It just doesn’t even make sense to me. Treating prisoners inhumanely is par for the course for the GOP, but zero A/C means everyone, guards, chaplain, warden, etc. suffers. You would think for their OWN selfish sake the employees would unionize and demand A/C. Police have unions, why don’t ‘corrrctional facilites’ officers? Maybe they do and I’m just ignorant, Idk.

Almost done with “Stiff” by Mary Roach. Funny, well written overview on cadaver treatment through history.

Dummymandering! Love to see it.

Thank you. I screwed it up last year and I think I had both not enough hay/mulch and didn’t consistently water.

TBF, google throws up captchas & ‘suspicious activity detected’ at the drop of a hat these days. One of our clients is a SMB that runs off Google SaaS, and recently implemented a 3rd party, device based SSO that is supposed to sync with Google auth. We’ve has nothing but issues, VPN or no, adblockers or no, and stupid captcha pages all the time. Youtube as a google product sucks now bc embedded videos randomly flag across all browsers and make you sign in to watch an embedded video on someone else’s webpage. I understand (though disagree) with google flagging something like known mullvad vpn IPs or something but a corporate vpn? A company approved ad blocking extension allow-listed in GOOGLE ADMIN? GTFO. Just a mess.

I think franchisees have a lot of leeway as to how things are run, down to some of the suppliers. It makes sense to me that it varies by location. The downside is that if I’m used to it being bad (which I am) then it taints every other location for me. I don’t know whether McDs or Sonic is going to be ok versus awful and I pay the same either way so if I have literally any other choice I’m not going to gamble on it.

I really want to enjoy Mastodon, I truly do. But my experience has been that it is a living doom spiral by 95% of posting users on there. I learn a lot, but it also drags me towards a highly negative thought pattern and mini-existential crises. I still occasionally review it for the information, but it’s like watching an episode of “This is Us” knowing that I’m going to cry multiple times by opening this pandora’s box. Lemmy has been a lot more varied. Still deeply disturbing news, some weirdness from the .ml crowd, but overall I’m much happier here even if it’s bc my feeds sandwich disturbing news with memes for the dumb caveman brain that’s using this site.

I recently traveled and I brought my old iphone 6 and made sure my physical SIM was compatible with both and checked with my carrier as well. One issue I keep running into is that the digital boarding pass and email communications for updates from the airline just make issues like flight delays, reroutes, lost baggage, or missed flights so much faster to deal with, especially if there are minute by minute updates and a time crunch in an airport I’m not familiar with. I guess the best answer there is to have a dedicated email address for airline comms and make that the only connected account for your backup smartphone.

Anything over the web I think it’s anyone’s guess without more proof. But after the Moore County Power attack in 2022 I’m never going to fully rule out bad actors in the states.

Because there’s no native sync for feeds between NetNewsWire and FreshRSS. iOS and Windows developers don’t develop useful apps for both platforms for free.

I want to live where you live bc I’ve had to block several people on Nextdoor who are not afraid of being the local asshole. Entitled red state middle aged curmudgeons.

Qwant off of Orion on iOS. Don’t bother with Kagi. There are better options if they switch to graphene.

EDIT: SearXNG is perfect in every way except for consistently returning useful search results.

When do worship services end, when the singing starts or whenever you’re done with the holier-than-thou, limited sympathy shtick for every man, woman, and child not taking the time out of their attention starved lives to read every 500 page thick prospectus? What about every Form 10-K? Let’s just grind the whole dang world to a halt so that everyone can be forced to read all the EULAs, terms of service, company handbooks, and warranty terms for every single thing that touches our lives. “You’re a citizen of this city in this state in this country? Ok recite every single ordinance and law of each from memory bro.” Most Christians haven’t even read the whole Bible, are they still Christians? Are they still called Christians? What about the Bhagavad Gita, did you make sure everyone who offers incense at a shrine has read the entire thing? Do you even speak English if you can’t recite the entirety of Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales?” Let’s calm tf down. Professional investors don’t even read the prospectus. If you want to give ppl the limited-sympathy, r/iamverysmart treatment then mandatory voting would be a more productive place to start but even that has some serious issues too. Isn’t there enough suffering and injustice in the world that we don’t have to look for reasons to justify misfortune when it happens to others with petty “well if they can’t inform themselves I can’t be bothered to have sympathy for my fellow human beings” statements?

One of these days surely this ‘libertarian’ GOP will actually start giving people freedoms. /s

Waaait you mean to tell me the same Highland Park that was the last place to integrate schools in the 1970s is now reneging on their commitment to public transit? No… it can’t be… not the wannabe effete epstein elite, not the prissy preening city within a city, vatican of DFW. Say it ain’t so. surprised pikachu face

the purported ‘libertarian’ GOP here is going to start letting people make their own choices & have bodily autonomy any day now. It’s been decades in the making but I just know they’re going to start this year.

/s

IMO the precedent needs to be a proportion or percentage based item, not an arbitrary number. Something big enough to massively hurt, like 30% of this or last years’ post tax profits will be fined and Alphabet and all subsidiaries will be deemed ineligible for any tax waivers, deductions, or credits for a number of years to be determined by a jury, no less than 1 no greater than 100.

From personal & anecdotal experience, I think exposing kids (and adults) to a life of wide variance helps inoculate from echo chambers. My parents dragged me to my grandparents’ place in the countryside one weekend a month or more where cell service didn’t exist and internet was dial up. It got annoying at times and I don’t think it was perfect but spending so much time playing in the woods helped get my energy out, fostered a different kind of creativity, and often made me get out of my own head. Whatever was going on at school, drama via texting, or me just raging bc I sucked at video games didn’t seem so important when I was so far away. One of the most valuable parts of the Army was the people, the opportunity to truly meet and learn to work with people you wouldn’t have otherwise. Even in public school, you tend to stick to your clique and at its most diverse you’re really only meeting people you live in the area with. But the Army was different; the US is a freaking huge country with a ton of different subcultures. I learned a lot at an early age just by asking people where they grew up and what it was like. It introduced nuance and spoke against stereotypes in a way a lot of people need, and that diversity of experience helped a younger me appreciate that things aren’t always what they seem.

It’s easy, as a young man especially, to be in one place doing one thing and get really worked up about something, and echo chambers work towards that in many ways. It helps to physically move to somewhere else and burn off some energy. I find it much easier to reframe things when my physical environment is changing and I don’t have such a huge pile of energy to act as fuel to the online flame wars. It helps to know in the back of my mind, however worked up I get, that “I’m angry now, but there is a place I can go where none of you losers matter and however big and loud and frustrating you are here, you are so small and quiet and barely existent when I go to that place.” And if I can go somewhere else and have those loud, dumb, frustrating things shut up, then maybe they’re not that loud or intimidating or big or even frustrating at all. At least not big enough for me to spend so much time thinking about it.

TL;DR: In the short term, moving around (physical motion/travel) helps. In the long term, moving around (longer term trips and travel to new places & experiences) helps.

I would not have known about it had OP not posted & you not commented, thank you.

Slogging away at the long non-fiction “The Plot to Kill King” -William Pepper. I say slogging because I only give myself about 15-30 min for reading time each night and it’s a hefty book, appendices and all.