That’s not bonus points, they’re allowed to discriminate against the intelligent in hiring

As someone who lived there for decades, nah its Midwest alright. Columbus is way more like Chicago than Philly, though it’s similar to both. I’ll accept Pittsburgh as Midwestern if they want

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It’s also that these things have really bad ratios of satiation signifiers to calories. If you try to go full “ape found a ripe tree with nobody around” on fresh fruit, good luck. If you really gorge yourself you might be able to eat 3-4 pomegranates in a sitting, or like 5-6 apples. Lots of fiber and lots of nutrients tell your body to slow down and that you’ve had enough. Your body wants to get a bit fat, but it’s not looking to eat every remotely scarce food it can get. That said, yeah drenching something in fat and salt can change the equation. It’s a lot easier to eat several potatoes fried than the same number baked.

Yeah I worry about the number of men who are growing up to be real weenies who really want to get laid but have no idea how to talk to people they’re attracted to or build a relationship. That’s bad, unlike asexual men who merely don’t find anyone attractive.

Just remember it’s diet coke for him

Holy shit that’s hilariously bad

I don’t have independence, I have a wife instead. Could I be independent of her? Sure, but we really would rather that not be needed.

Oh shit that first link is exactly something I’ve wanted for years. I’ve been linuxing from gui for a while and would like to know more, especially as I fuck around with my home server

Ain’t that the truth. We were supposed to be better than this and we were supposed to be improving

Because I look at my country and what it’s done and feel insufficient for my failure to keep it from doing stupid and evil things.

Also the European and Canadian frustration with America and Americans is understandable, but it has an impact especially when you still think highly of those places and their people.

Why wouldn’t they be?

It’s only a smart move if you assume nobody will ever call your bluff. Meanwhile my VPN sees I haven’t renewed yet and it’s about to end and they offer me a deal so good I just do a quick check they’re still good enough then accept it. I’m not loyal loyal, but I’ve been a subscriber since the pandemic and I will be for another 2 years at least.

For comparison, I prioritize internet as local carriers > spectrumcast > seriously consider larping as amish > AT&T. AT&T will just offer new customers limited wifi data at low speeds for more money than spectrum and get shocked you won’t switch. Meanwhile spectrum makes me and my wife have to swap who’s name the account is for every year or two to keep the good deal, except when they just sign a deal with the landlord for a mandatory fixed price as a part of my building/complex’s rent. Local carriers offer reasonable prices where I don’t feel the need to keep chasing introductory deals.

Idk what it means in the UK, but over in America it would mean your guardian angel is kinda hood.

Oh no

More. Francafrique will likely continue linguistically diverging from French. South Africa, Malaysia, and Scotland are diverging from English/American English. Spanish continues separating into parts.

So yeah maybe they won’t have separated enough to be separate languages yet that soon, but the European imperial languages don’t have the empires that kept them together

Do you struggle to shop in physical stores? Because this sounds like an anxiety symptom

Yeah I see pro car people use disabled people as a rhetorical position somewhat regularly, but there are a fair number of disabilities that make it so you can’t or shouldn’t drive. It’s one thing if that means “too bad you have to move to a medium sized city and use a reasonably good public transit network” but in North America, that’s not what it means. It means you move to one of the most expensive cities in your country (Ciudad Mexico, Vancouver, New York, Washington DC, Toronto, Seattle, anywhere in the metropolitan US northeast) or you move to a medium sized city (not its suburbs) and catch the hourly bus when it’s operating. The alternative, which i know people who do, is to bum a ride everywhere if you’re able, drive anyways if you’re able, or basically be housebound.

Like, it really is remarkable the difference in experience between people who don’t have a car but have a metro/light rail and the people who have neither. These are policy decisions and they can be changed.

Yeah in the US epileptics have similar restrictions. And much like up there, this makes them second class citizens in most places. I don’t want them driving, buy I won’t pretend that that isn’t a major disability in most of our continent (majority by population, not even just area).

It’s easy to say driving is a privilege when we think of the consequences of people like epileptics and alcoholics driving, but we do need to remember that it is structural and policy decisions that make it so that those who lack the privilege of operating this heavy machinery will struggle to maintain employment.

It’s Ubuntu based, but it’s doing a lot of what Ubuntu is for. If canonical is happy with that that’s awesome, but I would suspect that they want these people going to Ubuntu itself. Ubuntu remains recommended against by a lot of people.