Maybe the problem is the internet. It used to be easy to say that speech should be free, no matter what. But the internet has given a bigger stage while distancing people from real life consequences, allowing them to do real harm to society.

Kirk is a great example. He could have preached his hatred alone on a corner in a small village, but he got a pulpit, he faced no real life consequences, and he caused harm increasing our divisiveness, pitting neighbor against neighbor, encouraging hatred, and that is before the effect on government services.

You have to buy frosted. You have to toast them. Otherwise they’re just cardboard: you can’t really tell them apart from the box

false flag operation

Claims like this give both too much credit for action and too little to strategy.

• there’s no reason to believe this specific action was a false flag operation when in the current environment it’s simple to believe a radicalized individual
• isn’t that one of the benefits of the continuous hatred, outrage, divisiveness, chaos? There’s always going to be stuff like this happening, so you always have an event to capitalize on without the risk of doing it yourself

It only solves a small part of the issue at the cost of less convenience and consistency. Propose a “metric” time that solves more of this issue problem and I’m all for it

For Tesla model 3 and y, the handle itself is mechanical. You push on one side to make the handle pop out. If you do it right, the motion is similar to door handles with buttons: your thumb presses the “button” and your hand pulls the handle

I’ll counter that point. I found my 2008 sienna to have little comfortable leg room. While technically you can fit, it’s an upright seating style popular on commercial vehicles so your knees are bent more, leaving no thigh support, and very much not comfortable.

I switched to a 2016 Subaru Forester and found much more comfortable leg room. The console may impede my knees to the side but at least my legs don’t have to be bent under me as much

That’s crazy calling the Subaru forester a big car. I used to think so as well until I got one, but now I’m dwarfed by half the vehicles on the road.

Historically separation of powers worked. We’ve never had such a naked power grab by the executive branch, so many illegal orders, ignoring the courts, a sycophant congress. Agency leaders were generally competent and tried to fulfill agency missions. There’s never been such blatant bribery, spite based action, conflict of interest, profiteering off government roles, insider trading. Previous administrations mostly followed the constitution.

Sure we have our share of unethical actions by the government but they generally stayed within the legal structure of the government and were somewhat accountable.

As recently as 3 years ago I was inspired by huge investments in renewable energy and climate change, starting to work on a huge backlog of infrastructure work, there was hope for high speed rail, incentives to bring manufacturing back to the us, support for unions, we had an ethical fact-based government, the rule of law and primacy of the constitution, respected all people and were working on quality of life improvements ……

Remind me again why we voted to tear all that down?

Yeah, maybe I’m fooling myself but it really seems like hanging back more makes me have to do more sudden braking. Traffic seems smoothest when I’m close enough to discourage cut-ins …. Even if that means Im more at the mercy of traffic in front flowing down a bit

But as a corollary, this is one of the reasons fewer lanes are sometimes better. A main road near me proved this out when they cut back from two lanes in each direction to one plus turn lanes. There’s no more jockeying for position, no more cut-in’s and you no longer have to protect your gap. Traffic is smooth and calm, and it improved accident statistics. Most importantly timing to get through that section is consistently better!

I should know the ‘/s’ is mandatory online but it was obvious enough in my head at least

Of course. What if she doesn’t have a man nearby to explain how she feels? Women need this

It’s only a dumb question if you’re looking at all the people now. Birth rates across the board are declining and most developed countries are well below replacement. We’re just not noticing yet because people live like 80 years.

Most population projections have us peaking in 25-50 years, then population declines. That’s not all bad but how steeply does population decline and when does it stop? How does it impact economies, politics, who had influence and power. It looks like it could be steep and disruptive, with no prediction on when it will level off.

However if we start mitigating that, start encouraging people to have children, provide more support for raising children, give more hope to potential parents, working together for a brighter future consistently for the next 50 years perhaps we can manage the decline for least disruption. Perhaps we can find a sustainable population to level off at which is still big enough for today’s rapid advancements

But we’ve usually made up for it with relatively high immigration, so we’re ok for now as long as we don’t screw with that ……

But that’s the thing - it will take 50 years …. After we start.

Continuing to make it more of a challenge to raise kids is not an auspicious start

Children also do disgusting things but they usually grow out of it, whereas a cat can be joking up hairballs its entire life

It’s always economically viable, just a matter of tracking all the expenses and adding it to the child’s debt. As soon as it’s old enough to work you can garnish it’s wages for all that unpaid debt

Except Kirkland peanut butter is a miss. It tastes great but is mostly oil. Something like Teddys has a higher proportion of peanut solids

the mean person uses about 1.7mg per day

So we can solve drug abuse by being nice?

That would exclude Mulan, yet she is listed as princess.

Maybe they need new lineups. Attn Disney marketing: princesses, fairies, and mulan!