Kitathalla

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I would bet most of the people spending energy on complaining about mozilla are doing so because they love it. They loved what it was about, what it was pushing for, and that it was ultimately a gigantic line drawn in the sand against the intrusion of corporate fuckery by google and their like.

Thinking that people should just roll over and accept things becoming worse is such a weird fucking sentiment to espouse.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Lovely how this is a class action lawsuit, and not a criminal complaint filed in at least a state court. Maybe I'll be wrong and after the lawsuit concludes they'll use all the evidence from discovery in something that actually matters, but it just reeks from the stench of 'just the cost of doing business' as the worst the people who were involved in producing and distributing child pornography will face.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Fucking rad! It's always been the entrance into casual conversation and being mentioned by other websites that really kicks off a social media site's popularity.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Didn't 'the youth' break for trump in historic proportions compared to previous elections? The males, at the very least.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'd like to believe that, I really would, but let's be honest with ourselves. The current republicans (in leadership) aren't stupid. They've gotten pretty decent at running with donald's bullshit and spinning it. They also know that politics isn't much different than sports teams for the vast majority of the voting public in america. They'll not have trouble finding someone who is charismatic enough to spit verbal acid at opponents in a primary AND can be riled up against the demographic target of choice.

The only real challenge for them will be 1.) finding someone with donald's 'blessing' or a connection to him to set it up as 'taking over' so the republican voters will find it so amazing, AND 2.) ensuring someone like musk doesn't try to torpedo everything by using vast amounts of money to try to buy their way into the ring.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I’m pretty certain they’ll still be able to report a crime

No, I bet they won't be able to. Their husbands/fathers would be able to, but not them.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Even 20+ years ago, it was a struggle. I had a boss who had married someone from Guatemala (I think, or maybe Peru? it's been a decade since I talked to him) while he was in the military overseas, and ended up having a child with her. When he came back, it took TWO YEARS, the wife and child left behind in south america the entire time, to get them approved to come and live back in the states.

edit: 20+ years ago, not 15. I forgot how long it had been since I worked for him.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

She used molotov cocktails and only did $5,000 in damage? I was really expecting to hear a few hundred Gs based on tesla's prices and the cars I've seen go up in flames in the past.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Never heard of this band before. It's amazing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

My father wanted me to do this when I was going to college. He was convinced it would be cheaper. I had to point out to him that living in an apartment near college meant no car, with all its requisite upkeep, while the boat marina was miles and miles away with no public transportation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Traffic is always one of the things that boggles me, because even for how many people there are on the road at that precise moment, it still doesn't even come close to the amount of people in the area.

To explain my thought: If everyone is traveling 60 mph, and there are four lanes, and everyone is riding each other's asses by being one second apart, that's still only 240 cars per minute passing a particular spot. That means in an hour of relatively rough traffic that is somehow smoothly flowing, only 14,400 cars are going to pass that spot in an hour.

I live in a large metropolitan area, so there are ~8-10 large highways leading towards the metro's center (that's 4-5 highways, but counting them twice for each one's inflow). Most of them vary in lane number as they come inwards, ballooning from 2 in the rural areas to 4-8 in the urban areas (though the areas with more than 4 are really only where highways are merging, so I think 4 is a good number to say as the highway's 'average'). So we can multiply that 14,400 number by 10 and get 144,000 cars moving into a city's center in the span of an hour. That still doesn't get anywhere near the millions of people living in the metroplex. Hopefully that means most people are living relatively close to their work, and all are living close to their play/chore destinations.

It really makes me ponder how much a certain element of the population has shaped our views, considering the amount of people who do the whole 'commuting' thing must be relatively small, yet that is such a giant complaint I hear about all the time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

It's the desert, you're just happy you're out of the rain.

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