US, mid thirties, and I not only drive a manual transmission, I go out of my way to insist upon it. For example, I own a truck and an SUV made in the '90s because it’s difficult to find newer ones without an automatic.

Ride a bike.

“Very dark. Likely be eaten by grue.”

Nope, Star Trek Online.

The majority of the gameplay is committing war crimes in the name of galactic peace, but the players know the real endgame is space Barbie.

(It’s probably not my favorite game of all time, but it’s the MMO I play most often.)

Aww, alternativeto.net isn’t that bad…

Alabama white sauce is hardly “mustard based.” One teaspoon per cup of mayo is nothing; you’d barely taste it. It’s Carolina-style sauce you have an irrational hatred for, not Alabama-style.

The “shareholders” are the managers of large mutual funds, who are in the same 1%er good-ol’-boys club as the CEOs. They’re the ones voting the huge blocs of shares within the mutual funds.

The middle-class folks who actually own the shares indirectly via the funds in their retirement accounts have been completely disenfranchised.

“Eastman Commits More Sedition”

Fixed your headline, Talking Points Memo.

Just FYI, !selfhosted@lemmy.world (note the “-ed” instead of “-ing”) is far bigger than any of the communities shown in those search results.

Leavenworth seems like it would work out just fine.

At the time, their actions were largely dismissed as an elaborate political cosplay. But it eventually became clear that this was part of an orchestrated plan.

Speak for yourself, CNN! Your enlightened centrist dipshit asses might’ve been fooled, but that does not mean those of us who aren’t brainless were!

Kinky!

What have you been doing?

I need to study more, I guess!

Everything you wrote is basically the same as how it works in the US, except for that last sentence about never calling four-year programs “college.”

Apparently French works the same way (“university” = tertiary, “college” = high school), at least if Duolingo is to be believed.

The kind of place that the US calls “community college” would be called a “polytech” here.

I’m not necessarily doubting you, but I would’ve guessed “polytech” would be more like a “trade school” (where you go to learn skills for blue-collar jobs, like welding, plumbing, auto repair, etc.) than a “community college” (where you go for two years to earn an associates’ degree in stuff like liberal arts or business or nursing, possibly before transferring somewhere else to continue towards your bachelors’).

(That’s despite the fact that “polytech” around here can also refer to four-year engineering schools, although ones that are lower-tier than research universities. For example, the former “Southern Polytechnic State University” (“Southern Poly”) vs. “Georgia Institute of Technology” (“Georgia Tech”) here in GA. Ironically, the latter is self-deprecatingly nicknamed “North Avenue Trade School,” LOL!)

Not Olympics; some other international sports thing. Paralympics? Commonwealth Games? Some other competition that happens in the alternate years when an Olympics isn’t? IDK.

Yet another bad consequence of building our cities wrong. If we fixed the zoning code to make them walkable, we wouldn’t “need” traffic stops in the first place.

It’s amazing how car dependency is an underlying causal factor in nearly every problem in the US, from climate change, to obesity, to the housing crisis, to apparently even police misconduct.