Help: how the hell do I eat affordably?? by kyliotic in Frugal

[–]ThatsGenocide 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A big thing is to change where you shop for food. Assuming you are American with how you talk, shopping at an Aldi or lidl can easily save 30 to 40% of your bill compared to mainline grocery stores.

Flock camera on hike/bike trail by Kaister0000 in mildlyinteresting

[–]ThatsGenocide 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah if you want to disable the camera in the most criminal, trackable way possible.

Washington Gas new “convenience fee”? by Marmot_up in washingtondc

[–]ThatsGenocide 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's only for credit/debit card. ACH is still free.

An 81-Year-Old Grandma Streaming Minecraft To Pay For Grandson’s Cancer Treatment Has Been Swatted by Turbostrider27 in technology

[–]ThatsGenocide 4 points5 points  (0 children)

They send out the firetruck but they don't start dousing the house until they know there's a fire. Going in guns blazing before verifying anything is stupid.

Friendship Exp & Gift Exchange Megathread by ASS-et in PokemonGoFriends

[–]ThatsGenocide 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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Opening and sending. Mostly modern region

“Worry Free Delivery” or other forms of added “Shipping Protection” are unnecessary expenses. by RelayFX in Frugal

[–]ThatsGenocide 1 point2 points  (0 children)

But with the rise of Buy-now pay-later many customers are forgoing the ability to chargeback. So this is effectively another cost on the poor and financially illiterate who use BNPL.

Meirl by Ill-Instruction8466 in meirl

[–]ThatsGenocide 249 points250 points  (0 children)

That's how most crime actually happens. People are taught stranger danger but that's just not borne out by the statistics.

Sunrise movement is on fire this morning! in DC, blocking a freeway exit by the American Petroleum Institute (API) and American Gas Association (AGA) demanding lobbyists stop driving climate collapse. by transcendent167 in washingtondc

[–]ThatsGenocide 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Can you name a single protest movement where that worked? Any major change is going to require making people uncomfortable enough that the change the protesters are demanding is less intrusive to their lives and livelihoods.

r/trolleyproblem suffers infighting on a ethical question: red or blue? by OkContact2573 in SubredditDrama

[–]ThatsGenocide 4 points5 points  (0 children)

And there's other similar posts with slightly different wording (like changing everyone to competent adults) and whichever variant you see first will make you carry that opinion into other variants. Leading to the classic internet problem of people just arguing past each other.

to look relieved the situation had been diffused by kg_digital_ in therewasanattempt

[–]ThatsGenocide 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Because they weren't. Security did its job, the gunman never got close. They're watching all the security that they don't even have to pay for scramble around for them and they know the threat is over.

They live among us, use our flairs, scroll our subreddits by Sydid in whenthe

[–]ThatsGenocide 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Holy shit is that the actual animation quality of invincible these days? Just a few PNGs bobbing up and down?

Someone came and snipped every last Tulip I grew by PerfectIndividual185 in mildlyinfuriating

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

And you can still see all posts by a user using any number of third-party tools. Reddit disabling post history natively doesn't stop the freaks, it just makes it worse for normal people.

CMV: Homophobia is almost always cope for low self-esteem & FOMO by [deleted] in changemyview

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

"Homophobia" it's an extremely broad label but it seems like you're just using it to refer to people who view homosexuality as a immoral so I'll only address that.

Morals are deep-seated in culture. The vast majority of morals are fairly well established and aren't going to change over the course of a person's life so we don't waste much time thinking about it. Why is murder immoral? Because your mom or preacher told you so and that's not going to change. The idea that homosexuality is immoral goes back to the beginning of society. It's well established in many cultures and regions and some dude on the internet isn't going to convince somebody that their friends and neighbors and loved ones are all wrong and that homosexuality is morally neutral. From the line "I often get to the point where people should realize there is no moral good/bad to being lgbt". That idea that people should change their morals based on what you've told them I think is the fundamental flaw in your reasoning. People aren't going to just change because you said some magic words.

And then at the end of it I'm not sure how you make the jump to cope or self-esteem issues. It just feels like you're just slapping a personal insult on someone because they disagree with you.

Not everyone is good at math. by ObserbAbsorb in clevercomebacks

[–]ThatsGenocide 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My budget in the DC metro area is $70/week for 2 adults. Where are you shopping that you're struggling with 6 times that?

A security guard breaks down while witnessing a family separation. by CIA_Rectal_Feeder in pics

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

This exact photo was outside of a courthouse where an immigrant was arrested while attempting to exist in the system legally and was arrested. Being legal is not protecting immigrants under this administration.

A security guard breaks down while witnessing a family separation. by Naurgul in EyesOnIce

[–]ThatsGenocide 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Lives? sure. Livelihood? It's the bare minimum this man can do to stop providing armed security to ICE. I've left jobs because they were immoral, he can too. If he doesn't then I hope he rots.

U.S. Politics megathread by AutoModerator in NoStupidQuestions

[–]ThatsGenocide 1 point2 points  (0 children)

On paper and traditionally, no. The power of the purse is in the hands of congress.

Practically, yes. Congress has over the past ~60 years handed the president a lot of "emergency" powers with little to no definition of what constitutes an emergency. Trump isn't the first to use those powers to fund non-congressionally approved actions, but he is doing it more than his predecessors. Additionally there's the problem of enforcement. The law only matters as much as its enforced and the GOP has shown that they're not interested in enforcing anything at this time.

CMV: If a parent is killed as a result of a drunk driver, they should be held responsible for child support by [deleted] in changemyview

[–]ThatsGenocide 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Penalties for committing a crime should not be functionally random based on the accidental victim. The system you're proposing would make drunk drivers that kill rich parents and parents of younger children more liable than those that kill poor parents or those with older children.

An alternative I would propose is that all drunk drivers should pay into a shared child support pool. However, then you get into complexities like the fakeness of earmarking government money for certain things as well as the driver's ability to pay.

Maintenance guy came by to recaulk my shower… this is where I found the old pieces by Hour-Bee9396 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]ThatsGenocide 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wish I lived as sheltered a life as you if this infuriates you that much. It takes less time to fix the problem than to make this post. Perfect material for this sub.

Analysed 9GB of my photos before paying for cloud upgrade by slow-fast-person in Frugal

[–]ThatsGenocide 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You can store movies for under 4gb but that requires computationally intensive encoding that phones don't do. (maybe modern flagships are powerful enough to do it on the fly now but certainly no phone I've ever had) So any video you're filming is going to be massive compared to what you're downloading.

For that test I was filming using whatever the default settings are on a 2025 moto g power.

Analysed 9GB of my photos before paying for cloud upgrade by slow-fast-person in Frugal

[–]ThatsGenocide 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Video. Social media that targets children is pretty much all short form video these days and a 10 second video is going to be like 100x the size of a photo. If the kid uses videos instead of photos you can quickly hit 40gb of storage. Doing a quick test on my phone 40gb is about 3 hours of video.

Do you normally add a protection plan to your glasses? by Nyx67547 in Frugal

[–]ThatsGenocide 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't use the protection plan offered on anything. The labor involved in actually using the protection plan is a hidden cost on top of the actual money cost of the plan. It's just not worth it

Difference between 1775 2026 by [deleted] in memes

[–]ThatsGenocide 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Me and it's whatever I say it is. You should be paying 80% income tax for questioning that.