EssentialCoffee @ EssentialCoffee @midwest.social

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Moralizing and guilt-tripping is never going to work. People will dig their heels in harder or completely cut out your message as toxic and abusive (and let's be honest, guilt-tripping is toxic and abusive shit and people who engage in it should be cut out of your life anyway).

Making items more accessible, available, and affordable is going to do more for your cause than turning a bunch of people away from you ever could.

So I looked up the price of a menstrual cup in Ghana. I converted the price to USD, since that's what the article is in.

Asking someone to pay $14 out of their $26 monthly salary when they're already struggling with paying $3 per month is both an unhelpful and ridiculous suggestion. Do you want these folks to bleed all over themselves for five months while they save up for an option that might or might not work for them? They deserve more dignity than that.

Talk to me

It's a sprayer pointed at your butt from under the toilet seat. You don't need to touch it. You just turn it on.

It's only surprising or strange the first time. If you aren't acutely aware of how the water of a shower hits your skin every time you shower, then you won't notice the bidet more than the first or second time.

My group calls them first world problems.

Funny, we say pen & paper when referring to tabletop games. (TTRPGs)

It's not a search engine or encyclopedia. If you want facts, you have to use the tools for facts.

They may have gotten more subs and with it more revenue, but aren’t they paying royalties on every stream?

No, that's why writers and actors are striking.

Haven't community points been a thing for a long time? I recall you used to be able to buy/donate points to your community to open up features (like getting to post emotes in replies, which is just aggravating more than a 'perk', and ensured I never participated).

Partly because the people supporting them are okay with this. Because it's their people doing it and their people are going to hurt the right people.

You can't logic someone out of a position they didn't logic themselves into.

Honestly, my instance had that, and was also going through downtime growing pains from the influx of users, so I had to submit multiple times.

'I'm from Reddit trying to find a new home' and 'I like coffee' are not what I'd call an essay or a casting couch personally, but to each their own.

According to your comments, you're living and buying property in Japan in order to reside there for the rest of your life, so you're arguing about policies that aren't effecting you and that you're not even a party to.

I guess you can find someone more in tune with Japan's housing market and issues there to discuss the best practices for Japanese laws.

Certainly possible! My husband watches a completely different type of content than I do and I never get recommendations from his feed unless we watch something that we've watched in a shared chromecast feed, and then only very rarely.

Young people can't own homes now because we have a lot of corporations and foreign ownership buying them to either rent at exorbitant costs or leave vacant as investments. I don't really care about the hypothetical person who might come over here at some point maybe pinkee swear when folks here are having issues now.

Also, I confirmed with someone who does mortgages that there isn't an upper age limit on getting a mortgage in the US, so that's not a concern.

Better than being the art version of an asshole, but I see you're already filling that role.

FWIW, the incident in question happened in 2019, so it's not anything happening due to the current climate. And while the owner should have ensured the kid had a work permit, the kid was already a high school dropout, so might not have had any way to get a work permit legally anyway. At some point, people still need to eat. I've read several articles at this point and it feels like there's some grey in here somewhere that I just don't know enough to be able to form an opinion on.

While this is pretty awful and shouldn't have happened, I don't think I'd advocate that a 17 year old shouldn't be allowed to have any job at all. I think they should be paid normal minimum wage, same as any other employee, and there should be jobs that they can't do due to age (such as this one), but I wouldn't stop it altogether.

That said, I'm completely fine with increasing the fines for employing a minor in a dangerous profession though, which is apparently the charge that the owner plead guilty to. Fines for employers who break the law should be increased in general, especially when it puts workers in danger.

Just a visa would be too low of a bar, imo. Show you're a permanent resident and planning to stay here.

No, but my husband is and he's been refining keywords and using all sorts of loras and all other types of jargon that I don't recall because I'm not interested in doing it myself.

And I didn't miss your point, I just don't agree with it.

Michigan is a Republican shithole state?