It takes money and know-how to create and maintain a real website, but Facebook is free and requires little knowledge of how websites work. Add the fact that many rural folks still don’t take the Internet seriously, and you get businesses that don’t realize that they’re neglecting a useful tool to help them gain and maintain customers.

What I said before was a little exaggerated. An example of the experience: this weekend I was looking to order lunch in an area that I don’t frequent. There was a sandwich shop that I had been meaning to try because people rave about it. I tried to call to place an order and the phone just rang. No voicemail, just ringing. I went looking for a website, thinking maybe they’re closed on Sundays (I hear the owner is religious) and I find nothing but Facebook. The latest post was from November saying something about the owner having broken his arm, so they’ll be closed until further notice. So I guess they’re closed?

I move onto another shop who does have a website, but it’s bare bones: just the name, address, phone number, and hours that are probably outdated. No menu. Their Facebook wasn’t any help. I had to Google to find pictures of the menu. I called them and ordered. If I wasn’t willing to take an extra couple of steps, I’d have to resort to Subway for a sandwich… no thanks.

The usual experience is like what happened with the second shop, sometimes with a menu, sometimes it’s up to date. No online ordering, no Doordash. Maybe they have a new customer form to fill out to get a call back for a quote, but don’t be surprised if they don’t call, because they don’t check those messages because they don’t take the Internet seriously. They’re great at their job, but suck at current forms of communication. If you want to support local businesses in a rural area, you call them or just show up. It’s like the 2000s out here.

You obviously don’t live in a rural area where almost all businesses do exactly this, minus the WhatsApp part. If I had that attitude, I’d only have Walmart and nobody should live like that.

The most amazing part of this is that Florida is shown to be a part of the Appalachian Mountains. Meanwhile, its highest point is only 345 feet (105 meters), which is the lowest state high point of all 50 states.

You can also think of it this way. Clock turns clockwise = time goes forward. Steam deck turns clockwise = webpage moves forward. Forward on a webpage is down because of reading direction.

My stance is fuck ICE, but not people who are possibly ICE. Judge people based on how they act and the message they send, not based on which race and age group they belong to

I wasn’t arguing the legality, just that it’s not in their best interest to deny service to someone because they might be ICE. If they can clearly tell that the people who walked in are ICE or acting in a racist way, then deny away.

Probably because they’re often not clearly identifiable as law enforcement, let alone ICE. Can’t It’s not good business to deny service just because they look the type that might be ICE.

Edit: People seem to be misunderstanding my intentions here. Businesses should totally refuse service to anyone clearly showing to be ICE or acting in a racist way. Fuck them.

I’m saying that it’s not in their best interest to deny service to middle aged white guys / rednecks because they look like they might be in ICE. They’d go out of business.

Pretty much

Not communism! I’m afraid of it threatening trade, free elections, and my individual freedoms.

Certainly unchecked capitalism will save us!

Yes, we are.

My trailer trash neighbor hates the new folks across the street because they’re from out of state. “This ain’t New York!” It’s not even racially motivated, everybody is white. I swear he purposely does annoying shit to bother them.

And before anyone judges me for calling them trailer trash, their Wi-Fi is “Trailer Trash.”

He’s not part of the US Senate, he’s a part of the Maine Senate. Get your facts straight.

I find it funny that you decided to change the title after posting his position correctly in the Maine community.

Can we just separate kids by skill level rather than gender? My middle school cis son loves playing sports, but he’s not very good. He gets discouraged when the better kids bully him because of it.

I’m so glad that I changed to Jellyfin. So much better.

So he doesn’t like that the name is essentially named after his position, as in Commander-in-chief? I mean what other reason would they name a DC sports team the Commanders?

Which makes me even more surprised that our felon-in-chief would allow this to happen.

I envy anyone who can hear the words “white bronco” and not immediately think of OJ Simpson.

I feel like this is an acceptable use for AI. Nobody likes studying poop.

And that’s sad.

More like a Monty Python.

What a coincidence, a game friend was just talking about receiving some high end perfume as a gift from her son and she was disappointed that it smelled like soap.