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Literally watched the man’s will to live leave his body when I started taking about d&d.

He's probably old school and plays or 3rd edition rules. He just couldn't stand hearing you blaspheme his game.

I’ve never felt like I’ve been able to “afford” a vacation in my entire adult life.

I'm interested in this thread of conversation if you're willing. If not, no worries.

You have a vision of a vacation in your mind. How much does that theoretical vacation cost? We can even put upper and lower bounds on it. What dollar figure do you think you'd need for the entire vacation (travel, lodging, food, expenses)?

When you remove the "landlords" from your statement, the tourist blame doesn't make much sense:

Think about it: who are all these tourists [snip], and why are they able to afford to outcompete the locals for the properties in the first place?

Because a tourist only need the housing for a few days at exorbitant prices and the locals need it for 365 days?

Eventually, when our numbers will grow significantly, you won’t be able to distinguish this place from Reddit.

You will always be able to distinguish this place from Reddit. There are no ads or "sponsored" posts here on Lemmy.

I have no interest in interacting with the "Phobiafinder 5000". 😀

Another vote for Bosch.

BTW, you know you're old when you get excited about dishwasher features. I accept I'm old now.

If you can get a higher end 800 series, it has two really cool features: Crystal Dry and Eco mode

You know those silica desiccant pouches that get shipped in everything from our electronics to our beef jerky? Just by being exposed to air, the crystals absorb water. You can even reuse the crystals if you heat them and the water evaporates out. The Bosch 800 series has a large container of these type of crystals (Zeolite) in the back of the unit.

During the heating step, the container is opened allowing the hot moisture to escape. The container then closes, and the wet washing cycle begins. After the dishes are all clean, the container opens again, and the hot wet air inside the dishwasher is pushed through the desiccant container. Because its a closed system, all the water in the air and on the dishes is absorbed by the desiccant and they are bone dry ready to be put away! The desiccant lasts decades so its not like a wearable part.

This feature used to be only available on the high end Thermador Sapphire dishwashers costing a minimum of $2000. A few years ago Bosch allowed this feature in their high end models, the 800 series.

Another feature the 800 series has is "Eco mode", which saves a lot of water and energy at the cost of a longer dishwasher cycle. Instead of using a 6 gallons of water and a huge amount of electricity to heat the water super hot (for most effective quick washing), it uses only 2.4 gallons of water and half the electricity not heating the water as much, but using that water for much longer cleaning to get the same cleaning in the end. A Eco cycle runs for about 2 hours (which the unit is crazy quiet too). The run time doesn't bother me a bit because I usually start or schedule the dishwasher to run when I'm not in the kitchen anyway. Also yes, you can run Eco mode and have it finish with Crystal Dry.

Isn't this an admission that immigrants, yes even undocumented ones, are a key critical piece in our economy? That getting rid of them hurts those that are not immigrants too? Most importantly, our way of life which we so enjoy cannot exist if they are not a part of it. Immigrants are not our enemies, as we are also a nation of immigrants.

The only difference between a tyrant and a leader of any free people are their ideals. Their strength of character - or at least the illusion of one, their ability to subvert or gain power and influence, their control, as with many conflicts these are sides of the same coin, branches from the same tree.

No. Both of those are tyrants. When you actively suppress the one sides ability to have representation and at least a vote to the running of the country, you are a tyrant.

Because of this if we are to stop the advance of fascism in this country now we must be willing to step up and utilize the very powers granted throughout the years to people in power.

Also no. I will NOT become authoritarian to fight a different brand of authoritarianism.

History has shown that fascism is defeated every. single. time. through unity.

I agree, what you're describing is FAR from unity. Its the exact opposite.

Here's where I think your plan is extremely shortsighted. You haven't thought through your endgame.

Lets say you do your power grab. Lets also say you enact all of the progressive policies you want. Okay, now what? Peace in our time? Not likely. You've just stomped over the views and opinions of half the country. Those folks aren't going to just idly stand by once you've achieved you goal anymore than you would if the MAGAts get what they want.

So, what then? How do you keep the MAGAts, who are now furious you suspended our democracy to get your way, from rising up against you? Are you going to build an suppressive police force to keep them in check? Will you jail them? With you execute them? Are you ever planning on giving them back representation in government that you took with your gerrymandering? What if they start voting in MAGAts again? Will you crush them again to restore your 'peace'? Congratulations, you're a tyrant worse than any MAGAt has been yet.

This is why your plan won't work. You can't force people into submission. The only way we'll have lasting unity is if most people are onboard with the path forward. I can't tell you what its going to take to get there, but I can tell you your plan isn't it.

I like the concept of Eldritch horror that it is so fearful and alien that its impossible to describe in terms that could make you feel it. The most that words could do would give a view of the shadow of it instead of the horror itself. To finally understand the horror requires surrendering your sanity. If nothing else its a great literary tool.

Except the only ones talking about overthrowing the Government in coup attempts are the MAGA

Not according to them. Thats what they claim Jan 6th was about. Now, you and I both know they're wrong, but they didn't think so. They could use your exact words to justify what they did. Consider just how confident you are talking now about your position, your political beliefs, and what rights and freedoms you're willing to subvert of theirs to get your way. This is exactly the MAGAt mindset. You're this close to be a MAGAt level person with a different color hat.

That is the danger of that approach. To defeat the tyrant you want to become one.

and all the other things progressives want, then they would still be the good guys.

There's the problem. Thats what the MAGAts tell themselves too.

Let’s happily fight fire with fire and once we win it all make it so it could never easily happen again

Your strategy is "to defeat the horrible enemy, we must become equally horrible as the enemy"?

There are going to be lots of things ahead of you in life that are going to be difficult, uncomfortable, and yes even sometimes dangerous. A number of these things will not be optional. Life will just do them to you, and you'll have to deal with the fallout. Its an important life skill to be able to navigate these type of situations, and also know how to build yourself back up when they happen. You will need this going forward. Also, as you master difficult things, your skills become better at identifying risks, and building mitigation strategies.

Example:

I had a pretty bad car accident due to failing to yield the right of way (I struggle with multitasking)

Knowing this, you can and should change your driving environment. What were these other distractions?

• Radio? New rule, you simply don't listen to anything while driving
• Talking with your passenger? (you mentioned your boyfriend so I assume he was there) New rule, no talking while you're driving. If your passenger doesn't like that, then they can drive and talk to you when you're the passenger
• Phone? New rule, phone goes on DND when you're driving.

As you get more confident you could remove some of these rules. Further, you can improve how you prioritize while driving. My wife and I follow the login that airplane pilots do and it helps:

Aviate, Navigate, Communicate

"'Aviate, Navigate, Communicate' is a phrase widely taught to aircraft pilots, to remind them of priorities during an emergency. The first priority is to keep the aircraft flying, avoiding undesired aircraft states and controlled flight into terrain. Next the pilot should verify their location and navigate towards a suitable destination. Communication with air traffic control, while important, is a lower priority"

source

If I'm overloaded with stimulus while driving with my wife and trying to negotiate traffic I just need to say "Aviating" and she knows that means to stop talking/distracting because I'm close to my limit. If I'm in an unfamiliar place reading street signs while driving and say "Navigating" she understands that, and many times can just tell me "don't turn left here, but take the next left". I do the same for her. Once the needed extra attention has passed, the driver can communicate that and say "okay where were we?".

So to answer your question, should you give up entirely? I would recommend not giving up yet. Get back in and learn what you need to change about yourself/your environment and develop the strategies to master it. If after that you can drive without fear, and simply don't like it and prefer other modes of transportation, sure, stop driving entirely.

This is one difficult thing life has handed to you that can opt out of, but if you do now, you'll lose the education on how to navigate the next one that isn't optional which will make it that much hard.

I don't disagree with you on that point.

Republicans have been doing this as a whole and they get a free pass.

I'm still not willing to let it slide, just because its my side. Let the conviction stand.

What is their documented legal definition of the length of "temporarily detain"?

"Any temporary detention ends immediately when the individual(s) can be safely transferred to the custody of appropriate civilian law enforcement personnel," a spokesperson said.

Coming soon:

"Day 3650, we'll transfer you to an appropriate civilian law enforcement personnel soon, prisoner."

Look’s ps’d to make him look a lot less fat, with far squarer shoulders.

Oh, good call! I never imaged he'd be so fragile to resort to photo editing.

Apparently he decided he needed some gender affirming photo edits to look more like his preferred gender.

Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey warned in a press conference Thursday that if any protesters “throw a brick, a firebomb, or point a gun,” they will be killed.

So Sheriff Wayne is planning on performing extra-judicial executions? Sheriff Wayne looks in the mirror and sees this:

Except he actually looks like this: