I’m just as critical of Lemmy as I was of Reddit.
Lemmy is a very left leaning echo chamber and a lot of people dont want to hear counterpoints to their soap-box rantings.
I do love Lemmy, but theres a decent percentage of fucking whackadoodles on here too. Also I’m not installing Linux, stop asking.
For anyone who wants to watch a good movie and get some insight into your ego being your worst enemy should watch the Guy Ritchie movie “Revolver”. Its one of my favorites.
Take it from a 40yo man who recently pushed himself into borderline eating disorder territory chasing fitness goals… yeah dont take it to addiction territory.
The one that fucks me off is when people are like “Sorry about that, us russians are hot blooded.” Or “I cant help myself around the ladies, its the latin blood” You’re both 3 generations deep, one of you is a sexist pig and the other is just an angry cunt.
Or people act like insert culture here has some mystical connection to food. You see it all the time on bullshit cooking shows “I’m blank so food is very important to me” or that because their great grandmother was Italian they have some innate gift for cooking pasta… like in the village of 200 families she was from there isnt a chance that your nonna was the worst cook in town.
You stay where your too, I’ll come were yer at.
Half Life 2. They gave it to me for free.
Finished it and got Necromunda: Hired Gun for $13.
One of the key overlooked benefits of UBI is that it also encourages people to retire, move out of the workforce or drop back to part time sooner. Freeing up jobs for people to move into.
Once the house is paid off and the kids have moved out, etc. The “I dont NEED to do this” is real.
Unironically I think this is what drives a decent portion of transphobia.
Im a straight dude and I think stockings, high heels, short skirts and boobs are just awesome but I’m also secure enough in my shit to say “That dude makes a pretty hot chick”. I also know that my wife doesnt dress like that because its a lot of work, she doesnt feel the need to. Its very much a “sometimes food” as cookie monster would say.
So when knuckle dragging guys who havent seen their wife out of sweatpants and flipflops in 3 months see a dude who put more effort into their appearance in 1 day and they want to fuck that… They get mad.
Im advocating for pushing the wealth from the top down. Make it financially non viable to own hundreds of houses, make it seriously sub optimal to own dozens over the long term.
A lot of new development is driven by investors, to build a new house you need to live somewhere while its built, and pay for the land and pay for the build in stages as it goes. That pretty much requires you to be able to cover two mortgages at once. Most investors I’ve met are buying off the plan when its a block of dirt or an unleveled paddock and consequently getting it CHEAP. They pay say $500k for a house that will sell for $800k when its finished because average working people cant cover the difference. But the house gets built and adds more supply to the system.
If you destroy property investing as a market, you will seriously hamstring new development and make the problem worse. You need to make owning thousands over the long term nonviable but make investing and adding to the supply be the money maker.
First 5 investment properties should carry a 1% property income tax that is directly funneled into a housing development program, then a 5% property income tax on the next 5, 10% on the next 10…
Realestate is the safest and highest yield investment working people can make to build generational wealth. Dont cut the throat of the guy who can afford a brand new Audi to spite the guy who has to decide between wether his driver fetches the Rolls or the Bentley.
People should be able to aspire to being rich, just not filthy rich.
Im building the Planet Express building from Futurama.
Come on, thats an unfair conparison.
President Camacho actually wanted to fix things.
Because Lemmy is a voluntary echo chamber.
Honestly the USA is going fucking insane and China is starting to look stable and rational by comparison.
China is like “yes, we are predictably slightly evil” America wakes up every day, takes a fistfull of Hunter S Thompsons briefcase, snorts it and then hucks a dart at a D&D alignment chart.
Im not a smart man, but I run a large complicated facility for a job.
When I have a safety issue, I call our safety expert. When I need to know about loading and unloading in the dock, I speak to the dock supervisor. When I have an admin issue, I speak to the admin lady… I do not like some of the people I have to rely on, but they are very VERY good at their jobs.
Even most of his supporters know Trump is a figurehead but they are seeing him surround himself with cronies and political appointments instead of qualified and intelligent people, even if those people would just find the “least bad” way to implement his moronic ideas.
Double wrong, GW just hasnt had the time to write enough lore about them for us to understand just how they are absolute assholes.
Almost certainly heresy, even if the Inquisition was somehow a faction it would still probably be heresy.
Scoop the yolks make a deviled egg mixture with a touch of cream cheese and a GOOD hot sauce.
Thank me later.