decended_being

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[–] decended_being@midwest.social 4 points 19 hours ago

Also,

Queer folk are allowed to exist.

She's not tolerant of this.

Yeah, I mean a potential path could be a narrowing of how a "well regulated Militia" is defined. But I agree, it's a fully lost cause.

What's the point of an organized society and a government anyway? Not to care for each other and reduce harm, right? /s

[–] decended_being@midwest.social 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

USA citizen here (unfortunately)

Guns are designed to kill, or at least cause harm.

I don't think we should kill, or even cause the kind of harm that guns inflict.

∴ Guns shouldn't exist.

I recognize this is a super idealistic approach, but this is just a "general concept of how a society should run."

Yes, I'm taking into account hunting. We shouldn't be killing non-human animals either. Sports is a more difficult problem to tackle for me, I recognize others like shooting for sporting events, and it's not causing harm inherently. Might even be safer than American football, lol.

Having said that, a more realistic approach would be a gun buy back program and a slow phase out of guns for our police or at least a reduction / demilitarization of our police. I have no hope that this will happen, but wow, it'd be nice.

Just got a job that is fully remote, and I think I need to start doing this a few times a month. I could do a half day at a local happy hour or something. It's oppressively lonely as is.

I'm referring to / summarizing the Ratchet Effect.

Obviously movement for the sake of movement is not inherently good. But when our only allowed form of action is to vote and we see that voting has no or negative effect, it seems fruitless.

Because a slightly more realistic scenario is that the Dems vote to just throw some people off the cliff, and that's agreed between the two parties.

[–] decended_being@midwest.social 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

No, I'd rather vote for vegan ice cream first, then vote against driving off a cliff.

Unfortunately our current system doesn't allow for that, so obviously I vote against driving off a cliff, but it feels so stagnating.

[–] decended_being@midwest.social 60 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Agreed, but this is like comparing your neighbor burning 1 million acres to you having a bonfire. The scale is the problem. We should absolutely take individual responsibility; however, our small impact is only felt when we band together.

[–] decended_being@midwest.social 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

One of the options for buying it is de-Googled with /e/os.

Now if only they sold in the US

[–] decended_being@midwest.social 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I counted the boxes and compared to the number of digits.

Yep, we had a "targeted political attack" in Brooklyn Center (a 2nd ring suburb of Minneapolis) about 2 hours before the protests were set to start.

[–] decended_being@midwest.social 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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[–] decended_being@midwest.social 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)
 

The Minneapolis City Council on Thursday approved an ordinance that would prohibit landlords from employing algorithms to set rent and vacancy rates.

The proposed ordinance would specifically ban the use of algorithms that use “non-public competitor data.” It passed by an 11-2 vote.

Wonsley said many of the corporate property management companies that use this technology operate student housing complexes around the University of Minnesota. College students are “particularly vulnerable to exploitation,” she said, because they’re often first-time renters who are constrained to living near campus.

 

I'm not like one of those weirdos that just kills for no reason. I shot that dolphin right in its wet brain and I loved it. In fact, my pleasure from doing so was higher than my vegetarian friend's when they ate a whole block of cheese.

Right now, there's $20k being offered for information about me, but I think that's dumb. I tried to go to the FBI with information about a trophy hunter and the local butcher, but the special agent said he wouldn't give me any money for that and they already knew about it. He did offer me a bacon-topped doughnut on the way out though!

Edit, dang this is very different than Reddit's vcj.

 

Republicans have at long last elected a House speaker: Representative Mike Johnson, a fundamentalist Christian who was alsoem once called a key “architect” in Congress’s efforts to overthrow the 2020 election.

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