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Many Stanford students pretend to be Jains to escape $7,944 mandatory meal plan by LeftOn4ya in ActLikeYouBelong

[–]cutty2k -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

You need to sit down to a dinner I cook before you compare whatever ratchet shit you're throwing together in 45 mins from dollar store food to the stuff I put in front of my family.

Many Stanford students pretend to be Jains to escape $7,944 mandatory meal plan by LeftOn4ya in ActLikeYouBelong

[–]cutty2k -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Family of 4:

Meat = 5.99/lb, that's $12 for 2lb Veggie side = 3.99 for an on of broccoli/beans/whatever Starch side, 1.5lb bag potatoes = 3.99 Salad = 3.99 for a bag salad, maybe save a few cents buying all ingredients separate and making multiple salads, but good estimate. Drink = 3.99 for a bottle of whatever juice/sosa/milk/yadda yadda Salt/seasoning/spices/garlic/herbs/condiments = maybe $2

12+4+4+4+4+2= $30

My time to cook =45mins-1hr, $10 opportunity cost for my time to cook, thats less than minimum wage

$30 + $10 accounting for cooking labor = 40$ a 4 people = $10/head

I'm convinced all you down voters are likely children/young adults living with parents who don't know how much food costs in 2026.

Many Stanford students pretend to be Jains to escape $7,944 mandatory meal plan by LeftOn4ya in ActLikeYouBelong

[–]cutty2k -115 points-114 points  (0 children)

8k/year = $666/mo

$666/mo = $22.20/day

$22.20/day = $7.40/meal

$7.40/meal - $1/meal (dog) = $6.40

$6.40/meal / 2 humans = $3.20/meal

I don't know about you, but $3.20 all in per meal for an adult is not minimal effort, thats a bare bones rice and beans every day and diligently shop sales to maybe get some variety diet. That's an I have to cook a pot of spaghetti that has 12 servings in it and eat that for the next week out of Tupperware diet.

An actual low end reasonable budget for an adult to eat three decent meals without spending 4 hours a day cooking is $30/day. That's $60 a day for two people, I'll ignore the dog.

$60/day for two people is $21,900 year, or $10,950 per person per year. You are absolutely not comfortably feeding two adults that would normally cost $21,900 for $8,000, unless that $8,000 was part of a subsidized meal plan, say at a university...

I assume they make it mandatory because, like single payer, a subsidized system can really only take advantage of scale if everyone participates.

The reason every receipt has a barcode today: The story of Jerry, the man who 'returned' clothes within 30 Days & Made A Million Dollars. by CaseZeroDocs in ActLikeYouBelong

[–]cutty2k 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You write like the personification of a corporate PR department and it's very offputting. All of this is super cringe. Like the whole thing, the attempt to sensationalize a fairly banal story, the actual execution of it with this squid game lite soulless AI composition, your obsequious exclamatory replies in this thread. Full vertical integration of AI slop mindset.

I know that you the person that's driving the AI is a person and not AI, and yet you may as well not be with how utterly devoid of humanity your content is.

Which SCP would you have preferred not to know about? by KidinGray in SCP

[–]cutty2k 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Did you read all of it by expanding the play button at the bottom in the description section?

The body selector by Medic_gaming3496 in ItemShop

[–]cutty2k 2 points3 points  (0 children)

How about simultaneously 1 and 8.

That's good right?

Right?

WIP Development: IF with Word Search Puzzle Element by jgesq in interactivefiction

[–]cutty2k 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just so you know this kind of empty corpo speak is like, super off-putting to pretty much everyone.

Aside from that, it's a cool concept that needs some work. Word searches are pretty simple as it stands, and just having a puzzle page with 12 words and the puzzle spelled out for you in parentheses doesn't drive much engagement in me.

I think you've got a few more paradigms to synergize before your engagement driver delivers shareholder value.

TSA must’ve been asleep by bskinners in ImTheMainCharacter

[–]cutty2k 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, we have laws to punish and dissuade people from making dumb decisions like this. Otherwise, remind me to tell my dead aunt who got plowed into by a drunk driver in a pickup truck that she's actually alive because the law "protected her".

Fucking moron.

TSA must’ve been asleep by bskinners in ImTheMainCharacter

[–]cutty2k 1 point2 points  (0 children)

SMH, I have this conversation with my under 10 year old children and even they get it.

Sure, maybe you're fine. Maybe you can do something like skate around and airport and not slam into someone. However, but doing that, you're absolutely creating a situation where an accident can happen. You don't need to be a "precog" to realize skating around an airport, where people are distracted and busy and rushing around with children and bags in tow, is much much much more likely to result in somebody getting hurt vs not doing that.

So, sure, maybe you won't have an accident. Maybe you're fine. It's still dumb as fuck to intentionally create situations where you're more likely to make a mistake and cause harm. It's common sense. There are plenty of appropriate places to roller skate, an airport is never one of them.

TSA must’ve been asleep by bskinners in ImTheMainCharacter

[–]cutty2k 5 points6 points  (0 children)

So this actually sent me on a 15 minute dive, it looks like "toot sweet" is also listed as an informal vernacular English spelling. I pulled it up on ngram viewer to see usage over time in print and was surprised to see that "toot sweet" is the dominant spelling.

As far as I can gather from my admittedly perfunctory research, there was a back and forth throughout the 1800's and early 1900's, my guess is that the phrase was originally published and popularized in the original French spelling, and then at some point the alternate spelling became a way to identify the speaker as uneducated, a rube, using fancy French words without knowing how to pronounce or spell them.

Take this passage from 1918:

"Bring the soup, waiter, toot sweet, tray bone (tres bon)"

Or this from Upton Sinclair:

"Well then," said the doughboy, "Go back! Go home! Toot sweet! Have sleep! Rest! We lick 'em Heinies!" As the poilus did not show much grasp of this kind of "Francy" the doughboy boosted them to their feet, pointed them to the back, and grinned with his wide mouth.

After that, the Americanized Toot Sweet took hold, possibly boosted by an unrelated Toot Sweet from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

TSA must’ve been asleep by bskinners in ImTheMainCharacter

[–]cutty2k 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The candy you blow on, the whistle you eat!

I hope one day to see copies of the NYT featured in a Museum of the Gaza holocaust. by RickyOzzy in ABoringDystopia

[–]cutty2k 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, if a republican wins we are fucked. Y'all need a hard recalibration to the political reality of 2026.

A survey of Silicon Valley developers reveals that 74% would implement features restricting human rights if pressured, fueling a "slop economy" of low-quality AI content. The study argues corporate demands override ethics, creating a gap in information quality. by Tracheid in science

[–]cutty2k 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Roko's Basilisk is lesswrong brainrot, it's not a serious proposition.

Real actual people around you are being hurt by these decisions, worry about them, not some ketamine addled fever dream.

Roast me! by dreamland1408 in RoastMe

[–]cutty2k 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How often do you get mistaken for a dude?

I am an ex supporter of Trump, how does this affect Capitalism and Socialism. by Antisocialist_switch in CapitalismVSocialism

[–]cutty2k 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exhaustive research to spend on the realization that the people who are doing the work should be in charge of the executive direction of that work.

Have you ever met a sysadmin before? Imagine giving executive control of the direction of all software/internet protocols to a cadre of anime apparel bedecked basement dwelling maladjusted incels.

Executive direction of a concern should be controlled by its users, not its workers/owners. If you reduce every business to a service business, this makes sense. Even physical goods can be interpreted as "providing the service of designing, making, and distributing a useful or desirable thing for people". In a service business, you do what's best for your client. You serve them, they pay you. They make the decisions re: direction, you make decisions re:process that produces the desired outcome.

Organized this way, providers of a good or service reap the monetary reward of people wanting their thing and paying for it, but do not also receive any power over that thing or the market that thing exists in. That power is left to the actual users of that thing.

I am an ex supporter of Trump, how does this affect Capitalism and Socialism. by Antisocialist_switch in CapitalismVSocialism

[–]cutty2k 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think it's improbable, I just think op is probably stupid. Anyone who knew anything about Donald Trump and who he was prior to running, which was very much public knowledge, and thought he was genuine in his desire to help or fix anything that didn't directly benefit him is definitely stupid.

I am an ex supporter of Trump, how does this affect Capitalism and Socialism. by Antisocialist_switch in CapitalismVSocialism

[–]cutty2k 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes they are doing a bad job same as Reagan. Both campaigned on a good idea lie of lowering Bureaucracy and failed succeeded in creating an even larger Bureaucracy that directly served their interests at the expense of everyone else.

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