kerrigan778 @ kerrigan778 @lemmy.world

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Lol I'm sorry, I blame autocorrect but maybe just me being a dummy. I talk about the brand (and river) a lot more often than the country in my daily life.

Uh... Colombia??? Kind of a biggie to leave out!

*Edit, I'm sorry, I live next to the river, I'm used to spelling the name Columbia because we insisted on spelling his name wrong in the US whereas they kept the Italian spelling in South America, he was still a genocidal asshole who could not have discovered a place that already had inhabitants but also was not even the first European to go there though, maybe we shouldn't name anything after him though technically the river is named after a ship which was named after the person.

For real though, cars feel big and we aren't equipped to understand speeds above like 25 mph. It's easy to think that in a standard sized car there is only like a foot or two on either side of your car and the other lanes and that each of those dashed lines on the pavement are just a couple feet long. In reality almost all cars and standard duty trucks and vans are less than 7 feet wide, most are closer to 6 and the lane itself is 12 feet wide. Each of those dashed lines is 10 feet long and twenty feet separates each line.

In more ways than one.

Would you prefer it if all those high pressure water pumps were directly underneath the ground, one shovel away?

Pretty sure most homemade consumer computers are installing Windows. 70/30 tops.

(Maybe up to 50/50 if you don't count professionally built custom PCs)

Yeah, it's just called bombing, one way or another you'll get your antidepressants paid for.

Completely irrelevant. Single payer healthcare costs less than our current system. We can't have healthcare reform not because we fund other causes but because the political power of those who benefit from a corrupt privatized healthcare system is too strong.

‘No Business Which Depends for Existence on Paying Less Than Living Wages to Its Workers Has Any Right to Continue in This Country’

Yeah but the buck doesn't stop at the local PD, if the local PD aren't handling their end of things properly it's the secret services job to notice that, and either correct it themselves or not let the person they're protecting go out in an improperly secured area.

Psh, you had to Google to know that? You never found out for yourself? Kids these days.

I started using complex fiber supplements (as in whole dried ground foods with multiple sources and types of fiber) about a month ago, honestly life changing, cannot recommend enough.

This is pretty fundamental trolley problem stuff. If one choice kills 10 million and the other choice kills 5 million but protects the other 5 million, you refusing to participate entirely isn't a noble stand, it's saying you don't give a shit about the other 5 million.

I care too much about these vulnerable people to help these other vulnerable people while not actually helping the other vulnerable people is just being an idiot.

It's an olympic sport?

It must be so freeing to live a life so simple and ignorant that you think your little world can be zero harm and morally perfect while living a lifestyle that would be remotely sustainable for the world. The world is a big and scary place and a democracy is made up of a myriad of perspectives on the world. We all do the best we can with the choices we have. To pretend that we can accomplish anything by refusing to participate in an imperfect system is absurd fantasy.

By all means protest, organize etc toward noble goals. But don't act like "both candidates bad, myeh" is a real stance.

Dude fuck off, I'm sorry but there is no viable "tell Israel to get fucked" candidate. Biden isn't bombing Gaza personally, the US military isn't bombing Gaza. The GOP has showed they staunchly want to see it escalate and wipe Gaza off the map completely, this is a holy proxy war for them. Israel and its genocide has overwhelming support in US politics. None of this makes it right, but it does make it not a relevant issue in this presidential race.

You don't pick a candidate that shares every belief and opinion as you. You vote for the candidate which will do the least harm and the most good and only the frontrunners count as candidates and you know it.

This does not qualify as political news.

That's where you're wrong though, it's a statement a lot of really weird people give a massive shit about.

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