MrVilliam @ MrVilliam @lemmy.world

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I guess you aren't interested in having an actual conversation here, but that doesn't make it okay to just insult a stranger just because you can't keep up. I encourage you to consider the possibility that you're wrong about some things and that other people might know more than you about those things, and maybe you should accept their attempts to help you to understand more about the world you live in. Otherwise, you're gonna be very lonely when your peers have all outgrown you and moved on.

I hope you know better than to try homeschooling your child. You don't seem to have the patience, understanding, or wisdom necessary to teach a child anything positive or valuable past about 5th grade. You don't know what you're talking about and when people try to help you understand, you insist that you were right all along and resort to insults. You should really take an introspective look at yourself to try to figure out what it is about your life that's making you so bitter and frustrated and toxic at such a young age.

That makes sense. It did feel a lot more grounded than the main entries. I think a lot of my apprehension to the characters was knowing that they couldn't possibly matter beyond that movie because it's a prequel to a trilogy that doesn't mention them, so I knew they would probably just die soon. That just made it harder for me to get invested. But you're right, it's cool to see the seedy side of the galaxy and it sells that the rebels are scrappy regular people who are justified in their rebellion.

I'm a millennial. I love my zoomer comrades. Even if I don't understand their stuff, I still respect their whole thing and the fact that they're inheriting a different world with different experiences than what I did, which is really all my generation was ever asking for and never received. I feel more like a significantly older sibling to gen z than a do an entire generational step older. We generally agree on a lot of the same shit. They're paying more attention to current events than I was when I was younger, and unfortunately it's kinda more necessary for them to because we didn't do a good enough job at that until maybe 5-10 years ago.

Sorry if I'm wrong and I'm the exception rather than the rule. Keep zoomin', zoomers 🤙

If you think you can just have chat gpt write you a paper that you can use as a source, then you don't understand what a source is. Drawing a false equivalency either indicates that you don't know how to differentiate between valid sources and invalid sources or that you're intentionally attempting to fracture public faith in the entire concept of fact-checking in order to further the spread of disinformation for objectively questionable motives. I don't have a tin foil hat on right now, so I'll just assume that you're uninformed and could benefit from reading a book on the subject or taking a class on it.

It's easier to dismiss all evidence and just believe whatever feels right, but the common people will have what little money and power they have sucked away from them if lies are permitted to influence who to give their money and power to. There is a real benefit to controlling narrative and swaying public opinion, so the people being equipped to identify weaponized disinformation is a valuable defense for basic democratic function and individual prosperity.

That's why I feel the need to respond to what you're saying. At best, you're accidentally sowing distrust in an essential skill set in the modern information age; at worst, you're intentionally attacking the working class at the behest of the ruling/owning class. Again, no tin foil hat, so I think you just didn't understand what the logical conclusion of what you were saying was.

My wife had a coworker who was an absolute downer with this kind of shit. She had a little bit of authority over him, so her solution was to make a deal with him that at the beginning of shift, he had 60 seconds to get all of his complaining out of the way, and then they both promised to not complain all shift. Everybody on site immediately noticed that it was now more pleasant to work with him lol.

That why it's important for it to not just be a "paper" but an actual source. Then you can check who wrote it, who published it, and what the specific study was. As in, read the published study they cited and you'll see what the parameters were and how they got to the conclusion purported. It's not just "I found that somebody on the internet somewhere said x, here's a link to the Twitter post." Be skeptical and call out shitty sources, but ignoring the entire concept of backing up a claim with evidence is pretty silly. In the current era of plaguing disinformation and misinformation, it's important to be well-versed in thinking critically about what we are told.

You might be the only person I've heard of who didn't like IV and V, but liked Rogue One. I'm picturing a thread with people debating whether Terminator 1 or 2 is better, and you're like "those are mid, Genisys is the one I like." It's just a fascinatingly rare take.

Empire Strikes Back is pretty universally acclaimed as being in the top 2 of star wars movie, and most people's #1. I'm curious what didn't do it for you. Is it just too old now? Overhyped? Do you think the pacing is bad and you get bored? Genuinely, I would expect that if somebody didn't like that one, they didn't like any of them except maybe one of the new shows like Andor and/or The Mandalorian, mostly because they are tonally different and appeal to a different, wider audience.

Yes, but I buy bigger packs, so I don't always need more. That's why this receipt was so much lower than the $35-50 I was talking about. A big pack of chicken thighs from Aldi is under $10, usually $7ish. But based on that receipt, I was probably doing a sweet potato black bean something or other. Hearty, satisfying vegetarian meals can be as delicious as they are cheap.

I tried something new a few weeks ago to kick off an update machete order that I thought worked surprisingly well. I started with the start of act 3 of Rogue One. Going into that blind, not knowing the characters or what specifically they were trying to accomplish, seeing some blind monk guy walk and act by faith instead of sight to do something at a console, they sacrifice all to beam some kind of signal, and then this towering menace in all black just shows up and slaughters a bunch of dudes... It perfectly leads into IV and enhances it without the time commitment or pacing issues of watching all of Rogue One. I love Mads but we really just don't need to even see him for the important bits of the story. Vader becomes even more mysterious and threatening this way, the "plans" in IV are given more weight and don't just seem like a macguffin to give the empire a reason to give chase, and Luke becomes relatively more of an unlikely hero because he's just a kid caught in the middle of a star war.

I'm not gonna say that Rogue One is bad, but for watching the entire saga it feels like a slog to watch the whole thing. As somebody who considers IV to be a 10/10 masterpiece, (especially for 1977 before anything like this existed, and before George Lucas changed shit for no reason,) I gotta know which half of IV is the half that sparks joy for you. Maybe my favorite moment in the entire franchise is when Luke storms out and looks at the twin sunset, yearning to leave his small and inconsequential life, John Williams' score swelling into the frustrated sobbing that only a teenager trapped in a small town with a small life could truly understand. It's his Disney princess moment.

It all makes sense, then. The logical conclusion of this business attitude is enshittification. Cut corners to bolster quantity at the sacrifice of quality. Then they lay people off because they don't actually care about higher quantity either, just minimizing labor costs.

It's apparent to me now that you're just looking to have an argument, so I'm going to disengage. They are explicitly reaching out because they themself believe that they are overspending on groceries, hence their post. Have a good day.

I understand that there are many variables that we're not privy to, but that doesn't change that fact that quick, cheap, simple, nutritious meals are possible, and OP has internet access to find all the info necessary to make it happen. I work 12 hour, highly active shifts, so I'm no stranger to being tired, but it's pretty easy to throw a decent meal together in 15-20 minutes.

OP has said nothing about working long hours or being tired or anything like that. I'm not sure it's wise to assume anything specific about details of their lifestyle too much. I know I was speculating with regards to spending, but they said that they don't eat out much and they still spent a pretty absurd amount just to feed themself, so I gave the possible out of having a restrictive diet. Halal/kosher costs more, gluten-free costs more, most seafood is pricey if they're pescatarian, etc. If that's not a factor, then there's zero legitimate reason to spend $200/week feeding one person aside from ignorance, so I was just trying to introduce them to some thrifty tips and basic shopping/cooking educational resources. An approachable favorite of mine is the Pro Home Cooks YouTube channel because he has some videos where he's doing the prep and cooking in real time while talking to show how fast and easy it is, targeting 15 minute dinners for 2-4 people.

I'm not trying to be a dick so I'm sorry if I've come off that way. I'm sincerely sharing habits and strategies that I've found to be helpful. <3

You're not wrong. But for context, my wife and I live in Ashburn, VA (NoVA is super expensive but not quite Manhattan or San Francisco expensive). A lot of it comes down to choices though. Of course eggs and bacon for breakfast are not gonna be in the budget I mentioned, but oatmeal with some frozen berries fits just fine. No you can't get steak to fit in that budget all the time, but if you have a vegetarian meal every once in a while then you get some flexibility in your budget to allow steak sometimes because meat is way more expensive than a can of black beans.

I also make my lunches and pack them for when I'm at work, so that's a lot of the food I eat and it's way cheaper than it would be if I ordered something somewhere, and it doesn't take much time to make a whole batch of sandwiches for the week. Idk I grew up poor, so these things are just in my nature, and now even though I don't have to be so frugal I still choose to because it just doesn't make sense not to.

I'm not sure about tracking your spending, but I can tell you that you're grocery shopping is way too wasteful. That's like $200/week on groceries for one person. Unless you have a very limited diet, you're paying more than double what you should be at the grocery store. For context, when I get groceries for me and my wife, I rarely spend over $50. Get store brands, buy bigger sizes, and shop at cheaper stores like Aldi. Stop buying frozen and processed garbage; buy fresh meat and vegetables and cook big batches and have leftovers. This time of year is great for a big pot of soup/chili!

I think if I were interested in tracking spending like that, I might just build a simple spreadsheet with dates and costs, maybe add variables for the unusual things like stocking up to have guests to feed or whatever. Sorry I can't be more helpful on that front. If you're not experienced with cooking, there are some really good YouTube channels that can teach you some good, versatile recipes that are very budget-friendly.

Yeah but this slow burn is already like ten years old. The fascists demand retribution for us daring to elect Obama. As soon as they saw the light at the end of that tunnel, they said never again.

If conservatives become convinced that they can not win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. The will reject democracy. (David Frum)

It only gets more frustrating when you learn how franchising works too. The pseudo "owner" of a location doesn't have much say in anything in particular and doesn't have much of a budget to do the right things with because they spend everything to have the names, logos, ingredients, recipes, and specific equipment, and there are very tight specs to fall within that can get inspected at any time. So it's clear that the "owner" should hire enough staff and pay them enough to attract good workers who will make it possible for you to buy a mcflurry, but that "owner" probably pulls 60-90 hour weeks for only about double the rate of what their lowest paid employee makes. They tend to get suckered in because it looks so good on paper but it's so much worse than it seems. They thought they were signing up to be capitalists and instead they just become a slightly different tier of exploited laborer with much higher stress because of personal investment in the failure or success of the location. They're effectively indentured servants. The standard workers at least have the freedom to say fuck you and go get a different job without actually losing anything.

If a franchise unionizes, I think that it should be collective for all of the laborers to have security against the corporations ratfucking interests. Corporations want us to demonize their proxy lightning rod location "owners" but we should see through that bullshit.

Don't feel bad. Biology programmed you to prioritize it because it's calorically dense and rare in nature, therefore important to survival and the propagation of your genes. The fact that it's become widely available and cheap is not a matter of failure in individuals, but rather an example of the success of our species and civilizations.

Or something. Idk. Junk food is yummy. The key is moderation.

He was a lobby boy, she said "lose your jobby, boy." He wasn't good enough for her.

Now he's gone apologist, so she turned and balled her fist. Fascism shouldn't get support.