So much better to see the oil deposits, my dear.

More like, sometimes even a calculator can be a clock.

You should read Flatland it’s an awesome book and blew my mind as a young textile geek.

My grandma had a padded pink vinyl toilet seat that matched the Barbie and the toilet paper. When you sat on it it slowly squished all the air out. It was an awful feeling.

Are you old enough to remember those Barbie dolls that old ladies used to crochet a dress for so you could stand Barbie up in a roll of toilet paper and the dress would get pulled down over it? And the toilet paper was light pink?

Remember how people used to collect tiny spoons? This is like that. Now it’s towels that say “Fuck off kid, mommy’s getting plastered” Bonus points if you hang it on a shitty wooden ladder.

I didn’t think you were supposed to use the decorative towels?

Is there any other manufacturer who’s business plan says “when we’re done with everything we have ever made we’re going to through it on this bonfire.”

Dude, politics is a system that society has created to prevent change. When you get that, the western system of governance makes more sense.

You’re looking at it from the wrong side. Imagine a politician saying, “we’re starting a new tax, 20% of your income”. You ask why, what’s it for and he says “everything!” how keen are you for that?

All taxes were created one at a time and sold to people individually. Politicians said “we need money for x, we need to tax y to pay for it”. Run for office on a platform of eliminating all taxes with your omnibus tax reforms and we’ll see how it goes.

I think because when a tax is getting implemented the people want to know exactly why they pay it and what it’s for.

Here we have school boards that manage a very large area of many schools. The taxes of many municipalities pool to fund many schools. These tax systems are old and probably very hard to change. I’m sure there are better ways to do things but the political might to change the system isn’t there.

I’m all for tax reform, but people need to understand what taxes pay for what stuff. I’m sure municipalities would like a different way to generate revenue than property taxes as well.

In Canada we like “sin” taxes on bad for you things. The lottery funds schools, liquor taxes fund health care for example.

I want to pay and gladly will for community enrichment,

Most people say this and I agree. And then the comment under you is complaining about paying property taxes which directly pay for these things you’d like to see funded.

3 dicks? His pants must fit like a glove!

I can’t tell if it’s an Americanized version of lighter or litre.

The worst part is, after you block all the foreign language communities, all the Linux, all the loli anime, there’s very little left.

It was never good. Just the other day I was wondering what became of moot.

When they say “burn up on reentry” they don’t mean disintegrate, they mean burn. It’s exactly like throwing thousands of home entertainment systems in a fire except that the pollution is in the upper atmosphere where normal pollution doesn’t reach.

The seemingly endless scroll of reposts is absolutely one of the factors preventing the casual passerby from sticking around lemmy. They won’t notice it’s posted to different instances, it just looks like a glitch.

Yes. It’s annoying. I wish all the posts from the same person were in one thread so there weren’t 12 conversations happening in 12 different rooms.

When I see 5 posts in a row by the same person I look at their history and if they do that on the regular without making comments I block them.