MystikIncarnate

My pleasure. I regularly put notes in my password manager about stuff like this.

Have a good day.

Can you maybe add a note to the account in your password manager to remind yourself of the limitation? I dunno, I'm just some guy

Hey, stop trying to be logical. These people don't understand it, and that's mean.

/s

Ironic. Amirite?

There's a whole subset of idiots that believe that you need to expose yourself to harmful shit to have a strong immune system. (See: all the people licking toilets and crap during lockdown)

There's some credible science to it, in the way that, an immunization is literally putting "harmful" stuff in you to train your immune system. This is known science that I should be able to mostly hand wave around since most people already know this. Immunizations are usually focusing on a key indicator, eg, for COVID, it's the protein on the outside of the vital cell wall (all the spiky bits in the illustrations) or whatever.... I'm no scientist. For other viruses and bacteria, it's a deactivated version of the virus... It's essentially "dead" for all intents and purposes. It just resembles the virus so closely that it effectively trains your immune system to recognize it.

With all that being said, not all bacteria and viruses are something we can develop a natural immunity to, partly because some of them just kill us, partly because there's something that is preventing it. Again I'm not a scientist.

Regardless, these idiots think that by exposing yourself to "natural" viruses and bacteria, you can strengthen your immune system. Bluntly, it's possible to do that, and why the fuck would you want to do it that way? It's literally a randomized version of a science we already have that's tried, tested, and proven effective, called immunizations. With immunizations, you get all the benefits of surviving the horrors of some of the most nasty viruses and bacteria out there, without suffering through what those viruses and bacteria are going to do to you.

The whole thing is stupid.

If anyone argues about "good" bacteria, tell them to eat yogurt. FFS.

This.... Is actually a pretty good idea.

There's a few meme images around that Celsius is how water "feels" and Fahrenheit is how people feel (and Kelvin is how atoms feel), which isn't entirely off base....

But frankly, I would support human scale more than Fahrenheit. I live in a country with Celsius, and my only real gripe with it is that whole degrees are not very precise. You have to go to half-degrees, or even 1/10th of a degree to get reasonable precision on temperature.

Just seems like the human scale would work well for 90% of use cases, aside from science where we should be using either Celsius or Kelvin.

I should rephrase.

Instead of "massively overpriced" I should have said "way outside of everyone's budget"

Still overpriced, but the cost is low enough to actually afford it.

I agree.

Everything needs to rise IMO. Except for the highest levels of management.

My job in 2016 paid 90% of what I make now. Inflation in that time has been around 25%, and I've only increased around 10%...

Minimum wage is far worse, I know this, but just because minimum wage needs to increase doesn't and shouldn't imply other areas don't also need to be increased.

I'm in a more senior position, and I've changed jobs at least three times to get where I am now. If minimum goes up, I won't be angry about it, but I will be left wondering why I'm not also getting more.

Companies need workers and wages have been stagnant, and plenty of working people who used to be middle class, are now homeless, despite still being employed.

The whole situation is fucked and the only people profiting out of everything are the wage theives at the top and their shareholder friends.

It humors me that we're making the housing market so unaffordable that "tiny homes" are a thing. They're smaller than ever and it's literally the only thing that's not massively overpriced.

I thought that's what condos were supposed to be. Somewhere between apartment living and a full house (townhouse/semi-detached/fully detached).... Do people really care that much about having a lawn?

I almost thought this was going a different way. I'm happy to be wrong.

I imagine some capitalist, right-wing fucker is screaming at their screen going "nu-uhhh" and furiously typing that you're wrong despite having done zero research.

I'm employed, and I live like I'm in poverty. As much as I want to lift up the homeless, I would also appreciate fair wages for the employed.

Since rent/housing has gone insane, I'm having a hard time making things work on the money I'm making. I'm well over the "poverty" line and I can't afford to put fuel in my car and buy name brand products, even if I wanted to. Products like.... Idk, Campbell's.

How dare these people wanting to improve the life of the poors by giving them handouts. For shame.

*I'm a "poor" and I approve this sarcasm.

So ... People who have billions of dollars sitting around doing jack and shit, are ruining the economy?

That actually checks out.