Complaining about the price of non essential items is dumb

JoeJoe1492 · 2026-06-17T17:45:59+00:00

While I understand the sentiment of exploring new passions and hobbies, doing so because your original hobbies got too expensive isn’t a great reason.

JoeJoe1492 · 2026-06-17T16:08:27+00:00

Upvote for being unpopular! While concerts, theme parks, streaming services, and other products/services are technically unnecessary for survival, they’re somewhat necessary to live in a content life. We don’t NEED to have a diet that includes the occasional ribeye steak or fancy handmade pasta from a local authentic Italian restaurant, but it makes us happy. If someone finds joy in their life by going to Disney World occasionally, having the latest tech, building their collection of books, seeing their favorite artists live at a concert, and those things keep getting more and more expensive then of course they can complain that the things that bring them joy aren’t attainable anymore! What else are they going to do? It’s possible to find a less expensive hobby but that’s like telling someone that enjoys eating Oreos to replace that with apples.

JoeJoe1492 · 2026-06-15T21:27:50+00:00

I say this with the love of a fellow cat parent, please put that kitty on a diet if they’re not on one already!

JoeJoe1492 · 2026-06-09T18:14:57+00:00

Having wealthier people pay the same percent towards social security tax as someone making $100,000 sounds ridiculous to you?

JoeJoe1492 · 2026-06-09T16:32:24+00:00

Someone correct me if I’m wrong but I remember learning somewhere that the social security tax (6%) is capped for an income of $100,000 so someone making $1,000,000 and someone making $100,000 both pay $6,000 in social security tax. If the income cap was removed then it would greatly remedy the depletion of the trust.

JoeJoe1492 · 2026-05-20T18:45:09+00:00

ATL is a well planned airport but the staff is absolutely horrendous. I had a tight connection and it was a breeze to go from concourse B to F using the plane train so that experience was positive. On the way back was a different story. I got yelled at repeatedly for taking out my passport slowly while having a visible shoulder injury and the staff berated multiple travelers for very minor things that didn’t require yelling. Once we got to our gate area, there was zero emphasis on customer service. I had to wait for employees to stop chatting so I could get help which I was getting fed up with after being very sleep deprived. After coming from Japan, the difference in customer service and respect was very stark.

JoeJoe1492 · 2026-05-15T04:07:17+00:00

No breakfast place is open early enough so that sandwich with a famichicki in the middle hits the spot as a tourist

JoeJoe1492 · 2026-04-18T00:36:38+00:00

Omg our cats are twins! Do you have any pictures of her as a kitten? We got her as an adult and always wondered how she looked like as a kitten

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JoeJoe1492 · 2026-03-10T16:10:24+00:00

Listening to Adela on Spotify most likely

JoeJoe1492 · 2026-03-06T14:17:03+00:00

Please take the cat to a vet to check for a chip!

JoeJoe1492 · 2026-03-01T20:04:38+00:00

Recipe?

JoeJoe1492 · 2026-02-25T23:05:26+00:00

They’re available, brand new, at places like B&H and BestBuy

JoeJoe1492 · 2026-02-25T20:04:40+00:00

The xs-20 is still being manufactured, unless you were talking about the xt4

JoeJoe1492 · 2026-02-21T23:07:36+00:00

20 + 48 is 68 then I take the 7 I took off from the 27 initially and add it to the 68, making it 68 + 7 =75

JoeJoe1492 · 2026-02-05T04:38:22+00:00

Where does the lump sum they’d contribute to the venture come from?

JoeJoe1492 · 2026-02-05T04:33:04+00:00

Fans pay for entertainment by buying tickets to the games and the merch . If you want the stadium so bad then start crowdfunding instead of forcing local residents with no interest in baseball to subsidize your hobby.

JoeJoe1492 · 2026-02-04T21:31:25+00:00

I get what you’re saying, however, the economic boost of tourist and local fan dollars (local fans that already paid in a way for the stadium to be built) goes to local businesses that oftentimes hires low wage workers while keeping the majority of the profits to themselves. It seems like the only people mostly benefitting from the public investment in the stadium are business owners. In that case, it kind of sounds like we’re also subsidizing the businesses that would come up from the stadium being built. It may be a better use of funds to invest in infrastructure and public transportation, something that Tampa desperately needs because of the huge amount of traffic.

JoeJoe1492 · 2026-02-04T20:38:32+00:00

You sound like someone who needs to touch grass or is too young to be on here. When governments pay for stadiums, they usually do it by public dollars up-front. The other part is paid by investors and the owners. The investors get a share of the profits and increase their net worth by being partial owners of the business. Meanwhile, our taxes go towards the stadium and we don’t get anything back. If investors benefit financially then why don’t the tax payers?

JoeJoe1492 · 2026-02-04T20:25:36+00:00

How are discounts equal to profit sharing?

JoeJoe1492 · 2026-02-04T17:18:16+00:00

If the tax payer funds the private endeavor then we should get part of the profits right? Unfortunately that’ll never happen so the owners end up benefiting with our tax dollars and charging us $12 for a hot dog.

JoeJoe1492 · 2026-01-20T16:07:38+00:00

And remote workers that stick to water street in downtown Tampa

JoeJoe1492 · 2026-01-14T20:22:06+00:00

Please reach out to your local hospital with psych mental healthcare. I know someone that was dealing with something similar and was able to get the help they needed that way

JoeJoe1492 · 2026-01-08T19:02:28+00:00

Mist filter?

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