I guess democracy really is on the ballot here.

I wonder if they’re motivated by trying to make it okay that the DNC skipped its primary this year?

The way y’all talk about capitalism makes it sound like a conspiracy.

Uh … that’s the wrong god?

That was during the Biden administration

Just a big json file? I’m down

Hard to say. That’s the problem.

A detectable bot problem is a solvable bot problem.

One’s best and getting through the week might be the same thing sometimes.

You should ask for what you need. Even if people refuse, at least it’s an outright refusal which is more clear than not having asked.

It feels uncomfortable, but the payoff for this kind of boundary-drawing is enormous.

“Sorry if is difficult but I have a weird thing. I need about 5 minutes, when I wake up, to just be in my own little world. Would you please not talk to me right after I’ve woken up?”

Things like this can have an enormous effect on one’s stress levels. If you know it stresses you, that’s enough cause for you to benefit from getting the people around you to give you a little space in the morning.

Right there center screen bro damn

Holy fuck it’s my shoulder!

While you studied the catch scratcher, I studied the blade.

I was able to get 4 or 5 usable cat scratchers out of one blade.

Not even a little bit, no

Capitalist countries have more free food available than communist countries do.

He got away in the video. He’s the tow guy now.

Achievement Unlocked: Tow to Tow

Acquire a tow truck.

Or one lost job and impending cascade into poverty, perhaps after a long climb and struggle to escape that poverty.

Getting one’s car repossessed can easily be the a trigger for the total collapse of a person’s life.

Obviously his reaction is maladaptive. He’s fucked, and his hot head has made it far worse for himself.

But having one’s car towed is not like getting a wedgie or stubbing one’s toe. A person getting their car towed is most likely:

• Unable to make the payments required to keep it
• Behind on other payments too, like rent
• Utterly bereft of any cash buffer (else they would have paid the thing)
• Relying on that car to get to work and hence keep their job
• Living paycheck to paycheck, hence unable to survive even if he gets a new job immediately (it can take four weeks sometimes for the first paycheck at a new job to come in)
• Suffering from the cumulative effects of months, years, or even decades of financial anxiety

Not defending his behavior, but please don’t treat this like someone went on a rampage after stubbing their toe. People are trying so hard to survive right now.

If my car got towed right now, I’d end up on the street. I have better self control than this guy (learned in high school that violence is not tolerated at all by civilized society, so I learned to control it).

I myself have meltdowns, but they remain verbal. I’m definitely not proud at all to report that I lose control of my voice sometimes. I hate it when it’s happening and can’t stop it. But I’m not physically violent. The last time I expressed anger with my hands was when I slapped a countertop in 2009.

People think I’m on top of the world because I drive a brand new car. But that car is a rental.

That’s not some deep point. I guess I’m just saying that just because a person’s groomed and driving a shiny car doesn’t mean they aren’t an inch above absolute financial ruin.

I’m just trying to say don’t make too many assumptions.

For some people getting their vehicle towed means taking an uber to a tow lot, swiping their credit card for a few hundred bucks, and then skipping a few visits to the bar with friends. For others, it means the economic ladder they’ve been climbing with arms shuddering from exhaustion for the last five years, as they rise inch by sweat-soaked inch out of the alligator pit that is homelessness, is disappearing from under them, and that they’re going to be living on the street again.

The world is absolutely brutal at the bottom, and sometimes people’s rage is an expression of fear because they’ve been there and they don’t want to go back, and the yawning asshole checking boxes on his paperwork gets to go home and watch American Idol while the paperwork he filed sends you into the gauntlet of terror.

That’s just a bloke from down under ya bed, mate

Not from an ASCII

Then the identity still has a home.

I’ve implemented Oauth and you still have an identity provider.

The vast majority of people who use lemmy have not read the activitypub protocol, and signed up to use lemmy as it exists today