So what’s the narrative, I can’t keep up.

Women are too picky and only want the top whatever percent of men? It seems like I’m always hearing how hard it is for men to date/get laid.

Sounds to me like if women end up single, it’s probably on purpose.

I’ve def seen studies that single women are happier in general than married women.

These guys are always upset about women not working. Or upset that women working means they want a partner in life instead of relying on men for food and shelter.

Or they’re upset at the possibility of women needing alimony after spending their entire marriage not working while catering to their man’s every need

Or upset that they have to pay child support to the person with primary custody of said children (and probably doesn’t have great career prospects after being a housewife).

They live in some delusional fantasy land where women live to serve men, but aren’t at all concerned with their own well being when their men decide to ditch them.

They just want to self select out of any possibility of a relationship so they can blame women for them not getting any.

And tbf, women as a whole are better off without these guys trying to date them.

Religion/MAGA?

Religious folk aren’t shy to admit they don’t want people (usually their women) to become “too worldly”. That’s code for educated

Right? It’s a super fun and very funny movie. Knee jerk reactions to a movie about Barbie tells you all you need to know about where the person gets all their opinions fed to them from

Grocery shopping and food prep is always an option. Cheaper and healthier too.

If you have time to browse Lemmy, you got time to throw some shit in an air fryer/insta pot/slow cooker.

Jesus, it’s like they want you to order online from a third party instead of paying them.

The argument I keep seeing against fast food being too expensive is “use the app! It’s cheaper”. Fuck that. I bought frozen junk food and an air fryer. McDonald’s can keep their 15$ meals*

*Disclaimer that I don’t actually know how much a meal is these days, but I know it’s gone way up. Also, I do still buy from McD when I need to shit out a hangover. Sue me.

Dunno why you’re getting downvoted, you’re 100% correct.

Most people aren’t on social media talking politics or thinking about any of this outside what they might overhear at church, from family/friends, on TV, shared on Facebook.

How is this upvoted? Didn’t the US go in there, destabilize everything, then just pull out, leaving a power void for the Taliban to waltz in and seize?

What if we were finally able to get insurance companies out of healthcare in the US? Thousands would lose their jobs, but millions would suddenly be able to get care. So much money would be saved, but so many people would suddenly be out of work.

I don’t know about you, but I hate paying several hundred dollars a month (and 100s or 1000s if I actually get care) to prop up a whole ass middleman between me and my care.

You admit that you’re posting what are essentially lies in order to attract conservatives? Y’all really are just saying the quiet part out loud.

I fucking hope so? Tf else do these exist

Because it’s a handful (woa, figure of speech!) dominating the news because they have an agenda. There’s still plenty of WFH options out there, and there is also news about companies forcing RTO to bleed top talent.

Not sure why you’re riding so hard for RTO.

You think every single company wants it?

I do SEO as my day job.

I’ve only ever done white hat, and it’s all about content relevance to user intent, creating a site that loads quickly and functions in an intuitive way, and is coded so that search engines can easily understand the site.

Of course the goal is almost always to get you to buy something, but all it really is is best practices for online publishing.

Dunno about every single company, but I’m sure the handful that want it are really happy this is the impression you’re getting

You want an argument in favor of not letting consumers repair things they’ve purchased?

That’s an extra 500/mo for me.

Factoring in needing to (re)buy office clothes/makeup/hair products, the extra time to get ready every day, commute with the time and money costs, as well as increased food costs?

Hard pass. That “extra” money is only going to pay for those extra costs.

Let’s look from a time perspective. Being conservative in estimating a typical commute (for my area) and getting ready time, that’s an extra 1.5 hours to my day. 500 a month over that extra 30 hours a week is 16/hr. Not terrible, but not worth it to me. I’m not going to trade 3 hours of my off work time for $48.

Now, if you’re willing to trade that time for that cost, I’ll def find 3 hours of chores around my place to hire you for!

There’s gotta be pressure for offices to open up so employees are forced to spend money on food/coffee/dry cleaning/whatever around the building itself too.

I feel for those businesses, but not enough to subsidize their existence when I don’t need it.