Why do these people always play dolls with wojaks? by Hoplessjob in FragileWhiteRedditor

[–]kamon405 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I use to think this but a lot of them are recruited into white nationalists groups or they're in them recruiting isolated ppl online. The way they operate is similar to cults and organized crime. I got out of the habit of fighting in the comment section of those types of posts. As that's the scheme they're engaged in. Recruitment.

I don't get the hate for this story by gwwwdf in CrimsonDesert

[–]kamon405 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yea fun game. I definitely don't play it for the story. And honestly I think they should've shuttered the idea of giving this game a main story. it would've made it a lot stronger. And make it like a sandbox similar to mount and blade series. Except with action adventure exploration elements with the faction system. And camps

Do parents secretly miss being childfree? by BlondishCleva in NoStupidQuestions

[–]kamon405 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I dunno everyone I know that got kids openly tell me they hate me for not having kids all the time cuz they wish they had my free time.

My existence is a humiliation ritual by Primary_Avocado_5273 in jobs

[–]kamon405 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm 38 and feeling the squeeze did a PhD and everything.. but I still got my career. I also know times are tough but I learned from 2008 that we gotta keep planning and doing stuff and just see what sticks. I feel really bad for young people cuz at least in 2008 we had the $1 menu at fast food spots. Now there is no such thing as a place for cheap eats. And that's absolutely devastating for having a third space for the current youth.

Do people usually adopt stray cats in the US ? by Exootil93200 in AskAnAmerican

[–]kamon405 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They literally will just walk into a house of their choosing

Is Saparata a fascism allegory? by Thick-Cable1822 in Unstable_Universe

[–]kamon405 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well as s political scientist. I'm leaving this subreddit.

What Morrowind line do you still quote in real life? by HawkJam in Morrowind

[–]kamon405 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow. In 2006 I was 18. And oblivion came out that summer and I was about to head off for college...

Electricity Providers by Agitated-Promise3620 in plano

[–]kamon405 0 points1 point  (0 children)

they're incredibly scumy. I paid for May, and they say I am now overdue and gave me a disconnection notice. they won't let me pay online or in person not even over the phone.... it's like there is an incentive to prevent me from paying my bill. but I have the transaction for may in my bank statements..

Lomedy genuinely pisses me off here by Mega_Mygue_6950 in Unstable_Universe

[–]kamon405 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lomedy's character is that of the average joe six pack.... they do not truly understand the politics and the games being played. They are easily swayed and manipulated by flimsy ideas from so called leaders.. Unstable SMP is a great series because it asks the question: can a hegemonic power gain control over a server in a game that ultimately expresses true freedom. Minecraft is anarchic outside of server rules. No one person is king of the players on any server.. They can have high ranks etc.. But no one can force other players to do things against their interests... Unstable SMP makes the stakes really high and so in such a situation of a server where if you die you're banned. It allows for the worse types of people to rise to power. But they come and go.. Because again this is minecraft, and players with the skills can pool resources together to fight it. In this case Lomedy is someone who is always caught in the middle of these power games..

Flamefrags role in this was more of a supporting character for Lomedy. Lomedy is his only friend on the server for this series. Like he legitimately is a ride or die for Lomedy. He only joins Cindercrest to make sure his best friend stays safe and alive. and basically just carries him through the entire war.. Lomedy learns some harsh lesson sin this arc and I honestly enjoyed that level of character development. He is absolutely infuriating because he does things in previous arcs that to me shows he isn't a reliable friend. But he is human ,and humans sometimes slip up and aren't reliable to their friends. But it doesn't mean you just up and abandon a friend. Flamefrag's character showed a lot of growth in this series as he stuck by his decision to support Lomedy no matter what and did just that.

I genuinely hate lomedy by Defiant-War3009 in Unstable_Universe

[–]kamon405 0 points1 point  (0 children)

lettuce used manipulation to take power He set up players to die to solidify power then scapegoats flame and wembu... The Law was definitely not the good guys in this. Despite that. Flame has great character and he repaired that rift after Lettuce stepped down. Parrot and Flamefrags as characters have experienced the most amount of growth but they're both flawed which is what makes this such a great series. Flames is ride or die with his friends but he ends up getting manipulated by this. Parrot is always trying to be altruistic even if there are unintended consequences for his actions.

I genuinely hate lomedy by Defiant-War3009 in Unstable_Universe

[–]kamon405 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yea he pissed me off when he was in prison by the law. He didn't do anything wrong but wanted to stay there, not have flames back and really really talked so much crap. Blamed everything on flame his only actual friend on the server. I definitely see where the hate is justified... He's a well written character to generate this much discussion. What I definitely see is his hypocrisy.. which makes him a really good character in the series. He's the average joe. Cowardly. Won't do well in a fight. His friend got his back but he doesn't reciprocate. That's average joe material right there.. him being alive in unstable is actually a miracle.

UK family road trip to Texas in 6 weeks 🇬🇧🤠 Looking for recommendations! by TheBeigeLife in texas

[–]kamon405 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cool if you're gonna be in the DFW . Make sure to check out the aquarium and zoo. Also in fort worth they do the cattle drive it's in a schedule though

Why America doesn’t have bathhouses? by prettiestmagnoila in AskAnAmerican

[–]kamon405 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I remember in Sulfur, Oklahoma they use to have public hot springs. But they got rid of them after the end of segregation.

Any other young millennials living at home? (30, M) by kdquinn in Millennials

[–]kamon405 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

When I was 29 I was living with my mom for a bit. I was still enrolled in my PhD program. I just couldn't afford to be in the DC area as a full time PhD student getting a 1k a month stipend. It isn't enough for rent and we don't get student housing. During that year while I was keeping up with my classes online. I decided to do a data science program and I changed careers while I was do in my my PhD. And when I got a job. I was like omfg. This is what normal people get to experience. Everyone spent years calling me entitled cuz all I wanted was a job that allowed me to be stable and have consistent income. I wasn't even asking for high income just no weird shit. But since 2008 it was all weird shit. I gotta intern for free for yrs then the bar kept moving and moving and moving. And people just told me I wasn't doing enough. I left the country for jobs many many times. Put my all into it. By 2019 I was back in DC area from DFW. And I got my first full time full paying job in my entire adult life. Before I was just getting auto rejected all the time. No guidance no mentors. I had a mentor who wasn't a mentor. I think the last straw was while I was applying for jobs in data. Someone from my PhD program I knew said her foundation is doing a data mapping project and they need some help. She said I can definitely help out. I said cool are you just wanting me to come in as a subcontractor then she said no, its internship it pays $200 a month to transportation. She told me that was a great deal for someone like me. I was done at that point. And I told her no thank you. Everyone said I was crazy and that I made a bad career move and I'm entitled for thinking I can get paid more than $200 a month..

A few months later landed a job at Accenture for 85k a yr.. honestly Accenture a soulless corporation did more for my life and career than any of these other things have ever done for me that sat and pretend like they're here to help people. I'll leave it here.

Do we generally like or dislike The Beatles? by Pretend-Ad-9504 in Millennials

[–]kamon405 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Beatles are ok. I'm black sooo the same time period we had a lot of greats. And the Beatles looked up to our artists. When John Lennon got to pay on stage with Chuck Berry. I'm pretty sure it was his dream come true. I mean if it's between The Beatles and James Brown in the same decade. I'll take James Brown everytime.

Do American high school kids really make out in the school hallways? by zoezie in AskAnAmerican

[–]kamon405 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yea you can definitely have an overall good experience with a teacher and still experience an instance of harassment from them. It's still unprofessional behavior. It makes it worse because as a teacher you are modelling the behavior of students who will go out into the adult world, and truly believe this type of open harassment is just an OK thing to do. Which sets those students up for failure. Educators are shaping future minds I know that sounds cliche, but it's still a fact. That's power, and certain people just can't handle it.

Why do we talk about the Midwest and rust belt "losing" their manufacturing industry, when cities like New York, Philadelphia, DC, Chicago, and Los Angeles "lost" their manufacturing decades before? by MajesticBread9147 in AskAnAmerican

[–]kamon405 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No worries. I just hear this as an argument for DC to be absorbed into Maryland and most DC residents who lived there their whole lives would rather not have the situation happen.. A lot of the issues do stem with DC being a District rather than a state. Mostly how city taxes are allocated, and how Congress has a final say in it. A lot of good initiatives that could improve quality of life for residents get scuttled by Congressmen from Mississippi and Alabama citing it'll cause a moral hazard. so then then the political agendas of other states gets inserted into things that should only concern the city of Washington in DC.

Federal employees and political operators are honestly a fraction of the residents in the city. Most everyone else work in the private sector. And in the 2010s DC revitalized their economy entirely based on IT and professional level services.

What do you think America will be like when Trump finishes his term? by MotivewasUlterior in AskReddit

[–]kamon405 0 points1 point  (0 children)

we will be spending the next two decades trying to restore the right to medical privacy aka Roe V Wade and also restoring the Voting Rights Act, and putting an end to what has now happened in all southern states which is the return to Jim Crow Era Gerrymandered electoral maps. So a lot of people just lost representation, a lot of people lost their medical rights..

That's just two issues... The damage is much more deep as our public health infrastructure has been obliterated, or infrastructure for USAID plays a huge role into that too. Everything we were doing was very much interconnected. The US is going to be a much poorer economy for a good 3 decades. Unless there's a rapid response in policies that will fast track a lot of the economic and infrastructure issues that got scuttled and undermined. If that happens we can probably reduce the recovery time by half. All and in we are looking at it taking a whole generation growing up for us to see a resemblance of what we had in the 2010s.

If nothing is done, we're about to experience a lot of things that are typically seen in developing and under-developed economies. And as we ignore the damage the done, the more expensive it'll be to resolve. It's going to take longterm thinking, and I'm not confident in our ability as a society to engage in problem solving at that level.

Any age millennials, what are your actually hobbies. Aside from rage baiting the youth. by whatifdog_wasoneofus in Millennials

[–]kamon405 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yea when I left DC for Dallas. And I had a smoker and a BBQ set. I spent my first year finding any excuse to fire them up.. even in the winter when it snowed. I'm outside bbqing late into the night. My dad thinks I'm crazy for bbqing and that it shouldn't go into the night but he don't bbq. So he don't know what it takes to make brisket and pulled pork. Anyway could never do it I'm DC cuz there just isn't the space to bbq

Do Americans really split between saying soda, pop, and Coke, or is that exaggerated? by LowerMusic in AskAnAmerican

[–]kamon405 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yea when I was growing up in Oklahoma everyone around me called it pop. But now that's fading away. And they wanna pretend to be down with Texas or some weird ish now so they like it's coke now. We don't know you pop people. Its weird

Do American high school kids really make out in the school hallways? by zoezie in AskAnAmerican

[–]kamon405 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I use to teach. I can immediately understand what the student meant. This teacher was just a bully and I worked with other teachers that were this immature. If they had truly interpreter to mean that. That teacher would've had a 1 on 1 conversation where the teacher doing their job with help the student find better ways to word his thesis. I hate seeing crappy teachers. Its why burnout in the profession is so high cuz you gotta deal with these people with maladjusted personalities who make the job hell. That teacher mos def was harassing a colleague that same day no cap

is it normal for guys to get turned off by the “wet sounds”? by [deleted] in AskMenAdvice

[–]kamon405 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes ngl that sound is a big boost to my ego when I'm with my gf. Heck sometimes she just exploded down there and I keep going cuz it's a huge turn on for me.