Is illinois bird shit?

“Can” works fine of you are asking if you are able rather than for permission. But, words don’t exist anyway.

Instead of ‘american’ or USian or others, why not Yankee? It has historical significance to the united states, originated a a pejorative, and the south hates it. Perfect

Instead of ‘american’ or others,

Rather than ‘american’ or others, Yankee? It has historical s

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We spend so much time and effort trying to disuade the people with “negative behavior” who we have discarded from our “civil society”

Where I live the grocery stores have carts whose wheels lock if you try to take them too far from the store. As if anyone trying to do that would know until they couldn’t push them anymore. Thing is the store doesn’t unlock them. Somehow they make it back and then they end up to front carts. People will try to use them until they realize they can’t be moved. Some do get unlock, but the wheels aren’t round anymore. People dragged them flattening out part of the wheel. If there are no other carts, which happens often because there are so many with locked wheels, you get to click and clack through the store with everyone looking at you like you are some kind of asshole.

There are literally hundreds of cameras. Including ones raised high on trailers in the parking lot. The same pole has blinking blue lights to simulate a police cruiser and a loud speaker reminding you the parking lot is being monitored. Back in the store as you walk in there is an electric gate and a camera and monitor. On which is writing which also reminds you you are being monitored. You have to wait to let them get a picture of you before the gate will open.

But the best of all of this. After you finish checking out your groceries as if you work there, you have to keep your reciept handy before your cart is checked by armed guards. Body armor. A gun. Not the police (as if that would make it better, but at least their job is to “protect and serve” the public) As you walk up they are usually shooting the shit with each other, and they maintain that pleasantness while they check your receipt (as if they actually are). You are at complete ease until you realize you went through a security checkpoint with a riot squad.

All of this. All. Of. This. Because our society sees it as acceptable to punish the entire public for lack of empathy for those who need it most and to prevent petty crime.

It’s worse than that. Amtrak gets government subsidies. Conservatives take that to be Communism, so even the “capitalist” solution, the only train we have, is constantly under threat.

You can run it in a vm 🤷‍♀️

Make a cuo of tea. Boiling hot. And breathe over it. Works well for me.

You have to be careful with these because they can develop bacteria

What does it mean in practice for windows 10 to reach end of life? There are no more security updates? My vm will stop working? They are preventing you from using your computer?

I’ve been rocking it on a fairphone 4 for 3-4 years. I pretty heavily modified it to get it where I wanted, but I enjoy doing that kind of thing. App lounge is slow, but I don’t use any proprietary aps so F Droid and Obtainium gets me everything I need.

I’ve had Shelter in the background for proprietary apps. Traveling in particular.

My aunt did this along with posting a bunch of family photos and falling for those quizzes that ask your pet’s name or your childhood address. If you have one person like that the privacy of your entire family is compromised.

We told her back around 2010 not to do this kind of stuff, but she’s somewhere between “If I have nothing to hide” and “what’s the harm?”. I hope she gets it now, but we don’t talk to her often

Why all the saddam memes?

What do you tell them when you opt out?

That’s what I’m thinking

I noticed when you go through security now, they scan your face witg 2 cameras instead of 1. Is that related? Why do they do that?

He’s developed this Mr. Rogers persona

Outlines or shadows help