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erev, 1 day ago

It is not

erev, 5 days ago

Start another task manager instance; task manager is designed to always be able to force some resources from the system and it will kill other instances of itself that aren’t working.

erev, 10 days ago

also he pregnant stomach may force her to be positioned further back or risk having him put a tremendous amount of pressure on her stomach. The former would move the center of gravity higher and back – neither of which are good for balance – and the latter might injure the baby or just be otherwise uncomfortable

erev, 10 days ago

maybe i just haven’t seen enough AI generated garbage yet but the jpeg compression should be obvious. im literally not that old such that compression artifacts aren’t common knowledge. even if people don’t know the name who hasn’t seen it a ton aside from maybe the Amish.

erev, 15 days ago

at what temperature and oxygen density does the carbon break free and automatically bond with oxygen to form CO2, thus evaporating. you might burn the fish away before it gets radioactive.

erev, 24 days ago

asexual people can still have sex and enjoy it, to my understanding it’s they lack sexual desire or a need for sex. It’s also on a spectrum, like most things

erev, 24 days ago

scientists dont tell you not to, the government does. scientists say it’s probably not a good idea, but not that you can’t.

erev, 2 months ago

Although more recently they’ve been the (mostly) reliable first contact in the event of a school shooter, the SRO is usually first on scene and relays into to responding officers.

Well that was the idea anyways

erev, 3 months ago

this is some tasty j- OH NO MY BONES!!!

erev, 3 months ago

I think it might direct the sound so it may sound louder if you’re the one getting shot

erev, 3 months ago

these are pistol rounds and thus most likely subsonic. If it’s a supersonic round then yes, but it is possible to hear the shot before you get hit. Possibly even more likely with this.

erev, 3 months ago

The landlord side of it is the murkiest imo. You having a military pension doesn’t mean you’re in the bourgeoisie, it just means you’re getting paid for having given time from your life. Similarly, selling the surplus from your own agriculture doesn’t place you in the class of controlling capital because you aren’t using others’ labor; you’re creating something through your labor and when faced with having a surplus, are distributing your goods. Yes you sell them, but it’s not fair to criticize you for trying to offset your costs while living under a capitalist system so long as the price isn’t exorbitant.

Imo being a landlord is usually the scummiest, but if you’re charging rent at a price set to maintain the buildings and ensure that your tenants still have housing, then I don’t think you’re exploiting anyone. Imo the more profit you take from your rental properties, the more it moves out of the grey area. It sounds however like you don’t take profit or take a very minimal amount, and that you price your property so that it’s self sufficient but not much more. In that case then you aren’t really exploiting your tenants. Are they still being exploited? Yes, by the system that forces them to pay for housing. Do you have a hand in that exploitation purely by being their landlord? Yes, however if you aren’t trying to extort them for money so they have housing, then I wouldn’t say you’re exploiting them more than just owning their housing. Theres a reason that leftists tout that theres no ethical consumption under capitalism; even in trying to help people or do the right thing, you are still feeding into a system of exploitation and extortion. That doesn’t mean you still aren’t trying to do the right thing or be genuinely helpful, it just means that unless we find an alternative system then we will all continue to exploit each other and be exploited. This is why the proletariat must be unified as otherwise, we will never shake the binds of our collective oppression.

erev, 3 months ago

Ok but would you rather have a bag of an aged Da Hong Pao or whatever the coffee equivalent is?

I’d like to taste the coffee equivalent but that one time I splurged on some DHP was magical. So velvety and rich and nutty.

erev, 3 months ago

Especially when you get good tea from quality suppliers, it’s excellent. I’m part of a tea club and get sent boxes of tea from a specific vendor i really like. Some of the tea is probably more than a year old, but I’d just as happily tear open the bag and make a delicious pot of tea. high quality tea is not as expensive as people think and it’s absolutely wonderful. it is softer than coffee though and takes some time for your palate to adjust.

ETA: I pay $40 every other month and get over an ounce of loose leaf tea, carefully selected with love by the vendor. they’re a small operation with direct ties to tea farms in China and source from family and friends. And if you’re in the right communities, you can talk to them directly and discuss the tea with them. the world of tea is very inviting and open and you’d be surprised how cheap really good tea is, especially in bulk.

erev, 3 months ago

You shouldn’t need to filter high quality tea, it should speak for itself. A little leaves at the bottom are just snacks. if you prefer it filtered thats fine, just totally unnecessary. Really the limiting factor is actually water quality, but there are people experimenting with water recipes to make the best tea. And they usually share their recipes and the majority of the minerals are widely available and it’s just a lot of distilled water. The equipment is what’s most expensive, but a cheap gaiwan or even a small bowl and you’re good to go.

erev, 3 months ago

You forget that the military is made up of the common person and a lot of people who see and feel first hand exactly what the government fucking them up the ass is like.

erev, 4 months ago

I also tend to be a bit long winded. I enjoy using a diverse diction and try to maintain some grammatical consistency. Neither of those things are well expressed on short-text platforms. Like even this comment feels too long for Twitter or Mastodon.

erev, 4 months ago

They also denote etymology differently. I learned (3 years of high school japanese, got to like a 1st graders level if that but i did learn a lot) that hiragana is used for words that were originally Japanese, while katakana is used for words adopted from other languages. That’s why you see English translated into katakana, not hiragana. Iirc, kanji might’ve also come before wither hiragana or katakana, and unlike Chinese there is a way to understand kanji based off of its original components (there’s a name for them I can’t remember)

erev, 4 months ago

Thanks, all of that was stuff I had learned years ago and forgot. Thanks for helping jog my memory!

erev, 4 months ago

well obviously as the treat distributor, you skim a treat off for yourself. And as the treat deliverer you get one too. As the treat consumer, you already are getting your treat. and the corruption and embezzlement only expands from there. soon you’re consuming entire bags at a time but you need to keep the system fed. everyone has more and more mouths to put cookies in. eventually the system will need to collapse.

erev, 4 months ago

Yeah I agree he came on strong but it seems that’s his vibe in the scene and he was mostly respectful when rejected. i think some people’s biases are showing

erev, 4 months ago

that’s what im questioning. if he was a more flamboyant queer person would people have laughed it off? based on the comments i suspect they would have. it’s the fact he was “aggressive”; which i agree he may have been a bit forward and i wouldn’t recommend opening like that but he was also mostly respectful when rejected. I don’t think he’s trying to hurt anyone nor was anyone in any danger, he just probably knows the type of people he likes and they probably know him.

erev, 5 months ago

The prison complex doesn’t want you to call it that, but yes. The 13th amendment makes a specific exception for slavery if the person is imprisoned. That’s why prisoners “work” for way below minimum wage in a variety of jobs that they probably didn’t choose. Not to mention that the majority of prisoners are people of color…