Yeah, I feel like violence is evangelized online in odd ways.

The class that suffers the most in violent uprisings is the lowest class. By orders of magnitude. For every member of the bourgeois that is taken down, tens or hundred or thousands of every day people are injured or killed.

Nouns don’t need tenses.

Shit in the future and shit in the past.

Similar to many verbs that need an object, you add “will” to the present tense.

He will run. She will jump. You will shit.

New age sci-fi, but you have GOT to read the Murder Bot books. They are absolutely incredible. They’ve also won Nebula and Hugo awards.

I guess it’s much less than half.

About 1/7 are less than voting age. Another 1/7 or so voted for the oompa loompa, and another 1/7 voted against. So actually, about half of the population just doesn’t vote because they’re a different type of idiot.

I do hate it here, for what it’s worth.

Not very. His shitty propaganda machine is running itself by now.

Was with you to the last bit. What does it mean to “grow a spine and start ‘adjusting’”? Why is “adjusting” in quotes?

Dude half of us don’t understand it either.

It’s amazing what decades of defunding education will do when you mix it with a healthy dose of conservative talk show TV and social media algorithms.

It Takes Two

Why is this entire Lemmy community just weird leading-title BS articles about nothing?

2019 Subaru Crosstrek.

When I was buying a new car I wanted three things:

1. Manual transmission
2. Hatchback
3. All-wherl drive

Turns out there were only three cars that checked those boxes in the US for manufacturing year 2019: a Ford Focus RS (too expensive), a Mini Cooper Countryman (too Mini Cooper), and a Subaru Crosstrek. So I got the Crosstrek.

Anyone use Deezer? How does the feature set compare? How does it compare to Tidal? I’d love to get off Spotify, just need a good replacement for all the music I listen to.

Hey man, if they were putting trailer houses on Beacon Hill in Boston I’d take one.

I wish housing prices were actually reasonable and my generation (tail end of millennials) could afford to buy a house in the cities we have to work in.

Not really the point, but sure, whatever.

$5 million of spare money. Not net total wealth but actually $5 million investable dollars.

At that point, I’d you stick that money in a very conservative and safe brokerage account allocation, 5% return per year is $250k. That is a higher salary than almost anyone needs, meaning you can live very comfortably without working. You can’t buy a yacht but you can be “done” and so can your children and their children if they aren’t stupid.

If you choose to work, then you can just reinvest that $250k and let compound interest do its thing and get richer. Lucky you.

Gotta be Black/White. It was the first time the writing really took a step forward. The antagonist wasn’t just evil for no reason. They had a compelling story and their motivations made sense and you could sympathize with them.

I was a skeptical kid. A fat man making his way down every single chimney in the country in one night? No way. Never really bought into it.

Yes, for education and medical reasons. If you are not a legal guardian (which doesn’t need to include adoption if you don’t want it to) you are unable to officially be a contact point, decision maker, or caretaker of a child.

That means that if the kid falls off a bicycle and breaks his wrist or needs some stitches, the hospital cannot release him to you. It means that if anything happens at school, the school legally cannot call you and has to contact his parents. It means that you cannot sign release forms for school trips. You can’t pay for his medical expenses via your insurance. You can’t sign any form or piece of paper in general that he may need until he’s 18.

What you have done is a wonderful and generous thing. Do the paperwork to become his legal guardian now so that when a situation arises where you need to be, it’s all set.

15 years seems like more than long enough with a human’s brain to assimilate all other ant colonies and do some hilarious levels of damage to the most ecologically destructive human buildings and apparatuses.