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Everybody's a child now, I guess.
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[@MorbiusBridget]

Another Morbin' video from my Morbius brother! And unless you get called a "hoore" from an amateur 1997 film maker while working a wagey job, can you really say you're alive?

[@cynicalgothbrit2352]

debating politics on twitter is low iq period lol smart people are out enjoying their lives

[@chriscummings4206]

Is there such a thing as a lifetime student? Or maybe just choose student as a career?

[@Zetact_]

Socialist 1: "Nobody needs a kitchen." Socialist 2: "Nobody needs restaurants." Combine the two and you do get the result of socialist policy.

[@Nautules83]

haha yes... famine!

[@slydoorkeeper4783]

Yep, its so funny how they can never agree with each other on the exact details of everything, no compromises, just blind faith THEIR way will work. Like talk to them more, and you'll find they essentially have no rough outline about how things will go.

[@ItamarO93]

Math checks out

[@samj1512]

Food is capitalism

[@PvtFlowers]

fellas, is it bourgeois to not starve to death.

[@dimebagdirty]

>wants to start a revolution >Can't even boil an egg

[@CowMaster9001]

>the revolution needs you to struggle on the weekend.

[@lostalone9320]

You notice that all these revolutionaries never ever have any skills that are useful to a revolution. They see their role in a revolution as political commissars; they don't need to fight they just need to know Marxist theory.

[@AzureWiler]

it have been that way since Marx >write a manisfesto for the working class >never worked for shit I wonder if HE could boil an egg

[@DunningofKruger]

Especially considering they're making their argument on a device with which hundreds, no thousands of videos showing step by step how to boil an egg are a single keyboard input away.

[@DeathMonkeys]

I mean the revolution will NEED idiots like them, to die for the cause that is.

[@wintermintmojo2418]

“Learning to cook as a child is a privilege” Yeah I guess teaching myself to cook because it was that or starve while my parents worked from 4 AM till 8:30 PM was the absolute *height* of privilege.

[@reuploadify]

Both your parents worked for 16+ hours a day?

[@KeybladeMasterAndy]

You mean you didn't have cupboards full of snack foods and Lunchables?

[@bighex5340]

>Having parents >Having food in the pantry >Living in a home P R I V I L E G E (at least that's what the Twitter commie would say lmfao)

[@wintermintmojo2418]

@@reuploadify Mom was a nurse, worked four days a week usually. Occasionally she’d pick up OT. Dad had two jobs. So yes. Also travel time in Atlanta traffic.

[@wintermintmojo2418]

@@KeybladeMasterAndy Ayyyyye. We sometimes had Kid Cuisines over the summer. Those were lit.

[@Joural0401]

The starbucks thing makes me mad. Complaining that theres not enough people on shift while hiding in the back crying on tiktok, leaving his coworkers to suffer down 2 staff instead of 1 "I have a full mustache and beard" No you don't

[@enclaveherewhyisntyourvide3089]

his?

[@garak55]

I really feel bad for transmen. Like, you trade a life of people listening to you and considering your feelings for a life of litterally nobody caring about whether you live or not. All that because people tell you how privileged men are for getting drafted and getting unalived for rich people. You take the pills and you become a soft, short, doughey semi-dude and lose all value in the eyes of most people who are attracted to feminine qualities while becoming litterally the least attractive type of male that there is. I really pity transmen, their life must suck.

[@viljamtheninja]

That's the part that cracked me up. This bitch complains about how hard their scheduling is and then just abandons his co-workers to go cry. Clearly, on the subject of people infantilizing themselves, he sees his co-workers as functional people who will pick up the slack because they are adults and it's their jobs and he trusts them to be grown enough to do it, while he sees himself as a child who can't handle stress or responsibility and should not be expected to do so.

[@justadummy8076]

I had more facial hair than it when I was 12

[@Joural0401]

@@enclaveherewhyisntyourvide3089 I always find it ironic when people who are anti-trans, and thus presumably would fall on the "anti-compelled speech" side of things, expect everyone else to fall in lockstep with them. Kind of backwards logic. That said, I actually don't see any evidence this person is trans. In those circles you even see cis people complaining about misgendering, for whatever reason

[@neonreagan6023]

Twitter is what happens when you mix the town square with the insane asylum.

[@youngthinker1]

Most folks think themselves sane and smart. They are neither, and reject that reality.

[@orppranator5230]

Twitter is what happens when the crazy guy from every town square across the country are able to communicate with each other.

[@robertsteiner4696]

You can thank Ronald Reagan for this one unironically.

[@-Siculus-Hort-]

well, at least they are contained....

[@alface935]

@@robertsteiner4696 Give me the lore of this rabbit hole

[@casualgoats]

Ya know what is existentially infantilizing? The concept of the word 'adulting'. God i hate it.

[@-haclong2366]

Whenever I hear someone use the term "adulting" to indicate an activity I immediately assume that they're not mentally adult. I remember growing up looking at Baby Boomers as "adult children", every subsequent generation is even worse, and Baby Boomers never grew up beyond their teenage years, now we have adult kindergarteners.

[@YoshiTheOreo]

That word has me feeling like a Rugrat.

[@OnEiNsAnEmOtHeRfUcKa]

Ech, "adulting" is a word that has functional purpose, just, ironically, not within OUR society. It has marginal usage when dealing with societies that employ multiple DIFFERENT sentient races with different marks of and rates of maturation. Even then, a better word would not be hard to find for such a job. Frankly "Man Up" kind of already does the job a lot better.

[@jazeenharal6013]

YES

[@SergioLeonardoCornejo]

It is a reminder of how infantilized everyone is tbh. There's evidence of how harmful it is to extend childhood past the biological end instead of a gradual introduction to adulthood from the start of puberty. But nowadays people call citizens ages 17 to 22 children so...

[@PrincessTidge]

Of course, every story featured in this video was about food

[@MARfilms]

I love my North American BMI

[@lisztresurrected9438]

Which, given communism, isn't an issue. Because there isn't food.

[@michaelmcarthur2944]

lol

[@idothings5622]

Speaking of that Starbucks soy tranny, there’s an acuítalo game called night of th living customers or some shit like that, it looks like some real stupid fun, get dev to look into it

[@groundedorca3039]

Where.....did you get those imojis? 🤣

[@MahDryBread]

The other day I learned how to poach eggs. Let me walk you through that process I wanted poached eggs. So I googled how to cook them, I watched an 8 minute video, and then I did it. Turned out great. What's wrong with these people?

[@fillo9873]

They were born and grew up to be activists Activism is the only thing they have learned to do imho

[@MahDryBread]

@@fillo9873 But they're not good at that either!

[@jackleonard7765]

My goal is to make a decent Eggs Benedict. One step at a time!

[@Xplora213]

They have been taught by participation trophy culture and an ever shrinking educational system and a godless community that they are incapable of better.

[@OniGanon]

Don't you just... drop an egg into boiling water?

[@Saint_Wolf_]

9:59 "Karl Marx save us" **Meanwhile Marx walking in and cursing these lazy kids for getting his order wrong and charging him too much**

[@elusivemayfly7534]

Lol, that would be pretty funny as a comic strip

[@FerdinandFake]

Not fulfilled their daily quota of pumpkin spice lattes three days in a row? Off to the gulag with you

[@commisaryarreck3974]

Please Marx was literally like these lazy children

[@TheGreenKnight500]

@@commisaryarreck3974 That's the thing, none of these lazy "kids" treat other wagies with respect. They despise the working class and those in the service industry. They are the oppressors they cry about.

[@Saint_Wolf_]

@@FerdinandFake he wasn't one to force slave labor, but he was one entitled jerk who never worked a day of his life and ran his mouth about the workers revolution while mistreating and underpaying and impregnating his maid with his family's money.

[@alby1529]

Whenever I feel like I'm in a rut, like I'm not making enough progress, I remember there's ancoms that exist who actually believe it's a tragedy to cook for yourself. Then I realize "Damn I guess I'm doing alright lmao"

[@evanvalenta1898]

Hey man, as long as you're on the higher end of the bell curve, things'll be all right

[@victordavila9812]

At least you are cleaning your rooomm (dramatic JP noises )

[@psychegoddessoflight9358]

I made the mistake of getting into it with an ancomm who maintained people would work despite somehow having all their needs met bc people would be motivated to help the larger community out of altruism. “Work is inherently satisfying,” lol. So I asked if there are going to be concert festivals in this new paradigm. “Of course!” “So who cleans the porta potties?” No reply. These people are literally delusional-like just this side of _psychosis,_ for real.

[@mr.cobalt1668]

@@psychegoddessoflight9358 "Who's going to want to scrub the toilets in a utopia?"

[@tandavawalsh0777]

@@mr.cobalt1668 robits

[@Eirik_Bloodaxe]

It baffles me that people will film themselves crying and go “yup that’s good, post it.” It literally inspires zero sympathy or empathy in me. It always feels so forced and cringe, and emotionally manipulative. These people deserve to be mocked.

[@MarkFin9423]

Let's see 25 hour schedule, likely a schedule that was agreed upon on a 3 day weekend, posting themselves crying because having to work a normal stressful barista job. Since it's more or less a kitchen job, there is a reason the saying is get out of the kitchen if you can't handle the fire. Every job is stressful, welcome to adulting, time to trail and error that cope so you can manage it, oh wait, can't boil and egg, forgot about that.🤣

[@mendez256]

They are so emotionally distraught they just had to pull out their phone and start filming themselves. A perfectly normal reaction, from a perfectly stable individual who is not out to get attention what so ever.

[@Winasaurus]

Even if I wasn't already cynical, the amount of people who have been caught getting kids to cry and posing animals for optimal clickbaity sad video has totally destroyed any empathy I had for people who choose to cry on camera.

[@kriegjaeger]

Fishing for affirmation and support.

[@jimbothegymbro7086]

I like when they do these cringe videos, it makes me feel better about my situation because at least I'm not that pathetic

[@jonintheredZ06]

I used to work at a gun range. I've been: shot with birdshot in the hands, arms, and face. Hit by ricochets that were close enough and had enough energy to knock me completely over (I still have some of the bullets that hit me). Had literally thousands of guns pointed at me over the decade of experience I had as an instructor. Helped save a woman's life when her husband unintentionally shot her in the upper thigh. You'll have to forgive me for having no sympathy for a part time barista lol

[@CoryTheRaven]

No one NEEDS a college student telling them what they do and don't need, but here we are.

[@where_is_sauce]

College dropout* these type of people don't have enough brain power to finish college because they're to busy thinking about an excuse

[@robertsteiner4696]

I've learned that people who go to Colleges tend to be the most low IQ people currently. Which is ironic, given they are supposedly there to be smarter and more "educated" than us peasants. Starting to understand slowly how civilisations get to a point where they burn down libraries and burn books if the people in this vid are the best our elite can muster.....

[@SergioLeonardoCornejo]

Well. Discarding the opinion of college students is just a default.

[@Titantitan001]

I would literally love to see kids like this survive a week in the trades and homesteading. The stuff they look down on.

[@Titantitan001]

@@SergioLeonardoCornejo cheers to that

[@vincentflannigan2727]

"Sign me up for bigot school baby"- Dev 2020

[@064razor]

Wrong year

[@EnclaveHater07]

10/10 would recommend. "Even a liberal from the 80's could pass with flying colors!" - Benjamin Button

[@TheGreenKnight500]

How do I enroll?

[@dawashingmachine9158]

every year is 2020

[@TheGreenKnight500]

@@dawashingmachine9158 It really does feel like we skipped two years of history.

[@cruxbucket]

"I cant do something right the first time. May as well give up. " Is the attitude of a loser. You are gonna make mistakes. Knowledge comes from those mistakes.

[@Keisuki]

Over 100 billion people lived before us. Our society only exists as it is today because they taught their children how to do things, who taught their children how to do things. Learning only from your own mistakes is massively inefficient. "You should learn how to boil an egg by failing over and over again" is such a braindead take.

[@hugoguerreiro1078]

@@Keisuki this. There is no excuse to not knowing how to boil an egg when you can just see someone do it on youtube and just do the exact same thing.

[@jiggycalzone8585]

The left views failure *as* success

[@Keisuki]

@@jiggycalzone8585 No, it does not seem to be so.

[@DankManPlays]

To be fair, and I say this while actively laughing at all of the horse shit that was put in the video, I was raised by a verbally abusive parent that yelled at me for the slightest fuck up. That instilled a very deep fear of failing, to the point where I just didn't want to do anything because I was worried about failing and getting yelled at. Even to this day years later after I no longer live with him around, I still fear the possibility of failing. Of course not nearly as much as before, but there are reasons of people doing this that are outside of their control. Or they're just a lazy communist

[@unclaimedusername6608]

Mate...I don't get the egg discourse. Information is free online. Yesterday, literally less than twenty-four hours before I am typing this, I wanted an omelet. I had never made one, so I checked what I needed, and how to do it. The hardest part of the whole ordeal was scrolling past the pages-long article about some shit I didn't care about because it wasn't "how to make an omelet". In the end I overstuffed it and didn't use enough eggs. Lesson learned: don't go ham on the ham and add another egg. This, along with the whole "some people don't have an internal monologue" thing, makes me actually wonder if NPCs aren't just a meme and are a real construct of this hellworld we've made.

[@miffedcuttlefish6139]

Autists typically don't have an internal monologue. Playing pretend can be hard for them. 😊 I'm glad your omelet went well.

[@typhonviserys8288]

I believe the argument is that "neuro-divergent" people can't just look things up. ... I have a schizoaffective disorder (hehe "no internal monologue". B*tch, I have internal DIALOGUE!) that makes some things difficult sometimes (like reading and writing... yes, this took a couple of drafts. Lol) I am my family's primary cook. That lady was full of sh*t. :)

[@ShadoWafel]

You don't get it because you're thinking like a functional human being that wants to be self sufficient. If you look at it from the wokie POV it makes sense - I'm too scared of new ideas and adapting, so I will blame the world for my woes. Boiling an egg? you mean actually doing something without expert training in the matter by a master boiler? I can't, I'd rather order food for every meal of the day and complain how high living costs are. There is a reason why these people in colleges only take pure-theory-no-practical courses, they don't know how to, and can't mentally cope with trial and error

[@polkabun4499]

There is no discourse, its laziness in its purest form, the inability to even think. Judging by how the person can post on twitter, they can search youtube, and know how to do it within minutes, but they would rather not do it. Why? Because they are failures that became so because they chose to never fail, but content with never succeeding.

[@schwarzerritter5724]

How can people who can use phones not figure out how to boil eggs?

[@WreathGhost]

One thing I noticed working retail is that the male employees would get yelled/cursed at (thankfully these were usually quick interactions), and the female employees (like me) would get long, circular arguments. Like, people would go ON and ON when they had a problem, but I never got cursed at. So he should consider the cursing a gender affirmation! So valid! So affirmed!

[@Winasaurus]

"Fucking dickhead" - gender affirmed, based "Excuse me, there's an issue with my drink, see what I ordered was..." - boring, cringe

[@SkylineFTW97]

I got cursed at a few times when I delivered pizzas. Except I didn't take shit from anyone, be it a customer or the district manager. And because I was our store's most productive driver, the managers just accepted that I was someone not to be trifled with. I was very good with customers so long as they were civil and I had no reason to prolong bad interactions. As a driver, you make most of your money in tips. If an order doesn't tip, move on and take the next 3 that will. It always evens out in the end.

[@SkylineFTW97]

@Bogda Nov Must be an honor to get hoes trying to seduce me into fixing their cars for them for free just because they know I'm a mechanic when they'd never give me the time of day otherwise. Seeing as Im single, the only woman whos car I fix free of charge is my mom's.

[@Crow-T-German-Robot]

Rules of having a mental illness: Don't use it as an excuse to get out of stuff you don't want to do and don't use it as a weapon, to get what you want. Or to lord it over other people to make them do what you want.

[@rishib5980]

Not necessarily rules, more like if you don’t want to end up shooting yourself in the foot by making people think you’re faking a mental illness

[@jimbothegymbro7086]

exactly, make do like adults

[@lostalone9320]

No, if you are in a wheelchair you need a ramp to get in and no-one thinks thats unreasonable. What's being talked about is having an "always try" attitude. Mental illness is a real thing, and may stop you doing things, but as long as make a genuine effort and complete as much as possible you are doing ok. The reason for that is because trying and failing helps to build resilience and confidence. Maybe you can't do it 100%, but you did do way more than you thought, so you aren't as fragile as you thought. It's ok to need help, it's ok to not succeed. But you need to approach mental health as something you want to get over, or at least learn to cope with. Most people with physical disabilities understand this intuitively. They ask nicely for other people to hold the door or grab things off shelves and say thank you. Mental illness should be the same - Screaming demands at others, then screaming they are bigots for not doing what you told them is a big part of why these adult children don't get better. Almost all of them actually only have a bit of anxiety or depression, perhaps with some autism mixed in. Not nice, but surmountable. Even when you feel fragile and scared, you need to go to the store and do your shopping. It might be unpleasant, but it might not. And at least you will have food. Instead they steer fully into anxiety and do things that are certain to make their anxiety worse. They sit at home alone in the dark browsing R/panicattacks and fantasizing about how awful it would be to have a panic attack in the store. This is a picture of someone using mental health as an excuse, because being special and different flatters them.

[@WolffangPL]

@StorkStorm You talk about bad faith interpretations but your take is quite a bad faith interpretation of the previous guys take. But let's have a respectful dialogue. Yes, mentally ill/disordered people need a degree of understanding of their struggles by others and themselves so they can deal with them, and so others can understand situations that arise because of them. This can be done by things like education about basic psychology concepts in school, and so on. But some forms /extents of accommodation are actually harmful to the disordered individuals and their battles with the disease. For example, An untreated ADHD person might need several times the time by default to perform a task than average. But this certainly doesn't mean they should get several times the time to do an assignment, even if you ignore the organisational issues this may cause. This is because with such accommodation, an ADHD person will never really be able to create a structure or work around their issue. Indeed, in most cases an ADHD person would leave the task until the last day anyway. Another example - a person with severe sociol anxiety -they wont be able to really work around their issue and learn to enjoy social contact (which people with anxiety often deeply crave due to their self isolation) if they aren't forced or rather encouraged into situations where they have to face their social anxiety head on. Those are pretty mild examples too, a borderline disordered person's fear of abandonment being "accommodated" leads to their further abuse of others and themselves. What we need as disordered individuals isn't extensive accommodation that basically tends to make people not work on ourselves (we are by nature energy-conserving creatures), but rather more allowance for failure. Instead of a school system where if you don't show up to one exam you can straight up fail the entire year, make it so students are graded differently, or more exams that aren't obligatory,for example. We need to fail to learn how to deal with our quirks and such because by nature we are all somewhat disordered, and we get more disordered when we're put into circumstances that are conductive to those disorders - ones which "accommodate" them. And before you use it to try and strawman my whole argument - yes there are mental illnesses that are very severe and my reasoning won't apply - things that severely physically alter your brain that you can't get rid of in any way. But in those cases those people mostly aren't even allowed to work or go to school anyway and have to have a guardian in most countries.

[@michaelcarmona7838]

@StorkStorm ...Look. Just... look. That is not what people are talking about. Take it from someone who is on the spectrum. I would say that all of us, or at least those who are high-functioning enough to have sufficient social-awareness, have used our condition to extract inappropriate social concessions from other people. At some point in our lives, there was a moment when we realized that "Hey, I just screwed up, but if I mention my disability then people won't hold me accountable." And we did it. We used our problem as a shield, and it worked. We fell to the temptation. And it's such a subtle temptation, because so many times it really WAS our condition making things hard. I did this, and I saw other friends on the spectrum do it as well. The Devil (whether you think him proverbial or not) loves nothing more than a good excuse. The worst part is when you no longer have the ability to discern whether a social weakness or professional issue is due to your condition or a personality flaw. Worse is if you stop trying. Indeed, sometimes the brain will even respond to your desire to avoid the task or social situation by manufacturing an episode so you can be "accommodated". And worst of all, sometimes it really is the disability, so others can't tell whether it's the Autism or if it's just You. It took me decades to unlearn this habit. I lost friendships and professional opportunities due to it. And while my life has gotten much better, the scars of my former selfishness still remain. And one of the worst experiences was when I was able to perform well at my job and get my finances in order just through applying actual effort... because I then realized how many years I had wasted believing I couldn't do things I could actually do. Yes there are still hard and fast barriers and accommodations and things I have to do each day to cope. No kidding, the sky is blue. But it should be instinctive to you to realize that people love easy excuses, and that using a mental disability to control the environment around them is a temptation that is far to0 easy to fall prey to. Yes, it's a balancing act. But to pretend that the abuse of accommodationist mindsets doesn't exist to a large extent is Pollyanna-esque in the extreme.

[@adamlakeman7240]

The only adult I've ever known who didn't know how to cook was an Indian flatmate at university. And that's because he always had servants to do it for him.

[@AbuHajarAlBugatti]

I wish I owned some servants. I would never wipe my ass myself again

[@ununun9995]

​@@AbuHajarAlBugattijapanese toilet. Robots are the future .

[@AbuHajarAlBugatti]

@@ununun9995 But I would prefer a living Servant to a lifeless robot

[@juliekring7574]

Classist! Lol but not in the way the twittoids meant

[@user-lx5iv5cw1w]

I was basically the servant when I shared an apartment with upper caste Banglas in college. Like, I did all the house stuff they didn't know how to do. They didn't force me into it or anything. I just wasn't gonna eat off a dish they'd washed, cause it'd have soap scum. (For example) (Rinsing is apparently not intuitive) And I had lower tolerance for things being nasty, (like, they'd wear sandals in the shower instead of cleaning the shower floor, and I wanted to use their shower and didn't find that acceptable, so I cleaned the shower, and then I kept living there and kept showering there and kept cleaning the shower cause I wanted to use it.), so I took over all the cleaning and then went "I'm not chipping in on the weed. I did the dishes tonight." And I wasn't chipping in on rent anyways cause I had my own place, and I didn't have a room there, but I spent every night there on a mattress in their living room floor cause that's where I went to smoke since I couldn't in the dorms and I refused to drive intoxicated (my dad died in a DUI accident) so I lived rent free in their house and smoked free weed for the semester while using my dorm as a storage locker. I was also the only one who could legally drive in America, so I was also the house chauffeur, but that meant I got to pick and veto the group's destinations when the group would go out together, so it works out to where nobody can tell if I'm a servant or if I'm the guy in charge, cause I'm doing all the menial labor, but everyone's accepting my dictats without opposition, and they're paying rent and buying weed to keep me around, which, is that salary or is that taxes? And then I'm also a foot taller than everybody, (average male height in Bangladesh is 5'4" or 5'6" depending on the source, and I'm 6'5"), but they're all rich kids dressed better than me, so do I look like the leader of this group, or some sort of exotic bodyguard (like the Ottomans imperial procession and their giant black dude), when we're out in public? It was a weird dynamic. Comfortable though. A conflict around which these questions would've needed to be answered just never came up, so we never actually concluded whether or not I was running the house or working for it. Funny, right?

[@TheAurgelmir]

When I was in uni, I shared an appartment with 3 other random people. Some of whom hadn't lifted a finger at home. The amount of things they didn't know how to do was staggering to me. The joke we came up with was "Hey, you're the engineer, how do I open the soap" (True story). I get that some skills aren't taught, but most people learn. That guy who couldn't open the soap? Yeah he's a computer engineer now, and a wizard at it too. (And he knows how to open the soap)

[@Winasaurus]

A classic at university for me. Being the "computer guy" so I get asked menial shit like how to format cells in excel. Got really good marks for basically playing substitute teacher. Meant I didn't have to get any work done. My favorite was when someone asked if I'm good with tech stuff, followed by "why won't the microwave heat properly? :/" Turns out they were using the defrost setting. Which was funny up until 2am when they left metal in it and it tripped the smoke alarms so we all had to go wait in the freezing cold at 3am. "How was I supposed to know? It doesn't even say on it" "Look at the metal packet, it says it right there." "Oh. Well I didn't really read it." I'd say it was the moment I learned that university isn't the place for the best and brightest, but I learned that about 10 times on the first day.

[@Xplora213]

He probably found out that he had to figure out life just like he had to learn code 😂

[@TheAurgelmir]

@@BrattyNii naw he knew how to bathe, just not how to open the soap dispenser

[@jarradchapman4271]

"After the revolution, everyone will cook their own food" In what kitchen? The one we don't need? The communal one where no one take responsibility for cleaning/maintenance? Or the state-owned-and-operated nutrition dispensary (mmmm, ration variety #073: cricket stroganoff!)?

[@slimetite9148]

bold of you to assume there will be more variety than "Sludge" and "Sludge with color additive"

[@jarradchapman4271]

@@slimetite9148 for the Holy Months of Pride, there shall be all colours of sludge available!

[@jakman2179]

@@jarradchapman4271 The rainbow sludge comes out shit colored because they're too lazy to separate the colors and just mix them together. "PRIDE!"

[@vladsikorsky7931]

Well, I lived in such communal housing with a shared kitchen. People do actually understand not to shit where they eat. It was relatively clean and orderly. The problem is that someone is always in your way, using the appliances, or just feels lonely and wanna talk to you. And you have to take products from your room and bring the food back, hence smells and oily stains. And yeah, smells. People cooks come crazy stuff sometimes for everyone to smell it.

[@jakubsevcik1392]

The trick is not to think stuff through

[@supermudkipz]

15 minutes is not nearly enough for this we need a part 2

[@hexazalea1793]

I think you mean 10 episode series

[@burdenernie6050]

A whole other channel

[@semanticalman7802]

Hear hear!

[@cristiantapia631]

After 3 months I'm still waiting

[@live4hockey2]

What 2020-2022 has basically cemented for me is the fact that there are a lot more people out there who grew up being told what to do and what to think than we realize. They will blindly believe and parrot even the most absurd rules so long as it doesn't take them out of their comfort zone. They are incapable of handling even the smallest daily challenge, such as working 25 hours a week at Starbucks or boiling an egg. They know no concept of hardship or fortitude and to have courage is a sin in their minds. They are a group of people who fester in their own mental weakness and are incapable of rising to any challenge presented to them. These are people who quite literally want the world to change for them so they don't have to change themselves. The only thing that they actively put any effort into, ironically, is screaming and whining about how they CAN'T do things because of (insert -ism, -phobia, buzzword here).

[@crispyandspicy6813]

"Four legs good. Two legs biggoted"

[@YourLocalRussianNegro]

"Boiling an egg is classist" made me laugh harder than it should have.

[@damiennixel925]

Poe's law working extra hard this decade

[@oldestcharm]

I mean, you have to be thoroughly privileged to not know how to boil an egg. So technically...?

[@somedude4805]

My wife didn’t know how to cook when we met. I taught her and now she manages major meals utilizing the entire kitchen. I’m so proud of her and she has demonstrated it’s not impossible or even difficult to learn how to adult as an adult.

[@the11382]

And nowadays, there are plenty of cooking shows, or tutorials. People need to teach themselves more.

[@GangsterFrankensteinComputer]

My girlfriend never knew how to make a stirfry the other month. Took me 3 minutes to teach her. Do these people think people don't learn new cooking recipes as adults? Like only children can learn how to cook 5* gourmet meals and to chefs were all specifically trained in their youth.

[@Winasaurus]

@@GangsterFrankensteinComputer You guys weren't taken to the chef gulag as a child and spent 3 months enduring harsh training as the one and only time in your life to learn to cook? No? Just me? Ok.

[@WILIZIN]

I firmly believe a lot of these people have never struggled in their life. Necessity breeds survival.

[@allantidgwell5624]

... or death

[@ShrapnelProductionHD]

Did not expect to see you here, how goes it?

[@WILIZIN]

@@ShrapnelProductionHD Living and existing Shrap.

[@Zetact_]

Bad times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. Weak men create bad times.

[@thynErro]

Four people on staff? That's cute. I was expected to handle a Starbucks rush in the Target I worked at BY MYSELF. Also as someone who is a manager now, it can be a little time consuming doing all those things staff don't see that we do to ensure shit runs correctly. Like say, payroll. So you can get your money lol.

[@mattm1646]

Exactly this. I worked BK one time and 4 people was just fine for that place. Sure dishes and dining room might suffer but ya do what ya gotta do.

[@rjlundholm89]

I know people at work that run an entire department on their own.

[@marcbradford9455]

Worked a targetbux the same way, always alone during the morning rush. Would have made more money to have 2 people, but that would make sense, and targetbux doesn't do that.

[@sparton112875]

Oh ya I remember back at McDics some days we only had like four people total, I covered everything in the kitchen during lunch rushes, customers getting mad because it took forever but hey it got done.

[@where_is_sauce]

I have seen a food place where it was 2-3 siblings and/or cousins + occasionally an older family member that manages the store and helps during peak hours, EVERY SINGLE DAY FOR THE ENTIRE DAY FOR YEARS It's now a bigger and more respected restaurant with more workers but the sheer resilience of that family won me over from the start

[@sol-hunter2332]

A lot of these people crippled by anxiety and fear. I had to learn a lot of adult stuff on my own due to family problems, and my own arrogance, and was quite spoiled. The lesson I learned is, the only way to overcome from anxiety is exposure therapy. It is the only way to change so things don't impact you as much. Coddling makes it worse. Sports gave my severe anxiety, so I joined my friends playing volley ball. Yup, I cried when I got home due to the stress, but it got easier the next time, and easier after that. Cooking used to give me stress, but I pushed myself and took it one thing at a time. Started with an egg sandwich, now I make marbled cheesecakes and recently made homemade pita and gyro meat. exposure therapy. Be brave. it is the only way to grow and heal.

[@elusivemayfly7534]

This is ONE HUNDRED PERCENT true! Good for you! I feel like life is about this process in many ways. Also, your food sounds delicious!

[@sol-hunter2332]

@@elusivemayfly7534 Cheesecakes are great! my tzatiki needs work lol. And very true, this is a part of life, that many parents have neglected to teach, but that ain't an excuse to not learn now.

[@KingRyanoles]

Parenting has changed dramatically in the US since the panic about abductions jn the 90s and technology providing an addictive babysitter. Kids are often not let loose to play, take risks, and learn unsupervised. The lack of exposure to the world in that way delays maturity; it's why we have so many helpless 20 somethings stuck in extended childhood.

[@SkylineFTW97]

That's how I overcame my social anxiety. I started spending more and more time around people despite really not wanting to. And I took a job that forces me to deal with hundreds of people a day. It was hard initially, but after just a month or 2, I was very comfortable with it. And it was on that job that I met 2 guys who would end up being some of my closest friends to this day.

[@SkylineFTW97]

@@KingRyanoles I grew up in the 2000s. It was still common for kids as young as 6 to play outside unsupervised for hours at a time. The 2 big rules were don't leave a certain area and be back by dark. And as we got older, that area slowly grew larger until we got our driver's licenses and it just became "make sure we know where you are." No tracking (despite me having got my license in 2014), just call or text and let them know

[@david.bowerman]

Speaking for myself. I used to have a really big fear of failure. I can see it in my son too but I am helping him work through it. I hope he will be able to get past it earlier than I was. I did not get over it until I graduated high school. edit: The fear of failure stops you from trying, if you don't try you don't learn.

[@goodnaturedgamer8181]

Out of interest what are you doing to help him? I'm expecting my first child, son, next year. I had some fear but I've gotten alot better.

[@magneric]

The best thing that got me over the fear of failure is to look at the absolutely stupid people in places of power and no matter what they do to fuck up their jobs for some reason they get promoted.

[@OnEiNsAnEmOtHeRfUcKa]

One of the greatest ways to learn to get over that fear is through use of parody, and through the method of taking past failures and reworking them *into* successes. So that past wasn't a "failure", it was a source of unorthodox ideas that took a while to properly forulate.

[@david.bowerman]

@@goodnaturedgamer8181 I looked at what made improvements for me and kind of fabricate situations for him. Mainly getting him to take guesses about things he may or may not know about. I am more trying to get him used to the feeling of making a mistake and learning from that mistake. I never make him feel bad about making the mistake, always tell him it was a good try and to try again. In short, I am putting him in safe scenarios where he can be exposed to failure and teaching him that he can bounce back. I don't know if this is the right way, but it is working for him. He hesitates less when we do this. He is 9 almost 10 for context and we have been doing this for about a year or so.

[@solan7978]

Really? My fear of failure is what motivated me to do so well in school and college. When I lost my first full-time job and went to the unemployment office, I told myself, 'This is it, I've finally failed', and was actually a little surprised that it wasn't a major catastrophe after all.

[@selinnazsur2328]

"Having opportunities to learn to cook as a kid is a massive privilege" Meanwhile my aunts who had to be at home all day and help their mom bake bread *for their entire extended family* instead of playing outside like normal kids, because they were all basically forced to by said family:

[@42billybob]

Right? Like... in what world is it only rich kids that have their parents task them with something as simple as boiling spaghetti because they're going to be home late at some point before they tun 18?

[@selinnazsur2328]

@@42billybob Yeah, exactly. It's like these toddlers in adult bodies try to dictate what is a privilege and what's not, based on their momentary needs and desires. What my grandma and aunts went through definitely wasn't a privilege. Imo the real privilege here is getting to see your parents and not having to learn how to fend for yourself as a child. But take that to the extreme, and it creates people who were pampered their whole lives and have no idea how things work. It's their own privilege that ends up biting them in the rear end, not the other way around like they think.

[@selinnazsur2328]

I'm lucky that I rarely had to cook as a child even though both of my parents worked, but even if they were out working 24/7 I wouldn't be dumb enough to just sit there and starve, especially with the internet at my disposal. These twats are complaining that "they weren't taught" to boil a fucking egg... It's literally the most basic thing. You need some braincells to figure it out, of course. (sorry this ended up so long-winded, but I guess I had to put it out there lmao)

[@xXSCDTXx]

If they don’t know how to do something then anybody who does is privileged. They’re the type of retards who would look at a slave and say they’re privileged because they know how to farm.

[@KeybladeMasterAndy]

As somebody who is "neurodivergent", I've always found it more hurtful for people to not let me have a bit of trial and error in my life. I understand they want to help, but it usually becomes too much. Let me learn for myself, please.

[@TheDiego908]

"My manager took himself off the schedule so he wouldn't be held accountable for not coming" "Giga Chad" Actually laughed out loud

[@InfamyOrDeath-__-]

That person crying in the back room because they have to work is beyond pathetic, what on earth is wrong with these people? They’re so coddled that they literally can’t cope with a normal job.

[@salsamancer]

Crying in the backroom is one thing, at least you could excuse that as a short break. The really pathetic part is recording it so everyone can see what a useless wreck you are

[@ttthttpd]

Only got to the Boil an Egg one, but it may just win for me. Its a common poor / neglected kid thing to learn to cook for yourself. Having someone else always cooking for you more likely means rich with either servants, stay at home parent, etc..

[@slydoorkeeper4783]

Yep, the only thing that I learned to cook from my parents were fried eggs, grilled cheeses, and brats. All on the stove. These are all things I probably could have figured out on my own with little effort to be honest, and after that, everything else has been my own trial and error. I don't get to cook often, so I don't look things up very often, but when I do cook I mostly BS things together and it makes my gf's mouth drool, so must be doing something right for someone with little teaching and grew up rather poor.

[@justinambru8529]

Thankfully my parents, tought me how to cook my own food. Now I can make any food myself.

[@dBsdecibels]

The Starbucks video screamed false flag/fake/acting to me. They were pissed at their boss for doing this and thought they could use the power of dogpiling sympathetic social media to get revenge. As a bonus, they were hoping to score points toward the union cause. You can see the personality change midway. They go from cowering, sobbing baby to angry, defiant, and vengeful in a snap. That section was them being genuine. All the rest of it was an act.

[@dBsdecibels]

@StorkStorm Infowars?

[@brainman67]

@@storkstorm6925 >Doesn't believe a lot of things are psyops

[@bZman]

"oh my god I cannot leave my home with ym crippling anxiety, time to go get my adult happy meal!" WTF, these people deserve to be in a nice padded cell if they are that incompetent.

[@burgertime434]

They basically already are. Why lock them up when they lock themselves up in their apartments?

[@justinambru8529]

Well burger time, the problem is that they sometimes come out of those apartments.

[@Anomaly188]

@@justinambru8529 When they do, cattle prod them.

[@Wyqno]

@@burgertime434 "Why lock them up when they lock themselves up in their apartments?" So they can't vote and make everyone else's lives worse.

[@ImortalZeus13]

I went on a date with a guy once, and after we went back to his place he offered to get me dinner. His offer? McDonalds happy meals. Why? Because he wanted a toy. He was 24 years old.

[@evanthesquirrel]

Personality disorders are the medical term for "this person is an unrepentant asshole" which is why there aren't medical cures for personality disorders. "Borderline" just means they're sometimes not an asshole.

[@RedDogDragon]

The "boiling an egg" thing makes me think of those videos that go viral once and awhile that are cooking videos for some of the most utterly basic concepts of cooking where the presenter often just follows the directions on the label (think: how to pop microwave popcorn.) Look, I understand cooking is a learned thing and not everybody grew up in a household that taught them at least the basics, but we also live in a world where there are thousands of cooking videos on youtube. I am no skilled cook, but it's actually quite easy to find simple and easy to learn recipes online that include the presenter doing the steps on camera to make it even easier to learn the lingo. Hell, I even took up baking my own bread a couple years ago (and it still surprises me how utterly simple it is) and I take pride in being able to bake a pumpkin pie completely from scratch, pie crust and all.

[@piperian3962]

I get it, but the directions for popcorn are on the back

[@vladsikorsky7931]

@@piperian3962 Assuming they can read

[@goober3097]

Reminds me of a time my dad was making fun of some "how to cook from scratch" video. It said to get some pre-made pie crust, put in some pre-made pie filling, and put on whipped cream that came from a can, and voila! A homemade pie from scratch! I guess they don't know what "scratch" really means

[@piperian3962]

@@vladsikorsky7931 that’s true, why should we expect something from people?

[@DeadendSatellite]

"Abusing a fastfood employee by a low budget film director" I understood that reference.

[@typhonviserys8288]

What? I'm sorry, I was playing Galaga...

[@johnseppethe2nd2]

This could have been days in length. Well done for shortening it into a viewer friendly format

[@Sinuev1]

My father was president of his Local (manufacturing, UAW) and I saw the lengths he went to in order to fairly represent his membership... even going so far as to buy necessary supplies out of his own pocket, when the budget wasn't there - or if it was a nicety (such as a fully stocked fridge of soda and water for the retiree meetings) rather than a necessity. One of the most important lessons he taught me was to able to recognize a "Gripe from a Grievance" (to use more KZbin friendly language). There was quite a few times he became very unpopular with the membership because he made concessions to the company in order to ensure they stayed profitable enough to continue offering jobs in the future. Though he also secured for them a nice pension, when his opposition was advocating for 401ks, back when they were being hyped as a superior alternative... a decision a lot of retirees are now glad he made, considering how many 401ks have gone bust due to financial shenanigans. He was the kind of guy who even went out of his way to give his people a ride to work so that they wouldn't be late, after losing their licenses to DUIs. Ultimately, the company lost the plant due to their own incompetence (letting vital patents lapse, trying to sell to the Japanese - who stole their processes and blueprints, etc) I've heard enough horror stories about Unions to be generally distasteful towards them, despite growing up in a strongly Union household. That being said, a Union is only as strong as it's local leadership. Yeah, there's a lot you have to lean on the International for - such as a viable strike fund - but like government, if you can't get your local leadership to work for you, relying the International is no solution and will only lead to rampant corruption and influence peddling. Unfortunately, men and women of principle are hard to come by these days - as the last few decades have eroded the idea of having principles as being stodgy and an impediment to "progress". It's easier to overlook when times are good, and the money is flowing freely - but when the hard times come, men and women of weak principle will crumble as everyone just looks out of their own self interests.

[@Xplora213]

It proves the libertarian maxim that you can’t abdicate your responsibility for your own situation. The union should serve your best interests and you should be free to benefit or not participate as you choose.

[@elusivemayfly7534]

Man. I do feel bad for folks who get so overwhelmed by tasks that might feel mundane to others. It often is the product of a soft upbringing-parents, schools, communities that could not stand for their kids to be uncomfortable, embarrassed, or confused. Because the kids didn’t ask for that. They needed the cruel kindness of being challenged, of failing, and of being told they have to get up and try again. I hate feeling vulnerable and inadequate for a task or an ordeal, but I know I CAN get through it because I’ve faced dragons before. If you don’t get to slay some dragons, a much nastier monster will live in your head. But it’s never too late to overcome it, especially with support from people who will put you through the training you need. We can all do hard things-they are part of being human, and we have evolved to adapt and survive.

[@elusivemayfly7534]

@StorkStorm Well, I think the “dragons” are different for everybody, and the support we need is different. I’ve had periods of chronic illness where the dragon slaying was just to keep going. My hope is that each person feels purpose and is able to believe in themselves when they have to get through a tough time

[@elusivemayfly7534]

@StorkStorm Thank you for replying-I shouldn’t have shot from the hip on my original comment. To be honest, I had some other videos I’d watched in mind and was thinking more generally, but my comment sounds like I’m just talking about the young man at Starbucks. In his case, it made me remember being young and feeling overwhelmed the same way. Sometimes you hit a breaking point. People have individual limits too, and that is okay. My godson has autism, and his life will be dramatically affected by it. I have stuff going on that has put limits on my own choices. We should give each other grace in all situations. I didn’t know that about the abuse-that is horrible. A lot of people really do go through hell on earth. Thanks for helping me think through this with more nuance! My motivation was to encourage younger folk, but that will be different for everyone

[@elusivemayfly7534]

@StorkStorm Oh, sorry! I didn’t mean to avoid the question 😊 I don’t know what was going on with the manager, but clearly they needed one on the scene. I could see reasons they might have done what they did, but a good leader should be doing all they can to keep their team from getting this desperate. Also, it sounds like the team needed some clearer communication. If they knew why the manager wasn’t there (even if not in detail), it could have really helped morale. It’s incredible how much energy you get from knowing your boss has your back, even when they aren’t there I’m a fan of servant leaders. That means sometimes you go back on the “battle field” when duty calls or you make every effort to physically and mentally equip your teammates in your absence. The employee got a hard time for making the video, but he seemed pretty responsible to me. Some final straw broke for him to reach that point

[@elusivemayfly7534]

@StorkStorm I totally agree with that assessment! Thank you for YOUR wholesome responses. This was a really good exchange. You have a compassionate, artful way of engaging that’s disarming while getting your point across clearly. And you seem like a good person!

[@elusivemayfly7534]

@StorkStorm I totally understand! We need people doing what you’re doing, thinking critically and empathetically.

[@CptManboobs]

A kitten petting area should be mandatory at all workspaces tbh.

[@entropy2134]

That's bigoted against people allergic to cats!

[@martinbengtsson244]

No one needs an ex. Todays Truth!

[@casualgoats]

A guy in my trade class used to joke that he loved going out with ladies because he was always looking for his next ex wife.

[@louissteyn6871]

"I have a full mustache and beard" my sides just launched into orbit

[@HereTakeAFlower]

Imma play devil's advocate and say that if you have Narcissistic Personality Disorder, you're actually very vulnerable. Criticism feels like a sledgehammer to the stomach, it's hard to connect with others, it's hard to detect other narcissists, it's hard to find meaning in healthy relationships etc... Gotta say, tho, everyone has a damn right to pick and choose who they want to represent/help out.

[@simonpetrikov3992]

Obviously that person doesn’t understand the concept of choosing your battles

[@falaramal3979]

“What temperature do you want the boiling water to be?” Now THAT is terminally online. The temperature of the water is BOILING “We’re understaffed but instead of working during the lunch rush I’m crying in the back room instead of helping your 3 coworkers. Like you can hear the phone ringing in the background lmfao

[@_Gorrek_]

I knew a girl in Highschool that did not even know how to tell if water was boiling... soo uhhh ya.... she's a fulltime baker now and has a kid, they grow up so fast

[@Markm8]

That obma ad is so sad but really funny

[@hudsondunn8385]

The McCain joke was pretty funny.

[@Shadepariah]

10:31 yeah ... once I got stuck on a 12 hour shift followed by an 8 hour shift at Wal-Mart back in the day. Then on the second day so many people called out I did ANOTHER 12 hour shift. I got a bit of overtime that week, but that sucked. Oh no, not 8 hours lol.

[@typhonviserys8288]

Ffffff, man. :( I had to do a straight 24 hour shift at an assisted living facility due to a flu outbreak in the staff ranks. I thought I'd be rolling in overtime... but they cut my hours that cycle to compensate. :\ Oh and I did it with a smile. :)

[@Shadepariah]

@@typhonviserys8288 yeah heaven forbid you get time and a half

[@rjlundholm89]

If anything social media teaches me that there is to many people that confuse intelligence with and education.

[@trevorsalamander8711]

You wanna hear a story about a truly bad manager? I worked at a small portable toilet depot where i was the only delivery driver. The only training i had was from the worker i was replacing on his last week of work. The manager specifically said follow HIS instructions. A few weeks later, he yelled at me for not stocking or setting the supplies accordingly to his instruction, he asked me why i was being lazy. My response was: "You didn't tell me how these tasks should be done, i followed the instructions of the last worker." He then responded with: "Stop. Don't make excuses for yourself, you need to know what i want you to do." This is a bad manager. I got plenty of other stories that make this example seem like a soft ball game. Children these days are not meant for the workplace, especially if they force you to use pronouns.

[@lobotomite9767]

I'm 25 married and a home owner with a job I've worked at for 9 years, it's hilarious to me that what was once the standard and expected is now novel and something to be proud of.

[@CocktailsConsoles]

In just 100 years we went from people doing anything just to survive in a Great Depression to a part time Starbucks kid crying about the injustices of having to work a 25 hr/wk job. How did we get from the Greatest Generation that survived poverty, starvation, and war to a generation that is ill-equipped to be able to deal with everyday life?

[@GundamM3ister]

Dude 5 people during lunch rush sounds amazing, I wish my job in college was that well staffed lol. Also I love that they're apparently so busy and understaffed, and he's in the back filming himself crying. 🙄

[@Keeki95]

Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think coffee places like Starbucks even have to do as much work as a casual restaurant, so that sounds like plenty of staff.

[@Xethavosh]

Bring back the VTuber model. Short Flat Otaku.

[@Bronimin]

uuuuoooohhhhh

[@jonahc2807]

Damn smart ass Dev!!! 💢💢💢💢 Needs correction!!!

[@raggens]

For me, the dumbest Twitter discourse of the year has to pretty much be “society cannot thrive unless we abolish the concept of money”

[@Slender_Man_186]

The “moneyless society” people are actually the dumbest, literally no concept of how economics work at all.

[@crackbandicoot2254]

Two skills young people should learn: How to handle a job, and when to quit.

[@marcusbergman6116]

And that not everything uncomfortable and rough is worth tears.

[@Zeburaman2005]

4:34 Cooking tip for boiling eggs: put a couple spoonfuls of vinegar in the water to prevent the eggs from cracking/exploding. Any comestible grade vinegar will do. And as Konstantin Kissin would say: “cook eggs, drink Vodka, feel better, like real men!”

[@vladsikorsky7931]

salt also works

[@CallidusVelox]

That dude who hadn't left his apartment for two years looks like a South Park character.

[@MrCrabs231]

The funny thing about the cooking discourse is that they were literally arguing it from a point of privilege

[@mkv2718]

2:05 wait… does this mean when they call Trump a narcissist, they’re being ableist? 😂

[@amandanowicki5294]

The Starbucks crybaby had rolling on the floor laughing. I used to work for a small mom and pop coffee shop. I worked 12 hour shifts by myself. The poor baby couldn't work with three other people helping them.

[@outrageddeer2101]

#blameCanada

[@NTBXP1]

There is literally a video teaching how to boil an egg. It's in portuguese but I think there is same kind of video in english. They don't even know how to search.

[@NTBXP1]

Also there is the fact that you must be perfect and make no mistakes.

[@ImCurrentlyNaked]

In regards to the Starbucks Barista, I get it's their job to "get the coffee", but I've previously worked shifts that were WAY understaffed (like a lunch rush and I'm the only person on the floor both making the drinks, taking the orders and waiting the food). It's not a thing you can just shrug off as "a single bad customer" because it's pretty much every customer with all reasonable complaints (orders taking too long etc), it lasts pretty much the entire shift, and it's very stressful. That said, it's not something I'd make a video and cry about, and I think I'm being exceptionally charitable in thinking it may have been that bad for said person.

[@gnarfarmer]

corona ruined working in foodservice, EVERYBODY started ordering then we had to deal with giant waves of people every day once everything opened back up

[@Markm8]

I worked at Walmart about 3 months ago after about a year and a half full time, there still beging me to come back BECAUSE I ACTUALLY WORKED and people like that starbucks guy replaced me

[@Markm8]

Also I ordered my own stock lmao, boss had no idea what was going on and treated me like i was a slacker before she found out how bad it was without me

[@ssnaut1871]

Sad

[@mariobrito427]

25hrs a week?? Damn ... She doesn't realize how coddled she is.

[@rationalbacon5872]

Years ago some empty-headed colleague actually asked me how to boil an egg. I explained. 4minutes later the whole office smelled like an electrical storm and smoke was billowing out of the breakroom. Turns out she'd decided to boil the pot inside the microwave. These people really do walk amongst us.

[@Kurtownia]

This is what happens when you play an MMORPG and never leave your starting town because it's dangerous. Now you're level 1 forced to fight lvl 15 monsters and can't do it. Meanwhile your friends are obliterating lvl 100 bosses and have fun doing it.

[@deathmetalbard]

Here's what I dont Get, trial and error obviously is a thing for boiling water or food. But most youtube and recipe stuff is so simple to follow that you have to legitimately be purposefully fucking up.

[@ssnaut1871]

To be fair half time is bcz people are distracted like you're on your phone and mistakenly put wrong things in pot

[@emalinedickinson7492]

Worked 40 hours a week. At Starbucks. Through my undergrad. Got my first job through a customer, and now I'm a CPA. It's a job you LEAVE, that's how it works Evan. And yes, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, every. Weekend.

[@TheRagnarokknight]

I had a conversation last year where someone had the gaul to believe that until you reach 25 years of age, you shouldn't be responsible, let alone liable for what you say. An adult until 25 shouldn't be responsible for what they do or say. Imagine that.

[@johnjafon2410]

"Shortfatotaku criticizes a video everyone talked about a month ago"

[@trevorp8124]

Me, a pleb: almost quits fast-tracked medical program during COVID because I didn't have time to take more than a day off every month and a half for 3 straight years. Starbucks kid, an intellectual: Almost quits because of the afternoon rush.

[@matteomastrodomenico1231]

I kinda wanted to give an hug to that Starbucks kid.

[@leeroyjenkins4737]

Hell, I worked at CVS on three registers by myself at one point because the manager had to help the Pharmacy in the back. No one else to help me. It's not that bad.

[@mercaius]

The Orc Racism discourse is my particular bugbear, because it's always the same song and dance. --Journalist calls orcs racist. --WotC apologizes, vows to do better, rewrites the lore to "be more inclusive." --One year later. Journalist calls orcs racist. Nothing about the argument changes. It's so blatantly low effort, "tourist"-style muckraking and it still gets reactions and apologies.

[@sardonically-inclined7645]

The boiling the eggs thing I get. The timing is a complete pain. But I resolved that by just making and eating scrambled eggs, and omelets and currently learning to make frittatas.

[@Bronimin]

Put em in cold water, put it on the heat, when it starts boiling turn the heat off put a lid on and wait 10 mins, ezpz

[@sardonically-inclined7645]

@@Bronimin I've done that and they wind up overcooked. I've adjust that minute by minute and had the opposite problem. I'm past caring about it.

[@ssnaut1871]

Put little salt in water while boiling

[@miffedcuttlefish6139]

In half an inch of boiling water, or in the amount of eggs you want, turn it down to medium, cover the pot for 9 minutes. Then sink in cold water to stop cooking. Crack and peel them. Enjoy.

[@Bronimin]

poached eggs is fun. Its easier if you put them in a sieve first to get rid of the thin whites (you can save those for french toast), then set down in gently boiling water.

[@danielescobar7618]

These are all extremely privileged people crying about not having more privilege. I'm from a Cuban immigrant family, this it what decadence looks like to me. When you make every little thing the government's job, the government isn't going to do any job effectively.

[@nicklasveva]

"No one taught me how to cook." Literally the entire point of cooking is to experiment. Why shouldn't you?

[@pathfindersavant3988]

The worst part is no matter who wins the award, we all lose.

[@pervysage5465]

Ok, the whole "cooking egg" thing.... The fact about cooking in my experience is that it is actually pretty easy to follow recipes, especially when you have resources such as youtube, where you can actually see how people are making things. You also have multiple sources/videos to cross reference if you think "I don't have that tool at home, what can I use instead?" Alternatively, one can actually ask a friend who can cook for help in teaching some recipes. Assuming twitter users have any real-life friends.

[@-haclong2366]

KZbin has made basically everything super easy, barely an inconvenience. I remember buying a wine bottle and not knowing how to open it, my then-girlfriend who was a decade older than me didn't know either. I simply opened KZbin and found a video explaining it.

[@josephedmond3723]

Yeah we kinda live in a time where people can figure out how to do most things without having to put a lot of effort in. The people who don't even want to put in that effort are utterly pathetic.

[@pervysage5465]

@@-haclong2366 Do I see the Pitch Meeting gag reference in your comment?

[@shivanshna7618]

Communal kitchen wait why ? What a losers i love my personal kitchen . It's clean it's beautiful and smell nice.

[@alanwilliams4443]

The barista breakdown guy, I wonder what he would do is he had to work an 10-14hr day baling hay? Or had to work a 12hr shift on an assembly line?

[@robertallan8035]

I got up early today, made myself and my family Belgian Waffles in a spicy bourbon maple sauce, potatoes au daphnoise, and steak in gin sauce. It feels good knowing how to cook well and taking responsibility for myself. It feels great not being a chronically online leftist.

[@blazeburner303]

I'd also cry over 8 hours...if I was being cut back to 8 hours

[@JP-th8sq]

Did you see how the starbucks union people dressed for the union meetings? They were live streaming it and playing the switch so of course the executives just left.

[@conserva-chan2735]

"You're a man now" That's brilliant

[@christophersteyer1469]

The only bad manager I've had was a replacement when the normal one was sick, she spent most of the shift alternating between hovering over everyone and screaming at the employees

[@littlemisseevee2309]

honestly as someone with autism all I really want is for people to be patient with me, since it does affect me in negative ways, like its a very specific kind of learning disability where it affects my ability in social situations, I try very hard for it but people dont often see that, so yeah all I ask from people is to be a bit more patient so I can say understand exactly what they are trying to get across (because one of the issues that come with aspergers is understanding how someone else might use language.

[@cynicalmage4840]

Shit, I learned how to cook as an adult and now I’m making burgers and cake for my family

[@GangsterFrankensteinComputer]

I learned basic cookery in school. Most of what I cook as an adult I learned as an adult from cookery books and online though.

[@GearGearRingLeader]

As someone with a union, I can say with 100 certainty, that a union at Starbucks would not help this kid. What they need is some therapy.

[@Kgosha]

Apparently Cecil Ross never had the "privilege" of taking a middle school science class, since he doesn't know what temperature to boil water at.

[@OliveOilFan]

I am very much pro-union. But being in unions/unionizing a company does have limits to where it is. So a dying company and people wanting unions will only add more trouble than good. Or you want “shorter wages” because you work to long at a part time summer job, you don’t need a union.

[@johnseppethe2nd2]

I dont like the idea of union participation being mandatory. Im generally fine with the idea of unions by themselves

[@shivanshna7618]

@@johnseppethe2nd2 true as long as it is not Mandotary. Reminds me here in India when mills were going bankrupt bcz of low business. Idiot union leader thought it would be best to stop work for 3 months 😑 . Like cool now factories are even more broke and almost all of mills either went bankrupt or moved . leaving behind 30000 jobless people

[@CMacK1294]

Collective bargaining certainly isn't bad, that's free enterprise negotiation. Unions as they exist as a legal entity in the US are a problem though. You're forced to join, they take dues, and often times they promote mediocrity. Not to mention in the US, most of the major ones are tied to the mob and *act like it*. Ultimately, the system could be improved/reformed, and people should be free to choose if they want involvement with a union or not.

[@OliveOilFan]

@@CMacK1294 unions are more relevant than ever. It do want to add Unions are dying not because of the things you listed but by what politicians and corporations are doing, Mainly getting cheap labor from outside the country, for people who don’t know what unions are/don’t care. They are also trying to “diversify unions” as an attempt of union busting

[@ssnaut1871]

@@OliveOilFan yeah but you can't complain against foreign workers taking jobs bcz it be racist. And i say as indian guy.

[@-Baikal-]

Can you imagine the extremely privileged cushy life you would have to live in order to not have acquired the arcane knowledge of how to boil an egg before reaching adulthood

[@momomomocensoredbyyoutube9085]

Gotta say I like your videos like this far more than your live content. This video was very entertaining. Good shit Dev.

[@TrevorNWhite]

At a certain point, the response to “that’s ableist” just has to be “correct,” and then everyone just goes back to whatever they were doing.