I use “local send,” but it’s good to know there are options!

https://localsend.org/

I couldn’t find any information as to why, but playing around with other symbols suggests it only does it with symbols where they assume the space isn’t supposed to be there. E.G. Colon, ending parenthesis, equals sign, etc. Digging around in the settings I couldn’t find any option to disable this functionality.

Folks elsewhere suggested switching to the Swype keyboard, but I don’t have personal experience with it in a very long time so I don’t know anything about the settings and automatic behavior.

In case you haven’t been to a library in a while (yes I know this post is a joke) they do way more than just books these days. Depending on the library you’ll get music, movies, videogames, computers, photography equipment, 3D printers, laser cutters, audio visual equipment, recording studios, meeting rooms, and probably other shit I’m forgetting about. Smaller libraries are obviously more likely to stick to the basics, but my suburban library where I used to live had nearly everything I mentioned.

Gorgeous!

That took the weirdest right turn into “fuck socialism all my homies love capitalism.”

Yes correct, sorry if that was confusing.

Being rich literally makes you delusional.

https://youtu.be/IP2EKTCngiM

If you still have an account and want to do some good with r/place your can join the effort to advertise r/EndFPTP

https://www.reddit.com/r/EndFPTP/comments/154kix3/rplace_returns_in_5_hours_we_must_create_a_spot/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb

I’m currently working on advertising for r/EndFPTP

I downloaded the app specifically just to help, and I’ll delete it when I’m done.

I figure taking down the duopoly is more important than taking down Reddit for a day.

https://www.reddit.com/r/EndFPTP/comments/154kix3/rplace_returns_in_5_hours_we_must_create_a_spot/

You vastly over estimate the willingness of people to learn how a computer works.

Honestly, if we could stop this cultural race war for like two seconds we’d have a way better society. I just went healthcare end high speed rail.

Yeah, I’m aware of the Haber-Bosch process.

I’d honestly have to do the math, but I suspect we’d be able to get rid of synthetic fertilizers if we actually wanted to. Afterall, what do you think happens to the nitrogen after we eat it? We pee and poop it out, for the most part. Yes, there are losses to the air when you till the soil, but a proper farm that focuses on soil health has ways to deal with that problem.

Right now we use the system we have because it’s cheap and easy to do so on an individual level. Growers want to simplify their workflow; they don’t want to actually manage the health of the land they work. It’s too much effort.

Plus, there’s a bunch of government policy that encourages bad farming practices and discourages good ones. Corn subsidies, banning the use of treated sewage for fertilizer, blatant blind-eye enforcement of labor laws, price-dropping policy instead of price-stabilizing policy, etc.

It’s not that we would starve, not in a properly structured system, anyway. It’s that food would become more expensive and some of us would transition to careers in agriculture. The pay would become seductive when the farms become desperate for labor. A farm that actually takes care of the land and the animals is absolutely more labor-intensive, and that’s why very few modern farms do it.

Edit: I should also say that the plants and animals we have today are not the same as the ones we had when the Haber process was invented. We wouldn’t be going back to the yields of the early 1900s. Even if we did everything exactly the same as they did back then, we’d still get better returns and have a more robust food delivery system. Hell, they didn’t even have refrigeration back then.

We really do need to just straight-up ban pesticides, antibiotics, and synthetic fertilizers in agriculture.

If there was a way for legislate that all farms needed to be mixed use, I’d go for immediately.

While the strike is important, if we can get recognition that these subcontractors are just a way for corporations to dodge employment laws, that would be fucking HUGE.

I’ve been idly trying to come up with a framework that discourages this kind of behavior, and I haven’t come up with anything good. Got any ideas? Everything I come up with either wouldn’t work or would never get implemented.