Lectral

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Dude, you can write in any qualified candidate on your ballot. All the Americans would have to do is have someone get qualified and spread the word to vote for them. I mean, it wouldn't be easy but you could break out of your stupid two-party system if you wanted.

It worries me how much stuff I have on American hosted servers. Photos, email, authorizations for other services, documents, backups, etc. Access to all that seems to depend on the whims of a foreign leader. (I'm not American). If all it takes to get put on a list is disagree with him, I better at least make local backups.

on Cool Japan đŸŒ¸ · c/memes · -20 pts · 53d

Not racist. You can learn whatever language you want. In fact you don't even need to learn Japanese. You can just use a translator app. This only is discrimination against those too lazy to do either.

The principal of my small-town high school heard kids talking about pump jack parties. He thought we were going out to a pump jack to get drunk and ride the pump jacks. Apparently, in his day, that's what kids did. He brought in a guest speaker from a local oilfield company to talk to the senior students about the dangers of doing that.

We were dumbfounded by the talk because none of us had ever thought to ride a pump jack. What we called a pump jack party was just when a specific couple parked their car in the country to have sex.

Older people in the community have since confirmed that riding pump jacks was indeed a thing.

on He's an arborist · c/lemmyshitpost · 13 pts · 112d

What if there's a ... um ... protuberance on the bottom where the branch meets the trunk? What's the correct measuring procedure in that case?