As usual, I'm left wishing I had the money for an EV.

Yes, ideally I'd rather be able to use my bicycle and cargo trailer for shopping and public transit for work, but thats literally nonexistent.

Personal anecdote from cooking for years for a variety of people of varying intelligence, background, and countries:

Most people claim it gives them headaches and nausea.

They "know" this because they feel it every time they eat (american) "Chinese food"

Not a single one has ever had either symptom after eating my cooking that has a little sprinkled in.

Now, I have tried to prove a point to some by informing them (many hours after the food, and asking about how they feel) that they in fact ingested MSG without issue and had no symptoms, usually to rounds of spontaneous nausea and headaches that had apparently gone unnoticed for hours until just then.

It could be that ingesting a shit-load of greasy, oily, carbs and over-eating that caused their nausea and headaches when they gorged themselves on "Chinese" food, but no, they know it's the MSG.

There was once an emergency medical flight coming into the hospital I live next to, but someone noticed that a person had parked dead center of the helipad.

The hospital was undergoing some construction, and the crew was on site at the time.

To my understanding, nobody saw what happened and no cameras caught it, but the car miraculously ended up about 40ft away from where it was parked, with orange-yellow paint scraped along one side and heavy equipment track imprints in the grass next to the pad.

The helicopter was able to land, and someone had to decide whether they wanted to admit to blocking the helipad and try to blame the construction company for damages, or let it go and drive around with a big dent in one side of the car.

I support this action and condemn any potential punishments.

Besides, from what I read, she didn't illegally cross the border.

Honestly I've thought cm002 was a bot before as well, but they engage in comment sections often enough to say either it's not, or it's a user hopping on to check bot progress.

Either way, most likely case is it's a user that saw a funny meme, and reposted it since not every sire is federated with others and some communities might not see it, especially if it's to a world or ml domain.

Possibly related, I did not see your post from this morning, this is my first time seeing it. Not sure about federation between instances but yeah.

Also tangentially related, anyone remember the huge r*ddit drama over a poweruser constantly reposting things with top comment responses to farm karma? That was a fun glance into people who take imaginary internet points too seriously. I'm glad lemmy doesn't keep track of total votes.

My mother in law is constantly posting about how the Biden administration put litter boxes in every school bathroom and they haven't been removed.

Of course, her own grandchildren telling her they've never seen one in any of the 6 schools they've been to is just woke bullshit the teachers are instructing them to lie to their parents about.

The mental gymnastics required to believe these things is astounding, and would almost be impressive if it weren't harming people.

Tons of people who "oppose" ice/SS kidnappings: "nooooooo we aren't there yet we can't do voilent things in response to systemic ongoing violence perpetrated by the government noooooooooo"

"Concerning nonviolence: It is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself, when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks."

-Malcolm X

Same shit, different day.

"930"

We have differing opinions on "reasonable"

Having worked in quite a few fields in the last 15 years or so, it's the same active shooter training they give everyone. Even in stores that sell guns.

I'll let the reader decide how fucked up it is that there's basically a countrywide accepted "standard response"

I feel like the punishment when he keeps going with it after receiving no actual push-back should be getting stomped into paste.

If you fuck with something that large and you're not dead, it's because it chooses to let you live.

Luigi x Toad romcom fanfics are art thank you very much.

I had exactly 0 intention of ever buying anything from Adobe.

Inkscape gave me an alternative to the high seas. And it happens to do everything I need it to, although it's way more powerful than the simple vector graphics conversions I use it for.

10/10, Adobe never lost money from me getting Inkscape. They lost the game before they knew I was a player.