Soggy

@Soggy@lemmy.world
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I had a Game Boy, that got a lot of use.

This supreme court? I wouldn't count on it.

They are necessities and should be detached from the market.

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Tempered glass is still sharp but it breaks into tiny pieces so it can't cut deeply.

Fine face-to-face but still vote to make your existence illegal. I'm not alright with that kind of "civility" and it's the reason I don't connect with an arm of my extended family. Fuck em.

We'll probably live to see robot towns, where a small contingent of maintenence workers keep a huge fleet of automated farming/processing/shipping equipment operational. If they're lucky Monsanto will buy a restaurant chain so there's somewhere for them to eat nearby.

That assumes that interstellar travel is possible. Physically, economically, socially, there's a lot of boxes to check for near-light extrasolar expansion (let alone FTL, which probably is impossible)

I think the easy solution to the Fermi Paradox is that we're stuck in our fish bowl and so is everyone else.

Bell pepper thing is false. Green ones are usually underripe red bells but the other colors are all equally ripe. This is easy to fact check: look for less ripe peppers at the store, they will be red with green splotches rather than yellow or orange. Or you can shop for bell pepper seeds online.

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That's how Musk names everything. He loves the letter X, he named the Tesla models "S", "3", "X", and "Y", the Cybertruck, his five most recent children including "Techno Mechanicus"... He's absolutely unfit to be in charge of anything.

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Lincoln was a Republican before the parties switched. It's well-documented how voting trends from the Civil War through to the Civil Rights Act flipped (hint, it's to do with racism and the North/South divide)

This is a brief overview. Obviously not an exhaustive history but covers the basics. https://www.studentsofhistory.com/ideologies-flip-Democratic-Republican-parties

Kind of skipped bronze, since there aren't ready sources of copper and tin on his property. But yes his experiments with iron processing have been interesting. Pretty incredible what can be managed with such simple tools.

So, not actual socialism then.

A few of them were fully prepared to murder senators, don't forget.

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The unintended consequence is genocide. When people need permission to reproduce that introduces a convenient method to keep certain people from having kids.

What if you're imprisoned on a cart and attacked by a dragon? Or just released from prison on a boat and dropped off in a swampy beach town? The fantasy RPG genre requires starting as a convict or prisoner, you see.

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Shit interface then. Pressing down on my volume knob pauses it, and I've got media controls on the steering wheel as well so I can change tracks with my left thumb keeping both hands on the wheel.

Including large swaths of the US. Florida is looking pretty sketch lately.

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Plainclothes police and unmarked cars should not exist (outside of, potentially, planned and warranted sting operations)

What, and hold companies liable for being actively hostile to workers (and society as a whole)? Sounds like communism.

I've been using Firefox exclusively for close to twenty years now and non-compatible websites are extremely rare. I'm sure there are industry-specific shortcomings but for general usage it's always been acceptable at worst. And its market share is close to 7%.

Hey, just like we failed to de-traitor the American South after the civil war! It's almost like you have to pull that bullshit out by the root.

I miss when normies and politicians were scared and confused by it so they left it alone. When computers in general required some skill and knowledge to use so there was a natural barrier to entry.

There's nothing inherently immoral about sex work.

Gaming is the primary driver behind my PC choices by a humongous margin. I'm not really concerned about imvasive anti-cheat software, I don't want to tinker with settings, I want to turn on my computer and play video games. That means I use Windows.

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It was a convoluted Dutch smuggling operation, the event was a cover. This is clog racing.

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Most unions aren't supported by the government and given license to kill.

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Ol' Madge thought that money gets burned when spent rather than circulating through the local economy.

Fast food is often the only restaurant option for people working night shifts. I used to clock out at 5am. You know what's open at 5am, when you're hungry but too tired to cook dinner because you've been on your feet for ten hours? Fast food. Maybe a diner if you're near a truck route, but honestly that's not much different.

It's far from the only way society ignores the needs of people who keep everything running behind the scenes, but it sure was annoying.

"Common" doesn't mean "right" and it shouldn't be "acceptable" either. Burn it down.

I wish we could get some mobs organized up here. If one tenth of the stuff Fox said about Seattle protests was true we might see some actual change.

Gotta get out of WASP neighborhoods, there's tons of good American food developed (mostly by immigrants and slaves) over the hundreds of years since colonization. And it's not like the native population was eating dirt.

If anything, it's weird to see it work so well.

Unacceptable behavior for a vehicle.

No they're just feeling morally superior for no good reason.

I mind the normalization of magical thinking. It's the same reason I bristle at astrology and tarot and luck charms.

Yeah, everyone who signs up for experimental medical trials is a stooge.

Republicans do better in elections with low voter turnout because old white people vote at disproportionately high rates.

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Capitalism driving innovation has always been a lie. Creation, exploration, and experimentation are basic human behaviors.

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They don't care about internally consistent logic. If they did they wouldn't be religious.

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