Surrounded by awful people who would see this and love it unironically

It is no surprise to learn that this applies to both Rubio AND Cruz.

I swapped everything to a different browser literally yesterday and signed into Lemmy for the first time there. I don't remember modifying any settings, but I very well could have. My apologies for not recognizing the correlation. I had no idea! Thank you!

Thank you. It appears that was the problem... Can't believe I overlooked that. Is there a reason that would have changed to off without my having changed it? Literally went to bed last night and it was showing, woke up this morning and it was not.

Oh, nice. I spend more time enough with it open to not have noticed that detail! I just write down quantity and item number and hand it over to our shipping guy, he takes care of the rest.

Aren't these the same assholes using AI to edit people crying that are arrested, and when criticized, announced that 'the memes will continue'? Are they afraid of a fucking meme war?

The majority of my coworkers have casually stated the last week, "I don't agree with the way this is all happening.", but still overall support the agenda and hold their line. It's a combination of ignorance and stupidity. They're just fascists without even knowing. I live in a deep red area and from what I can gather when I hear talk out in the street, most people are either completely unaware or excited "they're taking America back." There is no convincing these people. I have tried for years and years, and when they seem to hear you and begin to digest what you've said, they come back the next day more sure than before that Facebook and Fox keep them informed. Many of them can't tell you what the three branches of government are or how many Senators there are or provide correct answers on the simplest of civics questions.

Makes sense, you know. All of these wannabe militia types and oath keepers and three percenter people finally have a state sanctioned avenue to realize their violent fantasies against minorities and women. No serious vetting, no serious training... Let the vicious dogs loose. These men who've larped in the woods, prepping for and fetishizing a time of lawlessness and civil war. Terrified of the threats to their hierarchy once a black man became president, creating record numbers in their ranks, now they can take all of that anger they had pent up inside pretending the USA was going in the wrong direction and become the cause for its demise themselves.

Yes, you're absolutely right. We mustn't go around hurting the poor little ICE man's feelings! Don't these people realize they should just shut the fuck up when state violence has escalated to defense of murdering innocent mothers? I know, I know, shame we don't have laws or rights or case law on the books that demonstrates a person's right to free speech. That'd be crazy if people weren't afraid to insult the Gestapo.

I'm a machinist, so I use a huge variety of tools (setting fixturing, looking at prints and diagrams, fine measurements and gauges, CAD and CAM software, manual machine tools, etc.) The most important? Eye protection. I have excellent vision and would never jeopordize it to whatever extent possible and reasonable. I use safety glasses so often now for scenarios even outside of work, I forget to take them off when eating until halfway through a meal. Maybe I should be worried about the broccoli, though. You can never be too careful.

No, I did not. I started college right out of high school, with a focus on architectural engineering, but dropped out after a single semester for a number of reasons. My parents needed me to work full time to help pay for the house (even though I was moved out and trying to pay for most things on my own already). I couldn't juggle all the responsibility that entailed between helping family, more than full time employment, and school. I had to cut one of those things out, but figured I would go back to school after things became balanced. While working a number of jobs from food service, manufacturing, security, and construction, I gained promotions and made some decent pay, so I just never picked the torch back up in 15 years. I gained some unique and diversified skills through my experiences, and now I work in a machine shop running manual and CNC lathes. It's the kind of applied science I imagined when I was initially interested in engineering, and it is low stress and I'm not struggling financially (mostly, ha). I'd still like to go to school, but not just to get ahead in my career or make more money. I really enjoy learning and I spend as much of my free time reading and trying to understand new concepts as my brain can handle, everything from geology to calculus to music theory to critical theory. I'm all over the place. Definitely not as good as a dedicated education, though.

First thing I thought about.