It’s not a bribe. It’s a gratuity paid after the service is provided when the electee or appointee leaves office, which is totally palatable and sustainable in a failed democracy.

You nailed Ketchup.

Also, mayonnaise is fucking disgusting. I worked at subway in high school and we had to install wide-nozzle tubes on our mayo dispensers because the morbidly obese customers would say things like “I don’t want to be able to see the sandwich, just bury it in mayo” and it would hold up the sandwich line.

Let’s get down to it: top 3 hot sauces? I go Valentinas, green Tabasco, sriracha. Honorable mention, gochujang, tapatio

The sky, mostly open and noiseless, without drones.

No, that is bullshit. If you don’t trust them or if they can’t be trusted don’t give them a phone. Nanny parenting, or pretending you’re the NSA is unhealthy for their development, and gives you an illusion of control of their life that is inaccurate and misleading.

Talk to your fucking kid about your worries or their behavior and/or parent them, actually drive behavioral change, but don’t bitch out and not parent and pretend the E-leash is helping them or you.

The Century of the Self, a multi-part series on the Genesis of contemporary US Public Relations and propaganda, politics and the godfather of it all, Edward Bernays.

Watched it once 20 years ago and still think of it in reference to many broken business, government and political approaches.

Link to part 1 below from bot.

I’ve heard that consistently. Love going into games blind, never even saw as much as a trailer for fallout before jumping in. Heard Vegas was the bomb, enjoying 4 for what it is now.

Just started the Fallout series a few months ago(3, now into 4) less neon but definitely highly critical of corporations’ soullessness, consumerism, vanity and all other things that will disappear when important things happen. Incredible consistent aesthetic and feel.

Plumber or electrician.

“The Selfish Gene” by Richard Dawkins

Daft Punk’s 1997 “Homework” album

“The Atomic Cafe” 1982 documentary film

Edit: Vonnegut, the far side and Calvin and Hobbes for making me feel like I’m not crazy and most people are peddling a tremendous amount of bullshit.

I’ll clap for prodigious and the insult!

You have “a massively large vocabulary” and couldn’t think of anything other than “massively large”? 🤔

Ego, authority, signaling career progression to other employers, or just an excuse to pay someone at a certain level while maintaining “equity”.

It’s privately owned, so impossible to say. Revenue estimates are between 100 And $500m annually. Even if the owner doesn’t draw much salary they likely retained most of not all ownership of the company unless they had to cut in others to grow since founding. They look older so may be close to selling and cashing out(going public) for their generational paycheck, or might keep it in the family if they want, either way their compensation will be perversely inflated vs. what employees make, it’s just the way the system is designed.

Reply notifications serve the immediate purpose to take you back to the thread if you want, but having a personal post history that is blank because I prefer fresh content in communities is strange to me especially in a nacent project with limited content on many communities.

Yes, it makes sense to hide posts in any community or all, but not one’s own posts or own profile.

When you submit a post, often it’s to have a discussion you’d like to follow, advice or info to gain from others, etc. Lemmy marks these as read since you’ve obviously seen them to create them, even for your own posts, so they don’t show up under “posts” on your own profile. Having ones own profile be blank of posts because you’d like to have fresh content everywhere else seems like a miss.