Older than Gen Z, but started hating the U.S. when I was their age. All talk about “freedom,” but the moment you try to do something different than the crowd, some people will non-figuratively threaten to murder you.

Remember who? I don’t know who Farley Burke is or was.

e: Oh, Charly. I misheard. I will gladly honor the sacrifice of Ensign Charly Burke.

Tongue-in-cheek question, serious answer: Stop watching entirely, deny the company your attention, and erode its ability to control our culture. Use the time to learn DIY skills, and meet people IRL.

Probably preaching to the choir here on the Fediverse, but…

There it is… Best comment I’ll read all day.

Aww, 1990’s memes give me the warm-fuzzies. We can’t have the economic prosperity anymore, but we can still pretend that men are all simple-minded goons and women don’t like sex.

Here’s the thing, though, this guy isn’t one of “us.” I didn’t egg him on, or help plan. I only knew Kirk from the tiny-face memes. The nebulous “we” isn’t responsible; the shooter doesn’t seem to have had a network radicalizing him. He’s the proverbial lone wolf. That means he’s exactly the kind of unpredictable, stochastic agent that I’m saying is out there in the world to provide the fascists their justification.

Back then, it was questions about early indicators of dementia. Wow, how wrong we were! /s

They were gonna do it, anyway. They were just waiting for an excuse. Any excuse. In a world as big and complex as ours, probability would have provided them with some pretext sooner or later. As we can see, they don’t know anything about the shooter, or his ideology. It’s just an excuse. If the world didn’t provide them one, they’d manufacture it. Walking around on eggshells and trying to avoid giving them one was never tenable.

I seem to recall a President who decided that the only way to deal with an inconvenient, political loudmouth was to kill him with a drone. And then kill the guy’s teenage son with another drone.

I take your point. More Nazi goons need to get it, ASAP.

Day-um, The Hard Times is leveling up lately!

Yes, the same way that kiloinches is technically allowed.

Way off! There are 25.4 millimeters per inch, not 64, and most measuring tapes have 1/32" markings.

I have to point out here that the Obama administration laid down the legal reasoning and set a precedent for killing accused civilians without trial.

Yeah, so what? This is the natural evolution of online communities. It’s a good thing. When the user base is small, we should have a few, non-specific channels/forums/communities/whatevers so that everybody is in the same place to talk to each other. Metaphorically, it’s like sustaining a nuclear reaction: The fissile material has to be in close enough proximity so that the radiation (posts and comments) can strike more fissile material (other users) to keep the chain reaction going. In the past, I’ve criticized the urge to immediately atomize Lemmy into thousands of highly-specific communities, and indeed, most of them have withered away.

Once a particular topic starts to dominate a community, once it’s reached critical mass, then it’s time to fork it off into its own community. I don’t think that’s happened to !asklemmy@lemmy.world yet.

Yes, it seems like most car destinations are non-places, liminal.zones that nobody actually cares about, a kind weedy, bland growth around cities that can burn down and re-grow without any human quality or anybody even really noticing. The Targets and Outback Steakhouses of the world.

Most of the places in my city predate cars.

Same. The more-standardized sizes in men’s clothing means I just have to resign myself to the fact that I need to buy size M, size L, or size XL depending on the brand, and that it still will never fit right. This is why the majority of my shirts are short-sleeved, even in winter.

I’ve recently met several men who got into sewing as a result.

Random memory unlocked: Back in high school, I had to borrow my girlfriend’s jeans for some reason I don’t remember. (We happened to wear the same size.) I do remember having SO MUCH room in the pockets, because I had narrower hips.

Unfortunately, I’m pretty sure that this is one instance that validates the textbook approach. In addition to the comment here, I had read several on the red site several years ago, one I remember from a buyer for a chain of outdoor gear stores, and another from the owner of a boutique clothing store. Both said that they tried to get women’s clothing with real pockets, but eventually gave up because it just doesn’t sell.

This topic came up in a group of my sailor friends on a boat last week, and ironically, all of the women’s garments had good pockets, so they couldn’t provide an example. But then, they were all wearing utilitarian clothing, rather than stylish. One friend had just bought new pants from REI; I’ve noticed for decades that if you want real pockets, shop at REI.

For what it’s worth, stylish, form-fitting men’s clothing also has tiny, or no pockets.

We don’t blame the Democrats for the crime, we blame the Democrats for positioning themselves as the only ones who can stop the crime, and then just not doing it.