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[–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

Every time I leave my house, it costs me $100.

Gas,tolls,maybe some food, grab some water....whatever I actually meant to do along with that....

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  • [–] 39 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    It's $80 now, Nintendo changed it.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I regret to inform you that Nintendo is suing you for using their copyrighted trademark "Nintendo" without express written consent. That will be an additional $80/per minute to exist. Failure to pay will result in no longer existing.

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    "Excuse me, but my moldy bread has maggots in it."

    "Gonna have to charge you extra for the maggots."

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    And the mold. Oof, thats a drug prevursor. Gonna be a lot if you dont have good insurance. Also if you do.

    I've already called the DEA, please pay quickly and leave the building, or ill have to charge your next 9f kin for the window they shoot you through.

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  • [–] 55 points 1 year ago (15 children)

    The POS gives 20%, 25%, and 30% tip options, too.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    You can select 0% but it takes 3 extra button presses and includes 2 prompts to make sure you really don't wanna leave a tip. And also the button is kinda worn out so you have to press it really hard and everyone knows you're using the no tip button.

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  • [+] -1 points 1 year ago* (11 children)
  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (6 children)

    I dunno, im telling the people making my food that im not paying gor labor, only ingredients and ownership.

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  • [+] 1 point 1 year ago* (5 children)
  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (4 children)

    Yes but im not a good person, and there is no way to feed myself without fucking people over unless i have an acre of land and a shit ton of soil additives, which I've so far failed to secure. Attempts were made.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    you literally can't

    Seen it done over decades. Works, though there were tilapia and rabbits. This was not just 'put stuff in ground and snack'. Dude had some org chem under his belt. Also it was a family of three.

    learn to basic skills

    I do in fact cook at home. The exploitation at the supermarket is gross; I'm not going out before noon for a farmers market. And every ingredient tastes a little like the suffering of which it is made. Especially the leafy greens.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    chain of death and suffering

    Thats a shitty imperialist view of the natural world. Yeah, it's red in tooth and claw, but also cuddly and collaborative and incomprehensible. We are not morally superior by virtue of wearing pants.

    subsistence

    I know he once had me set up a dozen beefy computers with solidworks in an office. I don't think he was a subsistence farmer. I think he was like a subcontractor for lockheed or raytheon or something. Definitely had 'my job requires both security clearance and an advanced degree' vibes. It's a thing. They talk about the topic generally, like going on (hypothetical example) an impromptu hour long explanation of different backflow valves, but never talks about the one's they've worked on.

    you can suck less

    Yeah maybe, but the difference in exploitation here is negligable. Splitting hairs, getting out my microscope to figure out which is more exploitative does not seem worth my time or attention. Besides; I'm not trying to be a good person here.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    It's about the same as looking a homeless man right in the eyes as you drive off in your Benz without giving him anything.

    It's totally doable, expected even, people do it all the time. But anyone with a functioning moral code probably feels a bit shitty about it, even if the circumstances around the source of the problem are largely out of their control.

    The No Tip button says "I'm fine paying money to your corporate overlord but not to you, specifically, peon." You're specifically opting out of the ability to directly benefit the workers of a company rather than the management.

    The discussion around why tips are an expected or "required" part of this transaction is another story. But so long as food service workers are being paid $2.13 an hour plus tips I'm going to continue to tip the guy that makes my tacos, largely because I feel that's probably the only semi-ethical way for me to excuse buying those tacos.

    And before you say "if they don't make enough in tips to equal minimum wage then the employer pays the difference", that is true, but you should also know that it is true that those people do not retain employment.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    There is another option: don't buy the tacos. Stop patronizing businesses that give you an option to tip.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    So now my man is out of a job and I also have no tacos.

    I do get the point you're making though. I don't even necessarily disagree. I just think there are a lot of factors at play and until we get some sort of meaningful change around this system - i.e. some sensible legislation around the minimum wage issue - we've gotta make some concessions if we expect to still participate in society. I figure that tipping my service worker is a sensible concession to make in many cases.

    Now there are definitely some cases where it's getting out of hand though. You made me some good food? Fair enough, here's a tip, good stuff. You hand me something off a shelf and expect a tip you can fuck right off though. Anyone making a proper wage shouldn't expect tips and customers shouldn't be expected to give them.

    Food service in particular just stands out to me because of their generally exceptionally low wage. Most of the money your waitress or your cook takes home is in tips. Refusing to engage with this system harms the worker more than it harms the company, and finding a restaurant (not fast food, strangely enough) that doesn't engage in this "tipped wages" practice is effectively impossible. So if you want to eat a nice meal out, basically ever, you're either going to tip your workers or be a gigantic asshole unless you have a real genuine complaint to air. It's not right, but it's the reality we exist in.

    ...Though to be fair seeing the way America is going these days the restaurant industry as a whole might just completely implode soon when people can't afford to eat there anymore. Who knows. Maybe the problem solves itself in a fashion.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago* (10 children)

    Regional park I went to last weekend charged for parking. So being the broke bitch I am, I parked in a Walmart parking lot a mile away and walked in.

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  • [+] -15 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Car brains suggesting that their comfort two ton murder machines being accommodated literally everywhere is a central part of 'existing'. Love it.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    I get your point but one has to be realistic. It takes me half an hour to get to the park by car, it would take me like at least an hour, multiple transfers, and lots more walking if I go by bus.

    My region isn't even impossible to use public transit either it's just way more convenient with cars and public transit hasn't gotten better. I would love more frequent buses or rail system but a man can only dream.

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  • [+] -13 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    So you're saying cars are more convenient, and that's why you use them? And you're angry that you're being charged to accommodate your car?

    And you whibe about parking cosrs but don't even mention more socially and ecologically responsible modes of transit and how they could be better until they're brought up, and then literally as an impossible dream?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    I would've happily paid the parking fee to support maintenance of the park don't get me wrong, but as I stated, I'm a broke bitch right now and can't afford paying a fee to walk in the park.

    I'm not saying it's an impossible dream, I'm saying that if you were to walk in a park a 30 min car drive away using public transit, then at least half of your day would be gone.

    Going to work also takes me 45min-1hr car drive. If I take the bus and walk, my life would be a living hell.

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  • [+] -6 points 1 year ago*

    Im saying, as a pedestrian; you don't need to take 2+ tons and 70+ sqft of steel at 80 mph everywhere you fucking go. I don't care how comfy or convenient it is; that shit's crazy.

    The fact that even can be accommodated is insane. Yeah you should pay. If the public transit isn't good, that's it's own problem.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    What? You don't pay taxes? That's what taxes are for. Stop being an ass. You are trying to make a point--we get it. There are better methods of transportation than cars. That's in a perfect world where everything else is equal. Not all places are designed the same, have the same people, the same temperatures and weather, etc. We can advocate for better design, but that doesn't help where we are RIGHT NOW.

    My closest park is 2 miles away with no sidewalks for over half of it, a very busy intersection, etc. I'm not walking or biking there with my two young kids and a heat index over 100. The closest bus stop is a mile away and has no sidewalks on the way. No idea if it even heads to the closest park, but it's not free, either.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    So, taxes are for car and car enabling, which is most of what youre worried about with your children and why you must car, because there are so many dangerous cars around! Okay.

    But public transit is a pipe dream?

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I loved 'The Rockford Files' when I was growing up.

    Rewatch and notice that they used exact amounts of money in the dialog. "Hey, this is a $75.00 jacket" or "$5 for a martini?"

    They don't do that anymore, because prices from even five years ago seem insane.

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    The goddamned library only has paid parking near me. What the fuck man.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Some disadvantaged people here are expected to fax certain forms to certain ministries. I eventually learned how and how to advise them how.

    The library costs $1 per page. The insurance company across the street does it for free. I am not usually anti-library but why charge to send a fax? Like, receiving costs a small amount of toner, sure, but when scanning at the rate of $1 per page, you should be considered criminal.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Depends on how practical that is for them. :/

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  • [+] -6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    So they're paying to have their comfort two tons of murderous steel accommodated? That seems fair.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    So they're paying to have their comfort two tons of murderous steel accommodated?

    Or, I don't know, basic personal safety? What's the alternative? Walk 2 miles with a small child through busy areas with minimal sidewalks?

    Yeah, I'm really going to endanger my child just because I want them to be able to visit the library πŸ™„.

    I don't like carbrained people, but you're just as bad, if not worse. I'd love to use public transport or walk places, but that's not always a safe option. So I have to deal with what I have available, and I can rightly criticize something without having to voice every single one to some mollify some um akshually chode.

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  • [+] -9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    cars are dangerous; i must, by whatever means become part of the problem!

    Sure thing!

    you're just as bad as people who make it literally unsafe for my child to go outside for fear they will be killed

    Yeah, because thd villain who forces you to pay a small fee for being part of the problem is totally the antagonist in a generic western movie or fascist crime-snuff film. Totally equivalent.

    im just gonna say whatever i think i can say to feel like you're mean and i dont need to listen to you because i kinda know you're right

    Hot.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    im just gonna say whatever i think i can say to feel like you're mean and i dont need to listen to you because i kinda know you're right

    Projection, because you know you're being an ass and don't want to admit it to yourself.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    this is an EXTREMELY privileged statement to say. But, just for fun, I'll play along with you.

    If I were to take public transportation to the nearest public library leaving right now I would walk 2 hours and 5 minutes. I would then wait 19 hours and 39 minutes for the next train. I would then walk 34 more minutes. I would then wait about an hour for it to open.

    once I am done getting what I need, let's say it takes me 30 minutes, I will walk 34 minutes, then wait 6 hours and 4 minutes for the train to come back. I then would walk 2 hours and 5 minutes back to my house.

    that is, 12:40 + 2 hours 5 min + 19 hours 39 min + 34 min + 1 hour + 30min + 34 min + 6 hours 4 min + 2 hours 5 min

    or,

    32 hours and 31 minutes

    or I could drive 35 minutes there and 35 back, including the time for traffic.

    We have no busses, the trains are >2 hours away, Republicans blocked the idea of making trams around the City, and I DONT EVEN HAVE SIDEWALKS FOR A LOT OF IT.

    And if I need to piss? THERES NO GENDER NEUTRAL BATHROOMS ANYWHERE!

    I CANT FUCKING TAKE PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION, REPUBLICANS RUINED IT

    stop recommending it.

    It is unironically faster to WALK THE WHOLE WAY

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    walk the whole way

    Or bike, yeah. That's what i do when i live rural, depending on terrain. Nobody for miles, headphones in one ear with an audiobook or something, you don't need to schedule a separate workout so the time cost is smaller than it appears, and you impress everyone with how fit and coordinated you are.

    no gender neutral bathrooms

    Okay so im originally from san francisco, and we have a have a solution for this:

    When there are no bathrooms, anything you want can be a bathroom!

    Remember to kill the cameras. Which you should be doing anyway.

    republicans ruined it

    Have you given your local fascists half the vitriol you offered me here? I assume the answer is no.

    I don't mean ticking a box. I mean going down to their offices, or at least calling them up, and just talking like this until the shock absorber hangs up or threatens to call security?

    I get the sense no. You just want to feel good about uour car.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    this is literally what landlords do

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  • worse than that.

    it's something I can existential labour.

    if you rent, and are good and neighbourly, just by existing you create value. but it's value in property you don't own, and then you have to pay more rent or get evicted so someone will can afford to live there can enjoy to be part of the community you helped build.

    there should be no friendly laws towards land parasites.

    It should be illegal to rise rent prices or evict tenants who pay rent and aren't a nuisance. if the rent is 400$and you live there for 10 years, the rent is still 400$.

    if the land lord doesn't like it, he can sell the house and get a real job.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)
  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Is the price in the comic raising?

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago

    why would communism do this

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