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Animal-Mother posted:I have no debt. I have no kids. My partner and I are gainfully employed full time. Same, plus there is just zero margin for even 1 person losing a job.
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Mar 29, 2024 05:43
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Americans also have to drive everywhere to do anything.
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Mar 29, 2024 05:47
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Paradoxish posted:Yeah, I feel like everyone I know has a story that's some variation of "I went out with some work people and it cost me $100 and now I don't do that anymore." at my last call center job several years ago all nine of us made it through the five week training and they decided they wanted to go to one of the many corporate-park style bars nearby to celebrate I bought the first round , hung around another half hour and left two months later every single one of us was fired or quit skaboomizzy has issued a correction as of 05:52 on Mar 29, 2024 |
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Mar 29, 2024 05:48
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Xaris posted:I think the topic is interesting but yes I think this is definitely a component. I also think there's a few thing. also, media has trained Americans, and particularly dangerously things like YouTube and instantgratification, cooking/craft competition shows/etc, is that americans expect themselves to suddenly be as good as people they try to emulate and get frustrated whenever their hobbies don't turn out Pinterestagrammable Perfect on the first try or aren't showing gratification-level improvement quickly enough. To be fair, this attitude runs very deep, goes way beyond hobbies, and is probably damaging in a huge range of ways. It's just an extension of the weird stereotypes about being smart/talented that crop up in pretty much all media. If you know how to do a thing then you've always known how to do it and, more importantly, you clearly didn't have to work or practice and it's all very easy for you. Wasting time on anything that you aren't immediately good at is never worth it.
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Mar 29, 2024 05:52
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Paradoxish posted:To be fair, this attitude runs very deep, goes way beyond hobbies, and is probably damaging in a huge range of ways. It's just an extension of the weird stereotypes about being smart/talented that crop up in pretty much all media. If you know how to do a thing then you've always known how to do it and, more importantly, you clearly didn't have to work or practice and it's all very easy for you. Wasting time on anything that you aren't immediately good at is never worth it. although I'm always a bit facetious and half-joking when I say it, I do think the advent of television/digital media/internet has been irreparably putting out 999999-points of psychic damage onto the past several 4+ generations in many insideous ways. Xaris has issued a correction as of 06:01 on Mar 29, 2024 |
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Mar 29, 2024 05:56
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kreeningsons posted:This statement seems like it has the potential to mislead people into thinking the key bridge was an outlier. The vast majority of bridges are probably just several feet long or some concrete structure going over farmer jim bob’s creek or whatever, not spanning a long enough distance to require a complex fracture critical truss system. I’d like to know the proportion of bridges spanning an equivalent distance as the key bridge that are fracture critical, because it’s probably more than 3%. There are only like 18,000 fracture critical bridges in the US, nbd in Louisiana something like 1 in 4 bridges is lmao
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Mar 29, 2024 06:00
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Paradoxish posted:To be fair, this attitude runs very deep, goes way beyond hobbies, and is probably damaging in a huge range of ways. It's just an extension of the weird stereotypes about being smart/talented that crop up in pretty much all media. If you know how to do a thing then you've always known how to do it and, more importantly, you clearly didn't have to work or practice and it's all very easy for you. Wasting time on anything that you aren't immediately good at is never worth it. This reminds me of a lot of boomer brain and how they suck at and/or outright refuse to teach their kids anything, including family trades and basic life skills, because they don't understand learning as a process and think knowledge should be absorbed via osmosis or spontaneously generated.
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Mar 29, 2024 06:01
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Xaris posted:yeah that's definitely true. the I think about this whenever I see people fawning over some insane prodigy kid who's making the rounds on talk shows or whatever. 100% of the focus is placed on the concept of natural talent/genius and 0% on the fact that these poor kids have probably effectively had full time jobs since they could walk.
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Mar 29, 2024 06:07
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Paradoxish posted:I think about this whenever I see people fawning over some insane prodigy kid who's making the rounds on talk shows or whatever. 100% of the focus is placed on the concept of natural talent/genius and 0% on the fact that these poor kids have probably effectively had full time jobs since they could walk. But really you can extend it to most everything in media, from how people appear to relate to each other in social settings, from how successful the other appears, from how good we think people should be at X, etc.
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Mar 29, 2024 06:16
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Why they put the frie man in jail he didn't do anything wrong. Perfect commodity trades, very legal disclaimers.
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Mar 29, 2024 06:17
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Xaris posted:peep dat weight Cereal is the biggest scam now. I just get some oats from winco now.
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Mar 29, 2024 06:25
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dew worm posted:Shrimp seem pretty cool but they will breed, right? Amano shrimp haver here. They don't breed in freshwater. You have to do a difficult song and dance of slowly increasing the salinity into your tank, since in nature the only place Amano shrimp will breed is in salty water. But if it's too salty the eggs won't hatch either. Finally, after they hatch you have to decrease the salinity slowly. Nearly all of the Amano shrimp you see in pet stores were caught from nature and not bred in captivity.
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Mar 29, 2024 06:40
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A whole bunch of Amano shrimp might be too much for a 10 or 20 gallon. They're a pretty big shrimp. Get you some snails instead if you're looking for a cleanup crew for a 10 or 20 gallon.
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Mar 29, 2024 06:48
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err posted:Cereal is the biggest scam now. I just get some oats from winco now. gruel is underrated and very ftw. good choice, gruel is my breakfast most days also lol. shareholder reports are funny as hell  
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Mar 29, 2024 07:08
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love to do revenue growth management initiatives resulting in favorable price/mix adjustments if i reduce volume by 10% but get a 10% increase in profits... alex, what is CPI
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Mar 29, 2024 07:09
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crapflation ftw  quote:The new sauce is thinner, less red, and has no tomato chunks. When I read the ingredients, the new one has far less olive oil and chunky tomatoes, and water is listed higher up on the ingredient list. There are now “less than 2%” of some of the original ingredients. You can see how different they look.
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Mar 29, 2024 07:17
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netizen posted:A whole bunch of Amano shrimp might be too much for a 10 or 20 gallon. They're a pretty big shrimp. I love snails but man they poo poo uncontrollably.
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Mar 29, 2024 07:18
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Discretionary spending, such as groceries, are not included in the CPI formula.
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Mar 29, 2024 07:18
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err posted:Cereal is the biggest scam now. I just get some oats from winco now. I switched to oatmeal. I make a big batch on Sunday, and it lasts me all week. All of the cereal convenience, none of the insane prices.
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Mar 29, 2024 07:19
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it feels like everyone on earth is having an existential crisis
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Mar 29, 2024 07:51
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loving Honolulu in there at exactly $300k.
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Mar 29, 2024 07:55
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Stereotype posted:it feels like everyone on earth is having an existential crisis going to burning man this year?
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Mar 29, 2024 08:03
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My pay has doubled since before covid so my broad assumption is that inflate has doubled everything since before covid. I'm sure everyone else has gotten similar respective increases in wages across all industries.
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Mar 29, 2024 08:10
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Asproigerosis posted:My pay has doubled since before covid so my broad assumption is that inflate has doubled everything since before covid. https://i.imgur.com/KBtYmqX.mp4
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Mar 29, 2024 08:28
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My point was that inflation is wildly out of control and the leeches in power refuse to let anyone think otherwise.
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Mar 29, 2024 08:31
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Xaris posted:I think the topic is interesting but yes I think this is definitely a component. I think it's a combination of a lot of things. also, media has trained Americans, and particularly dangerous things like YouTube and instantgratification, cooking/craft competition shows/etc, is that americans expect themselves to suddenly be as good as people they try to emulate and get frustrated whenever their hobbies don't turn out Pinterestagrammable Perfect on the first try or aren't showing gratification-level improvement quickly enough.  Partner taps this on laminated printout whenever I ponder how she does an art and gets paid for it while I schlep about a lab all day.
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Mar 29, 2024 08:41
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Anyway, the premium consumer is doing fine. https://x.com/yeemilyee/status/1772595422386655364?s=46&t=CkxUTFewBhsxPVoqA_wgtQ
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Mar 29, 2024 08:42
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Skaffen-Amtiskaw posted:Anyway, the premium consumer is doing fine. Do not be like the foolish Esau, who was hungry and sold his birthright for a bowl of soup
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Mar 29, 2024 10:03
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What if someone made chewy, but for the premium consumer?
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Mar 29, 2024 10:12
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Animal-Mother posted:I have no debt. I have no kids. My partner and I are gainfully employed full time. have u tried fleeing the country, op? works for me
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Mar 29, 2024 10:16
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Asproigerosis posted:My pay has doubled since before covid so my broad assumption is that inflate has doubled everything since before covid. mine too but i dont live in america. ymmv
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Mar 29, 2024 10:20
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Skaffen-Amtiskaw posted:Anyway, the premium consumer is doing fine. way back a million years ago when it was new, a woman in china sold a kidney for an iphone 4
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Mar 29, 2024 10:21
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tristeham posted:going to burning man this year? hell yeah
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Mar 29, 2024 10:39
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skaboomizzy posted:there was a little bit of that but he just went off the rails and spent tens of thousands at a strip club, on more lottery tickets, drugs, booze, his granddaughter got some of his money and spent it to OD on drugs, there was some business about him building a brand new church that went bad, etc I mean imagine winning that much money and trying to just keep doing same old same old. what a loving moron.
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Mar 29, 2024 10:44
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Raccooon posted:There has to be a CEO that came up through some sort of engineering department right? No. In America you go to business school to be a manager. It's like going to school for oil painting and after graduation you get to tell actual artists how to paint. It's a loving insane system. If you're like me and worked for billable-hour joints you will never get promoted if they can bill you out close to 100% of the time.
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Mar 29, 2024 11:29
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Ghost Leviathan posted:This reminds me of a lot of boomer brain and how they suck at and/or outright refuse to teach their kids anything, including family trades and basic life skills, because they don't understand learning as a process and think knowledge should be absorbed via osmosis or spontaneously generated. this x1000
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Mar 29, 2024 12:31
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Xaris posted:crapflation ftw i always thought jarred pizza and marinara sauce was disgusting but lol that they are actually watering that vile poo poo down i know everyone is time poor but it’s another thing that can be made at home for a fraction of the price and a small time investment
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Mar 29, 2024 12:36
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kreeningsons posted:
My friend, let me introduce to Rao's. About the only sauce worth a drat in a jar.....and they charge out the nose for it.
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Mar 29, 2024 12:42
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C-Bangin' it 
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DickParasite posted:I switched to oatmeal. I make a big batch on Sunday, and it lasts me all week. All of the cereal convenience, none of the insane prices. I've got bad news about what's in the oats these days
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Mar 29, 2024 13:02
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you don’t need breakfast guess who invented it edit obv people with diet issues need it
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