paddirn

joined 1 year ago
[–] paddirn@lemmy.world 2 points 31 minutes ago

Small dong energy

[–] paddirn@lemmy.world 40 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I grew up in a home where we just never thought about wearing, or not wearing, shoes in the house. Like, we obviously didn't track mud all over the place if our shoes were that dirty, but if we were wearing our shoes inside, nobody said anything or cared, it was just whatever. Married a Kenyan who put her foot down and was like, "Are you crazy?" It's apparently a big thing elsewhere in the world. In Kenya alot of roads aren't paved, things get dusty, and it's just common sense that you don't walk all over the house with dirty shoes, so I get it from that perspective.

[–] paddirn@lemmy.world 16 points 17 hours ago

Hopefully this will make future war crime prosecutions easier, supposing we live long enough to ever see that day.

[–] paddirn@lemmy.world 15 points 17 hours ago

We’re just going all in on trying to get to WW3 and the Rapture, huh?

[–] paddirn@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

That whole album is pretty good, some amazing songs that just never seem to get much attention.

[–] paddirn@lemmy.world 37 points 2 days ago (22 children)

I like Joe Biden in every other respect, but what the hell is up with this hard-on for Israel? Is it purely AIPAC and the Jewish-American vote, or is there some other calculus going into all this? I expected better, but they're just rubber-stamping anything and everything that Israel wants to do, no matter how fucked up.

[–] paddirn@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I’ve worked for companies that would leave it up to chance without a second thought. I’ve known people that worked there and Amazon doesn’t seem like it cares about its employees. Does it make sense? No, but there’s alot about corporate America that’s pretty dumb.

[–] paddirn@lemmy.world 25 points 3 days ago (1 children)

My condo has gone up at least $100k in value since I bought it just before shit went crazy, but that value is meaningless if I can’t afford to capitalize on it and move anywhere. I feel like I’m basically trapped in this house, since everything else has gone up so much more than my place.

[–] paddirn@lemmy.world 0 points 4 days ago

If anything, society collapses and the very wealthy carve out fiefdoms for themselves and re-create medieval feudalism. They tell people they have a God-ordained to rule over the “small folk” and they continue on living like kings, albeit in a post-apocalyptic setting.

[–] paddirn@lemmy.world 100 points 4 days ago (9 children)

That was probably the intent. It works as a soft layoff. Do something wildly unpopular, knowing that a bunch of employees will quit. The ones left will pick up the slack, because obviously if they had anywhere else to go they would’ve left with the first group.

[–] paddirn@lemmy.world 18 points 4 days ago

Wouldn’t even be in a safe room, he just wouldn’t be in the country.

[–] paddirn@lemmy.world 37 points 4 days ago (22 children)

You could copyright a photograph of that leaf pattern though, couldn’t you?

 

I noticed this Summer I started transitioning my morning walks to pre-sunrise hours to try to escape the heat (since even mornings in Ohio are getting to be hot). Since global warming (or climate change in general) is happening and there's apparently nothing to be done to fix it in our lifetimes, it made me wonder if our overall society might move towards more nocturnal working hours instead of the standard 9–5, just to escape overheating during the day?

There's probably no incentive currently, since workers aren't dropping like flies yet, but I could see it coming into play as global warming gets worse over time and it causes legitimate production issues. Probably some jobs wouldn't have the option, but most I think would be able to benefit from it. Does this sound like something realistic, or are we cursed to have to endure extreme temperatures because we've always worked in the daytime and we can't/won't change now?

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