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Having most of the year off for festivals and holy days
I’m just this guy, you know. Except on Lemmy.
Having most of the year off for festivals and holy days
They aren’t as efficient at generating rent due to their maintenance and upkeep costs, so real estate holdings firms are hell bent on liquidating them, subdividing them, and redeveloping the land piecemeal in ways that better optimize for fine access control and not having to take care of any “dead” non-money-making spaces such as the concourses between the stores. Instead: just parking lots between store fronts.
This is what happened near me. The malls got turned inside out, so it’s just big boxes around a giant parking lot.
I’ve seen everything Trump posts on Truth Social despite never having installed the app.
I also don’t have Twitter but I see a lot of those, too.
I’ve given up on anything happening in the books ever again.
I’ll take it
Join city council meetings
That sounds terrible.
The good news: We have some small modicum of control.
The bad news: Control involves pain, disappointment, frustration, anger, and a whole bunch of mental anguish that people who don’t pay attention to politics don’t have to deal with.
Okay but only if you’re shiny and chrome
Do I really have to look at my fellow Americans? They’re not pretty.
Voter disengagement helped along by media consolidation. It’s not profitable to cover House races anymore unless something crazy is happening, so people aren’t made aware of it. State and local elections are even worse. Sometimes the only information about a candidate I can find is their private Facebook profile.
Don’t forget that the ballots in Florida were really poorly designed, and caused Pat Buchanan to get a very high number of Democratic votes.
George Wallace got some electoral college votes because he was a flagrant racist.
I’m glad I’m not the only one seeing this happen all over the world. All over the world we have feckless neoliberal parties failing to represent their people and getting replaced with populist right-wingers.
Found John Oliver’s fediverse account
I’ve been a Mac user since the late 80s and the news of its dominance has escaped me.
I’m not just noticing it now. I’m just reminded of it every four years and it makes me sad.
I’m old enough to remember when the League of Women Voters ran these debates, and candidates had more than two minutes to answer a complex question.
You best start believing in failing empires: You’re in one.
In my head it’s Dr. Frank-N-Furter
There are designs for a giant glass cone put in the middle of the desert. Air under the cone gets warmed and it rises up through a couple turbines on its way out of the device.
Don’t threaten me with a good time