[-] ZzyzxRoad@lemm.ee 50 points 11 months ago

More like 80s babies, since we were actually old enough to remember those first two things

[-] ZzyzxRoad@lemm.ee 29 points 11 months ago

Does "low engagement" mean "objectively not doing the job you are paying them to do"? Or does it mean "not going 'above and beyond,' aka not working unpaid overtime or doing things outside their job description"? Because only one of these warrants letting someone go.

[-] ZzyzxRoad@lemm.ee 88 points 11 months ago

This is such a bullshit take. I'm not even going to address why because you already know. Yes, I'm sure the place they're talking about with $1600/month rent is fucking Beverly Hills, you jackass. Lmfao

[-] ZzyzxRoad@lemm.ee 40 points 11 months ago

Of course the name of his show is "war room," jfc. All conservatives do is fantasize about violence.

[-] ZzyzxRoad@lemm.ee 66 points 11 months ago

temporary custody

Why is it next to impossible for people to get approved to adopt, but any asshole can become a foster parent? I think you need more in-depth screenings to adopt from pet rescues. If the US is going to force pregnancy on people, then they really need to get a handle on the foster system. Because it's always about "protecting the children," right?

[-] ZzyzxRoad@lemm.ee 82 points 11 months ago

the Heritage project leans into what legal scholars refer to as a unitary view of executive power that suggests the president has broad authority to act alone.

Did the fascists not just come for student loan forgiveness on the bullshit claim that Biden didn't have the executive power to do something like that?

Fuck these traitorous pieces of shit. If this shit doesn't stop we're about to be living in the fucking Pinochet regime (which was the brainchild of American conservatives, because of course it fucking was) and academics and musicians and authors are going to start getting disappeared along with our LGBTQ family, friends and neighbors. What a fucking shit show. And apparently there's not much we can do about it, except vote. As though that's ever done a fucking thing with an absolute anachronism of an electoral system.

I can't help the nihilism sometimes, jfc.

[-] ZzyzxRoad@lemm.ee 51 points 11 months ago

If cops want the bakery to "own" their policy, they they should own their policy of racial profiling

[-] ZzyzxRoad@lemm.ee 57 points 11 months ago

I fucking hate that they used the term "empty" land. The poll question posed to residents asked them if they would be more in favor if they knew it was "bad soil" that only contributed to 5% of CA agriculture, as though making money is all that land is good for.

Yes, Fairfield, CA is kind of a shit hole. But NorCal open land is absolutely beautiful, like all of California. Every single fucking time I go there, which is pretty frequently, there are new mcmansion housing developments and business parks and data centers that are starting to be built or have just finished. There are protected wetlands between Sacramento and the east bay (far east) where migratory birds come back every year. Just because they don't build on the fucking wetlands doesn't mean this constant building isn't going to affect what little nature is left. I'm so fucking sick of seeing my home paved over for profit and I feel so powerless to do anything. Because I am powerless.

As if that weren't enough, we all know this is going to be some walled-off rich-people city where they can escape from us proles, right? Sick shit.

[-] ZzyzxRoad@lemm.ee 40 points 1 year ago

So where are all of the conservative "if Biden actually wanted to cancel student loan debt he would just do it" people now

[-] ZzyzxRoad@lemm.ee 61 points 1 year ago

I guess I'm not understanding all the comments saying "why is anyone buying printers anymore? What do you need to print at home? Just buy a Brother or don't buy one at all."

Do you really need to understand why someone wants or needs a printer? Do people need to be explaining their purchases so we can all decide if they deserve to get scammed by HP or not? It doesn't matter why they bought it, whether it's a want or a need, whether it's the "right" brand, etc. They still don't deserve to get scammed out of their money by some bullshit company that can brick their device whenever they feel like. If you pay for something, it should belong to you. Period.

[-] ZzyzxRoad@lemm.ee 47 points 1 year ago

Aside from the subject of the article, when are we going to just stop with the "torched!" and "slammed!" and "destroys!" titles?? I hate them so much. Especially when someone "slams!" someone else. Like who the fuck came up with saying that.

[-] ZzyzxRoad@lemm.ee 37 points 1 year ago

I think I already know the answer to this, but wtf is it about landlords never wanting to discuss things through email? Or text?

After my landlord continued to say "let's discuss this in person" I finally just said "no, I would like a record of the conversation, thanks." The noise complaint I initially contacted them about has never been solved a year later and I still live with the neighbors stomping day in and out. They wanted "proof," I sent them multiple videos with audio. They wanted me to call maintenance, I called maintenance - because the landlord insisted it was something in the pipes (?) When I discussed it with maintenance, they said they knew it wasn't. Nothing changed after they came, (they just looked at some kind of vent on the roof) but the landlord seemed satisfied that they'd tried, even though it did nothing. The landlord had been trying to go around the maintenance work order form online and have them call me instead. I filled out a form anyway.

I didn't mean to go on a rant, it's just so frustrating when you know that they know that they're in the wrong, but there's nothing you can do except take as many notes as possible in case it gets bad later on.

Good luck, I hope your plant prevails.

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