Yeah, I don’t understand why people think getting rid of public garbage cans would help at all.

I spent some time homeless, and always thought I was being polite by throwing my stuff away in other people’s garbage instead of losing it, but I guess this author would hate me for it.

I’m sure that after half an eternity, Sisyphus would start to get creative with it. I bet he surfed down the mountain on the boulder once just to see if he could.

Nope, it’s gatekeeping. I installed Ubuntu on my partner’s machine instead of paying for windows, because he only uses webapps. Learning CLI isn’t required for browsing the web, and trying to force it only makes people think it’s useless for basic shit.

What internet? The one algorithmically controlled by the oligarchs?

TIL that Lemmy isn’t part of the internet

Why do people need to learn CLI to watch youtube and write emails? That’s all the average computer user does.

I’m in the middle of pulling a chat friend out of his programming. His only real problem was being raised in Texas by a Good Ol Boy single father, and once he got out from under his dad’s wing, he started to realize that what he was taught simply isn’t lining up with reality.

He started out as an incel, but now he’s in therapy and has a girlfriend.

I think of it less as ‘converting’ and more just holding his hand while he figures out that his dad’s advice was complete horseshit. It takes forever, and not everybody has the spoons to pull it off, but I do, so I will.

Yeah, I got accusations thrown at me after letting a trans lady crash at my place when she came out and her ex-wife kicked her out of the house. Everybody was an adult, but the ex-wife found a friend in the TERFs, and they think trans rights is pedo apologism.

I got molested by my babysitter when I was 5, and it was incredibly infuriating to hear people say it was the same as a fucking divorce.

Nirvana is on the blue line by Sad, Tool is above it in the pink/purple

Vista was a’ight, so long as you didn’t get that memory eating bug.

Dad was a gym rat, and it is absolutely a real thing.

ngl, I sorta assumed it’d happen more than three times a week

I think it’s both. Trump is obviously a useful idiot that’s being played like a fiddle. The people stroking his strings want to have a controlling stake in the economy and he’s dumb enough to believe their claims that this is a good thing.

I mean, that drunk uncle is now old enough to be a grandparent who looks after the kids while both parents work two jobs each.

I know somebody with a full house filter, and it uses UV to reduce bacterial growth.

Western Washington, surprisingly enough. I thought the area had fantastic transit before I moved, but outside the cities it sucks. I’m currently waiting for a taxi because my MRI finished after the last bus home. It’s only 5:30pm.

Shitty public transit is the goal around here though. Its being run by fucking NIMBYs that don’t like that the bus that goes to my town also services a reservation, and just whine whine whine that the fully packed bus is too expensive and should be cut.

Headline: In a startling discovery, 43 Oklahoma school districts used corporal punishment against students with disabilities during the 2021-2022 school year.

https://kfor.com/news/local/not-our-place-43-ok-school-districts-reportedly-spanked-students-with-disabilities-recently-lawmakers-want-to-ban-it/

My local public transit only commes by five times a day, and if the bus is already full, they’ll not let the wheelchair user on. Ostensibly they’ll send a van to pick them up, but those don’t adhere to a schedule and can take hours to arrive.

Transit around here is so bad that I’ve had multiple jobs tell me I’m not eligible for hire if I rely on the bus.

I’m remembering one discussion in particular where he used the Civilian Conservation Corps and other work-relief programs during the Great Depression as evidence that it’s perfectly possible for the government to just invent jobs to be done, and especially now that we’re in the digital age, there is zero reason to keep a ‘conscription to vote’ scheme as military only.

Dang, you gotta worry about butthole surfers too?