The innovation is in new ways to screw over the consumer.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_J._Hemsley
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Witty

I’m so sorry for your loss. Restraining orders in this country are a joke.

For context, in 2023, the US had 19,252 cases of murder or voluntary manslaughter. The US is projected to have a 16% nationwide drop in homicides in 2024 (“homicide” includes involuntary manslaughter, so it’s not technically one-to-one).

We’ll be really generous to murder and voluntary manslaughter and assume that those actually dropped by what would be a substantial 20% (even though it could be lower than 16% too). Then we have about 15,400 of these cases. Under that assumption (which I think is pretty reasonable as most likely a very conservative undercount), this represents about 4.5% of intentional killings in the US. To my understanding, the overwhelming majority is male-on-male. After that, I have no clue where female-on-female and female-on-male land.

(EDIT: That being said, it’s entirely possible and likely that this linked database is an undercount. Although overall, it seems pretty scrupulous; I doubt the size would increase by more than maybe 10% if it were to be complete.)

Letting private organizations fill roles that the government should be doing is one of the main reasons we have problems like homeless children that need to be solved in the first place. The church has tens if not hundreds of billions of dollars that could otherwise be going toward programs which reduce childhood poverty (and this of course isn’t taxed). Moreover, churches prime people to believe and act on complete bullshit, which is exactly the kind of environment that fosters right-wing beliefs that are steeped in disinformation and rooted in a deficiency in critical thinking. Right-wing beliefs directly lead to poverty. Alleviating the symptoms of poverty via a cult instead of treating it at the source isn’t the right way to do it.

Religion in general fosters these sorts of toxic power structures because it’s based on fucking nonsense.

Real community is when people are in a cult whose authority figures systematically molest children. Got it.

Any other words of wisdom, oh one so ignorant of what a third place is?

A third place has nothing at all to do with what is and isn’t paywalled. If I rented a Boeing 787 to take day trips with my friends every day for the next month, that’d still be a third place. It has everything to do with the first place being home and the second being work. It also has nothing, therefore, to do with “community” or “not community”.

Even if we work under your (completely wrong) definition of third places as inherently fostering tight-knit community and not just being a place for you to exist around other people, smaller communities absolutely have the opportunity to do this. Roblox was one of my main third places when I was a kid, and it was a better third place than I could’ve had in real life. I met actual, real friends who I talked to daily for years and who accepted me. Right now I work on Wikipedia, which if you spend long enough there unambiguously has a community among the more experienced editors. I’m even in a Discord server where I joined for the project, ended up joining the team, and now feel like I’m good friends with the people there. Even Lemmy I’d say is small enough to start seeing a lot of familiar faces over time.

The Internet isn’t inherently bad at fostering community. It’s just that the modern Internet places a fuckload of emphasis on being in gigantic, uninteractive pools of people like Twitch chats that fly at a million miles a second and require you to spend $500 for a streamer to blink in your direction; a shitty short-form video service where you can comment and like but aren’t seriously befriending anyone outside of extreme edge cases; a gigantic link aggregator where what you say is almost always drowned out immediately; multiplayer games that have new lobbies every match; etc.

maybe the universe

Imagine how self-important or ignorant you have to be to think this. No matter what, all life on Earth is going to die in 4.5 billion years when the Sun burns out. Once every second, a star somewhere goes supernova. Galaxies collide with each other and violently fling stars out into deep space. Black holes are constantly swallowing solar systems and deleting them from existence forever. All life that has ever existed will die and be forgotten. The entire universe was shrouded in hot and complete darkness for its first 350,000 years. Even these things (which are still miniscule on the scale of the observable universe) are on levels that are about as comparable to human activity as stubbing your toe is to the Holocaust.

Fuck it: “will ever happen to the universe” is heat death, and it’s infinitely worse than anything humans could possibly do. We’re just some hairless monkeys fighting over an infinitesimal rock harboring life and sending out some stray photons in a radius that’s almost nothing compared to the size of the observable universe.

Nah, it was definitely a coordinated effort by a squadron of supersonic birds with steel beaks. Couldn’t be glorious oligarcho-fascist shithole.

Even prompting enough attention for this single investigation would make what Luigi did justified. Rot in piss, Brian.

guerilla*

Do you know of any good articles exploring this power grid infrastructure disconnection?

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About 1 in 20,000 eggs in the US contains Salmonella. With proper precautions (basic hygiene and cooking to a high temperature of a bit over 70°C), this risk isn’t high. In fact, it’s estimated that the risk eating cooked eggs is a few orders of magnitude lower than raw eggs – about 1 in 68 billion. However, when you absolutely know that you have eggs in a range that have an extremely high risk of Salmonella, this idea is just stupid and not at all worth even the relatively low risk, because the problem you likely run into isn’t the safety of the cooked food – it’s the safety of the handling of the food as you’re preparing it. If your next grocery trip is a ways out, the eggs might spoil, but the UPC is what Costco cares about here. If you can’t be bothered, then you should probably just toss them.

The former employee knew what they were doing with their choice of words.

I feel like there are massive, unsolvable problems with this idea (besides the considerable cost):

• The Elizabeth line already has a very small space for passengers to wait. Thus, you’re severely restricting the amount of available space even if the turnstiles end up quite close to the train, because in your idea, the area beyond the turnstiles shouldn’t be occupied until the train is deboarding/boarding.
• The turnstiles would substantially limit throughput solely to prevent this extreme fluke situation. Trains’ efficiency lives and dies on their boarding and deboarding times, and this means that both people boarding and deboarding need to go through a turnstile (at best, the people boarding need to).
• If you have the turnstiles too close to the train (which there’s a lot of opportunity for in such an enclosed space and assuming you want to maximize the passenger waiting area), then you’re encouraging people to hop the turnstiles to catch their train, which could actually be substantially more dangerous through risk of fall, especially if part of your body falls under the train as it’s departing (“mind the gap”).

“5 ways YouTube is cracking down on clickbait – #3 will make you shid and fard and cum your pants”

accepting a pardon is an admission of guilt

This was true, but that no longer applies. (at least at the federal level; I have no clue how state courts have ruled on this.)

That’s the funny part: fucking do it, and make the world a better place.

People who intentionally DUI (i.e. not “Oh shit, I started this new medication and didn’t realize it would make me drowsy”) genuinely don’t deserve to drive a single inch for the rest of their lives. We punish it way too lightly in the US thanks to rampant car/hyper-individualist culture.