I don’t know if y’all have this in Canada, but in the American South there is a racial slur for black folks that is related to racoons.

Seems like an unfortunate coincidence and a bit dehumanizing given the way in which the dying/dead person is depicted.

This is probably one of the more tragic results of the mess we’re in right now and there is no good solution. Not killing anyone would be ideal, but not enough people feel that way or we wouldn’t be killing each other as much as we do.

You can’t change a bigots heart unless they want to change. You could kill them, but what difference would there be between you and a bigot at that point? These kinds of problems take generations to sort out, which is unfortunate for all the dead southern queer people who will be murdered legally in the years to come.

Americans over the age of 65 represent less than 20% of the population. The group of people 60 to 64 is 6.5% of the population. That’s not even a quarter of the population.

As to your question, yes. Even if it was 90% of the population that was 60+. being an elder, senior citizen, a member of the grandparent generation, olds, or whatever you’d like to call them has more to do with the individual’s age than how many of them there are.

Picard and Dathon at El-Adrel.

The average life expectancy for Americans is 79. In the US at least we define “senior citizen” as over 60 (legally and for healthcare), that seems like a reasonable age for elder to start.

It’s kind of depressing that elder, as defined by uber, is older than most people live to be.

Sweetie, we’re all being punks right now using pirate reddit. What’s more punk than undermining oligarch control of social platforms?

That’s not a retrofit either. With a multi tool those can be removed with a few bolts. The ones on that bench are single mold cast iron. You’d need an angle grinder to remove those, not that any law abiding good citizen would.

So dumb. They could have spent the extra money helping the people they don’t want sleeping on benches not sleep on benches. Most people probably agree, just not in their backyard or with their tax dollars. The amount of work they’re willing to put in not to help someone is absolutely astounding.

How is 🙂 an asshole mood though?

There aren’t many ways to organize raising the money required to build a better youtube or reddit. You could kickstart it, but you’d better hope whoever does the dev doesn’t sell. Another option would be a large open source ngo funding the development, but you’re still talking long timelines to completion.

There definitely is room for a more pro-social social media platform that isn’t a clone of something else. Paying for it is another matter.

Pfft, apps have to earn notifications. Do you want any notifications from a grocery app? Unless it could check the stock of my local grocery store and let me know if an unpurchased item becomes out of stock or if I can share it with a roomate and they add things to it. But even then, how much does that really matter?

I think there is just a portion of humans that love feeling morally superior, I imagine if annoying vegans or open source zealots tried crossfit they’d never shut up about that either.

Machoke me daddy.

Lol, not the dark forest the bright asshole. How hilarious would it be if the universe was full of life but everyone thought we were assholes and were trying to avoid us.