This "problem" solves itself when you think ahead to the fact that children will have the ability to vote for themselves when they become adults. The simple act of raising a child to voting age ensures that you have increased your family's voting power, if that is your concern.

You know who else has a quantitatively bigger stake in the future of the country? Those with more money and property.

I don't know the correct way to spell zhouzh, but I know for a fact it is not "jooj".

It's honestly kinda wild how many comments here are in favor of cops kicking down doors to enforce this law.

I know, I know, Lemmy isn't a singular person. But it's rare to see the anti-gun crowd advocating for aggressive police action--apparently it's okay just because they are gun owners?

I absolutely believe we'd be better off with less guns floating around this country, but that necessarily is going to be a slow generational shift unless you're advocating for violent standoffs between well-armed citizens and an even more well-armed state.

I upvote interrobang usage reflexively.

I'm not exactly sure when it happened, but I've got this sense that the shift coincided with increased public awareness that police were generally being pretty shitty to marginalized and black/brown communities. I think we probably all knew that on some level, but through a mix of generally more racist attitudes that existed back in the 60s/70s/80s and lack of exposure to the problems those communities faced, it was pretty easy for lots of the country to happily go on believing cops were the good guys.

Through the 90s/00s/10s it got increasingly harder to ignore or justify shitty policing tactics, even to those who weren't directly impacted by them. And when the calls for change and reform started to come from more diverse audiences, police unions and propaganda groups decided to circle the wagons and ramp up the us-vs-them attitudes towards the public in general, rather than tackling the problems that were being called out.

There's a whole other level of WHY they chose that path, but that's my 2 cents on the surface level question at least.

Going off OP's thought--the pump or spray bottles whose design and/or straw length makes it literally impossible to get the last bit of product out. I've had some where the straw just plain ends about 1/2" from the bottom so there was never even a chance to use all the product you paid for.

The worst part is I've also used spray bottles that--through very minor design tweaks--enable you to get virtually every speck of liquid. So it's not like it's even hard problem to solve, but fuck you just throw out the last 10% and buy a new bottle!

I don't. By all accounts, he personally made the call to interrupt Internet service in a way that directly impacted a military operation.

If he had personally made the call from the start not to allow Starlink to be used for any military purposes, that would align with his claim to not want to take part in the war.

But then how will you appreciate the 1000 different variants on a clown face labelled "Liberals" ?? 😱

Amen.

I thought there might be some truth to it as a kid. As a 40-something, I realize it was just selfish dicks trying to rationalize their own shitty "fuck you, I got mine" worldview as maturity somehow.

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How dare you take that passage out of context... Post the whole scripture, you damned heretic.

The only disruption a rich, white, old, NYC real-estate mogul provided to the system was saying the quiet parts out loud and forcing establishment R's to choose between embracing his bullshit or alienating their bigoted base.

Elder millennial here. Personally I view this as the kind of good natured ribbing that comes from a healthy relationship between an older and younger sibling. I think our generation (and Gen X too) have an overall positive view of Gen Z, but you are out of your mind if you think we're going to pass up an opportunity to give them some shit when it's warranted!

Rainmanslim's comment doesn't strike me as mean-spirited at all. If anything it's the opposite of condescending because it acknowledges that the cringiness of being a teenager knows no generational bounds. Embrace it and enjoy it, and then enjoy it again when you're old enough to laugh at your younger self!