most recently, i left the apartment to take the trash down to the dumpster this afternoon.

If you don’t know less than 50% of Americans have a passport. The ones who don’t, I really see the limitation in their thinking.

why do you think it’s a thinking problem? applying for a passport costs money. travelling to another country costs even more money. not everyone has had access to the same opportunities.

anyways. i haven’t gotten to travel out of the US, but it certainly ain’t because i wouldn’t like to. it just isn’t financially feasible for a lot of people here.

a legal monopoly on violence is the cornerstone of the states power. while there are definitely valid reasons to want to restrict access to the tools of violence, the state will always have that access, and if it restricts the general populations access to same, it becomes far easier to oppress them.

also, if we’re gonna ban weapons, i’d like to start with SUVs.

he seems pretty blatantly innocent to me. as to whether he’ll be found guilty of anything, idk, but i really doubt he’ll be able to get a fair trial in this country, so, probably.

well, i hope you can understand how it seemed like it was about this post, since you posted it as an update to this post.

i guess it was just too petty to even consider. i wouldn’t have guessed anyone would read that much into something as trivial as a handful of downvotes. calling everyone ‘pathetic’, ‘triggered’ and ‘unable to take criticism’ over something as minor as downvotes honestly hadn’t occured to me. as you say, downvotes are cheap.

depends on the movie. it’ll probably be as bad as at least one movie said. we’ve got a lot of data points for films with AI at this point, and they’re all over the place in terms of how bad or good AI is.

i kinda get it. it just has big “i’m 14 and am probably the only smart person to ever live” energy.

UPDATE: I find it utterly pathetic that people can’t take real criticism. Like they are triggered over anything that needs to be said.

you’ve gotten three replies (before this one). chill tf out.

are you asking for loanwords in non english languages that have been borrowed from a third language, for which the concept has no direct equivalent in english, or are you asking folks to just suggest non-english words that english should adopt as loanwords?

i see what you’re trying to say, but that’s not what rational and irrational means (mathematically).

i’ve never had any problems with em.

well, for one thing, using ai image generation is supporting a business model that’s whole thing is ripping off artists, even if you personally aren’t turning a profit. and for another, if an image is used in a meme, it is not that hard to do a reverse image search to find the original, if it was posted online, whereas the blended chicken nugget ooze that is the output of image generators specifically defies attribution.

also, there’s the fact that artists often like it when people like their art, even if it would be better to provide attribution. i don’t think i’ve ever seen anyone argue that slapping some text on an image for a meme hurts the original artists ability to make a living, but tons of artists have noted such an effect from ai slop extruders.

the only way you don’t have technical debt is if you haven’t started the project yet.

it’s only happened once to me that i recall, but the reason was pretty ridiculous. i told him i wasn’t allowed to mislabel his hot sandwich as a cold sandwich so that he could buy it with food stamps. he didn’t send me death threats, but he did shout them right there in the deli.

most clients allow you to sort posts and comments using different algorithms. what you’re describing is generally referred to as ‘top’, but a lot of clients default to ‘hot’, which i believe focuses more on recent activity rather than overall upvotes. i personally almost always sort by ‘new’, but my client, thunder, also gives options for ‘old’ and ‘controversial’.

edit: and posts also get the option of selecting a time frame for ‘top’, and also get a ‘scaled’, ‘active’ ‘most comments’, and ‘new comments’ sorting options.

well, i’m trans, and my partner’s trans, and so are the majority of my exes, so, i’m gonna go with yes.

currently, my longest running one started last december. i don’t remember if any others have taken longer than that for me.

Home of the biggest or at least most populous state in America

neither, actually. the largest by area is Alaska, while the most populous is California. New York does have the most populous city though.

really depends on the person and the activity. i’m not particularly busty, and i’d rather wear a sports bra if i’m doing jumping jacks or something, but it isn’t really needed for my physical comfort just about any other time.