That’s why he said “old guy question”.

I graduated in 99. I can take cell phones apart and put them back together all day but ANYTHING to do with the carriers I have negative interest in. I would rather eat paint chips while listening to harpies screeching. I just can’t be made to care.

There’s always just some people, with everything, who just don’t fucking care and nothing will ever change that. With every subject.

With homeboy here, I would t spend 1300 on a phone. Ever. I’d go out, today at this point in history, and buy a used pixel 7 (or 8 if priced right), root it and put GrapheneOS on it, but that’s just me.

The only way to have money is to not spend it and very few things are worth feeling the despair that can come with being broke. At this point in my life, there’s nothing that I can think of that’s worth being broke over. Not one single thing out there.

A hung jury just allows the prosecution to retry him

It’s up to the prosecutor if it’s worth the expense or not.

There’s a simple answer really, if you think eating the rich is the move, go into security.

If your in high school and you have ideations of the new American pastime, consider this first.

If yr fit, and aware there ain’t no war but the class war, join the military and make special ops. When yr time is done you’re a shoe in for private security to the elite. Not only that, but then ur trained up as well, and will know how to do it and not get caught. Will it be hard? Yep, but guess what, life’s hard, it supposed to be hard, otherwise what’s the point of it? What the fuck else you doing with your time? You think you’re gonna graduate and make a landing in the private sector? Buddy, that’s what everyone thinks and look around. People smarter than you can’t buy a house. I do not advocate defending a system that doesn’t defend you, but I canl suggest using the system as a means to your own ends. The system is working against us all but there’s still time to use the system to strike back from within. And if that means striking back with violence, then so be it. The law has shown itself to corrupt and hollow, not worthy of respect. With that goes the agreement that the government gets the monopoly on violence. They were supposed to use that to ensure life is fair for the rest of us, since they’ve abdicated, well, they put that ball in motion, not you, not me. They sold it out, we’re just calling the spade a spade. They’ll sacrifice everyone of us and our children before theyll accept even an inconvenience to their lives. We aren’t people to them, so don’t lose sleep over them.

The diseases of wealth are a cancer on our society

So if I were to take one of them cars and drive out to the middle of nowhere in the desert where there’s no cell service, what’s it gonna do? Shut off once it’s roaming? Not start back up and strand me in 115° heat? I just want to be prepared for my lawsuit that’s all

The Dixie cups gave him strength

Not gonna lie. I know about 50 women with psych degrees. Out of these 50, exactly 2 of them use those degrees and theyre both escorts.

Women should sue higher education writ large for the swindle that is a psych degree. Any promise that it would lead to work was a known lie. That shit is crack to women. Go figure out yourself, and other people, sprinkle in true crime and look at that. Dean’s were more predatory than pimps.

Shit, I didn’t know that, thank you for sharing, imma set mine and my wives phones up now.

Maybe he’s born with it

Maybe it’s Maybelline

A moving target drops your chances of being hit by 90%.

1 in 10 shots hit a moving target, in general.

In comparison to the shareholders who own the hospitals?

Yes, yes they are, it’s not even close.

Thanks! I like lemmy! It reminds me of old reddit. Like 2010 reddit. Done right it feels like individual forums all within the same building. Done wrong, well, feels like reddit now. Or Facebook. Saccharine and sterile, emotionless money grab. As inviting as a room with drop ceilings and flickering fluorescent lighting, all the intuitive ambiance of chemotherapy.

So if that was meant as a knock, I don’t see how.

Social Stockholm Syndrome, venerating their suffering as if ones capacity to suffer is something that should be respected and strengthened like a muscle.

…all while disregarding the dystopic culture that fostered the “growth”.

I got in an argument with a pair of my brothers over student loan relief. All 3 of us have paid our student loans back the same way, by living an austere life with 2 jobs for at least a decade. My older brother, the most conservative “progress is a slow march” brother, was absolutely against it. He paid his off, others can too, or at least he should get his money back then, if everyone’s just being let off the hook. I disagreed with him, as I usually do but I approach problems different than he does. He looks at the immediate, how it affects him and figures what’s fair - and there’s nothing wrong with that per se.

I look at the solution and try to identify the markers, or steps, necessary to get there. Then I weigh the steps against the desired solution to determine what is viable. I work backwards from the solution.

My younger brother and I share the same mind on student loans; forgive them, every outstanding balance and end the paygating of knowledge in general - because those holding the keys to the gates didn’t come up with the contents theyre guarding, they themselves are stewards, not owners.

I don’t care that I was able to pay off my loans, it’s more important that we move past the paygating - which is really power projection - than any benefit I myself might be able to gain.

Moving ahead, either personally or socially will at times require looking ahead more than looking at now or the path preceding. I think this kind of insight is crucial to any leadership, large or small, union or otherwise.

I’m if the opinion that if we must make a choice to act together in a group, then let’s figure out and establish our best practices, ensure the appropriate smart people are involved and do whatever with the soft (not-monetized) values we want fostered, ie with compassion, patience, understanding, offering respect and integrity, not demanding obedience before giving them. A society that doesn’t work from those values will lose those values. And that’s pervasive, from your HOA meetings to town hall, from loading dock smoke breaks to union halls. All the way to fancy granite buildings.

Buddy, that’s every job where someone earns a paycheck.

If someone pays you a paycheck, you are labor. If you depend on that paycheck, they are capital, you are the proletariat.

We’ve been in the midst of a capital strike for 4 decades now, rebranded as neoliberalism, where capital only reinvests capital if it absolutely must, and then just the minimum. Every personal passion, every altruistic drive, or careers that give a sense of meaning will that same meaning held hostage and weaponized to silent dissent.

Complacency is complicity. The rallying cries have been handed down thru all of history

As long as one free man is jailed … First they came for …

Society, writ large, is a partnership. Highly specialized fields of study only exist because the cost to bring them in existence can be spread out amongst the bottom of the pyramid. If you’re worked hard, learned hard and lucky enough you might be able to be at the top of it.

But you’re just a part of the machine, not the driver or designer of it. The proper attitude at heights is gratitude and humility, being honored to have the chance to follow your passions, because how many below you, for whatever reason, had theirs compromised, stolen or confiscated. The brain outside the body isn’t even worth its caloric density.

I’m proud you’re fighting back and I’ll stand in a protest line with you - even if that means state violence, and it often does. The police are mercenaries for the wealthy, whom you’re at odds with, that means the police are not your allies here (some random cool sheriff notwithstanding).

We are all people here. We all have value independent of what capitalism rewards. No one is inherently better than anyone else. We are all just trying to live and be decent people. Don’t forget that.

No one in the 90s could imagine the internet without AOL or Yahoo either, and yet…

Or the great Myspace collapse of 2008. Digg before that. Tumblr most recently.

Big sites go boom fairly often.

Now, watching Google go Boom, that’s gonna be like modules breaking loose of the ISS and rez-entering the atmosphere. Drawn out over months, as one wing goes, government breaks up another wing, class action lawsuits bankrupt another wing.

Alphabets circling the drain. And good. Fuck em. Fuck Apple, Fuck Meta, Fuck Amazon, Fuck Reddit.

Just a couple more years now and imma nominate Craig from Craigslist for all the years nobel prizes for officially winning the internet.

Specific niche forums, Craigslist and Wikipedia are the last bits of honestness and fun online. And ymmv with Craigslist people being honest.

Buddy, you’re jumping the gun, seriously.

Boomers have voted for their own interests at the cost of anyone else their entire lives, what makes you think this’ll be different?

They’ll take all the money social security had left and cancel it for gen x onwards, regardless of us paying into it for 30 years

The, obviously immoral, institutionalized racism in America (I said OBVIOUSLY for those in the back) has also had, and still does have, geoplitical ramifications as well. Further compounding the issue is the media, on the rare event it does get reported, it’s almost always relegated to the back pages and never followed up on.

When the Nazi’s (for clarity, that is the anachronistic 20th century spelling used to describe the German wave; the current 21st centuries spelling is NatC’s - for Christian NATionalists, generally located in southeastern North America, tho not always, and not always just in the Americas).

I’m sorry, that aside aside; When the Nazi’s received criticism from the Roosevelt administration about their treatment of the Jews (which was, in fact, reported on extensively during the war, the only surprise was the efficiency and extensiveness of the Germans, today much appluaded, record keeping), the Nazi’s immediately clapped back with how America treats its black citizens. German officials spent a good amount of time in the mid 1930s, before any hostilities broke out in Europe, studying the souths Jim Crow laws for themselves so they could best implement their future aparteid state. Backed up with passport stamps and photographic evidence, Germany’s rebuff effectively humiliated American opinion off the world stage.

Not known for learning from their mistakes, America continued doing what it does best, convincing the working class that they’re the source of all their problems.

At the same time, the other never reported topic that America leads the world in, was amped up to 11. And that’s rewriting history thru domestic propaganda campaigns. America did so well at this, that early in the 21st century it once again tried it’s hand on the world’s moral stage…

And was quickly reminded by the Chinese, who’re deflecting their own allegations of crimes against humanity in their treatment of the Uyghers, that once again America’s institutionalized racism, as shown evident thru its prison system, is a “functioning” aparteid state against non-white and poor white Americans, and forged the way, and that China was merely doing what has been shown as acceptable.

…when the rule of law is so corrupted that it’s applied unequally, no one, rich or poor, respects the law. Those without the means to defend themselves may fear it, but no one respects it

Prob due to rising costs of rents.

Necessity is the mother(s) of invention

If they pay taxes, they deserve statehood. If not, give them independence.

The age of colonialism is over. No taxation without representation, its kinda what we’re all about

The correct answer is

Fuck Pavlov

Motherfucker is like the Hitler of dogs. It’s a shame his name is remembered for the conditioning and not the mutilation. Dude was a monster.

Buying from the bins (bulk purchasing) is all I ever do or will do, so beans and pasta, even nuts, are redonk cheap in comparison (thank you WinCo), and we’re doubling the size of the vege garden this year. It’ll be another year or two until we can make it pretty, but I’ll take function over from anyday. I want to can an entire pantry by this time next year.

1/3rd of your life is spent on buying food.

I want that to be as close to zero as possible. I want all my costs to be as close to zero as possible. I fucking hate the despair of not having money.

The farmers market quip was hyperbolic to drive a point, but for reals I have some serious issues and concerns over buying produce that’s out of season and not local. Like how apples and oranges are kept in anaerobic environment (prob nitrogen or argon) for 6-12 months before being shipped out, to make sure there’s a year supply

Sure, it might be ‘fine’, but if I have the option to, like right now, buy pomegranates instead of nitrogen-doped pink ladies, I’m going with the seasonal

Only exception to that that I can think of is bananas, cuz Iceland