[-] DomeGuy@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

To rephrase this: they take the time to block out labels to ensure there is a reason for the brands to pay.

[-] DomeGuy@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

I think you're underestimating how deep the pay gap goes.

"women's work" jobs are so consistently paid less that mere career choice is a huge part of the pay gap.

[-] DomeGuy@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago

Please understand that "nothing" means the built up surplus runs out and there will be not enough money to pay all benefits.

The smart and easy fix would be to raise the cap on ss taxes while flattening the "you deserve more money because you made more money when you were working" weirdness.

Instead, they'll likely either do nothing and force the dems to fix it in four years, play with benefits to make the poor suffer, or try and replace it with a phased in 401k style stock market scam.

(that last option, btw, is killing social security.)

[-] DomeGuy@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

In common commercial english, i would read that as "this merchant will offer to trade any of the books for an amoumt of currency equal to half the book's cover price plus $1."

Such vagueness also suggests sufficient informality that the merchant may either accept seperate offers or veto the general rule on a case-by-case basis.

[-] DomeGuy@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago

Is it too much to ask for a meme template that doesn't DIRECTLY contradict your message?

Or did you mean to imply that single-issue anti-gaza-slaughter voters are the equivalent of star wars criticts being properly annoyed by folk who like melodramatic space opera?

[-] DomeGuy@lemmy.world 40 points 1 month ago

Has it also led chidren to believe that if you cut down a tree with an axe it will just hang in the sky instead of falling down?

[-] DomeGuy@lemmy.world 50 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

So, you're asking if there is a shoplifter whose small-dollar.spree was stopped by target, who was then arrested by the police, who then refused an initial plea offer from the DA, who was then charged by a grand jury, refused a pre-trial plea offer, went to trial, refused the pre-verdict plea offer, and was then found guilty?

Well, what about someone who hit 60k over 120 visits?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/05/07/target-self-checkout-thief-aziza-graves-convicted/73599144007/

(edit: shortened url.)

[-] DomeGuy@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

"they" has always been proper, it just used to be incorrectly taught agaist like split infinitives and ending a sentence with a proposition.

Wikipedia dates its first usge as over 500 years ago, and complaints less than 300.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they

[-] DomeGuy@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Does this imply that the rapture won't happen on any day any man or angel predicted it, and suggest that these crackpots are either delivering a "no rapture today" message from the Lord Almighty or else embarrassing Her into putting it off?

[-] DomeGuy@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

Fwiw, I realized years ago that the only people whose opinion of my parenting actually matter are the adults my descendents will grow up to be.

[-] DomeGuy@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

I can't tell if this is an example of Poe's law or why it's a thing.

[-] DomeGuy@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago

Yes, you did. In approximately the same way that All Lives Matter was just a dog-whistley way of saying "No they don't" to Black Lives Matter.

When someone says I suffer from THING, responding with other people suffer too as your primary message is always a dismissal of the person's suffering.

If you want to avoid the inferred message, include an affirmative message of acknowledgement, like "nobody should suffer like that."

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