Your local county extension office and nearby universities with agricultural programs.

Example: https://extension.uga.edu/publications/series/detail.html/71/home-garden.html

Paw Patrol is copaganda for toddlers. Learning bad words from Bender is less harmful than getting indoctrinated by it.

Alternatively, Hawking proved that he was unpopular and nobody wanted to go to his party.

But the Roman Republic (509 BC–27 BC) happened after the Roman Kingdom (753 BC–509 BC).

Even if you can pedal just fine, there are always those situations that are sort of marginal: when you’re feeling kinda lazy so you’re thinking of just driving instead of biking, or it’s a little further than you want to go, or you’re running a little bit late or don’t want to exert yourself and end up getting sweaty, etc. Those are the times when having an e-bike can really make the difference.

Right-wing media claimed the shooter was trans.

At what point do we admit that this is no longer “free speech” but instead incitement to violence?

No, you were responding to someone worried about the time “from November 5 till January 20.” That’s very much inclusive of the vote counting and certification, not subsequent to it. If you’re gonna use pedantry as a petty excuse for bad-faith contrarianism, the least you could do is not fuck it up!

And “i’M nOt goInG to rEAd iT” – really? What are you, a small child having a tantrum? Quit huffing hopium and whining about being confronted with reality.

This situation you describe is legitimately one of my greatest fears as a parent. I have little useful advice to give; all I can really say is “good luck” and to research terms like “elsagate,” “gamergate” and “PewDiePipeline” to see what advice actual experts (psychologists etc.) have about deprogramming kids from them.

I was raised allowed to moderate my own content because I was trusted to be intelligent and wise enough to critically select what I watched or read and learn from the mistakes I made if I consumed something negatively influential.

I was raised allowed to moderate my own content because my computer-illiterate parents had absolutely no clue what the Internet was capable of exposing me to. Frankly, it was only dumb luck on their part that I happened to have the right personality and skills not to succumb to inceldom, the Alt-Right, or some other kind of radicalization.

(Even more frankly, maybe I did succumb to radicalization: I am, after all, an urbanist leftist Linux user (among other weird things) who likes to hang out on Lemmy, LOL!)

Your comment makes me wonder if 1930s Europeans thought German politics were similarly tedious.

Once the votes are counted

You do realize the MAGAs have been appointing “stop the steal” conspiracists to positions throughout the elections bureaucracy and are trying to recruit 100,000 poll “watchers” (read: saboteurs) specifically to try to stop that from happening, right?

Four years ago, the Trump campaign filed 50+ lawsuits trying to throw out votes because of alleged fraud that were basically all thrown out because no fraud could be found, and failed to stop states from certifying votes because the bureaucrats were doing their jobs. Now, they’re in a position not only to severely obstruct the counting and certification in the first place, but also sue over accusations of fraud that will be credible because their dumbass followers will have committed it themselves!

And of course, it’ll all be juuuuust stochastic and “lone wolf” enough that the Trump campaign itself will have [im]plausible deniability for directing it. The Heritage-Foundation-stacked courts will fall over themselves in their haste to clear Trump of any wrongdoing, while simultaneously saying “aww shucks we still have to invalidate the vote tho” or slow-walking any case they can’t plausibly say that about. This will result in either Trump crossing the 270 EC vote threshold by courts handing him wins for states where whole swathes of results for Democratic-leaning precincts have been thrown out, or throwing out enough results that neither candidate gets 270 votes so that the election gets decided by a “one state, one vote” poll in the House. Either way, Trump regains the Presidency “legally,” all Hell breaks loose with Project 2025 and the Supreme Court ruling making the President a king, and American democracy as we know it is over.

Please: save this comment, come back to it on Inauguration Day, and mock me for being wrong when democracy and the rule of law prevails. Be merciless about it! Ridicule me to within an inch of my life for my silly, unfounded worrying. I’m serious: please do that and I will love you for it.

Because I have no greater wish than to be wrong about this.

Just out of curiosity, what region are you from?

Because where I’m from – which is only a few dozen miles from Winder, by the way – calling somebody “white trash” very definitely can have an extra layer of connotation that merely calling them a “trashy person” does not.

Specifically, because of how closely correlated race and class are around here due to all the institutional racism (both historical and ongoing), calling somebody “white trash” doesn’t necessarily just mean “trashy,” it means –
and please forgive for risking coming across as racist in my attempt to describe other people’s racism – “living like a black person.” The idea is that black people, as an underclass, are trashy by nature, so by invoking a racial comparison the person using the phrase isn’t just saying the object of their insult is trashy, but is also “othering” them and contemptuously scolding them for failing to uphold the class standard racists expect of them as a white person.

And yes, that applies to “rich white trash,” too: when a racist’s worldview is that even the richest black person is inherently inferior to even the poorest white person, to call a person “white trash” is to consign them to the lowest class of society no matter how rich they are.

Also, please note that I’m not saying that everybody who uses the phrase “which trash” is a racist! The connotation I’m describing is highly context-dependent. In other words, just because some shitty kinfolk of a murderer in Georgia are highly offended at being accused of being associated with blackness because they were called “white trash” by randos from elsewhere in the country, doesn’t mean said randos actually meant it that way.

Nevertheless, regardless of what some people mean and how other people interpret them, the bottom line is that using that phrase in this context injects race and class issues into the matter that don’t deserve to be there and do nothing but distract from any legitimate goal anyone here might have, whether that be throwing the book at murderous fuckwits, reforming gun laws, trying to fix the root causes of domestic abuse and school bullying, or otherwise.

There’s nothing dismissive about it at all. Quite the opposite.

I mean, somebody downvoted your previous response. My best guess as to why is that your “either scenario… there are no winners” bit was perhaps poorly phrased and easy to misconstrue, so that’s what I addressed.

No, it’s true: these parents/perps are genuinely not “white trash.”

“White trash” implies that they’re poor, uneducated, or otherwise disadvantaged – in other words, it paints the situation as a class issue and implies that they deserve some non-zero amount of sympathy for the circumstances that led to this.

On the contrary: the killer’s parents were middle-class and would be considered “normal,” if not for their evil ideology, fucked-up priorities, and anti-social behavior. They deserve no sympathy and no leniency. The kid himself might, as the victim of their abuse, but the parents sure as Hell don’t!

Bringing up “white trash” as a talking point (even by denying it, unprovoked) is a misdirection. Don’t fall for it!

To be clear, Trump losing (not just the vote, but also his inevitable attempt to seize power anyway afterward) is definitely the vastly preferable scenario here – “Troubles” are way better than a full-blown dictatorship – so stopping him is, if not “the” winning move, at least the do-or-die first step towards it.

There is no validity to a dismissive “eh, either way it’s gonna be bad” attitude here. We are in an existential fight to achieve “pretty bad” because the alternative is “absolutely catastrophic.”

Oh you sweet, summer child. After the election ends, we’re going to have at least a month of coordinated all-out fighting from the fascists to stop the votes from being certified – if Georgia’s and Arizona’s popular vote results get accurately reflected in the final EC tally it’ll be a minor miracle – and years of “stop the steal” election denial and stochastic terrorism after that.

And that’s the best-case scenario.

Ah, like this?

The key there is to double-check that all your lug nuts are tight (let alone installed at all, LOL!) when you swap from your street wheels to your autocross wheels, and vice-versa.

Same goes for your motor mount bolts if your engine fell out, I suppose!

(In all seriousness, though, nothing you can do just trying to drive stick is capable of launching the engine out of the car. The worst-case scenario, aside from losing control and causing a wreck, is a money shift – accidentally downshifting to too low a gear and over-revving the engine – but even if it managed to blow a hole in your engine block, the bulk of the thing would largely stay within the engine compartment.)

The key is to understand what the controls do instead of memorizing a procedure.

When you start the car, you probably don’t want it to instantly lurch forward. So, you need to decouple the engine from the wheels, which you can do either by putting the transmission in neutral or by pushing in the clutch (or both). Once it’s running, either you can let the clutch out in gear to start moving, or let it out in neutral if you want to remain stopped for a while.

It’s not so much that one procedure is “correct;” it’s that you decide what you want the car to do and manipulate the controls to make that happen. It’s only not correct if it does something you didn’t intend.

Another fun fact: occasionally, that’s a legitimate technique. I have an old manual Toyota 4Runner 4x4 that actually has a “clutch start cancel” button you can use if, say, you stall in a tricky rock-crawling situation. You can crank the starter to crawl forward without risk of rolling backwards, like might happen if you actually started the engine and tried to use the clutch.

Especially !cats.

“Oregon Trail” generation