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Probably Black Mirror then.

no, this is earnest anti-commercialism

Why does it need to be commercially viable? What’s wrong with doing it for love of the game?

Trolling and doxxing are a big part of it. A lot of people (not me, obviously) don’t want to share anything real online if it’s going to be used against them.

teeeeeeechically that’s still primates

I was thinking maybe elevation was accounting for the discrepancy, but thus makes more sense! Thanks for doing the research and solving the mystery.

Are you putting the pasta in cold? If you put it in at a rolling boil it’ll be mushy at 10 minutes.

8, or thereabouts. I want to understand why they think the way they do, but I’m not willing to give platform to hate or harmful ideologies, especially ones I already understand well. You gotta meet people where they’re at, but at the same time, if you step into the pigpen the stink stays on you.

Seems unlikely.

You meant “subtract”, surely? No pasta needs to cook for ten minutes.

feels like there was a missed opportunity there

Unlimited growth is capitalist mindset. Stability and community are what we value here.

It’s a better height than the toilet.

Nah, I ain’t celebrating jerks who fought to preserve slavery.

Much less likely.

Though I haven’t seen these RSS bots you complain about. Is this because you’re browsing ‘all’ instead of ‘subscribed’?

To me, that’s a contradiction in terms.

Growing corn isn’t enough; it takes a certain kind of attitude, and a certain kind of weather.

If a state isn’t at least partly in Central Time, it can’t be in the Midwest.

Obviously not all states in Central Time are in the Midwest, either, that’s just the lowest bar.

custom scheduled repeating posts, eg. for a weekly discussion thread

why have you done this to me so early in the morning?

I always hated it growing up, too. My school didn’t even have a uniform, only a dress code, and I hated that, too.

But my kids go to a school with a uniform, and now I can see the advantages:

• this school subsidizes the uniforms heavily, even to the point of giving them away outright to students in need, so it represents a form of clothing that is affordable for all

• kids can’t fight with parents about what they wear to school, because it’s predetermined

• every kid wears the same thing, which helps smooth out class-indicators: kids don’t get bullied for wearing hand-me-downs or unfashionable clothes because everyone wears the same thing

• makes it very easy to determine who is supposed to be on campus and who is not; similarly, since the school has a big emphasis on outside-the-classroom learning, makes it very easy to identify students out on fieldwork

• saves me money since the uniforms are unisex and my son can wear the hand-me-downs of his older sisters

And to address your criticism: Yes, uniforms tend to promote group cohesion but that’s not always a bad thing. It encourages collaboration over competition, for example.