Wait…then whats kbin? I was told that was a facebook clone.

It IS an important job! Without us, the disabled, the elderly, and the lazy enough to become 600lbs couldn’t traverse large airports, and fly to various cities. We do a lot of hard backbreaking work for often very little money.

So the next time you fly with grandma, slip your wheelchair assistant a $20 bill tip. Unless they were spectacularly awful at their jobs, and tossed your grandma down a flight of stairs…

That would be awful!!! Still though…maybe like $5?

The hip bone’s cpnnected to the…leg bone!

The leg bone’s connected to the…knee bone!

The knee bone’s connected to the…elbow!

Wait, no, that can’t be right! What the hell did I do here?

…oooooooook, not really sure what to make of thaaaaaat. Kind of like following a set of footprints in the snow and surrenly each footprint breaks off into different direction, and then a bear eats your eyes.

Ha ha, now you’re blind and terrified in sub freezing tempratures unclear on which way you came from.

That’s when you realize I only come to Lemmy to feed my ego, hoping to develop one, and feel better about myself in the distinct lack of a social life, I can at least find solice in knowing I made a funny that got 5,000 updoodles.

And until then, I’ll still think of myself as a massive piece of shit inconvienencing everyone by breathing, and cry into my pancakes.

The point I’m making, which I’m sure isn’t clear to like 90% of readers, is that upvotes make people happy when they’re proud of a comment or post. They come back, and see a bunch of other people liked it. And its kind of like Lemmys version of applause or booing. Ask any performer, they don’t do it for the money. They do it for creativity and validation of their creativity.

And it sucks that one guy/bot is just like NO! regardless of content.

…stop being right. I know you don’t know the layout of the airport I work at, but theres a part where I’m SURE that thing would run over people.

This is the best song ever made in the world

My job is pushing people in wheelchairs at the airport. Your move Zoom.

“I never said lock her up.”

Source: A horses ass. Just as wide and smells like it too.

Also going to guess that you’re not known for staging a failed coup against the government.

THREE casinos.

Aren’t we all?

Verizon produced Ajit Pai. We’re only just NOW undoing his bullshit.

Can we just gag him indefinately? He’s not AS bad as Andy Dick, but he’s certainly more dangerous.

Even after phasing out PFOA under pressure, DuPont and its spinoff Chemours have continued releasing the toxic substance into the environment, leading to recent Congressional demands for an explanation.

So, it’s not even about profits anymore. You’re now PAYING to poison Americans. How is this ok? Not that it was ok before, but this takes it to a whole NEW level of evil.

Give it up, piped. It’s not happening…

Don’t tie it to a number.

Imagine if they did this back in the 60s, but using numbers.

“1 million??? Thats way too high! If I made 1 million in a year my grandkids could retire from that year. Better make it $100,000. 90% tax after $100,000.”

Today because of inflation I would say someone making $100,000 a year is comfortable in luxery, but still earning their pay.

Tie it to a percentage of the curve of what average americans make, and I think you deflate most of inflation. Because if their price for a good is $3.00, and it costs $1.25 worth of wages to make, they could raise that $3 to $5, and only give the workers $0.25 raise, which means now that item costs $1.50 to make, but sells for $5 instead of $3. This rewards ceo’s to raise prices disproportionally. Tie it to the curve, and if he raises the price to $5, now he has to pay workers $3.25. Suddenly it’s not the ceos getting rewarded for doing that. Suddenly random price hikes to please shareholders are GONE. Which means if you can’t stay profitable in a fair market, you cease to exist. You can’t just pull a short term band-aid fix to pop a stock price, and ignore consequences. Because now those consequences actually kill your company.

What we would be left with are CEOs who actually RUN their company, rather than just load the numbers. We’d have better products, better wages, and a better life.

But if we tie it to a number, our grandkids will be right back to where we are.

Alright. You make good points. I agree with you. However there is a problem. Alex jones is a nutjob with no redeeming qualities. He has a base, and called on his base to blockade his house to prevent law officials from repossesing his house, his infowars platform, and anything else worth any monetary currency. Notice, I didn’t say “value” because let’s face it. It’s alex jones. What value could there possibly be with him.

Trump did the same thing with J6. Gets his base in a frenzy to do his dirty work, and uses them to attempt a coup. I fully believe the vast majority actually there on J6 didn’t even know thats what it was. They didn’t know where were attempting a coup. But they were fully prepared to follow daddy oranges commands.

My point is, yes we CAN take this country back from the rich. But we will have to fight a second civil war to do so. This civil war won’t be about racism. It will be 100% a class war. And the rich will 100% throw every brainwashed moron they can find into the front lines to die to protect their wealth.

So if we want to take the country back, we’re going to need to fight. Quite frankly, I’m looking forward to it. Either I die and stop suffering in poverty, or I get a better life. When you push the public down to the point that they have nothing to lose, don’t be surprised when death doesn’t scare them.

Also, I just wanted you to know I’m not the one who downvoted you. Someone, (I suspect a bot) is downvoting everyone on here, exactly once.

When I get a comment thats 3 upvotes and 14 downvotes, I say “Oh. THAT comment wasn’t popular.” But when I see ever comment of mine is 8 upvotes, 1 downvote. 3 upvotes, 1 downvote. 62 upvotes, 1 downvote.

When I see that, on almost every comment I make, it gets me irrationally angry, because I know the downvote isn’t someone joking. The downvotes aren’t someone actually disagreeing. Its just someone who enjoys spreading negativity. THAT makes me mad.

And in situations like this where I reply a disagreement, it’s easy to think the only downvote is from the guy who disagreed. Unfortunately, thats not the case.

Oh, there was no inheritance coming. He lives in a rat infested house because he refuses to let us help, and rehome him.

But I will go over, and he’ll have 104 internet explorer’s running. 90% of them all pointing at either the food network, or baseball websites. Instead of clicking the row of app buttons on the bottom to bring up his page that already exists and refresh it, he’ll open another internet explorer and go to the page again.

Then complains that his computer freezes.

My dad is 78 years old, and refuses to go past Windows XP. Everytime I go to his house to fix some bullshit, its because he’s riddled with viruses.

He doesn’t understand windows xp. You think he’s going to understand linux???