Gabadabs

I have time to play videogames, and it's my primary hobby - but I also don't date nor have any interest in having kids. I imagine it's a lot harder for people with romantic lives or kids.

Or you could just... watch better movies.

It's sad that so many people are willing to buy new devices with lithium ion batteries in them when much of the cobalt used in the production of them is mined via slave labor in Congo. I'm sorry but open world Mario kart and higher fps in your games isn't worth slavery.

Sure, but it makes it impossible for anyone that doesn't have a smartphone with Bluetooth to use them, and makes me have another account I don't want, among other issues. If the apartment's WiFi has issues, the machines lose connection and you can't use them, It's a vastly worse experience then using quarters or even just a card reader.

Why does every apartment I ever live in now never have laundry in unit, and requires you use a mobile app w/ an account to pay to do laundry. Why do I need to load a digital wallet that requires I pay a fee if I only want to add just the amount for one load? It's absurd. Let me put quarters in.

It's multifaceted, police do sometimes serve as a deterrent to or to protect people, but it's important to also recognize the position they hold isn't to help your average people as much as it is to maintain order for the benefit of the state. They are the internally focused gun that will just as soon shoot a killer as a black child walking down the street with a nerf gun. Either one serves the same purpose, stay in line or else, do what we say or else, they sow fear in the population while making the privileged feel some illusion of safety. They'll help you get your stolen car back, while also arresting a mother for stealing food from Walmart, or a homeless person for sleeping in their car. If you are any sort of minority, a police officer is a much greater threat than a help, and we've seen that in a history of high and low profile cases where police murder black people with absolutely no consequences, or in their use to suppress even the most by-the-book protests. Instead of solving the core problems that cause the majority of crimes, like poverty.

Happens, I'd bet money it was a multi-location stop and they were intending to deliver that neighbor's package and accidentally grabbed yours. It's easy to make a mistake here and there when you're delivering to thousands of houses in a given week.

Culture war nonsense is favored by governments that want you to have an "enemy" to point the finger at instead of them, it's a classic strategy that the Nazi party used during the Holocaust. We're susceptible to propaganda, all of us are, and a trans people are a minority that's easy to point at - and get a lot of people with rigid values on sex and gender to listen. You can get that basic "ew that's unnatural" response with bathroom or anti-trans women in sports rhetoric, regardless of whether there's merit to the claims.

Israel doesn't want to relocate Palestinians, they want to kill them, while actively preventing them from relocating.