I believe you’ve answered your own question.
Lemmy isn’t Marxist-only. The majority of Lemmy users are what the more vocal Lemmygrad and Hexbear users deride as “libs.” As a thought experiment, imagine that you are one of us for a moment and then browse Local on one of those.
I’m for it, mostly because that’s how I was taught to write in school.
I still maintain my boycott of Amazon over the one-click patent.
It’s a hassle to buy stuff online without using Amazon. The patent expired years ago. Probably no other person is still boycotting them over it (not that it was ever an effective boycott in the first place). But I just can’t bring myself to buy from them.
Writing. Specifically, tech writing. I’ve got an intuitive sense for it, but other than business communication and the occasional bit of internal documentation I don’t have any desire to do it professionally.
I get along great with our tech writer, though, since I’m the only other person at the company who can hold a discussion about the Oxford comma.
Favorite? No idea.
Least favorite? Alan Alda in Canadian Bacon. Dammit man, you were good in MASH, why can’t you act in anything else?
They wouldn’t be able to build it. It wasn’t until the 16th or 17th century that metallurgy and machining were advanced enough to build atmospheric steam engines, much less high pressure ones.
You need a lot of tech to jump start an industrial revolution.
I saw that as an adult and it fucked with me.
Everyone is gifted with the ability to control their own fertility. You’re only fertile if you want to be. The only chance for pregnancy to occur is if both partners want it to.
I imagine that would cause a severe population decline, and I’m fine with that. There’s too many humans on this planet already.
Most office jobs.
My father is barely literate and has been a trucker for over 30 years.
The example you’ve given is likely not a problem with reading comprehension but obliviousness. I read and understand things very well (I have to read and correct engineering drawings and schematics and implement them), but I simply don’t notice a lot of what goes on around me.
My suggestion for that is any job that doesn’t require safety, physical team labor, or security.
In older stick frame homes, it’s not just practical but essential. They were built to breathe, unlike modern designs. That means that even if you’re keeping the entire house warm you could still experience burst pipes.
It did, but if you choose to live in a universe where cats don’t try to emulate humans, I’m not going to stop you.
I miss that cat. We used to chill out and Doritos together.
The cat I had when I was a kid would occasionally use the toilet. Just for peeing.
When he was done he’d paw the handle. He wasn’t strong enough to actually flush it, but he tried.
Why vegan/vegetarian specifically? If it makes them cannibals, it makes everyone who swallows cannibals.
It’s fun! And it pays well. Get your engineering or comp sci degree and give me a call.
That’s a valid way of looking at it, too.
Realistically, the concept of “purpose” doesn’t exist in the universe outside of our imagination any more than justice, beauty, or morality. Things just are what they are and follow the laws of physics.
If we’re making it all up as we go along, there aren’t any wrong answers. I claim the purpose of living things is to reproduce, but it’s true that living things reproduce because that’s what living things do (otherwise we’d have run out of them by now). Kind of a chicken/egg thing there.
The only objective purpose in life is to spread your genes. You share that same purpose with every other living thing.
Other than that, it’s up to you. My purpose in life is to keep my girlfriend happy and destroy as many jobs as I can. My career in industrial automation is the key to both.
It’s like the old saying (which made more sense back in the CRT days):
If I wanted your website to make noise, I’d lick my finger and drag it across the screen!
He followed me home, mommy, can we keep him?
No, dear, it’s against the law now.