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Depends on the instance. Looks like you're on .ee like me, and AFAICT, .ee has a lower file size limit than some other instances. Which, tbh, I get it. Shit gets expensive fast.

Yeah, I mean, if taking over a social media platform and directly boosting Nazis on it, throwing a very public Sieg Hiel twice on national TV and directly financially sponsoring the AfD (new Nazi party) as well as the global alt right makes you a Nazi, then you could practically call anyone a Nazi, right?

RIP

Tbh, that was part of the appeal. You accidentally download the wrong thing and your computer throws an error message that you never get to read because it shuts down too quick and you know you fucked up. I can't explain it, but the danger was part of the fun.

I'm a millennial who's old enough to remember those days. It's an absolutely huge difference, though at least if you're expecting a phone call, you don't have to scuttle your whole day sitting by the landline.

Best of luck with this. Would you guys find it helpful if you had more GH contributors?

I really don't think either of those facts mattered to dad. I think what matters is the reality that police are so rarely held accountable in even those cut and dry cases that there is no perception of justice at all.

I have never once regretted leaving Oklahoma. The chief exports of that state are obesity and alcoholism. This is just them trying to get noticed by senpai, somebody wants a position in the administration.

This is the kind of thing people do when they fully believe that there is no path to justice. If we ever held cops accountable, this wouldn't have happened.

Always has been.

https://actionlab.strongtowns.org/hc/en-us/categories/360004233911-Local-Conversations

You are not required to be a member to start a chapter, and from all that I've seen, they're very supportive of you send an email asking for guidance. I would start by going to local city councils or board of supervisor meetings, put flyers up at the library and small coffee shops or anywhere else you can put up flyers, and start holding regular meetings at least once a month

Yeah, do it! Speaking from personal experience, it can be a little scary at first, but it's not even a tenth as bad as you think. It's actually a surprisingly social experience.

Don't take fascists at their word. They're lying to you, they don't believe it was fake, they want you to doubt it and cede ground. Don't engage with them, they're operating in bad faith

Ah. Well, the problem is that we've made building new housing units nearly impossible through decades of unforced errors at the local level in nearly all of our cities, as well as bullshit ass zoning. It's not even remotely impossible to undo, but a lot of people don't recognize it as the root of the problem. Again, check out Strong Towns, we're working to walk these errors back and make our cities places that are built for people again.

• With regards to zoning, nobody in their right mind is asking to let DuPont put a rocket fuel factory next to an elementary school. Many zoning codes have really terrible and not evidence based practices codified, such as enforcing single family housing sprawl, ensuring that you MUST drive to go buy a loaf of bread, and requiring outrageous parking requirements often 2-3x over what's needed in practice.

Check out Strong Towns. They're a policy advocacy group that's focused on helping people influence policy at the local level to make their towns livable again. I'm a part of my local strong towns group, and they're absolutely great. We're getting the ball rolling, organizing with other local activist groups, meeting with local politicians to understand our local challenges better, and all while receiving a lot of support from the mother ship organization. Meanwhile, our town isn't some metropolis, it's only 90,000 people.

If that isn't your thing, just start going to city council or county board of supervisor meetings and start making public comments there. It's a good way to meet with other policy advocates in your community and start networking with them.

Upvoted for Alan Fischer reference in the wild. His bits go so much harder than pretty much anyone else in urbanist youtube

As a former paramedic, this profile pic makes my back hurt

Everything that they said would come true under communism has come true under capitalism

Quora-ass question right here

I'd be one of those old school naturalists and just, like, go live in a swamp for three years with one pair of clothes, a cot, a journal, and a pencil.