great thing that PM2.5’s been vanquished. don’t the visibility issues mostly come from inner-mongolian winds of the north, though?

to be precise: not exactly shut down, but made it really expensive

literally 1984

most of my friends who grew up there never noticed the absence of the e until a spellcheck pointed it out, same might go for you too

it’s not just legal usage; in AmE it’s supposed to not have an e anywhere

interesting. a quote from the oxford style guide mentioned (for BrE, of course):

• judgement (moral, academic etc)
• judgment (legal decision only)

the guide’s own wording also says “… moral judgement”. so according to oxford legal decisions can be called “judgments” but everything else should be called “judgements”?

i thought it was just an AmE thing. apparently it’s also common in some british regions. outside of these regions (including the entire commonwealth) it’s “judgement” which is also what my phone keyboard gives me.

shooting from the hip

they’s gone wide 🚨🚨

let’s use your example of firefighters. the obvious subjugation is the government, when looking at its budget, diverting funds away to pet policies and luxuries (not to mention Robert Moses–style redlining), which is how you have volunteer firefighters that cease all activities at night when you needed them to handle a 4AM electrical backyard fire where i grew up.

the less obvious subjugation is capitalism itself. when the firefighters walk home under this “socialism”, their problems of survival are not solved. they have to take their capital into the nearest grocer and be subject to the horrors of the market: the nearest walmart, the #1 shrink on communities today, replacing the mom-and-pop of memories and community gatherings with a well-oiled, prices machine that runs at a loss until it becomes the only shop (or only competing with similar price machines) in town, at which point it maximizes its profit margin and sells the same cheap items at a markup just enough to be purchasable under welfare assistance. firefighters, historically poorly compensated for their public service, are forced to limit themselves to walmart’s stale options and other working class horrors. this sticks you with the difficult choice of either increasing regulation—risking further government discrimination and costs that burden firefighter funding—or maintaining the status quo. you’ve got every industry risking safety, health, and quality to do things cheaper, and the people relying on regulation and inspection that can never get through every nook and cranny to defend the consumer instead of eliminating the perverted incentive that is capitalism. the final alternative to combining firefighter socialism with capitalism here is to distribute food and other essentials instead of salary, which uh i don’t think is a good idea if legends of government rations and their poor variety hold. maybe when the government is run by omniscient telepaths…

i agree with your last sentence, though. i support syndicalism, which needs to go further—into governance—than just membership. i’ll admit that you could call a syndicalist society capitalist which isn’t something i’ve thought of before

welfare capitalism is still capitalism as even firefighters are still subjugated by class and capital

well put

I agree, but for these cases specifically I disagree. I agree that the toolbar LibreOffice defaults to is god-awful but View→User Interface… gives you options to select much better menus. Personally Contextual Groups has the most potential but Groupedbar is currently the best. I found GIMP 3.0 as straightforward as Photoshop, especially after I found the search actions tool.

I agree with you, but I think your example is lacking as the stabber purely intended to mug and not uncover cancer.

it’s more about which one is better for more situations, no? it is much harder for different situations in the same area to dynamically decide which economic system is better.

I don’t think it was supposed to be in the press/marketed/popularly known this early—I think it’s reasonable that they need some years to get all the labor unions to agree. It’s true that marketing places hype cycles (not sure if that’s what they’re called) at most about a year before release date, but to market something you’d need more years to develop the product first. So this article is probably more of a “Director {X} picked to direct new {FRANCHISE} movie” than “{FRANCHISE} MOVIE 4 IN THEATRES 2028”

community college is flexible

a car for long-distance travel?

https://thriv.social/c/nottheonion/p/112402/a-new-solution-to-student-homelessness-a-parking-lot-where-students-can-sleep-safely-in

trains would be more efficient but it’s much easier to start out with busses

full sent.:

Is Americans a “car culture” or are they “car dependent”?

… yeh “culture” is singulah bu’ that dosn’ mean “Is” couldn’ have been “Are” salving the grammatical issu dammit