Maybe there's a terminology problem, but I thought each condo unit was individually owned? Like, if you've got a tower block, and everybody owns their own domicile within it, it's a condo, but if they're owned by a landlord and rented out, it's an apartment.

Most of the HOAs in my area are a mix of privately owned homes and rental properties owned by the company that built the neighborhood.

Eh, yes and no. I wouldn't say that they're operating the camps, but kapos are an unfortunate reality.

I'd agree that homophobia isn't the primary concern for most straight people, but with the caveat that it is the primary concern for the families who are worried enough to enter the conversion camp pipeline. I'd also argue that homophobia was a primary method of control via fear by specifically the preachers in the camp pipeline, though that stick is getting worn out and they're starting to swap to transphobia for fresh fear. There are many roads to hell though, so you're right about it not being their only concern.

I think its because change always sucks over here. I was a caregiver before COVID, the agency took Medicare, so my wages were set by a state committee. The state raised the minimum wage, but I never got a raise because the committee took years to approve one. The state passed a law mandating PTO, but it was less than the 2 weeks we were already getting, so we didn't get more. I was doing overtime, living paycheck to paycheck, then the state decided that they wouldn't transfer the clients to palliative care, and we needed to watch them die too. No bump in pay, but they gave us the number to an employee helpline that would tell management if you used it, so I never used it.

There was a client I had been taking care of for four years, and I held her hand so she wouldn't die alone. I was out of PTO, couldn't afford an unpaid mental health day, another longterm client died, and I drove into traffic. I haven't been able to hold down a job since.

It's said a rising tide lifts all boats, but sometimes people get caught in the undertow.

I've heard both of her parents work in finance.

Yeah, I hate driving, but it just sucks that this comm is more interested in insulting me for needing a car than helping me avoid the thing I hate. I sold my car last year... and now I have to borrow a car to get to therapy each week because a ten minute drive is an hour away on the bus, and that bus only comes by once every four hours. Cycling is not an option because it's a truck route and I've already been run off the road once on a bike.

I really want to love this community, but it's pretty clear that the general opinion is that I don't deserve transit because my government isn't listening to me. Like, holy shit, if you want to attend the public opinion meetings at my transit authority, they'll send a car to pick you up because it's not serviced by bus, and that's better than most of the US. But I'm the carbrain when I complain about how unusable transit is.

I don’t think there’s a way to keep the muscles tense subconsciously

Part of 'better posture' is relying on your core muscles for stability instead of your back muscles, and that's the thing that keeps fucking with me. I overly rely on my back to keep me upright, and I have a hard time keeping my core engaged like that too. From what I've been told, it's a practice thing and I just don't do it enough for them to stay engaged without thinking about it.

The office chair is providing something called 'lumbar support' if you want a search term, and some people do have a bigger curve there than others. I'm proportionally short, so I have to move the cushion around until it hits the sweet spot and isn't uncomfortable. Slouching will also make your lumbar curve flatten out, so that could be it. I think it's just a matter of trying different things and seeing what works best for you, it's not one-size-fits-all.

On the other hand, I really do wonder how many of those 300m views were also not human views.

Maybe I just don't know what "generating results" means. You query a search engine, and it generates results as a page of links. I don't understand how generating a page of links is fundamentally different from generating a summation of the results?

I stopped using google years ago, but my adblock shows that google servers get pinged when browsing the web. Same for AWS, there is no way to avoid it without completely going offline.

In the US it's technically a target, since you can be ticketed for going too fast or too slow.