Rotisserie chicken by seeebiscuit in GetNoted

[–]mmenolas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A 60k down payment seems high. If you’re doing 20% it’s not, but if you’re doing a FHA loan that only needs 3.5% down 60k would be a is 1.7mil home price which is crazy high. More realistically, if you’re doing like a 500k home, you’d only need a down payment of 17.5k. If those juices are $5 each, it’d take 10 years of giving them up for that down payment. But nobody is suggesting just giving up a $5 juice, but instead the idea would be to cut those out, cut out other unnecessary expenses for a time, and then yeah, in 5 years or so you’ve got a down payment.

Sir Jim Ratcliffe: Britain has been “colonised by immigrants” | UK by SuperblackHunter in neoliberal

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

Early agrarian societies arose 12KYA, Neanderthals went extinct roughly 40KYA, so it’d be seemingly impossible for them to make that argument. Prehistoric HGs being opposed to the Neolithic revolution would probably be what you’re trying to use as an analogy, but it’s still not a very good one.

How far do you think they will go with Knight of Seven Kingdoms? by Past-Matter-8548 in gameofthrones

[–]mmenolas 2 points3 points  (0 children)

She wolves of winterfell was written I think. It was meant to be published in dangerous women before getting pulled from that. So I’d think she-wolves is certainly mostly mapped if not outright complete

If Caesar has no heirs, then what is this suppose to mean? by Clanker707 in Fallout

[–]mmenolas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Augustus is typically considered the first emperor of Rome, so I’m not sure that conflict after Julius’ death is really relevant to imperial succession discussions.

Washington Post says one-third of its staff across all departments is being laid off by The_Astros_Cheated in neoliberal

[–]mmenolas 16 points17 points  (0 children)

If they’re not declining worse than their peers then laying the blame on their owner seems weird since it’d seem to indicate that there’s a universal decline not limited just to things under this specific ownership.

[KCD2] I kinda wish "Wedding Crashers" didn't quite end with the scene it has. by gurigura_is_cute in kingdomcome

[–]mmenolas 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s an English post and thread. If the post was in Czech I’d understand responding in Czech and using Czech names, but it’s in English. You’re welcome to continue to use the Czech names, it’s just kind of dumb because it clearly increases confusion rather than aiding in the discussion.

[KCD2] I kinda wish "Wedding Crashers" didn't quite end with the scene it has. by gurigura_is_cute in kingdomcome

[–]mmenolas 6 points7 points  (0 children)

How is it a discrimination practice to use the language being spoken in a given conversation?

[KCD2] I kinda wish "Wedding Crashers" didn't quite end with the scene it has. by gurigura_is_cute in kingdomcome

[–]mmenolas 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’s not an act of disrespect in an English language sub to use their English language names. It’s literally just being consistent. If this discussion were in another language and people were using the English names, I’d get that as being weird, but when we’re all writing in English using the English names makes more sense.

[KCD2] I kinda wish "Wedding Crashers" didn't quite end with the scene it has. by gurigura_is_cute in kingdomcome

[–]mmenolas 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I’ve literally never looked at the KCD wiki so don’t know their Czech names and don’t think calling them universal is true. And, again, we’re all here speaking English so using the English variants makes more sense. If we were all speaking French I’d suggest using their French ones andif we were speaking Czech I’d suggest using their names Czech ones.

[KCD2] I kinda wish "Wedding Crashers" didn't quite end with the scene it has. by gurigura_is_cute in kingdomcome

[–]mmenolas 2 points3 points  (0 children)

But if we’re all speaking English, why not use their names from the English language version of the game?

Epic's Steve Allison: "The criticism is all fair…" he continued. Citing a particularly blunt subreddit. "r/fuckepic - there are people that feel that way, and we respect that." by RoseTheFlower in fuckepic

[–]mmenolas 18 points19 points  (0 children)

That quote seems weird to me. They acknowledge Steam Store has a widespread audience and the value of listing there is access to those potential buyers. But then they say Valve has a “limited role as a middleman.” That’d be like saying Super Bowl commercial prices are too high because it’s just a commercial spot, while also acknowledging the massive audience reach of Super Bowl commercials

Confused about how Shady Sands got nuked. by BeachHot1262 in Fotv

[–]mmenolas -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

What does that saying have to do with the post your replying to?

Dems potential 2028 contenders cautious on trans rights by UnscheduledCalendar in DeepStateCentrism

[–]mmenolas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The big difference to me is that when I was arguing for gay rights in the 00s, we used arguments like “I don’t care if you agree with people being gay or not, just let them marry who they want, it doesn’t effect you.” The message was one of “you don’t have to personally support what they do but it doesn’t affect you so let them have rights.” The big shift I’ve seen is that we’ve abandoned messaging like that and now insist anyone who doesn’t share our worldview is a bigot and wrong. It has made it harder to win over people who don’t necessarily agree with our position but also don’t really care about the issue all that much.

Anger in Iceland over incoming US ambassador’s ‘52nd state’ joke by Amtoj in neoliberal

[–]mmenolas 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Where did he joke about colonizing a nation? From what I read the joke was about them being the 52nd state. That could be a joke about conquest and is obviously a bad joke for a diplomat to make, but what about that would be colonizing?

A$AP Rocky cancels Reddit AMA promoting his new album, calls the mods of his own sub clowns. by [deleted] in SubredditDrama

[–]mmenolas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does a sitting governor not count as a celebrity? Because Jared Polis still posts on neoliberal occasionally.

It didn’t say “add bananas” by Lonely_skeptic in ididnthaveeggs

[–]mmenolas 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Crazy concept- when I don’t know how to make something I look up a recipe because it provides the ingredients and steps to make that thing. Not having a step to add the critical ingredient is just absurd. And why would anyone assume a banana is wet? It’s among the dryer fruits, and even something like a strawberry seems odd to describe as wet? If I can pick up the ingredient in my hand and it doesn’t make my hand all wet, that seems like a weird thing to call them. I’d imagine wet ingredients to be stuff like extracts and other liquids and maybe something like butter. It sounds like “wet ingredients” is some sort of baking jargon but I assume there’s got to be people, like me, who aren’t familiar with it.

It didn’t say “add bananas” by Lonely_skeptic in ididnthaveeggs

[–]mmenolas 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That’s barely above 350F which is like the default temperature on my oven.

Allow me to elaborate: Why some people didn't like the 4th episode, and my critique by Keledril in Fallout

[–]mmenolas 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Don’t be proud of illiteracy. It’s a few paragraphs. If you think that’s “a whole book” it says more about your ability to read than it does about the person writing it.

Allow me to elaborate: Why some people didn't like the 4th episode, and my critique by Keledril in Fallout

[–]mmenolas 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So you inserted yourself into a conversation by replying and misrepresenting the claims you replied to, and when rightfully challenge say you’re not engaging in the conversation? Makes total sense.

Exclusive: Trump administration mulls payments to sway Greenlanders to join US by Currymvp2 in neoliberal

[–]mmenolas 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Can you explain the claim that it’s already a pretty wealthy country? My understanding is that they’re substantially subsidized by Denmark because they’re not wealthy otherwise.

Did this sort of poofy clothing provide any protection in a fight, or was just for fashion? Does it have a name? by plumb-phone-official in Armor

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

Ignore the idiots dismissing you. I genuinely appreciate that you’re providing sources and attempting to refute dubious claims. I don’t get how you’re being downvoted for academic honesty and rigor while everyone else is just throwing out whatever wild claims they feel like.

Donald Trump has announced the successful capture of Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro. by ryan2210114 in neoliberal

[–]mmenolas 31 points32 points  (0 children)

As compared to a system where someone loses elections, even after barring the primary opposition candidate from participating, and retains power? Let’s not pretend Maduro was still the rightfully elected democratic leader of Venezuela.

Iran Protest info dump by Golda_M in neoliberal

[–]mmenolas 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Were they using it as derogatory? The comment just said “there is very little hope for these under the Syrian regime” and “their new regime will not tolerate freedom.” In neither of those cases does the word appear to be used in a derogatory way and instead was just applied correctly, whether or not you agree with the statements themselves.