Context: This is a grocery store in the town of Black Mountain, NC, which was devastated by Hurricane Helene. The police will not let anyone in to get food or clean water or even baby formula and diapers, not even if they have cash to pay. This is being framed as "stopping looters". This is apparently the best thing the cops have to do with their time, during a widespread emergency.

The store has no power - the food will rot anyway.

I Have No Hams and I Must Steam

this is how skyrim dungeons are designed

What the shit????

Microsoft truly wants a dumbed down populace that cannot control the products they buy

If they do this then my dumb ass will find a way to install Linux or something

So for anyone interested that doesn't already know, here's some more information on Linux and Ubuntu distributions (AKA distros for short) - arranged in no particular order:

Official websites for downloading the various Linux and Ubuntu distros:

Note: Ubuntu is derived from Linux. Both are free, open source, and can be modified however you like.

There is a method to "try before you buy" on either distro by downloading them onto a dedicated USB (this will require re-formatting it, and any previous information will be wiped on the USB), and Linux/Ubuntu will load from the USB. Your mileage may vary with this approach, so please refer to documentation on recommended methods and potential pitfalls.

Yes, this is a shitty thing of Windows to do and I appreciate the Linux introduction.

However. As of today, Aug 26, 2024, there has since been an update added to the end of the article:

Then it links to this article:

I will be keeping this in my back pocket, but I wanted to chime in with the update so people aren't spreading around incomplete information.

Do you remember how for years cheney was a joke to american liberals, because he shot that guy in the "hunting accident", and now they are like talking about him like he's some respected elder statesman offering one last lifeline to the GOP or something

Every day you people make me read sentences

housebroken is too hot of a term for what essentially boils down to a heterosexual man learning to do the dishes periodically

Pretty upset that The Umbrella Academy, a show with heavy queer rep, ended by saying "the world would be better off without these freaks"

the “i was abused by an ace/aro, their community is bad!” argument is so mindblowing like…. i was abused by a bi girl, does that condemn the entire bi community? no. it does not. jfc.

But the ace community supports that abuse. If an asexual person forces their partner to not have sex ((something extremely important to non-aces)) then that’s abuse, and the ace community supports it.

so…. ur saying that aces HAVE to give sex to their partner (who is apparently entitled to it for some reason??) and that if they don’t (aka, if they respect their own boundaries and limits) then they’re abusive????

u all legit sound like those antisjw mras here.. like “forces to not have sex”… r u all real ppl with genuine compassion for others.. because this legit sounds like it’s encouraging and normalising sexual assault and denormalising consent. what the fuck is up with these people??? i am 99% sure you are the ones supporting (sexual) abuse here with your toxic exclusionary ideologies and apparently now sex-entitlement.

Today: A lesson in German capitalisation

Die Spinnen! = The spiders! Die spinnen! = They are crazy! Er hatte liebe Genossen. = He had kind companions. Er hatte Liebe genossen. = He had enjoyed love. Sich brüsten und Anderem zuwenden. = to gloat and turn towards other things Sich Brüsten und Anderem zuwenden. = to turn towards breasts and other things Sie konnte geschickt Blasen und Glieder behandeln. = She was adept at treating blisters and limbs. Sie konnte geschickt blasen und Glieder behandeln. = She was adept at giving blowjobs and handling members. Der Gefangene floh. = The prisoner escaped. Der gefangene Floh. = The imprisoned flea Helft den armen Vögeln. = Help the poor birds. Helft den Armen vögeln. = Help poor people with sex.

In case anyone wanted to feel better about how confusing English can get.

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Rest in power to all the Black lives we’ve lost whether they got media coverage or not. Each had a life to live and a dream to follow. None deserved to die.

What about all the lives, period? What makes one color more important than the other when it comes to death? That person was someone’s mother, brother, father, wife, husband, child, a family from the town I live in lost their 5 year old baby boy a few days ago in a car accident. He didn’t deserve today, does his race matter? He had a life to live and a dream to follow too, and his external appearance had not a single goddamn thing to do with it.

Rest in power to all the Black lives we’ve lost whether they got media coverage or not. Each had a life to live and a dream to follow. None deserved to die.

This is whats wrong with Tumblr. Lives only matter if they’re in the ‘fashionable minority’ at the time. You all condemn the world as racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, ablest, etc., when you are the worst. Rather than actually go out and do something about the world you share a hashtag and believe yourself better people. You’ve taken people’s lives and made them a trend.

Rest in power to all the Black lives we’ve lost whether they got media coverage or not. Each had a life to live and a dream to follow. None deserved to die.

so, in recent french news: a muslim middle-school student wore a floor-length skirt to school and was sent home because it was decided her covering herself was equivalent to wearing a religious symbol (the same as her headscarf, which she had already been prohibited from wearing to school), which is forbidden by law

sources: x, x (french) x (english)

holy shit