DharmaCurious

Facebook canning groups are a great idea, as someone else mentioned. Them little old ladies can do pretty amazing things on short notice. Can I suggest hitting up local churches? The methodists, Episcopal and baptists are all particularly fond of doing drives and such, and may be able to do an impromptu canning drive for y'all

Oh, well then I wouldn't approach him for a whole new variety of reasons!

"my ancestors ran so I could stand"

I mean, I wouldn't, because he's way out of my league, and probably straight,and most likely he's busy right now, or waiting on someone, and the music in here is really loud, so he probably wouldn't be able to hear me well enough to chat because I'm soft spoken...

I'm a communist. I don't mean to say I'm here because of the leftist population (though, that is nice sometimes, but as in any lefty heavy place there's infighting and bullshit), but rather I have certain values that guide my decision making process, and one of them is not supporting massive corporations and shitty services when possible. Lemmy is an alternative to reddit that doesn't benefit the same class of people as reddit, while actively benefiting the people who actually use it.

Bryan is so my exact type

"Elon has too much government information to go to Russia!"

Y'all, please, listen, Russia already has our government information. The important thing to note here is that whether Elon runs off to Moscow or not, Russia making the offer may well drive a wedge between Russia and Trump. That, in and of itself, is good news. Trump has very few political allies at this point, with most of the world turning against him and trusting the US less. If he is even further alienated, there's a decent chance his party loses reelection or refuses to go along with his insane 3rd term plans. It'll take us a long time to rebuild international goodwill, but alienating Trump is a good thing.

Happy to proven wrong is there's an aspect I'm not considering here, but in my mind when the fascist fight each other it's good for the rest of us. Makes them easier to tackle, especially if the nonfash (and specifically the left) can unify.

I had one, and it was great for listening to my CDs when I was laying in bed, but if I had to actually walk anywhere I took my walkman and a bookbag full of tapes (half of which were books on tape and not actual music lol). Dealing with the skipping was just too damn irritating. Walkman was the clear winner for my use case

It's about 800 fahrenfeet

I was gonna say, this isn't unique to the USSR, or even to openly authoritarian states. It's the oldest trick in the book, it seems :/

This is what I keep trying to tell my brother. He's anti-AI, but to the point where he sees absolutely no value in it at all. Can't really blame him considering stories like this. But they are incredibly useful for brainstorming, and recently I've found chat gpt to be really good at helping me learn Spanish, because it's conversational. I can have conversations with it in Spanish where I don't feel embarrassed or weird about making mistakes, and it corrects me when I'm wrong. They have uses. Just not the uses people seem to think they have

This is genuinely how my father cleans and organizes. You can't find anything, you can't get anything you can find because the whole stack will collapse, and all the shit on bottom gets broken.

He's amazing at packing a U-Haul or the car when going on a trip or moving, though.