I had a good experience with their customer service.

My Kobo bricked a few days after the warranty expired (it’s possible I broke it installing koreader improperly or something) and they replaced it no problem.

Took a few weeks but I was happy they replaced it at all.

A ballet dancer who’s going through some serious psychological shit, and the story of the movie is kinda a modern retelling of the ballet she’s performing in

No, I’m saying teachers make considerably more than garbage collectors as in most places. I know they get next to nothing in deep red states but that’s not the norm.

Also garbage collection is probably hard on your back and not suitable to do for a whole career, and is probably pretty boring, though some people like a boring job

I feel like there’s a lot to unpack here. Not sure what but definitely a lot

Where do garbage collectors make more than teachers?

It’s a decent union public sector job and pays decently, but so is teaching and that requires more education.

Interesting, I’ve been told that it’s illegal to sleep in your car in Canada when drunk because being in a car with possession of the keys is enough to show intent to DUI and get arrested.

I imagine it’s something you could fight in court and win with a good lawyer, but it always seemed counter intuitive to me.

The question is who would want one?

If you’re a big graphics nerd, who really needs the highest quality everything, you probably have a PC. If you’re an average consumer , the PS5 is fine. A PS5 Pro seems unnecessary.

Haiti didn’t finish paying off its debt to France until 1947. (The debt was sold to Citibank at some point). That debt was partly buying the freedom of the enslaved population.

It never had a chance to get off the ground.

This is such a weird post, implying that tiktok is the only place to find a good hashbrown recipe and therefore it shouldn’t be banned.

I know lemme.ml is a tankie instance but come on

I still engage in pretend play with friends in my 30s.

There’s a rulebook and dice now, but same concept of fantasizing and making up stories.

We even do it outside in the summer

Man that was a couple year streak I think,a new record

Thanks for the well thought out reply, I’m gonna touch on a couple of your points:

I can understand this, however, these days you can make very real and career “advancing” connections anywhere(even online 😱)

That’s often not true. Most jobs in my industry specify the maximum distance you can live from the office, and there isn’t an official rule hiring managers would still usually hire the guy with an address in the same location instead of having to wait for them to relocate and all that. It might be unique to public jobs, but in my world hiring candidates from a different location requires you to foot the bill to relocate them, something that usually isn’t possible unless they’re some specialist.

Also anecdotally, when I lived with my parents in a small town ~7 years ago I didn’t get any bites applying for jobs in cities.

If you don’t have a career plan in mind, what are you doing in the city? If you know what you want to do, find a job in that field which can “fatten up” your CV.

My only career plan was “intellectually simulating office work”, I got there eventually, but it involved scraping by in the city working odd jobs for about 3 years, plus an 8 month graduate certificate program.

I lived with roommates, and got really good at cooking with dry beans and grains, and has a modest amount of support from my family, but I eventually found a job I love.

And I got the interview through a connection I made at a in-person meetup group.

I know how hard it was for me ~5 years ago and I had some help from my family.

Rents are higher now, not sure I could do it with today’s prices, definitely not without a bit of help from the bank of mom and dad. People who don’t have that are screwed unless they get very lucky and find a good job right out of school.

Most servers are there temporarily as they look for a high paying salary job, either directly or by getting an education.

And in most cases, you need to be in the city to apply for those jobs, to make the social connections that can help you find jobs, or to be where the good schools are.

Once you leave the city to go get a medium-paying job in a low cost of living area it makes it that much harder to eventually find the career a person wants.

Sure it’s a decent life, small town livin’, if that’s what you’re into, but people shouldn’t be forced into that lifestyle because it’s impossible to live in a city on an entry level wage.

But since world war II the word has connotations of discrimination, superiority and harmful intent. Words change so the original definition isn’t the correct one.

I’d give him more credit, it doesn’t take a genius to encourage people to subscribe to a philosophy and or vote for a person that will benefit you.

He knows what he’s doing

Under most definitions of racism that’s not true. Racism is usually defined as towards a minority or marginalized group. Discrimination toward the dominant group isn’t racism how it’s usually understood.

Conservatives are trying to redefine it, but that’s not the legal or academic definition anywhere where the courts haven’t been hijacked by conservative nutcases.

The back half of millennials might not have burned CDs either.

The iPod came out in 2001, my first car I played music with a cassette-tape to aux converter and a first or second Gen iPod, my second through a USB stick plugged into an aftermarket deck I bought from Walmart. Music downloaded from Limewire.

A car tax to fund public transit is such common sense, but I don’t see it ever being popular enough to become policy in North America.

Some cities have massive underground parking infrastructure which is best of both worlds.

People who want the luxury of driving can, they just have to pay the high parking prices, meanwhile the city is still walkable because we’re taking advantage of vertical space.

It’s the big flat parking lots and big box stores that make a city miserable to live in without a car

There’s a lot of people who do want to live in dense neighborhoods, enough to drive up prices fighting over the tiny supply, but from a whole population point of view it’s a minority. Politicians still listen exclusively to the suburbanites. Even in the dense neighborhoods, the NIMBYs are listened to more than anyone wanting our cities to look more like Europe or (the good parts of) Asia.