I note the school signs. Is this a line of parents queued up to pick up kids vs people actually parking cars in the bike lane?

Barring any issues with a kid outside of a parent’s control, this is what one should hope for a kid:

Top of the list: Love, safety, food, etc., the basics, and a lack of judgement for *personality or other orientation. That’s 90% of it.

Teach your kid right from wrong not by command or dogma, but by example.

Teach your kid how to learn, and teach them directly as needed.

*I don’t have the vocabulary in my head, but the gist I’m after is not trying to cram a kid into your mold. Sexual orientation-wise, how they dress, what jobs or careers are acceptable, sports… Let them be who they are as long as there’s no harm.

Becoming a parent you need to learn these things if you didn’t have a strong base from your own life to draw from. Some of us have a daily uphill battle to right the wrongs of the past. All of us will commit wrongs of our own, just gotta hope you can admit to them and fix your waya.

Yeah, but the shitshow is so much worse elsewhere so we admire yours.

Smaller farms, maybe.

But Big Ag will just jack up prices while the little guy fails. Oh, look! Cheap farms to buy up!

Pity we can’t spread it around. I know it’s gonna be another hot summer, but I’m tired pf sub-freezing temps.

Real life consequences.

What’s he worth now? 4 billion then? He was Worth 3 billion at the beginning of the year with all the grift he’d pulled over the previous year.

I tend to not block instances FWIW. I have blocked several communities and found that it works pretty well. For now, browsing /all in lemmy is my preferred view because we just don’t have that many people to keep content coming in the communities I have subscribed to. Plus, it’s more fun to see the variety. Lemmy is small enough still where it’s easier to “opt-out” than there is a need to “opt-in” to limit the noise.

As an American I feel exactly the same. There absolutely were holdouts of racism, but I felt we were moving forward and leaving them behind. Obama’s presidency set the stage, then trump and covid set everything on fire and the mask came off. “Draining the swamp” just meant revealing the scum at the bottom of it and setting it free. I was shocked at how many racist, petty, selfish, aggressively ignorant people there are in the US.

Pink Panther lookin’ his age in retirement.

No, I watched Frontier House and Survivor Man. Frontier was families put in frontier style homes that were told to work and live like they did back in the land rush days. They had the convenience of most of their log homes being built for them, and an occasional delivery from a mercantile. All period, of course. A very interesting sociological experiment. The results of their labors were inspected by analysts to see if they and their animals would have survived the winter. I think only one family might have survived.

Survivorman? Pretty much learned that surviving in the woods sucks, could easily kill you, he only had to do it for a few days at a time and even he knew he had help just a radio call away.

Or to put it another way, AI is making it faster and easier to do the wrong thing in the wrong way at scale.

…and absolve the operator of any responsibility, apparently.

Oh, that was the AI doing something wrong. shrugs and just keeps doing what they’re doing.

12k likes for an inane corporate ad post? Gotta be mostly bots.

Foraging for wild plants is a skill you need fully established before having to rely on it for survival, it’s just like hunting, dressing an animal, and meat preservation. Do it wrong and at best you’ll get a little sick, at worst it will kill you quickly.

Also, in a hypothetical apocalyptic situation, you’ll be competing with millions of people who will be eating anything they can. I can’t remember the stats, but I think the Appalachian deer population took something like 40-50 years to fully recover from the Great Depression. A lot of hungry people will do a lot of damage.

Shittier rulers have lasted longer.

They felt stilted, directionless, and shallow. I really wanted them to be decent, but gave up after two.

They really don’t have a clue. They just assume they can take whatever they need by threat or violence and whoever else has guns will be on their side. Plenty of those guns will be aimed at them to take what they have, too.

And then?

Next to none will have a clue about “after.” Civilization is a community full of skilled trades. From the blacksmith to the tanner to the farmer and the miller. Think any of the preppers will be out in the field, day in, day out, planting, harvesting, storing, cutting wood, prepping food for winter? Got any draft animals? Got a place to care for and feed them all winter? How about getting sick or hurt and being unable to work? They ate up this “American Self Reliance” BS with a shovel, and it’s complete trash. Their personal chauvinism will see them just as dead as everyone else.

Just got an induction stove. Sound level depends on the power setting and the pot/pan, and maybe even on the stove manufacturer.

I’ve never heard a “squeal”, but there is a faint “buzz-click” as the power cycles in the coils. If you need high power the buzz is slightly louder and steady, if low power it’s fainter but you get the “click” of the relays as it cycles. Some cookware seems to make the buzz a little louder.

Overall IMO it’s not loud, and the sounds of cooking pretty much drown it out - boiling, searing, whatever.

I’ve cooked with all three (gas, electric, induction) and while a good gas stove is still my favorite, induction IMO is really the best of both worlds. I absolutely would not go back to standard electric after using induction.

Bunker building idiots. Bet they’re selfish as fuck and have nothing but items for their own survival saved up instead of maybe a hoard of books, seeds, tools and the like.

One of two outcomes:

1. If you actually truly need the bunker, the world has gone to absolute shit and there will be nothing worth living for except hand-to-mouth subsistence farming. I don’t think anyone has a clue as to what actual collapse would look like. Congrats, you’ll just starve last.

2. If you’ve got hundreds of thousands of hungry and starving people and any small percentage know you have a bunker with food and medicine, they will get in or burn you out with fire trying. They literally have nothing else to do and nothing else to lose.

If he didn’t actually cheat he absolutely openly tried. Fake electors, calling State governors looking for “a few more votes,” the insurrection at the Capitol, etc.