njordomir @ njordomir @lemmy.world

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Echoing the outside thing. I love to sit on a deck chatting with friends on a warm summer night. There are some biking trails with minimal street crossings nearby that make for a great late night stress-relief ride with or without a friend. I have met a lot of snowboard/stoner/skater bros late at night on trails. Find an abandoned bridge or other public infrastructure and watch the stars while munching on some 24h takeout.

Looking at the distribution of wealth, it seems like the 1% should owe a bit more reps than the 99%. Personally, I think the fairest path forward is the implementation of a universal basic income. We have the ability to feed and house everyone and eventually, we could mostly automate that process.

If you were guarantees to have the first few levels of Maslow's hierarchy of needs covered, do you think you would have an easier time building wealth, or a harder time. Personally, I feel like this would free me up to pursue things that actually benefit myself and society and do so in a meaningful way. Let's get our brothers and sisters out of the month to month (and out of poverty globally) so we can benefit from all their knowledge, skills, insights, and talents as they are no longer on the brink of despair. Let's open up the door to self-actualized progress for the 99%. No one should live like a peasant when we can easily have an abundance. If we ensure that no one gets a bonus until we've covered everyone's basics the world will be a better place. Reps paid by regular people and not multinationals and the global financial elite, to me, are just another way of pitting the poors against each other while the rich count their money and flaunt their power.

Having said that, there's a lot of racist, selfish, classist assholes at every level in the wealth pyramid.

That's despicable. :'''-(

This is the way. Do it on your phones, tablets, computers, etc., then set reminder on your to do list to check important apps once a week. My personal email can be checked one day a week and my work email when I come in, lunch, and before I leave. I don't need a popup on my phone, watch, Alexa, car, and toaster every time amazon wants me to share my experience with a product. Notifications murder my ability to focus.

I'm late to comment, so I may be typing into the void.

I understand the admin's decision to limit their exposure to legal risk. I had similar experiences as a small business owner and you would be surprised how quickly most people's idealism is tempered by the risk of potential legal action. It's totally possible to believe strongly in the legality of something and its benefit to society (in this case piracy) and still choose to limit your own legal exposure. As far as I know, none of us paid to be here, so the polite thing to do is say "thank you for hosting us" and move on if it's not your thing (or just make a second account).

I believe our current copyright/intellectual property scheme is broken at best, and designed to fuck us out of every bit of culture that has ever existed, at worst. Piracy exists because the system is broken and the industry is entrenched and refuses to adapt to customer demands. It screws music fans, artists, and probably the individual low-level employees of many music industry companies and organizations.

I keep seeing joggers in my area choosing the bike lane over the sidewalk, presumably because asphalt is softer than concrete sidewalks. If paving a ped lane next to the bike lane is what it takes to isolate these wrong-way bike-lane-jogging scufflaws, then let's just do it and be done with it. We can cannibalize a car lane to make it happen. >:-)

Waiting for this to get added to .world so I can relive the glory days.

I use Instagram on occasion because it's something almost everyone my age has and when your meeting new people, you often have to meet them where they're at (digitally). I barely touch Facebook anymore because the interface is cluttered and half the features broke and were never fixed , like searching for events. I tried Pixelfed, but after a month, only one person has liked a single photo I posted. The app itself is great.

The reason I prefer Instagram over Facebook is universality in my age group and, as you pointed out, it cuts a bunch of the crud from FB and I actually see pictures of my friends rather than a bunch of stupid disguised ads and political BS.

If you are tech-y, Nexcloud with Libreoffice or Only Office or Colabara Office are good options. You can mess around and see what works well for you. I don't know if this is universal and happens to everyone, but immediately upon finishing my first Nextcloud server, I wiped it and did it all again with my favorite settings/options.

Just be sure to backup to a few different places in case you mess something up. Taking disk snapshots can also help you roll back any screw-ups.

Disused rail lines are a RoW life raft for American cities. I cycle in a very hilly area and rail trails and trails along waterways have nicely mild grades compared to the rest of the state. Electric trams could easily co-exist with a cycle path next to them. I just hope we're smart enough to recognize these chunks of land as a gift from the past and not give them up or develop them inappropriately (aka freeway expansions)

This even dumber than accidentally making a bad product.

Good to see assholedesign here. Ya'll really lived your values by moving here and I hope it leads to great things.

To be fair, there is safety in numbers and consequently I also see a benefit to combining them. I'm a dude, and I would rather walk down a busy pedestrian mall than a sketchy half-empty street or an urban trail on a moonless night.

Same thing with bathrooms. I imagine women feel better in a bathroom where other women and other people are present and aware, vs a nearly empty bathroom where a creep could walk in and isolate them at any moment. I've been to places with large unisex bathrooms (hot springs, spas, etc.) and there's enough people in there that no one is gonna try anything stupid/inappropriate without being immediately noticed. Bathroom troublemakers are a small subset of the universally large group of people who have to use the restroom anyway.

I only support gender-segregated bathrooms because I don't want a bunch of chicks clogging up the mensroom with their slow pissing/shitting/bloody paper towels on the floor. :D I am unreasonable and self-centered, but anyone who has ever been to a concert knows which line is longer.

This was at work a few years ago. I don't use windows at home. But thank you for providing those recommendations. Hopefully a fellow Lemming will find them useful!

Potentially, and Ive also seen it used for ads. The first time Spotify noticed me mute my system and paused the ad, I became enraged. Its's a step too far. Luckily with external speakers I can just mute at the speaker level instead.

I'm imaginging you emulating a bunch of retro win10 games on your future-pc 30 years from now. Smart way of doing it though: why pay of the DRM version when you can actually own the game?

For me personally, having 5-10 of everything is good. I find what I like the best and you find what you like best. It can make extra work, but if you subtract out all the time I'd spend fighting the windows UI or looking at ads and "recommended content", I think we may actually come out on the better end of things.