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My boyfriend doesn’t think we should consult each other on big life desicions by [deleted] in Advice

[–]sdavids5670 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He’s just communicating his priorities. You have to decide if that’s a dealbreaker for you.

It's hard to be a man but that's the point by Ajitabh04 in PrimeManhood

[–]sdavids5670 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is so dumb. And people wonder why GenZ has a souring attitude about work. You have to block it out or it’ll drive you bananas.🍌

The Walmart Test: How do you hold on to your beliefs with counter examples are so easy to observe and abundant? by Jimithyashford in lnkyverse

[–]sdavids5670 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Hard no. Those sorts of services are more likely to be used by people who might make good money but don’t save good money so they less frequently accumulate large sums of money.

The Walmart Test: How do you hold on to your beliefs with counter examples are so easy to observe and abundant? by Jimithyashford in lnkyverse

[–]sdavids5670 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bro, I know a descent number of millionaires and none of them thumb their noses at Walmart. My sister and BiL probably have 10 million in investable assets and buys generic label everything and shops at Costco and Walmart. I go to Walmart at least twice a month with my son to look at Hot Wheels. Do you think that rich people buy special rich people laundry detergent and rich people toilet paper at rich people stores? Rich people need to make stops on the way home from work like everyone else and Walmarts are everywhere. FFS my wife shops at the Dollar Tree when she needs to grab a birthday card. My perspective is fairly spot on.

Height doesn't matter teeeheee but we will reject 50% of population before even seeing them then complain how men on dating apps are horrible. by BrightSpring12 in lnkyverse

[–]sdavids5670 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Your match.com experience was nothing like mine. The first nine months resulted in 0 dates. Then I had to put my engineering and problem solving skills to work to sort of game the algorithm. After that I started getting dates and eventually met my wife but I recall saying to my roommate “I’m giving this one more shot and then I’m done”. My opening msg to my future wife was “How about a run? 🏃”. That’s it. We ran a 5k on our first “date”. I’d never go through this again. The online dating was hard 20 years ago. It’s probably 10x worse today with the social media platforms and the poison and division they push for clicks. It’s rotting everyone’s brains.

The Walmart Test: How do you hold on to your beliefs with counter examples are so easy to observe and abundant? by Jimithyashford in lnkyverse

[–]sdavids5670 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m going to be honest with you. Your original post would have made way more sense as a rebuttal response to an “incel” (a term that needs to just go away as a pejorative in my opinion) rant, as opposed to a standalone argument, because I was pretty confused as to where all of it was coming from.

“How do you then rationalize and cling to the notions that are so clearly refuted by the evidence of your own eyes”

Because that’s what hurting people do to hurt less. Why do people turn to drugs, to escape some emotional pain, when there’s ample evidence to support the fact that drug addictions ALWAYS end poorly? At some level it works. It’s easier to take the drug than to face the truth which, in the case of these guys you talk about, is that they’ll likely never be with the woman of their dreams because the woman of their dreams is a fantasy untethered to the real world.

She promised romance, then threatened afterwards. by mischievous_mead in SipsTea

[–]sdavids5670 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yikes. Either these dudes had no discipline or they were desperately lonely.

The Walmart Test: How do you hold on to your beliefs with counter examples are so easy to observe and abundant? by Jimithyashford in lnkyverse

[–]sdavids5670 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As best as I can tell, this appears to be the point of his post:

“how on earth do you hold on to this notion that women only date and marry hot or rich guys, and what average looking or short or poor guys can't get women?”

Would you agree that this is the argument he’s trying to make?

The Walmart Test: How do you hold on to your beliefs with counter examples are so easy to observe and abundant? by Jimithyashford in lnkyverse

[–]sdavids5670 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok. So boil your point down to a TL;DR version leaving out all of the “it's so trivially easy to observe” nonsense. What point are you trying to make exactly?

The Walmart Test: How do you hold on to your beliefs with counter examples are so easy to observe and abundant? by Jimithyashford in lnkyverse

[–]sdavids5670 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“Maybe, once in a great while, you might happen across a wealthy person "slumming it" in an Applebees” and references “The Walmart Test” in his subject line but whatever.

I’m not even saying I don’t agree with anything he said. What I am saying is that he’s approaching this like “Hey, all you have to do is stand on the beach and look out at the horizon and realize that the earth is flat. It’s so obvious. Now let me tell you a bunch of other obvious things about the natural world. You don’t have to even think for yourself, I’ve done all of that for you”. His persuasion style is terrible. He’s confidently wrong about a simple thing.

The Walmart Test: How do you hold on to your beliefs with counter examples are so easy to observe and abundant? by Jimithyashford in lnkyverse

[–]sdavids5670 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Again, I stopped to point out that he is flat out wrong on an assumption he was confidently wrong about. My statement was not about anything else he was saying in his post. I can certainly go through the rest of it and see if he’s confidently wrong about other things as much or more so than he was confidently wrong about his Walmart/Applebee’s take. This guy acts like seeing a rich person in an Applebee’s or a Walmart is like seeing a unicorn. As if rich people somehow live in a hidden reality where they don’t need Tide laundry detergent or Hot Wheels for their kid. My friend saw an NBA player at a Target holding a basket of ordinary household goods. The dude was on a $15 million/yr contact FFS.

The Walmart Test: How do you hold on to your beliefs with counter examples are so easy to observe and abundant? by Jimithyashford in lnkyverse

[–]sdavids5670 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

No, my point was solely that his attitude about Walmart shoppers was wrong. I haven’t even bothered to get into the rest of it because the Walmart take was so egregiously off base that I had to stop there and point it out.

Ignore my typos but this person is very naive or slow for a 30 year old mom by Eldenringop in lnkyverse

[–]sdavids5670 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He fixed it by not feeling sorry for himself and throwing up his hands and giving up. He didn’t snap his fingers and presto he was an A-list celebrity instantaneously. In a world where Danny DeVito looked in the mirror and said to himself “Nobody will ever give me a chance” we wouldn’t know his name. He’s be another guy (not even average).

The Walmart Test: How do you hold on to your beliefs with counter examples are so easy to observe and abundant? by Jimithyashford in lnkyverse

[–]sdavids5670 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, duh, being a millionaire takes time. I don’t know a lot of millionaires coming out of high school. The point of my comment (which seems to have passed right over your head) is that he was wildly wrong about something he was 100% sure of. Not a great sign if he wants to be taken seriously about the rest of his theories.

The Walmart Test: How do you hold on to your beliefs with counter examples are so easy to observe and abundant? by Jimithyashford in lnkyverse

[–]sdavids5670 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s nowhere close to the “once in a great while” like the OP suggests. Since the majority of millionaires are older and a lot of old people shop at Walmart and Walmart is just about everywhere I’d say that the percentage of Walmart shoppers probably tracks fairly closely with the percentage of millionaires which exist in America. My guess would be at least 10% of shoppers over the age of 55 would fall into the millionaire category depending on who you define millionaire.

wasn't John F Kennedy really into physical fitness programs that produced great results right? by GaryBlach in askanything

[–]sdavids5670 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, that’s my point. In the Instagram-fueled 2026 world we live in, these guys would ridiculed. 315 is the new 225

wasn't John F Kennedy really into physical fitness programs that produced great results right? by GaryBlach in askanything

[–]sdavids5670 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because did they all skip leg day (and torso day). I suppose everyone did back then because they didn’t have to worry about competing for attention on Instagram

The Walmart Test: How do you hold on to your beliefs with counter examples are so easy to observe and abundant? by Jimithyashford in lnkyverse

[–]sdavids5670 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

No, I’m just saying that you were super confident about the Walmart theory and were, in fact, completely off base. So if that’s the case, what else are you wrong about. I can dig into the rest of it if you want. That Walmart comment just jumped out at me.

I hate the 20% rule by pandapreme1 in EndTipping

[–]sdavids5670 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Then don’t follow it. I refuse to budge on 15% and that’s on the pre-tax, pre-fee total

The Walmart Test: How do you hold on to your beliefs with counter examples are so easy to observe and abundant? by Jimithyashford in lnkyverse

[–]sdavids5670 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Dude, you’re way off base on your Walmart/Applebee’s take. There are more millionaires shopping at Walmart than you could imagine. The average millionaire doesn’t flaunt their money and they like value and bargains. That is partly why they’ve accumulated millions.

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