lindseymysse

At least one of the men who chemically balded me is a policeman now, the principal who oversaw it got a cushy job with the catholic diocese that abused hundreds (thousands?) of kids, his daughter got a sinecure with the same church.

There are predators who are principals and pastors who are allowed to prey on our children with impunity, and if they speak up they are maimed for life. When are we going to start taking this seriously?

Men's pain should be recognized and not minimized.

It is about marking you as subservient. If you read anything about Evangelical Christian culture the single worst sin you can ever commit is demanding your autonomy. This grievous violation of our bodies is used to induce us into servitude. I reject the marks this wicked culture has given me.

If you read anything about modern evangelical thought the single worst thing a child could demand is their autonomy, and well, anyway, every time I look in the mirror right-wing America gets to kick me in the face again.

Wicked culture, all of it.

There is also this: https://geoff.greer.fm/2019/03/04/thinkpad-x210/

Which seems interesting, but the MNT seems like the better long-term option.

Thanks for the tip, I'm interested!

I don't understand why people tolerate crappy keyboards on their laptops for the sake of their laptops getting thinner and thinner (and don't get me started on the clicky, insect-like sound of the Macintosh butterfly keys). Why is a more thin laptop more desirable than one that is enjoyable to type on?

The other option, however -- the Alien wares with mechanical keyboards have a video-gamer do-the-dew aesthetic that I would be embarrassed to walk into an office with.

I spend 8 hours a day typing, the tactile sensation is a vital part of enjoying it.

My kingdom for a modern laptop with a keyboard that is an inch thick, anonymous-box with a good keyboard that is repairable and upgradable.

I hope the frame.work laptop can provide a version with an excellent mechanical keyboard soon.

Raj Patel estimates that the true cost of a Big Mac is $200: https://www.sfgate.com/books/article/The-Value-of-Nothing-by...

Nuclear Energy powered electric cars only cuts emissions by about 50%, we need a lot more than that. You have an easy solution to a complex problem -- you're as bad as any activist you're bad mouthing now.

I personally blame the status quo, and think that if fewer people had stayed home and let things be we would be a far better position.

Your politics say sit at home and let the world end -- I have never and will never do that. I'm an activist in every part of my life.

My timeline is that it is too expensive and full of forms for me to go talk to my doctor. And I have to keep answering the same questions to my doctor about my allergies over and over and over anyway.

I think all this paper work helps a parasitic managerial class, but I've never seen it help me.

This means we keep fewer, more important records on paper.

This requires rethinking management which, lets be honest, needs to happen anyway.

I was having asthma and went to the doctor in Cassis France. To get a ventolin inhaler and a round of prednisone only took two forms -- one at the doctor and the prescription -- and about $70 dollars.

I look at the reams of documents Kaiser generates anyway, virtual and real even though I'm "paperless" and I wonder how much of the expense of my health care goes into schlepping all these documents around.

There is a book by Derrida called Archive Fever that I read when I was a temp and I always think about the quote in it: "the archivist generates more archive, and so the archive is never closed"

Maybe we need that big hack to finally take away the bottle. We don't have to record everything forever, and digital technology is bad at it, anyway.

This seems like a anthropocentric view of the world. Planets moved immense distances, there were generation after generation of bacteria, mountains rose up and crumbled, seas were made and disappeared again.

A lot happened before we showed up. A lot will happen after we're gone, also.

It seems a lot of the items trend toward "cute", and not much "functionality". For instance, a drawing of Pennywise from it, but only the Tesla Semi.

If they got a full suite of transport models I would definitely get a subscription, at least for a month.

But, I'm probably just going to use use sketchup or blender to generate my own suite of measured assets for my use. They won't be nearly as beautiful.

But if they go more functional I can see this being as useful as The Noun Project for assets: https://thenounproject.com/

This guy thinks the Big Mac should cost $200

Then we could have incentives -- hey, go to this mosque, not that one and we'll pay you $20 more a week.

It would be cheaper than what we do now and would be a lot more effective than dropping bombs on wedding parties.

The predators in the elementary school are allowed to prey. While I don't want to discount how bad things were in South Central back then, a lot of white people crime is swept under the rug and a lot of crime in ethnically diverse neighborhoods is splashed on front page news.

I live in LA now and ride the bus through South Central, and I've lived there and I have found that place far more welcoming to me than I ever did back in Montana.

So, YMMV and the grass is always greener. But I'm a lot happier in the poor parts of LA than I ever was in Billings, Montana.