I think “mating” is more effective. A minor double-take means you’re more likely to remember it. Besides, textbook writers should be allowed to fit in jokes where they can; their work seems dry as hell.

I don’t think Jefferson comes across that great in Hamilton. His defense of the South and slavery is made pretty clear.

I’ve not been on linux for long, but I like my kubuntu system. Took a bit of fiddling (non standard video drivers, non standard Proton for steam, wayland was buggy on my hardware), but now it’s been working a treat for both gaming and productivity.

Judging by the sentiments for Ubuntu on here, I feel like it’s unfairly maligned. It seems like everyone wants Linux to be easier to adopt by the masses, but they don’t like the distros that fill that niche.

I don’t disagree, but you’re running the risk of a canceled booking if you ask the owner to do it for you.

Or if you are used to throwing money around, hire someone not the owner to show up early and set up and take down after.

Even if it was a mistake, which it was not, “Oops,” isn’t a valid excuse for military action. Incompetency is not expected behavior for most other governments.

I tend to not get excited about the hot new thing in tech. Sometimes the thing has legs, like crypto-currency or LLM chatbots (probably), and sometimes it doesn’t, like metaverse or NFTs. But I work in tech, so I know a lot of people - am friends with some people - that tell me that the thing is the future and that I need to get in on it, too. Of all the fads that didn’t pan out, NFTs was the most satisfying to watch crash and burn.

So would it be accurate to say that autism is on a spectrum that also includes non-autistic people?

Yeah, lemmy definitely isn’t immune, there’s just a lot less of it almost definitely in part because there is a lot less engagement in general.

I live in one of those states, and increasingly seems it’s either that or we just all move to BC

Nah, you’re not wrong. Sure, there was some more obscure stuff, but I’d say most could be figured out by context or from a traceable evolution from previous generations’ slang. The difference now is video-based social media has slang spreading and evolving at lightspeed. It’s impossible to keep up unless you’re immersed in that bubble either directly or by proxy of peers.

Well, they aren’t lying. It’s true that I’d still get all my union benefits if I stopped paying into it.* I’m sure I work with people who don’t pay, and they probably feel like they’re smarter than the rest of us. The mailers just conveniently leave out the context that what I pay into the union has been returned tenfold by their actions, and to hurt the union is to ultimately hurt myself.

* the reason this is true is because a law exists that says that unions cannot require represented employees to pay into them, but the contracts agreed to by the union affect positions, not people, so they still benefit.

I’m in a union, and I get anti-union mail once or twice a month from the “Freedom Foundation” telling me I can stop paying my dues but still reap the benefits that my union has fought for. Which is true until the union loses enough power that they aren’t effective. I hate those fuckers so much.

Glad to hear that most people aren’t falling for their bullshit.

E: like they throw out numbers like, “this is how much more money you’d have every year if you stopped paying.” yeah, but the only reason I get yearly inflation-based raises is because of my union. My union wants me to have money, and literally everyone else wants me to have none.

I didn’t even know music had a temperature! I still have so much to learn about earth culture.

Instead of leveling up your vehicle, you level up the infrastructure as you progress the game. By the end, you’re just taking the public transit system to the finish line.

Meanwhile, headline writers are stoked it’s different enough to be considered “unprecedented” and “once in a lifetime.”

Next up is “Cat’s in the Cradle” by Harry Chapin.

Some comics are destined to be enshrined upon a classroom’s walls.

Proton specifically

I made the switch a week ago