People don’t think it be like this, but it do.

Now there’s a good entry in the man vs. bear saga that explains why I felt so strongly about it.

If a woman says she’s prefer the bear to a man, the men who ARE like the bear and would have her by force if necessary won’t give a damn, but the ones that aren’t, who might be available to form an emotional bond with her, will have their patriarchal wound reinforces and thus be turned off.

So what that statement is really doing is reinforcing the patriarchy. It’s just another way of saying “men are all the same and nothing will ever change that.” It practically guarantees a continuation of the status quo and eliminates all possibilities for healing.

Yup. Apparently they are even formally recognized as a church and as such have tax exempt status with the IRS.

Interestingly, their creed is apparently adopted from the Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi, while the remainder of their tenets seem to be adopted from various sources, including Buddhist teachers such as Thich Naht Hahn, Christian writer C.S. Lewis, and New Age teachers such as Eckhart Tolle and Deepak Chopra.

https://www.templeofthejediorder.org/index.php/doctrine

If you could shitpost on Lemmy but no one was around to upvote it, would you still do it?

Waterworld

Well, but did you at least pick up a Billy or an Alex on your way through the store?

Well, don’t let your memes be dreams, go out there and make it happen.

Is it because half of them have guns and the other half would die without 2-ply toilet paper?

Not Ohio, but I did sleep on my car on the West Coast on and off for about a year and only got into trouble once. And I didn’t even get a citation, just an oral warning that this wasn’t permitted in that particular town despite there being no signs anywhere (it was written in the city code).

I will say, for all the shit that private property owners get on this site, Walmart is actually one of the places where this is the easiest and least problematic to do. I always tried to avoid private property in favor of more inconspicuous places but I frequently saw quite a few motorhomes parked on their lots after dark and they were still there in the morning, and I’ve heard from others that they’ll generally let you be unless you are causing some sort of ruckus there. Same goes for just sleeping in the car.

In general, if you’re not making a nuisance of yourself or parking right in front of a sign that prohibits overnight parking, you’ll most likely be okay.

My brother in Christ, I don’t know what planet you live on, but here on Earth, that was 30 years ago no matter where you live. And to my knowledge, none of the games and/or bands actually got cancelled because of it except on an individual basis (i.e. if you parents forbid you to have them at home). But in that case, we simply went to a friend’s house to play or listen to them there, so I’m not sure that this is really something worth getting all worked up over.

That’s a long time ago. Didn’t that happen in the 90s?

Nah, it wasn’t just billionaires he fucked over, not even primarily. Some of his customers probably were in the multimillionaire category, but the vast majority were average folks just trying to build a nest egg.

Not many billionaires even bothered with crypto, they tend to be much more conservative with their investments. Mark Cuban was the only one I know of who had money in it, and it amounted only a few millions, which is literal chickenshit for someone like him.

As far as I know, the FTX token wasn’t even the main problem. He did all kinds of shady stuff, mishandling customer funds, illegal business loans, etc.

Yeah, that’s like saying a murderer is there because gun.

No, they’re there because of what they used it for.

Local doesn’t mean white. Baltimore is a white minority city, with whites making up scarcely more than 30% of the population.

That would be fun but unfortunately, the only thing that’s likely to happen is that your email will be ignored and/or automatically deleted.

It’s called diminishing returns in economics.

Basically, if you have very little of something, any additional amount of it will increase your satisfaction by a lot, but only up to the point of satiation, after which happiness will not increase further regardless of how much more you have.

But a three year old can understand this. Give them one ice cream, they’ll be delighted, give them ten, and they’ll start throwing up.

I’m already halfway there, I’m just lacking the garden

Guess something is wrong either with my app or my home instance

I’m not sure how to tell you this, and I figure you’d never believe me without a picture, but this is what I see: