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[–] marx2k@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

Presidential debate that are nothing more than a bad episode of Maury

[–] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

Circus politics

[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Gasoline.

Here’s a toxic and highly volatile liquid. Rather than transferring it in specialized canisters with safety seals, we just let you dump it out of a hose. There is absolutely no safety training on how to handle it, and all you need is some cash to obtain a lot of it. It’s something of a right of passage for children to dispense it for their parents.

And despite the fact that the vehicles that use it spend 90% of their time parked in one place, you can’t have it delivered to that place like you can with other utilities like water, electricity, and natural gas. You have to go to special stores and comparison shop.

And even the stores you buy it from have it delivered by truck. They don’t even get it piped in.

Oh, and even when used correctly, it'll kill you if you use it in an enclosed space.

And it's killing the planet too.

[–] wahming@monyet.cc 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And despite the fact that the vehicles that use it spend 90% of their time parked in one place, you can’t have it delivered to that place like you can with other utilities like water, electricity, and natural gas.

Thank god for that. Can you imagine how much polluted land and groundwater we'd have if we piped it around and it leaked like our water pipes do?

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[–] TeoTwawki@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hate. Every iteration of society in history has normized hatred of some "other" and its bonkers.

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[–] CountryBreakfast@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 year ago

social media

[–] Anarchist@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

Landlords & men behaving like sex pests

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