This perspective is extra trippy because the port of Oakland and Naval Air Station Alameda are both so incomprehensibly huge on a human scale. You have an awareness and feeling for how big a city and skyscrapers are, so to see them in this perspective get made to look so small and so close to these expanses of concrete is mind bending.

Those aren’t bollards. They’re just thin plastic tubes with reflective tape on them to help drivers see where they aren’t supposed to drive better.

What you’re seeing this is one that already got run over or removed.

In this situation a vote cast is not only a vote for a particular candidate, it is also a vote cast for a system that presents us only with unacceptable alternatives. The way to vote against the system is not to vote.

How exactly does not voting go against the system? It is broadcasting to the politicians that your opinions aren’t important. The system doesn’t worry that voter participation is low, it relishes it. The fewer people that vote, the easier they are to manipulate. To the extent politicians care about opinion polls, they care much more about those of “likely voters”.

There are ways to change the system. Not voting isn’t one of them. Voting is compatible with all of them. Voting is going to be critical to some of them.

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I think these are the first hearings where they could say these things directly in many months. Remember that the fascist party controls congress and doesn’t want these hearings to happen.

Know who else funds them? The grocery stores, the big box stores, almost anywhere in reasonable distance with competitive prices. Hell, even a lot of the small local business owners fund or vote for them.

This is not our fault for living here.

Yes, they aren’t changing course, but Discord certainly did not say “most” in the announcement and it was a single sentence in a long article about age verification and content gating. They should have been far more upfront about their inference method being the primary one in the first place. This was a communication issue and not a reader issue.

It’s also possible they decided to tune their inference model to be a lot more, let’s say, permissive so that there isn’t a huge backlash of people getting asked to provide ID when they’ve been using the service for nearly a decade or longer.

Sharkord to replace Discord? Sad. Lame. Possibly worse than Stoat.

Nah you’re right, it’s definitely better than Stoat, but both are F-tier.

You know the people who had the files this whole time are the same people that would be the ones doing the arresting right?

How many of these releases do we need to have to realize that the truth being either exposed or rumored doesn’t change anything.

We had the Panama Papers. There was the Snowden leaks. The Chelsea Manning leaks. Hell, the fucking CIA admitted they were secretly drugging civilians with LSD just to see what would happen.

If you are surprised that this time is any different, you aren’t paying enough attention.

The problem isn’t that you aren’t allowed to. The problem is that they made literally zero accommodations for pedestrians to navigate the area.

A protest that walks the route that should exist anyway and shuts down the roads is a good idea. But it can still be illegal. People are arrested all the time for doing illegal shit while protesting. They don’t use an “all or nothing” system from prosecution. They’ll arrest and charge dozens of people in a protest with hundreds or thousands.

Keep dodging.

This “landlords are purely evil and rent is stealing” discourse doesn’t do any of us any good. It’s dishonest and makes people with sense not want to join your cause. If we actually want to make housing better and more available, we can’t be wasting our time throwing with this.

Her job is to do what she’s doing right now: achieving real tangible improvements. Your job is to get more people like her in positions of power so what’s achievable is closer to the outcome you want.

Yelling about ICE in the streets and on the internet doesn’t do anything. Getting a deal done to defund ICE so that can’t keep terrorizing the country does do real good. It would actually save lives. Far more than I bet you’ve ever accomplished.

Look I’ll be honest, as a renter, I’ve not heard a realistic alternative that I like better. Do I think landlords should be better regulated? For sure. Do I think housing should be a right, and free, high quality housing should be available everywhere to anyone who wants it? Yes, please!

I like the option to rent a place that’s even better than what the baseline option would be. I like that I can move around as I need to. I like that I can get a bigger, better, or just different, place when I have the funds. I like that I never have to deal with broken appliances or roof repairs and get to pick the type of place I want to live in.

You’re intentionally leaving out that the landlord maintains the property and appliances. That’s no small thing.

There are absolutely bad landlords who will do as little as their tenants will allow them to, for sure. Landlords aren’t like cops though, the continuing existence of bad landlords is not enabled by good ones like how “good cops” do.

We have Zelle in the US, but it’s not the same as PayPal. At its simplest PayPal is just a way to send money from one entity to another, but it does a lot more than that. It has escrow and fraud protection (debatable if they do a good job at it). With Zelle it’s much more like handing someone cash. There have been some instances of fraud resulting in reversed transactions but those are big deals not your everyday scams or unreliable sellers.

Because PayPal and Venmo has been shitty a lot, Zelle is gaining a lot of use. I pay my rent with Zelle. Buying or selling stuff on craigslist or marketplace I’ll use Zelle if it’s more than like 40 bucks. It’s nice as a seller because there is no way to reverse the transaction after the fact.

There’s not even much if any true black.

Yo wtf I am not joking I have no memory of seeing this meme or that comment before. Am I really just that cliche or are we just all the same kind of nerd here?

That says zero milligrams. For zero magnesium it would need to be 0Mg. I am fun at parties.

There’s also the “one death is a tragedy, 100 deaths is a statistic” situation happening.

Another factor is that these murders are breaking through to the folks that see the violence of arrests and raids and the deaths and injury of detainees more as a necessary cost. They can’t justify these murders in their world view and they can empathize with them because they know these people did “nothing wrong” and were still killed. Maybe it could be them next?

I’d start by replying “Please get that fixed for him and create a ticket and escalate if you can’t fix it”. When that didn’t work, I’d probably just hit him with the thumbs up react, or literally nothing. A coworker not doing their job even after guiding them through the process shouldn’t be your problem.