“It is a crime that Amazon makes billions off their backs while they can’t even afford to buy a home near the warehouse.”

Randy Korgan, Director of the Teamsters Amazon Division and Secretary-Treasurer of Local 1932.

Can confirm, I considered an engineering job in Riverside in ~2018. The salary offered to me as an early-to-mid career engineer was barely enough for the cheapest 1 bedroom apartment I could find. When I asked for a salary study, I was told “people make sacrifices” to work in CA and that I could find something cheaper by renting a room under the table or by commuting an hour-plus. If they would do that to a “white-collar” professional, imagine the coercion towards an hourly laborer consider low or “no” skilled.

Good luck, folks working at DJT6. I’ll be cheering for you.

I would use reddit for crowd-sourced hobby advice. If someone gave bad advice, most subs had plenty of other members who would quickly correct them and explain or even provide sources.

Outside of Linux and a few other techy things, Lemmy doesn’t have enough members experienced in hobbies that interest me to be able to rely on the community correcting itself.

So I often see, eg, Bob from ABC community says something, but it sounds a little off to me. I don’t know enough to say if Bob is right or wrong, and no one is chiming in with better advice. So it’s a mostly worthless interaction.

That’s really cute and so sweet of your friend. Entirely different if someone is surprising you with a cake based on something you’re interested in.

Now I’m wondering how I would react if a friend gave me a CSA themed cake. “Here, Vanth, I know how much you like being a racist piece of shit.” I would be wondering how I got my friendship so, so wrong.

Is your brother an adult? No excuses based on age, I’m just trying to fathom motivations.

Like, I can be passionate about my hobbies. I homebrew beer a lot but slapping beer on a cake would feel so childish. I follow the Scottish national rugby team, and would feel lame af putting their logo on my birthday cake, doubly so since I’m not Scottish and don’t live in Scotland. I dabble in Linux but would die of cringe if I made a cake with some distro logo on it. I have some thoughts on political systems but it wouldn’t even occur to me to put their symbols on my birthday cake. I also simply wouldn’t want to make my birthday all about one niche interest.

Out of all the passions and interests your brother has, he 1) decided the CSA flag is the one he most wants to elevate and 2) he wants so much to express his interest publicly, he would use his once-per-year special day to do it.

Yeah, I’d skip the brother’s birthday. I’m an adult and I get to pick my family and friends now. And I’m not picking blood relatives that bog me down with their hateful baggage.

Ask them why they stay married then. I have a lot of male colleagues who partake in “boomer humor” about how much they hate their wives. But they shut up real quick when I remind them no-fault divorce exists in our country (for now). I think they just like to whine and complain because admitting they have any sort of emotion other than anger is something they look down on.

Yeah, the ones I have a connection with.

Aunt because we talk plants. She’s hella good at hoyas and I’ve learned a lot from her.

Cousin because she ended up in a similar career field and we swap stories. Also some similar hobby interests.

Another cousin who has similar interests when it comes to politics and volunteer work.

Dude, the church my family followed was similar. I was asked to sign a document pledging I would do all sorts of things, like raise the kid in the religion if their parents died, also to live a “moral sex life” and resist the evils of gay culture and drugs. I didn’t sign and saw it as an act of honesty and respect to explain I couldn’t fulfill their request.

If you think so little of other people’s religious beliefs that you would lie to become a godparent, you do you.

Also not how biological sex works either. The sperm carries both X and Y, contributing only one at time of fertilization (except for the rare chromosomal variation).

Also, not at all related to spin of an electron. Not everything is impossible to observe state and location at the same time. I, for example, am currently observable on my couch with minimal motion in any direction.

Not sure the saying actually comes from a rom-com, but I sure could see it. Dumb. Can’t even wear a set of goddamn underwear without someone overanalyzing it.

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I don’t like sugary sweet Christmas movies but dig a good Christmas themed black comedy horror/slasher.

Jack Frost (1997) > Jack Frost (1998)

Good call. As the scene opened I thought they were siblings. The chemistry was so bad (and Luc Besson is such a pervert), I still wasn’t sure after the first scene.

My sister’s network is named:

Ce n’est pas un réseau

I upvoter things I like or unique takes I disagree with that still seem interesting and in good faith.

I intentionally joined an instance that disabled downvotes.

Flavored sparkling waters. My kingdom for a La Croix.

I read about the Fediverse years ago and opened a couple accounts across a couple platforms. As I expected at the time, too low volume of people to really keep me engaged.

I stayed on reddit until same as everyone else here; they killed 3rd party apps and mod tools. I was a mod on a small, friendly little niche hobby sub. It started getting overrun by bots and MAGA types who wanted to make every post about guns and women staying home to serve their husbands. Good members started leaving the sub and I turned from having fun to loathing it very quickly. I created some fresh Fediverse accounts and made the move for real.

Yes, I moved a couple years ago as one small step to remove Amazon in my life.

I know there are other alternatives, but StoryGraph met my needs and I never looked further.

Upon switching, they have import tools to help transfer your GoodReads read history and your TBR list into StoryGraph.

Once there, they have recommendations and giveaways, and challenges, similar to GoodReads. I’m by no means a power user but have not found any features missing from StoryGraph that I care about.

Breaking news: Tarantino still an unpleasant, unhappy human being.

For someone who so obviously gets the big truck = little dick trope in his movies, he sure is incapable of introspecting and realizing he’s doing the same thing.

Ah, thanks for the explanation.

I would guess the next set of features “missing” from the Roku app have similar reason then. 1) I use a plugin to search and download subtitles from the browser interface; it would be great to be able to do that from the Roku app too and 2) once subtitles are available, easily adjusting the offset.