Vorticity

joined 3 years ago
[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago

Who is going to prosecute? The current DOJ?

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 22 points 5 days ago

Who is going to bring charges? The DOJ? The fox I guarding the hen house.

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

I think this is just an example of trying to stretch "we don't know shit" into an article of sifficient length.

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

If I wanted to give benefit of the doubt, maybe they mean that 2/3 of vacancies are caused by being held empty for speculation. Even that doesn't make snes to me, though. It's not like you are unable to sell properties that have tenants.

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Where are you getting the statistic of 2/3 of housing being kept empty for speculation? A quick look outside tells me that is utter bullshit.

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The most obvious slight of hand here is the suggestion that employer contributions shouldn't count as part of what employees paid in. That is part of their compensation and shouldn't be ignored when suggesting that younger generations are paying for baby boomer's social security.

To me this reads like someone is trying to poison younger people against social security so they won't complain when it is taken away.

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

I'd argue that this highly depends on what state you live in. Idaho is one of the most backward, conservative, intolerant states in the country.

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

[https://www.odditycentral.com/news/door-head-ants-use-their-large-flat-heads-as-doors-to-shut-down-their-nests.html](Here is a short article on them.) According to the article, they stand their ground, even while their head is under attack. Pretty neat ants!

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 35 points 3 weeks ago

To be clear, they published the rule to the federal register. If the I junctions are lifted, the rule will immediately go into effect. This has no immediate effect and hopefully never will.

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Please tell me this is a satire account. Please?

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Well, I'm a dumbass. Thanks!

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

The Japanese part of this is evidenced by the fact that some traffic lights are blue rather than green. As far as I know, they are standardizing everything to green now to avoid any confusion, but some older lights are still blue because the words were the same for blue and green.

 

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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