I tend to agree.

I have beef with the whole thing, but he has genuinely been more forward with compassion and trying to curb the worst aspects of it all.

Can’t believe I’m siding with the fucking pope

I see two very good companions

I mean, it ain’t wrong

1/10 the price of what though? Retail, wholesale, or something like that , I assume.

Which is fine, since you were responding to a vague two sentence comment. I should have done my usual long comment instead, it just isn’t something I really care about, so I kept it short. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t in that regard. Go mid to long, you have morons whining about the Kenney length. Go short, and someone is going to poke at it in one way or another.

I’m just glad the person poking at it was neutral to friendly about it :)

But, 1/10 the price of mined diamonds is still 1/10 the grossly inflated price of mined diamonds, not what they should cost based on a semi-fair market rather than the bullshit the diamond market is.

Making the diamonds still isn’t cheaper than pulling them out of the ground. I’m not aware of energy usage, environmental impact, or anything like that, but in terms of the production costs only.

That’s why man-made is cheaper; they’re competing against a rigidly corrupt and price fixed market.

Mind you, I also couldn’t tell you what the cost of mining the diamonds would be if slave labor wasn’t involved either. Could be that with fair wages, safety measures, etc, manmade would totally undercut natural again.

There, that’s the ten cent version instead of the penny cent version. Not gonna waste anyone’s time on the buck fifty version because I doubt anyone else cares, and I don’t care enough :)

They aren’t that much cheaper

Getting there, but not down to what I’d call cheaper yet

Tbh, I find it a little more than mildly infuriating. Verging on very infuriating.

They do it on purpose. Makes you stay longer, increasing chances of extra sales

You do know that telling someone with ADHD to just pay attention is like telling someone on a cane to jog, right?

Dick move in other words

Jfc, if you knew how long it has taken me to know the names of some of my friends, and not just work friends or gym friends, it would be absurd.

Hell, even after months of hanging with someone, you might not know their last name; it’s all “hey, I’m zipper”. Why zipper? “I dunno, you know how it is”. Yeah, I feel that. Anyway, went a beer, zip?

My chronic pain/disability support group shares space with an autism support group. Not a single one of the autism group knows my actual name afaik, but we’ll hang out down the road at a diner some nights as a mixed group when we’re meeting at the same time. It’s all “hey, beard!” And “sasquatch, wanna see my cat?” And sometimes just “man”. I’ve known some of them for years and we don’t know each other’s actual names. A couple of them, I’ve been to their house, and vice versa, and we don’t know each others last name at all.

One guy in specific came over, heard my wife call out my name and was confused as hell because my name sounds like a regular word and thought it was a different nickname. Asked for the story behind it, and I had to show him my driver’s license because he thought I was fucking with him. We’d had dinner together at the diner dozens of times.

No need for real names when you’re bros

See, there’s your problem. Picking partners up irl. I’m at half chub from this, you should be online looking for love

That’s a tad spurious though.

“Work” isn’t about having to get things from those that guard it, not inherently.

It’s also about specialization. If I’m a better hunter, and you’re a better farmer, then why waste effort by splitting our time and energy each doing something we’re not as good at.

You expand that until you’ve got specialists that aren’t “working” with food at all, they’re making bows for me, and making plows for you.

The problem is the system of resource allocation. It ends up where resources are hoarded by some rather than being used. In a non capitalist system, working to eat doesn’t mean wage slavery or grinding at something only to be able to eat, it’s about keeping the wheels of social exchange moving. Allocation of resources, where you do whatever it is you’d be good at, or be willing to get good at so that someone else that’s good at other things doesn’t need to do that, and you all eat because you all worked.

Not that any given system of resource allocation is perfect or free from problems, but the concept of having a job, of working, doesn’t have to be oppressive. Hell, in a well enough regulated capitalist system, it would be less oppressive than it is; you can see that in worker owned businesses.

Look, I’m a fifty year old fighter, and I don’t look half as sexy as that perfection

Probably caused by an Aztec deity-like entity flaying the skin to gain power for a resurrection

Thing is, the whole threatening the victim has always been a part of the phrase. Don’t tattle, don’t snitch, it’s part of the built in bullshit of school, and even teachers and staff sometimes buy into it, indirectly penalizing students that report abuse from other students. Even more common is nothing at all being done to prevent retaliation, so the cycle of it continues.

This is a joke, obviously. They’re turning the idea around, it’s just that the fact there’s an idea to turn around in the first place is so horrible that the joke kinda falls flat unless you have a dark sense of humor.

I love that you got that :)

Moooo!

Knock knock

I’ll invade you, I’ll invade you so hard

True. That’s why it takes numbers. Which usually takes leaders, with plans. Unfortunately, it seems we lack those, or at least any that the wavering masses will follow that aren’t right wing.