Hobo

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[–] Hobo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

It's really not even advice. It's just self aggrandizement and dumbass people looking for a circle jerk to join. It doesn't address the issue that OP has in the slightest practical way, and is kind of callus to their actual problem.

[–] Hobo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I have no problem with unions and I'm extremely pro-union. I'm also practical and not naive enough to think that you can join a union in every job. They don't exist for a lot of jobs at all and you have to be very diligent to be able to form one without losing your job from unjustly being fired.

What I hate is people giving shitty advice so they can feel superior. "Join a union" is great advice if your job/field already has one. "Join a union" when someone has a work dispute with their clearly non-union employer is idiocy and belittling to the person that is asking the question. I made the analogy above, so I'll turn your question on its head, do you think depressed people should just try to be happy? Because it's the same level of advice as, "Join a union" in this instance.

[–] Hobo@lemmy.world -5 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Holy fuck you all are a bunch of callous assholes. Telling someone to "join a union" or "ask your union" about it are fucking mental. Do you really think OP is working a union gig or are you really that stupid to think you just go out to the union store and ask for one union card? How is this helpful to anyone who is in a non-union job working for a non-union company. I'll bet you all are the same people that tell depressed people to "just be happy." It's just useless, if not ourtright malicious, advice to give someone.

[–] Hobo@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago

This is such a terrible thing to say in a thread about a propaganda campaign to cover up a genocide. If I was more conspiracy minded I'd start to think it was a planned effort to distract from the topic at hand considering how often it comes up in these sorts of threads.

Unfortunately, I actually think it's just some asshole that wants to feel superior. Since that's probably the case, I'm also pretty sure you'd label like half the midwest as Texas, and probably think that a trip to New York is just a quick 30 minute drive for people in Florida.

So now that we've gotten our trite digs in on one another can we focus on the matter at hand? Cause I seriously doubt that the people being genocided give two fucks about this conversation.

[–] Hobo@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Always has been. The flag they fly wasn't even the Confederate States flag, but a made up amalgamation resurrected in 1948 by the Dixiecrats to opposed Civil Rights. All modern bullshit about the Confederacy is rooted in some post reconstruction era racist asshole trying to bring back the Confederacy for some other racist ass motivations.

Never trust any racist ass inbred fuckwit when they say, "Heritage not hate" because that flag is solely based on hate. So was the confederacy for that matter. Now excuse me while I got back to writing petitions to get Confederate statues replaced with statues of John Brown.

[–] Hobo@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Rule of thirds or something. Idk I'm not an artist.

[–] Hobo@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

They changed the state anthem of Mississippi a couple of years ago from Go Mississippi to One Mississippi. It's no longer contextually hilarious and not nearly as hoki. I guess Mississippi decided they were not on the right track and probably were never going to get to the top.

[–] Hobo@lemmy.world 31 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

I got you.

The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country. Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth.

There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

[–] Hobo@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Drops back down to $1000 for 2025 unless the increase is extended. A $5000 payout is actually less of a payout than just extending the current CTC.

[–] Hobo@lemmy.world 18 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Not sure where the above data is from but according to the below NIH study it's about a 80% male, 20% female split. Which isn't precisely what you were looking for but can probably give you a solid basis for inference.

Also sort of interesting is that female patients were almost twice as likely to have a previously diagnosed psychiatric disease (23% of male patients and 49% of female patients). On the other hand, males were significantly more likely to have sustained a fracture (48% of the male patient and 11% of the female patients). For sure some stark contrast between the two but I don't find that particularly surprising.

What is surprising to me is that both males and female patients with previous visits for punching related injuries was about the same (23% of males and 29% of females). Would be nice to know the overlap of people with multiple punching related injuries that also have a psychiatric diagnosis, because I imagine they overlap quite heavily.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3088367/

[–] Hobo@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Right? Just insane to think that Millenials would do that. Now let me read through this list of Time Magazines top 100 most influential people of 2009.

[–] Hobo@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

I haven't thought about The Celery Stalks at Midnight in forever. Thanks for that blast from the past!

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