The more we participate in it, the more slop they create.

This is a NO from me.

PLEASE! Please rapture all of these smarmy self-righteous know-it-all assholes off of the planet so the rest of us can get on with our lives in peace!

My server is Debian. My desktop and laptops are all Garuda Linux.

You have to earn it in other countries, plus people coming to the US have to earn it as well.

We talk a lot about our freedoms and liberties in the US, but we don’t talk much about civic and personal responsibility to our neighbors, communities, and country. We look down on poor people and people unable to participate in the economy. We give away all of our power as citizens to people who exploit us.

We don’t participate in our own government.

I think citizenship and all it entails should be taught in schools, and once you’re nearly an adult, you take the exam and then you get your certificate or whatever, just like anything else.

I’m not saying that you wouldn’t have any rights until then - I’m viewing it more like an educational degree - but you would know a LOT more about how your government is supposed to work and what your actual rights and responsibilities are. I see it as empowering, not exclusionary.

I’m not entirely sure. I feel like citizenship and social responsibility were things that were talked about in elementary school once or twice and then never spoken of again. Civics class was forgettable.

We push the idea of individual liberty to the point where I feel it’s detrimental to the goals of living together in a community and society.

I don’t know what the solution would be, but EARNING your citizenship sounds like it would mean more to people instead of it being granted automatically.

Since we Americans are granted citizenship at birth, it doesn’t really mean a whole lot anymore nowadays. People take it for granted and feel like they can do whatever they want whenever and however they want, regardless of the fact that they live in a society, and are not just a collection of individuals.

I’ll have to take your word for it. I’m just parroting what the dishwasher repair guy told me.

Occasional cleaning in the dishwasher is probably fine, as long as it’s occasional. Dishwasher detergent contains enzymes that eat away at the food on your dishes. Just be sure and do it with a full load of dirty dishes, otherwise those enzymes will start eating away at whatever else is in the dishwasher. 

It’s why if you read the manual of your dishwasher, it will usually tell you to not rinse your dishes before putting them inside. Those enzymes need something to work on, and if there is no food for them to munch on, they will start munching on your glasses and dishes, dulling their finish. 

Pirate Santa Rap.

Someone please do this, and do it FOR REAL - none of that AI slop.

Our hotel was in FiDi, but I had issues even in Midtown. I have a brother in Harlem, and when I mentioned it to him, he was not surprised.

We come up to visit our daughter pretty regularly. I usually don’t have issues when I go to NYC, just these past two times when it was downright painful.