neuracnu @ neuracnu @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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I live in the residential area within the limits of a large US city.

    
To the nearest convenience store: 0.9 km
To the nearest chain supermarket: 2.6 km
To the bus stop: 0.3 km
To the nearest park: 0.8 km
To the nearest big supermarket: 3.1 km
To the nearest library: 2.7 km
To the nearest train station: 2.9 km

  

And I'd argue that these numbers are remarkably good for people in my situation as well.

I spotted a documentary that addresses the language issue at a tangential level that I put in the trailers community earlier last week…

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/16657105

It is utterly atrocious that McSweenys had to assemble this list before any actual news outlet.

I choose to interpret this as even prominent Republicans are now willing to admit that trans people are hottt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon

The panopticon is a design of institutional building with an inbuilt system of control, originated by the English philosopher and social theorist Jeremy Bentham in the 18th century. The concept is to allow all prisoners of an institution to be observed by a single corrections officer, without the inmates knowing whether or not they are being watched.

Although it is physically impossible for the single guard to observe all the inmates' cells at once, the fact that the inmates cannot know when they are being watched motivates them to act as though they are all being watched at all times. They are effectively compelled to self-regulation. The architecture consists of a rotunda with an inspection house at its centre. From the centre, the manager or staff are able to watch the inmates. Bentham conceived the basic plan as being equally applicable to hospitals, schools, sanatoriums, and asylums. He devoted most of his efforts to developing a design for a panopticon prison, so the term now usually refers to that.

Or dropping the first “r” and being blinded by ska porn.

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I’m going to keep pointing this out until it becomes a part of the narrative.

The strategy of prominent Republicans flipping to vote for Harris is specifically designed to help Republicans win Congress.

If Republican voters are demoralized by the prospect of Trump, a lot are going to just stay home and not vote at all. That would lead to a Democratic electoral sweep.

Cheney, George Will and other Republican ghouls’ best option to avoid this is to give permission to their voting base to toss their Presidential vote to Harris, but also get them into the polls so they can be reliable Republican voters down the ticket and try to keep the House and take the Senate.

FFS, quit giving the enemy oxygen.

I genuinely expected this to be a metaphor for foreign drug prices or agricultural rights. But nope, just angry farmers all the way down.

This is going to absolutely wreck Temu, SHEIN, aliexpress and an a gaggle of Amazon sellers.

Trained for years on Skyline 3-Ways.

Still unemployed here, applying for jobs that I’m well-qualified for, being rejected without an interview and watching those listing reappear on job sites on a weekly basis.

Dr Steve Brule, for your shoulder health…!

You know, nitrous oxide canisters are kinda peg-shaped...

I'm curious about the speed variations of the spinning circular piece (positioned to act as the violins' bow).

On the bright side, all these companies walking away from DEI policies make the Corporate Equity Index’s lists a lot more useful for folks who want to vote with their wallet.

For a while it felt like having a company’s name on the list was perfunctory, which makes it unremarkable.

Doing the right thing before/after it being popular is remarkable, and worthy of my patronage.

Un-paywalled, archived link: https://archive.ph/3x5lj

A video sponsored by a housing developer, suggesting that the real problem with the cost of housing is high taxes and the pesky nay-saying public.

They also never mention the high and increasing vacancy rate of newly built luxury housing. Just trust us! Rich people will move in soon!

Just across the border from Vancouver, the Seattle Housing Authority is rebuilding modern apartment complexes that are actually intended for low income, disabled and first-gen immigrant residents, not luxury condos that some theoretical rich person maybe might buy someday.

I’m sharing a screenshot of the two together as “how it started / how it’s going”.

http://mltshp.com/p/1QB3B

Oh how far we've come...

https://theonion.com/what-biden-can-do-to-win-over-gen-z-1851427528/5/

The artist is SpookToons ( https://spooktoons.carrd.co/ ), and here's the link to their original BlueSky post for the image: https://bsky.app/profile/spooktoons.bsky.social/post/3kyjhptojhe2h