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She/they let’s stop the ongoing climate genocides
- Comment on Protip: 3 days ago:
i tried to do it for a summer as a kid in a rural area and my feet got very gross indeed and I had a lot of painful experiences. but I feel that’s the only way to do it safely, to be a kid in a small safe rural place where there is like grass to walk on
- Comment on How often do you take him for a walk? 1 week ago:
It’s fuckin wild. I used to manage a toys department in an American burger big box store in a small town so I saw some shit. It’s either parents with kids on leashes or threatening them or hitting them in the aisle, my fellow Americans often treat their kids like shit, the image of the overindulgent parent isn’t really what you see around. Kids get treated like this and grow up to be adults who don’t break the cycle.
- Comment on How often do you take him for a walk? 1 week ago:
I saw this disturbingly often when I worked retail, like maybe once a month? too often. Anyway, I’m pretty sure it’s a surefire way to make the adult the kid grows up into a puppyboy/girl/enby. I just don’t see how it could ever not. I think this started with gen z actually, I saw a kid or two when I was younger with leashes on. Would love to see if this has been studied at all.
- Comment on Remember 1 week ago:
It’s all profit making in a capitalist system. There is in home care but that’s still really expensive for people. I am an in home caregiver for the state funded by Medicaid and as an “individual provider” my client supervises me and the company that does nothing but provide a website to clock in and out with gets $15 from the state for every hour that I work. If it were just directly operated by the government it would be far more efficient, and clients would be able to get more care hours (the max is a bit less than 5 hours a day, or 123 a month) but capitalism says someone has got to make a profit. It’s still a lot better than working at a care facility for an agency that sets my hours. I really like my client and they like me and it works great. I’m even able to help my client get more social services like electricity assistance and advocate for them at the doctor. The facilities are truly awful and there is no way to really make them better under the current system.
- Comment on Kinda fucked up tbh 2 weeks ago:
gotta keep someone up there to watch space just in case it gets the wrong idea
- Comment on IT’S THE FEDS! 3 weeks ago:
California
- Comment on Elon Musk's X temporarily down for tens of thousands of users 3 weeks ago:
it would be amusing to bring back the fail whale
- Comment on A growing number of young chinese people are avoiding Starbucks Coffee. US executives are furious. 4 weeks ago:
Starbucks positions itself internationally as an ultra premium brand. I remember visiting one in Thailand and being astounded that the prices were the same as the USA, just converted to bhat. This meant that a single drink could cost like half a day’s wages for a poor Thai person. I imagine the situation in China used to be similar before wages and purchasing power caught up. Now that consumers in China know enough about coffee to tell that Starbucks is crap, they won’t pay American prices for it any more, and it’s got Starbucks sweating.
- Comment on A growing number of young chinese people are avoiding Starbucks Coffee. US executives are furious. 4 weeks ago:
lol, Starbucks laments that people actually know about coffee there now.
Nowadays people in China have access to amazingly cheap coffee grinders, because many great ones are made there (DF series, Timemore). Their colonial projects in Africa have resulted in relationships with lots of African coffee farmers. The Chinese province of Yunnan has coffee farming in the mountains and I really want to try some, one of these days. I think burman coffee has some green from there. They also have access to lots of coffee grown in Vietnam where the historical patron client relationship of tribute and suzerainty between the two countries has resulted in lasting coffee relationships. I find that Chinese roasteries I have seen online tend to have a lot of information about their beans published, as well as extensive cupping notes.
Specialty coffee in China is probably a more innovative scene than the West Coast USA one but I don’t have access to everything they’ve got in terms of beans and equipment and vice versa.
- Comment on Everyone loves some good food; 4 weeks ago:
for real I bet none of these are that bad. wouldn’t choose them but gun to my head I’m going to just eat em up idk
- Comment on Apple executives ban Fortnight from the App store 4 weeks ago:
nobody is forcing you to use the far superior operating system. it’s funny because I’m pretty sure most Android developers use Macs, as do many developers, but everyone who likes to use FOSS and have control of their device uses an AOSP based OS on their device.
- Comment on Apple executives ban Fortnight from the App store 4 weeks ago:
If you don’t want to be called racist misogynist rape apologists don’t be racist, misogynist, or apologize for rape. Pretty simple. Gamers are not actually an oppressed identity my guy. Nobody is out to get you.
- Comment on Spoon 5 weeks ago:
they created agitation, too, I see what they did there
- Comment on doctors 5 weeks ago:
You are ignorant of the genetic factors at play here and I think you need to realize that your rhetoric is identical to victim blaming eugenics ideology. You sound like RFK Jr. and I’m guessing you would want me dead if you could have things that way. It’s honestly despicable and I don’t know how people like you sleep at night.
- Comment on doctors 5 weeks ago:
it’s 100% true, I am treated as less than human because high BMI.
- Comment on This was spiritually revealed to me 5 weeks ago:
accurate
- Comment on Things at Tesla are worse than they appear 5 weeks ago:
the only reason anyone has bought a cybertruck for a business is because incentives for heavy vehicles make it possible to almost entirely write them off on taxes
- Comment on Things at Tesla are worse than they appear 5 weeks ago:
don’t other truck manufacturers that actually know how to build a truck also make electrified models?
- Comment on Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout 5 weeks ago:
Accurate username