering, unhealthy and impoverished.

    It is a plague in desperate need of a cure.

    JustZ ,
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    They want low wage workers. Now they have two, forever.

    someguy3 , (edited ) in Newest "anti-woke" tantrum: Right-wingers don't think kids of different races can be friends

    Dungan’s behavior is a perfect illustration of the “anti-woke” tap dance. The person alleging nefarious wokeness never admits to their own bigotry, instead pretending that they’re reacting to “woke” people who are “pushing” an agenda, in this case through innocuous poster art.

    That is a very good take.

    Also: it’s always projection. Conservatives push an agenda, so they assume everyone else does too.

    ultrasquid ,

    I really want people to start considering “woke” a slur. Its basically just a word the far right uses for people they don’t like, aka minorities.

    theneverfox ,
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    I really want people to learn the actual meaning of the word - it really says it all. And normally I argue for lingual drift and accepting the changed meaning of words, but in this case most people don’t know the definition, but aside from a racial/identity implication, they’re using it mostly correctly

    Woke means looking at the system critically, not believing the things politicians and public officials tell you at face value, seeing how it’s all designed to turn us against each other so we never attempt meaningful change.

    In a phrase, it means “wake up to the lies and think for yourself”

    QHC , in Wayne Brady Comes Out as Pansexual: 'I'm Doing This for Me'

    It’s always so eye-opening to read about a larger-than-life personality like Brady considering themselves an introvert and being bullied in school. I am glad he got to a point where he is happy and can share his story.

    drewofdoom , in We’re now finding out the damaging results of the mandated return to the office–and it’s worse than we thought

    Then there’s my employer, who is giving us WFH for the foreseeable future. They might even sell our office building and move our datacenter.

    We do a monthly small-team in person, and the occasional all-staff in-person, but otherwise it’s just “come in if you want, or don’t, lol.” Like, I technically have a desk. It’s just got a couple monitors on it collecting dust, though. I’m only really ever there (aside from the infrequent in-persons) when my rabbit has to go to the vet, which is closer to the office.

    We actually showed more productivity after moving to WFH, so they said ‘let’s just keep it.’ So my only restriction is living in the state, since it’s a publically-funded org.

    xtremeownage ,

    My company is the same way.

    They realize many of us will leave, and they would lose a ton of money trying to replace us.

    Kecessa , (edited )

    14% increase in productivity in my department yet they won’t get rid of our office, just in case…

    My boss seems to start to understand that if they ask me to RTO then I’m gone because I don’t live anywhere close to where I did when they hired me.

    hrimfaxi_work ,
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    No picture of the rabbit, though? ☹️

    partial_accumen ,

    Right? They didn’t pay the rabbit tax.

    drewofdoom ,

    Shit, sorry, missed this earlier! This is one of them.

    corsicanguppy ,

    only restriction is living in the state, since it’s a publically-funded org

    The job I fled to as soon as the fuckwits at the old place revealed they’re too dumb to manage remote people whose butts they can’t count visually each day (and that’s not a creepy fixation) is publicly funded.

    Soon as COVID hit, they went from ‘Office Space’ to ‘gtfo without paperwork to come onsite’. And they stayed that way. WFO-first is now in the union contract. They sold the desks and ditched the lease. 100% WFH except 2 hotel spots and one rotating freight-receiver post. A Sears kiosk has a bigger footprint.

    It used to be “stay in this region,” but that’s changed: new hires coming online are from across the country. No barrier as long as it’s still within fed borders.

    I need to move out East so I can take a ferry to France or cross the land border to Denmark; but also for the crazy cheap housing and beautiful scenery.

    Anyway, public funding doesn’t preclude a Detroit mansion.

    EssentialCoffee ,

    Public funding can definitely come with strings though and location can be one of the strings.

    Also, the more locations you have folks, the more you have to deal with taxes in other states. They might just not have the funding to do that additional work.

    drewofdoom ,

    Except I work for a state’s community college system. Working for a state org, they want you to pay taxes in that state.

    FWIW, they let me work from Georgia for the first year and change during the pandemic.

    LEDZeppelin , in After $700 Million U.S. Bailout, Trucking Firm Is Shutting Down

    Meanwhile republicans are fighting tooth and nail to claw back student loan forbearance during pandemic and cancel any student loan forgiveness

    Priorities, I guess.

    PenguinJuice ,

    These politicians all need to be voted out for someone new. None of them are performing appropriately.

    I_Saved_Hyrule ,

    Tricky to elect younger & more competent when the older generation is so much more practiced at the schmoozing aspect, unfortunately. Not to mention better funded by special interests who trust their predictability.

    PenguinJuice ,

    Age limits, asap

    elscallr ,
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    We have them, they’re called elections. I don’t like most people in Congress, but it’s not up to me to decide who the people of Kentucky or California want to represent them. I have the right to weigh in on exactly 3 members of the legislature: 1 Congressional representative and 2 US Senators.

    PenguinJuice ,

    Age limits no matter what.

    Zorque ,

    Don't worry, there's plenty of young incompetent people in office, too!

    MossyFeathers ,

    Yeah, we seriously need to start “voting” them out. This shit has gone on for far too long.

    Zehzin ,
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    I like those quotation marks. Let’s “vote” them out.

    FlashMobOfOne ,
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    Also doing everything they can to funnel more of our money to another country’s war.

    Awesome.

    Snowpix ,
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    The money is only being spent on replacing the outdated military hardware that’s being sent over to Ukraine, which would otherwise be sitting and rotting in storage and would need replacement or expensive repairs to get running again. The US loses nothing from sending weaponry to Ukraine, and has everything to gain. It prevents continued Russian aggression on other countries (and Russia has explicit plans to invade more countries), saves Ukrainian lives and drives away the invaders so civilians aren’t being murdered in their homes, and boosts the economy through the increased number of jobs created for building the newer, better replacement equipment.

    To claim that the money is being wasted is naive and misinformed at best, and actively disingenuous and malicious at worst. Putin would love for the US to stop sending support so he can continue his genocide.

    FlashMobOfOne ,
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    The money is only being spent on replacing the outdated military hardware that’s being sent over to Ukraine, which would otherwise be sitting and rotting in storage and would need replacement or expensive repairs to get running again.

    Would be totally fine with that if it were being deducted from the next budget, but it’s not, so it’s added to the hundreds of billions we’re already taking on in debt while also neglecting our own people.

    It prevents continued Russian aggression on other countries

    Couldn’t care less. Our people don’t have health care, education that they can afford, and the minimum wage is still 7 bucks. I’d much rather see that money spent saving our people from the aggression of our predatory economic environment, as is already the case in most first-world countries.

    kbotc ,

    Sounds like your mad at the republicans, and yet parroting their talking points.

    ZzyzxRoad ,

    Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

    Maybe the fact that they have varied points of view actually shows that they think for themselves instead of parroting anything?

    NekoRiv ,

    ‘varied’, you mean standing for whatever benefits them the most at any given moment even if it immediately contradicts the statement they made immediately before.

    spare_muppet ,

    It’s not like your country was about to provide socialized health care, affordable quality education, and a living minimum wage, and suddenly stopped those programs in order to fund the war. And you politicians most likely to stop funding the Ukraine are the least likely to vote for any of these “socialist programs”

    FlashMobOfOne ,
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    That doesn’t make it any less problematic, nor does it make me any less right in pointing out the extent to which our people are neglected so war profiteers can fund their golden parachutes. (Sadly, with help from a lot of chickenhawks, like the folks on this thread.)

    CosmicCleric ,
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    (Sadly, with help from a lot of chickenhawks, like the folks on this thread.)

    Sometimes it’s not everyone else that’s wrong, it’s just you.

    CosmicCleric ,
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    Sometimes it’s not about the money, it’s about doing the right thing.

    UmbrellAssassin ,

    So that’s how the economy should be fixed. Let more people get away from paying what they agreed to pay. The only reason people are so for student loan forgiveness is because it actually effects them. You agreed, you signed the paper.

    wanderingmagus ,

    Or, we seize the assets of the rich, redistribute it to the poor, implement a wealth and inheritance tax, universal healthcare, free college education and universal basic income. As someone who doesn’t have student loans, fuck the paper and fuck this greed-driven system. Why does the richest nation on the planet still have poverty and homelessness and shit medical systems where people literally vomit shit because they can’t afford treatment?

    UmbrellAssassin ,

    Yes give people money for not doing anything. Thats fair. There is places with universal Healthcare, ask them how that works. Well doesn’t work more like. Free college will have big ramafications. What good will a degree be if everyone has one. Then everyone will have to get a university degree and cry about loan forgiveness for that.

    wanderingmagus ,

    Ask Sweden, Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands. People like you are what’s wrong with the world. I bet you’re one of those people who thinks poor people only exist because they’re lazy and need to pull themselves up by their fucking bootstraps.

    UmbrellAssassin ,

    Weird that people from all these great places come to America for real Healthcare. That’s weird. There is many reasons why people are broke. Some of them are self inflicted, some aren’t.

    FlashMobOfOne ,
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    They come to America for very specialized health care, and only that.

    And you know why?

    They won’t be bankrupted for an injury or illness in their own countries, and not a god damn one of them is going to sign up for American health care once they look at the medical bills we get for routine shit.

    UmbrellAssassin ,

    So strange that while the Healthcare is free that it takes months on a waiting list to get basic surgery. That most of it can’t be done there. Almost like the hospitals don’t have the time or money to treat everyone. I’m sure it’s just a coincidence.

    FlashMobOfOne ,
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    Repeating bumper sticker slogans doesn’t change facts.

    If Europeans wanted American-style health care, every European country would have it. They don’t. They’d rather not mortgage their homes for health care like we do.

    There’s a reason why the rest of the world doesn’t do health care the way they do. They don’t want to be left for dead when they can’t pay a price-gouged medical bill.

    UmbrellAssassin ,

    Well that would be a huge bumper sticker. No idea where you found that before. You really think the people have a choice? The European people have less of a say about their government than we do.

    girlfreddy ,
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    @UmbrellAssassin @wanderingmagus

    Nope. But do go on about things you know little about.

    UmbrellAssassin ,

    Glass houses blah blah blah.

    CosmicCleric ,
    @CosmicCleric@lemmy.world avatar

    You and I both know that the odds are stacked, between the haves, and have nots. And for the halves to tell the have nots to suck it up and just pull up on their bootstraps doesn’t always work.

    The first group of people (aka haves) getting into power forceify their power base so that only they and their friends benefit from it.

    Democracy is supposed to prevent that, but it’s only as good at preventing that as it is the people you elect to office.

    UmbrellAssassin ,

    I wasn’t born with a silver spoon up my ass. I worked my ass off and used any resources that I could find. It took time and hard work. I didn’t sit around waiting for a handout and being upset at the world for not getting it.

    CosmicCleric ,
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    I did as well, and was successful in doing so, but it definately wasn’t a fair/equal field to walk through, which goes to my point.

    UmbrellAssassin ,

    The world isn’t fair. It is impossible to be fair to everyone and having and real world experience would show they. Especially since fair is subjective.

    CosmicCleric ,
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    The World is what you make of it.

    UmbrellAssassin ,

    The world is what it is currently. You can change your perspective or option on it, but that is only internal. You can change how you react and deal with the world.

    CosmicCleric ,
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    You’ve missed the understanding of what that phrase represents.

    UmbrellAssassin ,

    I’m pretty sure you are taking that quote way to literally. That or you apply it to others and not yourself.

    CosmicCleric ,
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    That or you apply it to others and not yourself.

    What proof do you have of this?

    InternetUser2012 ,

    That’s boomer talk there. Always worried about everyone else rather than themselves. "you shouldn’t have a good life because I worked my ass of for 6 hours a day in a factory job that afforded me a nice a house and two car payments with money to spare on steak everyday. The same job now that you’d need a roommate to live in a one bedroom apartment and ride a bike to work while eating shit food. Get over yourself.

    UmbrellAssassin ,

    I’m not a boomer and it isn’t a boomer mentality to think people should work for the things they want. If you really think that 6 hours is a long shift, just wait until you actually get a job. It is hard if you get an easy job. That’s a choice. So is getting a low yield degrees. Those are choices. If you choose the easy way now, don’t complain about the outcome later.

    wanderingmagus ,

    Hi, US Navy submariner here with an “actual job” that can last 16+ hours a day regardless of rank when underway. I think it’s bullshit civilians are forced to work 5 day weeks and 9 to 5 jobs in the 21st century when automation is literally right there and other first world countries already have free Healthcare and college. I am certainly not complaining about Tricare that I receive as a servicemember, or the job security, or the government provided housing I could ask for at any time if I needed it, or the tuition assistance I can use to go to college. I think all citizens should get these same privileges.

    UmbrellAssassin ,

    Was it Scotland that did free college and what happened? People got bullshit degrees and complained that they didn’t get them anywhere. Countries with free Healthcare not being able to take care of people in a timely manner forcing them to spend huge amounts of money going to other countries. While still getting taxes for Healthcare. Free doesn’t mean free. Governments don’t make money. They take money from their people and use that.

    Shadywack ,
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    I see people who work 50-70 hours a week, and even with all that overtime they cannot afford their medical expenses, or they’re being forced out of their rental due to the landlord selling the property and now they have to cope with a move to a more expensive place that no longer fits their budget, they also have $60k in student debt on a degree that didn’t get them the job they have (despite being told by “experts” that you get a bachelors/masters or you’re useless, all to enter a saturated field that wasn’t saturated 2-4 years ago), and they can’t afford a reliable vehicle.

    It must be nice to have that silver spoon you were gifted with, but there are many more who work hard but still have fallen off the edge of our system with no safety net. This isn’t about working for things you want, this is about people having the means to take care of their needs.

    Quite frankly your view is narrow and outdated, hence the people that think you’re a boomer. If it’s so easy, then by all means tell us what the hundreds of millions of people should be doing without the canard advice of pulling yourself up by your bootstraps, because that is a chickenshit weak argument by privileged fuckheads who have no clue.

    UmbrellAssassin ,

    You can’t blame a landlord for doing what’s best for them. They can’t take the hit for people just cause it is hard for them. What experts are you talking about? If people didn’t research before hand, they are the only ones to blame. Yes the automotive market sucks, yes the housing market sucks. That doesn’t mean crying about it and waiting for a handout will fix anything. I didn’t have any spoons. When was going to college I realized I couldn’t afford it and the degree I wanted wasn’t going to work for me, got a job, worked my ass off hopping from job to job trying to find something. When my car broke down, I didn’t get the car I want, I got a car that works and can get me places. Slowly moved up while finishing up a degree that can actually do something, found a stable job and now going back for a bs in something that might not be what I wanted to do with my life, but something that can help me lead the life I want. I’ve been trying to buy a house for years and instead of jumping into the first opportunity that looks good, I’m waiting and researching to make sure I don’t put myself in a worse position. You are your safety net. You shouldn’t expect someone else to pick up after you when you make mistakes unless you are a child. People like you confuse want and need. You want a nice fancy car, but you don’t need it. You want a huge house, but then you are setting yourself up for failure. I’ve know people that didn’t have the best start to their lives and made the best of it and found resources that could help. The people around them that just sat around complaining without doing anything about it are still doing just that. All you can do is call my argument names and complain that you should have shit handed to you. What’s your argument? What’s your way to fix things that doesn’t include bitching on the internet?

    Shadywack ,
    @Shadywack@lemmy.world avatar

    What experts are you talking about?

    So you don’t believe that for the past 40 years, the prevalent career advice given to the youth is to go to college? The experts range from professors, politicians, executives, economists, K-12 schools, to pretty much anybody that chimes in on what everyone should do after high school. If you’re unaware of the advice given for half a century to young adults, then its no surprise you’re a completely out of touch moron.

    If people didn’t research before hand, they are the only ones to blame. Yes the automotive market sucks, yes the housing market sucks. That doesn’t mean crying about it and waiting for a handout will fix anything.

    You’re absolutely right, which is why its important to recognize the problem and then support the policies that fix it, because the free rigged market’s only been making it worse.

    I didn’t have any spoons. When was going to college I realized I couldn’t afford it and the degree I wanted wasn’t going to work for me, got a job, worked my ass off hopping from job to job trying to find something. When my car broke down, I didn’t get the car I want, I got a car that works and can get me places.

    That you had the means, indicates you had a privilege the majority of people don’t have. Luck got you through all that, not your hard work. Contribution bias is a bitch, and it’s time you recognize it. Refusing to acknowledge the role luck played for you is exactly what makes you an asshole.

    You are your safety net. You shouldn’t expect someone else to pick up after you when you make mistakes unless you are a child.

    So by your own logic, we should abolish the ADA, disability, and social security, along with public highways, streetlights, and EMTALA. We should just all be our own safety nets, and fall over dead because of bad luck. It seems like you’re all about luck that favors you, while discounting the misfortunes that happen to others. Sounds like a typical conservative, privatize your profits but subsidize your losses eh?

    People like you confuse want and need.

    EMTALA passed a real long time ago because we as a country decided that life should take value over “muh profits”. I should remind you, EMTALA was signed into law by Reagan. People need a home, access to healthcare, and a way to get to work. Since public transit is unpopular in most of North America, cars are the option available. Funny how you twist my words around to assume when I say “and they can’t afford a reliable vehicle” you infer that I meant a “fancy car”. Same for the allegory of a place to live. People are expected to pay thousands per month for shitty housing infected with bed bugs, roaches, or have faulty heating and electrical.

    Judging by the terrible grammar, I’ll bet you’ve been working on your degree for a very long time, and will continue to do so. I’m convinced you’re lying, and that you actually are an ignorant 50+ year old dumbass boomer. You’re so full of shit or you’re so out of touch, your idiotic and flaccid opinions may as well be scrawled in shit on the side of some dank subway tunnel, with flies buzzing around it.

    Enjoy extinction, you’re a dinosaur.

    UmbrellAssassin ,

    I’m aware that people are pushed to go to college. I’m just not a moron enough to think that every degree is worth the same at the end of the day. If you didn’t study up on your path in life, well tough shit. You decided to get a degree in humanities, well your going to live with the consequences. Don’t act like you don’t know what I’m talking about when it comes to what you study mattering. Unless you really didn’t pass middle school reading comprehension and still somehow can act high and mighty. The problem isn’t just the “system” it’s also about the individual. I actually am starting to feel bad for you. I understand the exact kind of person you are. The kind that can’t comprehend that they didn’t work hard enough so all they can do it say everyone else is lucky. I’m sorry sweetheart. You just suck. Nice straw man, I hate bringing up these kind of terms but your responses are typical social media brain damaged crap. It’s sweet you think you can argue. Ohhh, thousands for a shit house? So your going to blame other people that you aren’t smart enough to move somewhere cheaper and with a better quality of life? What’s next? You gonna blame Trump that your shoes are untied? Those damn conservatives. Got any other hot button words to throw out? Enjoy the image of that subway tunnel, that’s the only place your simple minded, victim mentality, my problems are everyone else’s fault, attitude will get you. I’m sure once you get some real life under your belt, you’ll realize how. cringy you sounded. Well hopefully. Just remember, money only solves money problems. Your are still the same person on the inside. You can get your student loans erased, you will just find something else to bitch about. A happy life cannot be bought, it has to be earned. Go out there and get it, maybe you’ll stop being so miserable. First step is to stop blaming everything else on your issues and look inside.

    CosmicCleric ,
    @CosmicCleric@lemmy.world avatar

    That’s boomer talk there. Always worried about everyone else rather than themselves.

    Please don’t be Ageist. It’s not an age thing, it’s how you were raised thing.

    Some of us “Boomers” (I’m actually first gen Gen-X but keep getting called a Boomer) actually do care about others, especially the generations coming up behind us, and want to strive for a win-win scenario for everyone.

    InternetUser2012 ,

    It becomes an age thing when someone is talking shit about a younger generation not wanting to work or anything like that because as I said, back in their day a shit factory job was enough income to afford a house and two cars.

    The “how you were raised” is a bunch of shit too. It’s who you decided to become.

    CosmicCleric ,
    @CosmicCleric@lemmy.world avatar

    It becomes an age thing when someone is talking shit about a younger generation not wanting to work or anything like that because as I said, back in their day a shit factory job was enough income to afford a house and two cars.

    But that’s not automatic based just on the biological timestamp of the people expressing the opinions. And not everyone in that classification agrees with each other.

    Yes, different generations have different living conditions, but don’t say they’re wrong just because they are a Boomer (which is usually used to signal that they are automatically out of touch and should be ignored), you say its based on the times/society they lived in instead which formed their opinion, and not their physical age.

    The “how you were raised” is a bunch of shit too. It’s who you decided to become.

    And you decide who you want to become based on the society you live in at the point of time you’re growing up and living in it, as its society which forces the rules to live by.

    As time goes by and newer generations show up over the decades, they revise the rules of society and then yes at that point you’re supposed to change with them (but only if you agree with them; free will is a bitch), but you also have a hard coded base of beliefs already and rules that you’ve lived your life by that you’ve learned from earlier days.

    You can’t hand wave that away no matter how much you want to. People do get set in their ways based on the society time frame they grew up in, and not their biological timestamp. If you want to change their minds you have to understand that fact and work with it.

    I’m not saying overall you’re wrong, older generations are supposed to update their belief systems to match the times they’re living in now. But to ignore the fact that humans don’t like change won’t solve any problems.

    girlfreddy ,
    @girlfreddy@mastodon.social avatar

    @UmbrellAssassin @wanderingmagus

    So better to have millions with no healthcare at all, dying at a far younger age than need be?

    You know nothing young padawan.

    UmbrellAssassin ,

    There is options for people of they can’t afford Healthcare. That’s like complaining that you don’t have a 401k when you are the only person to blame. If we are throwing out star wars quotes, “There is no ignorance, there is knowledge”. People choose to be ignorant about their options because it is easier to complain and wait for something to fall into their laps.

    InternetUser2012 ,

    You’re either a shit troll or a bot. Go back to reddit.

    UmbrellAssassin ,

    Look, not every opinion that you don’t agree with is a troll. >go back to reddit. Says the person that joined 3 weeks ago. Nice. How about you go back if all you want is a echo chamber. Reddit was perfect for that. The prefect place to pretend your the smartest person because you could report and ban everyone that didn’t agree with your narrow minded viewpoint.

    InternetUser2012 ,

    Read that comment you just wrote, slowly, to yourself.

    UmbrellAssassin ,

    I can read. Can you? Or better yet, can you understand what you read?

    InternetUser2012 ,

    Clearly a bot. Your algorithm needs work.

    UmbrellAssassin ,

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  • CosmicCleric ,
    @CosmicCleric@lemmy.world avatar

    Or, we seize the assets of the rich,

    Do you mean that in a fix the tax code sort away, or literally walking up to their front door with pitchforks and torches and breaking their front door down?

    wanderingmagus ,

    If we don’t try the former, the latter becomes inevitable with time. Witness the multitude of civilizational collapses and revolutions and peasant rebellions that have occurred throughout history all over the world. Personally, I’d rather head off such an event and do it peacefully, but that will only be an option for so long.

    ComfortablyGlum ,

    No one signs anything agreeing to be sucked dry by greedy companies while they desperately scrounge for affordable housing food and a job that pays a living wage with a company that doesn’t treat its employees like cattle. People sign with the idea that going to college will increase their chances of a better life; that’s what the “American dream” promises. People bust their ass, do everything they are supposed to do, but America (and the companies that run it), break promises (if not out right lied to begin with). How is anyone supposed live up to their end of the bargain, when America doesn’t live up to their’s?

    UmbrellAssassin ,

    When you sign loan paperwork, this isn’t an agreement with "America’. I’m not saying that most companies don’t do everything they can to fuck people over, but you can’t not pay what you agreed to because you are upset at the world. That’s a teenager mentality.

    CosmicCleric ,
    @CosmicCleric@lemmy.world avatar

    That’s a teenager mentality.

    No, it’s not. You’re just missing the point being expressed.

    UmbrellAssassin ,

    I get the point. It is just wrong. At the end of the day, you can’t make an agreement and years later say, “I shouldn’t have to pay this cause I’m upset at unrelated things”.

    thallamabond ,

    Did you miss what this post is about? and how they borrowed $500 million.

    There also not paying pensions to people who dedicated their lives to work for them.

    afraid_of_zombies ,

    And their Economist labdogs are supporting it

    Dankry , in Apple rejects new name 'X' for Twitter iOS app because... rules
    @Dankry@lemmy.world avatar

    Lol awesome. Fuck Elon Musk.

    aeternum ,

    no thanks. I don't fuck manbabies.

    xenomor , in Delta passengers fall ill while stuck on tarmac for hours during blistering Las Vegas heatwave

    Everything about the airline industry is unrelentingly awful and hostile to consumers. These companies perfectly represent the disregard this economy has toward individual people. That they continue in this fashion, year after year, shows how completely the regulatory state has failed.

    FartsWithAnAccent ,
    @FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world avatar

    I don’t even understand why people fly so often, it’s awful even when everything goes right. Flying used to be cool and fun.

    MostlyBirds ,
    @MostlyBirds@lemmy.world avatar

    Yeah, spending hours in a sealed cylinder full of cigarette smoke and dudes sexually assaulting the staff was very cool and fun.

    FartsWithAnAccent ,
    @FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world avatar

    No, not that far back, I was thinking more like the 90s.

    70ms ,

    I’m old enough to have smoked on a plane. :|

    (Was probably around 1986?)

    sethboy66 ,

    The air inside an airplane is actually arguably more harmful today than it was in the immediate aftermath of the short-haul smoking ban. Due to smoking on planes they actually had proper air filtration while in the modern day there are no federal regulations on air filtration for planes and what air carriers elect to employ is very minimal.

    Throughout a flight carbon oxides, aldehydes, and other harmful particulates are known to build up in the air up to levels known to pose immediate harm to those subjected to it.

    Sarcastik ,

    We know this is bullshit because the FAA was all over the filtration standards in planes even before covid hit.

    So I’m going to say; source it or delete it.

    0110010001100010 ,
    @0110010001100010@lemmy.world avatar

    I absolutely HATE flying and avoid it as much as possible. However, if I’m going to a conference on the other side of the country I can’t dedicate 6 days to travel. I’m 33 hours from LA for instance, that would equate to 3 days each way of 11 hours in the car each day. Realistically, it would be more like 8 total days of travel with 4 each way.

    outdated_belated , (edited )

    This. Also, going by car is significantly more expensive monetarily, when gas and hotel are accounted for.

    FoxBJK ,
    @FoxBJK@midwest.social avatar

    Don’t forget tolls!

    Driving is rarely the better way to go. It’d be even less so if we had a more comprehensive passenger train system.

    outdated_belated ,

    Probably, driving is also more dangerous, although I can’t be bothered to look up the stats.

    Yeah passenger rails that didn’t suck would be the best option here.

    TheHorseWhistler ,

    I fly about once a quarter and I still absolutely love even a mediocre experience. I’d say 95% of my flights are without any issues. It’s been YEARS since a bad experience. I feel it’s completely worth it to explore, visit friends, etc.

    Sarcastik ,

    Work. My job requires lots of in person meetings/work that can’t be replaced via zoom, etc.

    It’s the worst part about my job, but travel started sucking WAY before COVID.

    FartsWithAnAccent ,
    @FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world avatar

    Air travel started to suck after 9/11. IMO

    elbarto777 ,

    Flying became awful for the same reason Reddit became awful.

    FartsWithAnAccent ,
    @FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world avatar

    The TSA?

    Oh, corporate greed.

    elbarto777 ,

    Amd more access to the common folk.

    Not knocking down the common folk, but as soon as they show up, your cozy coffee place becomes a noisy place.

    FartsWithAnAccent ,
    @FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world avatar

    I’m not even talking that far back, more like 25 years ago.

    afraid_of_zombies ,

    Overwhelmingly for me it has been work related. I think excluding a funeral and work I have flown only two round trips the past decade. I am at the airport about 6 or so times a year.

    Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever ,

    For work: It is literally my job to interact with peers at meetings and conferences. Hard to get there if I have a week of travel for every conference.

    For pleasure: Because the destination is worth it. And the hassle isn’t even that bad. Even without a tsa pre-check equivalent, security is mostly fine if you know what you are doing and prepare accordingly. Liquids baggy near the top of your bag. Have a jacket you can shove your phone and watch into. And so forth. Bring a book or some headphones to keep yourself entertained on the flight. Realize that you can slide your feet under your bag to greatly increase your effective legroom. And don’t hesitate to walk to the restroom, even if just to stretch a bit.

    And then I get to land somewhere interesting. Whether it is visiting friends a few states over or spending a week or three in a foreign country.

    InternetCitizen2 ,

    Maybe they are trying to pivot and get jobs at Microsoft, Apple or John Deere.

    HurlingDurling ,

    Maybe the United States shouldn’t have removed several regulations from the airline industry and letting them govern themselves

    afraid_of_zombies ,

    I have flown on airlines based and operating entirely in the 3rd world that were consistently better than Delta domestic in terms of how you were treated.

    Odelay42 , in In-N-Out bans employees from wearing masks

    This is an absolutely ludicrous policy.

    Imagine a company banning their employees from washing their hands or wearing hair nets?

    The only possible reason they could have to do this is an attempt to appeal to moronic conservatives.

    Do they realize that workers in food factories have been wearing masks for decades?

    ungoogleable ,

    In N Out even has their own warehouses to supply their restaurants. I see meat packing positions listed on their website which I would highly suspect require masks.

    anubis119 , in Disney reverses course on bid to block wrongful death lawsuit by widower who had Disney+

    Disney states they “Waived their right to arbitration”. A weasely way of seeming to agree with the public sentiment, but actually avoiding having this ruled on right now so they can fine tune the language and try again later.

    sgibson5150 , in Boeing Starliner astronauts might get a ride home from SpaceX — in 2025

    TFW you spend the R&D money on hitmen

    dactylotheca ,
    @dactylotheca@suppo.fi avatar

    I doubt they spent all that much money murking whatshisname. The R&D money goes to the parasites known as executives and shareholders

    wildncrazyguy138 ,

    TIL the pensioners who are part of CALPERS are parasites.

    dactylotheca ,
    @dactylotheca@suppo.fi avatar

    Speaking of parasites, you may want to have that brain slug removed.

    wildncrazyguy138 ,

    It’s easy to hate on Boeing. Yea, they done f-ed up a few times and upper management made some very poor decisions, but there are 10s of thousands of people who work there and it’s a good manufacturing job in a country that used to pride itself on manufacturing. We can’t all be service workers, and I’d venture that, given the way you present yourself online, you’re probably not someone who is resting on their laurels either.

    Now, back to stocks. It’s also quite simple to throw a slick quip about how the big bad shareholder bogeyman is ruining our country, but, unless you’re among the minority in this country, you likely own some stock in some company, somehow. The shareholders are us.

    But therein gives us a lot of power. Many shares are voting shares. We could, if we all chose to, enact the corporate change we wish to see. And coincidentally enough, there are people precisely doing that kind of good work. Look up the philosophy behind ESG, it is becoming a thing. Or certified B corps. Likewise, many countries require unions to have a seat on their board; unfortunately for now, the US isn’t one of them, but that could change.

    Or, ya know, we could just be dismissive and scapegoat our problems. That’s life, we get to choose our own adventure.

    sunzu ,

    unless you’re among the minority in this country, you likely own some stock in some company, somehow. The shareholders are us.

    Look up your numbers muhh booma. Jfc

    wildncrazyguy138 ,
    sunzu ,

    🤡

    exanime ,

    Next you are going to tell us that we can save the planet by recycling harder…

    Not sure if you are delusional or just trolling

    wildncrazyguy138 , (edited )

    I take it you don’t recycle then eh? Paper and cans just aren’t worth your time.

    It’s all the corporations fault, we’re totally not complicit in the degradation process as well.

    And y’all call me deluded…

    exanime ,

    I do recycle and do what I can… I just hold no delusions that I’ll save the planet by doing that while corporations literally pollute per day 100x over what I can recycle in a lifetime.

    If 1000 of us were to die tomorrow, dropping out pollution to zero, I would not make up for a single Kardashian private flight to spare her from 40 mins traffic

    wildncrazyguy138 ,

    But you and me and sunzu up there and the rest of us combined on this thread do make a difference. You matter.

    Don’t allow perfect to be the enemy of the good.

    exanime ,

    Which is why I do recycle and do other stuff… But we cannot reverse the damage, we cannot even slow it down by ourselves. We must be realistic about that

    It’s like washing your hands after pooping, it’s not going to cure cancer but it definitely would prevent some bouts of illness for yourself and others

    wildncrazyguy138 ,

    Or perhaps it’s like wastewater treatment, where we collectively realized we all poop and somehow we need to clean up the waste to still have clean water.

    exanime ,

    In that case, what’s the proper solution?

    A treatment plant or putting a cork up all butts?

    That’s exactly the point and not the one I think you think you are making.

    Of course if we all reduce, reuse, recycle we can help… But we will never stop the damage, let along reverse it, if we do not hold corporations to account

    Professorozone ,

    Um WE’RE recycling. It’s the recyclers that are not recycling. Consumers are often called on to save the planet when only corporations can do it. They are the ones causing the damage, they should be the ones fixing it. Some things are just too big for citizens to handle, that’s what governments are supposed to be for. And because governments are just corporations in disguise they should handle this problem. You know what happens when I stop eating red meat to save the planet? I get no red meat and the planet dies anyway. Producing red meat should be legislated into becoming more environmentally friendly instead of blaming the consumer for eating food. You can follow this logic with pretty much any industry.

    Also, from your post further up, I doubt anyone is actually blaming the guy installing parts on Boeing planes for Boeing’s problems. Slamming Boeing for the crap they do falls fully on the shoulders of the people controlling it, you know, the ones profiting from it.

    towerful ,

    Gotta research dividends!

    Edit:
    Maybe Boeing made a simple mistake and invested in Relaxation & Dividends, instead of Research & Development.

    grue ,

    More like when you spend the QA money on hitmen.

    joyjoy ,

    When the marketing department has some extra funds, so they rescue their competitor.

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