ZzyzxRoad

joined 1 year ago
[–] ZzyzxRoad 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There's this book by Malcolm Gladwell called Outliers: The Story of Success. You should read it.

[–] ZzyzxRoad 8 points 1 year ago

It's weird how no one remembers the paradise papers and all that. Most of their wealth is already off shore and none of it is taxed. There's no such thing as "trickle down." They are not good for the economy even if they did invest in it in any way other than proverbially setting their money on fire. Meanwhile, most of the property being bought and sold in the US now is owned by the wealthiest people from other countries, not US billionaires.

[–] ZzyzxRoad 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I don't know how delusional you need to be to assume it could EVER be possible that somehow every business would just refuse to serve a population because of X characteristic

But they just said it: the Jim Crow south. This isn't some crazy delusional scenario. It's literally already happened, and it was not even a hundred years ago. When schools were integrated there were mobs of white housewives yelling racial slurs at little children because they were black. This is real shit that's gone on for more of America's history than not.

Don't skip history class, everybody. But I guess if conservative judges get their way we'll probably lose that too.

[–] ZzyzxRoad 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If the photograph isn't at ease with that, I'd argue they should be allowed to ensure not to be in a situation where they can't render the proper service

But where does that stop? At what point are racists who are uncomfortable with interracial marriage allowed to deny services to people because of their race

[–] ZzyzxRoad 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder why none of us paid subscriptions to access websites in the 90s and early 2000s? We all used MySpace, FB, LiveJournal, Make Out Club, Hot or Not, Geocities, Angelfire, NeoPets, MSN messenger, AOL messenger, the millions of chat rooms. Etc etc. We paid for time on the internet itself (like we still do) but at least then you could find one of those AOL CD ROMs with free minutes just about anywhere. You couldn't escape them.

There also weren't that many ads, just some banners at the top. There were web rings and stuff to advertise each other's sites. But it seems like once pop-up ads started, you couldn't get rid of them ever again. There weren't browser extensions or anything, pretty much just anti virus software you had to go to Frys to buy.

[–] ZzyzxRoad 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In torrent client, set up Mullvad proxy.

I guess this is the kind of shit people are talking about. Wtf does this even mean.

[–] ZzyzxRoad 8 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I definitely care enough, but I can't figure it out to save my life. All the online communities just act like everyone's supposed to automatically already know what they're talking about.

[–] ZzyzxRoad 5 points 1 year ago

I feel like shitting on the people who want to eat a cheeseburger is so missing the point here.

But it's nice for you that you've never had to eat at McDonald's.

[–] ZzyzxRoad 8 points 1 year ago

It was $11 and change the other day for two of those little cheeseburgers and medium fry, no drink. Which, the medium fry is now a small. It's tiny.

There's one day a week where I work late and I just don't feel like cooking and I'm starving, and I just wanted to grab something quickly. I could have gotten a whole rotisserie chicken at the grocery store for $10. Except those are also tiny now, come in bags that leak grease instead of the cartons they used to come in, and the last two times I've gotten them have had several feathers fried to the wing. Which is why I didn't stop and get one ffs. Every goddamn thing is a rip off.

[–] ZzyzxRoad 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

interspersed withing your own stories that you're telling me.

This is what I don't get. The neurotypical person is the one telling personal stories, but then we're the bad people when we...tell personal stories.

I just see the same behaviors in everyone all the time and wonder what exactly is making the difference between neurotypical and neurodiverse. Besides an undue stigma from neurotypicals against people who don't fit absolutely perfectly into social norms for whatever arbitrary reasons.

[–] ZzyzxRoad 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You don't think that maybe the suit is against the school or the district

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