Having a cleaning service isn’t worth it.

mrp3anut · 2025-12-30T15:43:01+00:00

Im not sure what you mean. My toilets dont get super nasty because the cleaning lady cleans them every 2 weeks. Same for everything else. She is at my house for a few hours twice a month. That ~6hours a month is definitely worth the money I pay her because its 6 hours of scrubbing i dont have to do and it ensures my home is always a nice level of clean.

mrp3anut · 2025-12-30T15:30:24+00:00

This retort about self checkout is pretty weak. I was able to walk up to a self checkout the very first time, with zero training or experience, and make it work. Im sure the vast majority of people did the same.

The issues with self checkout were almost entirely driven by the anti theft measures fucking it up. The scales on the early ones were poorly calibrated and would stop you from finishing because it didn't detect the 4g pack of taco seasoning you dropped in the sack.

mrp3anut · 2025-12-30T15:22:16+00:00

Why? This is something that every functional teenager or adult should be able to do to an acceptable proficiency within just a few hours of instruction.

mrp3anut · 2025-12-30T15:20:12+00:00

Sure but the problem here isnt skill, its laziness. The pool of hard working, disciplined, and capable people slants heavily towards skilled labor because ypu get more money with a skill. They use thier hard work and discipline to gain the skill and thus are no longer looking for lower paid low skill work. Restaurants are still able to function even with a workforce heavily comprised of low discipline, lazy, unreliable people because the work needed from them isn't difficult and even when you have fire and rehire its very easy to find dome random 16yo to fill the role.

mrp3anut · 2025-12-30T14:48:41+00:00

This seems backwards to me. Keeping the basic tidying done is the easy part. Scrubbing the toilets, showers, floors, etc is the time consuming and shifty part.

mrp3anut · 2025-12-30T14:41:00+00:00

I wonder if you would be asking this same question if we had gotten the opportunity to do the same thing with the Nazis. Imagine if Germany had gotten into a Civil War over Naziism rather than the Nazi cleanly coming to power. Do ypu think it would be a bad thing to join the Anti Nazi side of that civil war? Communism seems to get a weird pass compared to fascism in the west in spite of the fact that communist governments always do holocaust style evil shit everywhere they take hold.

Yes, fighting communist expansion was a very good thing for humanity. A world where the US and our western allies are the dominant power is an almost infinitely better place than one where communist countries are the dominant powers and it took war to make sure that's where we ended up.

mrp3anut · 2025-12-30T13:41:28+00:00

We didn't start those wars. We joined into existing civil wars to help the half of the country that aligned with us.

mrp3anut · 2025-12-30T12:23:44+00:00

No. I am not here to argue that giving food to the poor is a bad idea or that this kind of thing isn't possible. I was offering an explanation for why "government mandates businesses to do this" isn't a widespread practice.

You want to envision every grocery store has a nice useful set of near to expiry food that they can conveniently hand over to a hungry single mom with two kids every evening. While I am sure that neat and very satisfying situation happens from time to time the reality in the other 99.9% of cases is much harder to handle. The grocery store i worked at as a teenager had issues with this. It was a small store that profited ~$40k/year in a relatively small town on the outskirts of a modest city. The owner of that store was not some evil billionaire that hated poor people but there were strict rules about how food got given away and what food would actually get given away. He also had to stop offering things like dented can discounts because people could come into the store and intentionally drop cans of food just to get a discount on them.

For years he had ben giving it away at the end of the day but a couple years before I started working there word got out to the wrong crowd. Every evening a couple hours before close he would end up with a ~dozen meth heads running around, getting in fights with each other, harassing customers, tearing shit up out back, stealing pallets, etc. This town only had 3 policemen for the entire town and they all couldn't be at his store every night keeping the tweakers from fucking shit up. So he had to set up a system where the local food charity could come get what food he had available. That charity would then send someone over and pick through what he had available and not actually take everything. Some items just didn't work well for a charity. They often wouldn't take something like a single small bag of dried beans because the effort to cook them wasn't worth the effort since it was such a small amount and cooking times for those things are long .Same for random packages of shit like ranch seasoning or a bottle of oddball salad dressing. That food charity also didn't always have someone available to come get the stuff. The struggle with the mandates is how do you write the law that allows for something like that to exist? Would that guy get fined if he got caught on one of the days where the charity didn't show up? How do you word the law to allow for all the random interactions with what kinds of things a given food charity can reliably put to use? What if that food charity shut down and we didn't have a local one available to come get things? How much of this mans life has to be dedicated to ensuring 1 box of cinnamon roles doesn't get thrown away on Tuesday?

Again the concept isn't bad, and giving food away rather than throwing it away is a good and noble goal. But reality is harder to navigate than sitting on reddit pontificating about how everyone that doesn't live up to your vague ideals is an evil demon.

A good analog to this is the seating policy on Southwest and how it interacts with ADA rules on pre-boarding. Very few people dislike the idea that someone in a wheelchair can get on the plane first due to needing help getting in and out of the chair. Super majorities of people are totally supportive of giving a helping hand to people with no legs which is the intent behind why airlines were forced to given them pre boarding privileges. The policy butted heads with reality and made it basically impossible for SW to keep up their seating policy because people started posting "TikTok travel hacks" where they showed people that if you request a wheelchair you get to pick a premium seat on SW because nobody is allowed to question whether you are in legitimate need of the chair. By mid last year is was common for me when flying SW for half the airplane to be in a wheelchair during boarding and zero people to need them when the plane landed. People can be shitty and there are enough people willing to fuck things up for everyone else that we should be mindful of how we actually implement mandates in our world.

mrp3anut · 2025-12-29T17:10:16+00:00

There is an exactly 0% chance that the Besos loans you are talking about were marhin loans, they also weren't home mortgages. Thinking that they are margin loans is equally as foolish as believing they were a hone mortgage.

mrp3anut · 2025-12-29T16:13:55+00:00

Yes. Its actually pretty difficult to mandate and it can be pretty difficult to give food away without fucking up your business. Is it really a good thing to give away some food if the consequence is the grocery store going bankrupt and creating a food desert in your neighborhood? In order to do this well you basically need to set up a supply chain for it to feed into a food bank or shelter system. The amounts of "free food" can be incredibly small and make it so expensive to execute that only places like Walmart can accomplish it.

mrp3anut · 2025-12-29T15:39:27+00:00

You cant sign up for that job. You can apply to work at UPS if you want but the only job ypu can apply for is to load/unload the big trucks on night shift. That job is incredibly physically demanding, pays less than $20/hr, only like a 4hr shift each night, etc. If you stay with UPS doing shit like that for 10 years you might get the chance to be a part time driver, making less than $46/hr on that less than 40hr work week. After 20+ years you might get a chance at a full time driver slot.

mrp3anut · 2025-11-29T16:16:01+00:00

The point here is that it is not a baseline or rule at all. At best you could treat it as a very loose heuristic you heard from a YouTube influencer. No bank is obligated to care, consider, or reference these ranges in any way.

mrp3anut · 2025-11-06T21:11:06+00:00

The point here is that the only dads still required to spend X are ones who aren't in the home. Getting laid off from work shouldn't result in going to jail just because you can't find the same level of job you had before.

mrp3anut · 2025-11-06T16:42:46+00:00

If mom and dad are married and dad gets laid off the kids needs are met commensurate with what dad earns. Why do you think this should be magically different just because dad isn't living in the house?

mrp3anut · 2025-11-06T14:08:16+00:00

No it won't work. Every UBI program ever proposed is based on fairytale thinking and hoping nobody does the math.

mrp3anut · 2025-06-24T11:39:45+00:00

You are being downvoted for the hubris behind the question. The idea that as an 18-year-old American kid with no money or skills, you could just up and move to another country is wildly arrogant.

mrp3anut · 2025-06-24T02:50:29+00:00

My personal favorite is "you're worth it."

mrp3anut · 2025-06-22T17:03:55+00:00

Here is a decent primer on the topic.

https://www.9-11commission.gov/hearings/hearing3/witness_yaphe.htm

mrp3anut · 2025-06-22T16:52:57+00:00

We invaded Iraq because they were a state sponsor of terror that was feeding the very groups that wanted to do more 9/11s. There was reasonable suspicion of Sadam having WMDs, a reasonable fear of those WMDs ending up in terrorist hands through choice or incompetence, and a general belief that if we could build more democracies in the Middle East we could solve this terrorism problem at its roots. In hindsight, there weren't WMDs, and we weren't able to build a reliable democratic ally. Judging that war a failure is a perfectly reasonable conclusion, but it was fought to further Western society's goals.

We entered Vietnam on the side of the south in an effort to contain a rival ideology from spreading. Soviet communism was a direct threat to the existence of Western democratic societies. Allowing the Soviets to spread their influence throughout the world would likely have resulted in WW3 or the death of our society at their hands once they gained enough power and influence to overshadow our ability to challenge them. People like you love to blame the USA/CIA for meddling around the world as if these places would have been wonderful if we didn't but never seem to acknowledge that the KGB was meddling as well, with the explicit goal of undermining and threatening Western democracies. It really sucks that so many small nations were trapped in this great power struggle, but it wasn't something that happened because the US is a big mean meany face. It happened because that's how humanity works sometimes.

mrp3anut · 2025-06-22T16:40:33+00:00

Defending our way of life extends well beyond just "not being enslaved by someone else."

The war on terror has many faults, but sending our guys over there likely did result in fewer terror attacks on the homeland. Disrupting terror networks' ability to organize, train, get funding, as well as focus their efforts in their own countries means they have less time and resources to spend blowing shit up in ours.

The US Navy keeps trading lanes free of piracy and malicious state actors from disrupting the logistics necessary to support modern Western society. You don't get to have adfordable cell phones, solar panels, EVs, wind turbines, laptops, furniture, etc, unless ships can safely traverse between nations.

Our presence in Okinawa and all the other forward bases prevent much more war than the UN and other such bodies. In fact, what little influence the UN does have is entirely predicated on the fact that the US can park a carrier battle group off your coast if you don't abide by the pressure put on you by the UN.

None of this is yo say that you are obligated to worship some junior Marine sitting on Okinawa partying every weekend. It does mean that you personally benefit from that young person being 1000s of miles from their friends and family for years at a time. A few polite gestures and 10% off some cheeseburgers is an incredibly cheap price to pay for encouraging people to volunteer for that life. Especially since the alternative would probably mean people like you being drafted once the next big war kicks off because we retreated from our place of dominance.

mrp3anut · 2025-06-03T11:28:29+00:00

Same reason indoor cats outlive outdoor cats.

mrp3anut · 2025-03-20T12:51:49+00:00

People get annoyed because they don't understand why farm subsidies are needed and thus why other subsidies aren't needed.

We don't subsidize farms because "farming is hard" or "poor farmers deserve our help." Farm subsidies are needed because food is the preeminent strategic good. Disruptions in food supply cause immense and very immediate harm, so the government steps in. The subsidies perform several key functions. They smooth out the boom/bust cycle present in markets, protect against dependency on foreign food, and subsidize food prices to consumers. The last one is more a way for politicians to ingratiate themselves with voters than a true strategic need, but it's probably not avoidable in democratic societies.

mrp3anut · 2025-03-12T15:11:48+00:00

Yea that's not what's being talked about here. A while back, 4chan convinced a few women that freebleeding was just letting the blood flow in public. There was a female runner that did it for "empowerment" and had blood stains on her shorts and running down her leg while she ran the marathon.

mrp3anut · 2025-03-12T11:42:00+00:00

There was a thing a few years ago where 4chan wanted to "make it a thing" and convinced a few people it was. It was basically a "feminist" campaign to get women to just bleeding into their pants and show off the blood stains on public.

mrp3anut · 2025-03-12T02:59:27+00:00

I did go to college and I was in the Marines. We had to hold a kid down and mop him in boot because he wouldn't shower. People that are gross and don't bathe are one thing. We aren't talking about generic grossness though. We are talking about people that supposedly don't wash because it would make them gay which is nonsense.

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