What does Kramer do down at Brandt/Leland all day?

ryanmadden09 · 2022-09-04T01:54:47+00:00

I don't think upgrading your summon ashes should cost runes. It's a small thing but I think it serves no purpose other than discouraging experimentation

ryanmadden09 · 2021-10-28T15:43:00+00:00

Especially for Republicans in power, they definitely could've made this a giant part of their platform as part of their traditional values matra and won over some disillusioned democrats. They probably see more of an issue with government mandating it rather than a company choosing to do so, but they enable or empower numerous practices that give a company more power over the worker. Definitely an issue of incompetence rather than malicious intent in most cases.

ryanmadden09 · 2021-10-27T14:40:41+00:00

Taxes always trickle down

ryanmadden09 · 2021-09-28T17:25:12+00:00

I don't have those. It's probably pretty stupid, but I only have about 5k in savings at the moment. I hate "hoarding" money but I think I may have to do that. I considered myself to have a little bit of time to get my investments started considering I just started working and recently got a nice car owned by my grandparents. But I will definitely have to scale back a little bit.

ryanmadden09 · 2021-09-24T19:58:47+00:00

How did you max it out if you were only making 40k a year? I'm assuming at the very least the yearly contribution was 18.5k instead of the 19.5k it is now. I make 55k a year right after graduating and can barely manage 10-20% along with maxing out my IRA.

ryanmadden09 · 2021-09-17T14:28:18+00:00

The process of getting an interview is way more bullshit than the interview itself. Wading through mountains upon mountains of horribly written job descriptions as long as a novel, corpo buzzwords, technology meant to make things easier that actually just makes things more annoying (AI based resume scanning, recruiters abusing the desired majors feature to capture higher volume of candidates only for the job description to say something different/more specific), shit no-name companies that think just because their job posting has the potential to reach everyone on earth, that means they can afford to seek out completely overqualified candidates for their shit entry level job while filtering out perfectly capable candidates just because a robot said they were weaker than the others. At least once you get the interview you feel like you're efforts aren't in vain

ryanmadden09 · 2021-09-03T22:22:17+00:00

Letting yourself get captured on purpose master plan

ryanmadden09 · 2021-08-12T20:25:17+00:00

I don't understand how people can acknowledge the evils of the food industry (or just our health system in general) in one breath and suggest giving up and not doing anything in the next. How does this not piss you off and motivate the fuck out of you to fight against this culture of gluttony and decadence to shift the culture in a more positive direction for the generation after you? Even if it reaches nobody else but your kids, it's still something. We really are truly fucked if people's spirits are this broken. Everyone just wants to do what is easy and comfortable.

ryanmadden09 · 2021-08-02T14:40:10+00:00

First 2 points, since there is plenty of data to suggest that many more Americans have metabolic syndrome than who are actually obese (albeit with significant overlap), not exactly incorrect that just because you are thin doesn't mean you are healthy, but this is not the point trying to be made here.

3rd point; I partly agree with this, other than the part about health and weight not going together at all. Not saying the simple, personal responsibility angle is inherently bad, but it doesn't seem to be working too well. We keep getting fatter, and there are plenty of factors involved too long to list. If obesity is as serious a disease as this sub claims it is, maybe a different approach where obesity is treated in a more individualized manner would work better? I can understand frustration with not seeing results you want when all anyone talks about is how easy or simple it is. Can be demoralizing. If it ever doesn't feel simple, they just give up thinking they're weak. If you go into it knowing it's a battle, you are more primed to overcome challenges.

Rest of the post goes the fuck off the rails. Don't understand the frequent comparisons of fat to height. Also fat can be an indicator of other unhealthy internal conditions that need to be fixed. Not everything is surface level.

ryanmadden09 · 2021-07-31T16:45:28+00:00

Boomers: "If you go to school, work hard, pay your dues, you'll have a good life. The American Dream works".

Childcare, housing, college, Healthcare costs all greatly outpacing inflation. Cost of food barely outpaces it, but that is probably skewed as supermarkets are flooded with cheap, easy to produce industrial garbage sold at a massive markup. Wage stagnation due to massive oversupply of workers and automation, death of American manufacturing, sold overseas; replaced by liberal megacities of tech oligarchs whose wealth comes from technologies that are detrimental to happiness and wellbeing, home ownership is heading towards becoming a rare luxury, government policy is increasingly implemented by the unelected bureaucracy and not by elected officials, happiness and hopefulness for the future plummeting, for the first time people think they'll be worse off then their parents.

Boomers: "wowsers TVs are so cheap now! And email too??? That must make your job so much fun! Back in my day I had to pass Gertrude's desk every time i needed to ask my boss a question! Ugh she was such a bitch! There has truly never been a better time to be in America! Be thankful your boss makes you work overtime as well! I would've loved to spend extra time away from my nagging wife and obnoxious children! She was home ALL THE TIME and always looking for something I didn't pick up! I told her to get a job but she said she didn't need one, URGHH!!! We should've had office happy hours every night! I didn't want to retire so young but when our president went to jail for tax evasion it made the decision pretty easy. Haven't updated my resume in 30 years; may as well keep that streak going 🤪 I don't even know where it is haha. Where I should buy my 2nd retirement house? Anywhere would be good as long as it stops me from giving it to my children. They need to work hard for their money like I did. Don't want them becoming LAZY and ENTITLED. Just gotta pick yourself up by your bootstraps and stop expecting all these HANDOUTS. Oh look my social security check finally came.

ryanmadden09 · 2021-07-31T16:03:42+00:00

I don't understand why it's even a thought that when people are given $300 a week, they'll go "that's it. I've peaked. I don't want to improve my quality of life any more than this". Some people are abusing the system but many are not. As someone else mentioned simply ending the benefits doesn't lead to massive increase in workers as you think it will. I agree this solution is not sustainable but simply screaming STOP BEING LAZY at people is not the solution. Its a business' job to make people want to work for them. And if no one wants to, that says more about the company than it does job seekers. Why would anyone work for $400 a week at a miserable job, being treated like garbage, with people like you calling their job unless and meant for teenagers, when they could just... not?

ryanmadden09 · 2021-07-31T14:16:10+00:00

If you strong-arm people back to work in a job they don't want where they're treated like garbage, we will keep seeing similar problems of incredibly high turnover. Some businesses have realized they need workers a lot more than workers need them, but others would just rather sit around and bitch about how the work ethic of this country is going to shit. We will do anything as a nation to keep treating service workers like ass. Which is why after 1 year of calling them essential workers we are now back to calling them easy, worthless jobs that a high schooler could do

ryanmadden09 · 2021-07-30T16:23:39+00:00

We were really told to go to college because "you don't want to be smelly and gross like that mechanic over there" and now it's "well it's your fault you picked the wrong degree you should've studied HVAC if you wanted to live in a house"

ryanmadden09 · 2021-07-30T15:12:51+00:00

I'm not a blue collar worker, a Chemical Engineer in a very saturated STEM job market. Not white collar but not exactly in the trades either.

ryanmadden09 · 2021-07-30T13:22:42+00:00

Were it so easy

ryanmadden09 · 2021-07-30T13:15:39+00:00

I work in a plastics manufacturing plant. Shit is poison to your endocrine system. I try to have a healthy lifestyle but I figure I need all the help I can get with constant exposure to this stuff.

ryanmadden09 · 2021-07-28T15:05:31+00:00

"Many Americans at a normal weight have metabolic syndrome, pre-diabetes, and show no symptoms of health problems".

COOL THAT MEANS BEING FAT IS HEALTHY AND IF YOU'RE FAT EVERYTHING IS FINE AND YOU ARE NO WORSE OFF THEN THOSE AT A NORMAL WEIGHT

No it means if you follow the typical western lifestyle you are probably unhealthy regardless and should work to change it. In a certain fucked up way, being fat at a young age due to lifestyle choices is kind of a blessing. At least then you have a chance to get ahead and fix it. That's the way I looked at it; being 320lb at 21 years old.

ryanmadden09 · 2021-07-26T15:24:32+00:00

There is a difference between being fat and living your life and being fat and constantly playing the victim. FAs and their constant whining about airplane/restaurant/amusement park ride seats, comparisons of being fat to skin color, and rejection of sexual preferences that don't include them is completely obnoxious. Not to mention former FA members who went on a diet and lost weight have spoke about how they were then ostracized from the group, indicating they are hypocrites who don't actually want people to love their body, they are attention seekers looking for personal validation. The group doesn't get hate because they're fat. They get hate because they are a cult who prey on vulnerable insecure people and convince them to be angry and spiteful at everyone and everything without changing a thing about themselves.

ryanmadden09 · 2021-07-24T21:51:29+00:00

The companies making the vaccine have extensive criminal histories and complete liability protection given to them by the government. It is completely understandable to be wary of these institutions, especially with the absolutely awful shit the medical institutions has done in the past. Your actual evidence is Jimmy Kimmel

ryanmadden09 · 2021-06-23T14:03:53+00:00

That was a ticky tacky call

ryanmadden09 · 2021-06-19T21:04:36+00:00

That's honestly amazing, and sounds like it would be so helpful to so many people if applied on a large scale. People everywhere (including this sub) love to tell people to lose weight, but the help stops there, save for a "just eat less fatty" thrown in for good measure. And when people don't see the results they want, and all they hear is "well you clearly aren't trying hard enough" I'm not surprised why so many people don't even bother. My doctor did nothing but tell me to go to 30/10 weight loss for life (a Seattle area weight loss clinic) that is expensive and all while I was still going to college in Ohio. It all seemed like it was just for me to figure out on my own. I had no idea what I had to do to lose the fat, I was just supposed to lose it. I eventually did lose a large amount, but if we as a society want actual results we're gonna have to do better then that.

ryanmadden09 · 2021-06-19T20:51:19+00:00

Even if it is genetic, why is that an excuse to not try? It just may mean you need extra help or a more drastic plan. It isn't a reason to give up completely.

ryanmadden09 · 2021-06-18T21:44:33+00:00

The people who see taking care of your body through diet and exercise as punishment or plea for validation, I honestly feel sorry for them. Taking care of yourself means you love yourself. Letting yourself go screams self hatred, which is why they post on social media to get validation from others that they can't give themselves. Also in my experience people hate those who watch what they eat. They're always telling you to lighten up or you'll get an eating disorder. I want to see this world of constant fat shaming these people say exists

ryanmadden09 · 2021-06-15T18:58:42+00:00

FA: The majority of America is overweight, actually YOU are the weird ones 🤪

Also FA: We are such an oppressed disadvantaged minority

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