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Cost of living must be astronomical in the US for 200k to not be "more than liveable". If half your income was spent on rent that would be an insane 8,3k a month. and you would sti…

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard are both popular and novel.

which fact? please tell us exactly what you mean by that. get real

i think this is the insidious thing about polarization: people in the middle get caught in the crossfire of harsh rhetoric. and it is hard to blame people for this, an eye for an e…

"completely closed OS" is not accurate. apple releases a surprising amount of source code. https://opensource.apple.com/releases/

I have built a web app for streaming music (for personal use/satisfaction) that i primarily use as a mobile PWA. PWA is sort of like if you tied an electron app to the user's insta…

Pruning plants is very often good for them.

would you say windows respects the users time? that's just not my experience. linux is far more convenient for me.

The OS is a tool in and of itself. I think its perfectly reasonable to expect a program to look and feel similar to other programs on the same OS. At least for things the OS is som…

special care is literally the job of a doctor.

Even with a diagnosis from an age of 12 (!!!), and testimonies from teachers and parents going even further back, I was still being stonewalled for months on getting medication as …

In the US, it is illegal in many places (arguably, most) to build dense housing. Parking minimums, setback requirements, "euclidean" single family zoning. The market didnt break it…

I feel like a lot of petty crime (like shoplifting and such), is not directly caused by desparation, but a kind of contempt. Their community failed to make them feel provided for a…

My partner who works from home has a NDA which means nobody is allowed to even be in the same room while she is working. That room is more than wanted...

pretty consistently hovering between 52% and 55% for me.

Exactly, any form of consent requires respecting "No" as a final answer. After that, consent is opt-in.