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  • TheDoozer@lemmy.worldtoComic Strips@lemmy.worldBreakfast Buffet
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    7 days ago

    I wish I could downvote twice.

    However, I regularly make my family breakfast-for-dinner, so it’s more my love for all breakfast foods than when it’s eaten.

    Edit: just kidding on the downvoting, I didn’t downvote for real. Just saw you were negative and didn’t want you to think I was serious.


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    Could just as easily do like I do for my family:

    “You wanted bagel with cream cheese, right?”

    “I only have time for half.”

    “Then take the other half with you, it’s hand-held food. The whole point is you can take it to go.”

    “They don’t allow food on the bus.”

    “Whatever, I’ll eat the other half. Have a good day. BOY! DID YOU FINISH YOUR WAFFLE WITH PEANUT BUTTER? I NEED YOU TO SIT ON THE POTTY SO FINISH YOUR BREAKFAST! Oh, hey, did you want toast or english muffin or something, Hon?”

    “Nnnnnnhghh… just coffee…”

    “It’s already out to cool down, there on the stove. I WILL THROW OUT THAT WAFFLE IF YOU DON’T FINISH IT WE HAVE TO GOOOO!”

    I feel like that would get the “breakfast is happening” vibe out there.



  • It wasn’t just people making money, it was that the money changers and the temple were working together to fleece the devout who were coming from far away to show their faith.

    It’s not like if somebody had a for-profit Cafe inside a church, it’s more like the televangelist that use other peoples’ devotion to get rich, saying you have to pay more and more to get into heaven.





  • Gonna has to go piece by piece through this:

    obviously everyman has had a dick in his hand for obvious reasons.

    This line is trans-exclusive, which would probably be given a pass by all but the most ardent trans-inclusive commenters, but still not great.

    And all females

    Dude. There are some times when an argument is made that saying “females” is not inherently objectifying, especially in a scientific, military, or other setting where people are categorized that way, with the significant difference being consistency (e.g. man/woman, male/female, etc). Using one then the other strips all that away and makes it seem like referring to women as “females” is just your normal tendency, which strongly suggests the objectifying behavior.

    And all females old enough for sexual interactions have had one in their hand.

    This is just obviously wrong, as plenty of lesbians, asexual people, or those with lack of access to sexual connections with others have not had a dick in their hands, and that is not an insignificant percentage of women, I’d imagine.

    The next time I shake the hand of a woman I am going to wonder how many dicks she has had in that hand.

    As if to underline the “females” comment, it’s pretty telling that you feel it worth mentioning that you’re going to wonder how many dicks were in the hands of women, but not men (especially funny since any man you meet has most likely had a dick in his hand more recently than a woman).

    Sometimes it is difficult to notice your own biases, so I hope this makes you think about what leads you toward thinking like this, and just general self-reflection.




  • The reality is because of the lived experiences of people based on the color of their skin, people are different based on skin color. You’re right that it’s a stupid reason to think differently of people, but if people had been mistreated for many generations based on the color of their hair, and there was still a good chunk of people that something so arbitrary was somehow important, then you would want to approach a person with that hair color with understanding of that history and current struggle.

    So why does it matter? Because 100 years ago, their great-great-grandparents had any wealth they managed to build up taken from them, 70 years ago their great-grandparents were kept boxed into separate, substandard areas, and 50 years ago their grandparents were kept from being able to buy homes outside low-income, substandard housing areas, and 30 years ago their parents were told it was their fault for growing up in crime-filled, poor areas with under-funded schools. And the whole time police have continuously treated them as that same substandard, poor, likely-criminal, so they have disproportionately been put in jail or grown up with one parent in jail. This obviously doesn’t apply to everyone, but it’s enough to lead people to treat them differently, either because they presume (until otherwise established) that they are poor, poorly educated, and likely criminal (by basically racist assholes) or with a certain amount of respect for their presumed struggles.

    Taking it to an extreme, if a person comes across a very old person with a number tattooed in block letters on their forearm, they will respond one of two ways: with respect and concern for their presumed struggles and trauma, or with irrational hatred (by neo-nazis). Judging or “separating” a person for a barely noticeable tattoo that they didn’t even put on themselves may seem arbitrary, but only if you ignore the entire history that makes them different.





  • I know this wasn’t your point, but I’ve been confused on a particular point for awhile:

    buying a house is simply out of reach unless you have dual income and it better be nearly six figure dual income…

    Just the general idea of it being impossible to afford to buy a house. And don’t get me wrong, the prices on houses have gotten ridiculous! At the same time, we talk about landlords buying houses and charging exorbitant rent (suggesting at the very least more than what they pay).

    So if rent is more than the mortgage, insurance, etc, then how is it impossible to buy a house if it is possible to rent (an equivalent home)? Is it the down payment (if any)? Costs involved in purchasing? Because it seems like month to month it would be cheaper.

    I say this as someone who has rented and owned, and owning felt significantly cheaper.

    (Full disclosure, I’m in the military, so I had access to a VA loan… though not really sure what that did for me except maybe allow 0% down… if other people are absolutely required to put up a percentage then I can definitely understand it).