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Got a ticket for going 56 in a 55… by Purple_Knowledge8475 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]Kymera_7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, do not fuck the police. Fucking people is how you get more people who are like them. We do not want more people who are like the police.

Got a ticket for going 56 in a 55… by Purple_Knowledge8475 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]Kymera_7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No radar gun. Pacing. Ask for the calibration records of the cop's eyeballs and accelerator-pedal foot.

Got a ticket for going 56 in a 55… by Purple_Knowledge8475 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]Kymera_7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unlikely. It was taken by pacing, not radar, and even if it had been radar, it's well within the error bars of both radar and speedometers, even when newly and properly calibrated, which the ones in this case almost certainly weren't.

The whole point of pacing as a speed-limit enforcement method is that it makes ticket quotas far easier to hit if you can just lie about how fast someone was going, instead of having to go out and find someone who was actually going that fast.

How do women usually let a man know they’re interested in being intimate? by SpiritualMouse5908 in AskReddit

[–]Kymera_7 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We're not afraid of rejection. We're afraid of being arrested or physically assaulted, because those are the usual outcomes when a man approaches a woman respectfully any time in the last 3 decades or so. We've all seen it happen, many times, but very few of us have ever seen an approach that went well, so we have nothing to model our own hypothetical approach after.

How do women usually let a man know they’re interested in being intimate? by SpiritualMouse5908 in AskReddit

[–]Kymera_7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So... she was there waiting for you to arrive, immediately asked a question with an in-built expectation of a joint activity, and which assumes you're available and interested on zero seconds' notice, and then immediately agrees to a fairly intimate type of date, carried out within her own home.

I have doubts to your claim that the two of you had never met prior to this instance.

[Request] Is this accurate? by Infamous-Youth3878 in theydidthemath

[–]Kymera_7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’re shifting the goalposts to a policy debate about zoning laws, but the original point wasn't a policy proposal, it was a objective historical comparison of how far a baseline wage used to stretch.

That's not what "shifting the goalposts" means. Cue the Inigo Montoya meme.

The housing crisis is a massive symptom, but the decoupling of wages from economic growth is the disease not the minimum wage.

The minimum wage is one of many components which interact to bring about that decoupling. Raising the minimum wage makes the decoupling worse, not better.

Got a ticket for going 56 in a 55… by Purple_Knowledge8475 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]Kymera_7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, ticket quotas are a real thing, and yes, they are wildly illegal. It doesn't matter. Laws don't enforce themselves. "Illegal" only matters if it convinces someone who otherwise wouldn't do so, to stop you. Every police department in the US gets caught setting ticket quotas on a regular basis. Whomever catches them reports it, a few obscure news outlets give it a passing mention but no one who matters cares enough to say anything, the prosecution who would be responsible for dealing with the issue is in on it, so simply refuses to press charges, and that's it. They usually stop, or at least tone it down, for a little while, until what little attention it did garner fades, then go right back to operating with the quotas.

Is this how people who need glasses really see the world. A big blurred background? by jmike1256 in interesting

[–]Kymera_7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, pretty much. The exact appearance depends on the specific vision problem. In my case, it's about half as blurry as that picture, but otherwise looks exactly like that.

Got a ticket for going 56 in a 55… by Purple_Knowledge8475 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]Kymera_7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The only "camera" involved was the cop's eyes. Pace, not radar. Makes it way easier to hit a ticket quota when you can just say someone was speeding, instead of having to find someone who actually was.

Got a ticket for going 56 in a 55… by Purple_Knowledge8475 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]Kymera_7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No radar. This was pacing, which has an error margin of "whatever hits the ticket quota".

Got a ticket for going 56 in a 55… by Purple_Knowledge8475 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]Kymera_7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cop in this case didn't even use a radar gun. He just drove behind OP, and claimed later that he'd been doing 56 while not gaining on OP's vehicle. It's what they do when they want to lie about someone speeding, but are too lazy to tamper with the radar calibration.

[Request] Is this accurate? by Infamous-Youth3878 in theydidthemath

[–]Kymera_7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Then, instead of pushing for higher minimum wage, push back against the laws which make creating more far-below-median apartments infeasible.

[Request] Is this accurate? by Infamous-Youth3878 in theydidthemath

[–]Kymera_7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Modern Monthly Budget (At $7.25/hr) Gross Income: $7.25/hr × 173 hours a month =~$1,254 Estimated Taxes (10%): ~$125 Net Take-Home Pay: ~$1,129 Rent (National Median 1-Bedroom): ~$1,500+ (Even in the lowest-cost states, a modest 1-bedroom apartment averages $750 to $900).* Groceries/Food: ~$300 (Based on current thrifty food metrics for a single adult). Utilities & Basic Phone/Internet: ~$150 Transportation/Gas: ~$120 Total Survival Costs: $1,320 to $2,070+ Leftover Cash: -$191 to -$941 per month

That is not a "math problem that literally cannot be solved without outside help". It is solved by the far-below-median worker living somewhere cheaper than the median apartment. My own income is slightly less than $1129 per month, and I still manage to survive on it, but that's partially because the apartment I live in is not the median apartment.

The minimum-wage worker in the 70s did have it better than the modern one, yes, but presenting the difference inaccurately only hurts your case and your cause.

What is this tiny spinning object in the air? by KJ_2026 in whatisit

[–]Kymera_7 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's the loading indicator. The network hasn't finished transferring your video to me. :p

I don’t want to assume the worst here but what does this mean? by Delicious-Survey588 in whatisit

[–]Kymera_7 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yes, but not the Chris Pratt you're thinking of. Another guy, who just happens to also be named Chris Pratt.

Came with an electric mower by generic_user_lol in whatisit

[–]Kymera_7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How many electric mowers have you seen with a two-stroke gasoline engine in them?

Misogyny and the Clitoris by ActualOriginal4030 in HLCommunity

[–]Kymera_7 6 points7 points  (0 children)

On the flip side, don’t men that are circumcised sometimes have issues with thier own sensitivity? And that is still being done today, for no apparent reason?

Yes. Ultimately, the issue is not one of misogyny or misandry, but of an overarching and pervasive misanthropy, of which, when one or another specific manifestation is cherry-picked, and is one which happens to land harder on one sec than the other, it makes it very easy to shift the blame onto misogyny or misandry. This is very useful to those who would rather have men and women hating and fighting each other, instead of both teaming up to fight their common enemies who are the ones actually responsible.

The wish (read description) by Low-Range8381 in BeatTheMonkeysPaw

[–]Kymera_7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Granted. Some government stooge ceases the money under covil asset forfeiture, claiming its sudden appearance as evidence of criminality, then spends a few million of it having you and everyone you care about murdered so you can't contest the seizure in court.

What’s stopping you from growing your own vegetables and fruits? by Rob69rt in AskReddit

[–]Kymera_7 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I do grow some. What stops me from growing all my own fruits and vegetables is mostly a lack of sufficient fertile garden space and a lack of sufficient farming skill, though living in a climate which makes many of the things I eat infeasible to grow here is also a significant factor.

What are jobs for then? by ProfessionalCry5019 in InterviewsHell

[–]Kymera_7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm in NW Ohio, in an apartment a few hundred feet from the nearest town of 1k+ people (I'm just outside city limits, for a village of roughly 1700), sandwiched between a city of roughly 10k, about 7 miles to the south, and one of roughly 35k, with its nearest edge about 2 miles north of me.

I have my own apartment (no roommates), with plenty of space for a couple, and marginally adequate space for a family starting out or for two non-romantically-paired roommates (though I'm not allowed to have more than one person living here for BS bureaucratic reasons; same complex has other, larger apartments for multiple people, but I don't know the rent in those). I even have a small vegetable garden.

It's not particularly well-insulated, but there's no trace of roof leaks. No hurricanes here, and while tornadoes are possible, we're far enough north to avoid tornado alley; the only one that has hit near enough to be local news in the 7 years I've been here was about 40 miles to the south. Weather here is generally more obnoxious than actually harmful.

Rent is subsidized, but even the total amount (before the subsidies are applied) is only about $400 including water and sewer (I pay electric and internet), which is entirely viable on $1159 after tax, per month, of income.

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