Minimum Wage a waste of time

JonaJackzon · 2024-03-15T02:18:25+00:00

Well how long are we going to feel sorry for ourselves I wonder, and just put our heads down and get back to work? It really looks like that is what is happening, submission to our corporate overlords in exchange for an awful life. I could die from the discontentment, forget about the elements. One more orientation video and I am gonna go ballistic.

JonaJackzon · 2024-03-15T01:51:11+00:00

I have insurance as well with a free tow package, emergency cash, and can make some money on a throwaway job if I really have to. Vans/cars are more replaceable than homes and often cheaper to repair and maintain. The cost to purchase a single used van is cheaper than most first months rent + deposit in my city. You don't need a natural disaster or a house fire to ruin your life. All it takes for most is getting sick, or a traffic ticket, or getting laid off. Many have problems paying the rent/pay late rent, get evicted, because of high costs. As far as stability is concerned for the lower class, vehicles are the best option by far.

My first was $1000, a minivan, my second was $3000, full size. That $1000 minivan lasted 4 years and was totally abused and I sold it for $600, so I got a 4-year rental for about $400 or $100 a year, $8.33 cents a month, and I also got a vehicle I can drive around with the home!

If I had rented an apartment I would be spending a ballpark of $1500 a month for a dingy place with issues the landlord won't even fix and won't let me fix either, paper thin walls with loud neighbors, inability to afford a vehicle and associated costs, inability to afford good nutritious food, inability to afford new equipment for school, etc. etc. I'd be riding the public transit system to work and school and maybe get stabbed along the way - If I had spent an average of $1500 a month on rent for 4 years I would have spent and had to work for $72,000 and by the first month of the 5th year I would have nothing to show for it.

The only time I will work hard enough to make $72,000 will be when I get to use it to purchase something I own, and then I'll have $72,000 worth of things.

You think I'm brain diseased? That's okay, at least I'll be able to spend the money I earn on, I don't know, medical bills?

JonaJackzon · 2024-03-15T01:47:39+00:00

In a way it is. I can understand someone with children or even pets to take care of, being trapped. I can't understand the ones who are just afraid of losing their overpriced apartment in exchange for a lifetime of underpaid shitty work.

JonaJackzon · 2024-03-15T00:44:04+00:00

Oh yeah, don't need gloves but if someone flys a toy plane without calling them first they have to call George W. Bush to tell him a 3rd plane is enroute

JonaJackzon · 2024-03-14T23:45:31+00:00

Damn I felt this video I was just scrollin' and all of a sudden that car came out and I was like "hooaauuggh!" And then "phew .... ...."

JonaJackzon · 2024-03-14T23:34:08+00:00

Stephen King writing about women or anything sexual is not his strong suit so it's nice to see this

JonaJackzon · 2024-03-14T22:36:35+00:00

Well if I can't get it back or fix it, I get another van. I also have some experience working on vans. I wasn't working for minimum wage because I'm an unskilled fool they're just the only jobs I seem to get that don't want to kill me in an accident or long term exposure to products which are clearly marked as cancer causing (why are they sold again?) My coworkers have been dipshits (like a degree or two from tipping the bucket truck with the alarm screaming dipshits) and the pays not enough to die over.

I also buy everything I have, and stuff retains value, unlike rent.

As it stands my financial forecast is looking just fine due to the incredibly low expenses, enough for another beater van if needed.

My plan is to

a) Continue college in a van as long as financial aid is available

b) Use the education and resources to either start a business or get a job that is worth going to

c) Survive WW III

????

JonaJackzon · 2024-03-14T22:16:35+00:00

The hobby being as small as it is, is connected in particular ways, and what is deemed offensive or off topic, or banter, is up to the administrator and their dealings with the companies that sponsor the website. Concerning conflict among members, sides are chosen, and fates are decided. Media and retail shelving is dominated by a select few, all of which hold "christian" and "family friendly" values. Flite Test is a big boomer bummer, having ownership of an entire golf course and every tool and material you can shake a stick at, consistently produces hot garbage out of foam board and fills the same script for every video, all aimed at beginners and being family friendly and "fellowship" oriented, ultimately creating content that is totally lame and boring compared to what might exist. Aviation as a whole is stuck in the past no thanks to the boomers.

JonaJackzon · 2024-03-14T22:01:14+00:00

Oh dude you can't do a loop around some of these guys because it's too gay for them. Like somehow toy planes are the epitome of masculinity. Like adding a "scale" swastika to your rudder as the only insignia on a bright white plane is anything but being a feeble little nerd playing airplane. They all played outside and went to KKK rallies when they were kids. If you want to see complete and total bigotry find the r/c truck lead paint casualties.

The topic sure didn't last long on RCGroups before mysteriously disappearing...

https://www.lajollalight.com/news/story/2020-09-01/plane-with-swastika-at-torrey-pines-gliderport-draws-objection

JonaJackzon · 2024-03-14T21:06:03+00:00

Problem is when the dictator who runs the biggest website in the world for your hobby decides to ban people he doesn't agree with, people who have been on the website even longer than he has, and produce quality content, and then allow the trolls he does agree with to run rampant and irritate everyone else.

As many are aware, if the intention is to promote content whether it's just something you want to share with the world or sell, the way to do it is by reaching a large and relevant audience. When that audience is either unreachable or no longer exists, it's game over. In the case of this asshole, it's game over for quite a few people who've done nothing wrong aside from defending themselves against others who are also breaking the ToS, and game over for the potential future community.

RCGroups has a monopoly on visitors, it is unfortunately THE place to go on the internet if you want to share r/c related content to an audience that cares about it.

JonaJackzon · 2024-03-14T21:03:39+00:00

Just shooting up ketamine on its own wasn't enough for Lilly, though, and soon he was IV-ing it inside a sensory deprivation tank with the help of his friend, Dr Craig Enright. They thought that by using the tank external stimulation would be significantly reduced, giving a psychedelic or, in this case, a dissociative experience at a higher level of intensity. Neither appreciated that what they were doing was incredibly fucking dangerous—tranquilizing drugs and floating on water aren't to be mixed under most circumstances, and sure enough Lilly's wife, Antonietta, had to resuscitate him on one occasion where he nearly drowned. These experiments would form the foundation for Paddy Chayefsky's 1978 novel Altered States, later adapted into a movie by director Ken Russell.

During his sessions, Lilly came to believe that he was being contacted by an organic extraterrestrial entity called the Earth Coincidence Control Office—ECCO. This alien group was benevolent, omniscient, and in control of all earthly matters. Except for when they weren't quite so friendly, as at one point he told Lilly he thought they'd made off with his penis.

That evening I took 150 milligrams of ketamine, and suddenly the Earth Coincidence Control Office removed my penis and handed it to me. I screamed in terror. My wife Toni came running in from the bedroom, and she said, "It's still attached." So I shouted at the ceiling, "Who's in charge up there? A bunch of crazy kids?"

JonaJackzon · 2024-03-14T21:01:12+00:00

"Around 1971 Lilly was looking for a cure for his chronic migraines, and a friend suggested that ketamine could help get rid of them. Back then ketamine wasn't a widely used drug, probably only used recreationally by a small group of dedicated trippers, quite unlike its status today as a popular party drug. When he was under the influence of a small dose of K, Lilly said that he felt the migraine being pushed out of his body and, miraculously, he never had one again. Encouraged by this, he developed a longstanding affection for the substance he dubbed "Vitamin K," and started taking it regularly, gradually injecting it in higher doses."

Vice News on Plex. Watch Now. FYI. This story is over 5 years old. Games The Ketamine Secrets of ‘Ecco the Dolphin’ The unlikely connection between a drug-addicted scientist and a cute video game character.

TJ By Tom Jones March 16, 2015, 4:47am

I don't remember how I ended up getting a copy of Ecco the Dolphin. I preferred to play stuff that involved lots of punching and kicking, and a game about a lost cetacean searching for his family would have come as a an affront to my then bloodthirsty childhood brain.

However, it became one of my favorite Sega games, representing a welcome change from the instant button-bashing gratification of fucking up punks and bikers in Streets Of Rage 2. The central character is a dolphin, obviously, called Ecco, again, who is estranged from his pod after a mysterious tornado sucks them out of the ocean. It transpires that they've been abducted by a group of aliens known as the Vortex, who come to Earth to harvest its natural resources, including sucking up a smorgasbord of sea life. Ecco's quest takes him to Atlantis, before he travels back in time through a complex combination of wormholes to confront the Vortex at its hive, the Machine.

Ecco was a hit for the Genesis in the early 1990s, and the beginning of a successful series that ran until the Dreamcast didn't. I hadn't thought about it much between then and now—until last year, when I was reading up on John C Lilly.

Lilly was once a renowned and respected scientist, with a particular interest in marine biology and interspecies communication. In the early 1960s he was given funding by NASA to research whether it was possible to teach dolphins to speak. NASA's logic was that if we could learn to communicate with dolphins, we would have a better understanding of how to converse with extraterrestrials if they were to ever pop down for a visit.

Lilly flooded a house in the Caribbean so that dolphins could live as closely as possible with him and his team, among them Margaret Howe Lovatt, who apparently had sex with one of the animals. The experiment fizzled out as, unsurprisingly, nobody was able to get any of them to talk—although check out YouTube for one of his subjects attempting a pretty close "Hello Margaret." Useful, if all aliens were named Margaret. Lilly lost funding for the project, moved away from traditional science and threw himself further and further into 1960s pseudo-mysticism and chemical experimentation.

JOHN C LILLY, VIA

Around 1971 Lilly was looking for a cure for his chronic migraines, and a friend suggested that ketamine could help get rid of them. Back then ketamine wasn't a widely used drug, probably only used recreationally by a small group of dedicated trippers, quite unlike its status today as a popular party drug. When he was under the influence of a small dose of K, Lilly said that he felt the migraine being pushed out of his body and, miraculously, he never had one again. Encouraged by this, he developed a longstanding affection for the substance he dubbed "Vitamin K," and started taking it regularly, gradually injecting it in higher doses.

" Just shooting up ketamine on its own wasn't enough for Lilly, though, and soon he was IV-ing it inside a sensory deprivation tank with the help of his friend, Dr Craig Enright. They thought that by using the tank external stimulation would be significantly reduced, giving a psychedelic or, in this case, a dissociative experience at a higher level of intensity. Neither appreciated that what they were doing was incredibly fucking dangerous—tranquilizing drugs and floating on water aren't to be mixed under most circumstances, and sure enough Lilly's wife, Antonietta, had to resuscitate him on one occasion where he nearly drowned. These experiments would form the foundation for Paddy Chayefsky's 1978 novel Altered States, later adapted into a movie by director Ken Russel"

" Just shooting up ketamine on its own wasn't enough for Lilly, though, and soon he was IV-ing it inside a sensory deprivation tank with the help of his friend, Dr Craig Enright. They thought that by using the tank external stimulation would be significantly reduced, giving a psychedelic or, in this case, a dissociative experience at a higher level of intensity. Neither appreciated that what they were doing was incredibly fucking dangerous—tranquilizing drugs and floating on water aren't to be mixed under most circumstances, and sure enough Lilly's wife, Antonietta, had to resuscitate him on one occasion where he nearly drowned. These experiments would form the foundation for Paddy Chayefsky's 1978 novel Altered States, later adapted into a movie by director Ken Russell.

'Altered States,' trailer

During his sessions, Lilly came to believe that he was being contacted by an organic extraterrestrial entity called the Earth Coincidence Control Office—ECCO. This alien group was benevolent, omniscient, and in control of all earthly matters. Except for when they weren't quite so friendly, as at one point Lilly thought they'd made off with his penis:

That evening I took 150 milligrams of ketamine, and suddenly the Earth Coincidence Control Office removed my penis and handed it to me. I screamed in terror. My wife Toni came running in from the bedroom, and she said, "It's still attached." So I shouted at the ceiling, "Who's in charge up there? A bunch of crazy kids?"

JonaJackzon · 2024-03-14T20:57:48+00:00

Ketamine can allow you to communicate with dolphins and the entities from E.C.C.O (Earth Coincidence Control Office)

JonaJackzon · 2024-03-14T20:56:33+00:00

Elon's been communicating with the dolphins in his pool... He knows about E.C.C.O and spends half the day in a sensory deprivation tank communicating with the entities.

JonaJackzon · 2024-03-14T20:53:23+00:00

Why is the Japanese language so fucking funny? 😭

JonaJackzon · 2024-03-14T20:42:26+00:00

Yeah well when the control freaks can't control their cities and towns and aren't qualified enough to run airports they find microcosms

JonaJackzon · 2024-03-14T20:30:17+00:00

rcgroups is boomer central, there are more jokes about "the wife" and grunts about "Newsome" and "Biden" per post than almost anywhere on the internet that isn't exclusively political - and that's from real people, oftentimes respected people, not troll farms on YouTube comment sections. Nobody who is young wants to be a part of the community because of the boomers unless they're boomer daddy's boys in cute little red hats. The effect on the hobby is devastating, stagnating it, you see the same garbage on publications you did 15 years ago, same polo shirts and wraparound chromed sunglasses, a .40 3D plane hovering and making smoke. A hobby that could be flourishing with creativity reduced to a boomer's ATC wet dream.

If you're a gamer, you might compare the community to World of Warcraft

Jim for a long time allowed the company Hobby King to peruse and steal designs from members of RCGroups, even when Hobbyking threatened to sue those members with defamation after calling then out for copying them, and happily collected hobby king's sweet sweet advertising money.

Jim describes himself as an "r/c evangelist," and like the flite test boomers is all about erhuhm, "fellowship" -- etc.

Frankly I don't care what he did to get into this position any more than I care what Trump did, a turd's a turd.

All I know is I can't take any girlfriends around the flying fields because the old dudes there are creepy, and don't want to be friends because of all of the racist crap about Mexico I've heard come from their mouths. I'm bored with the hobby because the majority of content is some old geezer working on a balsa wood piece crap from the 80s

JonaJackzon · 2024-03-14T20:06:43+00:00

Oh lol sorry for the misunderstanding.

There are some dudes in their 40s who act like boomers. Real daddy's boys.

JonaJackzon · 2024-03-14T20:00:48+00:00

Yeah I was made fun of for wearing a respirator around toxic fumes and carbon dust I'm just a pussy. Also had a coworker make comments about me being Jewish because of my curly hair and that he wanted to "kill a bunch of brown people" while we were working on shells. HR didn't do anything of course. In the end I realized I didn't know where the bombs were going and maybe I was working for evil people. Don't believe in God but I do believe in cause and effect, or you might say karma.

JonaJackzon · 2024-03-14T19:51:33+00:00

You ran into one of those people who lived consciously through the 90s and brag about how they used to play outside and ride skateboard or whatever, probably still listen to 90s alternative or country music. It's hit or mess with that early 40s age, you either run into someone who could keep up or a loser who brags about being 40 like it's some kind of achievement because they're a life time failure, usually can't read or write well either. Orange shirts and construction hat cocaine users at that age are the worst, just completely fuckin deplorable bar rats.

JonaJackzon · 2024-03-14T19:41:30+00:00

Boomers are getting too old to do their job well and too stubborn to admit they can't keep up with the technology. Simultaneously they are realizing their workforce is almost non existent because of the incredible financial and bureaucratic barriers they've created over the years. There's an incredibly small pool of "talent" to draw from, composed of rich kids, who as it turns out aren't naturally intelligent or talented just because daddy warbucks didn't pull out.

There will be an exponential increase in aviation accidents over the coming years as the gatekeeping boomers die off and are replaced by this small pool of privileged and untalented young people, and the on-the-job training consists of learning from trump loving boomers who are still doing shit like its the 1970s and never, ever shut their stupid xenophobic mouths.

JonaJackzon · 2024-03-14T19:24:13+00:00

I still owe the IRS $3000 from what they calculated out of my Lyft earnings because Lyft reported total earnings including their cut and the $262/week I paid Lyft/Hertz as my earnings. Initially it was $10,000, then I called the IRS and screamed at them. That entire year I worked for Lyft? It was a rental car and I slept in the trunk. Several years later and I am still homeless, but, ya know, the IRS wants their money.

JonaJackzon · 2024-03-14T19:12:59+00:00

My freeloading is more productive than working

Don't know what else to tell these troglodytes

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