GooberEar

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[–] GooberEar@lemmy.wtf -2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

United States news. Posted from THE FUTURE! Hell yeah!

[–] GooberEar@lemmy.wtf 3 points 1 week ago

Those are pretty ladies and cute outfits! Hope they drink sufficient amounts of water and stay hydrated, else time may not be kind to their skin.

[–] GooberEar@lemmy.wtf 3 points 1 week ago

Nice try Steve.

Remember that time I discovered a major bug in Reddit that I reported dozens of times to the site's feedback form and directly to your user account but I never got a response about and it never got fixed (until I used the exploit in a way that directly affected you)? Well, if that rings a bell, then guess what? It's me again. Toodles.

[–] GooberEar@lemmy.wtf 8 points 2 weeks ago

I'm not defending it nor am I saying it's typical, but it's not that hard to spend $500 per person per month on groceries.

It's definitely doable (and then some) for folks living in high cost of living places. I recently went on a quick weekend trip to such a place. I knew I didn't have the type of money to dine out, but I figured I could suffice on a few staples from the grocery store. I visited several different stores, and the prices were all about the same (i.e. insane). The little pint (or half pint?) Ben and Jerry's was $10 - 12. A container of romaine lettuce was $8. A package of Oscar Meyer sliced deli meat was $15. These prices are easily 3 - 4 times what they typically cost where I live.

Also, a lot of people shop at the kinds of stores where you can find everything from apples to Apple watches. And when people do their "grocery" shopping, they're buying bulk paper towels, a case of wine, a new Switch game for the kids, cosmetics, cat litter, clothes, 30 pack of batteries, a couple azaleas, and a partridge in a pear tree and then calling that their grocery bill. So, it's not exactly a fair label nor an accurate assumption that the grocery bill is just groceries (i.e. food).

And honestly, if you mean HOW as in how can they afford it: $500 x 4 = $2,000 or $24,000. A lot of money, sure, but median household income (in the USA) is like $80,000 and I'm guessing that $500 a month per person is above median expenditure (especially if we're excluding the folks that like to include the partridge in their grocery bill), so most people spending that much on food would be earning way more than median income.

[–] GooberEar@lemmy.wtf 34 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This is just so inaccurate. Sometimes it's 90's reboots and remakes with talking animals, too.

[–] GooberEar@lemmy.wtf 26 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I loved my old smart block until they released a firmware update that bricked it.

[–] GooberEar@lemmy.wtf 20 points 2 weeks ago

Any pretty much any physical job comes with copious risks to your body and health, yet these types of employers typically don't pay for employee health plans nor do they pay enough for employees to comfortably afford their own. Why would anybody want to risk severing a finger, breaking a leg, getting bitten by a dangerous snake, a nail to the hand, etc if they don't have to, especially knowing they can't afford the treatment and it could lead to lifelong pain and disability?

[–] GooberEar@lemmy.wtf 32 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Well, hopefully those wealthy millennials will enjoy their distractions, homes, and retirement while the rest of us are dropped into the industrial grinders they use to reclaim the nutrients from our bodies.

[–] GooberEar@lemmy.wtf 8 points 2 weeks ago

World War 3D

[–] GooberEar@lemmy.wtf 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

That's the general consensus in my social circle as well. It's not fooling anybody, but we appreciate it for what it is. Fishham with shellfish flavoring.

[–] GooberEar@lemmy.wtf 31 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

So, the immigrants are criminals if they are not authorized to be in the country. But the people unlawfully employing them aren't criminals? I'm confused about what he's saying, but then again, I'm also 100% he's confused about what he's saying so you can't really blame me, right?

[–] GooberEar@lemmy.wtf 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

if you take a digital photo of the [ ... thing ... ] and post it on the internet as a terribly compressed jpg

That sums up the entirety of the content on a number of popular subs on the R-word site.

Confusing perspective? No. More like confusing JPEG artifacts.

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