[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

It's not really dodging a conversation when you enter it being critical of the rhetoric, and not the content. I don't think anyone is fooled but I think you are confused.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago

Your ideas are overly aggressive, even just leaving. Just change the topic or say "I'd rather not discuss this at work."

[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

lmao I thought for a second this was just your comment about the situation, not your advice on what to say

[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

Adderall isn't an approved medication outside of the United States though, and it's the only drug that works for me. Plus... I'm already having a hard enough time. You need tens of thousands saved up to even afford a move, and then go through the immigration process? All that paperwork? Obviously there are better safety nets outside of the United States but most people privileged enough to afford to leave would also be in less need of a safety net.

Basically, this is terrible advice lmao

[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

It's objectively weird in the sense that most people don't do that.

[-] [email protected] 52 points 2 months ago

Yeah, there's an interest in Y2K era tech amongst some gen-Z people. I think it's cool, idk why you're hating.

[-] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago

I can't think of a single thing AI does that is worth the amount of energy consumption.

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[-] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago

I don't like this meme because the last two panels don't rhyme.

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Very weird that I am so old and have literally never heard this mentioned in a TV show or book or movie or anything.

In four out of five states, if you go to prison, you are literally paying for the time you spend there.

As you can guess, this results in crippling debt as soon as you're released.

The county gets back a fraction of what they hold over your head the rest of your life until you commit suicide(or die naturally and peacefully with the sword of damocles hanging over your head).

$20-$80 a day according to Rutgers.

Counties apparently sue people and employ wage garnishment to get back the money that majority of people obviously cannot pay back.

https://www.rutgers.edu/news/states-unfairly-burdening-incarcerated-people-pay-stay-fees

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watched some of the livestreams last night. the protestors were peaceful, and repeatedly and loudly telling each other not to be violent, not to throw things.

[-] [email protected] 55 points 2 months ago

I can't imagine something more awkward than having to explicitly deny someone based on looks after having a good conversation.

[-] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago

What do they mean "trap laid by the right". These college administrators are conservatives.

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In Hawaii, one of the most important sayings is ola i ka wai, "water is life" — a phrase that not only sums up what it means to exist on an island, but what it means to live, period. But now, one of the largest of the island chain's land masses is facing a triple threat to its sole freshwater source, and if it isn't addressed soon, one community member says, "we're in deep trouble."

Despite being surrounded by seemingly endless ocean, freshwater on Oahu, the third-largest of Hawaii's six major islands, is not easily accessible. The island relies on an underground aquifer for its water supply. Replenishing that aquifer is a decades-long natural process, as it takes a single drop of water roughly 25 years to make it there from the sky.

And recent years have seen compounding problems: less rain, leading to significant droughts, and repeated jet fuel leaks and PFAS chemical spills contaminating water systems. All of this significantly limits available water use for locals, many of whom say tourism is only worsening the situation. Just months ago, the world's largest surfing wave pool opened up on the island — filled with freshwater.

[-] [email protected] 52 points 3 months ago

This is why Harvey Milk made everyone come out to their parents. It's unfortunate, but the only way some people are able to experience empathy is through directly knowing someone. Being out and proud is activism ... of course that doesn't come without risk.

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The ‘NYTimes’ is ignoring Israel’s crackdown in the West Bank

You know it's bad when CNN is cited as having more left reporting than NYT. NYT doesn't want to upset their liberal Zionist reader-base.

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Insane that people will try to say this is a minority movement. Inspiring news from Wisconsin.

[-] [email protected] 38 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

To me, this headline was misleading. I assumed it was about funding campaigns, but this is for the actual process of voting itself.

The money was spent in a wide variety of ways — protective gear for poll workers, public education campaigns promoting new methods to vote during the pandemic, and new trucks to haul voting equipment.

The Republicans keep using the same strategy, restrict voting as much as possible. They won't adequately fund elections, and they are making it illegal for private funders to do so.

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