The Bard in Green

Last year, we had a major problem with homeless people into this shit in Boulder. You may recall there was a homeless encampment with Nazi and Christian Nationalist flags in South Boulder that went viral on Reddit and Redditors went and stole the flags. Those same assholes were also selling lots of meth.

The long time homeless folks in Boulder HATED it because it was reflecting badly on them and was causing public spaces to be closed to them. So they teamed up and ran the Nazi meth heads out of town. I wouldn’t be surprised if that just meant “they moved to Denver.”

Here’s an idea: Raise your prices WITHOUT doing some cutesy “fee” thing, raise servers pay and then tell your customers you don’t accept tips, like MOST of the western world.

My teenage son is obsessed.

People are including AI generated code in their projects without fully reading it or understanding how it works.

Did you read the link? The quote is about literal Nazis.

Too real.

Did you mean to respond to me or the free speech / equal rights absolutist guy?

To think otherwise, is to simply believe that it’s okay to discriminate against majority groups simply because they are the majority.

No, it’s OK to discriminate against assholes, because they’re assholes. Full stop. They can go form an asshole lobby if they don’t like it… oh wait, they did, it’s called the Republican party.

If there were a “White Pride” group at a college campus, I’d be arguing that they need to allow a “Black Pride” as well.

If I want this kind of lowest common denominator cultural simplification with a bunch of slippery slope kinds of arguments, I’ll go debate the kids who go to high school with my son. This black and white “the nuance doesn’t matter, it’s just logical” world view exists wilfully ignorant of it’s own consequences, thinking it has the moral high ground because it’s head is up it’s own ass. I don’t have time for it.

The guy makes no secret about how his “views differ” and that JUST means homophobia. There’s NO WAY “straight pride” is about feeling like being straight is “as good as” being gay… No one needs to be reminded that straight people exist and have rights. It’s ALWAYS about reminding GLBTQ+ youth that there are assholes out there who AT THE VERY LEAST think they’re better than GLBTQ+ people. NO ONE who supports GLBTQ+ normalization cares about flying straight pride flags. The only ones who do it are straight up homophobes.

By your argument, logically this guy’s kids should be allowed to show “White Pride” flags at school… and this guy sums up very well why you just can’t allow that in.

tl:dr; for the link: “You have to ignore their reasonable arguments, because their end goal is to be terrible, awful people.”

I will participate.

I mean, yeah, RTD is MUCH slower than driving. Always has been. I’ve been riding RTD since 1990.

BUT on RTD

• I’m saving money.
• I’m polluting less.
• Instead of having to pay attention to driving I can read Lemmy, play games on my phone or text with friends / family. I’ve even attended Zoom/Teams meetings while on RTD (as long as I mostly don’t have to talk, but my job last year had me in tons of Teams meetings with like 30-40 people in them). Just being able to use my time that way instead of driving is worth the trade off.
• I get more exercise.
• I don’t have to deal with parking. Worth it by itself if you’re going to like 16th Street or Pearl Street in Boulder or Downtown Lafayette, etc.

That’s adorable.