SaltSong

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[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 4 points 51 minutes ago

This is how you know the Navy isn't like Star Trek.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 1 points 52 minutes ago

We've given them plenty of opportunity. We tried to pass something closer to universal health care, and they shot it down. We tried to raise the minimum wage, they shot it down. Tried to relive student loans, tried to make housing more affordable, nothing.

They have had their warnings.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 1 points 12 hours ago

Looked to me like an attempt to pull off an in-line bulleted list.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 8 points 17 hours ago

Shot in officer involved shooting?

Shot by a police officer.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 2 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

I mean, we've been trying to do other things, but they won't play nice. I guess we need to exterminate a few, then offer the rest the opt-in to pay higher taxes as an alternative.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 4 points 18 hours ago

Yea, this guy tap-dances well, but if he wasn't lying to Congress right there, ill eat my hat.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 1 points 18 hours ago

Why the duck are they making a MTG movie instead of Transformers One 2?

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 2 points 20 hours ago

As I understand it, these sweatshop jobs do resist the standard of living in the areas they are in. The people there don't have the option to work a job that we would consider good. They work the job we consider terrible, and they get paid more than they would doing other jobs.

To make a moral judgement, we must balance between "terrible working conditions, no protections, maximum wealth extraction," on the one hand, and "no infrastructure, no job, no money" on the other. Sadly, there is no profit in making the world better for everyone.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 2 points 20 hours ago

No, unacceptable.

Undo, undo!

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 12 points 1 day ago

Are you using the US or China as your "here?" Because I don't think it's quite that bad in the US, but I don't think anyone blames the voters in China.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 1 points 1 day ago

I think it refers to being being out at work, or at a major event.

If I shit myself at work, I'm going home. I'm not coming back, either.

If I'm out hiking, same again.

If i'm running errands, I might have to go back out to finish them. The groceries aren't gonna buy themselves, and now I really have to do the laundry.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 25 points 2 days ago (9 children)

Narrator: he did not, in fact, know what the hell he was doing.

I mean, I'm not 100% opposed to some of the things he claims he's trying to accomplish. But I'm not what you'd call an expert on the topic, and I might have some bad ideas about how the economy works. But even if I'm not barking up the wrong tree, the things he's doing are not how you accomplish the things he says he wants to accomplish.

Why do we keep electing stupid old men to office?

 

Has anyone here participated in the Fairborn Community Gardens in the past? I'm trying to get an idea of what the "normal" approach is, and what the general expectations are.

 

New to this whole Lemmy platform, but I'm liking it.

One problem I'm having is auto-play videos when I open some discussions. Not in the comments, but the post itself starts playing.

I'll skip my usual rant about what I think should be done to whoever decided to make that a feature, and just ask how to turn it off. I have "auto expand media" unchecked in my lemmy settings.

I appreciate any advice.

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