Skelectrician

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

This place is full of straight up brainwashed communists. I guess the whole free and decentralized thing kind of lends itself towards that crowd, but these people are fucking insane.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You know, some people have some sort of nuanced opinions instead of just picking a colour. Maybe if everything weren't such a fucking battle between the 51% and the 49%, maybe you wouldn't end up with the least capable candidates from either side.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I lived in a basement suite, followed by a dump of an old house, before I found a slightly less dumpy old house to purchase in a rural area that most city folk would absolutely hate. This was all before the age of 20. Sold my old house about 7 or 8 years later to a younger man who had a very similar starting plan.

Now I have a 5 bedroom house on two acres. It's not in some heavily populated area, it's out in the country and it's affordable.

Anyway, if you're a single parent over 40 working at McDonald's, you've made far too many bad decisions in life for me to be of any help.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I realized very early on that renting is incredibly expensive and that getting my own place was the most important step to having any sort of financial security. Even if it was a shithole, it was my shithole for storing my equity. I hear these stories of people who rent the same place for 20-30 years and end up paying fivefold what it would have cost them to live in a much nicer place with no cunt landlord to pay fealty to.

Obviously, if you're paying for a service and not getting it, you have a right to complain. If your landlord provides reliable shelter for an agreed upon price, I don't think it's fair to consider them the scum of the earth. People have a right to own property and do what they see fit with it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Ok I'm not even from the states, but you should be able to get to Washington DC in less than a day from North Carolina. Hell, anywhere on the east coast is within 5 hours from a huge metropolitan centre

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

What did they say like 76 percent of the population has had one strain or another of covid?

Even if masks are totally effective, all you're going to effectively do is delay the inevitable. You will catch this; it's only a matter of time. I choose to get it over with.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What do you do for a living? For many, wearing a mask while working is a recipe for guaranteed heat exhaustion. I'm not subjecting myself to that, and if the illness is anything at all like the last time I had it, it was a goddamn cold.

Wearing a mask in a hospital full of people with compromised health and all sorts of contagions floating around is a really good idea.

Wearing a mask outdoors in the summer time on a construction site full of other able-bodied people is just fucking silly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I just find that screwdriver to be the most pretentiously bad product. Still a product that's half as good as something from Klein or wiha, or Milwaukee, or Greenlee, for three times the price. He put all that money into a designing a cheap but overpriced Chinese piece of junk, when there are already great screwdrivers used by professionals for years and years. Linus was so arrogant he didn't even think that somebody's already made a superior product with established tooling. But no, he has to reinvent the wheel and design a screwdriver nobody's asked for

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The workers would rather work for tips. You can hide a lot of income if your wage is primarily cash.

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