Would love to see more institutions of higher education follow Harvard’s lead. At least here in the northeast, education is one of the largest employers. Despite how much government money plays a part in their operation, I feel like major universities are in a good position to start making demands and assert their autonomy given the resources at their disposal.

This also means states should work on filling the void left by federal funding for their educational institutions , which in large part is already done but could be taken further to ensure that they do not need to be accountable to the madman in Washington.

Don’t know who the heck downvoted you or why, but thanks for the info!

I mean, they are both old, I don’t think that’s a perspective that should be discounted. That’s not a discussion on policy or who one should vote for as much as it is the understandable concern about whether either of them would still be alive for their entire second term.

I would say hard leftism is often conflated with whatever the hell Tankies are doing, and I wouldn’t really consider them leftist. Most haven’t read any theory beyond Soviet/CPC praxis (if they’ve read any at all), which is pretty conservative/authoritarian by modern leftist standards.

Fuck that is dark, what is this from?

Then why the heck we call them gray matter?

Right, I just mean the concept of “courtship” (if broken down to the basic concept of starting a long-term romantic relationship) has evolved to the point that it is dated to even refer to dating as “courtship” anymore. I would take any dating advice from someone considerably older with a hefty grain of salt. Sex is human nature, but dating is a constantly-evolving system of social norms that most people won’t experience outside of their own generation.

Davel’s here, though.

I dunno, this may just be my own sensibilities clouding reality, but I don’t think the “onus” should be on anyone.

The process of “courtship”, if you want to call it that, is definitely something that has changed dramatically between generations.

Your parents never had to bother with things like a woman specifying a time to “debut”, meeting with suitors under the supervision of an elder, the taboo of an unmarried couple being alone before marriage, the obligation for a woman’s family to put together a dowry, etc.

I mean, women in most of the west have only had political agency for just shy of 100 years, and even less than that as “equal” members of the workforce. Social dynamics have radically changed over the past several generations, and are continuing to change even now.

There was some indeterminate point in western society when advice like “You know what would really win her over? Duel her most eligible suitor” universally stopped being good advice, and the same is happening today with many of the dating strategies our parents grew up with.

I do want to be sympathetic, but I have to be honest in that this seems like incel rhetoric to me.

Women are under no obligation to accept the advances of any random person in public, and framing that as a “them” problem is super disrespectful.

I don’t think that is how the song went, the guy who was afraid to fly ended up getting on a plane, which crashed just like he was afraid it would.

Mr. Play-It-Safe was afraid to fly
He packed his suitcase and kissed his kids goodbye
He waited his whole damn life to take that flight
And as the plane crashed down
He thought, “Well, isn’t this nice?”

Similar hope here, but even then I feel like it’s a lost cause.

Right now houses are expensive because land and materials are expensive, and so no one is building. You’ve also got investment firms and landlords buying up whatever properties they can find so they can just lease them to people and make more money over time doing basically nothing.

The economy could tank, but I don’t think that would help. There would still be no one building houses, and corporations and landlords will still have more money than me. The coming die-off of the Boomers might be a better chance, but even then I don’t have too much hope.

Wonder what would happen if some region passed a law capping corporations and landlords from owning no more than 2 residential properties.

I think your example wins, OP, but I will say for anyone who works in an office environment: Microsoft Office (or Libre alternatives for my FOSS friends which don’t have logins to begin with but whatever).

Imagine if you had to log in every time you opened up a document, and you get automatically logged out after 10 minutes of inactivity and lose any unsaved progress.

Global productivity would grind to a halt. (That, or people finally switch to LibreOffice or similar, but corpos will still reliably do whatever decision seems dumbest).

Makes me wonder if someone out there has a phone number of 404-746-8363 (404-PG-NT-FND)

Yeah, I’ve definitely gotten looks for picking up bowls close to my face in the west. Normal for my household, but not normal elsewhere.

Even for not-chopstick dishes like soup or pasta or something, I just find it easier to hold the bowl close to my face, rather than having to lean forward so much over a table just to not make a mess. That shit is how people learn bad posture.

Most carrot cakes I’ve had contained raisins. I don’t think it’s chiefly an American thing but it definitely seems common enough.

I hate it. Anything that dramatically breaks up the texture of a food like that is a culinary mistake.

It’s always fun when two terrible tech giants fight it out.

Yeah, ICE.

I don’t know if this is just Lemmy behavior or the decision of the specific admin/moderator, but I do wish that posts that get removed for irrelevance or getting off topic or whatnot would just get “locked” with voting/comments disabled, rather than purged. I hate participating in what seems like a good conversation only for the content to get irretrievably nuked just because it has a bad title or is considered off topic.