• BCBoy911@lemmy.ca
    2·
    18 minutes ago

    This isnt even a unique or uncommon type of guy Lol you find these dudes everywhere at Hypebeast stores and corner store vape shops

  • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world
    27·
    3 hours ago

    I know a padded resume when I see one. Dude is having a hard time getting dates, so he threw a handful of more desirable keywords in there.

  • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works
    5·
    3 hours ago

    Sometimes at the bar I’ll swipe my friends hinge account with her and it’s hilarious how “otherwise attractive” people are stuck there with conservative on their profile.

  • Greg Clarke@lemmy.caEnglish
    115·
    5 hours ago

    These positions only seem like cognitive dissonance because of US bipartisanship and the politicization of everything.

    • kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      121·
      4 hours ago

      Trump has used the Presidency to set back most of the issues that that person claims to support.

      • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works
        4·
        3 hours ago

        That they have the elderly fascist racist is a good president does not allow anything else to really live on there with any credulity

  • ExtremeDullard@piefed.socialEnglish
    931·
    11 hours ago

    That there is either a very confused short bus rider or someone cleverly hedging his bets.

    I’m gonna guess the former.

      • Tenthrow@lemmy.world
        71·
        11 hours ago

        In many school districts, children with mental handicaps are often picked up for school by a small version of a school bus. It becomes a jokey reference to call someone mentally challenged if they “Ride the short bus”

        • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
          7·
          6 hours ago

          Oh huh. And this is common enough where you are that people use it as a metaphor and people broadly understand its meaning?

          • Signtist@bookwyr.meEnglish
            16·
            5 hours ago

            Yeah, pretty much every American public school student understands that the shorter bus picks up the handicapped kids. It might take a few years before they’ve heard the mean-spirited phrase of “riding the short bus,” but it’s pretty much universally understood by the time a kid leaves elementary school.

            I remember I got picked up by a short bus to take me to sports practice in middle school, and got teased mercilessly because of it. I can’t imagine what the handicapped kids had to deal with because of it. I try not to use the phrase myself, since you’re probably bringing up bad childhood memories from anyone who actually rode one of the smaller busses.

            • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
              52·
              5 hours ago

              It’s astonishing to me that in a country as car-brained and individualistic as America, school buses are so ubiquitous that not only is everyone familiar with them, they’re even familiar with how their design changes for different minority groups.

              • Signtist@bookwyr.meEnglish
                3·
                4 hours ago

                Public transport is seen as being really sketchy and dangerous in America, so the idea of letting your kid ride it unattended is seen as neglectful in many areas. There’s even a whole Simpsons episode about it, where Homer is his classic idiot self, telling his kid to ride the bus like that’s okay, and spends the episode trying to find her when she inevitably ends up somewhere she’s not supposed to be. At the same time, parents are expected to be at work by the time the kids are going to school, so it’s not common to have the parents drive them, either. Thus, the ubiquity of the school bus.

              • kibiz0r@midwest.socialEnglish
                8·
                5 hours ago

                Lol, the “individual freedom” is just the packaging for how they pitch it to workers.

                The real beneficiaries of car-centric infrastructure are the employers, who get to purchase cheap land in the middle of nowhere and demand workers be able to get there as quick as physically possible with zero to little notice.

                From that lens, of course American kids take the bus to school. Anything that would take adults away from their jobs for an extra minute is unacceptable.

                • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  2·
                  4 hours ago

                  I’m just passing by to marvel at how somebody on good old car-hating Lemmy managed to pull off the mental gymnastics to arrive at the conclusion “mass transportation (a bus) is bad now.”

                  Let’s not forget that having the means to pull in students from a disparate area was key in finally being able to desegregate schools, literally to the extent that motherfuckers to this very day use “busing” as a euphemism for, “We’re mad about there being black kids in our kids’ school.”

                • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
                  1·
                  4 hours ago

                  The thing is, Australia is only slightly better as regards motornormativity and individualism. But the American concept of school buses is rather foreign to us. Most kids are either driven to school or take the same public transport that everyone else uses.

          • ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml
            6·
            5 hours ago

            In the US, yes. It was more common before the mid-2010s when the r-slur was very commonly used.

        • SolarMonkey@slrpnk.netEnglish
          23·
          8 hours ago

          To be clear, those are usually for any handicap, as they are outfitted with wheelchair access and usually have extra adults riding along to help.

          They are (or at least were in my area at that time) much more comfortable, similar to public transit busses. I got to ride along with a friend with a muscular problem on one a few times in the late 90s early noughties and it was lux.

          • 93maddie94@lemmy.zip
            16·
            6 hours ago

            Our school uses them for pretty much all students with special needs not just mobility issues. It gives them a shorter route, less kids, more adult supervision, and the option for seatbelts.

        • sudo@programming.dev
          2·
          3 hours ago

          Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.