I think my radicalizing moment was when diaper manufacturer Huggies posted record profits and then jacked up their prices by like 25%. Costs hadn’t risen, they just made a bunch of money and figured people would pay more anyway because what choice do they have? This was around COVID, either shortly before or during the epidemic. Although to be honest I’m sure it wasn’t limited to then.
You’ve got to be inhuman to gouge people on essentials for literal infants.
Because people keep paying for blatant scams, terrible deals, and shit we don’t need in general. It’s why everything keeps getting so expensive, INCLUDING our necesities, and they won’t get cheaper until people stop buying. It’s why companies are allowed to get away with ripping us off or doing blatantly evil shit, and they’re not gonna stop until people stop buying.
I’d argue the reason why prices keep going up is due to the parasite class at the top squeezing people more with each passing day.
What do you view as people being smart with their money, like investments and bonds and stuff? I can’t afford groceries, I certainly can’t afford a 401k. Likewise, it’s rational to save for retirement, but with WW3 escalating, the climate crisis, and a general feeling that you might not live to see next week - people are going to ask what’s the point?
Although I will agree that the blame for rampant consumerism outside of necessities must lie at least partly with the consumers. It takes two to tango after all
More to your question: I’ve never actually heard someone use that phrase, but I have encountered the sentiment that someone can spend their own money however they see fit. That’s entirely true, and you’re not going to change their mind if you take an aggressive stance. If you call people stupid for spending their money on their own happiness then you’re not going to ingratiate yourselves to them and they’re just as likely to spend more to spite you, further entrenching their own opinion.
Gentleness, empathy, and education go a lot further in influencing people’s behaviour. Their opinion of how they spend their money feels correct to them, just as your opinion of how they spend their money feels wrong to you. In any conflict you have to allow that your opinion isn’t correct just because it’s your opinion - either side usually does not have all the facts or perspectives
Botting on youtube
Too many requests in a short period will get you an error 429 and blacklisted from youtube. If you’re not banned, you’ll be rate-limited because they don’t want people using up their bandwidth - ironic considering their business model
Alternatively, I’m pretty sure most Invidious instances will let you download any youtube video. You go to a website, search for the video, and click download. This is arguably easier if you’re not comfy on the command line
A quick search shows it’s available on YouTube
I’m not sure of the legality / community rules for giving technical advice on piracy, but there are ways of getting your own copy
Mods are volunteers, and therefore will moderate however they feel like. The needs of the community might influence what that looks like, but at the end of the day it’s whatever they want.
Reacting in a timely manner but also requiring a majority are both things that we want to see, but they’re also conflicting ideals. Depending on the size of the community it may be an impossible ask.
If a moderator oversteps, the rest of the mod team could take action. If you can’t trust a single moderator to moderate, then maybe they shouldn’t be a moderator.
It’s not a perfect system, but things rarely rare.
Everyone who attends a party with a rented pineapple later remembers it as a classy affair. However, you lose the deposit on your rental
All of the reasons above, plus sometimes the character just doesn’t have a name
When I’m talking about They Live, the protagonist is literally unnamed. Rowdy Roddy Piper is credited as “Nada” but even that is never used in the film (Great movie btw, go watch it if you haven’t seen it)
Then sometimes the actor is far more famous than the movie was, or the character wasn’t very memorable, or whatever the case is. Particularly true if the actor is appearing as a cameo
I came here to say this
Maybe it’s the communities I’m in, but it sure seems like the fediverse skews autistic. Not only is RSD quite common in autistic people, but a lack of social grace is also pretty normal
I’m not an expert on the global legality or anything, but it looks like DNS is handled by ICANN
Even though they’re a global group, ICANN is headquartered in the USA, which means they’re probably obligated (legally, not morally) to carry out the block
It’s still bullshit, but it is what it is
Was this the one about video games playing it safe?
I wrote a rather detailed reply and it was deleted before I got to post it. Super lame
There’s about 400 beans in a one-pound can, and a blackhawk has an internal cargo limit of 2600lbs. It could alternatively carry a 9,000lb load via sling.
That’s either 1,040,000 or 3.6M beans
Of course, some of that is going to be in packaging, and the average dried bean is about half the size of a ready-to-eat bean. I’m guessing you could make it between 4-10 million beans depending on how you want to optimize
Dry Bones, because just like real life, if you call in DOA the boss will still want you to show up
That’s a bummer. The industry gets by on misrepresenting its product, so I guess that doesn’t really surprise me
This is often a symptom of a razor-thin labour budget. Management tends to view rotation as a cost, and any cost that can be ignored probably will be.
If the milk is off so quickly past the best-by date, I’d imagine they’re having trouble with either the fridges not keeping temperature, or literally stocking the shelves in a timely fashion. I’ve been places where pallets of frozen food keep getting taken out of the freezer and can sit out for hours while it’s being worked. I’ve had management tell me it’s fine as long as it’s less than four hours - the generally accepted safe maximum time limit - and they fail to realize that’s a cumulative time per product.
Here’s a complaint form. Apparently Hy-vee is employee-owned, so they might actually care to do something about that.
It’s acute philosophy
I think it’s normal and healthy, if it’s not taken too far. Same goes for mainstream religion.
Religion is ultimately about answering the unanswerable. Why are we here, the meaning of life, what happens after we die, that kind of thing. Nobody is able to answer these questions with evidence, so therefore any established religion has just as much credence as whatever you come up with yourself.
Denying objective reality or restricting the rights of others is where you have to draw the line though. That’s where things become weird.
Regarding mixing christian and pagan rites, there’s a fascinating history of how catholicism in particular incorporated pagan beliefs into their own pantheon. If it’s okay for them to pick and choose what to believe, then the same goes for everyone else too
Yeah, she was diagnosed a few years ago and suddenly a lot of things made sense.
I’ve tried to help her by putting her laundry away, but that doesn’t really work either. Her organization scheme is chaos to an outside observer, and if something goes in the wrong spot it’s like it’s gone forever. Easily leads to a meltdown when she’s trying to get ready for work and can’t find the specific thing she was looking for.
I don’t really know what to do about that. Can’t win either way, so I guess she just has to pay the neurodivergence tax on her time
I prefer to put away my clothes, but my wife prefers piles.
She can’t stand to spend twenty minutes folding the laundry, so she spends ten minutes every day digging through piles trying to find things. The math doesn’t really check out, but then again laundry is brutal for a lot of people so I get it
Personally, if I leave things in piles I go bonkers and it makes getting dressed every day a big chore. So you do you, but I guess it’s a matter of preference
I’m not a doctor, but I don’t think you’ll have much luck finding one to help you with that. The legality behind physician-assisted suicide will definitely vary by country, but I’m pretty sure no doctor will go through with it over a mental health concern. Maybe if you had like a traumatic brain injury that made you unable to care for yourself, but that’s technically a physical health issue
I don’t want to die but I don’t think there’s any other choice
This statement is reason enough to prevent a doctor from killing you. If you don’t want to die, they won’t make it happen - consent is super important for something that grave. Suicidality is also very often a temporary thing, some day you might change your mind. There’s a reason that euthanasia is used almost exclusively for the terminally ill.
I’m sorry you’re struggling. The specter of homelessness hangs over my head too, and I often think I’d rather be dead than have to deal with that. But every time I’ve almost died I really didn’t want it to happen.
You probably should still talk to a doctor about this. If you’d rather kill yourself than live without support then that should help illustrate the severity of your disability. Not knowing what country you’re currently in, I can’t tell you what support is available to you - but there’s almost certainly something that can be done to help you.
There’s also all those people who are rightfully pissed about AI who then call out human creators because they draw / write like AI. All the while, actual AI gen is getting more passable with each day
The situation is super lame