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  • I found an open source replacement for Lightroom that finally worked (others I tried crashed loading my raws). While testing it, my subscription renewed (I can take criticism that I should have known and cancelled before renewal, but..) I then tried cancelling right after, but Adobe only gives a grace period on first purchase, not renewals. If subscription automatically charges, that money is gone.

  • I get that, but I've gone to Home Depot to buy something expensive(in room ac), listed on their site as available, only to find none when I got there. I wouldn't want to pay parking for what amounts to false advertising.

  • Could it be a result of not liking other loud sounds? Loud music, concerts, loud crowded places, headphones played too loud etc all can damage your upper range hearing, and iirc many on the spectrum do not enjoy loud stumuli.

  • My motivator to get out of bed is not getting fired and feeding the cat. I seldom drink coffee. Made well I enjoy the taste, but it's ever been good at keeping me awake or making me productive.

  • 401ks are invested. People losing their retirement funds. I personally don't have any because I had to use mine up last time I was between jobs for a year, but many innocent people who aren't rich and voted against Trump are being hurt as well.

  • Gonna need you to define "that" in "that money.” If you mean government programs, much of those were defunded back in the Reagan admin. While institutions back then did need broad changes, their removal without a suitable replacement vastly increased the homelessness issue.

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  • There are definitely some like that. The American system has a number of tricks to try to force people to do what they like as well though. Poverty, over policing of minorities, lack of social safety nets etc can cause people who grew up barely avoiding prison choosing military thinking the only choices they have are death or military, shoved at them when they're too young to really know the world. Add education that specifically avoids or lies about what US actually does overseas, plus a bunch of jingoistic propaganda making being a soldier appear to be a respectable profession.

    I grew up in a cult that avoided military so I never had those feelings myself, so I got to watch it from the outside, and even the pledge of allegiance every morning was weird jingoistic programming from early ages. It can be difficult to see past that at 17. I'm not saying they don't deserve any punishment, but I do disagree with the idea that every single one wanted to kill people.

  • Honestly most do not. Plenty of parking lots I go to (mostly supermarkets) don't have these and people park fine, 90% of the time. People do take advantage and drive across when leaving and entering sometimes, but usually that isn't an issue either

    On the other hand,I still remember trying to go to the movies with friends in a busy shopping plaza and some asshole with huge tires on his truck parked in a way that took up 4 whole parking spaces. I wanted to key up the truck. I wanted super powers that would let me move it to the lake, upside-down. That was like 12-15 years ago and it still makes me irrationally angry a bit.

    I doubt these would have stopped that particular truck, but like many seemingly dumb rules, they aren't for the majority. They're for the occasional asshole who refuses to abide by the social construct. America certainly panders to those with the whole focus on individualism, but it hardly has a monopoly.

  • That works much less in an interconnected world (part of why they hate globalism). There are other countries keeping tabs as well. It's also why we know of the many atrocities committed by the US worldwide. They can try and hide what they can, but it's much harder these days.