I would not recommend engaging with law enforcement in the USA.

If they ask you a question, you are on very risky ground. Not answering can be considered interfering with an investigation. Answering and getting it wrong, even accidentally, can get you convicted of lying to the police.

Or cops could just be having a bad day and decide to execute you for no reason.

I got 135 blocks via sshguard over the first 12 hours today. So, yeah, welcome to the Internet! 😄

Ooo velcro seems like a great idea!

Yes, good point!

Love it!

I think that it’s fine. My hearing sucks ass and I mostly listen to podcasts, so I wouldn’t be a good person to ask.

You could ask the people in your union to help you survive, oh wait…

I pay the FNV (a sort of union of unions here in the Netherlands) because they kept taking the government to court because the government wasn’t following its own laws… and they kept winning. They don’t help my job because I’m in IT and class consciousness hasn’t reached there yet, but someday…

Nature isn’t open access right? So we can’t know why…

There is no ethical consumption under capitalism.

Make purchases as best you can, and work towards systemic change, comrade.

Neither of the buttons says “original resolution”.

Does China have gas and oil? I thought that they imported it all?

Maybe it’s time to disengage from Lemmy if it’s impacting your mental health so much. Take care, comrade.

I’m basically okay with that? The average age where people first have sex has been rising, but it’s still less than 18.

I love that this one requires no detailed explanation. 😆

It’s partially because she doesn’t feel that she has the right to tell people how to live their lives. She’s a vegetarian mostly for environmental reasons, rather than for animal rights.

She’s also conflict averse, and the “individual choice” philosophy does tend to de-escalate conversations with meat eaters, who are often hostile to vegetarians.

They seem pretty cheap in the Netherlands, at least from Ikea:

https://www.ikea.com/nl/nl/cat/inductiekookplaten-20813/

I guess that induction could be cheaper, but the cooking experience is really terrible. I think for a few hundred Euros it would never be worth it. 🤔

I was visiting the head office of a California-based company that I worked for, and my colleagues (mostly left-leaning) were moaning about a proposal to make it illegal to hit children. After 15 minutes I couldn’t keep my mouth shut and said, “I think a society should protect those least able to protect themselves.” There was a lot of backpedaling, but also a few people explaining how it was totally necessary that they hit their children for reasons.

I didn’t have children at the time, but my step-daughter (now 20) and son (now 17) were never punished with violence, so it is possible for sure.

Now, my ancestors were horse thieves, and not particularly religious.

I mean, some people think that pineapple on pizza is morally wrong. 😉