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Didn't know that, but I have a sinking feeling about this time

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 36 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Better late than never

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 73 points 2 days ago (4 children)

No, only on Mondays. He hasn't broken from that since the start, this is obviously important enough he doesn't think he can wait until the next Monday

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's the American way. Keep them fed and entertained and they'll go along with anything. Although fed is up in the air with grocery prices...

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 27 points 2 days ago (2 children)

They had a data breach

It's unavoidable now, it is impossible from a company's perspective to not at least consider wind and solar compared to fossil fuels. They make the most sense on paper every time. Fossil fuels are hard, you have to extract them, ship them, and burn them. All of which takes constant maintenance. Solar and wind are both mostly set it and forget it

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm honestly surprised it was allowed to air, that Disney didn't pull the plug.

Yeah we were just in the market a year or so ago and I thought this was cool for about a second before I realized what this would be used for. It's just advertising straight into your kitchen, as you are grabbing food. It's the perfect place for them to advertise. Any lack of advertisements was always going to be temporary.

Plus honestly what is the actual use for it? Just put a tablet on the counter if you want a screen in there

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh I got yelled at constantly, demeaned, and shit on as a low level worker constantly. I put in 5 years retail there at best buy, and 5 years of fast food before then. If that's what this is all about, then I completely see where you're coming from, but I don't think it's related to this directly, in fact it's the opposite I've found.

In my experience working those menial jobs it wasn't the wealthy or the rich who made it their mission to make sure I knew my place - it was the people on the lowest rungs of society. The people who were often the poorest were also the ones who would really shove in my face that they were paying me for a service. It wasn't the well to do woman wearing a suit who came in asking me to fix her computer who would yell at me, it was the old farmer who drive 2 hours to nowhere to have me fix it and demean me.

And maybe that's your point, it's a little garbled in the messaging but maybe that's what you were trying to say. From what I saw, they had someone in front of them that was finally "below" them, and they took every advantage of that fact. I had literal cheeseburgers thrown at me by people who were at best my equals at the time. Looking back I pity them, I think it's a psychology thing. They had someone to prove to them that they weren't the lowest class. It's where racism and homophobia comes into play. To them as long as there is someone in their mind below them, they're not the worst.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 11 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Time is a finite resource. There are only so many hours a week and we have to make choices on where to spend those few hours. Privilege may dictate how many hours they can trade off, but we all do it. I guarantee the people at Jiffy Lube still make tradeoffs themselves on the weekend, but I admit those tradeoffs are more difficult the less money you have. For me, yes, I say the spending of $30 to save 2 hours of time is well worth it. Those 2 hours are more valuable to me spent elsewhere. That's me though and my status. There's a thousand other things though we decide on.

Are you a classist because you buy bread instead of making it yourself? What about choosing to work and hiring childcare?

I worked at Geek Squad now over a decade ago and learned then that I was wrong for thinking they took advantage of people, it's that for most of the people who walked in they had more important things to do than to sit and fix their computer. I personally would do it at home, but it's a skill I had and why pay money for a skill I had at the time, and I find enjoyment out of it. I did learn that most people have different skills though, and they would rather spend their time and money elsewhere. People of all classes and incomes.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 24 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (11 children)

An oil change at jiffy lube costs me 80 bucks and is about an hour or my time. Doing it myself is 50 bucks in oil and is about 2 hours of my time. Taking these simple numbers, that's 30 of labor I can pay to save myself 2 hours of work. Or $15/hr saved.

You don't mention the opportunity costs associated. Yes I can do it myself, but I lose 2 hours of my precious weekend doing it. Time I could be with family or friends, doing my own projects, or even doing projects that are more labor costly. Why waste my time with something like that when my time is much more better spent doing other things.

I have no maturity or caste whatever with it, you're putting a lot of your emotions on other people. Good unpopular opinion though.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

No bannable offenses? That's a banning

 

Nov 10, 2024 at the KC Chiefs game, one of my favorite outfits of hers.

Swifties - let me know if these get too spammy.

 
 

I've found over the last few games that I find crafting more and more frustrating in games. It took me a while but I honestly think it's because Satisfactory did such an amazing job with automation that I find other systems cumbersome and clunky.

For my example today, I've always wanted to like No Man's Sky. Building bases wherever you want to, flying around the galaxy, it seems amazing! But the crafting, dear god the crafting. I have to go over here, get an ore, bring it back, put it in a machine, take the output, put it back in another machine to finally get something out. The entire time (and now I'm at 15 hours so this was not a 20 minutes and I give up scenario) I was thinking "Why can't I just connect the miner to the machine here?

I went on the forums, maybe there's something I need to unlock? Nope, in fact the forums I found literally said "This isn't Satisfactory, stop trying to change our game, the fun is in the crafting."

So, maybe my fun isn't the same anymore. Anyone else feel that way?

 

Love Triangles are stressful and often heartbreaking. Add five or ten more people to the mix, and instead they become comedy (but not always): Characters A, B, C, and D all love character E, who might love any of them, but can't commit for reasons of honor or basic wishywashiness. There's also character F, who might love E, and whom he might love back, but they get on each other's nerves so it's hard to tell. Meanwhile, G is sweet on C while H and I both love A. Except on alternate Tuesdays, when H's third cousin from Osaka expresses her intent to marry Character F's dog, who has an odd thing for D… You get the idea.

So, what shows have you watched that were notoriously bad with this?

 
 
 
 

Personally got a chuckle out of it___

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Welcome to /c/Urbanism! (poptalk.scrubbles.tech)
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cross-posted from: https://poptalk.scrubbles.tech/post/2915232

!urbanism@lemmy.world

This is a space to explore and share ideas about how we shape the towns and cities we live in. Here we'll be making a place where we can openly discuss urban planning for not only large cities but also our small towns - including but not limited to transit, green spaces, walkability, traffic, and anything related to living in an urban environment.

Many of you already know me, I'm Scrubbles, passionate about Urbanism and excited to see what we can do with this community.

I welcome all posts about Urbanism - videos about it, articles, open questions, whatever you may like!

Minor housekeeping, rules will come as they are needed, my big two are "Don't be a dick" - meaning discussion is welcome and arguments are fine, but I don't tolerate personal attacks, and keep posts on target. Obviously these will evolve with the community.

Hopefully this will be my only "announcement" style post, but felt like we should kick it off somewhere. Welcome!

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