you’d be sleepy, perhaps for months or years, until you realize that a fulfilling life is not one spent in oblivion and you find a better way to use your time!

love random comments dismissing potentially good policy because “in my country” which you didnt name, it doesn’t work

what kind of fucking scientist says “huh that attempt didn’t work i guess it never will”?

You’re not even going to tell us what country it is so we can see? probably not, because it is probably a shitty comparison.

and for the record, parent comment was downvoted because it’s fucking stupid. there’s no UBI in this post. it’s as if i take a day off and go to the park and say “Hmpf this is why UBI doesnt work!” like what the fuck are you talking about, UBI is not just when lazy day. the only thing that could make this post dumber would be calling me triggered for pointing out how dumb it is

So your brilliant mind sees someone emphasizing how little work they have by saying they watch movies and you think “Hmpf, that’s probably what UBI is like!”

And now because you think it, it’s evidence? Fuck right outta here chump.

Having two jobs is fraud? What…?

Have you never heard of Overemployment? There are people out there working multiple easy WFM jobs and just raking in three incomes.

You’re allowed to have two jobs lol

I would love to hear someone leverage this negative review as cleverness in an interview though

Why you askin Lemmy what normal people do?!

Ha. Mute point

Marketers: “So what you’re saying is, the problem is that the ad was not personally relevant to you??? Can we collect more of your personal data to give you ads based on who we think you are?” skin cream

I recently tried to watch sports. It was fun but disgusting. The biggest racket I’ve ever seen. $80/month to watch Baseball?! $17,000 for World Series tickets?!

I always thought not wanting to watch sports was a choice. Apparently you can only watch sports if you’re a fucking millionaire.

Isn’t that how the Nazi camps turned into death camps? Originally they were just saying to deport the jews, take back the country, blah blah, and then they realized how absolutely brutal it is to forcibly migrate millions of people so they turned to labor and executing the excess. Await a fact-check from a better informed WW2 scholar than me though

the right to “kill babies” is probably what you’re fishing for us to say, right? very clever.

or maybe the way he campaigned on “you wont need to vote anymore”?

Definitely thought this was a statement on Amish Pennsylvania at first… cuz that’s just how markets look like there lol

why would I watch

Oh okay! And I see your edit that Bob is the portal, yeah I did not pick up on that one from the script alone. Great dialog on second pass though! Very believable, Tarantino levels of mundane.

I dont care

what the heck is a dimensional portal in your real world example

you just don’t enter the well without asking permission. it’s all behind the desk. it’s one of the most rampant tv law tropes that just isn’t realistic

God landmines are disgusting

STOP

They’re ignorant to literally every piece of media, news outlets, cable TV, print, tiktok, fucking Joe fucking Rogan shit, and they genuinely don’t understand why voting for trump is bad.

I think you underestimate both 1) how many news orgs/media spaces/social communities only report on Trump’s successes and democrat scandals and 2) how much of an echo chamber these people live in. Add on a few natural cognitive biases, such as team thinking and discarding evidence contrary to one’s worldview, and you have pretty much the majority of Trump voters at this time.

They are completely immersed in a world where democrats generally are evil and Trump is one of the good guys. Nothing has ever challenged them out of it, because at this point the challenges are just part of the narrative of good vs evil. Whether this changes your conclusions or not, I dunno (dunno whether I think it even should change your conclusion!), but I figure it’s worthwhile giving an accurate depiction of people. Not all malicious and/or super-ignorant, but rather simply cloistered.