Being black isn’t a disqualifier if you can access resources…

How much discrimination do you think obviously wealthy black people face? A much as a poor black person?

It’s not a matter of skin color in reality, that shit’s nothing more than some extra melanin. The difference is the perception that black people are poor… People see a young black guy in a high end Audi and assume he’s a drug dealer, because they have this societally developed perception that a person of his melanin content is incapable of acquiring that kind of money legitimately. The discrimination is centric to the resources, always has been. There are white people who get just as discriminated against as any other poor person, it’s a huge factor in why Trump’s stupid ass has the following he does… He plays that shit up and nobody else will touch it with a ten foot pole…

Your question would be much better applied to height discrimination, which is something that’s almost never mentioned, but is a lot more indicative of the nature of discrimination itself.

It is instinctual, as others have said, but it has nothing to do with tribalism or war, its about resources. Discrimination is almost always about resources (the notable exception being gender/orientation based discrimination, which I guess is religious?).

The discrimination against small people (and obesity and age as well), is more basic, and likely older (in evolutionary terms), and is oriented towards hunting and fighting. We think less of smaller, fatter, and older people because they’re assumed to be less capable of gathering (and fighting for or defending) basic resources.

Discrimination against races is more recent, and more societal, and is more about monetary resources, and isn’t even entirely a matter of race. Poor white people can be discriminated against in the exact same way for the exact same reasons. Racism is more classist than discrimination against height, weight age, etc. but is essentially still a matter of these classes being seen as less capable of getting resources.

You can see it more easily if you look objectively at the discriminatory tendencies of women (and I mean that in a very generalized way). They tend to be far more discriminatory towards resource based biases… Height, weight, physical condition… They’re often inexplicably attracted to overly aggressive partners, occasionally to their own detriment. The more instinctual a woman is, the more likely to pursue the overly aggressive men. Race isn’t anywhere near as much a factor, and there are notable exceptions in all factors for women if a man obviously has a lot of resources already (no indictment intended ladies, just is what it is, and generally)

And of course it’s more obvious among women for the same reason… The disparity (again, in a very general sense) between male and female in ability to gather and defend resources affects women’s choices of partners more so than men.

Well that’s a fun way to find out my client is borked :)

I use liftoff… Are these others better? There weren’t but a couple options when I first got on lemmy…

Does it cost the same? Could just be the “no ice” concept… No ice, more actual drink. Maybe they feel like they’re getting more of what they’re paying for with an extra shot added.

Basically a girdle? Flattens out anatomy you don’t want showing? I think I understood the context…

I think I’m misreading the article… I’m under the impression, based on how this is written, that they don’t have any binders in the store, and the context of my entire comment was based on that :)

It’s not all binders are secret squirrel mode I take it? It’s just an alternative option and they have some there?

Why the discretion about binders? Do people get hung up over them? It’s basically a girdle… Is it the 1800’s up in this bitch or something? Do we gotta hide the sears catalog from the kids?

Get some with nipples on em and wear em in public, you’re males, it’s legal. Should be legal for everyone anyway, or illegal for everybody…

“Deep south”? Seriously? Why not “the stay puft marshmallow man”? If you’re gonna tempt fate with your naming choice, might as well have a little fun with it…

We have far more capacity to archive than we have to recall, and this holds true even as an individual.

Which is to say that everything posted is indelible (“written in ink”), but the vast majority of it is rendered transient (“written in pencil”) by way of a huge amount of obscurity.

Or, in simpler terms, it’s both :)

These systems exist already, they just use a belt driven air compressor because it’s ridiculously more practical/efficient.

That’s a hella skimpy example, but yes.

Except that it’s wrong… AI is capable of creativity. It created the artist name. It’s clearly not a very developed or robust sense of creativity because it clearly just hashed up the name Hanna Montana, and the song is probably likewise just a hashed up existing song, but I’m guessing it probably did a better job of creating an original work than vanilla ice…

If you go to an “estate sale”, you’ll generally find that everything not nailed down is being sold.

What will remain, that can’t be carted off or removed, is the “real” estate. The land itself, the permanent structures.

It’s why a house sale includes a bunch of information about things like appliances, mineral rights, the things that are being included that arent “real” components of the property, because they could conceivably be removed prior to closing, because purchasing “real estate” doesn’t automatically include those things inherently, and you want all the estate that isn’t “real property” to be codified.

Estate sale vs “real estate” sale, is the basic difference.

You didn’t know unions pay employees during a strike because they almost never do…

Unions are funded by members. The money you’d get while striking would have to be money you yourself paid into union dues. In order for you to be paid while striking, you’d either have had to have been paying very steep dues, or had to have been paying in for a very long time into a very old and established union.

Further, said ancient union would have had to have been collecting dues for a considerable length of time and not been spending anything. Let’s say I make 50k/year and I pay 2%, or $1k/yr. In order to go on strike for a month, I need 6 years of dues stored up. If there’s 100 members, your talking about $100k/yr that goes completely untouched the entire time. What agency have you ever heard of that would sit on that amount of money? They would spend a large portion on something. Invariably.

It’s not the reality of unions. Its a fairy tale. Ask Google if a union pays workers wages when they strike… Don’t take people’s word on shit like that (including mine) when you can Google.

A union works almost the same way an HOA works. A group of people get together and sign a contract agreeing to abide by certain rules.

Internally, there’s generally a governing board, usually an elected one, but occasionally you get a dictatorship type deal. They may or may not implement rules, they might issue IDs of some sort, they almost invariably hold meetings, and almost always charge dues, which is a fee members pay to be a member, in principle to fund union activities.

The leverage a union holds it’s in its membership. Generally the rules of a union are that as a member you agree to certain actions, and the obvious is to strike. The most common union rule is that if the union body calls a strike, you aren’t allowed to come to work. That gives the union body the ability to force a company to meet certain demands or face the prospect of not having anyone show up.

The basic overall concept is that the union leadership negotiates with company leadership on behalf of the union members.

The downsides are also similar to an HOA, especially when a union gets very large. You can find yourself subject to rules governing your behavior, your appearance, your hours, etc. You might find yourself being more an employee of the union than the company.

Small unions are almost always beneficial, but can lack negotiating power. Large ones can and often do become self serving and overly political, but have a lot of power to affect pay, benefits, hours, etc. for their members

They got a bunch of a valuable resource, and they’re going to maximize its value by… not selling it…? So they’ve been taking lessons from debeers I guess?

Here’s how that plays out when it’s a critical resource and not a frivolity… the people who critically need it will establish the resource somewhere else. Lets say you own 50% of the current output. That 50% will be made available somewhere else somehow, because it’s critical. Now your 50% is only 33%, and it’s criticality is significantly less, and you can’t sell it for as much as you used to be able to, IF you can even sell it at all, because you were a dick when people needed it and didn’t have it, and the world remembers that kinda shit for a while.

And of course, if it’s critical enough, there are some pretty big militaries out there that might come knocking…

It wasnt a protest, it was an assault, and the alleged criminal is denied his home already by virtue of being incarcerated… The threat is that they blow his family’s home up and leave them homeless.

So it’s “piss us off and we make your whole family homeless”, which is behavior generally attributed to criminal mafia.

“This is a lightweight “bubbly” form of concrete used widely between the 1950s and mid-1990s - usually in the form of panels on flat roofs, as well as occasionally in pitched roofs, floors and walls. It has a lifespan of around 30 years.”

A concrete panel expected to last 30 years was installed in 1995, in what year should you replace it?

What year math is that you suppose? Third grade? Fourth grade? Just asking…

Go on google or Amazon and search for shower valves, you’ll find pictures of what’s inside the wall behind the chrome plate you got there… seeing images will give you a better idea of what to expect than anything anyone can describe.

After that, go take the knob off your shower valve (probably the center cap pries out, you take out a screw, and it pulls off), then take off that chrome ring (Allen screw on bottom, or it might just get pried off carefully or unscrew the whole thing, they vary). Have a look… that’ll tell you what your specific type of valve is and if you can do this without making a big ass hole in a wall…

Then figure out what’s on the other side of the wall the valve is on… if it’s a closet, maybe a big ass hole in the wall is ok? A big ass hole in the wall of the shower will involve tile. I’m thinking based on your description that you should 100% not fuck with tile. You’ll get into all manner of special tools, special skills, etc. real quick with tile :) a hole in drywall in someone’s closet might be a homeowner kinda deal though tbh.

Those three things are hopefully enough to answer your own questions, because the real “no bullshit” answer is that it depends… pex, copper, iron, delta, thermo, yadda yadda yadda… The shit inside the wall is as varied as the shit on the outside…

I could do this myself, but I wouldn’t… sink, toilet, ice maker, leak in the crawlspace, move the hose bib outside to the complete other side of the house, replace the water heater, add an expandion tank, all that shit is an immediate “fuck no im not paying soneone to do that, ill do it”, but a shower valve is a hard no :)

Have a look by all means, no harm in checking it out, but I wouldn’t be too optimistic in your shoes.