Rest easy, Dave. And thank you. 💛

This is such great news. I read Rebecca Skloot's book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks which dug deep into the family to a degree I don't necessarily agree with. The generational poverty, racism, and countless other wrongs the family endured was laid out, and of course, it also included the internal family strife. Hopefully this settlement is a new start for the family.

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It's so frustrating that this is true. I use devices until they're dead or at risk of serious compromise before getting another, but the only options are ones that I can't even hold comfortably with one hand. I'm seriously considering the Jelly 2 at this point.

It's contagious as heck. I've never been to the South but somehow y'all fitted itself into my lexicon.

The exact setup my kids would seek out as toddlers for a good napping spot. Freaked me out as a parent trying to find them, but I get it. Cozy, secure, blocks out the world.

I want one.

What a nightmare process. Where I'm at they can have someone lined up for a position but still have to post it, screen applicants, then pick the person they already wanted for the role, a big waste of time. But what you're describing, good grief, that's horrible for everyone, even the people outside of the hiring process.

^ The Libby app works great for audiobooks, too!

Ah, thanks for this. I am on mobile so had to remember to expand the sidebar in order to see the subscribe button.

Thank you for posting!

To anyone else: Any thoughts on when/if we'll be able to subscribe to communities on kbin from lemmy?

Well said. There's a part of me that desperately wants to know there is a true, pure species on this planet that doesn't stoop to sick levels of cruelty, but that's not reality. Bambi noms baby birds, cetaceans mutilate each other's babies, and we do the unthinkable every second of every day. Depressing, but here we are.

"Tell me about a time when..." If I had the time, I would go to interviews just to shut this shit down. I don't need the job, I just want to beat it into hiring managers' heads that this is BS and needs to stop. If those questions aren't given to the interviewee ahead of time to prepare, it's off the table.

I'm with you 100% on this rant.

This. This. This.

We have a reliable means that doesn't require producing large animals that will, at scale, put more needless pressure on our collapsing ecosystems. Get insulin out of corporate pharmaceuticals and into a basic right to cost-free access model where we, society, fund the production.

Glad you posted this because I'd completely forgotten I got the weird notification, but work things distracted me from trying to figure it out.

"Damnit, Ricardo."

This is a painfully bad situation. And what's worse is that we shouldn't even call it "fast fashion", it's really: "Shitty clothing that most people are stuck with because that's all they can afford."

Fast fashion makes it sound like bougie niche brands that 20 somethings put themselves into debt over to keep up with trends. But it's also everyday people brands sold at Kohl's, Walmart, Target, etc. I get the analogy intent (fast food, fast fashion) but it's backfired in that everyone assumes the problem is uncontrolled selfish vapid people. The problem is all of us because we're trapped without options.

(Bit of a terminology quibble)

The quality of the already shitty clothing is even worse now. Ex: a shirt I bought at Kohl's in February had several small holes by the end of March - the dye hadn't even started to fade yet. Same brand, same cut and style of shirt I'd purchased a year before (the bar was already low on quality), the likes of which I'd been purchasing year over year as replacements.

I have to shuffle my budget to find the money to buy higher quality -- most people can't.

I have to find a new retailer/brand with the style, material, and size options -- online is fine for some things but most people aren't like me, buying the same shirt on repeat, and frankly, I don't enjoy buying clothing online as a non-man because no one uses a standardized measurement system for women's clothing.

"Higher end" clothing is often garbage quality with a name that inflates the price -- most people don't want, nor should be expected, to become fabric and tailoring experts just to pick out their wardrobe pieces.

Don't get me started on kids clothes.

Anyway, we can vow to shop used/secondhand all we want but this is a massive system problem that needs heavy regulation enacted quickly to force substantive change.

From the Beehaw sidebar: "We do want you coming here and sharing links to news articles, websites you find, starting discussions, connecting with others, and in general doing what you see on other social media websites."

What if the focus of Beehaw and/or Lemmy in general is not as a link aggregation platform but instead a community of topic discussion? People are rewarded for posting links to articles with upvotes which only gives incentive to continue posting the same not-read content that they think the respective subs will like (upvote).

Instead, we should be rewarding people who are actively engaging with the community. Not broadcast posting the way it goes on mastodon or IG, etc., but actual back and forth interaction with the community.

Maybe take away the ability to upvote a link post and reserve that for the actual discussion parts that take place?

Seriously, yes. I'm heartened to hear that this is being discussed at higher, coordinated levels. Right now I'm trying compost in a rotating bin I bought for this rental place because the landlord will not pay for food waste pickup even though it's offered in our area (they also expect six units to share a single home sized recycle bin that's picked up once every two weeks 🙄). We need a system change and stop leaving it up to individuals to figure it out on our own.

This is the bureaucracy hoops people should be pissed off about. Ugh.

I was just fine today until I read this. THANKS INTERNET PERSON

Ah okay, that makes sense. Thanks!

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I'm surprised Bloomberg would publish something like this, considering it's focus.

Someone needs a decaf.

Seriously, this. I get stink eye because I portion no more than 4oz of beef per serving per person.

I would love to have options for ground beef with 50% or more replaced by mushrooms. I've had burgers made like this and they were better than a fully beef version. Make this widely available, and cheaper than 100% beef, and I could see that accepted faster than the highly processed non meat options like impossible or beyond brands.

Need? No. But sometimes when I'm standing in a pool of people and despair and I can't picture things getting better, I kind of just want a BFF little buddy like WALL-E or BD-1 who just gets me without judgement, and doesn't require me to be its caregiver.

This is so sad. Clinging to dated income models, and not shifting the way stories are told, it all feels so cheapened. The right thing to do now is shut it down altogether.

They're so sweet. The trusting part gets me. Too pure for this planet! 💛

wander around living seaweed, while being bright yellow.

I could get behind this little critter.

Damn this is scary. How are we so dependent on the distribution (control) of software, especially healthcare related, through two corporations: Alphabet and Apple. I am not so naive as to believe the open internet or freeware is free of nefarious actors, but the testing and checks and balances would play out far safer than this for-profit stranglehold.

I have no idea how people who aren't tech-interested, but dependent on these systems, stay sane. What a miserable way to live life.

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Good point!

I moved out of finance into non profit but still doing tech. Every day I try to find "purpose" in my work but a tech job is a tech job. The income is the only reason I can't jump ship out of BS and into something that I find meaningful.

Love this! The kind of thing technology is supposed to do.

I gotcha. It's a bit fiddly on mobile but see what you mean. Thanks!

Truly it is. Trying to get that added weight back off when your over 40? Every miniscule advantage is appreciated.

Same! I believe that others struggle with it but I can't wrap my head around why their experience is so different from my own.

+1

A fun read! And I really appreciate the effort they put in to replicate the messaging experience for each entry as you scrolled down the page (at least as it appeared on mobile browser).