To clarify for people not from CA, and having lived in OC for the better part of a decade, it’s relatively more conservative and yet also not.

For example, places like Santa Ana literally working on getting voting for undocumented people for municipal elections, cannot be more anti ICE. Naturally they’re targeted by some of the worst abductions and such, which is a shame because they’re some of the coolest people I’ve met in OC.

On the other end of the spectrum, Huntington Beach literally made a MAGA plaque for a library and many of their council members wear the red hat openly. Sure enough, very pro ICE and the majority of black and brown people you’ll see are the slave labor employed for their gardens and shit. I once was invited to a Thanksgiving there and it was awkward as shit watching gardeners working while we were sitting down for dinner.

Then everything else is mixed. Irvine, a city ultimately owned by a company, has turned weirdly blue over an influx of immigration but is still very much a fascist place at times with heavy policing. I saw a homeless man abducted by police and likely relocated to Santa Ana once, and that was a bit chilling. That’s their solution to unwanted people.

I still doomscroll to stay a little informed but my recent salvation has been free ebooks on my phone. Same phone strolling action but instead of doom, I get fun little mysteries.

Quite simply, as it says, when things get heated, such as during a fight with your spouse, the fan will start trying to escape which causes it to spin.

This also works if you start yelling at it yourself, although you need to be genuine. It can detect if you’re lying, so get angry!

I think being in a sane state kind of mitigated that COVID issue for me, but I agree on the PPP loan theft (immigration stuff was always bad, although I guess not children in cages bad). My point was, compared to this term, he was actually held back a bit.

Pineapple is amateur hour, there are so many more crazy things to put on pizza.

Also less crazy but still different. Anyone want Tandoori Chicken Pizza? It’s like BBQ but with an Indian food twist.

If I’m being honest, the first term was quite underwhelming compared to how bad it could be (as 2025+ has proved).

They especially like loan words that most Japanese people kinda know, so yes, definitely the best option.

I’m kind of poking fun as a Missouri friend of mine who had dogs who came and went outside freely. Obviously when you’ve got animals coming and going, the floor gets really dusty and dirty.

Places with diversity, basically. You visit a Japanese friend and realize how much better that is, lol.

That, and have you seen interior people’s floors? The shoes are sometimes cleaner, oof.

Oh no, I know that location very well. I don’t recall there being a 99 Ranch back then, but it’s more or less the same area I remember from college days.

Context, it’s a very affluent part of LA bordering Beverly Hills and Bel Air. It’s also one of the main routes to get to UCLA so a lot of commuters via bus and bike, although the latter is painfully uphill. Going back is extremely fun, though I generally kept to side streets to avoid certain death.

I also almost got hit around there; A little east of there near the Beverly Hills border I was nearly hit by a very elderly driver in a BMW speeding to a stop in an intersection for a right turn (y’know, when they overshoot the crosswalk without checking for pedestrians). I definitely see more elderly drivers in that area, my personal guess is they’re entitled enough to think they have a right to their car despite age and ability.

The KDE wiggle wiggle is a feature that was enough to convert a friend of mine. Game compatibility? Nah. Win privacy issues? Nah. Giant fucking cursor? Wiggle wiggle, baby.

My students typically use ig or tiktok, but when I’m asked what I use, I hesitate mostly because it’s super hard to explain the fediverse without completely derailing the lesson.

Plus it’s not like there are studies talking about the dangers of Lemmy or Piefed. “Oh no, I’m compelled to install Linux!”

Honestly having a complete lockdown might be an improvement over the current state of things. Wishful thinking, given 47 likely wouldn’t repeat the 2020 half assed approach to disease, going full RFK on it this time around…

I was a teenager when 9/11 happened and even my stupid ass knew that, along with all the patriot act shit, was going to be a problem.

My wife did both in a Californian suburb and this is accurate in that retail will make you lose faith in humanity while waiting tables is actually kinda fun but very tiring.

In her case, it wasn’t the Karens but rather the amount of terrible parenting she would witness. One kid shamelessly stole thousands of dollars of Pokemon cards, get caught, and the mother took his side and blamed the store (?!). Plus, so many kids just left there like it’s a fucking daycare, too. Touching and messing up stuff. My wife was working alone most of the time, too!

Not to mention, no chair, no real breaks, minimum pay, and so on. At least with food service, good places have tips and you get to bring home food. If you sell alcohol, it’s extremely lucrative in states that don’t dock your pay. An occasional jump scare is worth making more than an average college grad, and one of her friends opened a sushi place and gives us a discount. Food service is cool.

I appreciate that we also only use one nostril at a time, which we can only do with two. It swaps every few hours, too!

It shouts “BY THE POWER OF GRAYSKULL!”

Thanks for the explanation!

Without the context I felt super out of the loop, but no, it’s the church protests that’s being treated as some crazy hate crime that it isn’t. I just didn’t expect Don Fucking Lemon to be involved, lol.

Yup, or at least most popular writing. The funny part was Arsène was literally conceived as a way to build off the fame of Sherlock Holmes which recently had got translated into French and released in periodicals. Arsène, being French and anti-police, immediately became a star in France, lol.