Without the voice inflection and body language of personal communication these are easily misinterpreted. A sideways smile, :-), has become widely accepted on the net as an indication that “I’m only kidding”. If you submit a satiric item without this symbol, no matter how obvious the satire is to you, do not be surprised if people take it seriously.
Jerry Schwartz, 1983, Usenet

Sort of? I used to have a regular bicycle, but the route with the least grade is also the truck route with no shoulders on parts of it. I quit biking after I got run off the road by a semi, so I think the main problem is just a lack of infrastructure.

You’re not wrong. It’s also not helped that they look for any excuse to cut service, like they cut service during the '08 crash, took nearly a decade to bring it back to something close to what it was, only for it to get cut back even farther during COVID. There used to be a bus between the train station and the bus station, but that got cut back in '17 for unknown reasons. Heaven forbid they actually help people with their public service.

They say they don’t want to expand the lines because nobody rides it, but that’s only because their timetables and routes are shit. The first bus goes by my neighborhood at 6:30a and it’s always packed to standing with people who start work at 9am. But I guess people being willing to stand on a bus going 50mph is “nobody”.

PNW sadly enough. The fuckin neolibs running the area are using public transit to virtue signal how green they are without actually spending the money to make it actually effective. Gotta look good, so there’s multiple 15min bus lines, but it only covers a couple square miles, so nobody wants to pay the $2 when they could just walk.

Yeah, I have to spend two hours on the bus when it takes half an hour to drive downtown. They have great bus service if you’re within walking distance of the downtown area, but until earlier this year the last bus home left the station at 4p. Now the last bus home leaves at 6p.

I haven’t owned a car in a while, and I cannot even find a job because employers don’t want to work around the useless bus schedule.

Back in the day, it used to be recommended that you push the power button while its unplugged to discharge the capacitors. I don’t know if it still works.

I heard the cover version, Holy Driver, works great for software.

I normally don’t kink shame, but I’m going to shame the hell out of this kink lmao

Poppy seeds do it for me too

With how hospitals in the US can be, a lot of emergency rooms are too small and if they run out of beds, you just get to sit in the hall. It’d be nice if they gave you a discount for that.

It’s clearly not something a MAGA on Lemmy would post in response to a news article critical of Trump

I see you’ve not met my uncle.

You run into this a little bit with light fixtures too, weirdly enough. Because modern indoor lighting is descended from gas lighting, it was normal for people to upgrade old gas systems to electric by using the pipes as conduit. So now, if you need a replacement bit to fix your table lamp from Walmart, they’re measured in a mostly obsolete plumbing standard, Iron Pipe Size.

He was at one point, lol.

He was mayor of NYC during the 9/11 attacks, and at the time was heralded as America’s Mayor. Giuliani was later Trump’s personal lawyer, and because of that, fell out of favor with the public.

It’s an old photo from his 9/11 appearance. He had been in a car accident and broke a bunch of bones, so what you’re seeing is a chest brace.

Yeah, I dislocated my knee in high school, couldn’t afford to go to a doctor, haven’t been able to walk right since.

Yeah, my point is that one person’s utopia can be another person’s dystopia. Everybody wants to live in a better place, but nobody agrees on what “better” actually means.

Some people crave structure and order, and don’t want to lose that in favor of increased self-determination. Others see structure and order as constraining and chafing, and see increased self-determination at any cost as freeing.

Quite a lot of people also have a hard time viewing things long-term. IDK where you’re at, but a lot of people live paycheck to paycheck here, and I think they’re stuck in short-term thinking as a form of survival.

Like I grew up poor poor, with shitty parents to boot, where you have so little self-determination that you just straight up learn that making plans only leads to disappointment. Long-term planning is a skill, and when kids grow up with parents that raid the piggy bank for beer money, they learn that planning is useless and spending all your pocket change on candy is better.

Demand royalties?

Disagree.

Most people want to make the world a better place, we just can’t agree on what a better world would look like, and how to get there.

There’s a lot of people out there, for example, who think that the “right to self determination” is a bad thing because they believe humanity has an intrinsic self-destructive aspect. I disagree, but they firmly believe that a dictatorship is the solution and I’m being unhelpful because I don’t want that.

One of the hardest things I’ve been through in therapy was realizing that my parents really did think they were doing the right thing. They listened to the “experts” at church who told them that in order to protect their kids, they needed to hurt their kids. My mother dropped out of college when she got pregnant, and my stepdad is mentally ill, so neither of them were particularly well educated, and they landed in a cult.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions, after all. People can be horrible and think they’re doing it for the greater good.

My great-grandmother turned 20 during the Great Depression, and she helped raise me. I think that’s why I’m like this too.

You just gotta get creative. What if we had a lotto system, where every day one person gets a million bucks, and fifty people get to do forced labor for the rest of their life? We wouldn’t need surveillance, we’d just have to tell them we’re watching and let the RNG do all the work instead.