SwingingTheLamp @ SwingingTheLamp @midwest.social

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I've seen quince cider made in the U.S., but I'm guessing it's all hard cider?

For what it's worth, Blue Moon and Shiner Bock are mid-tier.

No hate, but they all lack a flavourful taste.

Wat?

We're gonna need some names here, so we can evaluate this take.

Compare the situation to all the noise and outrage, but nobody shows up.

Given those conditions, everybody drives the speed of the slowest driver.

And what will not doing it accomplish?

Exactly, he's too dumb and egotistical. That's why I worry about the puppeteers who are intelligent enough to stay out of the spotlight.

He's a puppet at this point. President Leon is pretty visibly in charge, and I shudder to think about the smart puppeteers who are staying in the shadows.

There's still an NTSB?

(Not sure if serious.)

If that's true, then it would be a good idea to have everybody converge on a particular speed. It doesn't seem practical to negotiate that speed amongst a constantly-changing set of drivers, it probably needs to be chosen in advance. That seems like a natural function of government, to choose the consensus speed through a process designed to represent everybody in the community.

To communicate to drivers entering the roadway this consensus speed which everybody must travel at—for safety—the government could, say, post it on signs located along the roadside.

But that's probably just a ridiculous fantasy. How then should all drivers negotiate the consensus speed to ensure safety?

Hillary Clinton won the popular vote.

Hard to say. I see women out walking alone at night all the time in my city, at least a handful just past my house every evening. (It's a university town.) I passed one woman happily chatting on her phone, and oblivious to the world, while riding home tonight after dark. The last time anyone was attacked by a stranger was, I dunno? It definitely happens, but it's years between instances. They'd probably be safer in the late night hours, with hardly any car traffic. A lot more people get killed by cars.

They do on CSI.

That's called an infix, like a prefix or suffix, but, y'know, in. Some other languages use them often, but it's just a few fun examples in English.

This is another one. "Anymore" only works when paired with a negative, like: Idiocracy is not fiction, anymore.

Imagine if you asked whether the store has AA batteries, and the clerk says, "We have anymore." In contrast, "we don't have anymore" works.

I hear ya. I just wanted to provide an example in which social norms lead people to do the right thing.

It would, but it'd be a poor political tactic, because the idea is to make your issue/position cognitively sticky, that is, make people remember it involuntarily. All of the engagement around flashing would be "huhuhuhuhuh boobs," and nobody would talk about or remember the actual issue.

If you want a happier example, there's the trash in Wisconsin state parks. The Dept. of Natural Resources used to place trash receptacles in our state parks, and haul the trash away. That worked, people put their trash in the bins, because that's the social expectation.

But the DNR lacked the staff to keep up with the trash. Sometimes animals would get in and spread trash around, but mostly, people would pile trash on or around cans and dumpsters after they'd filled up. If that's where you put your trash, that's where you put your trash, right?

So, the DNR simply stopped putting trash receptacles in the parks altogether, and announced that you'd have to pack your own trash out. And it worked! Without a socially-sanctioned place to deposit trash in the park, people pack it out. (Mostly. Humans are still essentially animals, so various detritus gets dropped, but no garbage bags full of food scraps left on the ground for the raccoons.)

Aisle. As much as I would love to take a boat to the breakfast food isle (a.k.a. island), I'm pretty sure that I need to look in the breakfast aisle at the grocery store.

The economic angle has been tried to death

It really, really hasn’t lol.

Price of eggs.

I'd love to make good on that guarantee, but we would've needed somebody with a national media platform to phrase it that way, not some nobody on Lemmy like me. The past is the past, but the time to figure out how to frame the issues with the next fascist in line is now.