Vorticity

joined 2 years ago
[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 24 points 7 hours ago (20 children)

You know, I get it, they're probably just an asshole. Maybe they're having an emergency, though. How about just letting them get around in case there is a good reason for driving recklessly? Or maybe just in case they're nuts enough to make things violent?

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Hah, that's a fun one. Fixing it now.

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

The point is that one would think that Jewish people might have learned that mass murder is bad. That said, Israel seems to have forgotten so it's unsurprising that a right wing loon like Laura Loomer would also fail to understand the lessons of history.

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

The people doing this understand the consequences and see the as goals.

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 66 points 6 days ago (9 children)

So, NYC gets about $100B in federal funds annually. I wonder how much they pay in taxes to the federal government. I'd bet they pay more than they get.

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

You'd think they would have rebranded.

Edit: Oh, they're dead and gone. Good, I thought some small portion had survived or something.

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

How would I set this kind of thing up? Mainly, where can I find the lists? I can probably sort out the DNS settings.

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Wow, that was a little strong given the subject. I'm not sure what I did to deserve being cussed at when I was just talking about electric kettles. Especially since I said I do use a kettle myself.

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

One reason that some Americans microwave water rather than use a kettle is that our electricity is half the power of UK electricity. It takes a lot longer for an electric kettle to boil here. That said, I do use a kettle when boiling water for tea.

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Come on, no one is this dumb. The senators knew they'd do this from the moment they voted to confirm. This is just premeditated political backtracking to fix as much damage as they can now that they've received their reciprocal favors.

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I'm 90% sure that when they said "you yourself", they actually were referring to Newsom, not to the commenter. I can see how the comment could be taken either way though.

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Okay, I didn't look at the image closely enough. Yes, definitely AI. The knobs look like they're melting. The buttons are all off-kilter. Non of the text is actual text, just AI blurs.

 

I'm a white guy from a fairly non-diverse city. I was at a grocery store today where a cashier opened up their line to serve me and, I thought, the person behind me. As they were serving me, though, they put up their lane closed sign right in front of the black man behind me. The buy was just trying to purchase some tuna, bread, and peanut butter.

The cashier basically decided to serve me, a middle class white man, but refused to serve the black man behind me. I was so shocked that I didn't say anything. It is possible that I misunderstood the situation but it seemed so blatant.

What should I have done in this situation? Should I have spoken up? Would that have just been more embarrassing for the man who was being discriminated against?

Honestly, I'm still just in shock to see someone treated so poorly when they were simply trying to buy food for themselves. I recognize that means that I'm sheltered but I also feel like I should be able to use my unearned privilege to help others who are being discriminated against.

 

 

I keep running into issues where I'm unsure of which account I'm currently using. It would be nice if it were more obvious at all times. Two things that would help me are:

  • always display the current user somewhere, regardless of what content is being viewed.
  • allow setting different color themes for different users.
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