They did this in a park by my house. It used to have a long paved path that meandered through some woods. Engineers with the city noticed the shortcut that people were cutting through, and realized that most people didn't care for the long path. Apparently some anonymous person or several had been dumping gravel along the shortcut for traction and to make it less muddy. So the city paved the shortcut, and removed the long path so that nature would reclaim it.

Democracy in action.

It was kind of sad though to lose the long path because I liked walking through there, especially during the fall, but if it means having less maintenance machines going in there every week to pollute the place (lawnmowers, asphalt patching, etc) then so be it.

The best phone I ever owned was a Xiaomi Mi9 that I got in 2020, right before the US government banned Xiaomi products. Got it new at Target for about $90

I had a T-Mobile prepaid plan on a drugstore Android phone from 2010-2012. The data usage app they preloaded on it was almost a day or two behind, so if it showed that you were close to hitting your cap, chances are you probably already hit it if you had been using your phone a lot in the past 24-48 hours. I caught on when the app told me that I had almost two gigabytes left (back when you could stretch a gig out quite a bit if you stayed away from video apps or downloading big files), then I got a text from them an hour later saying that I hit my cap.

Granted I was on a plan that had "unlimited" data that throttled my phone to like 128 kilobits per second when I hit the cap, but it was still deceitful as fuck for people who were on plans that charged extra if they went past their cap.

It's crazy that phone companies are still pulling this shit.

Whenever someone says "I was a leftist when I was younger, I became more right wing as I got older", what they really mean is they were always fashy pieces of shit. They just stopped hiding.

I was gonna say the text for the "ad" looks way too clean and straight, and doesn't match the artifacting of the rest of the image.

E.coli from McDonald's, specifically.

Elimination of overtime pay for all salaried workers

The other day I "joked" with my friend that this will be how Donald implements his "no tax on overtime" campaign promise. He'll just get rid of overtime protections entirely. Can't tax something that nobody has.

12th century peasant mindset lmao.

Reminds me of a video I saw some years back where somebody built a cat maze inside the their walls of their house. Like my first thought was "cool but what are you gonna do if your cat gets hurt or dies in there, or starts using it as their litterbox?"

I have Batocera (Linux-based emulator platform) on a 2011 Mac Mini.

The only caveat is its weak integrated graphics chip that struggles to emulate fifth generation (PSX, N64, etc) and newer consoles, but since I pretty much only play 16 bit and older it's been a solid machine.

I remember when Apple first switched to using Intel processors, people talked about being able to install Linux and other operating systems easily. I guess Apple didn't like that.

I went to Lowes two weeks ago to buy a wall switch and I browsed the Halloween section near where you first walk in. Most of it was already clearanced to half price or more in order to make room for Xmas stuff.

Shit's expensive too, even with the clearance prices. I always wanted to deck out my house for Halloween, but I'd be spending a paycheck or two to keep up with my neighbors, and I'm terrible when it comes to crafting and DIY.

Trump: I will use the military to crush the left. Immigrants are criminals.

MSM: 🤷‍♂️

Biden: MAGA supporters are garbage.

MSM: 😱

26 (80°F for the Americabrained) today here in Ohio. The trees outside my window always took up brilliant yellows and reds these past few years, but this year they too went straight from green to brown and/or gone.

We've been in a D1 "moderate" drought since August, so between that and the abnormally hot temps (it should be around 7 to 10 degrees by now), the trees are just flat out dying this year.

Usually around this time of year we would have had our first snow, but we haven't even had our first frost yet. It's been like this for over a decade now.

I know climate change has much, much worse consequences, but the fact that people are ignoring these very obvious signs happening right in their own cities worries me a bit.

Ohio repealed Sodomy laws and decriminalized same-sex relations 30 years before a very large part of the rest of the country did. It's sad how the chuds took over since then.

I remember reading some sob story about how people weren't going to get their beloved Christmas candles that year. Like fuck you, what about the workers who died and their families?

But muh candle treats tho.

In almost every grade until around high school, my teachers would throw a pizza party on the last day of school.

It always threw me for a loop because in movies or TV shows that had a scene with a last day of school, the kids had to take a super hard quiz before they could leave. Media always makes school seem scarier and more difficult than it actually was.

Regulations like "workers must work in marginally safe conditions and be paid a minimal amount of money" make it impossible to be innovative.

I wish I was joking. I've argued with business owners who unironically believe OSHA and minimum wage are the biggest reasons they aren't billionaires.