Soggy

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

We've been a deeply racist and violent country for longer than we've been a country. Built on genocide and slavery. We didn't properly address our failures when we had the chance (Civil War should have ended with a new constitution and drastically different political structure to keep militant bigots from gaining power) and now we have this.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (12 children)

Remote start of any kind is a luxury and it's wild to me that someone would defend internet car controls as any way important or even desirable. That's what I'm talking about. Physical keys work totally fine and add like two seconds of time to the process.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (14 children)

It's a good thing we invented remote start at the same time as the car itself, I can't imagine the horror of only operating a motor vehicle I'm next to (let alone touching)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Why stop there?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago

They have to believe in meritocracy, that wealth isn't intrinsically tied to exploitation and a long history of classism.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

I live on top of a hill that drains directly into the ocean. If my house floods I have different problems.

I also won't live on the side of hills without a very clear understanding of the local watershed, soil stability, nearby land rights... I took a lot of Earth science classes and honestly it's kinda traumatizing to peek behind the curtain. Shit is fucked.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

We don't respect rivers enough. I would never live in a floodplain.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Some of us never left.

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

Our whole-ass society is structured around Christian norms. Holidays, liquor laws, businesses closing on Sunday, loads of idioms and turns-of-phrase, it is pervasive and so normalized that any deviance is seen as shocking. (At least we aren't one of the countries where heresy is still an actual crime)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Dude's a Christian Zionist.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Or. Or. And hear me out on this: participate in society.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Off power grid maybe, imagine the nightmare of urban well-digging or apartment septic tanks.

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