CosmicCleric

CosmicCleric , 2 months ago (edited 1 month ago)

Use a thicker pin? Replace the hinges?

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CosmicCleric , 2 months ago (edited 1 month ago)

Just for the record, the cat actually knows you're playing, right? 😋

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CosmicCleric , 3 months ago

“I’ll take ‘I am not good at math so ELI5 the joke to me’ for $100, Alex.”

CosmicCleric , 3 months ago

TY

CosmicCleric , 4 months ago

You’re my hero. Thank you.

CosmicCleric , 4 months ago

I would have gone with Groucho Marx.

CosmicCleric , 4 months ago

If this topic proves anything, it’s that we should make sure everyone is assuming the same thing before discussing, or clarify before discussing.

You can literally come up with different answers without further clarification.

CosmicCleric , 5 months ago

What always gets me is when they stick their paw underneath the closed door, swiping their arm around like they are trying to grab something, to get you to play with them while you’re in the middle of doing your business.

CosmicCleric , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

As a child I literally learned about prejudice from that Star Trek episode.

CosmicCleric , 5 months ago

oh my gosh my heart wants to explode they’re so CUTE!

I believe it’s just one cat, though if it was twins looking like that that would be extra credit fantastic.

CosmicCleric , 6 months ago

Unpopular opinion, but I detest word art.

‘Detest’ is a word, a word that is being used, um… strongly. Could it perhaps be being used, overly so?

CosmicCleric , 6 months ago

/whoosh

CosmicCleric , 6 months ago

SPOILERI want little Emily to change her future. A sequel is needed!

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(Thanks for sharing, was a good watch.)

CosmicCleric , 6 months ago

There’s link in the description, it’s just that those are a bit costy ($8 just to watch on Vimeo

Ouch. Yeah, I don’t want to know that badly.

CosmicCleric , 7 months ago

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taft–Hartley_Act

Interesting that it was a Republican sponsored bill, and voted in by a Republican Senate and House.

Also interesting that the President Truman had vetoed it.

CosmicCleric , 7 months ago

An interesting read, thank you for sharing.

The anti-communism slant in the law was slightly humorous to read, as it shows you the times in which the law was written.

CosmicCleric , 7 months ago

A peaceful general strike would lead to military intervention in about 45-60 days I think.

But at the end of the day, how do you task society to forcibly work?

Everyone can just start taking sick days, what’s the Army going to do, go to door?

CosmicCleric , 7 months ago

I’m speaking more towards if workers stay at home en mass, etc.

CosmicCleric , 7 months ago

it seems reasonable to anticipate visitation by ACAB.

I don’t know, the optics of police literally going into people’s homes and pulling them out and forcing them to work doesn’t seem like something the government would want, no matter what.

CosmicCleric , 7 months ago

Which side of government would care? The coproratocracy or the facists?

The side that wants to get reelected.

CosmicCleric , 7 months ago

it seems reasonable to anticipate visitation by ACAB.

I don’t know, the optics of police literally going into people’s homes and pulling them out and forcing them to work doesn’t seem like something the government would want, no matter what.

Optics? Seriously? Do we live on opposite sides of the television screen?

You really think it would be a positive optic to see on the Evening News policeman going in the house and dragging people out and forcefully driving them to work and making them work at gunpoint?

CosmicCleric , 7 months ago

Do you need a definition of the word?

A quick Google search will get you that.

CosmicCleric , 7 months ago

The World is what you make of it.

CosmicCleric , 7 months ago

Yes, it is.

CosmicCleric , 7 months ago

Listen, the system will not allow itself to collapse

Usually it gets to a point where collapse doesn’t ask system for permission.

CosmicCleric , 7 months ago

Get it?

Yes, usually when my partner is in the mood.

CosmicCleric , 7 months ago

You’re not my type.

CosmicCleric , 8 months ago

What the hell are months even?? They don’t serve any purpose other than

They used to be used to note the change of the weather from one season to another, in a general range (not a literal single solstice date) sort of way.

However it does seem like the seasons are slipping in comparison to the calendar, Summer starting later and ending later, etc.

CosmicCleric , 8 months ago

From the article…

According to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, Americans are saving less in 2023. The personal saving rate — the portion of disposable income one sets aside for savings — was significantly lower at 3.9% in August, compared to the 8.51% average in the past decade, according to data from Trading Economics which goes as far back as 1959.

Additionally, inflation makes it harder for people to cover their expenses or save, Koehler said.

A report by Blackrock shows that in 2023, only 53% of workers believe they are on track to retire with the lifestyle they want. A lack of retirement income, worries over market volatility and high inflation were some of the reasons cited for a lack of confidence about retirement among workers.

It really just is time for companies to pay more money to their employees, to share the wealth better, back like how we used to.

It’s wild to think that in the past only one person would have to work and a couple would be able to afford a house and raise a family. I can’t see how that can be done in today’s world.

Someone dig up FDR and ask him the redo the ‘New Deal’.

CosmicCleric , 8 months ago

Generally the people being discussed in this article are not poor and underpaid

From the article, buried inside of it…

Additionally, inflation makes it harder for people to cover their expenses or save, Koehler said.

A report by Blackrock shows that in 2023, only 53% of workers believe they are on track to retire with the lifestyle they want. A lack of retirement income, worries over market volatility and high inflation were some of the reasons cited for a lack of confidence about retirement among workers.

I know the article insinuates it, but I don’t think we can assume that people can afford more but just don’t want to spend more, to protect their lifestyle.

I believe it’s more of people want a better lifestyle and they’re not getting paid enough for it, that they’re expecting the same lifestyle that the previous generations had, and are not being selfish and asking for more than others had.

CosmicCleric , 8 months ago

This honestly sounds like propaganda trying to convince people this is a thing.

IMO it’s exactly that. They hardly bring up any other external influences on people’s income in the article, just a paragraph or two very deep in the article.

It insinuates really hard that people have the money to spend but just don’t want to spend, a subtle “killing the messenger” of people being lazy and greedy.

CosmicCleric , 8 months ago

“private retirement plans”

Were you speaking towards a SEP/IRA?

Don’t expect the government to do something for you (especially in the US).

When everything is said and done, I can’t see them ever ever letting Social Security fail, at all. That would truly be the spark of a revolution if so.

Older voters are the best voters, so at the end of the day they’ll make sure that stuff stays intact, one way or the other. Even if it means they have to build less battleships, etc.

CosmicCleric , 8 months ago

If my calculations are correct, my cheeseburger and pizza diet will kill me around the time I want to stop working. That’s my retirement.

A better retirement plan would be Costco hot dogs.

CosmicCleric , 8 months ago

I’ve not worked for ten years, and I’ve never been happier. Not a moment of boredom and I get to throw myself into whatever hobby I want.

So much this.

CosmicCleric , 8 months ago

what the fuck is up with all these pansy-ass terms suits keep coming up with? “quiet quitting” and now “soft saving”?

It’s their attempt at managing the narrative in their favor.

CosmicCleric , 8 months ago

dodge

CosmicCleric , 8 months ago

Wow what a boomer article.

No, that’s a capitalist “greed is good” article in disguise.

Some of us Boomers actually wonder WTF the ‘New Deal’ went, and lament it’s loss for our grand/children.

Seriously, stop buying into and dividing up one side that would stand together against that kind of thing.

CosmicCleric , 8 months ago

Vegetating on a sofa in front of a TV is not a good way to spend your last stretch on this planet. But neither is working.

Just as an FYI, older people do such things not because want to, but because their bodies’ current condition won’t let them do otherwise.

You really do start going downhill quickly in your late 50s, healthwise.

CosmicCleric , 8 months ago

I agree the article seems very out of touch, and the reason I think is because it reports this in a very neutral way.

To me it didn’t seem neutral, it seemed to imply a sense of laziness and wanting luxury over hard work from the newer generation.

CosmicCleric , 8 months ago

Regardless every person being different from the next, spending days on end watching brainrot television is not a good way to spend your life.

Of course, I wasn’t suggesting otherwise.

Even with reduced mobility, a person can enjoy other things. Reading, writing, listen to music, solve puzzles, etc. There are numerous activities to persue.

My point is when you see Grandma sitting in the rocker on the porch she may be doing that not be because she’s there to enjoy herself, but because she’s incapable of doing other things, and even movement is problematic.

In essence we don’t get old, we just break down, and when we do, the lack of mobility and pain are your constant companions.

CosmicCleric , 8 months ago

Who am I skimping out on

The Unknown Ones.

CosmicCleric , 8 months ago

Also, constructive eviction

Constructive? Elaborate?

this is a felony and you lose all rights to own housing property other than your own home ever again.

I think that’s a step too far, and wouldn’t(?) pass muster, legally.

A felony would come with high penalty fees to pay, and could be enough of a deterrent.

CosmicCleric , 8 months ago

So help yourself.

Trying to get the “Who watches the Watchers” crowd to reform themselves is always a problematic thing to do.

The real test of a true democracy.

CosmicCleric , 8 months ago

This is some straight up Manufacturing Consent shit

This message is being projected to the leaders of Capitalism, not the workers. It’s being said to the wrong audience.

If so, it seems like it’s a wasted effort.

CosmicCleric , 8 months ago

news is profit driven

Watch the PBS News Hour show.

It’s also available on YouTube.

Speaking of YouTube, ‘Breaking Points’ is also a really good channel to watch for news.

CosmicCleric , 8 months ago

If you’re unfamiliar with the concept of constructive dismissal, it’s where an employer skirts termination laws

Thank you for the education. I had not heard of that tactic described using that term before.

Also, not being able to own or manage housing property other than your personal residence

IANAL, but that seems to cross a legal ‘free will’ line that most people wouldn’t want to cross.

Other forms of punishment without losing ownership would be the more established go to alternative.

CosmicCleric , 8 months ago

The leaders of capitalism are just “capitalists.”

By the leaders of capitalism one could mean the CEOs and/or upper management, the c-suite, etc.

And they don’t read CNBC.

They sure watch it though, as well as the Sunday morning shows.

This is an article written for middle-class office drones, because it’s one of the few websites that isn’t blocked by the company firewall that has something approximating entertainment on it.

They’re usually too busy to watch videos on their web browser at work because they are trying to keep the place from burning down project wise, but sure, it could be for them as well.

CosmicCleric , 8 months ago

Which union?