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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Me after reading the secret life of trees

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Bookshop.org is a great spot. Directs money to small independent book stores from your purchase and you can even choose which book store gets the money.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Out of curiosity what is in the approved list of attire that you think is okay for “grown men” and what is in the unapproved list?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

And posting it here will…?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

This is pretty close to one of Denver’s larger intersections, a cross between two major east - west and north - south routes. It’s had cycling groups of migrants for 6ish months but as far as I can tell it hasn’t been a static group. They mainly offer to wash windshields for cash but otherwise are no burden whatsoever on the neighborhood. The surrounding neighborhood is pretty wealthy as it’s close to Denver’s museums and largest parks. This sign is literally in front of a sprouts farmers market.

It’s unfortunate that we’re not doing more to get them more stable housing and employment but they in no way are causing problems. The only people upset about it are just upset about such a visceral confrontation of the inequality when they drive through these intersections. I’ve seen dudes in $100k Audis yelling at the dude just trying to get some money for food because he’s been legally barred from working for his first six months of being here.

Denver has a decent mutual aid network that is doing a lot to help, if you’re interested check out https://www.denvermutualaid.com/

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (4 children)

It’s Colorado Springs. It’s always a safe bet to lower whatever expectations you have as soon as they get involved.

Fun mixture of military, religious, and rural folks make it a hell hole

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I build multiple listing services for a living. It’s been fun watching all of the different parties involved freak out about this change.

I’ve been removing commission fields from APIs and removing constraints from databases for weeks

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

It won’t have anti lock brakes and that’s at least a few parts. A few extremely important parts when it comes to stopping in emergency or non ideal traction conditions.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

In what world is a tow truck going to tow a car for parking on the side walk? They’re gonna tell you to call the cops or parking enforcement and the cops don’t even show up for gun shots

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Sounds more like you dislike bad water. I think well filtered water at this point is table stakes.

Especially if you live in the US where you either have a leaf service line or more PFAS than you’d believe

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago (1 children)

A 2001 ford ranger isn’t even a large truck. I assumed it would be some post 2020 monstrosity

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

I don’t know, still sounds like a skill to me.

Not sure where you draw the line here, 20 minutes of training, an hour, a day, a week, a month, a year? What interval of training inherently makes someone’s labor magically “skilled” and therefore more valuable and worthy of better treatment?

We could just decide that all labor is valuable and treat people with dignity. The “skilled” and “unskilled” workers have significantly more in common than “skilled” workers do with their bosses.

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