People who migrate from states with a strong “culture of honor” bring with them a don’t-back-down defensiveness learned in their home communities, and that makes them more likely to die by violence even in historically safe states […] The most violent U.S. regions — Appalachia, the Deep South and the old frontier states — are still deeply marked by a Wild West, stand-your-ground ethos,

While I agree with you to some extent, I would also argue that someone who grows up in a culture where many disputes are “solved” with violence, or where a noticable percentage of people don’t have the emotional maturity to handle their anger without physical expression, is also likely to struggle with those issues when they move away from that culture. Socioeconomic class is not a replacement for emotional maturity, it simply gives one some more leeway before some types of pressure apply - and they’re often replaced with other types of pressure.

Depending on your locality, your town, county, or state may have laws against this. They’re often health department statues against providing something that attracts pests like rats and snakes.

That Blake’s 7 fandom was materially better before the show aired in the States. They had gone through the painful sorting out of characters and characteristics and relationships and were developing these really interesting themes of psychological trauma and manipulation that they were beginning to explore - it was really interesting and the themes were fascinating. Them the show aired in the States, they went wild over Avon and all the stories and themes starting revolving around him. I don’t mind him as a character; I do mind his character taking over all of fandom. It’s sort of like if all the Harry Potter stories suddenly and inexplicably became Ron-centric; it’s not necessarily wrong, but it’s weird and people who liked other characters got left out in the cold, and some of us still resent that.

As an aside, when Blake’s 7 fandom split up, that too was fascinating. As was usual in those days, there was a pro-slash contingent and an anti-slash contingent. When B7 fandom split up, all of the pro-slash fans went into Robin of Sherwood fandom, and all the anti-slash fans went into The Professionals fandom. The problem being that RoS was almost exclusively gen and Pros was almost exclusively slash. It was very weird.

What else? That the second season of War of the Worlds should’ve been an entirely different series: the people who loved season 1 were never going to like season 2; and people who had tuned in and disliked the series during season 1 weren’t going to Even try season 2.

That Krycek became such a big character on The X-Files due to one woman who saw his potential and kept talking about it to her friends, many of whom were popular/prolific fannish authors and artists. She convinced some of them (there was incredulity and resistance at first) but it gathered steam, Chris Carter was flummoxed but rolled with it, and here we are.

That the main follow-on series for Highlander: the Series should’ve been The Methos Chronicles and that one’s not even up for debate.

That the final episode of Miami Vice is a masterpiece, particularly with the echoes and parallels to the first episode - and that the show itself took a major downturn the moment they decided to kill off their comic relief characters. That having God in the final episode of Quantum Leap (the original) being played by an actor who was also in the first episode of the series made it much more interesting. That if you were ever interested in Space: 1999, the “Message from Moonbase Alpha” short has some really interesting implications.

That Space Rangers and Moon Over Miami were cut off entirely too early. That Quark is funny as hell for a science fiction fan of my generation, even if it’s extremely dated now. Similarly, The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne was hella fun and should’ve lasted much longer (though Michael Praed’s Shatner-esque line deliveries were exceptionally annoying at times!). That the Sonny Steel grave arc is majorly under-represented in Wiseguy fiction.

Almost certainly others, but those are the ones that came to mind.

Whatever you spend it on, may I make a suggestion, if you have a little extra money yourself? Spend the gift card money, yes: buy something you’ll enjoy, share that joy with the people who got it for you, let them see how happy they’ve made you.

Then take the card that the giftcard came in, put in $75 cash, and put it in a special place. Do that every time someone gives you money or a giftcard. As I’ve gotten older, a lot of the people in my life have died, gotten ill, or moved away. Sometimes, when I’m feeling sad or depressed, I’ll go to my little drawer of cards and pull one out at random. I’ll re-read the message, and think about the person and the love that we shared at that time, and I’ll take the money and do something special for myself, to cheer myself up a bit.

Then sometime in the next few days, I’ll get the same amount of cash from the bank, put it in the envelope, and replace it in my stash: the caring we felt for each other at that time was true (regardless of how things eventually turned out), so the cards give me a little emotional boost and the cash lets me do something for myself that I’d normally not spend money on. It helps me feel better, even if only for a little time.

[I’ll also be honest and say that sometimes I’ve run out of money, and something will twinge and I’ll remember I have this little stash of cash, and having that has helped me get through some slightly tough times. But I always put the money back in the cards when I can afford it.]

Get one of those reacher-grabber things they promot to the elderly; that’ll let you access more of the space (you can use the grabber as a pusher as well).

Then store lightweight things that you’d like somewhat accessible and are aggravating to store somewhere else. If this was my mom’s space (she loves to travel), she’d store her empty luggage in there. If this was my sister’s, she’d put all her holiday stuff into plastic bins with large handles and store that in there.

You don’t have not-have an opinion on the US healthcare system, you just have to claim that your opinion on the healthcare system won’t affect your ability to reach an impartial verdict.

They voted against support for Sandy too.

As I said, OP seems to be a young person trying to figure how they fit in the world, and they’re not giving much information (which is fine). But we’re not all born with an innate understanding of all the flavors of sexuality, or all the options out there.

They say they’d like a male partner, which could be situational depending on where they live; it could be a definite preference; or it could be that they’re demisexual and haven’t realized that’s an option. And if they do get a partner, in extremely general terms, there tend to be different benefits depending on which sex you partner with.

If I may ask, without being rude: are you sure you’re asexual and not demisexual? For me, there would be a difference between someone who’s really not interested in sex at all vs someone who’s really only interested in sex once they’ve emotionally bonded with a person.

If you are asexual, there are definitely other asexuals out there who would still be interested in having nonsexual partners.

In your original post, you mentioned male partners; I’d also suggest you consider whether you’d be okay with a nonsexual female partner. Again, not trying to be rude, you just seem to be trying to figure out how you can fit, and I’m not sure what options you’ve considered.

You should also know that your preferences can change over time, and that’s okay as well; it doesn’t necessarily mean that you were “wrong” about who you were, it may simply mean something is different about either you or your situation.

This version was probably too long for the regular series. I do find it interesting that, when enumerating the cast at the end, they individually refer to the Skipper, Gilligan and the Howells, while Ginger, Mary Ann and the Professor are not individually called out.

In the original series theme song, they went with “Gilligan, the Skipper too, the millionaire and his wife, the movie star, and the rest”, which was absolutely stupid as there were only two more people to list. They later changed it to “[…] the movie star, the Professor and Mary Ann”, which was better.

Which leads to the fun fact that Russell Johnson and Dawn Wells kept in touch for decades afterward, and they always signed their Christmas cards to each other as “the rest”.

It’s a public community - anyone is welcome to read the content. They only ask that people with the specific lived experience comment in the threads. If you’re not interested in the content then, like the rest of Lemmy, it’s on you to block it.

If they’re not publicly viewable, how do you expect people to know to look for them? How many communities / subreddits have you become a part of because you saw a post from it crop up on your feed?

Man, that 100°W longitude is just a killer, isn’t it?

Joined, and thank you!

Tools to lend, sewing machines, kricut, 3d printers, museum passes, etc.

USPS has something called a “Mail Imaging program”, where they photograph the outside of every piece of mail that goes through their system. They use it to process the mail, but law enforcement does request copies of all stored images related to people and addresses they’re investigating.

They also have the “Mail Covers program”, where law enforcement will proactively request USPS to monitor and forward information on all mail to and, as far as possible, from a given person or address. That information is limited to the outside of the envelope but, if they see something they deem suspicious, they can get a warrant to open the mail. I’ll also note that privacy guardrails on the program are notoriously lax: something like 20% of covers were approved without the necessary paperwork, and 15% weren’t adequately justified.

If you’re wondering what the big deal with getting data from the outside of the envelope is, you might be interested in “Finding Paul Revere”.

It’s a community theatre, and they have one performance of each play they perform be mandatory-masks. One performance, out of maybe 20 performances in a run, and still there are assholes …

I went to a play recently, and I deliberately chose the performance where masks were required to be worn by the audience. Still had a dick-nose next to me, had to ask him to wear his mask properly twice.

If you don’t want to wear a mask, don’t attend a “masks mandatory” play, asshole.

You posted this as a “You Should Know” clean your port before getting a new phone. Just because you have a need for constant charging, does not mean that wireless charging is an invalid option for the audience you’re taking to.