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stevedidWHAT, (edited ) in We need to stop attempts to normalize grind/hustle lifestyle
@stevedidWHAT@lemmy.world avatar

I don’t understand this trend of wanting to be more vulnerable. Through technology you can achieve anything, anything, you want. What you do with that tool is up to you, I know of several markets that have opened up specifically over the last 5 years max that provide work for yourself opportunities. Free education and literature. Everything is out there but we need to arm the children and the adult with this knowledge in advance so they can make full use of its true power.

We have arguably the largest libraries ever created in digital worlds, proxies away from oppressive regimes through game servers which host things like banned books and whistle blower docs.

Whatever it is you choose to do about this world, don’t choose to buckle. And for those of us that are strong enough and privileged enough, it’s our duty to educate and help our neighbors who may need help. It’s a big responsibility and communication isn’t always an innate skill, it takes hard work - but it’s worth doing to me.

Sotuanduso,

Okay… but what does that have to do with grind vs friends?

stevedidWHAT, (edited )
@stevedidWHAT@lemmy.world avatar

When did I say they were mutually exclusive? I specifically called out being a good neighbor.

Friends are important. The subcontext of this meme is that they’re all hungry and just are bundled up in one spot, the meme reads essentially “fuck the grind just hole up with friends”. I’m pushing back on that push and trying to inspire drive, interest, and prosperity.

Of course friends are important.

Sotuanduso,

Ah, I see, that makes sense. I just thought it was a total non sequitur.

I guess I’ve gotten too used to Twitter where some accounts post total non sequitur motivational quote tweets under trending funny animal videos.

MotoAsh, in The truth is still out there

They were covering up the news about the ocean srreams possibly dying by 2025. They did it to cover up the news that they’re officially destroying the planet.

technicalogical,

You do realize the media could run a week straight of news about ocean currents dying and half the population would challenge whether or not we even have or need ocean currents.

YourFavouriteNPC,

Ocean “currents”? I ain’t never seen no goddamn “currents” in the ocean, boy. Have you? They just be sayin’ these things to keep us distracted from how their undloadin’ trucks full of illegals in are country to steal are jobs and sell drugs and live off of welfare!

SuckMyWang,

Yeh we ain’t stupid. How would grapes get sundried if they’re in the ocean anyway?

atx_aquarian,
@atx_aquarian@lemmy.world avatar

Dey took are jarbs!!

Anticorp,

Don’t look up!

MeowZedong,
@MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml avatar

Also Don’t look up how the US military was able to influence that movie! It’s uselessly vague or redacted!

MotoAsh, (edited )

Are you saying the other half wouldn’t demand action?

This isn’t about what the idiots would do. This is about what leaders would’ve been asked to do if the headlines were about the oceans and not aliens.

Do not do the shady politicians’ job for them and help the distraction work… It was to cover so they could remain lazy.

c0mbatbag3l,
@c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world avatar

Lol as if the half that cares has gotten their politicians to do anything about it when they actually have control.

Gabu,

Right, great idea - let’s all just give up and jump from the top of a cliff headfirst into rocks. No, wait, what I meant is bad idea. Horrible, horrible idea.

sciencesebi, in The truth is still out there

The truth is that there’s crazies everywhere. Even in the military

ComradeKhoumrag,
@ComradeKhoumrag@infosec.pub avatar

How do you know that truth in particular is the answer?

sciencesebi,

I don’t. But people are acting like one cunt telling a story with no coroboration is a smoking gun. It’s not.

kubica, in The truth is still out there
@kubica@kbin.social avatar

At this point I just get mad when they say anything about aliens, it is always to take attention away from other important things.

Honytawk,

Indeed.

I suspect the same with Area 51. They used aliens to cover up even worse stuff. Like torture techniques, biological weapons and other stuff banned by international accords like the Geneva convention.

c0mbatbag3l,
@c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world avatar

Area 51 was used for testing prototype stealth vehicles like the B-2 Spirit, get your conspiracy shit outta here.

Anticorp,

Area 51 is there so you don’t look for area 52.

Chriswild, (edited )

Honestly the whole thing felt like glimpses of why the DoD can’t pass an audit not aliens.

WaxedWookie, in The truth is still out there

If there were aliens, there’s zero chance Trump could resist bragging that he knows all about them.

ThatWeirdGuy1001,
@ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world avatar

There are military secrets not even presidents are made aware of until necessary.

Truman didn’t even know the Manhattan project was a thing for a while

nonplayablecharacter7334,

That should scare you. “Leader of the free world.” Oy vey. 🤥

Dimok, in We need to stop attempts to normalize grind/hustle lifestyle

It’s bad everywhere, but what’s scariest to me is the stories my girlfriend tells me about the hospitals she works in. She is a traveling radiographer and gets to visit some of the sketchier hospitals across the country. There seems to be a running theme of “we don’t have enough people” and a few bootlickers enabling it with working 90+ hour weeks. Every time you see in the news where a nurse accidentally screws something up, there is a running trail of them being over worked and short staffed. They pay my gf 3-5 times what they pay their xray tech staff, AND pay her room and board, AND a huge percentage on top of that to the contract house. The ineptitude of your run of the mill hospital administration is just…scary.

ShimmeringKoi,
@ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net avatar

I am hearing more and more stories like this that collectively add up to a very bleak picture of terminal institutional rot beneath a nanometer-thin facade

Also I live with one of those bootlickers and all their opinions are exactly as myopic, contrarian and self-aggrandizing as you would think

Tankiedesantski,

Also I live with one of those bootlickers and all their opinions are exactly as myopic, contrarian and self-aggrandizing as you would think

“I delivered a cost reduction of 21 cents per man hour to the shareholders, so my bonus is going up this year” type of thing?

Bamboodpanda, in alternative to trees

It’s sad that the effort to do something innovative to solve a problem can easily get dismissed via a zero effort critique by someone who never took the time to learn why it was created.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/0ac3c9f6-14c9-406b-a816-3050388a32f2.png

BCsven,

There is a tree right next to it. LOL so obviously space for trees. The trunks take up less space, its just they require pulling up surrounding sidewalk sometimes, and maintenance crew for trimming and watering in dry spells.

telllos,

Well, the title should be, we can replace Benchs with better benchs

BCsven,

That would make more sense

DrDominate,
@DrDominate@lemmy.world avatar

Trees don’t perform nearly as much work as the algae tank in sucking up C02 and outputting 02, require more maintenance, and takes longer to deploy (have to wait for tree to mature).

BCsven,

I was only commenting on the wording under the picture claiming they place them where is no room for trees.

DrDominate,
@DrDominate@lemmy.world avatar

Fair enough, I misunderstood. I meant no ill intention.

BCsven,

No worries. I get they can be beneficial, the photo was just ironic

mstrk,

nice, thank you.

sciencesebi,

Yeah…most of the O2 comes from plankton. People seem to freak out about a few trees being cut down, but are chill when it comes to rising ocean temps

far_university1990, in european stereotypes

𝕯𝖎𝖊𝖘𝖊 𝕶𝖔𝖒𝖒𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖆𝖗𝖘𝖊𝖐𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓 𝖎𝖘𝖙 𝖓𝖚𝖓 𝕰𝖎𝖌𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖚𝖒 𝖉𝖊𝖗 𝕭𝖚𝖓𝖉𝖊𝖘𝖗𝖊𝖕𝖚𝖇𝖑𝖎𝖐 𝕯𝖊𝖚𝖙𝖘𝖈𝖍𝖑𝖆𝖓𝖉

DriftinGrifter,

+1

Siethron,

My brain changed the second word to Rammstein.

I’m just imagining Germans running around shouting “Du” at each other.

AngryCommieKender,

Do

Do hats

Do hats fit

Do

Do hats

Do hats fit

Do

Do hats

Do hats fit

Do

Do hats

Do hats fit

Do

Do hats

Do hats fit

Do hats fit

Do hats fit my frog?

Do hats fit my frog?

Do hats fit my frog?

They do. His name is Zog!

I’ve been going to the store

How many hats should I buy for him?

Ahhhhhh, NINE!

Ahhhhhh, NINE!

I’ve been going to the store

How many hats should I buy for him?

Ahhhhhh, NINE!

Ahhhhhh, NINE!

Do-do-du-loot-doot-dinna-lunna-loot! Dinnuna-oota-loot!

far_university1990,

+1 für Kreativität

AngryCommieKender,

Thanks! It’s an old creation of mine, but not totally mine.

The re-write was inspired by a comment that read:

Do

Do hats

Do hats fit my frog?

I saw that and wrote the rest.

Anticorp, in european stereotypes

They’re almost an equivalent price now, thanks to taxes on cigarettes.

Gordon,

Was gonna say, I don’t smoke but I was in upstate NY and a guy gave me a $20 to grab him a pack of smokes from a corner store while I was running in to grab a snack, and I thing I got like $1 and change back. I was appalled.

AnUnusualRelic,
@AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world avatar

Can people be banned from buying cigarettes?

TheBloodFarts,

Yup. Gotta say though, it works. I’ve backed down from impulse buying a pack on several occasions because I didn’t want to drop $20 for 30s of satisfaction

AngryCommieKender,

My cigarettes cost me $0.04.21 each, but when I smoked I rolled my own with a Top-O-Matic. An entire month worth of smokes still would only cost me $42.

AnUnusualRelic,
@AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world avatar

$0.04.21? But at 1:05.21, how much more expensive would they be?

What’s the inflation like in your location?

AngryCommieKender, (edited )

Well, the inflation is the same as it is everywhere else in California, but I actually already inflated the price.

When I quit, the price was $0.03.42 per cigarette or $35 a month. I tended to smoke and give away around 1000 cigarettes per month when I smoked.

At $0.10.521 per cigarette, that would cost me $105.25 a month.

force,

only $42 / month

jesus christ as if i needed even more reason not to be addicted to nicotine

jivandabeast,

That’s … not that much tbh. If you were to go to the bar with your friend once a month you could easily pay double, the cost of like two movie tickets and popcorn, etc etc

hemko,

That’s really cheap. A pack a day can cost you over $300 month depending where you live

dangblingus, in America: Getting ready for another election. Rest of the world:

Based on current polling, Trump will wind in a landslide. People are fucking stupid.

tacosplease,

He won’t. Polls don’t work anymore. But let’s not get complacent.

Magzmak,

No one asked me so think of who they are actually polling.

sciencesebi,

Great. He’ll be the first incarcerated president.

Nommer,

*incinerated

JokeDeity, in soak and jump hump

Is this real? I know mormans are an extremely insane sect of an already extremely insane way of life, but this just seems like a whole new level.

CompN12,

Exmo here, I highly doubt it. There are rules against lesser forms of intamacy (petting), also this clearly violates the spirit of the law (of no premerital sex).

I could see it happening but any Mormon worth their salt would raise their eyebrow and deny it. This is on the level of holding a knife in the middle of a street and getting somebody to bump people into you, it’s not murder, right?

If you wanna talk crazy let’s talk about how you can figure out somebody’s secret name if you know the first time they went through temple endowment. Or how bigfoot is technically canon.

Goblin_Mode,

… I would like to hear more about this secret name…

RippleEffect,

I wanted to hear about Bigfoot being canon

TheFriendlyArtificer,

Same!

I’m an atheist. But I’d be willing to listen to any door to door Jesus salesman who talked about the salvation of bigfoots.

Kuvwert, (edited )

It’s real. How widespread it is, that’s the question. Anecdotally I personally know of three real life instances of this, and several alleged.

ryathal,

It’s just another version of oral/anal doesn’t count.

samus12345, in Happy belated Krampusnacht
@samus12345@lemmy.world avatar
SkybreakerEngineer,

Bum babum ba bum bum bum

shalafi, in We need to stop attempts to normalize grind/hustle lifestyle

My old ass is struggling trying to understand all this.

Capitalism has gone off the rails and is grinding us down, especially the most vulnerable. I get that. Seen shit IRL over the decades that astounds me. If you’re young, it’s hard to truly grasp how much has been stolen from you. And you should be mad as fucking hell.

OTOH, I don’t understand how young people expect to gain anything. The world runs on money, always has, always will, no matter the government or financial system. The world won’t give you money for merely existing, you have to provide value back to the world. That means skills, education and experience. Things you don’t have when you start out in life, things you have to “grind” for. TANSTAAFL.

It’s also hard to grasp the opportunities and freedom you’ve been handed. Worldwide conversations like this were not possible when I was in my 20’s. A computer, with no internet or interoperability, was beyond the scope of most families. Education of any sort is basically free.

Again, no one needs to explain the plight of the youth to me. You’re either old enough to understand, young enough to understand, or you’re out of touch.

KepBen,

Which part confuses you specifically? I can’t understand your complaint here. “No kids need to focus everything on money because simply enjoying life won’t change the world (nothing ever will)”??

lil, in America: Getting ready for another election. Rest of the world:
@lil@lemy.lol avatar

I don’t care about USA elections

Honytawk,

No person outside the US does, but yet we get affected by them with their constant invasions both culturally and military.

banneryear1868, (edited )

Elect Dems: get invasions and genocides but don’t worry we love you <3 uwu >.< (this message is brought to you by the CIA’s EDI “Authentically Me” program, we ensure each and every bomb dropped on you was manufactured in Raytheon’s inclusive workplace)

Elect GOP: get invasions and genocides but were mericuhh so deal with it bishh

worldsayshi,

Except it feels like when republicans gain power we move three steps closer to ww3.

bigdug,

I’m in the U.S. and I’m pretty sure I don’t care either, the campaigns go on for way way too long.

blaine, in The truth is still out there

There was a hearing in the Senate too? I only saw the one in the US House. Does anyone have a link?!

SuckMyWang,

I think it was a senate committee but I’m some random on the internet so what I say must be fact

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