Reyali

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[–] Reyali@lemm.ee 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Yeah, dumb title confused me too. I didn’t care enough to read the article but comments helped me realize “no VP endorsement” means she’s not endorsing Harris, who is the current VP.

[–] Reyali@lemm.ee 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I was going to call it a “small” city but Google told me that 300k is mid-size so I went with that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The city is ~350 sq km and our tiny downtown area is probably about 1 sq km, so the entire city is kinda like a suburb. Heck, I’m from Houston which is known for its urban sprawl, and yet there’s lower population density where I live now.

[–] Reyali@lemm.ee 7 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, I’m a second-row person all the way; green describes me right. Purple as a backup.

Thank goodness my college only had one of these kinds of rooms, and I was only there for a class about movies.

[–] Reyali@lemm.ee 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

I’ll just use the same criteria you gave as an example.

  • To the nearest convenience store: 1.5mi (2.6km)
  • To the nearest chain supermarket: 1.8mi (2.9km)
  • To the bus stop: 0.5mi (800m)
  • To the nearest park: 0.3mi (480m) - I’m lucky to have several parks in my neighborhood
  • To the nearest big supermarket: 2.1mi (3.4km)
  • To the nearest library: 2.2mi (3.5km)
  • To the nearest train station: 5.1mi (8.2km)

Edit: I live in a mid-size city (300k) on the east coast.

[–] Reyali@lemm.ee 4 points 3 weeks ago

Hey, I know the person who made this meme originally! (He got a kick of seeing his work spread around.)

[–] Reyali@lemm.ee 6 points 3 weeks ago

I’ve been following him since 2020 as an NC state representative for a different district because he gave no-nonsense updates about covid and then the Floyd protests.

I just want to clone him and have him in both the federal and state positions, lol. We need more people like him in government, not less.

[–] Reyali@lemm.ee 32 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I highly recommend this 2-min video from Jeff Jackson (NC representative).

He posted it 6 days ago explaining that nothing major was going to come out of the budget passing because the point was never to actually pass it but to get air time yelling about wanting to pass it. He constantly exposes that the extreme right flank in congress is all theater for the public and acts completely different behind closed doors. I greatly appreciate this guy and recommend checking his stuff out beyond just this one video!

[–] Reyali@lemm.ee 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Lucky you. I started seeing them months ago. They paint him as this innocent Southern man of humble origins. Tbf, I don’t remember seeing one of them within the past month or so, so maybe they’ve actually died off in some places,

[–] Reyali@lemm.ee 14 points 3 weeks ago

I knew about Angel Flight but wasn’t aware of this. Thank you for sharing, and for flying! My dad was the top contributing pilot for Angel Flight in Texas a few years back. If he was still able to fly, I’d be pushing him to take this on as well.

[–] Reyali@lemm.ee 2 points 3 weeks ago

Unfortunately that doesn’t serve the democrats as a whole, so it isn’t prioritized by the party favorites.

(Note: I am NOT both-sidesing here. I always have and will again vote D this election because they are the most sane option that actually has some human interests at heart. I just accept that they are not all altruistic and are also motivated to keep status quo in some ways that don’t align to my personal preferences for my elected officials. They are still the right choice.)

[–] Reyali@lemm.ee 18 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

“What he did,” though, was just take notes as a reporter. He took notes then tried to leave with them, where he was accosted and threatened and told to delete the notes. When he continued to express a desire to leave and mentioned his kids, that comment came out.

I agree that it’s not as bad as the headline makes it sound. But it also doesn’t seem like the reporter did anything that he shouldn’t have done which would have given him reason to be accosted…

Charitable reading, this was just an off-the-cuff comment at the maturity level of, “I know you are but what am I?” where the aide used a quick comeback without thinking much about her words.

[–] Reyali@lemm.ee 12 points 3 weeks ago

“First in Flight” was the original (because the Wright brothers’ first flight was in NC), then they added “First in Freedom”. It’s because NC was the first state to write/sign a Declaration of Independence from England, over a year before the Declaration of Independence.

But it was a fucking slave state. I’ve always thought the “First in Freedom” license plate was insulting.

Also, Mark Robinson is insane and a horrible person. Obviously.

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