stinerman [Ohio]

Needing an ID is fine in theory, but in practice many older folks who do not drive do not have one. In order to get one you need a certified birth certificate. In order to get one of those you usually need to deal with a lot of red tape, especially if you were born at home in a rural area.

People often forget how rural the US is. Sometimes it’s hard to document exactly who you are. Especially if you were born poor and black in the South.

Could ask if she and her son wants to get dinner sometime with you and your son. As long as it’s a pretty inoffensive family restaurant, that shouldn’t be too forward. From there you can get a better understanding of her situation.

If not fluent, yes you’ll have a hard time. I’ve been there and outside of the tourist areas, people either can’t or won’t speak English.

I do recommend the USVI if the language barrier is a problem.

Exactly. You said it better than I did.

The way I feel about it is that I don’t want Lemmy to grow for growth’s sake. I want people to understand how important it is to use open protocols and free software to communicate with others and that is what will lead Lemmy and other Fediverse applications to grow.

If you think it’s a violation, report it. If they do nothing with it…you’re out of luck.

The rules for any instance boil down to, at their most basic level, “every moderation decision is up to the people who run their instance, and there is no appeal.”

It seems like fedia.io is a difference instance. You can ask lemmy.world to defederate from them. You can also block the instance yourself. Go to your settings and at the bottom block the instance.

Everything is political. What you eat. What software you use. What car you drive.

Eraserhead

No. A trademark is to tell a customer that a certain good was made by a certain person or company. This is prevent confusion over which company makes a thing. It’s why you can’t create an operating system kernel and call it Linux. You can create a clothing company and call it Linux though because no one would be confused that Linux clothing is in any way related to the computer operating system component.

Band names can and are trademarked. So you can’t call your new band “The Beatles” or “Five Finger Death Punch”. Titles are subject to copyright though, which is a separate thing altogether.

Yes and it’s likely that they will not be allowed to any longer after Google lost their anti-trust case.

Being on an SSRI helps.

Someone who repackages/patches free software has different incentives than upstream. So generally speaking, derivative browsers are more privacy friendly, have better features, etc.

That’s not to say that upstream isn’t important. It absolutely is! It’s just that derivatives are generally better.

I also have a Nebula subscription and recommend it as well. $60/yr or a $300 lifetime subscription.

Going bankrupt due to medical bills.

It took me awhile to like Katy Perry’s older stuff. This coming from a guy who likes Indie/Punk/New Wave. I haven’t listened to her newer stuff.

Oh and same with Billie Eilish.

There was a guy who was in tech support who talked to a customer about who was hot or not in the company. It was actually the customer who started the conversation, but the rep ran with it and used all kinds of unprofessional and disparaging language when describing his female co-workers.

That call happened to have a supervisor listening in, so he was fired immediately after he got off the call. The thing is found out who called in, and the women on the team had to assist him when he called for support.

I do not. I can give you a link to the one I’m referencing though. I’m sure that something like this would exist in Seattle.

https://www.ideafoundry.com/

There are maker spaces in some of the larger cities due to this. There is one in Columbus, but it never took off because…most people who live in Columbus have garages.

Most bus systems in American cities are for people to get to work and back home. Trying to take it to, for instance, a friend’s house, and you’re generally going to spend about 4x the time it’d take to drive there.

I don’t know who did it, but there was a list of cities in the US with the amount of space used for car parking. I think Tulsa, OK was something like 2/3rds of their downtown land was devoted to parking.