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Always keep a couple crackheads. Also, make sure you filter your crackheads. You want the ones who'll help you clean your garage for $10, not the ones who will clean out your garage for about $10 down at the pawn shop.
Promote a positive environment, help turn the crackden into a crackhome.
You want the ones who’ll help you clean your garage for $10, not the ones who will clean out your garage for about $10 down at the pawn shop.
This guy knows his junkies.
There's a slight but very crucial difference.
This guy knows his junkies.
Maybe read that username again.
Wait hold on. Are you shaming someone for not knowing what gender someone named "nakari" is? Cuz if that's the case you better sign me up for not knowing either.
EDIT: googled this name that I've never heard before and the top results said it's unisex. So uhhhh.....
Probably a good enough reason for folks to ask if someone sees pronouns before trying to shame them. This isn't the first time I've seen this discrepancy on Lemmy.
I natively speak a language which doesn't differentiate gender in any way, and "guy" is pretty gender-neutral to begin with.
So maybe consider that comment again.
“His”
Hänen
I don’t care about your comment, I was just pointing out what they had a problem with
I like boobs too
And they told you what they have a problem with, what's the issue?
Nothing, but he would be better off telling the person who had a problem with it
That seems to be you. I don't even see a comment from the gendered username in response.
Ed: didn't even notice but hilarious.
Nothing, but he would be
I'm curious, how it why do you know their gender preference. At least for me the do not have one listed. Seems a bit hypocritical
Dude would it really be that hard for you to edit your comment instead of whatever this is?
Oh it's not about this being hard.
It's about me saying I literally did not notice as I do not see gender in words like you do.
I admit that when using English I notice it more when it's a feminine pronoun than when it's a masculine one.
The point I'm making is that I did not misgender anyone. If anything, I disgendered English.
So no. I'm not going to admit to misgendering someone, when I most certainly don't do that on purpose. What I might do is not read the username of a person I'm replying to. As I prefer responding to the message, not the person.
It's not my fault English isn't gender neutral when I am. I naturally speak and think in a way that does not account for gender. Would you like for me to start replacing that with archaic gender stereotypes?
If anything, I disgendered English.
No you didn't, masculine is still a gender. I'm totally willing to believe that this was an innocent mistake to begin with but by tripling down on it like this you're just being a dick.
It's not my fault English isn't gender neutral when I am. I naturally speak and think in a way that does not account for gender.
You understand that English does have gender neutral pronouns, right? "His" just isn't one of them. At any rate, given that Rose has her pronouns in her display name there's no need to use neutral language anyway.
Calm down guy, it doesnt even seem like the person you're talking about took offense with it. Why claim their outage for your own?
yawn
This whole-ass thread is terrible and I downvoted everyone
Name a gender-neutral singular third person pronoun from English that isn't "it" (calling people "it" in English is very offensive, but in Finnish it's just natural colloquialism, but I know enough to avoid that in English)
they
eta: to degender your comment you could say "this person knows their junkies"
but being as you've been beaten over the head with the fact that the OP uses she/her pronouns that would also be misgendering her.
leaving it as using a masculine pronoun is rude at best and blatantly transphobic at worst. nobody thinks you were being actively harmful when you said it but not being willing to change it is toxic.
you're not the hero here.
"They" is plural, not singular.
It can be used to refer to single people, and using a plural instead of a singular is a very common way for many languages to show deference to the person you're speaking to. Like in Finland. English already did that and did it so much it got rid of the second person singular, as "you" is a second person plural. This ofc meant there was nowhere for English to go vis-a-vis showing deference, so English really stresses titles. Narcissism of small differences, really.
nobody thinks...
Based on the votes I'll have to disagree and say you don't really know what others think.
So, to reiterate, you would rather that I start using archaic stereotypes to think about people and language? I have to condition myself into thinking of everyone as either a boy or a girl, and always make a mental note to gender someone as soon as I make contact with them? The first thing I do should be to gender them? That's your takeaway?
Maybe try reading my comments again, with some thought. You're not the hero here.
incorrect, "they" can be singular or plural. that's not even a recent "woke mind virus" change to the language, it's always been the case.
you literally did gender her immediately when you said "guy ... his" the appropriate thing to do would be to respect the pronouns she put on her profile when they were pointed out to you.
Do you have to run around taking offense on other’s behalf?
You joke, but the crackhead hooker next door to me in Chicago would clean my place, top to bottom, for a 20 spot. Wouldn't dare steal anything because I was good money for a regular rock.
That's the thing about addicts. They're still people. Some get into a bad situation and know better than to fuck up the few good opportunities they'll get. Many will fuck themselves over for easy and quick gains. The latter group is why my wife would kill me if I hired an addict prostitute to clean our home.
I had smack and crack habits off and on for almost twenty years. Never stole anything (aside from occasionally shoplifted food). I always worked and paid for my shit. However there are an awful lot of people out there who use their habits to justify shitty behaviour, so yeah, I'd err on the side of caution.
I've known a few like that. Why I joke about it. I knew a guy, if he could have kept his shit together, he coulda had his own damn shop. Dude could fix about anything mechanical, get it done quicker than some of the shops around the place.
Saw plenty of 'em working in construction, too. Keep it together long enough to make some decent cash, disappear for awhile, come back when they needed more. You got used to rotating faces, got to know which ones would try to screw you over. Too many times you'd see one come up alone and find out the buddies they had didn't make it through the last.
You let someone clean your whole place for that shitty pay? What are you? A crack junkie too? Have some dignity and pay a human in a shitty situation a decent compensation. Jeez. Our cleaning-lady makes that in an hour after taxes and I even feel like I cheat her.
$20 was worth more 20 years ago, and I had a 1-room apartment. She was making ~$10/hr. Fair pay for cleaning work in 2003, with my supplies.
tl:dr; Get off your fucking high horse.
In that case disregard my comment. "Top to bottom" made it sound like you made her clean a whole fucking house.
BTW, not abusing power over people isn't high-horse in my book. Just basic human decency.
I stand with you, I'm glad you have the money to pay her well. Would you suggest that fella should clean his apartment himself and then the woman next door is also not making those 20 bucks?
No. But maybe not abuse someone in such dire need for a Lil cash and pay fair. Junkie or not. Anyhow. My comment was invalid anyway and I took it back.
I know what you mean, you are right, but that guy is probably paying max he can and they found an arrangement. She's also probably not 1000% dependent on the money so she could also refuse and take a different gig or negotiate.
As I said, I'm totally with you, the work should get paid what it's worth and people should not be cheap about it, I'm just saying consider taking in more contextual information before you call out those enslaving junky exploiting fellas.
You're right, yet there was not much of context. And to assume that people tend to abuse weaker people is not really that unlikely. It's like the core of capitalism. And most people I've encountered would see such a thing as a success.
Yes I totally agree
You have never lived in a Crack friendly neighborhood.
rent has gone up 40% because the crackheads are now moving in
