I was hoping for Roy Wood Jr. I was sad when he left.
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It said a protected bike lane, so relatively safe, and only irritating to people who really love sitting in car traffic. Facilitating alternative modes of transportation makes car life better by reducing traffic. Not to mention all the other benefits.
Next you'll tell me trains are a bad idea.
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Walk without rhythm and we won't attract the ~~worm~~ big brother.
Indeed. 🤨
As a Tennessean, I'd be shocked and dismayed.
But I'd still say throw her in the slammer.
Also consider a healthcare career. As a teenager, I wanted to do computer science/engineering, and sometimes I do wish I had stayed on that track. But now, as a nurse, I could get a job in any state in the US by tomorrow. I dare you to try to find a hospital that doesn't have open nursing positions. Even when the economy goes down, people still get sick. Even if society collapses, the knowledge/skills will be useful.
And if you don't want to change diapers or deal with blood, there are still options; I'm in psychiatry and rarely have to deal with either.
I used to do most of my grocery shopping at Trader Joe's. When they came out calling the NLRB unconstitutional, I never went back. Fuck Traitor Joe's.
I really don't understand why I constantly see this sentiment on every post pertaining to protests. Rome wasn't built in a day. How do you expect the masses to go directly to violent revolution when many of them don't even recognize there's a problem, and most of them have spent their whole lives in a system which hasn't required any political participation at all? Drawing attention to the problems is how you get more people active.
Obviously, protests won't do anything to directly influence the corrupt leaders in any meaningful or beneficial way. I don't know anyone who actually hopes for that. But a handful of individuals resorting to political violence will be easily quashed by the fascists' enforcers and then demonized or ignored by the fascist-friendly media, so the logical thing is to make the movement too big to fail or ignore. Drawing attention to the problems is how you get more people active.
As a vegan:
A. wtf, why would this warrant banning? At most it should have been a warning to use a less hostile tone? B. Why is it absurd? Should I be okay with a burglary in my neighborhood when there are wars going on somewhere else? Your equivocating meat consumption with wasteful transport suggests to me a fundamental misunderstanding of the motivations of veganism. No sentient, feeling creature has to suffer and die for someone to take a jet ride, but they do for me to eat a hamburger. I think the private jetters should feel guilty too, but for different reasons. In any case, how do you feel about dog meat?
Regarding availability and cost efficiency: shipping soybeans from Kansas fields to a cattle ranch in Nebraska and then the beef to a grocer in Idaho is less efficient than shipping soybeans from Kansas to the grocer (obviously, this is an oversimplification). Not to mention that animals aren't perfect energy converters, reducing efficiency further. I'm not arguing that it'd be easy for the whole world to convert to veganism, but in most developed countries it'd actually be more efficient and cost effective (at the society level; not necessarily for all individuals) for most people not to eat meat. Especially if subsidies for animal agriculture were redirected to plant agriculture.
In any case, who's actually "ramming" ideology? As a casual lemmy user, I do see a surpising number of discussions on the matter of veganism, but most of what I've seen has been pretty civil. I do recall a lot of self-defeating thoughtless toxicity from vegans in the vegan subreddits, but I haven't witnessed it myself on lemmy.
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I have not paid attention to his hands or any such thing, so I don't know for sure, but it could be nothing more than his daily aspirin leading to easy bruising.