indepndnt

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[–] indepndnt 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I guess one specific, concrete example would be reversing Citizens United. As I understand it, that could be done either by legislative action or through the judicial, though the former would probably be better.

[–] indepndnt 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The OP lists four numbered rules.

[–] indepndnt 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Common among the electronics hobbyists that OP mentioned as well, leads are what you call the connections to discrete components or IC's.

[–] indepndnt 0 points 1 year ago

Well that can't be true, everything I see when I look around is in the US.

[–] indepndnt 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't use it every day, but today I used the pizza cutter that I bought for myself when I was maybe in my early 20s and I thought about how long I've had it. I had been pretty fed up with the cheap ones that my parents had around and decided to spend some money on a good one. I was pretty poor so it's not like made of marble or anything, but it's still sturdy and cuts pizza well after 20 years, so it was probably worth whatever I spent on it.

[–] indepndnt 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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[–] indepndnt 14 points 1 year ago

I used to wait tables, and one time I had one of those tables where just everything goes wrong. After it was finally all over and they left, THEY FUCKING CAME BACK TO TALK ABOUT IT SOME MORE.

That's not how this works dude. You leave, you write a bad review, we all go on with our lives. If I was actually a bad waiter, I'd get fired soon enough, you don't have to worry about it.

[–] indepndnt 12 points 1 year ago

Yup. My kids are learning about it in school, and they regard it about how we regarded the civil war. Like dude, that was really fucked up, but it was a long time ago.

Well it turns out it wasn't that long ago, and now we've had an insurrection in your lifetime so, ...probably some good lessons in there.

[–] indepndnt 5 points 1 year ago

I thought I saw Danny DeVito in this picture for a second.

[–] indepndnt 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I felt very much the same way when I was trying to figure out what was going on and what I believed. What I ultimately landed on is that feminism is really the only game in town when it comes to identifying what is actually happening. I found Bell Hooks' The Will To Change immensely useful in sorting it out -- it's not men vs women, it's the patriarchy vs all of us. One thing she wrote in that book that really resonated with me, and is basically what this post is about, is something along the lines of "the first act of violence that patriarchy demands of men is the destruction of their own emotional selves."

[–] indepndnt 6 points 1 year ago

Same, I just can't get over that name. I'm not sure if that's because of or in spite of the fact that I had a fedora phase when I was younger...

[–] indepndnt 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I've occasionally had success restoring a network connection with troubleshooter. Generally if you switch between Ethernet and WiFi, Windows will get confused, but the troubleshooter will turn the network devices off and on which gets it back. I find it's easier to turn off the device I'm not using, but if that's too complicated for someone usually "run the troubleshooter" works.

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