Don’t run down right after hopping out of the shower

This is the wild power of branding with good marketing. Gillette figured out how to hack an entire generation’s brain into believing they need to spend $40 bucks for a small pack of razor blades that will be dull within weeks.

Amazing. Let the sheep be sheep and keep your eyes open to more cases of this.

So much this here in Bangkok as well, and in addition nobody has any clue which side to walk on.

You are constantly approaching head-on with a pedestrian who doesn’t know where to walk and weaving around wandering groups that wall 3-4 people wide.

Here’s another take. I think some people would never act cruel towards their equal yet they can easily act cruel if they believe another human to be someone less than their equal.

This is why during war times it is common to develop nasty names and personas of the individual enemies.

TIL, thanks for the insight. This is as it should be and Google can deal with it no problem.

I think most search engines are not optimized for this. I’m sure it’s changing but might take some time.

Google historically penalizes duplicate content and selects one source as canonical, usually whichever domain is the most authoritative. When it comes to lemmy, whichever instance hosts the community should probably be the canonical source.

It’s a difficult problem to sum up because there are so many reasons this is happening, and I don’t think it’s all malicious.

At the core there is a general disrespect for any authority in American culture and it’s easy to believe stories that a government-mandated medical intervention is somehow not as safe as they say.

It doesn’t help that there have been government programs in the past that were harmful and the knowledge was only made public after it was too late. Very few people believe the government has the people’s best interest in mind.

Individuals are only capable of understanding a very limited amount at one time, and rely on their tribe to inform them of almost everything else. These days there’s a tsunami of information that is impossible to process completely. So it’s just human nature to trust a small selection of sources and does usually offer a survival advantage.

So it’s not hard to see how smart people can fall for misinformation especially when they are inclined to doubt authority.

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I think it’s funny because it’s true. Long form written communication used to convey a lot more subtlety than just its content. It’s a tradition that we will lose a bit like other formalities because it no longer tells you useful information about the sender.

Smart move by the new owner, anything else would have looked out of touch

Had one for a while. It’s ok but the places you can safely ride are more limited than you think. E-scooters are a far superior invention for mobility.

My TikTok feed is full of content that I find interesting and educational, from creators who work hard to make something valuable.

For them, banning TikTok means the work they put in to curating an audience will be partially lost, they’ll retain only the followers who find them on another app. If they are monetizing, they’ll potentially have to start over. That may discourage some who are just getting started from developing their craft.

If china, bytedance, meta, or any other platform is collecting user data in such a way as to be a national threat they definitely need to cut it out and this should be regulated. For example, it should be impossible to identify the location of military generals based on where their wives access TikTok from, or who’s having an affair with who based on proximity to each other, or to develop a vast dataset of individually identifiable profiles of every user that could be used to selectively damage their character.

Aside from these problems, which are potentially solvable, I think the individual creator/maker economy is an awesome way to give more power to the people.

Accelerate, brake, accelerate, brake, accelerate, brake on repeat when on a wide open road.

Some drivers do this seemingly without being aware and once you notice it’s impossible to ignore how irritating the feeling is.

There was only one, we’re all still copying from him or her.

Where’s this yhwh library, can I install it with pip? Seems like it could have potential for some of my projects.

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Now I can browse in serious mode, funny mode, etc

Kinda true, how this thing even worked, nobody knows

The HOA is the owners. The owners vote in some board members who do the work on behalf of the majority of owners.

Sometimes the HOA hires some 3rd party management company to handle stuff, but in our case we felt it was wasted money because we would care more about the results. In the end I can see why a lot of owner boards do that as the day-to-day of running the place is obnoxious.

The public spaces were on our property, so our responsibility.

Chuck Testa!!!

I was the president of my HOA. Somewhat not intentionally.

It was my first home, a condo, and I bought it at launch right after it was built. After about 6 months of living there, a neighbor approached me and said the whole rest of the board had flaked out, and would I like to be president of the HOA?

I said sure, it seems interesting and I definitely want the value of my ownership to be protected.

So me, him, and another guy formed a new board.

Oh man, the messes we started to uncover. The super low dues didn’t even cover the trash removal, hallway electric lighting bill, elevator maintenance contract… Much less any landscaping. No wonder the place was looking rough.

And of course there was no budget to put money away for long term needs like reroofing or whatever.

So we worked hard on a plan to propose to the owners to increase the dues about 70% so that we’d have a well landscaped place and hopefully no surprise expenses ever because of an ample rainy day fund.

Less than 10% of the owners even showed up to the HOA meeting, so we didn’t meet quorum.

We tried again, and finally got quorum after knocking on doors and asking for people to please come and vote.

This was just one issue. I’d get regular calls like hey, somebody dumped an old mattress by the dumpster. Can you call the removal company (the regular trash service wouldn’t take that kind of thing). Or calls like “there’s some sick trees in the front yard, when are you finally going to get an arborist out here?” And so and so’s room is leaving trash in the hallway, can you please go talk to them?

I resigned within a year. Screw those guys and I’ll never co-own without getting to choose my partners again.