"Da, is authentic American Clam Chowder recipe, comrade! You add beets and vodka, yes?"

Lol, this is especially the case when it's my turn to be the designated driver in the group 🤣

At least I'll stay hydrated! Hydrohomies for life!

This artstyle is so unhinged and I love it lol

Highkey though I kind of don't want to help people leave Twitter to go to Lemmy. While the increase in posts would be great, the kind of toxicity and general culture that follows can most definitely ruin a website.

I'm too young to chime in on Clinton, but I can see it with Obama for sure.

I think we need to remind companies why streaming started...time to sail the seven seas yet again, fellas!

Cats know they're the gods 🤣

Kind of a messed up take here but migrants are used as a tool by the proletariat to keep wages low and to push down wages. I see the perspective that C-Suite Individuals (CEO, COO, CFO, etc.) keep wages low and pocket the multi-million dollar change, but how do they justify it? "Market Rate" is a good way to deflect blame nowhere. Everyone's moving labor outside of the US, and at least for me as a USA born working class individual, it weakens my ability to earn for my family.

Mikey, as a youtuber who consumes lots of food.

I didn't have Mukbang Mikey for 2024 ;(

It’s not his fault! He’s orange :(

NYSNA is in the hospital I work at (New York City), although I'm an 1199 Union Member as I'm not a nurse. They're huge and really demand a lot from the hospitals in New York. While not perfect, I see them doing work for the betterment of their Nurses and that's pretty good to see.

Damn, never knew the calculator modmail was poppin' like that.

Orange Controller? Looking gooood ;)

Super agreed. We used to be a country where a janitor was able to get a house for themselves and their kids, and provide for a family on a single income. I'm basing this off of a real example too lol! My middle school janitor in Queens, NYC is a dope dude. Granted things are different now, the population size is expanding and there is a space/space-to-person ratio crisis, but that can't mean that engineering apprentices, or technicians, or low-volt electricians have to live making < $50k (explicit examples that I've seen in my HCOL area). There once was a gradient for a middle class, now it's just either high income or broke lol.

I'm sorry if I'm being dumb but I don't get what you're asking. I work as a unionized engineer and then always try to keep a second side hustle job (cashier, waiter, etc.). When I was a non-union engineer I saw third party companies hiring people that were underqualified and across the globe, remotely taking jobs. As a waiter/cashier however, I didn't see this at all. Although I was working minimum wage so I don't think anyone would necessarily ask lower.

The point I was trying to make is that, when I was making $35 an hour non-unionized, firms would offer to have remote engineers for $30 an hour. So now I'm effectively "over" market rate, and am at risk of being fired. This weakens my ability to earn for my family. If the latter didn't exist, I could have asked for $40 an hour even. Thankfully I'm now unionized at around that rate so I'm okay. But for my friends that aren't minimum wage, but aren't flying stacks of money rich, they are constantly at risk of just being another budget issue.

Depends on where I'm at. In the U.S. (where I'm from), I would personally tip. I also tipped in Mexico when I vacationed there recently. I wouldn't tip in a no-tip/offensive-tip country (e.g. France).

It's his world, we're just living in it 🤣

Wow. I didn't think about that. Holy heck. Let me just take my wife, my brother, my parents, and move half way across the map where, the cost of living will be lower but the cost of salary will be exponentially lower; because a stranger on the internet told me to! Shouldn't take me more than a week to uproot my whole life and move somewhere else. Thanks fam!!! 😀

(Major /s, if you already haven't noticed)

Very very very much agreed. The financial constraints caused by the rich force the middle class engineer look the other way and cut corners.

Do you statistics? This guy clearly statistics.