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by moate 5y ago
FWIW, the original point I was trying to make seems to have gotten lost which is that tech workers (a high earning cohort relative to the rest of the population) extolling financial advice that amounts to “make more money than you need to
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by moate 5y ago
Of course this is the feedback I’m looking for. Confirmation that I’m wrong is always welcome. That said… We have a burner account providing a sample size of 1 here, guess I’ll shut it down.
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by moate 5y ago
>>...parasitic landlords. This is redundant.
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by moate 5y ago
"It's simple. If you don't want to be poor, earn more money". God I'm such an IDIOT. Why had I never thought of that... Seriously though, I love reading the comments section of HN, a subsection of a subsection in a
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by moate 5y ago
Great.
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by moate 5y ago
So sell me the same sized thing for the price plus inflated cost. Of course it’s not a conspiracy, it’s just deceptive marketing. I can accept that a hamburger that cost a dollar 20 years ago shouldn’t still cost a dollar. My preference for
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by moate 5y ago
Just call it "a glass of gin with an olive" then and accept who you are as a person.
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by moate 5y ago
That's all well and good except for the "charging the same price as we did when there was 20% more product". I love the tiny cans of soda now available in US supermarkets. They're all I buy at this point. But if they wer
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by moate 5y ago
idk about what's available in your area, but are a variety of brands that sell "Thick(er)" cut bacon. They're often a better buy per-pound in my area (NJ) than the equivalent "regular" sliced bacon. That's
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by moate 5y ago
His NET approval rating (Approval - Dissaproval) is +8 which is pretty good for the current era of American Presidents. I literally have no idea what would have to happen for a President to get a 65%+ approval or a net of +20 in this day an
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by moate 5y ago
Yea but other than that and your management's inability to sell you to other companies, it's literally the exact same thing /s.
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by moate 5y ago
How do you define "merit"?
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by moate 5y ago
Right. So then how do you justify intergenerational wealth if you also support the idea that a meritocracy is the "most fair" system? OP's point was that you can't, you either support the meritocracy or you support inher
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by moate 5y ago
Okay, now keep going. How did the kids "earn" their money? The general understanding of a meritocracy is that merit is rewarded. "Having wealthy parents" isn't usually considered a merit...
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by moate 5y ago
My point is twofold. 1- These are religious traditions that date back to the 1500s. If we can consider chilis a part of Indian national cooking, I think we need to accept that Christianity is a huge part of the national makeup of Ghana, and
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by moate 5y ago
I believe he's reimagining the plot of "I now pronounce you Chuck and Larry" but with asylum seekers?
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by moate 5y ago
Yes and? Not to be dismissive, but so what? Shitty white Christians exported homophobia along with Jesus. Okay, great. Glad we cleared that up? Seems like the Ghanaians are now running with it. People love a scapegoat, and Christians love i
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by moate 5y ago
It doesn't, but if you try to ground your homophobia in "evolutionary science" or "social capitalism" then you're not a bad person, you're just staying "facts"!
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by moate 5y ago
Link to the study: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/article-abst... I love that they think that smoking weed is causal to schizophrenia...but aren't considering the opposite.
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by moate 5y ago
People with Schizophrenia may abuse drugs (at up to an 8% rate for marijuana). :O
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by moate 5y ago
>>but former cannabis users can receive incurable disorders like schizophrenia. No. This is the problem with pieces like the original article. "Schizophrenia link to marijuana use disorder" sounds VERY similar to what you ju
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by moate 5y ago
Tl;dr- People who have Schizophrenia are more frequently found to also have marijuana use disorder than before. Correlation. This is not been proven causal (which, btw why is it never phrased such that “people inclined towards schizophrenia
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by moate 5y ago
>>For me, Kurt Cobain’s suicide or Tupac’s murder don’t overshadow their music. I don't know what "overshadow" means here. They were both considered top artists in their genres, and their untimely deaths are massive par
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by moate 5y ago
Of course they do! I was like 24 and just out of culinary school. The courses of action I talked about were the ones I was told I had by my boss (who probably didn't want a claim.) 10+ years late I'm much more aware of labor laws&
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by moate 5y ago
What does this have to do with the number of dead cooks?
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by moate 5y ago
Are you in the US? If not, let me explain, as a former US Chef, how comp works in the US for FoH employees: The vast majority (let's call it 99%) of all dining establishments pay whatever their local tipped minimum wage is (for the pur
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by moate 5y ago
OP was pointing this out: https://www.advisory.com/en/daily-briefing/2021/02/10/covid-... (IDK about you, but 3 seconds of googling is easier for me than conducting my own personal polling of people
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by moate 5y ago
Hi there. I went to a 2 year college, spent hours outside of work reading and working on my craft and was still the highest paid line cook at a multi-million dollar restaurant at a WHOPPING 15 dollars an hour in 2016 in New Jersey. The indu
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by moate 5y ago
Good. Here's my story from the industry I was a part of for a better part of a decade: One time while I was a line cook, I was cleaning a meat slicer and sliced 3/4ths of the way through the tip of my thumb (just the meaty part at
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by moate 5y ago
I agree that eggs are a big deal, and I have a non-stick pan that is pretty much only used for eggs, hand washed, and then put away in a cupboard (vs the hanging rack that we use for literally every other pot or pan) I don't believe I&

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