If all of the people who didn’t vote because “It would never make a difference” actually voted, we could have had a constitutional amendment by now removing the electoral college.
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If all of the people who didn’t vote because “It would never make a difference” actually voted, we could have had a constitutional amendment by now removing the electoral college.
Yeah I don’t think how much of the Midwest and South is corn. Corn that we don’t even need, that old ag bills that said “the government will buy it even if we don’t need it”
Lol Americans don’t do harvesting. I’m from Iowa. They literally ship illegal immigrants in on busses to harvest, I’ve seen it first hand. Why I’m shocked any farmer would vote Republican, it’ll financially destroy most individual farms having to hire legal help
Ah now you’re getting it!
If only they had as much freedom as us, to pick from 2 options
Why is the UK yellow but America is green?
Heat pumps are hella efficient bud, and way cleaner. I switched to a heat pump and dual fuel system, heat pump is efficient down to like 10 degrees F and only below that do I need gas.
This is by far the most confusing color coding I think I’ve ever seen, and map enthusiasts should reject it
It’s a shit company with shit morals and shit practices, but I use it… If I have to. And usually that means I’ve checked locally, I’ve checked other big retailers, and if everyone fails me I’ll reluctantly buy it on Amazon.
Coping mechanism for the poor, they can’t admit they’re at the bottom and so it feels good to put other people down for nonsense reasons
I think it’s hard to just handwave and say “meme bad”. These are some of the people I’ve come across with it:
First the easy one, edgelords online want to rile people up. I personally don’t care, engaging them at all is just encouraging them. There are worse things to make memes about IMO, this is not one of them to get riled up over.
Second, people who genuinely don’t care about this and think it’s ridiculous the media covered it so much. I’m half in this boat, there are way more newsworthy things to cover than 5 people drowning in a custom made sub on a mission that they literally signed away their life to do. However,
Third, people who see this as a tragedy. The other half of me is here, at least one of the people genuinely wanted to see the Titanic. Which, maybe it’s hard for us to understand the price tag, but if you had a dream of seeing it since you were a child, wanted nothing more than to see it, and were offered it, would you? And if not, if someone offered you a trip to see what you wanted to more than anything else in the world, would you want to? Go step on the moon? It’s like if someone offered you the ability to literally go to a fictional place, then that 250k doesn’t seem so much, if that was your once in a lifetime must do once and exactly once, if you saved up for 20 years. Those are the people I mourn.
Fourth, and I think this is a small group, people who are legit sad but treat humor as a coping mechanism. I think a lot of people forget about them, they aren’t trying to make situations like this into something controversial, they just cope differently, and that’s okay.
Yup, you are not an influencer to your friends. Friends see you through thick and thin, they’ll hear the good and the bad, which is why celebrating the good is okay.
Nobody wants the friend who only talks about themselves and how awesome it is being them.
and make sure to routinely ask them how they’re doing, make sure you’re caring for them too.
Very great analogy, too bad op already checked out and rage quit.
Completely agree. Rome is falling and we decided to leave before it’s in crumbles. We’re sitting outside its walls now in our camp, and some people may look back there and ask where are the theaters, the shows?
But for us we know what we left, and for now we’re content with our stories and small band of people making each other laugh. Because we’re looking towards what this camp will become.
It’s not going to be a 1:1 parity. If there was a clone of reddit everyone would know about it, they’d have a similar valuation. Every alternative is going to be small, until it isn’t.
Yeah… I mean I never had a negative reaction on Reddit…
For real though there are assholes everywhere. Fediverse just means it’s a bit more on us to choose what we want to see. If people are being assholes on kbin then block that instance for a while.
Great way to put it. There’s a whole world of so many different cultures out there. As an American I can kind of agree that American “culture” may feel stagnated, but there’s so much more out there.
Taste buds also change as you age. As you age you start preferring bitter over sweet. It’s why adults like coffee and beer, don’t get me wrong I love a good fruity cocktail, but I appreciate beer a lot more than when I was 21.
I can sense nuances in the differences between different types of coffee and beer. This coffee has a bolder taste, this porter has defined chocolate notes, things my younger self never would have noticed
In all words for the op here, don’t knock it just because you don’t like it, other people may experience things differently from you
I think it makes complete sense. We’re a 2 car household. We’re getting an electric for 95% of our trips, commuting, going to town, whatever. It’s just so stupid to be stopped on the highway during rushout literally burning money. Then we’ll have an ICE car just for farther destinations, or when we don’t know if we’ll be able to charge, but honestly expecting that to be <5% of trips
That’s awesome news! Just goes to show that you don’t need to be loyal to the fuel, you can have a kickass car that runs on anything
Exactly. It’s not just Reddit, it’s news, it’s current events. Frankly it’s a moment in internet history we’re all going to look back on, for better or worse.
I’m not aware of one, but we could create one…