He seems to deliberately chosen a day when the offices were closed, so perhaps he wasn’t trying to hurt other people. It would have been so much worse if this had been done on a weekday.

Around 2000 years ago the Romans held slaves and were crucifying people by the thousands. Amphitheaters hosted gladiator games and executions while huge crowds watched. A quick count on Wikipedia lists more than 40 wars just involving Rome from 200 BC to 200 AD and there were dozens of wars involving China during the same period. There were undoubtedly hundreds if not thousands of additional undocumented battles around the world.

There’s plenty of evidence that 2000 years ago you could not “take it for granted that people loved being alive and loved themselves”, including the fact that a “source” would feel it necessary to issue an order requiring people to love their neighbors.

He said he had been diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder. So it’s mental illness and just fucking sad.

ABC News update: “Investigators believe the person who died was the suspect in the blast, according to a law enforcement source.”

https://abcnews.go.com/US/explosion-shakes-palm-springs-residents-instructed-stay/story?id=121910709

Unverified firsthand reports say it was the bomber who died.

SCOTUS regularly ignores the Constitution and centuries of legal precedent to further their own blatantly partisan goals. They decide what result they want then fabricate absolute bullshit logic to support that result. They’ve undermined our elections and allowed the GQP to make voting much more difficult. In a country where no one is supposed to be above the law, they’ve made Trump a king with near absolute power.

Astounding that after years of trashing our laws and the Constitution to further his own partisan goals, Roberts has the fucking gall to whine about people “trashing the justices”. This snowflake thinks personal insults are worse than his own systematic damaging of the country and our government.

Roberts and his SCOTUS ilk can fuck right off.

Absolutely, as long as it isn’t themselves, their parents, relatives, friends or anyone else they care about. As far as conservatives are concerned, everyone else can get fucked.

In the process of doing the same.

Maga and Trump will no doubt try to convince the rest of us that shorter life spans are good for everyone, even the dead.

“It doesn’t scale”, meaning the company might have to (shudder) hire people if our business doubles.

I’ve actually owned a condo that was not on a corner and stretched along a single exterior wall. It did not extend very far into the building and had windows extending all along the side. There were no windows at the ends of the unit. This place had no issue at all with natural light, nor did it feel like a bowling alley. Problem solved.

You can’t have anything but windows at the end when you have a unit between two corners.

Architects solve this by extending units that aren’t at the corners along the outside wall, and strategically placing decks so more windows can be added around the deck. This allows windows in nearly every room and that’s what’s done with the majority of buildings, both old and new, no matter how many staircases are required. Since everything is about money, I have no doubt that it’s slightly cheaper to build homes with long, narrow living spaces and fewer windows.

What the builders didn’t seem to anticipate is those kinds of units fetch significantly lower prices and are harder to sell. I know I won’t buy one at any price.

Perhaps, but it has become so prevalent that there is no way of knowing for sure from most listings what the actual living space of a place is. I think nearly half of the listings I’ve looked at on the web in the past few months are overstating the square footage by 15% or more.

Here’s a link to one particularly obvious example where the realtor says the place is 2400 square feet. It’s nowhere near that and they are including an 800 square foot ground level patio as living space. Even without that patio space there’s no way the place is 1600 square feet.

https://www.realtor.ca/real-estate/27373060/114-225-belleville-st-victoria-james-bay

Looking in BC and many of the places are built like bowling alleys with windows only at one end. What were these builders thinking?

To make matters worse, many (scummy) realtors are now including patio and decks space in the square footage. No, a 800 sq ft place with a 700 sq ft patio is not 1500 sq ft of living space.

History doesn’t repeat itself in every detail, but it rhymes.

I think we’re well past rhyming at this point. 1930’s Germany could sue for plagiarism.

It’s odd that despite having been on Lemmy for a year you’ve never made a single news or politics post. The very best way to make sure posts are from sources you approve of is to make posts from sources you approve of.

No. If people stopped posting from every source someone found objectionable there would be zero content on Lemmy.

Someone I knew was hard-core conservative and thought forcing (other people’s) kids to work was a fucking great idea. When asked about the dangers of working in a industrial kitchen or a meat packing plant he said he wasn’t worried about that at all. Insurance companies would never allow it.

He spouted all kinds of other right wing BS that was almost as disturbing. That kind of nutcase is exactly who the fuck thought this would be a good idea.

Carney must have absolutely stroked Trump’s ego, just what is needed when dealing with a malignant narcissist. Smart man.

The fallout isn’t even beginning to be felt yet. I know multiple Canadian snowbirds who left weeks earlier than planned and don’t intend to come back as long as Trump is in office, or maybe ever.