And honestly is there any chance that maniac ever doesn't have a round chambered?
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eww, yeah I can see that happening and a lot of people liking it too.
Even though our suburban neighborhoods are designed to be pro-car and anti-community, the one nice thing about the single family home and little fenced in yard setup is that I can keep some natural beauty close by.
The kids never build any intrinsic motivation. It's always driven by fear and reward for them.
Oh sure, blame the deep seated flaws in our society.
I could see some very well-meaning folks in local government being boxed in by citizens on one side that make their luxury SUVs and even more luxurious pickup trucks into major parts of their identities, and then the various layers of government above them driving the standards that make all of our towns samey-looking stroads. I'm in the US if that wasn't obvious, and the car-centrism runs deep.
I'm a middle aged dude and my house was build multiple decades before I was born. Back then my neighborhood was designed 100% for cars. They even put in drainage ditches that precluded the addition of sidewalks. But several years back the township did paint a walking path down one side of my street.
The new neighborhoods built in the last decade are mostly the same as far as being car-only. They usually have sidewalks and you will see people taking walks or children playing. But it's only local recreation, to walk the dog or to visit a neighbor. If you need to go to the grocery store, it's time to hop into the 2-3 ton family vehicle.
I will give my local government and developers credit though, that some recent projects have been to create what look like islands of walkable community. I have look through the businesses and see if they have groceries and the like. From what I've seen the neighborhood seems to be densely packed expensive apartments and townhomes that were rapidly built en masse, and then in the center there's a grassy field and some breweries and restaurants and stuff. So possibly some very American designs going on there.
You have the best username + job combo I've seen all day!
And honestly it works whether it's accurate or not, lol.
And the conservative base reads the article thusly:
Los Angeles
Oooh, strike one.
car wash
Ooooooooh, that sounds awful immigranty. Strike two!
Rafie Ollah Shouhed
Aaaand that's three, your humanity is OUTTA HERE!
Your woke propaganda like "citizen" and "business owner" have no power here!
A lot of right-wing people use ... as an excuse to not care about ... at all...
I thought your comment would be one of those rare instances where you can make a sentence more accurate by generalizing it.
They REALLY like doing it with people, and ruining the environment and/or climate is just shitting on other people (especially the poor ones) with an added level of abstraction.
Legislating from the bench!!!
FOSS is free and open source software. And the word "free" does a lot of heavy lifting there because it refers to much more than it typically not costing anything. It means that you have the freedom to do what you want with your stuff, basically. You (or others on your behalf) can see the source code for what the software is doing, and you can even change and improve it.
You'll see the word "libre" thrown around in this context too, for that reason. For many people the liberty side of free matters a lot more than the no-cost side. But they do go hand in hand, because not needing to protect a revenue stream makes it a lot easier to not enshittify software. You'll see names like LibreOffice and FLOSS instead of FOSS.
So it's basically the whole Linux world that is very well represented on Lemmy and the fediverse. :)
Sent using FOSS Voyager web client ...in FOSS browser LibreWolf (a fork of FireFox) ...on FOSS operating system Linux.
I use Mint btw.
(This is an inside joke for the other Linux people -- a play off of "I use Arch btw" where Arch Linux is a hardcore distro where you kind of build your operating system piece by piece, but with excellent documentation. Valve switched SteamOS to be based on Arch a while back)
it being inferred he was a left wing extremist like some others in the news right now was so stupid... dummies...
I have to disagree because I think this conclusion is a trap.
The people listening to that stuff and eating it up? Yeah, dummies.
The people SAYING that stuff though? It feels very intentional because it's a win-win for them. At the beginning they get the base riled up, donating, and engaging with the propaganda machine. Then later on when Luigi suddenly gets off on a technicality, the outrage over that fuels even more furor, donating, and posting/watching.
Conservatives live on outrage. It is irresistible to them. Especially to the white persecution complex ones like my extended family, god damn.
I was actually going to comment that I now know about this cheap option thanks to the lawsuit, lol.
I don't watch live TV because I value my time, but every once in a while there's a reason to tune into that one thing.