dumpsterlid

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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
Have you ever dealt with companies with near monopolies? Are you seriously with a straight face suggesting they tend to act this way? They never do because the WHOLE point of becoming a monopoly or near monopoly is so that the customer no l
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
Having more people with leftwing/progressive politics involved and less libertarians would help.
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
Don't you dare come out with a both sides issue here, your position would be laughable if it wasn't so hateful. "People who want to be left alone will be trounced by" You, people like you feel the need to tell trans and
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
facepalm yah like what kind of dystopia do we live in where people bring up the fact that workers in the US earn dirt for money and the response from other people is "yeah, but it must be enough because they aren't dead yet, so
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
Because large corporations are essentially trying to tear up the implicit contract that they must offer adequate compensation to attract workers to their jobs. "Nurse shortages" "Truck Driver shortages" "Railworker
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
"The idea of empowering, democratic, relatively "low" tech that doesnt abuse its users has been expunged so effectively from the public consciousness (and tech journalism and others are so complicit) its not a mystery this ne
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
Tech Journalism absolutely knows what to do with Mastodon which is write the same lazy article over and over again about how Mastodon is dead. I personally love it because techbros read it and conclude it isnt worth checking out and the res
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
....what?
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
Bingo
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
Ok but I'd still rather have a building built with a bunch of useless copper pipes than have the plumbers union annihilated and then have plumbing get gutted as a good paying job and life... and then have plumbing systems everywhere ma
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
This isn't a solution, its just hurting people who have been so hurt other places that this comparative hurt is less bad. How twisted is it that you see this as a solution? The solution is workers joining together to enact leverage ove
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
Some degree of support network, and when you get paid dirt and the cost to work is high itself (buying and maintaining a car being the big one) the tiny amount of money you get for a huge mental and physical toll just isn't worth it? Y
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
Great you live in a bubble! BEFORE the pandemic most americans couldn't afford a $400 emergency bill, people are pretty desperate in the US on average and if you don't encounter that day to day you are living in comparative luxury
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
Immigration only inhibits wage growth when unions and workers rights are obliterated to the point that they can't fight back against corporations and make them pay a living wage to everybody. Don't act like immigration = wage grow
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
No, the issue is quite clear here, hotels dont want to pay a living wage for labor. How much clearer can it be?
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
This is the absolute bleakest angle to look at this from and honestly its pretty offensive. Yeah you save money living with your parents, this has always been true.... but there is a reason most people move out and its because family living
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
"$100 or $189 is trivial compared to all the plane tickets and other expenses of travel. Over a couple dozen trips a year, I’m grateful for the reduction in waiting time and stress." Don't assume everyone else has the privile
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
What that costs more than my car...?????
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
The Dollar General is basically a pickup with a machine gun in the back going from town to town obliterating local businesses, it is awful
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
The TSA and Department Of Homeland security have shown quite thoroughly that they are entirely unworthy of our trust. They aren't the good guys.
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
Or the pilot metropolitan! I think the pilots have the best nibs on lowcost pens. Stay away from most german fountain pen makers, they are superrrt inconsistent with whether their nibs are tuned well out of the box.
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
I think probably because "ridesharing" is a pleasant word that evokes a nice image of people carpooling together instead of conjuring up exploitative, shit companies like Uber
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
"Despite all its flaws, the DOD is putting on a clinic on superior training, logistics, discipline, technology and power projection. I shudder to think what the world would look like right now and in several years without the DOD. Euro
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
Big banks dont deserve your money, they are awful institutions.
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
I made this exact point in this thread elsewhere. It is gross negligence to not even consider peoples finances and stress from lack of said finances as effecting how much we socialize. Who the hell has the energy to socialize these days? I
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
If you had a higher quality of life you wouldn't feel this way and like friends and partners arent worth it. You deserve a higher quality of life
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
"By world standards they live in luxury and they deserve none of it." What a disgusting thing to say
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
"I think this analysis, and the analysis of the opinion article, jumps to too many conclusions." Definitely, especially because the article seems to avoid the elephant in the room. The US is amidst full on class warfare, the trans
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
Exactly, the difference between unconnected wild areas (public access wise) and connected wild areas is massive. The landscape in large parts of the US is totally fenced in and splintered in a way that even if there is lots of public access
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by dumpsterlid 4y ago
You are speaking with a lot of assumed authority about what "rural people" as a large category think

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