unsettlinglymoist @ unsettlinglymoist @lemmy.world

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Mine has trekking poles! (Colorado)

I learned about this from a can of ///Fear.Movie.Lions beer from Stone Brewing:

What 3 words pinpoint where this indelible beast was born? The location is printed on the can. There’s a 3m x 3m square in our Richmond, VA brewery with these three words painted on it. What three words? Exactly! For the uninitiated, that's What3Words.

Use them in salads!

I worked for a state government agency that had a bunch of Americorps volunteers working in our office and I became friends with most of them. They were in the office with us every day and they made $1000/month IIRC, and they were all on food stamps. Really dumb indeed to cut these people who do important work for a fraction of the cost of a salaried employee.

I worked at one of these places in the US, they absolutely do exist. It was a free "market" stocked daily with produce, meat and a huge assortment of food products and our "shoppers" pushed carts around our market and picked whatever they wanted off the shelves.

I agree with your main point though, shit is fucked and things aren't getting better and our political system is broken beyond repair.

Not really, my car was a mess! At least nothing was missing though.

I do the exact same thing, except instead of paying monthly for hosting, I pay $12/year for addy.io. Super reliable service and I can easily manage my email aliases with their phone app.

Haha, they just told me in a normal voice, but obviously I had to play along if I wanted to get back into the country. The experience was a bit dramatic, like something from TV, but it wasn't actually scary because I had nothing to hide. They also asked if I had anything in my car they should know about, so I said I had a stash of liquor and explained that I was moving and wanted to bring my booze -- but they didn't care and didn't touch my alcohol.

I was moving from Alaska to Boston, so I had to pass through Canada. Everything I owned was crammed into my Honda Element and I was driving it solo across North America.

I re-entered the US at a border crossing in North Dakota. I pulled up to the window and without saying anything else the officer pointed at a detached garage and told me to pull into it. As I slowly pulled into the garage, there was only enough light to see the outlines of the walls. When I turned off my car, super bright lights were switched on and I saw 6-8 heavily armed border officers with bulletproof vests on either side of the car. One of them instructed me to get out of the car and give him my keys. He also took my passport and took me into a small room in the garage that had 1-way mirrors (so they could observe me and I couldn't see out) and then he locked me inside. There was nothing inside the room except a few folding plastic chairs -- nothing to read and nothing to look at, nothing aesthetically pleasing at all. I could hear them going through my car, removing my plastic totes full of shit and searching through them. After what was probably 20 minutes, they opened the door, handed me my keys and passport and told me, "You're free to go, welcome home."

Done! Wouldn't have bothered voting if I hadn't read your comment, so thanks for sharing. Voting was really easy, just had to enter my member number and zip code.

Good question, but we pay close attention to the news and hopefully we'll get out before that's a problem. If we're unable to leave the country then I guess I'd contact the Swedish embassy to see if they can help.

Chile. Maybe it's because I'm American but nobody there was interested in talking to me, sharing their culture or learning anything about me. I tried multiple times but all my interactions with Chileans were purely transactional and most of them seemed annoyed to have to deal with me. I've been to ~25 countries and wouldn't bother returning to Chile.

I've never understood the appeal of Target. There's a huge Target 60 seconds down the street from me and I never shop there except to get one or two items. It's expensive, has a ridiculously small grocery section while clothing takes up half the store, and they're so worried about shoplifters that they have multiple security staff standing at the door giving everyone leaving the stink eye.

Not preparing at all, just living my life like normal. When things get really bad here I'll sell my car and move to Europe with my girlfriend (I have dual citizenship and can sponsor her).

I suppose this qualifies as an unpopular opinion, but it's some of the most cringeworthy pseudo-intellectual garbage I've ever read.

You view nature as useless and hostile, but you ignore its most basic undeniable benefits -- food, oxygen production, climate regulation. You view cities as clean and efficient utopias, while ignoring that they're plagued by crime, air pollution, industrial waste, disease outbreaks, noise, social isolation, and the urban heat island effect. Your preference for steel and concrete over living ecosystems doesn't change the fact that those ecosystems keep you alive.

You identify as an anarchist (lol, of course you do) but you admire "Soviet tech optimism" which was based on central planning, state control and authoritarianism. You argue in favor of neoliberalism which is directly opposed to anarchism. You claim to be anti-degrowth and pro-sustainability, yet degrowth promotes sustainable technology. Your political viewpoints are a confused, incoherent mess and maybe someone more knowledgeable than me in that area will take the time to point out your other contradictory statements and misrepresentations.

You don't consider what happens if most plant and animal species die, or its devastating effects on food production, the climate and human survival. None of that matters to you because your worldview doesn't extend beyond your home and wifi network. Of course the fact that billions of people find comfort and purpose in nature is incomprehensible to someone like you whose life is devoid of meaning.

Your "meat flesh prison" comments are especially pathetic considering that all human experience (including your miserable urban-online existence) is mediated by biology. You can delude yourself into believing you're above the disorder of the natural world, but you still rely on the very biological processes you claim to despise.

This is an embarrassingly bad take and you come across as someone incapable of forming real human connections. Most of the rest of us will be out embracing the chaos, beauty and unpredictability of the real world while you wither away, unhappy and unfulfilled, in the sterile prison you've created for yourself.

Haha yeah that's a tough one! I'm in Colorado where Colorado potatoes are almost as ubiquitous as Idaho potatoes, so honestly lucked out there.

As an American mine is Europe/Canada > the rest of the developed world OR blue states > Mexico > other countries > red states. It's surprisingly easy to avoid food from red states. For tech/online services I prefer European over everywhere else.

Every day those of us who voted against this shit are horrified reading the news. Before the election we warned everyone who would listen that a second Trump administration would be the end of this country as we know it. MAGA is well on their way to realizing Project 2025 and our institutions and leaders that were supposed to protect us have completely failed us.

MAGA will continue destroying our institutions, they'll start disappearing more political opponents and they'll keep threatening the countries that were once our closest friends. Things will only get worse and a lot more violent. Most Americans won't fully realize what's happening because our media is controlled by MAGA billionaires and over the past half century conservatives have successfully dismantled public education to the point where half of Americans are too stupid to be able to distinguish between facts and opinions.

And yet so far nothing has really changed for the vast majority of Americans, their day-to-day lives remain the same and things more or less function as they always have. They're comfortable enough that they're not going to risk their life or imprisonment to rise up against this fascist regime, if they're even aware of what's happening. The ones that are informed and care will attend rallies, listen to NPR and write their representatives.

So I completely understand you want to see Americans go French Revolution on MAGA, but this is the reality of the situation here. Americans are too comfortable, stupid and whipped to mount any substantial resistance to MAGA.