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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"A computer can never be held accountable. Therefore computers are a valuable tool for law enforcement and the ruling class."⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  All technology has the potential to be both liberatory and oppressive, all that ever matters is who wields it and to what end.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends where you live but often your municipal, county, or state Department of Transit website will have an online form / email address / phone number where you can request or identify a road for repave. Usually the DOT already has a repave schedule for their roads, but sometimes they do take into account requests or send out someone to confirm the issue, and may then expedite the schedule. But road repaving can be very expensive, a single report probably won’t move the needle. See if you can get anyone else to join in, if you’re the only voice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just in time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Speak for yourself!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just in time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I technically disagree, most periods human history had “good times” and the happiness of those people was relative to their expectations and equilibrium with the social and technical possibilities of their moment. You might be miserable if you were teleported to a relatively comfortable life in the year 1500, but they were probably every bit as content as some financially comfortable credentialed working class individual today.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t acorn flour edible after you rinse out the toxins?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And I won't delete them either for nostalgia reasons⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe she should read her emails in case her intern has to inform her of a sick day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's about time we showed concern for the men⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's about time we showed concern for the men⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this loss?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you ever noticed⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Only like the front inch of your tongue actually hits your palate. When I try it, I can breathe around the sides of my tongue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you ever noticed⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s supposed to. Some people have a short lingual frenulum (The ligament that connects your tongue to your jaw), preventing proper tongue positioning which can cause problems like sleep apnea, speech impediments, tooth decay, and even poor posture. Inability to put your tongue at the roof of your mouth is one of the indications of this. Can be corrected with a fairly simple noninvasive surgery (They just snip the ligament a bit to lengthen it).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨proportional reaction⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  OK true, technically speaking it is indeed more readable, I guess I really meant that it takes far longer to read. I do admire Lua’s barebones simplicity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨proportional reaction⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh god yea, replicating switch functionality with a huge column of elifs is so gross.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who plays like that x_x⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair my IRL best friend is one of you inverted Y monsters. Monsters are people, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨proportional reaction⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  For real though I actually find them incredibly useful for creating clean and readable code. I wish Lua 5.1 had a ternary syntax.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who plays like that x_x⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Some people visualize their Y rotation “lever” as in front of the fulcrum of their neck, and some people visualize it as behind. Thus some people find an inverted Y axis to be intuitive, while others don’t. At least, this is how the reason for the preference has been explained to me.

  I still think all you inverted Y axis people are monsters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A PSA with spooky season rapidly approaching⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Holy shit I’ve met this Sherman. He lives outside of an armory building in Vancouver BC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Like a heart⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It looks like a cast of a uterus made of coagulated blood cause that’s literally what it is. :P

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientific unprogress...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Though overused; medication that effectively combats eating disorders.

  I’d argue underused / inappropriately prescribed by social class. There are millions who could benefit from them who have poor access, while if you have money the Rx just gets thrown readily at your feet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Like a heart⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I know you’re joking but “solid menstruation” can actually happen and it’s called a decidual cast and it’s some brutal metal shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good news. :)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Teach me how to dougie

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thank G*d I grew up in the 90s. Everything is woke now. Smh my head⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Is calling mid-2000s stuff “90s” the new meta?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just a little bit more⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Me, a road cyclist: “I don’t see what the problem is. Why not 110?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3135: Sea Level⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh. TIL that there are three common types of tidal cycles and which one you get depends on geography, location, ocean currents. https://beltoforion.de/en/tides/tidal_cycles.php

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Because it’s not actually about age verification, it’s about totalizing surveillance of everyone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bet you can think of more⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Always be mean to cops.

  If you’re dating someone and they’re not mean to cops, dump their ass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make it make sense ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah they could probably stand to lose the more southern of the two ramp sets at Delta Park, feels very extra and overall unhelpful. Of course ODOT’s solution, beyond replacing the bridge, is to widen I-5 south of the bridge - Which anyone with a brain and 50 years of highway traffic studies can tell us would directly contribute to worsening the problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make it make sense ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This driver is distinct from that driver. We definitely have those too, and they have my sympathies. But this driver is the one who just thinks to themself that it would be nice to go slow for a while, on a lark. Or they don’t think at all and in that brief 15 seconds of brain death their nerves stop sending signals to their foot to press the gas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make it make sense ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s usually a complex crowd effect created by many participants trying to maneuver among each other in slightly disperate ways.

  In Portland OR, it really is because some dingbat slowed down to 20 MPH on the interstate for literally no fucking reason at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotifies come and Spotifies go, but that folder of badly-sorted MP3s will still be there in the 2050s.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  To this day nearly a third of my Jellyfin library is stuff I downloaded through ourTunes over the dorm LAN in 2004/2005.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Insert tasteless parody of the “First They Came” poem