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- Comment on It is what it is 2 months ago:
Yeah, I’ve learned some discretion over the years. I once told a story that dead ass got me sent to therapy.
- Comment on It is what it is 2 months ago:
Me telling an EMS war story that brings the vibe to a crashing halt.
- Comment on Texas judge who bought Tesla stock won’t recuse himself from X v. Media Matters 2 months ago:
I fuck with this energy, let’s get it done!
- Comment on Texas judge who bought Tesla stock won’t recuse himself from X v. Media Matters 2 months ago:
I don’t know if I can; it’s not, well, in my lane as a bicycle/pedestrian committee member. I still show up and advocate for lane narrowing and traffic calming at the city council meetings.
- Comment on Texas judge who bought Tesla stock won’t recuse himself from X v. Media Matters 2 months ago:
I don’t know. Me and class II bike lanes are not in a good place right now. I’m not saying they don’t have their place, but we’ve got them as narrow ass lanes barely big enough to stand in directly next to arterial traffic doing ~40 mph, no buffer, no rumble strips, no flexible bollards, just paint. This is obviously dangerous infrastructure to anyone who isn’t lying to themselves, and it shows in our injury/fatality rates for cyclists.
- Comment on Texas judge who bought Tesla stock won’t recuse himself from X v. Media Matters 2 months ago:
I’m trying to secure wholly separate bike lanes, or at least flexi-posts, anything but a sharrow or a line of paint. Tbh, I dunno how that’ll work with a street sweeper.
- Comment on Texas judge who bought Tesla stock won’t recuse himself from X v. Media Matters 2 months ago:
Day 30 of being fucking bewildered that I, a non-voting member of my city’s bicycle commission, have stricter ethical laws binding me than those for judges and politicians.
- Comment on The Sam Vimes boots theory of socioeconomic unfairness 2 months ago:
Yeah, that’s him. I was curious and looked him up a while back. Tay get really open about speaking for economic and social justice. He’s more or less always been that way. Chocolate Rain, is, IIRC, a song about the realities and struggles of being black in America.
- Comment on Chat is this real 3 months ago:
I don’t think so. It’s just gen Zalpha for “you guys” in my experience.
- Comment on Chat is this real 3 months ago:
I feel like you might be out of the loop here. I want to help. “Chat, [statement or rhetorical question]” has become a meme slang, like millennials calling dogs anything but dogs (pupper, good boi, heckin floof, etc). It comes from Twitch, AFAICT, where streamers use this unironically (and ironically) to interact with their chat.
- Comment on Consumer, we have detected that you are above the poverty line. The 99¢ price printed on this Arizona tea can only applies to those below the poverty line. Your total comes to $3.67. 3 months ago:
Yikes
- Comment on Spreading of the 100 biggest Lemmy communities 3 months ago:
Yep, that’s me. You could probably find a few more good examples of me stepping in shit on Hexbear, that’s hardly the first.
- Comment on Spreading of the 100 biggest Lemmy communities 3 months ago:
You’re not really using the fediverse until you’ve been told that you’ll get the bullet, too.
- Comment on Kamala Harris donated last year to defund police group backing DC ‘sanctuary city’ law - Washington Examiner 3 months ago:
The police are not your friend. If you think they are, it’s because you haven’t wound up on the wrong end of them yet. I want to be clear, just because it isn’t happening to you now doesn’t mean it won’t; you’re never as deep into the in group as you think you are.
- Comment on Chevron, in a blow to California, says it is relocating to Houston 3 months ago:
Later, skater
- Comment on Paris Olympics opening ceremony was an insult to millions 3 months ago:
Agreed. Jesus had no patience for people who used religion as a means of personal, political, or economic power. The impression I got about guy I read about is that he’d be a thousand times more cross (pun for you) with America’s Evangelicals than he would be with this.
- Comment on Paris Olympics opening ceremony was an insult to millions 3 months ago:
Alright, let’s talk. What would you see done about it? And, more relevant, what do you think Jesus would do?
- Comment on Everett True Comics - The Outbursts of Everett True 3 months ago:
GET ROTATED
- Comment on OpenAI’s latest model will block the ‘ignore all previous instructions’ loophole 3 months ago:
[Look inside]
It’s a regex
- Comment on Restaurant in NYC offshores cashier job to Philippines so they can pay below minimum wage ($3/hr in Philippines) 4 months ago:
I’m almost certain this has been tried before multiple times and always ended badly. I see no reason to think it would be different now.
- Comment on Google Maps tests new pop-up ads that give you an unnecessary detour 4 months ago:
There is no such thing as making “enough” money under the chicago-school dominated business thought. A business should always make as much money as it can for its investors, always. A friend who read Friedman’s works says that the Friedman doctrine makes room to say that a wise business will optimize investor outcomes by investing in it’s product and workforce, but in practice, nobody ever reads that deep into the Friedman doctrine. It’s just “philosophical” license to make (and demand, on the part of investors) the shallowest slash-and-burn business decisions possible to make line go up NOW. I will accept arguments about how it’s capitalism, but I’d like to point out that we experienced a very distinct culture shift in business leadership starting around the time that Chicago school thought became all the rage.
- Comment on why isn't anyone calling for Trump to drop out. 4 months ago:
Sure, I’d welcome Biden changing my mind on this.
I think it’s a little alarming that his last international travel was almost two weeks pre-debate and that left him tired enough to perform badly. I also don’t think it bodes well that he hasn’t yet done any big interviews or press conferences to show that it really was just a fluke, which seems like a fairly easy thing to do if he really is actually fine. I would feel much better about his odds of beating Trump if he could start reliably doing public speaking at a similar quality to what he displayed in 2020, which remains to be seen a whole week later.
- Comment on why isn't anyone calling for Trump to drop out. 4 months ago:
The difference is that Biden has markedly declined from previous performances. He spent most of that night stumbling, mumbling, and struggling to speak clearly, none of which is his stutter, because a stutter is a very specific speech impediment. He was downright difficult to understand on average, and flat out unintelligible at worst. Even when he got riled up, like with the losers and suckers remark, it sounded like he was having trouble forming word sounds accurately, like he has dysarthria. Even in carefully curated campaign material, like asking for donations, he sounds out of breath and like he’s struggling to speak clearly.
- Comment on why isn't anyone calling for Trump to drop out. 4 months ago:
I think the part where he finally beat medicare is the best example.
- Comment on why isn't anyone calling for Trump to drop out. 4 months ago:
I would gladly have Trump drop out. It won’t happen. Trump is running to save his own ass. For my part, I have grave doubts about Biden’s ability to win that have been building for a few months but came sharply into focus during the first minute of that debate.
- Comment on why isn't anyone calling for Trump to drop out. 4 months ago:
I keep seeing this sentiment, and it boggles me. Last season’s winning horse just debuted this season with a huge limp, and the response from some people has been “it’s fine, stop panicking, we’ll win if we just keep betting on it.”
- Comment on Ironing 4 months ago:
Who said anything about getting wrinkles out?
- Comment on Common printing questions 4 months ago:
Hey, thanks for the advice. If I have some free time and spare gumption, I’ll definitely give it a go. If that happens, I’ll let you know what comes of it.
- Comment on Common printing questions 4 months ago:
Not op, I got a free Ender 3 from a frustrated co-worker, and am now the frustrated co-worker. I’ve tried getting a new glass print surface, tried using glue sticks, tried changing print temps and speeds, tried levelling and re-levelling and re-levelling the bed, but I just can’t get the print to stick for love or money. It’s now been re-homed to the garage, as a parking obstacle for my bicycle.
- Comment on The 1950s were wild... 4 months ago:
Paramedic here, this is still half of how it’s done for choking in small children and babies. Five back blows, flip, five chest thrusts.