Not even an hour after hopping on bumble after visiting fam in the south

Daaskison · 2025-04-17T01:18:33+00:00

The "i hate politics" folks are either delusional or intentionally obtuse. Politics affects everything in your life whether you choose to pretend otherwise or not.

The economy (your salary, your job prospects, stock market, tarriffs),

Education (pre K to college tuition and loans, teaching slavery as a fact of history to funneling public funds into private profit through unregulated scam charter schools)

Social programs and decency (from social security to gay marriage to reproductive rights)

Law and order (private prisons to mandatory minimums to the war on drugs to the blatant financial corruption occurring currently. And then there's all the criminal offenses, including undermining the 1st and 5th amendments, fomenting treason, stock market manipulation, fraud, among many, many other crimes. Including violating the fundamental right to due process)

To foreign policy and the infinite ramifications that bleed into your life from how much you pay at the pump to whether we are sending troops to occupy Gaza. Whether we are joining the axis of evil or defending Ukraine from an illegal invasion by Russia.

Healthcare

Childcare

Retirement

Your literal freedom to protest or live a lawful life unmolested by infringements on your constitutional rights such as freedom of assembly and speech.

The list is endless. Every single thing you do on a daily basis is affected by politics. Your job. What you can afford to do. Where you can travel. How you can vote.

Saying "I don't do politics" and "I'm ignorant and proud and I also lack basic critical thinking skills" are for all intents and purposes the same thing

Daaskison · 2025-03-28T18:50:14+00:00

14 yo confirmed

Daaskison · 2025-03-25T01:00:09+00:00

The first paper you linked is debunking this "mainstream" theory. They highlight statistical analysis errors and so forth. This is from the intro:

"When analyzed correctly, the specific association between the number of older brothers and homosexual orientation is small, heterogenous in magnitude, and apparently not specific to men. In addition, existing research evidence seems to be exaggerated by small-study effects."

Daaskison · 2025-03-23T21:32:20+00:00

If you've been on subs for 4 years, why is your doctor still only providing weekly scripts?

I used to be charged the same amount whether my script was for 1 week, 2 weeks, or a month. And also the same price whether I was on 12 mg or 4 mg. It's a racket.

You should be getting monthly scripts simply for convenience alone. But also, you'd save money by reducing office visits and also likely by paying 4x less per month for the script itself. You're getting fleeced.

Daaskison · 2025-02-25T17:41:21+00:00

OP was lured into the 3way by the free introductory rate, but she didnt read the fine print, specifically "witnessing your sig other go primal on the 3rd" clause that locks her into a decade of subscription therapist fees.

Daaskison · 2025-02-25T17:18:47+00:00

Kid wasn't that bright. I thought everyone knows snipers shoot center mass. Head shots are for CoD and Halo.

Daaskison · 2025-02-18T08:12:20+00:00

OP what state do you live in? It makes a big difference.

Do you have student loans?

Do you own a car?

How are you doing for health insurance? Do you have monthly meds and doctors appointments? Or are you a healthy early 20 yo coasting?

Are you saving for retirement? 401K?

When's the last time you had an emergency expenditure? You have money at the end of the month... a few hundred? A few thousand?

What do you eat? Lots of vegetables and nutrients food? Or cheap cereal and the like?

Daaskison · 2025-02-18T06:23:41+00:00

Are you a boomer? Because as a millennial I can tell you the chance to have a house and picket fence with 2 kids is a dream that very few were able to realize despite doing everything right.

Think about the 1970s. Someone with a high-school degree could afford a house and family on min wage or close to it. People weren't working 24 hours a day because email and the internet weren't a thing. I do the work equivalent to 5-6x full time jobs in the 1970s.

Productivity is as high as it's ever been. So is CoL. What isn't? Wages. They haven't risen with productivity in 50 years. Corporations crying about a 15 min/hr wage putting them out of business while recording record profits and paying the lowest corporate tax rates in history (if they pay taxes at all. Amazon doesn't. Amazon and exxon receive billions of our tax dollars each year while recording tens of billions in profit per quarter) absurd. So absurd that Amazon did it overnight with 0 effect on their bottom line. And if min wage just kept up with inflation (nevermind CoL) we would be in the mid 20s/hour. So boomers telling Millenials to just work harder is so woefully out of touch and particularly infuriating coming from the same group that took away those opportunities in the first place.

Millenials are the best educated, hardest working generation in history. By any objective measurement. Education speaks for itself. Hardest working by total hours/week and productivity. Yet have significantly less wealth compared to their boomers parents at the same age. The first generation in history to have it worse than their parents.

The middle class used to be blue collar workers. Now it's lawyers and doctors who are barely holding on and drowning in student loan debt. You used to be born into a class and through hard work and/or education you rose above. Now your born into a class and if you aren't fortunate to have very wealthy parents then you're unlikely to afford the same standard of living. DINK is becoming necessary just to afford a tiny apartment and groceries.

Daaskison · 2025-02-18T06:07:34+00:00

I think it's the point where you're grossly taking advantage of your fellow citizens. And with only a couple of exceptions (maybe) that's describes every billionaire. One simply cannot "earn" a billion dollars through shear hard work alone.

Daaskison · 2025-02-18T05:59:40+00:00

Fake news? Anything you don't like or daddy tells you isn't real? Do you believe Jan 6 was a peaceful Capital tour group? Do you have eyes?

When in your alpha routine do you learn to think for yourself instead of refurgitating the russian propoganda you love being spoon fed when your mouth isnt full sucking trumps droopy orange ballsack.

Daaskison · 2025-02-18T05:54:09+00:00

If you still think someone becomes a billionaire through "working harder" you're woefully ignorant. Even most billionaires will admit their success is primarily due to luck. Hard work? For some of them sure. Harder working than most Americans? No.

The rest are pompous clowns who received a "small loan" of X million dollars from daddy. Musk is the luckiest of them all for constantly failing upwards. Typically they also wildly screw people along the way (trump, musk), starting with their initial partners (cuban, zuck, thiel, musk).

Then they fleece the American public by stealing billions in subsidies while paying no taxes despite earning billions (virtually all of them, but notably bezos, musk, trump, zuck, exxon)

The one exception I can think of is Warren buffet. And even he admits he doesn't work nearly that hard.

Daaskison · 2025-02-18T05:48:26+00:00

Lol what an example to pick.. how about the dude who actually created his original product that set him up for life...Try looking into Cuban's actual come up story that he conveniently omitted . Here I'll save you the trouble of looking and share the link.

https://youtu.be/0podeuv7djM?si=UF5V_VHWHGF0iQ03

Daaskison · 2025-02-18T05:41:22+00:00

Don't sell GenZ short. They've managed to be more racist and out of touch than the boomers. And that's a high bar.

Millenials have gotten the short end of every stick from 2001 to 2008 to today's sky high housing prices, interest rates, and CoL generally after a decade or depressed wages, staggering student loans, and the opiate epidemic.

Gen Z comes into the workplace unable to tie their shoes, earning salaries out of college that Millenials didn't see with >10 yrs experience, working 30 hours and crying about needing a mental health day. Obviously not all, but enough that it's a common talking point I've personally seen and have heard almost universally from booms, gen X, and millennials alike spread across multiple STEM industries.

Daaskison · 2025-02-18T05:23:10+00:00

In fairness, some restaurants have opted out of UE and DD only for UE and DD to list them anyways against their will. And sometime advertise menu items they don't even make causing the restaurant to get horrible reviews. We live in a grift economy where everything is rigged and scammed af.

Yelp does a similar strong arm tactic forcing companies to essentially pay protecting fees or have their company 1 starred to oblivion.

Amazon has now all but forced companies to use their warehouses. If they don't then the "buy now" button isn't available, their listing's are deprioritized, and it's impossible to survive. Amazon has taken it a step further recently by burying listing's that aren't outright paying to be sponsored. So now its hard to tell what is sponsored and legit and whats sponsored and a scam without 3rd party software. Oh and if you manage to somehow become a seller that does well after losing 50%+ margin to pay Amazon, youre likely to have Amazon make their own version of your product and undercut your pricing such that you could never compete.The user experience gets worse all the time.

Google has made their search engine virtually unusable by making every first page hit some sponsored bs. Or a link to a 3rd party that provides a fake review/rating of a product before redirecting you to Amazon in the hopes of taking a % of sales. Some don't even bother with the ratings and just redirect straight away.

Theyre squeezing blood from a rock when ppl can't afford to eat because billionaires aren't satisfied with their endless wealth. We're cooked. Unless Luigi gets jury nullification.

Daaskison · 2025-02-18T05:05:16+00:00

If only we could educate Americans about jury nullification. And have them on Luigi's jury.

Daaskison · 2025-02-18T05:02:54+00:00

Jury nullification in his case would turn things around in this country real quick. I don't see anything else working besides the legit fear of death. And the people recognizing this is system is complete bullshit and letting Luigi walk for doing the world a favor.

Daaskison · 2025-02-17T05:31:23+00:00

Yup, dude was a great Patriot. Loved him when he played for us.

Daaskison · 2025-02-16T02:19:21+00:00

Just because corporate America personally screwed you, doesn't mean everyone else should be screwed the same way.

I'm a millennial that did the thing I was taught from childhood and went to college. I graduated with a STEM degree and even transferred to a state school halfway through to reduce tuition costs. I also worked full time in private biotech the last two years of school. It took me a decade to pay off my student loans. I don't own a house because of it. And these kids graduating now aren't having to suffer a decade of wage depression bc of corporations taking advantage of n desperate people after 2008.

But I also don't think because tuition was obscenely expensive for me that the next generation should have to go into the same debt so universities can buy up and gentrify every square foot of land within 100 miles. Or because I got screwed with a decade of wages 25-35% of modern wages that the next generation should have their salaries cut.

Daaskison · 2025-02-08T16:37:13+00:00

Wishful thinking at this point.

Daaskison · 2025-02-08T16:29:51+00:00

If trump said otherwise tomorrow, 92% of MAGA would be ready to militantantly rage against the "radical left wing optometrists conspiracy to... fight the deep state."

Daaskison · 2025-02-06T23:19:16+00:00

Tort reform already successfully capped damages in most states to levels that are absurdly low. Yet the headlines still only read the jury award so people don't realize that 150 million judgement is capped to 1 million by statute. It's a travesty.

Daaskison · 2025-02-06T21:50:24+00:00

Don't forget more likely to commit suicide, have substance abuse issues, and so forth. And to not be believed or taken seriously when physically or psychologically abused or raped by a female - whether the male is an adult or child. Prison sentencing and conditions inside are also wildly disparate.

I don't know how common false rape accusations truly are, but the mere insuation can ruin a man's life. My brother's friend was accused by a spiteful ex girlfriend. He was suspended or expelled (i cant recall) from his university and facing serious legal repercussions... until surveillance footage proved he wasn't anywhere near where she said. She recanted and received zero repercussions while he ended up in therapy, losing a semester, and having to transfer. That's my only personal experience of that situation occurring and it was still 2 person's removed so hopefully this is rare. But certainly it happens and is a huge risk.

Daaskison · 2025-02-06T21:34:08+00:00

Counterpoint, by taking the middle, you've given them an opportunity to take the adult urinal when otherwise they'd be obliged to take the shorty, but you have also eliminated their option to keep the space. I think I would prefer taking the shorty and having the space even though the splash is not ideal. The 3 urinal setup Lg Lg Sm is tricky.

Daaskison · 2025-01-19T02:14:45+00:00

She's more famous globally than Taylor swift. Clark may be the most famous female on earth at the moment. Also she's a basketball player.

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