faythofdragons @ faythofdragons @slrpnk.net Posts 0Comments 252Joined 4 mo. ago
I'm sure that after half an eternity, Sisyphus would start to get creative with it. I bet he surfed down the mountain on the boulder once just to see if he could.
Nah, moving past basic herbs is going to require a lab.
I don't entirely disagree, but that article lost me when it said "this is as human scale as it gets" and shows a photo of stairs, which are a nightmare for people with mobility problems, and there aren't any people in the photo. I did finish reading it, but it did little to address my concerns.
I will also forever have a chip on my shoulder about city planning and transit because I loved living in a walkable city while I was homeless. However, it being a nice place to live is why I couldn't actually find affordable housing there. Thanks to the ass-backwards tax structure in the state, public transit is mostly funded via vehicle taxes, which sounds great until you're being forced to buy a car because of lack of transit outside the city, then you realize it's really just a tax on being too poor to live in the city.
The county is focusing all efforts into continued improvement on the city, but refuses to expand the county bus service. As if a bus packed with standing people going 50mph down a bumpy county highway isn't dangerous. I talk to friends about it, and they go "well, it's a rural red area and they don't want it anyways, so fuckem", completely ignoring that 1) It has more than doubled in population since Covid, 2) It's blue enough to have drag queens at the bar, 3) We do want it.
When people in my situation read the article you linked, I assume it's not going to be somewhere I will ever afford to live. Even the article doesn't really address it. It's got a spot for responding to criticism, and admits that cost is one of the criticisms, but it just says "it's not expensive" and then tries to say gentrification is a good thing actually.
It concludes with this: "People spend their life savings just to spend a week in a place like that. What if you could create that in your city?"
The answer is no. I don't want to build another city that's so expensive it takes your life savings to visit for a week. Because that's exactly how it would go in America.
Nope, not reading a novel defending nazi salutes as "harmless".
This is part of the defunding of education. 20 years ago my high school was wall-to-wall desks you had to squeeze to get to, and it's only gotten worse since then.
Nope, it's gatekeeping. I installed Ubuntu on my partner's machine instead of paying for windows, because he only uses webapps. Learning CLI isn't required for browsing the web, and trying to force it only makes people think it's useless for basic shit.
Good thing I have curtains, and a dog
What internet? The one algorithmically controlled by the oligarchs?
TIL that Lemmy isn't part of the internet
Why do people need to learn CLI to watch youtube and write emails? That's all the average computer user does.
Anarchy and Marxism aren't the same thing, lmao
I'm in the middle of pulling a chat friend out of his programming. His only real problem was being raised in Texas by a Good Ol Boy single father, and once he got out from under his dad's wing, he started to realize that what he was taught simply isn't lining up with reality.
He started out as an incel, but now he's in therapy and has a girlfriend.
I think of it less as 'converting' and more just holding his hand while he figures out that his dad's advice was complete horseshit. It takes forever, and not everybody has the spoons to pull it off, but I do, so I will.
Yeah, I got accusations thrown at me after letting a trans lady crash at my place when she came out and her ex-wife kicked her out of the house. Everybody was an adult, but the ex-wife found a friend in the TERFs, and they think trans rights is pedo apologism.
I got molested by my babysitter when I was 5, and it was incredibly infuriating to hear people say it was the same as a fucking divorce.
Nirvana is on the blue line by Sad, Tool is above it in the pink/purple
Vista was a'ight, so long as you didn't get that memory eating bug.
And once people put AI images with their article, I start to wonder how much of the article was written by a LLM. I'm too used to arguing with idiots that use GPT to generate a list of studies to support their view, only for those studies to be complete hallucinations or unrelated to the topic.
I'm completely electric, in a building with code standard insulation, and my power bill still goes up by $100 each winter, contradicting the headline's 'every time' claim. That makes me feel even stronger that this article was probably completely generated, and I'm not giving it my clicks.
Dad was a gym rat, and it is absolutely a real thing.
ngl, I sorta assumed it'd happen more than three times a week
Yeah, I'm fine with a black lady basically going "if I'm dei, what does that make you?'
I mean, that drunk uncle is now old enough to be a grandparent who looks after the kids while both parents work two jobs each.
Nah, they're the ones complaining jesus is too woke