Worse. Applebees fries taste like stale bread.

Me, limping my ass into a McDonalds for the first time in forever: “I’ll have 20 nuggets, no meal.” (expecting 5$, or something close to it since it had legitimately been a while)

“Yeah, that’ll be 12.47”

The fuck???

There’s something so cozy about late 90s web pages

Not just Zoomers, unfortunately.

I mean, I’ve got definite FOMO, but I generally don’t feel the need to continuously search for new content. If the comms in my feed are quiet, that’s nearly a good thing.

The advantages most of us see in the Fediverse (lack of corporate control, low algorithm interference) are seen by most normal users as either of little importance, or actively detrimental. The Fediverse requires you engage with it to cultivate a feed that gives you what you’re interested in. But the people fleeing to Rednote want a strong algorithm that feeds them what they want, and they don’t mind influence games being played by the algorithm in exchange for this convenience.

Sadly, I think it’s photoshopped. But ten minutes in Maryland will show you just how true it is to attitudes there. People love their crab, and their Old Bay.

I’m mostly bone, so you’ll probably want to make me into a broth.

Username checks out

No one brags about their Lemmy accounts’ special numbers. We don’t even have karma.

Free at point of access. Obviously doctors aren’t growing off of trees and falling like reverse apples. Free like public roads are free.

It’s just about 3 things mood, moisture and temperature.

Nothing spoils a mood like fear!

Calm down, Satan

Bread made feeding people cheap.

Bread is a luxury, if feeding people cheap was the only concern, porridge would be a better use of grains than bread. Porridge predominated when peasant culture predominated; bread becomes common with civilization’s connections, innovations, and specialization.

Found the heretic

Give me a loaf of bread, and I will eat it and be happy. End of story.

Condiments are nice conditionally, but bread is always fantastic

[dropkicks a man through a fourth-story window]

“I’ve never killed anyone in my life.”

I have adblocker solely set up to block Youtube ads.

They broke the implicit contract of “Don’t make ads too intrusive and I won’t go out of my way to block your revenue”. THEY DREW FIRST BLOOD

I think my main quibble with this is that cops in the US aren’t really beholden to anything or anyone except themselves. That description could be applicable to the legal system as a whole, but US cops have a weirdly loose relationship with the entire legal system despite, theoretically, being its enforcers.

US police departments are more like gangs that receive public funding in exchange for literally nothing, rather than state enforcers.

“Not all cops, but so many and in such incredible proportions that it may as well be, especially considering the choice to be a bastard is one that must be made every moment of every working day”

There are cops out there who want to do good in bad departments. They are either pushed out of the force, or pushed under the extant culture of callousness and brutality.

There are cops out there who want to do good in good departments. They’re rare, and the way that policing is (not) regulated in this fucking country makes all good departments inherently unstable, as power tends to corrupt, and unchecked power doubly so - but they do exist.

But the vast, vast majority of cops out there are complicit with their departments - and the vast, vast majority of departments in this country are rotten. And until we, as a society, reckon with that - ACAB remains a valid criticism.