America’s obesity epidemic is a function of our car culture. This is the only country on God’s green Earth that feels putting in sidewalks is a moral failure.

It really is that simple. I wish I had received this kind of support.

“No, today I will NOT spend three hours spamming my friends about The Simpsons,” he said, finishing up a three hour rant about The Simpsons.

Can’t blame em. Time for all of those amazing white cultures to step up and offer their incredible spicy ethnic foods for all to enjoy.

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Oh. Oh no.

It honestly shocked me so much that I had to do some research before bed just to make sure that number was right. Seems like it was. But I also was there in Pittsburgh during the riots that happened during the 2009 G20 summit, and that also saw similar numbers of people arrested and charged.

No city has resources, especially right now, to find charges that stick on all those people, so they put everyone in front of a judge on a rapid fire basis, and that judge basically triages the ones with charges that would actually matter. I saw something like 80% of the cases get dropped entirely, though, many months later, which is still plenty of time to ruin a worker’s life.

I saw on the news last night that here in Philly, there were almost 70 arrests by city police of a group of union demonstrators doing an organized sit-in. When they were hauling one middle-aged black lady away, the news shoved a microphone in her face and asked if it was worth it. She just replied, “solidarity forever.” ✊🏻

Honestly, I know a lot of companies that would be absolutely fucked if Backblaze went under in a dramatic fashion.

I get it, I’m just poking fun a bit.

Going through that experience is what made me eventually buy a solar generator when I had the money in the right spot. I’ve felt really unsafe until I managed to get one figured out. Jumped on a Black Friday deal *during the pandemic and got a DJI Power 1000 and two solar panel sets for $500.

I’ve given it a fair shake at this point, and just with the light in my enclosed back yard, I am collecting almost 400W/h, which is more than enough to run the fridge for a few days by cycling the power so it runs for only a few hours total per day.

I really really recommend folks explore solar these days. Battery storage technology has really, really improved since the early 2000s. Solar panels aren’t meaningfully any more efficient, but the real advantage these days is that panels are dirt nasty cheap if you are willing to wait on freight times. You can even buy a $30 panel rated at 6W and connect it to a USB power bank and run your vapes, Flipper Zero, etc on solar!

I agree with you wholeheartedly, but it’s odd that you’d point to events from the 1960s when we have blackouts every summer in Texas now, lol.

I deeply respect anyone who chooses any alternative to monogamy, but y’all have no idea how stoked I am that I get to call my partner “wife.”

It’s totally fair to be as vanilla as an unsalted cracker if that’s what you feel! The ‘Q’ part of LGBTQIA is super duper important, as how can you be sure you’re straight without ever asking?

It’s nuts, but once I learned that it was just an LLM doing content moderation (and probably the appeals, too), things made a lot more sense.

Spez is the exact kind of guy who would believe that community moderation is an “unsolved problem” and not, y’know, perfectly solvable by the same ol’: ya hire people to do it.

Seriously, when are these bourgeoisie fucks gonna realize that any system designed to coerce or manipulate is inherently corrupting its own ability to be trustworthy, ethical or qualitative.

moreover, i think it’s just weird that everyone expects generative ai to be as open and useful and free as it has been. it’s all to get us to trust and use it unknowingly, then they’re gonna start jacking the prices up. we’ve seen it before with cable television, internet, consumer goods like shoes and computer parts, and more. open source efforts have gone a long way, but it’s still all a tinkerers’ hobby, not a viable alternative.

:sickos:

“Steamed Hamming” is my new phrase of the year.

I think you meant ‘capitulate,’ but ‘copitulate’ might work too, lol.

Yeah, honestly, the way things are set up isn’t perfect. I maintain a few accounts on different instances just to fan out what content I get. The Fedi is always gonna have issues with moderation and federation, I just don’t see it as a good enough reason to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

I have to be honest, I’m a long way from either border, but even then I am not sure I have the bravery to try crossing a border right now — and I am a natural citizen. :/

My MAGA / Q-ANON mom said she wanted to run for school board to prevent trans kids from using litter boxes. Mind you, her last kid (me) left that high school in 2006. I asked her what a school board director does, and she got mad at me because she didn’t know.

Like if you’re a parent just trying to make a good childhood for your kid, how do you even fight bored boomers like this? They have no dog in the fight, nothing to lose, and worst of all, nothing to do. That is just so dangerous.

I was raised with civic resources, and they wanna pull the damn ladder up behind them. Despicable.

Imagine restaurants being BYOC