5 years ago to the day I lost one of my best friends to a drowning accident while we were on a float trip. We were just 24 and 25yo. From that day I realized that no one is untouchable by tragedy. I already knew that but didn’t live it. Now as a friend group all of us are much more vocal about our feelings and our expressions of love to each other. It was a long car ride home that night. 2-3 hours of silence from 1:00-3:00am just letting it sink in that we watched our friend die. I personally performed CPR on him and took lead in his rescue attempt. As a medical professional, I learned more from that single experience than anything in school which is my silver lining.

Say I’m a trans female. Can I post then? Trans man? Gay man? Gay woman?

It’s self policing. If they’re being obnoxious or killing the environment or culture of the space, downvote/block/report and move on.

Nalgene uses tritan for their plastic bottles btw

Anyone got one of them antitrust lawsuits?

I guess I wasn’t factoring in the context. I was just focused on the hard drives not having issues with magnets thing. But yeah in that case you’re right. And google did tell me that most modern hard drives have pretty robust protection from magnetic fields now. So you’re doubly right. TIL

I have a hard time believing this.

If so, we totally “wiped” hundreds of hard drives of useable data for a recycling center without actually wiping them. We just took a 10lb magnet and plunked it on both sides before we chucked it in a bin.

A big chunk of my time on reddit was just chatting with sports fans in local team subs during games and in league wide subs about current events.

Surprised to not see St. Louis on the right side of this list

Sorry you hate golf. Public pools and libraries are also heavily subsidized by tax payer money. Parks for that matter are too. Sometimes it’s just a good thing to provide your citizens with something to do outside. I’m certainly not a rich white asshole that drives a BMW or Merc. I drive a 2019 Hyundai Santa Fe with 130k miles on it.

I no longer live there but in the 4000 population town I grew up in, the only tax funded public entity that turned a profit for the city budget was the golf course. The public pool never showed profit in the 8 years I was a lifeguard there. The best it ever managed to do was about a $6k loss. The library lost money because of building maintenance and after school programs. And the parks district was the biggest drain on public funds due to recreational sports for kids and an outdoor theater production for local kids to act in. If anything, the golf course helped fund other local programs.

Feel free to form your own opinion, but I’ve only ever heard good things about Top Golf and it’s not a massive drain on resources or space like traditional golf courses are. But I also enjoy golfing at public golf courses from time to time. It’s fun to get out on the course with 3 of my buddies to whack a ball and have some beers outside. Never will consider a private membership or course though. Private golf courses can be burned to the ground for all I care.

Not really related, but I did a complete 180 on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Back in the early months of the conflict I posted a comment here suggesting that bombing in Gaza was targeting Hamas strategic targets and there was evidence of “roof knocking” to warn innocent occupants of an incoming attack. I didn’t realize how naive I was at the time parroting propaganda. If people hadn’t continued posting evidence of the IDF and their genocide/war crimes I wouldn’t have known any better.

Going to bat for xbox or Microsoft right now is a death sentence on the internet so by internet law I have to downvote you. Sorry, it’s just the way things go…

That said, I agree. Being able to buy a $30 plug and play pack with rechargeable battery packs or being able to buy rechargeable AAs or just normal AA batteries is the best of all the current first party options.

Yeah, well, you know, that’s just, like, your opinion, man.

Its by design. If they have an unruly person they want to just get rid of every once in a while, kill them behind closed doors and dump the body in the swamp during a faux escape attempt. Then during the media circuit that surrounds the death you just claim the prisoner was killed by alligators in the surrounding swamp after an attempted escape.

The children yearn for the mines

What really pisses me off is that their anti-cheat forces me to use dogeOS

Really? Dumper sticker was right there…