I drove in Austria and Germany for work a few times. After a day or two, you pick up enough words on signs to understand “Entrance” and “Exit” and “One way”, but between the symbols and the English on everything, it is probably much easier for us to drive there than for a non-English speaker to drive here. I bet most immigrants learn “No turn on red” faster than “No Parking Enforced on Alternating Wednesdays and Saturdays except on Holidays from 6:00 PM to 12:45 AM”.

In any case, speaking English is not required of citizens. Tests were offered in Spanish because of a need for it. It’s not that they cannot learn to read a few signs, it’s that the written portion of the test needs to be clearly communicated. The ADA requires that illiterate adults be provided with an audio test or interpreter, because it’s more important for people to understand the test than it is for the government to bully immigrants to score political points with bigots.

I can understand the appeal of a piece of bread that’s been soaked or buttered or even just toasted and salted. I bet that’s delicious, if done right.

My question is, why the other two slices of bread? What’s the thinking there? Why not have three slices of delicious middle bread? If the bread is good enough on its own, why not eat it alone?

It’s like if you made a drink of tepid water by adding ice cubes to a glass of warmed water and then letting them completely melt until room temperature. Who is this recipe for? “Oh, but maybe the ice cubes are flavored” OK then why freeze them before melting them? “Maybe the hot water is flavored with herbs that rele-” Bitch, that’s tea.

I’m so confused, I’m getting mad at imaginary arguments I’m having with hypothetical morons about analogous situations that only exist in my head.

I agree, but I can understand why BlueSky is doing better. A key component of the quality of the product is the number of users. I’m not active on either of them, but I do have a Mastodon account I barely use because it feels lonely.

Yep this is the only difference. Bluesky is promoted by the business owners, so it will have more activity and probably more consistent development and support. At the same time, it is a business and enshittification axioms still apply.

I did something similar with an old spare phone for a while when my actual phone screen stopped working. I carried both around, but I found 90% of my use cases didn’t involve phone calls or even texting.

I do find it convenient to have my phone connected to tailscale so I can access my home network from anywhere.

And I don’t necessarily trust public wifi.

But otherwise, I fully support this and think it’s entirely viable for most people.

https://lemmy.world/comment/21774208

I don’t believe you’re honestly anything.

See what you’re doing now is called sea-lioning, where you pretend you have been misunderstood, and you’re just trying to have a civil conversation. You shared a nazi arguement, and if you feel you’ve been misunderstood, you’re free to clarify what you meant to say. I’ve said my peace, so if you want to keep pretending you’re not a bigot, then you’ll need to do more than insist others prove it.

I feel like I was fairly clear about that. It’s the one where you use bad science to justify bigotry and crimes against humanity. For example, your comment earlier in this thread about how certain people shouldn’t exist because ova and sperm are the only gametes.

Hey want to play a game? Your bank is gonna text you a number, and I’m going to guess it. Tell me if my guesses need to be higher or lower.

Which is it, you don’t want to defend the nazi argument, or you do want to defend the nazi argument?

Literally every sentence you typed is entirely inaccurate. It’s bad science promoted by bigots to create a convinient lie that permits them to discriminate and oppress people.

Edit to add: It’s even a bad interpretation of the metaphor. It’s like saying “akshually, there’s only two atomic particles, the proton and the electron, and these are the only two particles that determine charge, so there’s really only two types of atoms, positive and negative charged atoms, and that’s why black people don’t deserve civil rights.”

That’s you. That’s what you sound like.

• Human genders are not defined by gamete types.
• Human sex is not defined by gamete types. There are women born with testes, and men born with ovaries. Secondary sexual characteristics are influenced by hormones as much as genetics, and the presence of a gamete does not determine the hormones in a person’s body.
• Sexual development charts are generalizations across average humans, and do not necessarily represent any one individual’s sexual development. Everyone does not fit into a box.
• You can’t hide your bigotry behind peer-reviewed biology papers and textbooks. The actual science doesn’t support it.
• Gonochorism is not relevant to the psychosexual development of humans. It’s a term used to differentiate animals that change sexes due to environmental factors, like alligators and snails. Nobody is claiming that transgender individuals are simultaneously hermaphroditic. It’s a biological strawman argument that belies the insincerity of your argument.

In short, fuck off with your nazi bullshit.

I think the most frustrating part of living in the modern world is that we can’t trust the news at all.

Climate change is real. It is man-made. It is causing extreme weather events. People are suffering and dying as a result of our lack of ecological regulations. These are newsworthy facts, alarming and important. This storm system is evidence to support those conclusions.

None of those are included in this article.

Instead, we get click-bait fear-mongering. We get hyperbolic dramatization. The author desperately wants you to read the article, but they don’t want you to learn anything. They want to be an authority on the situation, but they want to hedge their predictions because anything can happen (or not happen) and they don’t want to look foolish.

It’s like if you lived in an apartment building, and it was on fire, and instead of an alarm or instructions telling you to vacate or call the fire department, you get an advertisement for air freshener because the smoke might really smell bad, and you should panic buy at any price because stores will run out of air freshener because all your neighbors are going to want to be prepared. Warning, inconvenience approaches! Spend some money just in case things get bad.

Fair point. I’m just saying it could be published in Well, Obviously Monthly.

Was the methodology for the study “Step 1, open eyes. Step 2, look at reality as it exists. Step 3, Document results.”

I’m really fucking tired of cleaning up after people who told me I was overreacting.

They are goading protestors to try to instigate violence.

No, it’s a tragic case of fascism going as planned.

Hasn’t Trump demonstrated that contempt of congress has no consequences?

You should know that a lot of companies engage in performative hiring processes. They post jobs and accept applications to create the appearance that they are hiring. It could be to send a message to investors, or competitors, or current employees. If you find yourself in yet another round of group interviews with potential team mates, consider that maybe you’re the show and they are the audience. “Look what we could have instead of you. Look how eager people are to work here, younger, cheaper, more qualified. We are in control of this situation.”