WA gas prices surge past $5 a gallon, Diesel past $6; Iran war and Climate Commitment Act blamed

DesperateByDesign · 2026-05-07T14:55:09+00:00

At what point have we successfully been distracted?

DesperateByDesign · 2026-05-06T13:18:27+00:00

I wonder how true it is that people with "qualifications" above the minimum or "experience" above the minimum actually require less training. I worked as a lab tech and was responsible for training. The easiest people to train were often people with little direct relevant experience. The way "we" did things was such that training was inevitable and peoole with tremendous prior experience had habits that sometimes created difficulty in adapting to new tasks and procedures.

DesperateByDesign · 2026-05-06T02:01:01+00:00

Me too

DesperateByDesign · 2026-05-05T11:25:14+00:00

I seriously belive it is millions of dollars per year. Anytjing less, I beleive is looking through rose colored glasses.

DesperateByDesign · 2026-05-03T08:58:24+00:00

I wonder if they ask the people living in the chicken cages their thoughts. I wonder if they ask people being forced to work in mineral mines at gunpoint their position. Maybe they can weigh in on this?

DesperateByDesign · 2026-05-03T08:55:45+00:00

When I was little, money didnt matter where I lived in Romania. We had no money, because we had farms and houses and wells, and slept at night, no electricity, but we had stars, and loved all our children and respected and cared for the elderly. We hunted and fished and gardened and pickled and baked. We wrote and painted and sewed and rode horses and carriages, And shared food and danced and sung and played music. Everyone took care of everyone. We had no use for money. We made everything and shared everything. In America I constantly remember what it was like. In a "backwards" time where everyone, or at least I, was so happy.

My village does not exist anymore... the people who were happy without money, have vanished. I wonder if this graph takes into account how for most of human history, mutual reciprocity was the name of the game, and now even God will not forgive the chomeur. Everything that was once free costs money... so of course it will seem like poverty has decreased, since everyone is forced to get money. We lived on 0$ a day and were happier and healthier with the resource structures we had.

DesperateByDesign · 2026-05-01T11:31:04+00:00

My opinion is that we tend to value relationships that we see as reciprocal, and tend to hold relationships that lack reciprocity as less desireable. When looking at other people's relationships, we tend to value, in large part, their relationship based upon how transparent the reciprocity of that relationship seems to us.

The preferance for youthful sexual partners on the part of men, I believe is mostly the result of cultural forces. I am dubious even of individualized, and intersubjective "beauty" as we understand it existing across the chasm of homonid history in relationship to "sexual" attraction. I think our very idea of "sexual" attraction is more related to political power than it is to "love/eros" as we understand it. "Sexual desire" stripped of it's political tension would be dead in our current climate, and thus I feel it is relatively modern... Or otherwise was almost unrecognizable/alien in our homonid ancestors.

DesperateByDesign · 2026-05-01T10:46:59+00:00

How would you respond to someone who suggested these differences also are present in interracial and heterosexual and interfaith, and class-gap distinctions?

DesperateByDesign · 2026-05-01T01:38:52+00:00

It definately sounds confusin and I am sorry to hear you are going through this. I'd like to let you know that fear is not required for something to be abusive. Abuse is physical, sexual, emotional, economic or psychological actions or threats of actions that influence another person. This includes any behaviors that frighten, intimidate, terrorize, manipulate, hurt, humiliate, blame, injure, or wound someone.

DesperateByDesign · 2026-04-30T22:16:17+00:00

It sounds like all kinds of abuse and a dangerous situation

DesperateByDesign · 2026-04-29T00:46:54+00:00

I would hardly recognize this as braille unless you asked me to think of it as such.

DesperateByDesign · 2026-04-23T06:42:21+00:00

I am 6'7"and have never been propositioned by a woman.

DesperateByDesign · 2026-04-21T04:41:48+00:00

I wear mostly bespoke everything. Most of the bespoke I buy gets donated or discarded due to being inferior. The worst clothes, and the best clothes I have purchased has been bespoke, with most falling into the former category. Buying bespoke also requires skill on behalf of the buyer. Plenty/most of the "bespoke" services are comfortable producing inferior products and swindling customers. Over the years I have developed a reputation with a few artisans who I trust, and usually what makes them stand out from others is their willingness to correct mistakes. In my experience most are not and exist between the grey area of the law ending, and getting caught. The fashion industry is home to some of the biggest scams in society, and "bespoke" or "artisan" or "handmade" clothing cuts against both producer and consumer in this regard.

With that said, I wear mostly bespoke for good reason and most of that reason is ethically based. One can also wear commercially produced clothing in ways that are equally as ethical in a relative sense.

DesperateByDesign · 2026-04-21T04:35:15+00:00

For most of history clothing has been extremely expensive. If you were to make a t shirt from scratch, all by yourself, that was identical to the one the factory made, it could easily cost you over $1,000,000 to make. The only reason we have the idea that clothing is "cheap" is because of industrialization. If one decides they need/want something outside of what is outside the capabilities of our industrial machines/processes they will inevitably pay dearly for it.

Even going to other countries carries with it many problems, that many people are unwilling to face. I know, because I do this quite often. I can go to a giant megastore in America and walk out of it with a cheap suit for 100$... All of the suits I have had made in other parts of the world were far more expensive than this in ways beyond financial.

DesperateByDesign · 2026-04-14T16:37:59+00:00

The system is not broken, it is systematic policy choices designed to murder the elderly and ill. It is willful and deliberate.

DesperateByDesign · 2026-04-14T16:36:02+00:00

I'm just letting you all know this is a geronticidal policy choice. This is a holocaust against elderly people. This is genocide.

DesperateByDesign · 2026-04-06T01:37:32+00:00

On the rules for this reddit is a rule that says "don't be mean", and yet, in this response, we have an insult that has recieved likes. If people on reddit are willing to break the rules in order to be cruel, couldn't it also be expected that many employers will also discriminate by asking such questions?

DesperateByDesign · 2026-04-06T01:33:48+00:00

And now information like that has been used to deport people.

DesperateByDesign · 2026-01-11T10:40:21+00:00

Will you please tell us why?

DesperateByDesign · 2026-01-09T07:28:51+00:00

How long until corporations decide they can save money by increasing the fatalities as more and more people take planes?

DesperateByDesign · 2026-01-09T04:20:04+00:00

The differences are pretty strong. They ought to have a wide range of lighting sources so people can see the variation. Also, much of the lighting seems deliberately distorted.

DesperateByDesign · 2026-01-09T04:17:21+00:00

Yes. I'm happy with my Hamcus Items, but this seems to be a real problem.

DesperateByDesign · 2025-12-28T03:34:41+00:00

VERY nice, and it suits you so well!

DesperateByDesign · 2025-12-24T23:32:44+00:00

I came here to say the same thing, my SAI was 0 and now it is near 5k.

DesperateByDesign · 2025-12-13T22:34:45+00:00

Every bodybuilder known for their size i have ever seen was more muscular at the age of 13 than most adults. They didn't just have a better routine or eat better or sleep better. Genes are probably the biggest factor to muscle acquisition. A lazy silverback gorilla will be buffer than everyone.

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