There’s a certain level of childish contrarianism going on. “I was going to do this, but now I have learned you want me to do it and so I’m going to refuse”

My brother and I tried to convince our father to install solar panels when he was considering replacing our parents’ entire roof due to age. The house was perfect for it: it wasn’t shaded by trees, the roof was a 35 degree angle facing mostly to the south, the whole roof needed to be replaced, and there where still some really good tax advantages at the time.

We ran all the numbers for him, showed how it would pay for itself in something like 5 years and actually generate money for him after that, how the tax breaks would save so much money, how a large home battery could be used to power the home when the electricity is out due to Indiana’s frequent tornadoes and storms…

Nope. Saving tens of thousands of dollars wasn’t enough to overcome the dangers of Critical Race Theory powered panels generating a woke communist DEI field that is going to transgender the tan suit wearing raccoons of the Southern Indiana AntiFa Brigade.

I’m glad he died before COVID hit. He would absolutely have been the sort to say that wearing a mask is something only blue haired lesbian socialists do and gotten our mother killed.

Or how about this for a title: getting people to use smaller vehicles in general is the better environmental choice.

Okay but why is Ikea monitoring Iran’s nuclear program?

… oh, I need to new glasses.

San Luis Obispo

Omg thank you! I was just starting to look for alternatives

Unfortunately OpenKeyChain is now no longer being developed. It still works… for now.

Yuuup. Trump getting elected once was the writing on the wall, I wasn’t going to wait and hope he didn’t manage to return to power. Turns out that was a great decision, the Netherlands are amazing.

Followed by: “well it’s my library, so I and my kids should be allowed to check things out when we want to”

A small amount of cream cheese.

Yea yea there’s some schismatics out there that claim to be the “actual” pope but there hasn’t really been an anti-pope since 1449.

“Pastor” is the term for the person that leads a church / church congregation. The general ranking of the hierarchy is:

• Deacon (not yet a priest, are usually all volunteer, but can do some ceremonies)
• Pastor or priest (ordained, usually employed by the Church itself, they’re allowed to hold all ceremonies and conduct mass or church service)
• Bishop (management level, must be 35, must be a priest for 5 years)
• Archbishop (oversee multiple churches and run the archdiocese; there’s 196 in the US. Wyoming has a single archdiocese)
• Cardinal (upper management, only cardinals are allowed to vote on new popes)
• Lastly - Pope. The man at the top, there’s only one.

J.D. Vance is Catholic, and referred to the Pope as a ‘pastor’. This would be like somebody saying “(insert American President) was a good mayor”.

The Nazis started with the disabled, trans, gays, and autistic. The Jews came after the political dissidents.

All of your descriptions are hardly unskilled, those take a good deal of education, practice, and in the case of plumbers legal certification that probably involves an apprenticeship. It’s absolutely a skilled profession.

In my youth I briefly worked for a temporary agency and did a bunch of odd tasks to fill in when needed. The least skilled thing I did was for a newspaper: sliding racks of newspapers from a conveyor belt onto a long table, watching this massive table vibrate the newspapers for a solid couple of minutes (to prevent pages from getting stuck together as the ink dried), then throwing in the day’s collection of laminated ad inserts into each set, and then pushing the boxes onto the next conveyor belt down the line. Training was thirty seconds of instruction.

I would call it ‘labor’ because it doesn’t need any adjectives or qualifiers. It’s just work, somebody laboring at a task.

30 euro for gigabit up/down, Netherlands

As somebody that rode a motorcycle for years: you can make eye contact and still be unseen.

He wrote Altair Basic, which is more than just repackaging. I can only assume he tended towards more business related tasks after that though.

He also once thought every home would have a dedicated ISDN line.

I believe it came out during his divorce hearings.

Nederlandse heeft een sterke geschiedenis in Amerika. Er was zelfs een president die geen engels spreekt, want Nederlands was zijn moedertaal.

I saw this attitude growing up around evangelicals. “God gave man sovereign control of the earth to benefit us” kind of nonsense.

These assholes see a beautiful park like Yosemite and are disgusted that it’s full of people relaxing and enjoying the scenery; because all they see is a forest of trees to cut down and a mountain range just waiting to be mined.

They don’t care about the long term consequences at all because they’re also convinced that Jesus is going to return any day now, and when he does the entire planet is getting incinerated as all physical reality of the universe is summarily disintegrated as god sends all the good people to heaven and the rest of us losers to hell for all eternity.

I don’t know how many times I’ve heard the argument that NOT clear cutting the world’s forests was actually bad stewardship of the planet that their god ‘gave’ us.