corsicanguppy @ corsicanguppy @lemmy.ca

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News media seems focused on the Czech Republic adopting and practicing American-style active-shooter drills.

Because we all should live in panic? It's not America: restrict guns harder and be okay with it.

This is kind of an absurd take, Americans didn't invent mass killings.

Americans certainly perfected mass shootings. Your comma splice is a clear advertisement of bias, though, so don't shoot me.

Goodkind

So he was neither, then?

Apparently Kanye has copied some great music, and we'll know for sure if he ever releases some.

Either the Americans have very weird ideas about transportation or they're completely controlled by auto companies.

Consider both: we know the auto companies controlled the populace by destroying any choice. We also know that public transit is looked on as a plebes travel mode ripe for gutting at every turn so the rich (and those who are gonna be rich any day now) can benefit.

I thought it was a nice tidy list too.

How is it so hard for people to read?

Most just get shit on and the reward is more work.

My day job is boring policy and process. It ends at a fixed time and I get to eat on the daily.

My side gig is dynamic, challenging as fuck, rewarding in spades, absolutely not guaranteed as I've been in danger of the work drying up and the contract ending for 22 years.

The reward to good work is more work, but make sure you can eat and sleep and live.

My dear friend asked me to loan him money for a car. I can't do it.

I co-signed on his car loan, so he used my credit but couldn't shirk the payments or he'd be ruined further too. Worked out well.

Have you even heard of systemd? Of course you can't be too dumb for programming. Be lucky enough and you can build the cancer that will slowly grow and eat a hundred distros.

Try to avoid flatpak; snap too. It's got horrible validation and by ruining single source of truth on your installation state it actually craters that validation. It's bad, and bad for you.

Don't convert packages to packages: there's too many literals in there that will cause problems. I sat on the FHS committee and I had such high hopes; but no.

Also, Manjaro's fine. Maybe look at magaeia. Its polluted with systemd fridge art, but it's maintained and fresh. It may have what you want.

Drop the 'GNU'. We don't need to coddle Stallman any more.

Restrictive personal choices aren't a protected class if it's not imaginary sky-person friendship.

That $50-to-$150 is gonna really take the sting out of having all my personal info leaked. I can feel the identity theft worries melting away.

Punitive damages and a proper label of gross criminal negligence need to be applied until it hurts even the board members' yacht staff.

Can confirm not. Stupid priorities get stupid results, Forrest.

Common space isn't your space. Common space is everyone's space. You get to use it for a little bit if you treat it nicely.

You know what sucks worse than having to obey the rules of a society that appears not to care about you or treat you as anything special ? Everything else.

I worked for less than a week at a cedar shake and shingles mill: it takes trees and cuts them into fat shingles.

I was promoted when the guy above me put the pneumatic splitter through his hand.

The guy above my new position near-missed with a band saw: it bit into his arm but only about a millimeter.

On day three a cut saw operator lost the last joint of three fingers.

I told the foreman I was leaving. He nodded in understanding.

Are those the biodegradable corn-based plastic flatware and less-waste-than-cloth-bags bags we're getting rid of?

Should be fun

After driving for 35 years, I still don't have a baseline for "driving like a real person".

I have no sense of what to expect, and never have. I wish it made me a better driver, but honestly it's just from Shite Driver PTSD. They're everywhere, waiting to surprise us. Trust no one.

I look forward to when self-drivers are the majority and THEN I can start to form new expectations;-)

My buddy had a car with green and purple lights but was a restored hearse - like the Ghostbusters car - and it was fucking fabulous.

It’s pretty weird that we’re basically just working with 2 sets of lights and blinkers at this point.

From a usability standpoint, you want to keep emergency signals simple and VERY consistent. Brake lights need to be a solid red for a very good reason.