Reading these incredible comments has revealed a large piece of what was named as the reason for lemm.ee shutting down.

This is a safety feature of women social groups for time immemorial. It’s a piece of how we survived prior to the last 50 years, and it continued as we moved forward into the era of liberation. We talk to each other.

I realize the “guy code” is one of silence. Cheating? Bros won’t say anything or warn anyone, by this code. In fact, the opposite is demanded by that code. Woman do the opposite, that is how the woman code works. I’ve witnessed fallout in friend groups when these diametrically opposed codes meet on regards to another friend. Apparently, having lunch with the cheated on woman and letting her know what is happening is applauded by women and enraging to men.

The piece regarding cheating is about integrity and treating people right in addition to safety. The rest of it is usually just about safety.

We survived millennia between being treated like prized horses. uteruses/vaginas with life support systems attached, and animals to be beaten, by talking to each other. Warning each other. Helping each other, where able.

The anger here, from you, is 100% expected, but the ordinary nature of that anger doesn’t make women wrong for exposing safety concerns in the dating pool. Given the myriad of diseases, including the incredible comeback of syphilis the last couple years, cheating is also a safety concern. Cheating should be exposed, always.

Why is everything we do, when we band together, seen as suspect and dangerous?

I’m here for the high quality content of tenforward, and some comics, but I was distracted by politics.

It’s a joke.

Someone needs to make Trump a Make the Epstein Files Great Again hat. Flood the White House with them.

You know, some of us read this to slow down and fall asleep. The nightmare fuel fomented by whatever orange toadstool exists between that man’s legs is not what I want to think about right now.

Lemmy really is the new Reddit.

I have a Vaccines Cause Adults tshirt. The number of random dipshits in grocery stores rushing up to tell me about their autistic brother or child is too many. They misread the shirt. Then it gets awkward.

There’s this intense need for control over conditions like autism, to blame something. The reality is everything doesn’t happen for a reason, the justice of the universe is random, and chaos & statistics rule over us all.

The most robust bit of data we currently have on autism is regarding antique sperm. And that data is not robust at all because it’s a correlation between older dads and autistic kids. All this really means is this is an area of potential focus for further study.

The reality is we just don’t know the root cause of autism.

But dipshits continue to insist our cheapest, least invasive, lowest maintenance form of medical care is to blame because they want a cause and groups like RFKs previous litigation crusade hand out this reason as they sow the seeds of distrust for science, which in turn makes it easier for corporate America to crush us, as they’re doing in the current admin.

Why September? If you’re announcing what you’re going to announce what is the point?

I certainly hope these people aren’t driving themselves to work with this schedule. In addition I hope no one on it has a heart condition.

https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/2004-143/pdfs/2004-143.pdf

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6617405/

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/309714292_Long_Working_Hours_and_Shift_Work_as_Risk_Factors_for_Occupational_Injury

The sweet spot for 12s is in having 4 days off per week. There isn’t time for anything in life on work days except work, sleep, commute. Thirdly, the first day off is a wash. Recovery. Like a nap that simply goes on all day. 12s are great but only with block scheduling and days off.

This schedule proposal sounds like something out of pre-OSHA, possibly intended to kill people. Live to work, not the other way around.

I’m not a programmer. Let me state it better though. I want the algorithms or lack thereof of the early 00s. I want to be able to search for something and get more than scrape sites and top 14, 17, or 22 lists. I want to be able to search for a businesses and contractors and get more than national chains with 800 numbers. If I type in electricians in city, state, I want it to actually do that instead of making me find a map app.

I want todays content in 2002 search engines.

Enshittify search to the point of it being nearly useless. Then introduce a little bot to find it for you. Predictable.

It fits. Vance said a while ago the Epstein files need to be released. Theil has said similar, to the effect of needing to burn down the current regime. Granted, Theil has nothing benign in mind for this, his is the way of of sci fi dystopia made real.

The more interesting part of it all is Vance is there due to Don Jr’s influence over his daddy.

Don’t underestimate the power of inertia.

Inertia helps the elderly appear normal when dementia starts to hit. It’s part of the reason why the beginning of dementia goes unnoticed. Even if family notices “something isn’t right”, dementia may not be evident because they’re doing their usual daily routine.

Reads like more material for the Palantir machine.

It’s manufacturing shades, beige and grey. Color costs extra in the age of squeezing working class out of anything but the daily grind. You’ll have a colorless domicile you do not own and you’ll like it.

Of note. The paneling from this era is actually wood, not Masonite. You can flip it over and use it as 1/8” smooth ply, depending, for those of you into recycling materials.

The furniture is great. If not wood, it’s still paint worthy. The hexagon end table is a great item in any color. If it’s paint grade, you can slap a little bondo in any dings, paint, poly, and it will likely last another 30yrs.

It’s more than that. Those colors were chosen to hide the ever-present, persistent glaze of nicotine stain over everything. There were no white walls back then, only shades of “cream”, “ecru”, and “off-white” because no shade of true white could exist in that persistent haze of cigarette smoke.

If you ever took over a house from the 70s you’d note the amber brown drips down the kitchen wall after making spaghetti or heating a tradition tea kettle on the stove. Or after a shower in the bathroom. Scrubbing, priming, and painting would help, and then you’d make another pot of spaghetti and see another amber sludge nicotine drip from somewhere on that wall.

To this day I cannot abide beige, any rendition of off-white, or pale yellow. They’re all shades on the nicotine glaze color palette.