I'm so happy this is the top comment when I came in here. We're not centralized social media that requires constant content generation to acquire more views and we shouldn't try to treat it as such. Donate to your instances when you can, contribute to communities you care about with posts/comments, and then when you reach the end of your feed log off. How forums are supposed to be imo.

What happened to respecting states rights? So sick of the judicial branch in the US, the most untethered and corrupt branch of them all. Which is saying a lot considering the state of the legislative branch.

the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, reported last year that roughly 20% of Americans have medical debt

I'm honestly shocked it's only 20%.

I'll honestly be shocked if they can get him to shut up about the trial.

random US city response, probably

Not random. You just described Houston, Texas.

Lotta meth in the Nazi party, looks like a bit of meth mouth and a side of tobacco dipping to me.

Are we okay with this?

It's their instance, their rules. You can join another instance that doesn't defederate from them or make your own. That's the beauty of the fediverse design. It doesn't matter if we're okay with it, we have options to get around it unlike with centralized platforms.

It's optional, you can make it e2e encrypted with the secret chat option, which the CCP doesn't like.

I imagine the same reason so many Americans think of the UK as just London, or France as just Paris. I don't know what that reason is, but I imagine it's probably the same reason.

I don't even know what to say, just completely disgustingly unhinged behavior. The dehumanization of the houseless needs to stop.

Blessed be thy mittens.

Say what you will about W (there's a lot to criticize) but he was quick with those dodges lol

Schafer says watering trees is outside the bureau’s scope: “We only trim trees for visibility and clear brush. We simply are not set up for nor have the skills for tree maintenance beyond that.”

Watering is too hard? Wtf?

... plant about 30 saplings in a grassy triangle in the East Portland neighborhood...

... at least 25 of the trees in the triangle appeared beyond salvation last week.

So almost a complete loss, beautiful.

PBOT’s failure to water its 30 trees in the traffic median is the second time this year that government officials have failed to protect tree canopy. An ongoing street-widening project along a 67-block stretch of Southeast Powell Boulevard means the state is currently chopping down 570 trees lining the road, WW reported in June.

What the FUCK?!

This article is infuriating tbh

Is this some UTC joke I'm too PDT to understand?

For me, it's about efficiency. Because I am not a lawyer, but I also do anal.

As a former Texan, it's quite difficult to vote. The work culture there makes it even harder but the state also purposely makes it as inconvenient as possible. If you're low income and don't have vacation time or anything like that it's really hard to get out and vote in-person. Now I'm in a state with mail-in voting by default and Texas makes me even more sick when I saw how easy it's supposed to be.

More people could definitely make more of an effort there, but the barriers to vote shouldn't be overlooked imo

What happened in Florida now?

I actually don't think he had a role in TNG.

It's not coming back, it never left. We're seeing them get more aggressive because they know that the newer generation isn't buying into the ideology as much as previous generations and so their ideals are going to die with them unless they use systemic tools to enforce it.

I wouldn't go that far.