IamtheMorgz

While this is indeed a list, it pales in comparison to what you can do in or near a large city.

I enjoy a ton of things on your list but there's stuff you just can't easily do outside of a metro area. Especially stuff you need a specialized teacher for.

Okay but "In order for contributors to claim the Points they have earned, they need to create a Vault within the Reddit mobile app. When a user creates their Vault, they will receive the Points that they have earned up to 24 weeks (~6 months) before. Points earned but not claimed within 24 weeks will expire." So... Yes, it definitely was about getting everyone to use the shitty app. This is their second wave of that. And also "Moderators receive their Community Points at the beginning of the following distribution cycle. The actual amount of Points they receive depends on how many Points were distributed to users' Vaults in the previous cycle." They are trying to rope in the mods to convince people to join the app.

Wonder what kind of wild exploitation someone is going to come up with, because rest assured this is going to happen.

In a similar vein, I was trying to find something on Facebook (yeah, I know, but it was a funny work thing) today and went to use the search function to look for the FB page in question (searched the exact name) and if you just hit enter the new AI assumes you're asking it a question. It's FB! It's not a search engine! Why is it trying to give me a phone number for the police department I'm looking up to see their insane post?! I want to see the page! The page with the name I searched! On the app I searched in! Now you have to click a separate button that specifies you're looking to search through FB.... In the FB app!

This AI crap is already k.i.l.l.i.n.g. me.

If the job requires you to be at your desk then presumably that means you have work to complete. Judge people for what they get done, not how often they mindlessly move a mouse and this wouldn't be a problem!

Technically I come in at 7 and leave at 4:30, but it's a 9 hour day (30 min unpaid lunch) and I get every other Friday off in exchange. Also most days I work from home. No way in heck I'd ever go in for something like that.

OP, start job shopping. Longer hours are a sign the business isn't doing all that well and they're trying to squeeze out some more labor. Or a sign they're doing well but are not interested in taking care of people by hiring enough staff and would rather you burn yourself out.

This is one of the best reads I've had in a while! Free download everyone, be sure to check it out. Especially people with depression or executive dysfunction that makes it hard to feed yourself.

Whoa, don't call her a cunt. She doesn't have the depth or the warmth.

I am a firm believer in always returning your shopping cart to either the inside of the store or a corral. I dumped a guy over not doing it once 😂

For some of them, they are. There's a whole thing in the Bible about how bad the world has to get (including a war in Israel) for the second coming to happen, and they're trying to force it.

A ton of evangelicals believe they are living in the end times and there's no reason to care about the future of the planet or nation anyway.

sweats in Georgia

Double ditto. My mortgage is less than rent anyway, and my costs will go down if valuation does (lower taxes). I don't even like where I live right now (I bought what I could afford and got in with a low interest rate, but it's a poorer neighborhood) but I'd be so happy to see my friends who've been struggling manage to have something for themselves.

Funny, the older I get the more progressive I get. Same for most of the people I know (I'm a millennial). It used to be you got more conservative as you got older but i think the consensus now is you get more conservative the richer you get and well, my generation isn't getting richer. I think we all just realize how easy it would be to pay the bill if we would just tax the rich.

Only very briefly if I really needed the money. I used to work a corporate job and for a while I was a contractor doing data analysis. Those jobs left me feeling like I wasn't doing anything of value and that was enough to shift me into the public sector, which I enjoy immensely. I'd rather not go back but I could see myself needing more money than is generally on offer in public service.

If I opposed the organization ideologically I'd probably sell plasma before I took a job there. But I don't have a family relying on me so that makes it easier.

The EFF is really just about one topic though (privacy on the Internet, for those of you unfamiliar with their work). I'm sure some other orgs have their own topics they have written model legislation for. ALEC writes for everything on the GOP agenda, and I think that's what OP was getting at - a universal writer. But I don't think there is one. Perhaps because the Left is very broad in it approaches to stuff, comparatively? So it's harder to nail down the language everyone would agree on? Or maybe it's ideological from the Dem party, that they don't want that kind of centralized writer for issues that have nuance. No clue, this is a really interesting question from OP.

Thank you for addressing that part! Easy to see the hard numbers don't play out that way.

I don't hate the idea of some companionship but I have little tolerance for dealing with another person over the long term. I like my life of doing what I want, when I want.

I'm also ace spec with no particular drive to have sex with another person, so that makes staying single easy. I see a lot of people get into relationships because that's the way they get sex, but honestly, that seems exhausting to me. Sex just doesn't have that much value to me.

I have mint too and haven't had much trouble with bandwidth. But to be fair I don't use my phone for very much while not on wifi, mostly just streaming music and Google maps.

Idk why you're being down voted. I just watched a Legal Eagle video that pretty much described the change as being exactly related to this. If the appeal fails, he still owes the original judgement amount and if he doesn't come up with the money they will seize some property. If the appeal works out for the orange man then they don't have to try to undo a sale.

Appeals courts are good things. And everyone, including that a-hole, is entitled to appeal.

Now, it's super annoying he can brag about having the money in public but argue in court he doesn't, but hey, that's our former president. Talks only out of his ass and never suffers any consequences from it.

With any luck the appeal will fail miserably and he'll still be on the hook for the full amount.

No very believable. He can't do full sentences like that.

This is why work from home is so valuable to me. They don't pay me well enough to have a commute under 45 mins because the cost of living in the city is high as heck. And there's no public transit option. So basically that's 1.5 hours a day that I'm not losing to being stupid traffic

So freaking expensive. But honestly I love mine. Sometimes I travel for work and I'm gone all week. Come home and there's still no smell. Worth it.

I hate mine. Got the glitch that ruins the camera and the only way to fix it is to send it off for a few weeks. Happened after only having the phone about 10 months. Can't go that long without my phone so I'm just dealing with it by only taking wide angle photos, but it's a real bummer. I usually keep a phone for at least 3 years but I'll be ditching this around July after less than 2. I love their computers but I'll never buy a phone from them again.

I actually don't think that is true. Caitlin Dougherty on YouTube has a video on it though. It's pushed by funeral directors because it's a big money maker for them.

Okay let's go with your thing. So developer can now, by your logic, pick any property they want and just build there without the consent of the owner, as long as they later find a similar enough lot to switch with the owner later? And the owner just has to agree to it because it's still a fair trade?

I grew up on a road called Gay. I think my whole childhood would be cancelled.

I'm sure that will make people feel super safe while ubering.

I have a small house I purchased in a neighborhood full of renters. I bought during the low interest pandemic times, too, so my mortgage is less than most people's rent. If I won the lottery tomorrow I would definitely sell my house for a better one (I make about 30% more now than when I bought, and the only reason I won't move now is because of the interest rate). So many people have told me that I need to rent this place out rather than sell it. But I don't have the ability to be the kind of landlord you described and therefore I know I shouldn't be a landlord at all.

This is how I feel about my gender now. I'm AFAB and mostly fine with it. In my 30s so don't feel like I can opt out at this point without some major major sacrifices. But if I could start again I'd be a dude, even if I was still AFAB. I sort of envy kids that got to grow up hearing that switching was an option, but then I think about the state of everything else and I figure I still probably got the better deal.

Aside from the fact that this isn't true for people giving up their citizenship (in the US at least), it's especially not true around the world. Lots of people are born stateless or made stateless during conflict or upheaval.

You seem to be under the impression that straight couples in media are only ever married with 2.5 kids with a working father and stay at home mom but that really doesn't seem like it's been the case for a while.

While polyamory is probably still underrepresented, I'm not sure about your other examples. Also polyamory often includes at least one LGBTQ+ relationship so I'm not sure it makes your point. And a trans person in a heterosexual relationship falls at least half into LGBTQ+ by definition.

Most rom coms aren't about married couples with kids. Most sit coms show relationships where both partners work. The old trope of the dad who knows nothing about his kids is pretty dead at this point. Divorced and widowed couples show up a lot, too.

I don't think you're wrong that all kinds of relationships and gender expressions should be represented, but comparing it to the overall lack of LGBTQ+ rep out there... Well, one of these things is not like the other.

Also, my sister works and her husband is a stay at home dad. When people hear this they say "oh" and move on. When I mention my nephew is trans... Well the reaction is different. Very different. As stupid as it sounds, media representation plays a huge role in exposing people to things they don't get the chance to see often in their own lives (especially if you're from a small town). It's good for people to see trans characters they like and relate to before they find out about my nephew. I actually use it as a gauge to decide if I should tell people at all.

So long as straight is the assumption (or default), we are gonna need these kinds of spaces.

You can turn off emergency alerts though. And you can't get them back after they've been dismissed from your phone.

Difficult considering social security isn't a tax. Without looking it up my guess is that number rolls up the 14-15% of SS and Medicare taxes so the real number is lower.

To be completely fair to them, a ton of the delay was over lawsuits. I mean, you'd definitely end up dealing with those regardless of where you put upa NPP, but just giving them that small benefit f doubt there.

I'm a customer of theirs, paying the stupid fee. They got all celebratory about getting to the end and now the bill has to be paid and oh look, it's the customers paying. Joy.

I work nuclear industry adjacent, so I guess it's job security. And with that disclaimer I'll add this:

Building new plants is definitely going to take too long. If we get small modular reactors that will help. Same way if we get better batteries for solar and wind storage or new tech in geothermal. The simple point is that we are 50+ years behind. We gotta try anything and everything. It's our only hope at this point. And no matter what, it's going to cost. Money, land, your view from your backyard. People aren't willing to sacrifice anything to get it done, and that's how it's going to end for us if we don't change. And that's true for literally every problem we have. Nimby-ism will be the death of us.

Want to drop some links for where to get started? I only sort of understand what you just said but I like the idea of my own network and it being easier than it seems!

Does this take into account the value of the land? Solar notoriously takes up space so I'm curious how much space you'd need for a solar farm that could produce as much power as Vogtle...

There are lots of people who believe this for religious reasons. Not saying I agree, just saying they absolutely exist.

This is my dream too, but I want a retractable roof so I can set up a telescope. Also my house would be in the middle of nowhere so I can see the stars.

I feel like this is the kind of thing everyone overlooks in these kinds of scenarios. Thousands of people are going to be working on the problem. Okay, all our current electronics are fried, but that doesn't mean we can't make new ones. All our power plants and water treatment facilities suddenly don't work... Well, people still have jobs at those places so someone is going to try to fix it. And I think most people sort of know and understand that, at least over the short term. Society doesn't fall apart after every disaster.

And if it did, you're probably wrong about how you'd respond or you're not being creative and therefore are doing what everyone else will do and the resources will dry up and you won't be one of the lucky few that makes it.

First off, RBMK (Chernobyl) wasn't safe as designed. In the US, the style of reactor wouldn't have made it through the required licensing.

Second of all, the consequences being way worse is an exaggeration. If a nuclear power plant has a small release, the (real, scientific) impact would be minimal. If it has a large release then something else happened and the reactor containment was destroyed and whatever massive natural disaster did that is causing waaaaayy more problems. We're probably all dead anyway.

People are afraid of radiation because you can't see or smell or hear it. Which is probably a good thing considering you are surrounded by it all the time.

Someone recently said to me that if people had been introduced to electricity by watching someone die in an electric chair, they'd refuse to have power in their homes. People were introduced to radiation by an atomic bomb.

Lol, I have 8 nibblings. It's always been a chore.