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Putting a dimmer switch in the bathroom has probably been the best cheap quality of life upgrade ever.
I have it set so when pushed all the way down is just enough voltage to turn the LED bulbs on, not fully off, so there's no guesswork where to set it when stumbling in during the night or first thing in the AM.
Have it dimmed real low while showering and getting ready for bed to get my eyes used to the dark, flip it all the way down as I leave, and then as I wake up in the AM I can bump it up a little to gradually wake me up. Life changing!
I snagged one of those at a gas station heading home from Tennessee and it was really good!
My biggest gripe with the rise in violent talk is that it comes off like those commenters trying to get other people riled up into do that violence for them.
If you feel the justice system has failed and there is no other recourse, than that is one thing. But I keep seeing all these comments saying "why aren't you out there doing anything about it?" and my first thought is always "well I haven't seen your face on the news..." As far as I've seen it's still all right wing nutters doing all the violence. If you aren't out there doing something dangerous, why are you here telling others to go do that thing while you sit at home?
You'd call someone a hypocrite if they were on here every day telling other commenters they should feed the homeless, but you found out they don't volunteer or donate or whatever. But I got to scroll past a bunch of keyboard warriors on every political or news thread throwing tantrums about why "nobody is doing what must be done." Justified or not, if people start going after others, it's going to go badly for both sides. If you won't put your money where your mouth is, why are we all forced to read it?
If you're serious, spouting off about it on a public forum is pretty stupid. If you're not serious, you're making the rest of us look stupid to anyone checking out this platform. I feel that's a pretty fair assessment without judging your opinions or anyone else's. We're all wrestling internally with where our limits of tolerance are these days, but we can talk with each other productively about it, or we can rant and rave like a bunch of violent cavemen, but I know which one of those environments I'd rather be in.
I'm sure we could come up with something new to disagree on if we really tried. 😉
Oops, thanks for the correction! 😊
I'm sure there are more. I looked up high school athletes too but didn't include it because estimates ranged to like 3-4% which sounded reeeeally high.
And if we are counting people who suffer because they're punishing trans people for existing, it likely is 10x the amount. I hope that everyone, trans or not, has 10 people that would be upset if the law was threatening them. I know it's making me really upset and nervous for some of the people I know.
Anyone who says we need to push people toward depression or self harm so what's her face can get her 8th place swim medal has some real issues....
“That's now no longer about celebrating your rights. It's about denying other people theirs,” Newsom said. “Marriage equality was about everyone's right [...] But your child may not have that same opportunity to get on the podium if a trans athlete is competing.”
Let's look at this...
NCAA says out of 500,000 athletes, 10 (0.002%) are trans.
If an estimated 1% of the US population is trans, that's 34,000,000 people.
Assuming that all 10 of those athletes win medals, Newsom would sacrifice the actual human rights of 34 million to see 10 people get a symbolic token? This is sounding like an excuse to be shitty.
Everything I learn about Slavic languages makes them sound like they were only invented to swear or say dirty words. 😂
Glad to help!
It is coincidentally the only Cyrillic character I know! 😂
I had a friend for a bit that was Ukrainian, and this is the only specific letter he taught me.
For anyone else that doesn't know this guy, here are the significant wiki bits:
Of the major candidates in the 2024 United States presidential election he said (before Joe Biden withdrew): "I think they're both too old. I think they're both incompetent. There's a good chance I won't vote for president." He later said he does intend to vote for one of the two major-party candidates.
Osborn has been registered as nonpartisan since registering to vote in 2004. Although Democrats chose not to run a candidate in the Senate election, Osborn declined their endorsement. The state Democratic Party considered running a write-in candidate, accusing Osborn of misleading them about his intentions, but Osborn said he had always been clear that he would not accept endorsements from any political party. Osborn wanted to form an independent caucus in the Senate rather than caucus with either party. He has called the current system a "two-party doom loop". The Reform Party of the United States endorsed him in September 2024. Senate Democrats did not engage with or help Osborn's campaign.
Osborn's policy positions included raising the national minimum wage; lowering the tax rate for small businesses and overtime work; increasing border security and building the Mexico–United States border wall to stop illegal immigration; reforming the immigration system and exploring ways to legalize some long-term undocumented workers; ensuring resources for law enforcement and first responders; legalizing and taxing marijuana; improving railroad safety; guaranteeing access to abortion within the limits set by Roe v. Wade and opposing a national abortion ban; facilitating union organizing; and protecting gun rights. Osborn supported a "libertarian approach" to hot-button issues and said that government should be kept out of private lives. He supported the right-to-repair of consumer goods such as cars and electronics, raising the cap on Social Security contributions for those with higher incomes and moving the full retirement age for Social Security benefits back to 65.
Osborn supported protecting gun rights and the Second Amendment, while also supporting gun safety education in schools.
Here's his current platform page where you can get more stances and details.
Doesn't seem too bad, all considered. I'd take him over my senators (Fetterman (D) / McCormick (R)) in PA.
I like he specifically calls out fiscal support for small farms/ranches, not the conglomerates. I dislike his strong support of military/police funding and his vagueness about "border security" isn't reassuring. But for a strongly held Republican farming state, this guy is probably the best realistic type of candidate to bring in someone different.
That French taco doesn't sound too bad. Sounds like a crunchy kebab.
I've made Canadian style donair with the traditional garlic sauce fries, and this reminds me somewhat of both of those, only put together.
"Next Sunday we will be moving away from the typical bread and wine, in favor of our new sacraments, hunks of Big Mac and Diet Coke."
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I think there's a few levels of problems with policing.
First, what is the job of the police? If it comes down to protecting people vs government/property, what is the priority? At what point does it switch from protecting a suspect vs stopping a crime? When does a situation go from upholding the law to breaking it? It feels there is a lot of grey area that should be more well defined.
Secondly, should police be policing all the time? If cops are out there seeing nothing but suspected criminals all day, every day, how could that not end up influencing their view on the people they encounter negatively? Maybe we should give police some positive experiences with their community, participating in things for healthy and wellbeing of their fellow citizens? Get them involved in social work, recovery programs, therapy programs with inmates or addicts so they learn why people end up going down the roads they do, food banks, etc. Give them time to see these people as fellow humans with dreams, flaws, and to understand the decisions they face that lead them to the positions they're in. Also let people on the other end see cops the same way.
I think a lot of hate and violence comes from not understanding people we only briefly encounter, especially when one or both parties is already coming into things with negative views. But subjecting even the nicest cops to nothing but the dark underbelly of society is going to change them negatively. If we want to have good cops, I think we need to make being a cop a better job. Not just offering unlimited overtime to numb the pain of seeing terrible things, but evening out the good and bad experiences with the people you are policing.
There's still a ton of other things we could get into about just the culture of violence, the incentives of privately run prisons, etc, but all that is a bit darker than I feel like getting into now.
I'm grateful it's off the table for now. We best keep an eye on this guy though, I'm sure he's not going to quit trying.
We usually get things like the chocolate covered cashews or sea salt caramels. They occasionally have some peanut butter or maybe cashew butter cups and those I remember being really good.
Aldi has such awesome chocolate! Thanks for pointing out the reason.
Pennsylvania, so it varies. My friends are of diverse backgrounds, but my extended family is very red and that was how I was raised.
Most people I talk to just follow what "their people" tell them and don't learn about it any more. We're on a political community because we're into it, but the majority of people don't know or care beyond the sales pitch they get from whomever their preferred media source is.
I find them more politically ignorant than malicious. They'll say stupid stuff, but if you can get conversation going to where you can present things in a way that is equitable to most people you get "that sounds like a good idea" but tell them that's a lefty stance and they dig in their heals and won't believe it.
I'll hear them say racist or sexist or homophobic things, but they've always been respectful to my girlfriends, my gay friends, and I've never actually seen them be rude to anyone they thought for their race. They're just scared of shit they don't know. Put something in front of them, they see it isn't scary, and they can accept it because now it's familiar.
The in laws are worse than my family, but they all drove 6 hours to the one cousin's lesbian interracial half Jewish, half Christian wedding. They hated the food because it had flavor, but they didn't make a deal about it in public, and they had a great time and celebrated them as much as at any other wedding, and they love her and accept them both.
Trust me, the cognitive dissonance blows my mind, and it's hard to accept the duality that people can talk one way and support hateful things while they could turn around and be nice to the people they were just hating on, but that has been my years of experience with people here.
I got experience outside my bubble and learned to love it. I stopped being selfish, learned empathy for strangers, and started trying to understand issues, even if they didn't directly affect me. They are capable of that. It might never work, but they're not hopeless. I can't say I've ever met someone who would look at anyone else and to their face wish harm or struggle upon them. They might not be immediately comfortable around them, but I can't say anyone would wish something negative for them.
I know people that evil do exist, but I again say that is not the majority of people. Nowhere close to it. If we can't see the potential of the other third to half of our country, we're done for.
My patience is only for the everyday people in our lives. Most of them I think are poorly or wrongly informed or just have no interest or understanding of politics. I'm plenty interested in politics and the economy, etc, and I maybe have a solid grip on 1% of what all the government actually does or can do.
Those who are public officials, elected or appointed, or in some other way active participants such as citizen "militias", Jan 6ers, etc... those people can burn in hell for what they've done to this place. They've done irreparable harm and did it purposefully over decades. They know and understand what they're doing. They have no excuse. They're criminals and traitors to our country.
I assume we're all somewhere left of center here, so I may have not been clear on that distinction.
I agree with the assessment of willful/blind ignorance. This could hardly be proven more than by Rep. Kat Cammack blaming the Democrats for Florida's abortion ban almost killing her. But while she almost got her own face eaten by the leopard, there would be some karmic justice there one could argue, but again, to see people in America suffer or die for very preventable conditions is insane to me.
The real upside, if we wish to see one from this spiteful and asinine budget cut, is an opportunity to show we're not whatever it is they've been told we are. Make sure your neighbors and family are ok, if they're MAGA or not. We can look for revenge, or we can live in an egalitarian way that we'd want things to be. Don't preach people your beliefs, show them why you believe it. You won't always win people over, but most folks will remember if you gave them a hand when they needed it and didn't guilt them or hold something over them, but were just a good human being.
We're allowed to be mad. We deserve to be mad. But we should still act right. Somebody's got to be the adult in the room.
They unfortunately do.
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Mark Rober's Experiment
You've never seen animals flattened way onto the shoulder, well outside the lines or in the middle of the lane where the car should have gone right over it?