The government should just pass a law banning capitalism and then we wouldn’t have to worry about strikes at all, but that’s also never going to happen.

That doesn’t mean it’s a bad idea, just that it’s too extreme by the standards of US politics. Unions here often still need basic protections like the right to strike at all in the first place. Check out the rules against teachers striking in Texas, they’d be banned from public sector work and lose their pensions. The only way they could possibly go on strike is with a vast enough majority to force the state government to repeal those rules.

I mean, I wouldn’t want to eat inorganic food. What would that even be, pure salt?

I learned in SQL class that you never ever hard delete data when there is any alternative. On Facebook and Twitter you get a whole month to change your mind before your account can’t be recovered.

This was actually a major confounding factor in the original marshmallow experiment. They never thought that kids wouldn’t trust the promise of additional marshmallow later.

OpenStreetMap has some pretty good offline maps. You can download them region by region so you don’t need the whole world at once.

I just grab a floss pick, go sit in front of my computer, and floss while distracting myself with something else. That way I don’t have to devote any focus or effort to flossing and it goes by much easier.

The narwhal bacons at midnight!

Creating a local account shows it, thanks! I’m not super used to how the fediverse works yet.

Where on that instance is the porn? All I’m seeing on the front page is SFW pics of celebrities in their respectively named sublemmies.