frickineh @ frickineh @lemmy.world

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I wish they'd all been more like you. Instead, all of the ones I had until my mid 20s were the kind of people who would tell us the policy was X and we absolutely could not do Y, and the second a customer bitched, suddenly Y was fine and they made us look like liars or idiots.

The thing that sucks is that the managers aren't going to be the ones with the power to do that. Then again, all of my managers were spineless as fuck when I worked in a grocery store (literally never had employees' backs), so they'll probably just do an override on the price anyway.

They're going to end up with a bunch of people complaining to the manager about the price not matching the sign, which already happens, but it'll be 10x worse.

I'd wait a couple of years and talk my ex-husband into keeping our house and renting it instead of selling it when we split up. It made sense at the time, since selling it was the fastest way to pay off all of our mutual debt (and most of our individual debt, too) and make it an easy split, but if we'd waited a few years, we would've made a solid 6 figure profit. I have no desire to be a landlord and mostly I'm glad we sold it to a nice family for what was still an affordable amount, but it would've been the only way I could ever afford to buy anything else on a single income, and it would've set him and his new wife up a lot better. I kind of hate the idea morally, but from a purely pragmatic view, it would've made sense.

It was. She's 13 terms in, so I'm guessing it was taken when she was first elected, based on styling and photo quality. She have been in her early 40s, which seems about right.

If that doesn't feel wrong in your brain, I can't explain it.

My car works perfectly with multiples of 5, so I prefer that. But you guys wanna hear something really fucking sick? I played a game where the volume would increase with DECIMAL POINTS. And it was borderline impossible to get to a whole number. It was always 8.17 or something. The devs were clearly some kind sociopath. Anyway, I noticed in the last update they changed it to whole numbers, so apparently enough people explained that that sort of thing is just insanity.

Oh I know. I worked in child support enforcement for a minute and now work in an office that takes passport applications. Thankfully, the Department of State's stance is that we don't need to argue about it, they'll deal with it on their end, so it's a lot less confrontational, but I had a guy on a child support case that was clearly getting advice from sovcit forums and he was a headache and a half.

A lot of them are also desperate. Plenty of people find their way to sovcit stuff because they're in legal trouble of some kind that they don't know how to handle, and everyone tells them they just need to face the consequences. Sovcits tell them actually, the government is wrong, they shouldn't be in trouble at all, and if they just file these papers and say these words, it'll all go away. I can see how people who aren't great critical thinkers can get sucked into that.

Many years ago, I worked in a call center. I was sitting with someone who was new helping them take calls and both of our headsets were plugged into the phone. The trainee was helping a store employee and she was just being awful to him. While she went to get something from the customer, I muted the line and said, "God, what a bitch!" except my finger was hovering over the button and I hit it just in time for her to hear me say bitch. I fully panicked and hung up on her. Nobody ever said anything to either of us and this was back when landlines would occasionally cross, so hopefully she thought that's what happened since she hadn't heard my voice up until then.

Anyway, I'm pretty sure that's the origin of why I still don't trust mute or hold to this day. I'm not talking shit until I know that call is disconnected.

I don't know that they really threaten the rule of law, since none of their bullshit ever actually works (especially as people become more aware of their specific brand of nonsense). I think the bigger issue is that quite a few of them will resort to violence, so they're more of a threat to other people.

Are you shitting me that you think changing a word with an association most people have never even heard is more important than hundreds of thousands of people in this instance and others having their lives measurably improved? Having a criminal record can literally ruin someone's life. It impacts the jobs they can get and where they can live. Pardoning them for some shit that never should've been a crime to start with is a huge deal.

But for sure, tell all those people you'd pick changing the word for the drug over pardons. That's a good call.

Same. I stopped eating meat in the mid 90s, was pescatarian until 2019, and have been vegan since. I don't miss meat at all. I'll eat an impossible or a beyond burger occasionally because it's sometimes my only option, but I could just as easily skip them.

I wouldn't judge anyone else for eating lab meat, though. I don't have any moral issue with it, it just isn't something I'm personally interested in.

If you're there but no one can tell, you may as well not go. The point is to speak up.

Minor correction - Trump didn't win CO in 2016. Not overly important in the grand scheme of things, I'm just from there and I'd have been ashamed if he had.

The rest of it still stands. I'm involved in local politics and I consistently vote for more progressive candidates, and we've had some victories. In a recent example, a homophobic asshat of a city council member gave up his seat to run for mayor. Not only did he lose that race, the woman who won his former seat is a progressive lesbian.

But you know who I almost never see at council meetings or at events for state level positions? The kind of terminally online leftists who constantly complain about the Democrats being too conservative. Apparently it's more important to put other people's rights and lives at risk to make some kind of stand than it is to try to make any real difference in the ways we can. Maybe someday we'll have an electoral system that allows for more than 2 parties, but we sure as shit won't if people can't be bothered to pay attention to anything but the presidential race.

Oh I'm the opposite - I'm not a very good cook because I don't enjoy doing it. I'm pretty good with flavors because I'm not afraid of seasonings, but my knife skills are bordering on Worst Cook in America levels. The abuse I have wrought upon poor, innocent, delicious onions is a crime.

Also, if you like the fried onions, have you seen the jalapeno version? So good. I've started putting them on everything.

I'm the worst about this. My mom and I will try a new restaurant and I'll be talking about "oh this needs acid, that's the perfect amount of heat, blah blah." Meanwhile, I'm over here "cooking" noodles with a pile of kimchi every other day because that's all I ever have in the fridge.

Definitely don't do what I do, which is to shut down entirely, pretend it doesn't bother you, and completely close the door on any future relationships until you've gotten so used to being alone that you probably couldn't allow another person in even if you wanted to. Super healthy stuff! Honestly, being able to express that you're sad and hurt is good. It hurts and it can feel unbearable, but it means you're still feeling things. The last time I coped in a healthy way, I wanted to wallow in bed (and I did, some) but I made myself get up and do small things I enjoyed. Nothing big that required a lot of effort, just things like going to get lunch with my mom or taking a walk with a friend. It was distracting enough to ease the pain, and showed that my whole life wasn't over because of a break up. The only other thing that helped was time.

I'm flying overseas in September, and I checked a few weeks ago. Thankfully, no Boeings for any of it. I've already become an anxious flyer the older I get (and my last transatlantic flight made an emergency landing, though it was because of a passenger's bad behavior), so the last thing I need is another thing to stress about.

Well definitely the former. Maybe also the latter, because that seems like aiding and abetting.