I assume guns wear out eventually,
They don’t.
I assume you can’t just chuck them in the garbage when they do.
You can slice them in pieces across the action, and dump them in the trash. You can surrender them to police; police will collect them in a barrel, and deliver it to a steel mill for recycling.
“Thank you, Madam Chair,”
Beautiful.
My nemesis showed up.
Posted, commented, or voted on by members of your instance, without counting what the rest of the fediverse is doing with it.
They are on reddthat.com. “Local” would show them posts from reddthat.com communities; it would not show them posts from lemmy.world communities.
Suppose a post on a lemmy.world community is downvoted by the fediverse in general. However, that same post is highly popular among reddthat.com users, for whatever reason.
This user would like that post to appear high in reddthat.com/all, even though it would not appear high on lemmy.world/all.
The idea is kinda interesting. “all” is not the right category for it, but the idea of instance-peer curation has merit.
14/f/under your floorboards
Translation: Either “FBI” or “40/m/under your floorboards”
Shut it down for about 46 months.
“They” will be an LLM.
The general strike is scheduled to begin April 30th, 2028. The big three auto worker unions scheduled their contracts to expire simultaneously on that date, and called for other unions to demand the same expiration date in their own contracts.
Statistically, he is likely to be president for the rest of his life.
Did you know you can just buy shoe polish? You don’t have to find a boot to lick it off.
That asshole better not do anything about the LGBT-Immigrant plot to melt the ice caps and flood Florida and Texas.
This is really just a messaging problem. If you asked the students and parents if they should renovate a communal bathroom into multiple, single-user unisex bathrooms, they would likely receive enthusiastic support. If you then asked if it were reasonable to use communal hand washing facilities in a public area outside the restrooms instead of a sink in every unisex bathroom, you’d still get plenty of support.
It’s only when you start talking about “windows” that shit goes sideways. They could completely tear out the wall, and this plan would be fine: they would be single-user restrooms along a hallway, with communal sinks also in that hallway.
My town hosts public festivals all the time. They bring in a dozen portapotties and a hand washing station. Nobody seems to have a problem washing their hands in sight of the general public. That’s basically what is happening here.
Republicans don’t have five types of bathrooms. Republicans have two. That alone should tell you that the Republicans aren’t actually in control here.
What is actually happening is that the Republicans are trying to get rid of the “gender inclusive” restroom, and revert it to boys only. They don’t want 5 kinds of restrooms. They want two.
After reading some more, it turns out the Republicans are claiming the area outside the stalls is a “changing area”, and the law prohibits coed changing areas. Be “inclusive” of more than one gender in a “changing area”, and you violate the law.
Changing areas don’t have public-facing windows. Areas with public-facing windows aren’t changing areas. Without the window, the Republicans get to make it a boys-only room. With the window to the sinks - not the toilets - it is not a changing area, and the Republican argument fails.
Possible.
It’s also possible that the stalls do provide an adequate degree of privacy, coming very close to the floor, and sufficiently high enough to prevent people from seeing inside. They certainly don’t look like the stalls my school used.
Frankly, if their intention is to shame and intimidated, I’m rather surprised they are going to this much effort, when they could just not do anything at all.
Do we know that the other, gender-neutral restrooms are similarly communal? Is it possible that they are single-user facilities with sinks, and need only appropriate signage to make them inclusive?
I’m betting there is some sort of legal prohibition against creating a mixed-gender restroom, and the way they are getting around it is by declaring only the toilet stalls to be restrooms. With the window into the area of the sinks, that area is a public space, and can’t legally be considered part of the restroom.
So long as the toilets are in actual rooms with floor to ceiling walls and actual doors (not the bullshit stalls we typically use in the US), and those rooms don’t have windows, this isn’t as terrible an idea as it initially seems.
My point is that anyone can be conned by the right con man. Our status as Trump opposers does not render us immune to malicious deceit.
I don’t mean to excuse the trumpists entirely. I’m just pointing out that without Trump to focus them, they don’t become radicalized, and never become a problem.
By that argument, a con man’s victims are to blame for having been fooled.
Is that what has happened to Japan?