MintyFresh

joined 2 years ago
[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 51 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I remember a sack of potatoes costing 1.50. I remember rent costing 450. I remember chicken being less than 1 dollar per lb. I can even remember when healthcare and higher education was a reasonable price. But hey! At least the rich are getting richer

[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Kevin Spacey. He's just such a good actor, I like every movie he's in. The first season of House of Cards was amazing too.

[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)
[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

They're even cooler when you find them in the forest. You don't realize what's happening at first, the ground is uneven, the forest obscures it. But then you realize you're in a perfect circle of magical fungus. Goosebumps

[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I love how everyone involved in that just got a pass for lying about that. Like they started a war that killed hundreds of thousands, not to mention all the blood and treasure we pissed down that hole. And as a consequence? They got rich. Just fucking embarrassing....

[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

My great grandmother once gave an Irish carny a handie in exchange for a bag of peanuts and a look at an elephants bum ,(she was weird like that!). So ya... I'm basically Irish!

[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Poopin on company time!

[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 50 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you do it habitually, it won't cost you thought or effort. You'll just do it by muscle memory. The bar for obtaining and keeping a drivers license is too damn low.

[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

Oh man! The pieces of myself I gave working for companies that gave zero shits about me! I worked way too hard for way too little. I was nothing to them.

Kids if you're reading this unionize your workplace. Through a union is the only way I've gotten a decent wage, benefits package, and shield from the whims of management. They're nothing without us, they produce no value.

[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

In fairness before the Internet we could pretend people were decent and thoughtful. Facebook well and truly ended that.

[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Better call Saul. Such a great character study. Fun high jinx. Every major character has an arch. Deals with corruption, justice and revenge. The choices they make, where it leads them, and how they reckon with it. It was the show breaking bad tried to be.

 

Ohh ya baby!

 

I stand with the otters

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by MintyFresh@lemmy.world to c/wikipedia@lemmy.world
 

Like they could cool their shit, and desalinate water with the waste heat. Provide water to dry areas. Like Baja or Texas. Bonus points if they could run off renewables. Seems like a win win

 
 

Ripped from PaulDrye@lemmings.world no idea who the original artist was. They are talented AF though!

 

Keeping with the theme of early aughts hip-hop I'm seeing here

 

10 of the last 10 years were the hottest on record. It's time. I know so many people that will give lip service to the environment and then think nothing of taking multiple flights per year on the flimsiest of pretexts.

And as all too often happens, people go to poorer countries where they get waited on hand and foot, and then act like they're doing some giant favor to the locals. All too often these tourist sights end up being an unmitigated natural disaster, not to mention locking the locals out of their own back yard.

And then they'll turn around and claim they're "helping the local economy" trying to justify it. It's colonialism by another name. If they paid fair wages to the workers these vacations would become much more expensive, perhaps prohibitively so.

And wtf is wrong with you, you can't relax in your own region? Gonna cook the planet because you can't be happy and relax in your own hemisphere. Y'all need to chill it with the air travel!

 

The wiki says it was transferred to Europe via the middle east. It seems obvious the Arabic numerals we use today are so much easier to work with than Roman numerals.

Was there a noticeable uptick in trade simply because bookkeeping became so much easier? Was there a noticeable uptick in the complexity and pervasiveness of monied, as opposed to in kind, daily trade in all levels of society?

It seems like the humble zero hit the scene and next thing you know the Renaissance is getting under way.

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