My dad used to rant about how government should be run like a business,

Anyone who sincerely believes that is too fucking ignorant and or stupid to be taken seriously. They’re a hazard to themselves and their polity.

Conservatives are dishonest. They don’t care about truth or consistency. Their only value is in-group loyalty. They will say anything in pursuit of that and personal power.

Management are assholes and idiots.

Nothing will get better without demands. People need to organize.

But if I’ve learned anything from history, it’s that the ownership class would rather murder all of their employees than give a few dollars more a day.

Right? I often like being around people. I don’t want to do it in the fucking office

Happily on linux for a while now. No problems. kde desktop looks almost the same as windows, anyway. Fuss with it less than windows.

My current partner I got to try FromSoft games. Sekiro did not go well for them.

Whenever a chat bot is aggressively presented on a website, I like to ask it how to disable all AI features. Often it will tell me to click on menu options that don’t exist.

Conservatives just say things to try to justify their emotions, or to seek power. They don’t really care about truth or consistency.

Meanwhile, Linux works just fine. Booted up, opened steam, played Elden Ring (today I learned you can parry Midra!). Worked on a spreadsheet for some personal finance. Did some coding. At no point did I see an ad or fight with the UI.

I remember as a kid I was so excited when I got a blue chocobo in FF7 (I’m old) I ran upstairs to tell my mother. She did not care, nor pretend to care. Made me a little sad, and what could have been a nice moment did not materialize.

I try to listen to the children in my life. If little nephew wants to tell me about his robots and pokemon, I’ll be there and try to engage

If that’s the case, I imagine it would be better to charge people for frivolous use, rather than charge everyone. Or come up with a system where dispatch sends something else for non-emergency, if you can tell.

I’m not a policy expert, but the current system is bad for everyone.

I don’t believe there is a problem of people needlessly calling ambulances.

If that was the case, the appropriate response would not be to charge everyone bank breaking fees for it.

Seems reasonable. I’ve seen other people proposing that or similar solutions to the supreme Court.

Seems karmic that people who voted for trump suffered.

“I never thought that it was so easy to take freedom from anyone,” she said.

Despite all the warnings and history, somehow.

Evil is just sparkling stupid.

As with all things involving humans, you can’t really change minds with facts. It’s just emotions and peer pressure.

Not a bad post, but I expect it won’t sway people who aren’t already on board.

My America defaultism made me excited for a moment, and then I saw this is about Australia. Sigh.

I’m happy I never developed a soda habit.

I pretty much only buy snacks and junks for parties. A normal sized bag of chips was like $7 yesterday. The smaller tostitos were labeled like $5.50.

I’d love to see some sort of general strike or mass boycott, but there’s not enough organization, and things aren’t bad enough for it to happen en masse spontaneously.

One of the things that feeds into my insufferable smugness about living in a walkable city is I haven’t paid for gas in years (outside of like… maybe 2 road trips a decade). It’s just not something I think about.

I had the luxury of being able to move somewhere with trains and buses, though.