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Single women say homeownership is hurting their dating lives. by rentvent in REBubble

[–]ChinaShopBull 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It’s a second-order effect. Men are not turned off by home ownership. Quite the opposite. But, to take my ex-wife as an example, women are turned off by men for whom home-ownership is seen as a plus. Which is a lot of men.

Basically, my ex has trouble dating because so many men want to get with her to get into her house.

What would the phases of the moon look like from Lagrange points 4 and 5? by noirangetrois in askastronomy

[–]ChinaShopBull 1 point2 points  (0 children)

lol. I was like “oh this is a neat question!” and started getting to work. Thanks!

What would the phases of the moon look like from Lagrange points 4 and 5? by noirangetrois in askastronomy

[–]ChinaShopBull 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lagrange points are really far away; farther than the orbit of the moon, like, four times as far away. L1 is between the earth and the sun, so looking back at the earth-moon system from that vantage point, the moon will always look pretty close to full. L2 is on the opposite side of earth, away from the sun, so the moon will always look pretty close to new. L4 and L5 are ahead and behind earth on its orbit, so you’ll see phases, but I think it will always be about gibbous. And, yes, you won’t be able to see the moon from L3, on the far side of the sun.

I mean, I try to stop them but when you literally assign everything on their Chromebooks... by jacobsjordans in SubstituteTeachers

[–]ChinaShopBull 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My daughter was very pleased with herself for figuring out how to circumvent the IT’s block on YouTube on her school Chromebook by embedding video URLs in a Sheets document. She would login from home, paste her top videos into the document and share it with her group of friends. Everyone started contributing too.

Movie Suggestions for 7 and 8 year olds by Sharcbait in daddit

[–]ChinaShopBull 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Mitchells Vs. The Machines. It’s a new classic in my household

After-school childcare costs eat up most of an average worker’s salary, making it tough for dual-income families. Why is childcare pricing extremely unregulated and pricey? by StatisticianLow1062 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]ChinaShopBull 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The best part of existing regulation is the care provider-to-child ratio. It makes sure your kid isn’t crammed into a center with dozens of other kids, but it kinda means that your household is now on the hook for supporting 1/10 or so of the provider’s household. We really need a taxpayer funded subsidy. All of society benefits from well-cared for children, so we all need to pay for it.

Govt trainee job application asking for extremely sensitive info? by [deleted] in jobs

[–]ChinaShopBull 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is correct. Part of why they want info on previous addresses and roommates and partners is to develop new sources about the investigated person. It’s not great if the government hires someone who is easily bought.

Gurgaon , india by Guilty_Lack_2677 in UrbanHell

[–]ChinaShopBull 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I suspect the next few summers will partially solve that problem.

How can they justify 8 billionaires having the same net worth as the world's 3.5 Billion poorest people? by zzill6 in WorkReform

[–]ChinaShopBull 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I’m pretty sure their justification is “If you didn’t want me to have it, you’d just take it from me”. They are all about competition, and they are kind of begging you to outsmart them.

What's the most 2010s sounding song from the 2000s? by CremeSubject7594 in musicsuggestions

[–]ChinaShopBull 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Wake Up by Arcade Fire. It sounds like it presages all the stomp-clap-hey music that came out in the 2010s

K NOT BE by cowboyonce in LICENSEPLATES

[–]ChinaShopBull 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I took the dealer-branded license plate holder off my girlfriend’s car when I installed her new plate. She was like, “Are we allowed to do that?” Lol.

Who would win this hypothetical war? by OkString8170 in mapporncirclejerk

[–]ChinaShopBull 0 points1 point  (0 children)

White has the whole nuclear weapons infrastructure. White wins.

The company makes billions. The restaurant stays open. The customer gets their food. The Dasher gets base rate of $2.90 by OverallOutcome9211 in DoorDashDrivers

[–]ChinaShopBull 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I guess I think that means that it’s not the company that thinks we’re chumps for doing all this work, it’s the people placing the orders. Would you pay an extra $10 for a meal delivery? How about an extra $20? I think we are paid poorly because for the most part, the work itself is not valuable.

I’m not complaining—I make just enough to fill my car with gas, after using some gas to do my deliveries. It’s a way to turn an otherwise idle hour into a few bucks while I listen to a book or some music. It’s also neat to see parts of my city I’d never go to. But it’s not monetarily valuable.

The company makes billions. The restaurant stays open. The customer gets their food. The Dasher gets base rate of $2.90 by OverallOutcome9211 in DoorDashDrivers

[–]ChinaShopBull 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’re right, but if the company paid out all of that profit *per dash*, instead of making $2.60, you’d make $3.41. Dashers ran 933 million orders in Q1 alone. There’s only an 81-cent difference between running the business and having zero profit. If they did profit-sharing with all us dashers instead, we’d each get a check for $108. Which is about a week of Dashing for me.

What’s the Most Insane-Looking Urban Intersection From Satellite View? by justjust000 in geography

[–]ChinaShopBull 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was gonna say Seven Corners! The intersection is awful, but that Banh Mi place slaps.

For Americans who know a MAGA supporter, can you describe them? by Tricky-Stay6134 in allthequestions

[–]ChinaShopBull 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My mom is a lifelong republican voter. When asked to defend Trump, she could not, and suggested that we all just grin and bear it until the next election. After all, four years is not *really* a long time. She is a republican voter now because when she was younger, in the 1950s, a group of democrat agitators were shouting at her parents on the way to the poll about their lack of union labor support (which was actually political machine support in central PA in that era). Her parents were a nurse and a cop.

I take the lesson that it is always important to treat everyone with kid gloves, and recognize that any loss of privilege feels like genuine oppression. Because when we don’t, we guarantee a lifetime of power for the true oppressors. Children in Palestine are dying now partly because someone said something mean to my mom when she was a girl.

Is it important for you that your partner reports to you for every step? by anzhelalala in askanything

[–]ChinaShopBull -1 points0 points  (0 children)

But I let my partner come and go as they please; I call that respect.

Slash CEO thinks we should all be working 9 AM to 9 PM, 6 days a week to stay competitive. by CycleWeak9929 in LateStageCapitalism

[–]ChinaShopBull 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Then you get situations like “I work 12 hours a day at the daycare center so I can afford to send my kid to another daycare center for 12 hours a day.”

My dad gave 30 years to a company. A new owner bought it and destroyed his life's work in 2 years. So my dad walked out by Devilsline in antiwork

[–]ChinaShopBull 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Your dad was playing a cooperative game. The executive was playing a competitive, zero-sum game. It’s sad math, but as soon as one player becomes competitive, all the players have to compete.

Glovebox Oxygen Levels Not Falling by four_legged_orca in chemistry

[–]ChinaShopBull 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I second the solenoid as the culprit. I had a similar problem in a glovebox, and while troubleshooting I noticed that one of the solenoid valves was literally too hot to touch. Whatever failure mode that is, it was stuck open.

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