I’ve tried getting my permit twice before, but the driving schools in my area are all in the middle of nowhere and difficult to schedule for adults.

Millionaires vs. billionaires. You start with businesses who can support the strike. Strikes aren’t free. It can’t be partisan, it can’t just be workers. It has to be an umbrella.

By the time the majority realizes they should leave, it’ll be too late. That’s just how authoritarianism works.

I am conflicted myself, but keep in mind why they are doing this. They know they lost the future generations and can’t win them back. Democrats have a massive majority of millennials and gen-z. These people are making their final power plays from their retirement homes and sick beds. We have decades to fix what they broke and make something new.

There are struggles with leaving. There are struggles with staying. You’re not wrong to leave if you can, but I think there’s a case for staying.

That’s so ridiculous. I bet the warning didn’t even tell you that you couldn’t use another account in the interim.

They don’t seem interested in unbanning these kinds of bans. You can get around it, but they need to have no idea it’s you. There are posts and videos about it. It’s checking your devices and your internet service. You’ll need a new device and internet service. You can never connect your old accounts to them, and you can never log the new device/account into an internet service you used (eg. at your moms). It’s also recommended to take care to not make it obvious you’re the same person. Eg. spend a few weeks just upvoting posts, only go to a few subreddits you didn’t go to before, and slowly add the stuff you liked before.

I’m not bothering, personally. Welcome to Lemmy. Checkout Bluesky and Threads.

I’m 30 and have never learned. I live in a city with adequate public transit.

The rate is the factual evidence that denying women healthcare creates real harm.

US maternal mortality rate:

2016: 17 women per 100,000 births

2024: 19 women per 100,000 births

That is an 11% increase and higher than any year in the 2000-2019 timeframe.

Try to understand where they are coming from or why someone might be writing something. Usually when people write disturbing things online, it’s because they did not have a normal, healthy childhood. They weren’t taught to have proper relationships with other people. They may have been abused and excluded from society.

the day my work friend got so mad at me that he cut me off. to keep it short. there was a traumatic few weeks after that where he was taking out his anger on me.

President Taft riding a water buffalo. Always gives me a chuckle.

they’ll figure it out eventually.

I have a lot of Republican family members who are personally affected and still Republican. They don’t see any alternative. You need to remember why we got here: our party has done nothing for the past 20 years but fail. Fail to prevent the collapse of the middle class, fail to create a comprehensive re-training scheme, fail to address the consequential homelessness and drug addiction epidemic, fail to lift the south out of poverty, fail to create a rational healthcare system, fail to stop the environment from getting worse, fail to govern effectively and bring the national debt into line, bowed down to trillionaire oligarchs instead of stopping them. I could keep going. I say this with full acknowledgement that Joe Biden had the most positive direct impact on my life and family of any president in my lifetime. I say this with full acknowledgement that the republicans also failed. But when all people hear is that we can’t help them, people will turn to ANYONE saying they can help.

I would assume it went the other way, that the tech companies gave the school money to try to hook young consumers. You will see that with other companies on your campus as well, such as door dash, uber eats, drink companies handing out samples, etc.

It’s not possible for it to not happen. Even if every republican area was complicit, so that they only had to attack democratic cities, they simply cannot attack every place in the country all at once. Also, most authoritarian governments still have elections. They just engage in election fraud, which again, he can’t do in every single place.

They need to recognize there is a problem and want to change it.

Well, red voters need to stop voting red this election. That’s the only way we have to hold our elected officials accountable.

Check out The Conquest of Bread by Kropotkin. It’s an easy read, I had no trouble with it in high school. It doesn’t need to be violent at all. Very much a “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need” kind of book. People focus a lot on “Why should that person have what I have, when I worked so hard?” when the real question is “Why should that person go without what all of us have, when it’s completely unnecessary?”

It’s completely normal for 30 year olds to interact on social media. That wasn’t a thing 20 years ago when we were your age, but we grew up with social media in our teens. Your dad sounds like a normal 30 year old.

Those are some brave cats.

I don’t think so. it’s like, explanatory. why am I freaking out? oh, I am as mentally fragile as a butterfly and can’t handle literally anything. that’s why.