IDK how hourly workers do it.

In theory it should be no problem for salaried workers. The point of salary is that you are supposedly being paid for your work output rather than your time. I know that isn’t always the case; companies love to control workers.

I have been lucky. At every place I worked for the last 20-ish years the salaried employees come and go as they please. It’s normal to leave for a mid-day appointment and then come back to the office. All that matters is shit gets done in a timely manner and we’re available when people need us. I wish everyone had that level of flexibility.

America’s best license plate design.

we migrate to a location where we can get sensible people together in a location.

This has already been happening for quite some time. People move to be around others like themselves. It’s why northern Idaho has been taken over by far-right newcomers, and why so many LGBTQ folks move to places like Seattle or greater Boston. Hell, the Free State Project has been actively trying to pack New Hampshire with libertarians for almost 25 years. The result of this self-segregation is stark political boundaries with easily-identified in- and out-groups. But we’re all still part of the same overall nation, so there’s a distinct political split and culture war politics take center stage. Hence our position.

Then we can rebel against the for profit system by protecting each other with weapons, food, community.

History tells me that secession by force is a losing proposition.

I don’t have a good solution. It’s tempting to organize and try to make peaceful secession a palatable political outcome, though that’s a long and difficult path with a lot of vested interests in the way.

TL;DR: The DNC admits, in soft language, that they have nothing to offer the American electorate aside from “At least we aren’t Trump.” They are toothless and have no counter to anything the Republicans throw at them. They have no plan to revamp the party in any significant way to become relevant again. They admit that Republicans are simply better at politics.

They have simply admitted the obvious.

CNN has report highlights here poor people who don’t want to waste time reading the whole 192-page report:
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/21/politics/dnc-autopsy-takeaways-vis

Frozone

Edit: There’s a 2-year-old thread on that other site that asked the same question and received lots of examples. I get that tropes and stereotypes exist, but I’m not sure black superheroes and lightning fits the bill.

https://www.reddit.com/r/comicbooks/comments/1gpxcn2/black_superheroes_without_electric_powers/

Yeah, it’s a fun show. I never thought I would care about a fashion podcast. Avery does an awesome job.

I happened to be passing by the Maryhill Museum a few years ago, and had to stop in to see the Théâtre de la Mode dolls. Had I not heard the episode about them I don’t think I would have appreciated the exhibit nearly as much.

There is definitely a fashion aspect to camo. Less so in hunting, and more so in the military world. Relevant fashion podcast:

https://www.articlesofinterest.co/podcast/episode/39c00bac/gear-chapter-5

The rare times I have been hunting we wore blaze orange hats & vests with no camo at all. Not getting shot by accident was priority #1, avoiding hypothermia was priority #2.

Nicole, the Fediverse chick

as an addition or complement to it.

Our public school district offers a hybrid home school program for this. You can do core subjects at home, and then the kids attend a branch campus for classroom-based electives like music or robotics. It’s really sweet.

Our kids have done a mix of public, private, and home school depending on where we have lived and their individual needs. We are fortunate to have this level of flexibility.

Most challenging: It’s just a ton of work. Doing it well is a full-time job, which is of course why the world has professional teachers.

Most rewarding: Watching the kids really get into certain topics. There is a level of flexibility you can’t get in a large group, and your kid can move at their own speed. So if they decide they’re super into some topic they can quickly finish the other required work for the day and then have time to dive deeper into their topic of interest. I came home yesterday to find that my preteens spent the afternoon composing original music for percussion ensembles, and it’s actually good.

Edit: I know home schooling isn’t popular here on Lemmy. There are definitely people who abuse it to the detriment of their kids. But there are good reasons to do it, too: maybe your kid has special needs that school can’t accommodate, maybe your kid is being harassed, maybe your kid is significantly ahead/behind their grade level and sees school as a pointless waste of time, etc. And you can get plenty of social interaction with sports, clubs, or just playing with other kids in the neighborhood. It does not have to be a solitary activity, and should not be.

Read lots of history. Humans have not changed in thousands of years. Though the details of our current problems may be new, the underlying motivations and mechanisms are the same as the have always been. And despite all of our problems, the trend line of humanity is moving in the right direction. Try to remember that progress is not linear. Rather, it is a constant pattern of three steps forward, two steps back.

Middle picture brought back memories of Internet days of yore.

But every once in a while it briefly changes to It’s Not Unusual.

I don’t have a comprehensive collection, unfortunately. If you Google around you can find partial collections on sites like this:

https://www.lambiek.net/artists/a/addams_charles.htm

I’m thinking of buying a book of his comics to share with my kids.

I woke up to a lovely rainstorm this morning and thought of this classic.

Fun fact: The disease is named for Lyme, Connecticut, USA. That’s where it was first identified as a unique condition.

It’s common enough in the northeast and north-central US that my public schools taught everyone basic prevention and symptoms as part of the regular curriculum.

Medical device industry here. Some of our software and electrical engineers are using Claude as a sounding board for ideas, or as a starting point to find possible paths forward when they get stuck with a hard problem. Nobody trusts the model to give an accurate answer. Nobody is being encouraged to use AI models. At the end of the day, all work committed to a project is done by real humans with the normal review processes.

Management is cautiously looking at potential uses for AI in our products, but there is a healthy dose of skepticism all around. If your machine is displaying diagnostic data to a doctor there cannot be any question as to whether the machine is hallucinating.

Zing zing!