This presumes you live around real people.

My neighbors are a mysterious Brazilian who changes the topic when asked his profession but drives many luxury cars (drugs were hinted at by others), an 85 year old MAGA anti-vacc used car salesman, an absentee company owner that uses a $1.25M house to park his logoed trucks, boats and jet skis, and a lawyer who adopts maladjusted dogs and leaves his door open for them to run around the neighborhood biting people (me last).

Brazilian throws large parties for people who drive Porsches, used car dealer complains about Democrats and leaves packages on his porch for over a year, absentee is able to hook up a boat and leave in two minutes, and lawyer neglects feral dogs and spends time with his horses. I have only ever seen the used car salesman do work. He loves running things with motors at night.

None garden but 3/4 installed insecticide systems to kill all pollinators on their property at the push of a button and hire people to put in nice ornamentals.

The same 3/4 produce more garbage in a week than my family of four does in two months and may throw out and replace clothing rather than washing, so I doubt mending is on the table. They certainly don't cook based on the food deliveries. Absentee business owner has never spent a night in that house in two years and I don't know what he wears or looks like.

Why do they have a banned words list?

Here are the steps in our journey over the past five years:

• Subscribed to solar power for 100% of my electricity
• Drive an electric car when I have to, but bike exclusively within a two mile radius
• Bought a laundry line and line dry clothes
• Eat a mostly whole food, plant-based diet with lots of legumes to maximize my health and wealth while cutting my climate impact
• Slashed my single use plastics consumption as well as durable to reduce microplastics breathed and consumed
• Visit a library once a week
• Grow simple plants (green onions, basil)
• Keep air conditioning to a minimum (live in Florida)
• Buy used/refurbished preferentially
• Pesticide-free outdoors to encourage native insect predators and now my backyard is filled with butterflies
• Recycle maximally following all guidelines and produce less than 1/10th the waste stream of my neighbors for a family of four with two pets
• Replaced older, less efficient air conditioning with newer, high efficiency

I'm proud of what we've achieved, but there's still more to do. In the next five years we will:

• Replace our other, less driven ICE vehicle with an electric
• Transition to full pesca-vegetarianism
• Install balcony solar as hopefully it will become legal (or I will smuggle a system in from Utah or Vermont)
• Plant fruit/shade trees
• Paint our home a lighter, high albedo color
• Blow in additional insulation in the attic
• Install a home car charger
• Replace the last of our plastic clothing with natural fibers

2 tonnes CO2eq/person without carbon offsets for everything but travel is our end goal.

I'm not sure if you are "accusing" someone of anything if they freely state they are doing it.

In much of Europe and North America, female toplessness is legal. As for why women don't take advantage of it when exercising, breast movement varies from annoyance to uncomfortable and throwing off momentum depending upon size. As a result, many women exercise wearing what is most convenient: a sports-bra top. However, concerns about harassment are sadly valid.

Women are the majority of voting age adults, but they aren't a homogeneous group voting exclusively on gender. 45% of women voted for Trump in 2024.

As a male who exercises in high heat on occasion (35-38c), I have never once thought that I'd rather be naked. I wear breathable, light colored clothing. I also wear a top. Sun burns aren't healthy.

Classist schools are forcing families to go hungry for uniforms while billionaires get tax breaks.

Why do the poor keep falling for culture war/anti-immigrant bullshit and not vote in their self-interest against the wealthy establishment? Brexit alone has dropped the UK to below Italy levels of GDP per capita (ppp adj.) with the only benefits accruing to financiers.

Yet I know the poor will vote Reform instead, enjoy the brutalization of Brown people who are in the same economic boat they are, cut taxes for the rich, and let their hatred keep them warm as they starve in the cold as food and heating prices soar.

Votes should be anonymous.

This is the first step toward monetizing Lemmy for multinationals.

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Good, but I won't sleep easily until the crypto-MAGAist Pierre Poilievre is on the ash heap of history.

Of course Canada needs to leave. Do Canadian politicians think the US will supply it with parts as it invades?

Buy some Gripen and/or Eurofighters and join GCAP.

I thought French's leases part of the former Heinz plant in Leamington, ON and uses tomatoes from the local greenhouses.

CBC made a mini-documentary about it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af7Jctuqhcg

The answer is they were a wealthy European concept brought to the colonies as a status symbol. They are still associated with wealthier people which raises property values, so are enshrined in local ordinances and HOA rules.