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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seeing shit like this kills me. People are so ignorant.⁩ ⁨⁨34⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  Personally I do think it should be required to post some amount of Islamic concepts. Among the many ways we are too provincial is seeing everything through the eyes of a single religion family. Even our friends and neighbors seem alien when we aren’t even aware there are other religions.

  Let’s require at least some comparative religion study, perhaps in social studies and history. The major religions have had a huge impact on the development of our societies and we should all be more familiar with beliefs held in common or u destined where they’re actually different (and not just the Fix News version)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They made his car "cease & desist"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  In any sane world that would be a trivial lawsuit to win

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I resigned to my last job and now I need to talk to my former boss to get the job back. Any recommendations?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Apparently a plaque of an apple with lots of gold can buy a pass

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you encountered this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  For sure, that’s the whole reason for being willing to tip. Employees asre most likely to be scammed and at least tipping makes it right for one subset of those

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you encountered this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Then you’re assuming a clear pattern of fraud, not just one server cheating. That’s bigger than just not tipping

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you encountered this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Bullshit. Hopefully it’s one server and management should take care of it. But it’s appropriate to complain to the right authority so they can see if it’s a pattern in need of enforcement.

  This is how things get done. A single instance of food poisoning can be a mistake, but a pattern of food poisoning is potentially in need of enforcement and remediation. But they can’t see a pattern if no one complains

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you encountered this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Not only that but that waitress at a diner is probably providing a hell of a lot better service than that bartender where I have to wave money just to get served

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the maximum number of potatoes you could grow in your house or on property you own before it becomes a crime?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah but a large electric bill seems to be enough to get a warrant

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Need a keyboard with a dedicated "slop" button⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Need a keyboard with a dedicated "slop" button⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I might consider that for myself, next time I need one, but the kid is not a techie. He needs something that just works, with anything he may encounter , for at least 4 years. Most damning of all he probably needs to be able to game, and is not interested in having to figure out extra steps

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Need a keyboard with a dedicated "slop" button⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Went with an Acer. Best keyboard, tiny screen borders for a fairly compact 16” screen, 32G, 2TB …. I forget which CPU, we looked at so many.

  The big question is battery life, and we decided to risk it. For a claimed 9.5 hours battery life when new, will it still get through a realistic full day of classes for the next four years. Hopefully

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Need a keyboard with a dedicated "slop" button⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I have no idea what point you’re trying to get across but I just got back from shopping for a laptop for my college kid and pretty much all of them had a slop button

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are there no universities/colleges that start in the afternoons?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My older son managed to set his schedule last semester so the earliest class started at 11am

  He’s a bit insane though - the previous semester I think he had only one afternoon class, so was done at lunch

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you reconcile staying sane while keeping yourself up-to-date with the news?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This too shall pass. I take comfort that the pendulum of politics has always swung back and forth. This moment of insanity should swing back to rebuilding, and progressive changes.

  When I was in college, we had “the midnight scream”. During finals, entire dorms would open their windows at midnight and just scream. It was very effective at venting frustration, allowing us all to refocus on studying. Perhaps that’s what’s happening now: we’re all just screaming in frustration.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  When someone is using the bathroom I expect them to close the door. If they’re letting it all out in public, yes I might walk in

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  BS, we had the same argument on Reddit

  • TwoX was militant about no guys
  • whatever men’s subreddit was welcoming to women’s reply but wanted them to be honest what gender they were

  So as a guy on some men only subreddit, I also welcomed the opinion of women while expecting them to clarify.

  As a nerd in many “year of Linux on the desktop” debates, I welcomed constructive opinions from the benighted fools

  As a PC gamer I want to game with my buddies so yes I want the opinion of those on consoles

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too bad we can't have good public transportation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  infrastructure investments can be one of the best ways to help poor people rise economically

  And specifically consider how much we can help by not requiring all the expenses of owning a car. Transit and intercity rail could be among the best investments when you consider those indirect benefits. Such a shame that short sighted people want them to be profitable in utilization

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too bad we can't have good public transportation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You could say the same about pretty much any infrastructure. It’s hideously expensive and will never get paid back by utilization.

  • highways
  • local roads
  • bridges
  • air traffic control
  • utilities of most kinds
  • canals
  • flood control
  • erosion mitigation

  All are hideously expensive and will never get paid back by utilization.

  Are they all bad investments?

  I claim they all are critical for their indirect benefits to an economy, a society, and rail is exactly the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too bad we can't have good public transportation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It wasn’t even necessarily a bad idea given property growth, but it will be interesting to see what happens if they can’t stop population decline

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too bad we can't have good public transportation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Trains everywhere connecting the entire country is a very worthwhile goal for a country, regardless of profit motive. If we can see the benefit of doing that with roads, why can’t we see the benefit of doing that with rail?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too bad we can't have good public transportation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Id argue the northeast corridor is effectively the only place we have intercity rail.

  While there are other routes, it’s mainly just keeping the lights on. How can rail be useful at 1-2 trips/day, travelling at glacial speeds? We shouldn’t even count it. If we ever start funding rail seriously, we’ll save a crap load of money where Amtrak kept the right of way sort of in use but that’s the only benefit.

  The 2022 infrastructure bill would have made a huge difference increasing several routes to “sort of useful”, but even then a decent rail system would be a century out

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too bad we can't have good public transportation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Given that we here in the US are still trying g to work out from under 150 year old rail infrastructure, I don’t the ink they need to worry about it for a while.

  Rail generally lasts longer than roads even if you don’t maintain it. We’ve proven that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too bad we can't have good public transportation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You might ask if capitalism is the sole definer of policy, what’s the purpose of our elected parasites? If they can’t define a reason for their existence, they too need to be replaced with ai.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where are all the successful "red cities"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yet the reason you’re getting none of that is your own conservative flock. I have no idea what you need but I’ll damn well try. Be ungrateful if you want. Turn it down if you want. Reject all hope for the future if you want but then don’t come crying to the rest of us. . But don’t be trying to tear down my world too. Don’t be getting self-righteous about it. Don’t claim its not fiscally conservative when you’re getting more money than you paid in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where are all the successful "red cities"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you vote for the racists and fascists? Vote for suspending human rights, kidnapping people off the streets with no due process? Current politics have really made me understand how much white privilege I have and this is the fullest time in my life that I’ve been “woke” enough to be grateful for my skin color. What is going on now is way beyond the pale.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where are all the successful "red cities"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For example, I’m currently looking at the worker retraining programs, and the closest one is 70 miles away

  And yet this was one of the major points where Hillary Clinton lost. Part of her platform was greatly expanding job training opportunities. People shit all over that …. While they had a point that those haven’t always worked well in the past, at least it’s something. At least it’s better than the guy lying to everyone’s face with no intention of doing anything.

  Why vote Democrat where some people would benefit from job training when you can vote for some blowhard spouting gibberish who will just make your life harder?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where are all the successful "red cities"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why does everybody assume that the 2k people living in my town don’t want any of that stuff?

  I did grow up sort of rural. I do know what it’s like to have fewer people, fewer amenities. But my town always managed to vote for at least good school funding.

  But it is all politics. I started from conservative attitude and have gone much more progressive over time. Part of that is moving to a more progressive city and seeing how well it works. But most of my life it’s been “you deserve the same benefits that I have”. The same quality education, connectivity, infrastructure, all the modern amenities that make up a good quality of life. But I keep voting for that when it seems like rural conservative areas are the ones voting against it, those who would most benefit, are most against. Most of my life I could understand where they’re coming from, most of my life I could see the logic. I just can’t anymore. The modern conservative/progressive divide just doesn’t make any sense. Maybe part of it is money. In my conservative phase I cared a lot about being fiscally responsible and there was never enough money to go around. But now I have a better idea where the money comes from. It’s my money. I live in a major city that is the economic life blood of the region in a blue “donor” state that gives more to the nation than it takes. I’m voting to spend my money on your buses, your internet, your renewable energy, your education and job training so we can all benefit and I don’t understand why conservative people shit all Over that.

  I also used to be conservative for strong family values, but that really seems performative and inconsistent with what I consider family values. Don’t be all self-righteous with your family values that really don’t seem to value families.

  Why should I not complain about that?

  You should complain. You deserve better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where are all the successful "red cities"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure these services are a big part of it - you can’t see all the poverty assistance spread out across a wide rural region but you can see there’s no bus service.

  Certainly some services only work with higher population densities, but that’s why some of us prefer cities. Rural areas have advantages too, but either way is a compromise. We each made a choice where to live.

  But turn this back to what would you do? As a liberal elite urban snob, i freely agree that my ideas are not likely to work well: maybe you don’t want internet service, education, connectivity to the modern world, infrastructure, fine. But im trying and i dont know what else to try. Step up and propose something. I don’t have any say for your county but if you say you need rural bus service, I’m all for that. And I’ll go further and say we should fund intercity rail, and rural bus service to all the towns it passes, to open more of the world to both of us. Stand up, tell us what you need, and you just might get it and more …. It’s not charity it’s a pooled resource making life better for us all.

  This article pisses me off a bit, because it does seem likely, but there is no one that people on the left like, who is so corrupt, spiteful, narcissistic, destructive as Trump. We’d never vote to tear everything down, including the democratic traditions that are the foundation of our society. Plus if your strength and independence is so core to your self-image, where is it? Voting for a tantrum to knock everything off the table is no one’s idea of strength. Instead of denigrating what other people try to do for you, stand up and tell us what you need. Make a proposal we can all get behind. A big difference this article misses is that we want the best for you and will act to improve your life if you meet us half away, we have the entire resources of the country pooled to help all of us, where rural MAGA voted for lashing out, for hurting people

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the periodic table still getting new additions?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As long as it could be thousands of years we can dream about fantastic new elements that could make arc reactors or interstellar travel possible.

  The more likely reality is a boring line of research of interest only to scientists

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ice cream trucks still around?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I hear one sometimes, but either it zooms by when I’m not looking or it’s just going to the nearby playground.

  When my kids were little, we tried to chase it down a few times without any luck