I fall asleep when my exhaustion overwhelms my anxiety; I get up when my anxiety overwhelms my exhaustion.

I'm a waitress, used to have this amazing young busser I worked with named Beni. Beni was as American as apple pie, but like apple pie, originated somewhere that French is spoken.

One breakfast shift this woman comes up to me. The place is empty, she's the last table before we close to flip the dining room for lunch. She looks around and hands me her tab in cash, saying "I didn't want to leave it on the table," in just north of a whisper.

Beni walks out of our server station behind me and her eyes get just a little bit wider. I calmly turn to Beni, hand him the cash, and say, hey Beni, can you hold this for me? then turn back to the guest and explain, very slowly and patiently, that in the future it's perfectly acceptable to leave her cash on the table if she doesn't want change because we're all professionals and work as a team. It would not be an exaggeration to describe her departure as "scurrying away".

I turned back to Beni and rolled my eyes. He just shrugged. I doubt it was the first time someone has acted like that towards him.

Kant? St. Augustine? Siddhartha Budda? Epictetus? Plato? Hobbes?

Ethical philosophy has had plenty of geniuses.

One thing that I think is very foreign to some people, that Americans take for granted, is that a table server is always watching you when you dine. If the patron looks unhappy, or us even just sitting up and looking around, a good server will be there as soon as they can to see if something is needed. Hand-in-hand with that, signalling a server, especially with a loud noise, is extremely rude, basically an accusation that they're not doing their job. Which, okay, sometimes we aren't and it's appropriate. But to wave or stand is an indictment, and to snap or whistle is way over the line.

Correspondingly, a good waitress doesn't interrupt a meal or conversation, but merely glides by or hovers until the party is ready for his attention.

The same reason there's no true conservative party. Corporate interests have captured our political institutions.

"love you" became "wuvs" became, via autocorrect, "wolves", became the wolf emoji

Mystery Men had posters that just showed the characters, a trailer mostly cut from action scenes and character intros (no plot), and the music video to Smash Mouth's "All Star"

Brutality architecture, done well, already looks amazing!

That said, yes, their tendency towards large unbroken planes of material make them prime candidates for murals, and you see a lot of that in places like Chicago that had a big Brutalist phase.

It's a old meme from before cell phones. You used to just, like, memorize your friends' phone numbers.

Since you're already familiar with lemmy, I'll just highlight how Kbin diverges:

• downvotes are publicly visible

• there's a double-upvote called "boost" that also acts as a retweet

• it interacts with Mastodon instances natively as well as lemmy ones

• munis are called "magazines" and located at /m/ instead of /c/, which csn break some links which would be instance-neutral on lemmy

• there's only a web interface, AFAIK, no mobile apps

• active development by one sole individual who's very involved

• blocking whole instances is enabled at the user level

And additionally you can do everything you can on lemmy, including self-host an instance.

If people don't understand you, it's not because they're less intelligent; it's because you're bad at communicating.

I don't like paying more for less, and I am devoutly opposed to the Apple design aesthetic.