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taanegl, in Target Acquired

I’m guessing that’s because the international flights that Americans use instead are from other countries that does not have first class areas, in that everyone gets the same seating and leg space.

Such a disgusting socialist ploy. The CIA should coup the pilot and copilot and divvy up the plane in “desirables” and “undesirables”, to then pin them against each other.

Call operation “Spiraling Eagle”.

iAvicenna, (edited )
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I love how this comment escalated from a classical US vs EU post to a 1984 post

TheDeepState, in Lemmy isn't what I expected but I love this place

This is truest thing I’ve seen on Lemmy.

UPGRAYEDD,

Love the star trek memes. And like all things linux, i understand like 20% and the rest goes over my head

x4740N, in From the outside looking in, you can't understand it. And from the inside looking out, you can't explain it.
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As someone who is glad they don’t live in america

Explain please

OpenStars, (edited )
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Alright, I will sacrifice some of my karma for this, if it helps:-).

The meme is trying to wrangle the premise that “large corporations are (most often) bad” (which ofc is true:-P) into a humorous statement that engineers in the state of Texas have limited opportunities to find jobs.

The problem is that it messes up all the details - e.g. if you have ever heard of GameStop, Dell, or Texas Instruments (just to name 3) they all have their headquarters in Texas, plus numerous top tech companies have branches there like Samsung. A 5s Google search shows many, MANY more.

For extra context: moving between states is nothing at all like moving between countries - and e.g. the state of California has a GDP comparable to Germany - plus there are many jobs in the state of Texas for both Engineers and also non-Engineers, especially if someone is willing to make less money in exchange for other QoL factors (like living closer to family?) so… in short, it is not your fault for not understanding this meme.:-)

Though there must be just enough of something in it for it to have gotten this many upvotes, in spite of all that. As someone who hasn’t lived in Texas for many years, I must be on the outside looking in now and thus don’t get it:-P.

Zuberi,
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As long as you ignore the old tech in…

  • Infrared Scanners
  • Radar
  • Missiles
  • Military Computers
  • Laser-guided bombs
  • Whatever they sold to Raytheon

TI is actually a wonderful company to work for!

sharkfucker420, (edited ) in From the outside looking in, you can't understand it. And from the inside looking out, you can't explain it.
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We have very few options. Can’t wait to get my physics degree and have 0 options for practical application that does not compromise my morals

Zoidsberg,
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Choose a different career?

Cosmonaut_Collin,
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The guilt is the most rewarding part of science careers

Zuberi,
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Yes, but have you considered the free-body diagram of a rocket projectile hitting a coming into contact with a hospital? You can ignore any socially uncouth “frictions” or “resistance” involved with the calculations.

mandelbrotvurst,

“”“externalities”“”

Num10ck,

maybe work on games/software/simulations?

i’d love a VR sandbox with realish physics.

sharkfucker420,
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I’ll probably just do theory and possibly teaching when I finish my Phd

Omega_Haxors, in Being the only able-bodied guy in my building

Apparently the guy in the meme is notorious for treating their employees like absolute shit.

IDontHavePantsOn,

He serves “ok” quality steaks, wraps them in gold leaf and upcharges thousands of dollars. His restaurant is the equivalent of the “I Am Rich” app. One critic called the whole thing dinner theater. More money than sense is required to dine there.

RubberElectrons, in From the outside looking in, you can't understand it. And from the inside looking out, you can't explain it.
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I work in alternative energy and such. No need to give up your morals. Maybe you won’t make as much, but that sleep feels so good and without qualms.

GlitterInfection,

There is no way to live in Texas without giving up morals.

RubberElectrons, (edited )
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To be clear, I don’t live there, nor would I. I’d still see if people are living there for lack of means to escape, or because revoking bodily autonomy isn’t important to them.

GlitterInfection,

A fair point that many can’t afford to move or don’t have the ability to for some reason or another.

spiffy_spaceman, in that's how it works, right?

I feel like, at least in America – and it might be just my part of America – we feel like our hobbies have to make us look better. I can’t just take photos, they have to be really good photos and I should look into selling them. You can’t just like to make cakes, you have to make amazing cakes and do it for friends’ parties. There’s not enough emphasis on just do something you like because it makes you happy. This doesn’t have to be a competition. It doesn’t matter if your shit is abysmal as long as you enjoy doing it. Have fun!

lobelia581,

i also feel a lot of peer pressure to be perfect, but this time i was feeling down because i had just restarted after taking a long break and was doing a lot worse than i used to. it’s not as if i can go back to being as good as i was without practicing though, so i just have to keep doing it and laugh a bit to feel better

Peter1986C, in How's your housing market these days?
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I found the listing on Zillow with reverse image searching. It is a lot with two or three cabins from the mid 1930s in a wooded area right next to a 6-lane highway. Photos of the interior look meh especially for the price and the outside certainly needs love.

Anyway, here is the link: www.zillow.com/homedetails/…/2060515883_zpid/?

VindictiveJudge,
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Ah, Oregon. I saw a listing to rent a ‘studio apartment’ with no bath or kitchen so it was literally just a bedroom for $1200 a month a couple years ago. Not even in Portland, Springfield, or Salem, but a town with a population of 10k.

Sarmyth,

Good find!

The worst part of this is the HOA. Although I have to assume they are pretty hands-off if the cabin is in this state. Having someone look over your shoulder while you fix up your shack sounds terrible.

empireOfLove2,
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Knowing the HOA they just need the property to sell so they can start harassing the new owners to fix it.

A lot of older properties get grandfathered out of HOA requirements

Empathy, (edited )

Also $83/mo HOA, oof.

Thanks for looking it up!

saigot,

That fee looks like it’s mainly covering water/sewage which isn’t the worst for a shared septic system.

davel, in that's how it works, right?
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lobelia581,

thanks dude, glad i got step one down

OrderedChaos,

I’d rather just be a master of the craft in my imagination.

SnotFlickerman,
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As a fisherman, I’ve been told I’m a Master Baiter.

blanketswithsmallpox, (edited )
SnotFlickerman,
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Fuck I loved that game like you loved my mom.

blanketswithsmallpox, (edited )

FYI I only learned within the last month or two that it got a few remakes. They got decent reviews on Steam too… Sorta like…

SnotFlickerman, (edited )
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Sorta like my mom?

https://i.imgur.com/WrbzRwF.gif

RIP_Cheems,
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But then we can’t see it

apfelwoiSchoppen, (edited ) in I’m loving this format
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Scolding Democrats and those left of center for being incredibly unhappy with Biden’s record is not my idea of democracy. Holding to the notion that Biden is less bad than Trump is not an ethical or constructive stance. It might be true in contexts, but it invalidates materialist concerns, chills functional platform changes, negates potential new candidate selections, and stunts policy shifts to the left. This is this year’s “electability” nonsense all over again. We move right through this type of political posturing.

Gradually_Adjusting,
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The game is rigged. First past the post forces this kind of devil’s bargain, and if we ran an America simulation a thousand times you’d get bored of seeing it. Additionally, neither party’s leaders will ever have any motive to accept an alternative voting system at the national level. Unless you’re advocating accelerationism (itself a deeply unethical route), it makes sense to keep playing the rigged game for now while we build a dialogue about radical reforms.

SubArcticTundra,
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Is accelerationism the belief that ‘it has to get a lot worse first in order for it to get better’?

Gradually_Adjusting,
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lugal, in Mommy?

I’m also already living for years and counting

hydroptic,

Me too, and boy let me tell you, living for years is no fun at all

lugal,

The first years I was screaming alot, later I adopted but still feel the pain

hydroptic,

Still screaming, but on the inside

psud,

You’re doing it wrong then. Life can be fun. It can be fun for not just years, but decades

hydroptic,

I’m middle-aged so I’ve already had more than my fair share of fun (I’m great at taking the ‘fun’ out of ‘too much fun’), but I think my warranty expired a few years ago. I got a new and exciting autoimmune disorder and this stupid meat suit is almost literally self-destructing

psud,

Yeah, I’m 45ish and I went zero carb to get rid of body fat and bad health. The common diet is fucking us up.

hydroptic, (edited )

The diet; the microplastics that you eat, drink and breathe; the endocrine disruptors that you huff from your home’s PCB-finished wood floor, or dishwasher detergent buildup inside you; extremely hygienic environments which make for overeager immune systems; pollution; the pesticides that Monsanto assured you are totally safe and go great with their proprietary genemodded sterile cereals which they also assure are totally safe; the near-eternal organofluorides you get exposed to because there’s a chemical plant 100km upriver with a gung-ho attitude towards waste disposal, and all the slightly scratched Teflon pans you kept using because it’s fine; or the trillion other things we’re doing to fuck up just about literally everything that lives anywhere on this planet, including our own sorry asses

psud, (edited )

I eat highland raised beef, fed entirely on their pasture, so probably very little pesticide or gene edited cereals

It’s only national parks uphill, upstream, from them

I use cast iron to cook, I dislike plastic cooking tools, so I use pans that can tolerate steel.

I drink from glass almost exclusively and I donate plasma, which is probably the only way of getting rid of PFAS chemicals (the “forever chemicals”)

You and I have heard the same stories. I follow “better to be safe than sorry”

I really care about food

Oh don’t forget about asbestos

skeeter_dave, in How's your housing market these days?

How many acres of land though? This could just be a hunting cabin for all we know.

scrubbles,
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Yeah, honestly it’s crazy but I also understand. In Seattle there are some real dumps out there, but the dump isn’t what they’re selling for 170k. That’s just the value of the land. A townhouse on a quarter acre is 500k out here, they probably took a picture of the structure so the buyer knows they’ll have to knock it down

psud,

Someone linked it upthread. It’s one of several similar cabins in a glob on the edge of the forest

skeeter_dave, (edited )

Interesting. I’ll check it out.

Edit: Lol I absolutely love them (I love old houses) but fuck HOA’s and the price. Not to mention I couldn’t see acreage listed anywhere or I could just be to stoned and missed it.

Knightfox,

They’re condos, there is no land. The houses are cute, I’ll give you that, but these are glorified apartments. You own the inside walls of the unit you buy, that’s pretty much it.

Sabre363, in The best part of driving a shitbox is that I don't have to care too much about it.

I drive an old Toyota pickup with almost nothing still attached in the factory way, I doubt I’d even notice if someone hit me.

GoodStuffEh,

I miss my '87 yota… 2WD long box, 5 speed hooked up to a 22r. Hands down the best $400 I ever spent honestly. It was fully painted in bed liner and had two different side mirrors, one of which disappeared while parked at a friend’s house over night, and a rusting box patched with spray foam (which always had moss growing out of it, no matter how much I cleaned or cut away). Sad times: https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/58952ff8-9348-4d46-aee9-75722c05b37d.jpeg

Omega_Haxors, (edited ) in Some of the most 🪤FUCKED🧪UP☠️ beats 🤰EVER🫄CONCEIVED🫃

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sandevistan,

You win the internet for today.

Cowbee, in Lemmy isn't what I expected but I love this place

All 3 are leftist, based on rejecting individual ownership, and related to FOSS (tangentially in Star Trek’s case), and all 3 are nerdy as hell. They have a lot in common under the hood.

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