Dozzi92

Affect is a verb and effect is a noun. Generally.

Without chiming, Lemmy dies!

You are not some people.

Although I guess you are a different some people!

Oh my mistake, you're right. Was rushing a bit, haste makes waste and all that.

I dunno, I have admittedly gotten into arguments on the internet, but the only people I argue with in real life are my friends. I think it's very easy to dehumanize text on a screen, and like I said I'm guilty of it, not a perfect person (thanks hoobastank, what a fucking stupid name for a band), and interacting with people in your everyday life changes everything. I think, in general, a lot of racism and xenophobia comes from the unknown, and online interaction is basically the unknown.

I think I've said enough times on here that the world has gotten too connected, and that there's a lot of benefit to be had from interacting with the people in your own community. I'd go to war for New Jersey, or the town I live in, because I have so many connections with those people that ascend our stupid colors or our stupid beliefs. You just won't find that online.

And the problem is that I feel it's by design. Dial the clock back more than 20 years, I remember building some pretty strong friendships with some random posters on ebaums forums. Eventually we were skyping at night, and I was like a 15-16 year old kid, and we had men, women, black white yellow, really bridged a lot of gaps, and I dunno, is it because the Internet was less sterilized, more "go out there and have fun" than it is now?

I think that Facebook started it, with it's algorithms, but everything we see is curated, and I just can't help believe that my anger is bespoke, and that's fucking stupid. But there's no way to stop it, save logging off.

So yeah. I dunno. We're doomed, I guess.

I agree with everything you said except shoe-in, because it's shoo-in.

But you articulated (better than I was going to) the number one issue. Power companies need insurance and their insurance will be affected if ordinance permits basically unchecked generators being plugged into the grid. And before anyone says it, you are not allowed to just plug your generator into your house. Does it happen? Yeah, people have been dumb since day one.

But there are transfer switches that allow for this operation in a safe manner, and the easiest way to deal with this is to have them installed by default in new construction, and to provide incentive for upgrading your panel to include one.

The Internet kind of eliminates our interaction with society and other people, or it sterilizes it, it something. Less personal, and so easier to not care about people, and this harder to feel connection and get to stages 4, 5, and 6. By design, of course.

I don't follow Japanese bands, but I find smaller artists, smaller venues, is a great way to avoid TM/LN. It's also a great way to see a better show, bigger venues just suck, the crowds suck, the logistics suck, I suck, everyone and everything sucks.

NYC is thrice as dense as Berlin, the densest city in Germany. Probably accounts for something.

Yeah, my wife works with homeless veterans. They run the gamut, from hard on your luck to absolutely insane. She had to call PD yesterday because one threatened suicide. She convinced another to speak to a therapist after she acted as a mediator for two hours between the vet and their landlord.

Some of these folks are just off the deep end. Some have very serious drug addictions. And some are fine. If people like my wife got to be part of the process for determining whether someone needed to be institutionalized, I feel like I could trust that process.

I'm trying not to hit things, first and foremost, and I think backing in provides as better opportunity for that.

You know, you are absolutely right and I definitely didn't think about that. In fact, I pull in in the Costco parking lot, because that's the one place I really need that trunk access. So great point, absolutely right.

My grocery trips are generally smaller and more frequent, just open the front door, toss things on front seat, and get in the other side.