I traveled a thousand miles by bus but it was direct with only one “rest” stop and it was also overnight. Went to sleep on my way out of one city, woke up on my way into another.

I’ve also done longer trips with multiple stops and changing busses. I brought a book. It was fine.

When you’ve got less money and more time, it’s a good option to have.

Their beauty is beyond compare.

Coffee “beans” are closer to cherry pits than any real bean.

Not from within the “comment reply” action, sadly.

The law does not currently prevent me from doing anything I want to do.

I wasn’t sure, I’m in the Ask muni on both.

Huh. I’ll check it out, their series on pasta was really good.

users on their instance, not users from their instance. This account is from midwest.social but currently commenting on… uh, lemmy.world, right?

It’s spammy.

Because it is the duty of parents to support their children, and this is desirable for the purposes of a stable society, and the purpise of law is to protect the stability of society?

I have a lot of original content, mostly Tom Swifty jokes here on lemmy at !tomswifty@midwest.social

Three words:

Bizarre public art!

I got a lot of help from HUD and FHA when I bought my house. I couldn’t have afforded to buy and renovate my home when I did without that program, which is only for first-time buyers. The program also helps housing supply by renovating unfit older buildings into usable housing stock.

So, at least in the US in general and Chicago specifically, gov’t is doing things to help first-time buyers.

I’m sure even non-Ameticans can tell the difference between an uppercase and lowercase letter L.

Or is it masturbation?

Not all libertarian-leaning people are on board with corporatism; IMO freedom is for people, not businesses.

My experience as well. Though I avoid political munis these days.

There’s dozens of us!

Twenty, even fifteen years ago I would’ve said Windows Notepad / vim. Now I rarely use basic text editors.

I don’t think there’s any technology that can never be superseded.

So, in this hypothetical we have a time machine, and can see not just if Dems lose but also what the consequences of that loss are. Further GOP court-packing? Loss of human rights for other vulnerable groups? Or maybe just a continuation of the status quo? With the time machine, we would know. Because the Dems winning or losing is not a good or evil in itself, but the consequences could be.

But, real word time now, we can’t know all the consequences of our actions. We should always try to achieve the best results we can, of course, but you can’t do something you know is wrong (like stay silent on trans rights) in the hopes that an evil now will lead to a greater good later, or prevent a greater evil. That’s my take, but what else can you expect from a virtue ethicist?