Jerkface (any/all) @ jerkface @lemmy.ca

My gender is my concern, but you may use any pronoun to refer to me

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They could scrape us a lot more quietly and with less impact to the network by just setting up their own Lemmy instance. It's just rude to hit ours.

NORMAN, COORDINATE

I gave up my car. I bus to clients. In our professions, we had that option. Other people in other professions and other localities don't. My partner has to be able to transport vulnerable individuals like foster children with trauma as part of their career. Obviously we could design things in such a way that there are other options, but we haven't. Sometimes people can fill in or work around those gaps. Some times, it is not possible, for example with my partner. Fuck off now, you're just being deliberately obtuse.

Yes, actually, it is. Sometimes, for some people with some perfectly ordinary ambitions, those are the only two options. It is absolutely binary.

Uber and busses are not solutions for people who need to move their clients around, for example. Even if it were remotely practical to attempt it, even if it were safe for their clients, it's simply not permitted.

If you've never run into a situation where you had to give things up because you don't have a car, that's extremely fortunate. To claim no one ever does is wildly delusional.

This is what I do. It is not a universal solution. You are sugar coating your answer by leaving out the final option that makes it universal: give up.

My partner wants to be a social worker. They are quite talented in their profession and help a lot of people. They are not a good driver and it would be better for everyone if they did not have to drive. However, you cannot do the work they do unless you own a car, have a valid license, and are willing to drive around. The choice offered to them is: drive poorly, or give up your life's ambition.

@AllNewTypeFace is exactly correct that there is a problem where we have structured society such that everyone is expected to drive, and your comment does not successfully refute that. The problem exists.

Teas contains more psychoactive ingredients than just caffeine, including some with stabilizing effects to knock down that jittery unpleasant part. Broad spectrum stimulants are better than straight caffeine.

It's not about the reality of defending yourself from tyranny with homicide. It's about the psychological comfort that the warped fantasy brings.

They are mad because when they were children, their daddy was mad at Trudeau.

Every generation of Americans decide they want their President to be a bit more like the king that they rebelled from.

Needlessly speciesist but it's a good start

Honestly, decent people are so rare, one cannot afford to be fussy about appearance. Fortunately, ethical compatibility is VERY attractive.

Appearance is never a sufficient factor on its own, but in my own case appearance, I wouldn't consider it a disqualifying factor. Though me a few years ago wouldn't have to try as hard, for sure...

I get that you are laying down some technical language on us, but a tall pan is a pot in common English. Oil pans, bed pans, evaporating pans, gold pans, etc all use "pan" to describe that they are shallow vessels, significantly wider than tall. You can't "pan for" a heavy particle in a "tall pan" because it's not functionally a pan; a tall pan is a contradiction.

I would describe a sauce pan as a "culinary pan" but an actual pot, like how a tomato is a culinary vegetable but an actual fruit.

Not at all.

politics, values, and kinks are way more important than appearance

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OTOH if you have to ask, then a couple possibilities need to be considered. Maybe they are already so well appointed, a twenty dollar trinket is just a waste of our planet's dwindling resources. Maybe you know them so poorly, it really isn't appropriate to be buying them a gift in the first place.

What we all want for our birthday is to feel like we are special to the people in our lives. That they know us, care about us, and wish us well. That's not the sort of thing you can ask for; if you have to ask, it devalues it tremendously. We can all buy stuff for ourselves. Asking what they want and then buying it for them rather defeats the point of a birthday gift between two adult peers; its the sort of thing a parent does for a child, because a child only cares about getting stuff.

So we agree one is preferable to the other

There is no stigma that I am aware of.

They also forgot to teach you how to be frugal