Fur color?

There was a time I would’ve been against cats voting but lately I’m thinking they couldn’t possibly be much worse at it than the humans.

It’s state by state in the US but there’s very few where smoking would be allowed in a restaurant left. Specifics are often down to the city level. They still allow smoking on outdoor patios in my city. There used to be provisions around tavern licenses where they could have smoking indoors in a room which had separate external ventilation but that’s really in the weeds of zoning. I think they’re trying to kill the few of these licenses remaining, too.

In the 80s it was. Nowadays you’d have to pass a background check.

No, that’s the costumee.

The “not that there’s anything wrong with that” episode of Seinfeld kind of summarizes the attitudes at the time. I don’t think the majority of millennials ever were against gay people (I’m sure there were exceptions regionally) but there was heavy stereotyping, which of course was a form of othering. And yeah the 90s were very no filter in general. At this time people viewed poking fun as a form of acceptance. But it took some time for the stereotypes to die down.

The whole concept of “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” was so weird and very of its time. And that was considered pretty progressive at the time.

Is there a particular reason you need a brand new model? I tend to look at flagships that are a year or two old.

Some of the apps add this as a feature client side. For example I know sync has this. Not aware of it on the web site though.

Mind you, news subs are depressing right now for a reason.

Hard to spend money without an economy though. You’d have to bring some form of physical wealth with you.

I seriously doubt most normies would enjoy Lemmy. But sh.itjust.works seems pretty middle of the road.

This is a little on the nose but I still laughed.

Yeah I mean it’s probably possible to live underground on Mars (assuming an infinite budget) but there’s not a lot of compelling reason to dig on Mars instead of just… On earth.

Pretty common saying in the business world.

A lot of people think gendering smells is a bit silly.

Not sure I actually see much reason to make this comparison. Kanye looks pretty normal in that photo.

In theory, if he went so far over the line that he became very unpopular, then Congress members would fear for their reelection chances if they didn’t publicly break with him. But with him attacking democracy itself, Congress may be more afraid of him than they are of voters. It’s a deeply troubling time.

I am not arguing in favor of authoritarianism or against democracy, to be clear. Just saying there is an inherent risk that if you give the common people power, the common people might do something dumb with it. I’m not aware of a system that removes that risk without other considerable downsides. There are other democratic governments that have fewer structural issues than the US, but none of them prevent the whole “sometimes, voters are very dumb” thing.

But Trump hasn’t proven unpopular; that’s why he won reelection. If the ruling party has a majority and the PM has their party’s support, nothing would happen in most other systems either.

Well the mechanism for preventing criminals who shit all over the constitution from getting reelected is supposed to be people not voting for him. There’s not really much a constitutional democracy can do about voters being fucking morons. Kind of an inherent flaw in the system.