Not your car. Just your pussy

This is actually a common misconception - you shouldn’t use oil to lubricate, but instead, a dry silicone-based lubricant

you just need cops to pay for it.

*Schools

I have literally no real knowledge of this subject. But - shot in the dark - the people saying “bring this back” are probably once again falling prey to an idealization of history. Similar to how everyone imagines themselves as princes and princesses if they were to live in medieval times, but statistically you would be a peasant living in a shit hut.

I imagine the modern corrolary would be - you and your bro went to an elite private school together, wearing sport coats to parties and sailing in the yacht club. You had a lot of good times together and bonded over getting drunk and talking to girls. Then the two of you got hired by the same elite New York law firm and became roommates. But while you were willing to work hard and keep your head down when you got bullied by the senior partners, he wasn’t cut out for corporate life and got fired. So you started paying his rent, since his trust fund would only go so far. Now, 10 years later, you make far more money than you could possibly need, and just letting him live for free is worth his company since he’s a pretty good sounding board for dealing with problems at work and with your girlfriend, and he’s a good guest to bring to cocktail parties.

The part the “bring this back” people miss is that in order to benefit from this arrangement, you need to be known and liked by rich people, which typically requires that you are already rich. And I mean, you can probably live with your parents for free - it just isn’t classy, since you aren’t rich

Literally Todd

Idk dude, me and my coworkers seem to like it alright. It sounds like you’re projecting some personal issues here

Idk, an autist who hangs out on lemmy who understands basic economics?

In my view, it is more the difference between something that is pretty good vs something that is perfect. After all, supposing you are getting paid the same hourly rate, would you rather get paid for 20 hours of work, or 0?

Taking the example of ridesharing, for example - if you are looking for a job, and it is all restricted to traditional cab companies, they might not be able to afford to pay you full time plus benefits to work for them, so you get $0 working as a cabbie. And the result is that there are fewer people driving cabs, and therefore higher prices for cabs, and therefore fewer people taking cabs (and maybe driving drunk). The result of requiring full time pay for all rideshare drivers isn’t that all the drivers get full time pay - it is that a lot of them get laid off.

In either the case of having UBI or not having it, presumably you would prefer to be making some income over no income?

I’m a concert rigger. My job is already a gig. I like it. I just got back from spending 3 months in mexico. Texted my boss “hey, I’m back in town”, and he started putting me on shifts again.

Otoh, rideshare offers far more flexibility for workers. And they created legitimate value via the user-friendliness of their apps. And as much as it is bemoaned, the star rating system made taking a cab far more pleasant.

I’m honestly quite confused by this idea that every job in the economy must provide the job-holder with full and unequivocal economic security. In my view, many jobs simply are gigs. They need to get done, but the nature of the work means that they will never be a super-consistent source of income. And that’s okay - many people are quite happy to piece together their income from multiple sources in order to have more flexibility.

I’m going to a Puzzled Pint night this Tuesday. It’s a thing where you meet up with your friends at a bar and compete against other teams to solve fun puzzles.

Daylight savings just happened where I live, so now I have an extra hour of daylight to enjoy the afternoons outside. Plus the weather is beautiful where I live, so I’m looking forward to laying in a hammock sometime soon.

We can expect that all around the world, billions of people are going to work together to maintain a standard of living for everyone that would have been unthinkable 100 years ago. On the timescale of decades, this week will have less hunger, less shivering, less thirst, less disease, and less violence than what was the norm in human history.

Why not just use one dash…?

Tbf, an instant pot can replace a slow cooker and pressure cooker, and so is less of a single use item.

And the air fryer is kinda just a riff on the toaster oven, and imo, this is a good thing for the american pallette. The problem with a full sized oven is that it takes time to heat up, so people are hesitant to use it when they just want to heat up something quick for themselves. The toaster oven/air fryer makes oven cooking more convenient. It isn’t the alternative to the oven, it’s the alternative to the microwave, so your leftovers will actually have texture instead of being a soggy mess.

I share a lot of your sentiment here about buying hoards of single use items. But I really put the instant pot and air fryer in a different category than, say, the vegetable juicer, electric can opener, or rolly pizza cutter.

Downvoted for wrong community.

Yeah, I was wondering how they defined “university”. Like, should we count hanging out at Socrates house to be going to university? It makes more sense that they mean “An institution that is now an accredited university and has been an institution in some form for a very long time.” But it kinda deflates the argument a bit…

I mean, I thought the wojack was supposed to represent modern conservative muslim men. But still, not a great argument either way.

Proof

Its kinda to bad we can’t all be able to take a one semester sebattical every 5 years or so and take like 3 classes and live on a campus and see what things are like. It would kinda be cool.

> Show up on campus 5 years later.
> Excited to learn new things, meet new people.
> Wait, no
> nonono
>
> I"m OOOOOOOOLLLLLDDDDDDD!!!

I mean, I dont think the line of inquiry is bad. But you shouldn’t switch your SSRIs for oranges just yet.

I would love to see a clinical trial done to definitively show that eating citrus can lower the risk of depression,

Ie, there are no clinical trials, this is just the result of running statistical analysis on large datasets that rely on self-reported data, along with a proposed causitive mechanism.

My guess at an alternative explaination: people who eat healthy diets and generally take care of themselves have a lower risk of depression. One significant factor in this is eating fruit. People on answering questions on a survey, even an anonymous survey, are embarassed to admit that they’ve only eaten McDonalds this week, and so imagine/justify eating some fruit, and the imaginary fruit that they are eating is apples and bananas, since that is the most stereotypical fruit to think of. People who actually live a healthy lifestyle are thinking of actual instances where they ate specific fruits, and are thus far more likely to report eating oranges. Oranges are a very common fruit to eat, since they are generally palatable, convenient, and cheap. Compare to mangos (messy, inconvenient) or blackberries (expensive), oranges are common enough that they can actually produce some sort of signal in the data. Then tack on maybe some accidental p-hacking (some fruit somewhere in the data was bound to indicate that eating fruit is good for your health), and you get this result.

Watch out for your 50 year old Aunt to tell you that drinking margaritas cures depression after she sees it on The View a month from now.