What would be a fair wage for the work you do? An actual dollar amount.
  • 2ugly2live 2ugly2live 2d ago 100%

    At least $100k with all the bullshit they put us through. 🙄

    But if they got me to $80k—$90k, I'd be a quieter worker bee.

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  • A third of Americans agree with Trump that immigrants ‘poison the blood’ of US
  • 2ugly2live 2ugly2live 2d ago 100%

    Immigrants are the blood of the US. This fascist bullshit is the poison.

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  • 2ugly2live 2ugly2live 2d ago 100%

    Fatal Frame 3, Nier Automata, Portal, Ghost of Tsushima, and Kunitsu-Gami apperently.

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  • Trump abruptly dumps another interview, sending his team into a panic
  • 2ugly2live 2ugly2live 2d ago 100%

    Harris really left him shook, damn.

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    Even Bernie didn't vote third party when it counted.
  • 2ugly2live 2ugly2live 2d ago 86%

    It's just naive in my opinion. They say they care so much about Palestine, but refuse to sit down, grow up, and face our current political reality. I would love to have ranked voting, or even just a valid third party choice, but that is not going to happen in the next 3 weeks. And we are still reeling from the repercussions of the last Trump Term. They'll continue to stack government and courts with the same backwards thinkers to make progress, if any, even harder. They'll continue to make life harder and more dangerous for not even just minorities, but just anyone who's not able to buy their way out of it.

    But it doesn't matter! They're both the same! There is no way Trump could be worse. Because while Palestinians watch Israel's interpretation of "just end it" with out a cease fire, they'll die with the knowledge that, somewhere, in another country, a woman is bleeding out in the parking lot because some people wanted to make a point. Oh, boy, won't that be great? /s

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  • 2ugly2live 2ugly2live 3d ago 100%

    Sacroiliac and coccyx.

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  • Cynthia Erivo calls out fans who made their own Wicked poster
  • 2ugly2live 2ugly2live 4d ago 97%

    That's a really dumb thing to get upset over. They also changed her mouth and the lip color. Like the original. I could understand if they edited her nose or some other features to be more "European," but they changed only what they needed.

    And it looks better.

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  • 2ugly2live 2ugly2live 4d ago 100%

    TV series. If it's good, I get to spend more time with it that way.

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  • 2ugly2live 2ugly2live 4d ago 100%

    I remember getting a bruise on my palm from doing that so much at my grandma's. And I wouldn't stop, so I had it there for months.

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  • 2ugly2live 2ugly2live 4d ago 100%

    I'm taking some of the books. Sorry.

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  • 2ugly2live 2ugly2live 4d ago 100%

    I may have to give that a try after this one. Thanks for the heads up, 👍🏾

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    What book(s) are you currently reading or listening? October 15
  • 2ugly2live 2ugly2live 4d ago 100%

    The Twisted Ones.

    Not a huge fan of how this author writes, but I think it's an interesting enough mystery so far.

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  • This is a thought experiment "Ball on a Table" for detecting whether someone has Aphantasia. What do you see when you perform this experiment?
  • 2ugly2live 2ugly2live 4d ago 100%

    ::: spoiler My answers:

    • What color was the ball? Red
    • What gender was the person that pushed the ball?: seen from the bust, but a masculine physique
    • What did they look like?: Grey shirt, light skinned, clean nails, hands looks slightly worn.
    • What size is the ball? Like a marble, or a baseball, or a basketball, or something else?: Tennis ball size. Smooth and has a good bounce, but sounds solid.
    • What about the table, what shape was it? What is it made of? Rectangle. Wooden. Smooth, but had a knot in it.

    And now the important question: Did you already know, or did you have to choose a color/gender/size, etc. after being asked these questions?

    I already knew? . I had to visualize it first to answer any questions.


    :::

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    ‘They will vote against Harris’: Arab Americans in Michigan desert Democrats over Gaza
  • 2ugly2live 2ugly2live 4d ago 50%

    Gotcha. Thanks.

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    ‘They will vote against Harris’: Arab Americans in Michigan desert Democrats over Gaza
  • 2ugly2live 2ugly2live 5d ago 50%

    Lmao, no I'm not.

    This will be my last post because we're not getting anywhere: But I am not pro genocide. None of any of my comments in this thread have alluded as such. I am just as aware and horrified. But I'm being realistic. The US has the blood of many nations on their hands and it doesn't make me all warm and fuzzy, but in the next few weeks, I believe that the greatest use in my vote is at the very least putting someone in office who isn't going to tell Israel to get it over with and just kill everyone.

    All the third party does in its current state is take dem votes, making easier for the right. Dems are not going to get any message, the right will just get the key to the city. Now, is that going to be the case next time around? I'll do what I can, no matter how small, to change that. But this year, this election, the best we can hope for is to minimize the damage because that is our only realistic option.

    Both sides are commuting genocide, so are you okay with doing nothing? Do you truly believe Trump will be just as bad in office, and therefore it doesn't matter? That's a question I cannot answer for you. If you believe that voting 3rd party is going to make your stand or help someone, there's nothing else for me to say. It just is what it is and we'll have to let the pieces fall where they may.

    As important as I think this election is, we're just going to have to agree to disagree.

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  • 2ugly2live 2ugly2live 5d ago 50%

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  • 2ugly2live 2ugly2live 5d ago 42%

    Maybe you aren't trying again, but don't try to tell me what I will and will not do.

    And still no answers, hmm? You went to, "Nuh uh, you're shaming the left in favor of a Hitler." Still no response to what we should do except nothing or vote for something we know isn't going to make a difference. Ya'll throw out "Hitler" like it'll make someone pause, when a it does is highlight what a ignorant voter your are. If you truly think the choice we have between Trump and Harris is picking between two equally bad Hitler-like candidates, then I'm glad you're throwing your vote away, because you're a dumb ass with an oversimplified view of the world that you live in.

    Do nothing then, but don't try to promote people to do the same stupid shit. Don't sit here and try to further divide the left so we can fight amongst ourselves while the fascists just keep on chugging, because that's exactly what they want. While you're sitting on your hands, the rest of us are going to work. The rest of us will try our best to get through this election so we can try again. We will vote, we will protest, and we will work. We won't sit on our hands and will the government with inactivity, or the voting equivalent of "hopes and prayers" mere weeks before an election, because we want to have a temper tantrum about the world we live in, because we don't have time for that. We are all disappointed in our candidates, but we have shit to do. We understand that allowing Trump in the office again is only going to make things harder and worse and will make any change damn near impossible. We'll be the adults for you and get shit done. You can come back to the grown up table next election, if we even get to there. But, please, let those in Gaza know that you've done literally nothing for them except try to make your own country worse. I'm sure they'll relieved. 🙄

    Here, I'll even do the response for you:

    "You're just saying you'd vote for the Nazis if they were only a teeny different! You can think genocide is okay, even though I'm not doing shit about it! I have to say you won't do anything too, or I may have to come to terms with my own cowardice. I'm going to throw my vote into the garbage because that'll show them Dems that I'm not playing around! Who cares if we turn into a Nazi led government. I didn't vote for them, I just did nothing to stop anything, and if I can't save everyone or fix the world in one election, everyone else can suffer because no one in my country or the world is more important than me acting like a child. I know if I say enough 'Hitler' and 'you liberals' you'll make me feel better because I'll have a position to defend! Because nothing is more left leaning than doing fuck all and allowing facisim to walk throw the door unencumbered, obviously."

    You're welcome.

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  • 2ugly2live 2ugly2live 5d ago 44%

    In this current landscape, no. Come November, this is it. These are the choices we have. I have to look at everything and find the lesser of two evils. It sucks, but it's where we are. No, I am not at all pleased with what Harris has had to say about Gaza, but it's not as if I have another, reasonable option to vote for in the next three weeks. So who do I think it going to be "better" for the next four years while we try again. Neither of them is likely to passify me when it comes to Gaza, but one of them believes in trans rights. Unfortunately, that is better than nothing.

    One month before the election is not time to stand on business, the players are set. Now next year, and the next following years until we end up at the next election, absolutely. I have no problem making my voice heard and attempting change when it could actually do something. It's like, when they tell you to put your own mask on before helping someone else in a plane. Both Gaza and America need "air." We can even say that, while America is "light headed," Gaza has already lost consciousness. As much as I wish I could kill two bird with one stone and pick the better candidate and the one against genocide, I can't, there's no a "joint mask" that's fallen for me to pick. But if I put on my mask first, take a deep breath, I'll get time to try again, maybe even save someone. If I don't take that mask, no one is getting help and I'll just pass out too.

    I have to do what I can in this moment, and right now that's trying to put the more sane of the two candidates in office.

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  • 2ugly2live 2ugly2live 5d ago 50%

    One side is way more than just "more annoying." You're throwing away your vote, period. We cannot be single issue voters, because there isn't only a single issue at stake. The right will vote against their own self interests every time it the right says they hate the right people.These elections are how they get their players in place. This is how we got here. The players the right have placed in courthouses, congress, the senate, and the supreme court are there reasons we lost Roe v Wade in the first fucking place.

    I'm not going to sit here and think that the dems are going to fix every single problem, but I know for a fact Trump would make it worse. People pulled this same shit last election, and the one before. Thinking that, "Oh, well, they'll see that I'm not gonna vote and then they'll change." Magats will vote against their own self interest because they're damn near a cult. We vote against our own self interests to, what, prove ourselves a point? Teach our politicians a lesson? Make it harder for the Bernies and AOCs to have even a ice cubes chance of hell of even discussing change? For some reason, we can't see the forest through the trees. It's so frustrating. People like you want to make it seem like a vote for Harris is a vote for genocide knowing damn well is the only sane option we have. Because you mean to tell me you really fucking think the Republicans are going to handle Gaza with care? Or that they'll be just a little worse to work with? You genuinely believe that?

    So tell me, at the end of this "protest," what's the plan? We absolutely know that the third party is going to lose, so it's either Trump or Harris who have any reasonable odds of winning. So Harris loses, are you happy in this situation? The Republicans will actively block anything to help anyone, but I guess no one getting help is better than anyone getting help in your world. I'm not happy with my choices, but I'm a fucking adult, and adults have to make tough decisions. Adults have to weigh the options. Adults have to look ahead. I know right now I have no feasible candidate to vote for that can assist with Gaza right now, but I know one of those candidates is not going to go on live television and stir a race war by claiming Haitian immigrants are eating fucking cats and dogs. I know one of those candidates doesn't believe that there are active abortions going on at nine months. I know one of those candidates isn't going to continue to restrict the rights of citizens in their own country that they don't like. I know one candidate isn't going too be too busy sucking Putin's dick for money and compliments to govern.

    Right now, let's say you and your family are poisoned (not because of what you believe, but go with me here). We give you two cups. One will not only do nothing for you, it will actually make your condition worse and much more painful. Another one may help you, it could even have the antidote, but all you know is that it will not make your condition worse and will at the very least slow the spread, giving you time to think of a plan should it fail. Whatever you pick, your family has to pick too. Your choice in this scenario is to stare at both cups, willing one to change into the antidote with inaction while you continue to succumb to poison. Your family pleades to at least not make their deaths worse, to at least take the possible antidote, or at least give them time, but you're like, "no, no, no, I think these cups are starting to get that I'm not easily swayed!"

    I am sorry that we're in this situation, but we are. Voting for third party is throwing away your vote. If that's what you wanna do, I can only hope that the rest of us have more sense to make up for it.

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  • 2ugly2live 2ugly2live 5d ago 100%

    If I was posting it as a meme? Maybe. I could see myself posting like... "someone waking up at 6 am VS someone already up" and post just the character singing the line. Would I expect everyone to get it? No, not unless I'm posting in a place where 100% of the people are supposed to know the next scene is him at a funeral. But I'd be okay knowing that some people may not get the joke because I didn't post, "by the way, you see, in this scene, this character is saying 'it's a beautiful morning,' but it is in fact not a beautiful morning! Because he is actually at a funeral, which is so sad! I used this because, while someone who is still awake might enjoy an early morning, someone who is just waking up may not. You see, if you watched the show, you will know the next scene is people looking confused and offended at the funeral. This would be the face of the early riser, would it not! Oh, what a laugh! Please see this link to the full scene and episode, so the joke can really hit you."

    Tons of memes are reduced to their basic parts. That's just memes. Hell," Loss" is a great example of that. It's just layout at this point. And sometimes if you don't see the reference where people sneak it in, you're just like, "I don't get it, this just looks like a normal post" and that's okay. It's okay not to get the joke.

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    This past weekend, my laptop decided it's had enough and has given me the blue screen of death. I've put it in recovery mode, tried to reinstall windows, the works, and it refuses. I have no idea why. I was logged on, looking something up, and it went kaput. I wasn't downloading anything, the computer was in it's sleeve prior, not too wet, cold, hot, etc. Battery is fine, the laptop it's self is maybe two years old. My understanding is that Linux is a kind of system that you download the components to a USB or what not and then install it on your machine. Is that something I could do in this case? Or do I need to take it somewhere? Edit: it seems I may have to check if it's a hardware problem. The error code is Bad_system_config_info, but it changed to something else at one point but I didn't write that one down. :(

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    They put out this shelf and I want it, but I don't want to seem strange? It would make a nice plant shelf, but it's not something I can scurry away with, so people would see me while I carried it. Is that a bad thing to do? EDIT: Never mind. Someone beat me to it. 😭

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    I took this picture through my mosquito netting and I thought it turned out neat.

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    When I adopted her she was 21 pounds and I had to use a small dog carrier. She's now at a healthy 13 (she's long). Another photo of her from her chonk days: ![](https://lemm.ee/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Flemmy.world%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2F52129a71-af0a-42b7-9700-a06c7f4e959d.jpeg)

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    I know it's a long shot, but are there any controllers that people could recommend? Both of my controllers went. One has a severe drift and the other one has unresponsive buttons (and I had gotten that one to deal with the drift of the first). I was wondering if anyone knew of any sturdier brands?

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    She'll stand there and scream until I get her food. 🙃

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    I recently noticed a Finch that seems to be suffering from this, which really broke my heart. I looked it up and have taken down and washed the feeders. I'm posting to ask if chikadees can get this as well. I've looked all over but they mostly mention doves and so forth. Some of the chikadees still visit to see if the feeder is back, and I can't tell if one is just fat or if she's sick. I know I wouldn't be able to do anything, but I'd like to know if I should be looking at them as carriers as well. ::: spoiler spoiler Please remember this little Finch. It breaks my heart that I can't help her and I'm surprisingly devesated about this random bird. ![](https://lemm.ee/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Flemmy.world%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2F850b5d00-3e62-42d2-a19a-68e6a9f0f308.jpeg) :::

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    I feel like I'm driving in an ice level and the game keeps telling my car is gonna explode. 😭

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