presbypenguin

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[–] presbypenguin@reddthat.com 4 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

"The Roman Numerals...." Is when I gave up.

[–] presbypenguin@reddthat.com 5 points 1 month ago

Unfortunately a lot of the mods to make it happen are designed to not be noticed by the DMV inspectors. It's a whole industry committed to industriously dumping as much soot into the atmosphere. If only that industriousness could be used for good; good doesn't make as much money or "own the libs" as much as obnoxiously killing the Earth, I guess.

[–] presbypenguin@reddthat.com 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Short answer, it's not. It's effectively legal because the circle Venn Diagram of those who would roll coal and have Punisher/Back the Blue stickers on their trucks and absolutely zero enforcement, but it's TECHNICALLY illegal.

[–] presbypenguin@reddthat.com 23 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I mean, what the Hell have we been doing for the last 3 years? Journalists, historians, and other folks have really been ringing this bell since 2016, and started ringing it louder on January 6, 2021. You can only scream the truth so loudly, and hand-wringing that people "aren't talking about it enough" when it has been said publicly by high-profile folks for years seems disingenuous and written to generate clicks.

Yeah, we know. We keep saying it. Stop trying to make it seem like you're the only one who has the chutzpah to say it out loud.

[–] presbypenguin@reddthat.com 31 points 8 months ago (5 children)

A reminder to everyone that Costco sells caskets: https://www.costco.com/funeral-caskets.html

And every funeral home legally has to allow you to purchase the casket elsewhere per the FTC: https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/ftc-funeral-rule (That doc also has a lot of other useful tips in it.)

[–] presbypenguin@reddthat.com 22 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don't like having the root causes of my mental health issues put on display for everyone to see (though "month" or "year," or maybe "lifetime" might be more accurate...)

[–] presbypenguin@reddthat.com 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That seems like a lot of work for not that much more payoff than just hiring a couple of meth heads to do the same thing.

[–] presbypenguin@reddthat.com 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Vaguely ask and you shall receive: https://imgur.io/gallery/YPHY0

[–] presbypenguin@reddthat.com 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

But...that is the common definition of "food desert."

"A food desert is an area that has limited access to affordable and nutritious food."

I realize the article has issues, but the definition has sources cited for its common usage. If you don't like the definition, fine, but it's a definite term for a defined phenomenon. You don't get to pretend the phenomenon doesn't exist because the term isn't perfect...

[–] presbypenguin@reddthat.com 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

mental health issues exploded

Because people actually had time to realize how fucked things were, instead of being corralled into the office every day like cattle.

I mean, there may be some truth to that, but we cannot deny the damaging effects isolation had on people. Not to say that isolation was not extended exponentially by malicious actions and incompetence, but the isolation caused many of the mental health issues (which also means those who did what they were supposed to best suffered most, which really sucks).

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