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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Again? I thought income inequality already upended it.

If climate change upends it again, doesn't that mean it would be right-side-up?

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

Knowing the brilliance of Trump, I wouldn't put it past him to order the Navy to sink any ship that enters the canal before a US Navy ship.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago

U.S. democracy

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

Still. More people voted for this than didn't vote for this.

I don't want to pile on, but if less than 50% voted for this, then more than 50% voted against it. The people voting against it didn't vote for the same thing, but they did vote against this.

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

Your friend might be a Nazi.

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

Shouldn't that be "So are we"?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

To be fair, when the poem was written we were getting our asses kicked and survival was not assured.

If you look at the events of the moment, the significant part is the "not getting killed" part.

If things had gone differently, we could all be speaking English today!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Or we could stop hoping the Democrats take the lead and force them to follow the people. However, that would likely get ugly.

It also depends on the non-fascist elements of society putting aside their differences and working together, which has historically been a requirement and a stumbling block any time the populace wants to get out from under the oppression of the 1%.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I could ask her. She might go for it.

[–] [email protected] 81 points 3 days ago (7 children)

Shit.

Me sitting here still working a day job with my ancient, born-in-1970, worn-out self. Sounds like I should be retired already, if not dead.

They aren't wrong though. Find yourself an old person. We just want to sit, eat, watch a little TV, and be in bed by 9.

Bonus: some of us know how to fix the shit that falls apart, and many of us even own a house.

Before you get all excited, I'm already taken. Some young thing already got me hitched (she was born in 1971).

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I see a dog eat dog world and think, "Can we be a better example to follow?" These folks see a dog eat dog world, and think, "How terrible. We'd better start chewing."

I suppose in my path to agnosticism I picked up the wrong lessons from the church my mom took me too.

 

When the directions for knitting the 4th Doctor's scarf were posted, I mentioned in a post that I had the one my mom made for me ~40 years ago.

I said it had never been washed and it needed to be.

I finally did it. Cold water in the laundry room sink, a little bit of woolite, and some swishing. A couple of rinses, and some gentle squeezing to get as much water as I could out.

The tricky part, of course, was laying it out flat to air dry.

 

I have no idea what a kangaroo has to do with my employer, but they brought in a baby kangaroo for an event, so I waited in line to hold it.

 

This is probably a stupid question, but if I want to add a line to a PDF telling people to direct any comments to my Lemmy account, how would I specify that?

 

Obviously teenager is 13-19.

"Young adult" would start at 20, but where's the cutoff at the upper end? Similarly, what's the range for "adult", "old", "elderly", " ancient"?

If someone asks for responses from "old men", how do I know if it applies to me?

 

It seemed like every time we visited WDW, there was some event or show taking place in front of Cinderella's Castle, and the interior was closed.

When I visited as a kid, you'd walk through the castle and ooh and aah at the mosaic.

I've wanted to see the mosaic again for years, and it was always closed. I finally got the chance again last time, and I took some pictures.

 

Where has this guy been?

When my wife and I went to Disney World in 1996, we planned nothing in advance. We found ourselves waiting in massive lines for rides and spending hours waiting for tables in restaurants. We realized we screwed up and we had to do better.

That was 27 years ago. Since then, we had kids and raised them to adulthood.

Every trip after that we scheduled reservations in advance. Every morning we wake up, we know what park we are going to. We spend about 20 minutes every day we are there planning that day's activities, and we roll with whatever changes we encounter.

I don't understand how having a plan in place in advance of your vacation somehow makes it more stressful. I've always thought it was easier to not have to wonder what we'll be doing and where we'll be going during our Disney trips.

Are there really people who insist on just showing up with no plan and then blame Disney when they are stressed?

Also, it seems like most of the Disney criticism I see is coming from Fox news in some form or another. Is that just my news feed, or is it an extension of the culture war that the right is trying to foment?

 

Title is my question. It seems like refusing to recognize other state's driver licenses would be blatantly unconstitutional. Is there something I'm missing?

 

I tend to at least look at every work email I receive. Likewise for Teams messages. If I see a notification of a new communication, I tend to check it and see if I need to respond. I don't always respond, but I always look at the message.

In various virtual meetings, I've seen other people's notifications when they share their desktop, and it seems like some people just don't bother even looking at them.

Am I the weird one? Does everyone just ignore messages they receive at work?

 

Running out of time...

 

What's your favorite Disney World Restaurant, and what is it about that restaurant that makes it your favorite?

Without any deep thought, the first one that popped into my mind was Narcoossee's. The food is amazing, and there's a great view of fireworks if you're there in the evening.

When my wife and I went to WDW after she graduated from school (1996, I think?), we stayed on property at the Grand Floridian. It was my first time staying in a Disney resort. We arrived too early to check in, so we went to Narcoossee's for lunch.

The last time we went to WDW (2021), we took our adult children with us, and had a wonderful dinner with everyone together at Narcoossee's.

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