Apparently, Atlanta is doing it.[1]

I’m an Atlantan and this is the first I’m hearing of it. Neat!

Reading the article, though, it’s really just that the city is subsidizing a private business (and in one of the two cases, acting as its landlord) in order to create an incentive to open in a food desert, not actually getting into the business of operating a grocery store directly itself.

I mean, I got a loan from Invest Atlanta to help with the down payment on my house, but that doesn’t mean the city owns my house or that it’s some kind of ‘government housing.’

I don’t align with the fuckcars movement.

Why is that, and what would you suggest we do to improve its appeal? I recognize that we’re sort of the radical fringe of urbanism and that’s on purpose (a radical fringe is necessary for any movement, in order to make the moderates look moderate), but within that bound I am interested in trying to develop as much credibility as possible.

(Feel free to PM me if you’d prefer to answer without inviting a public debate, and thanks in advance for any feedback you’re willing to give!)

It’s been a long time since I cared about sports, but I remember when I used to watch them that a lot of games on the East coast (and Toronto counts, being in EST) would start relatively late so that they could be televized during prime time on the West coast. I could easily imagine a baseball game ending after 1AM if it went into extra innings or something.

My fiance is a K cup.

Eww, how can you stand to be with someone that consumerist and wasteful? You should dump her for a French press. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

They believe “constitutional” means that thing they do on the toilet each morning.

Not caramel; butterscotch. That stuff can be made to harden the same way the chocolate coating does.

Even the vanilla versions of those things have a chocolate shell coating on the top, not just inside the cone. You would’ve known what it was about way before you got to that last part.

(If that isn’t true for the ones you buy, I want to know what weird, obscure brand you’re talking about.)

To be fair, though, coating the cone with some other flavor (butterscotch, maybe) could be a neat idea.

I guess the qualifier for me is, is the law something that’s in place for public good? If so, it should be enforced.

That’s supposed to be the case for every law.

Local deliveries should be happening in electric vehicles.

Including cargo bikes, not only electric box trucks.

Side note: lemmy doesn’t tend to censor the word suicide, or kill themselves. It’s okay to use actual terms if you want. Not saying you have to, just that it’s allowed.

I would go so far as to say you should use the actual terms, in order to counter the societal chilling effect of the other platforms’ censorship.

Practical use: if you didn’t know other characters’ or NPCs’ sexual orientation before (and couldn’t just ask them and trust the answer for some reason), you could find it out by casting the spell and checking for rainbow eyes.

EVs were a political issue long before Tesla was a thing. It goes all the way back to the GM EV1 and “Who Killed the Electric Car”.

I thought they were for preventing people from being able to see into the hatchback area without having to cut the cargo capacity in half with a parcel shelf.

I want all my programs all in one place, and all in the start menu, listed alphabetically. I want a center where I can push a button to update them, or mod them, or uninstall them, or even open them (if for some reason the start menu wasn’t working for some reason). I want it all in one centralized manager app. Call it whatever the fuck you want. But it should handle wine exe installs, flatpaks, sudo apt-get install, AppImages, and…sigh, yes, even snaps. If you can install it, this manager should handle it, including being able to click a checkbox that says “add to start menu”. You can uncheck it if for some reason you DON’T want a program on your start menu, but it should give you the option.

Should it also handle RPM, pkgtool, pkgsrc, nixpkg, Portage, Homebrew, PyPI, NPM, CPAM, CLTN, CTAN, .jar, and software installed from source via ./configure; make; make install?

On the other hand, instead of putting all the responsibility on the GNOME shell devs (and the devs of every other application launcher) to support every software packaging format under the sun, maybe it would be better to put the responsibility on the people packaging each application to conform to the Freedesktop.org desktop entry specification.

I’m not saying your complaint isn’t valid, BTW. Linux’s lack of a central authority to dictate how things should work does inherently cause some problems that we basically just have to suck up and accept in the name of freedom.

But the point I’m trying to make is that, while Linux may not do something the way you would expect coming from Windows, that doesn’t mean it doesn’t [try to] solve the problem in a different way. The more you can let go of your Windows-familiarity-based “intuition” of how things should work, the better off you’ll be.

(Speaking of which: one reason you can’t find the equivalent of “Program Files” is that the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard collates programs’ files by type—executables go in bin, configuration files go in etc, and so on—instead of collating per application with all of its files together in a single directory. This has advantages and disadvantages that you may or may not care about, but one design isn’t necessarily clearly superior to the other in all cases.)

This move was stupid and will probably serve no one.

Every terrorist attack not prevented by the brain-drained FBI etc. will be used as an excuse for Trump to tighten the screws of totalitarianism.

The headline misspelled “persecuting.”

Well that doesn’t make any sense! Why would she do that if all abortions are caused by women getting knocked up and then randomly deciding they don’t actually want their baby, like the anti-choice narrative claims?

It’s almost as if abortions are actually done for good reasons and the anti-choice people are hateful fucking liars. Weird.

Well, now you’ve piqued my curiosity. Got a link?

The Wikipedia article I’m reading right now says that the Indian plate split from Gondwana 100 MY ago (33 MY before the Chicxulub impact), so that’s not the connection. Further down the page, it says that the plate movement might have sped up as it passed over the mantle plume from the impact that created the Deccan Traps (my interpretation, BTW; the science isn’t actually as settled as I’m making it out to be), but it seems to me that that wouldn’t change the “result” of the plate colliding with Asia and creating the Indian Subcontinent, only the timing of the collision.

Fun fact: Smartwater bottles are popular with ultralight backpackers because they’re cheap, lightweight, and durable enough to survive an entire Appalachian Trail thru-hike.

In other words, it’s fucking ridiculous that they’re sold as single-use plastics.

Considering that we’re in the midst of the Anthropocene mass extinction event already, I’d say it would be a certainty. The only question would be how bad it would get. Given how much larger that crater would be than Chicxulub, I’m guessing it would exceed the “Great Dying” (Permian-Triassic extinction event) to take the crown.

Edit: The Wilkes Land Crater in Antarctica, which may be associated with the Great Dying, was “only” a little over 2.5 times larger in diameter than Chicxulub and thus still way smaller than the crater depicted. That said, I guess a nuclear crater wouldn’t be associated with a flood basalt “exit wound” at the antipode the way an impact crater might be, so maybe it wouldn’t be comparable.