Don’t come in here with a rational examination of material conditions in America! We’re here to be Mad at the Lazy Americans!

How many protests were there in DC? Did any of them succeed in shutting the city down

Oh, the capital already shut down by occupying federal troops for a year? …Yeah they did (and are) protesting and resisting

Explain to me how Pierre Poilievre is, in any way, comparable to Trump.

Ah so now “not Trump” is an acceptable standard, thus the Overton window shifts

Great, and I assume the federal government has no impact on your day-to-day life?

Not sure what point you’re trying to make here. Yes, obviously funding and aid cuts hurt everyone. Yes core federal institutions are being dismantled and looted. But despite what you might think, most Americans have very little tangible interaction with federal resources. Say your social security check stops coming in the mail or your Medicare coverage is cut. Who can you go to protest?

Beyond Washington D.C. + military bases + hubs in major cities, offices and personnel are sparse and scattered. For my (relatively populated) area, the nearest federal government property is either a local post office or 1+ hour drive to some small field offices in the city. For me to get anywhere near any prominent elected federal official or department head would be missing multiple days of work and hundreds of dollars in transportation. It turns out it’s hard to organize sustained protests in those conditions when over 50% of the population lives paycheck to paycheck.

Ah yes, the Romans commissioned “The Bible” as if there aren’t 450+ versions in print in English alone with wide variations of included, excluded and revised content. I’m so glad that you personally were able to find the clear meaning of the text in a book that has entirely passed through 3-5 languages and been through a 2000 year whirlwind of competing theological and political forces. Shut it down everyone, this guy solved it

What a dumb bait question. Putting aside dubious biological pitfalls, the lived experience of men and women are drastically different and have diverged exponentially in the age of digital isolation. You are trying to draw a simple comparison between fundamentally different subjects. Even experts have trouble dissecting this, yet you think that randoms on a digital forums will generate valuable discussion with one-off snowflake opinions? Troll better

Was there anyone operating under the illusion that it was bulletproof? Every constitution has loopholes in the same way that all code has bugs: they’re written with implicit assumptions about the universe they’ll operate in, the rules of interpretation and the people using them. I’d like to see one constitution that doesn’t have an “emergency powers” escape hatch.

Expanding the scope of explicit prohibitions and protections only adds more points of failure and contradiction. You can’t “solve” a human society any more than you can predict the future.

We’ve been baggaged with the enlightenment era’s struggle for perfect rationality for hundreds of years now. Every political conversation has an implicit (and absurd) backdrop that ideals need to be indelible for all time and policy needs to constantly drive toward perfection. That’s the least rational perspective when we now know for an empirical fact that we’re ephemeral electrochemical meat sacks floating through a mostly lifeless universe of entropy.

The earth’s magnetic poles will flip, super volcanos will decimate agriculture, the moon will drift away, the sun will explode and humanity doesn’t have the resources or evolved inclination to escape to terraformed utopias for eternity. These are simple facts. No revolutionary or reactionary political action can change them and no constitutional commandments set down today will be useful to our Nth-great grandchildren in those scenarios.

I’m waiting for a politician to acknowledge that and let us grow past paternalistic feudalism and arrogant 19th century doctrine. Let’s treat our future generations as capable equals instead of children; gift them what knowledge we have and preserve the resources they’ll need instead of dictating instructions.

Tbf I would trust a lifeguard to murder the bad guys more than a cop

“We have re-reviewed the campaign contributions of Taylor Farms and determined that it wasn’t them”

Every family member works a job and the father has a disability. This is a prime example of how expensive being poor is. You may not have the time to do a deep bathroom clean or afford new paint to keep the mold from getting into the walls.

But yeah the space itself isn’t that bad compared to some. They just clearly lack the time/money to organize with proper storage, do regular maintenance and clean

Sports have always been political. Look back at history to see states banning everything besides horse riding and archery for military reasons. Look at the Nika riots burning half of Constantinople. Look at the class politics of early professional teams.

“Sports shouldn’t be political” is a modern political invention to insulate leisure-as-distraction from the burning and looting going on all around us.

Really funny seeing people sob over the integrity of the sport as if FIFA isn’t actively buying votes to line their pockets and hosting tournaments to sports-wash theocratic slave states (USA included).

The card system never made sense for international knockout play anyway because one ref with a grudge can, more or less, unilaterally eject a team from the tournament. Almost nobody has the depth to deal with a red card.

Tf you on about? He’s never played in a US market, unless Arsenal or Monaco moved continents at some point…

Tankies

Nearly all of those QoL features are just sugar coated privacy invasion. I’d prefer physical knobs, fobs and buttons with a bare minimum interface to set charging periods and preconditioning. My life isn’t ruined by turning a key and I can be sure that a future fascist OTA update won’t brick the car for undesirables.

Dumbass doesn’t even realize this is his 40 comment thread of his one sided multi-paragraph ranting slop. Seeeethe buddy

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I’ll bet 100:1 there’s a truly horrific portrait locked up in his attic

Turned it into a free back massage, very innovative!

I think there might be a theoretical tipping culture that threads the needle of waiters getting a living wage while giving some leeway. Basically: 20% on the total is absurd and a dark pattern for advertising goods below cost; 0% is a hard barrier that can price certain populations out or fails on edge cases.

For example if I walk in with a table full of toddlers I should be socially obliged to tip you for going above and beyond the normal service. If I have a table of well behaved adults I shouldn’t be forced to pay the same gratuity for group size. If I do, I’m subsidizing clumsy patrons breaking dishes and making messes.

In a similar vein, ordering something simple and eating quickly shouldn’t incur the same payment as chatting for 2 hours while no tables are available. If I’m paying a set price for the implicit use of a table then you damn well better set a timer on the table so I know. All of these variables are impossible to price in and vary wildly with your clientele, which makes tipping an attractive option.

Maybe something like a restaurant enforced hard cap of 5%-10%. Nobody complains about a reasonable company culture of overtime+bonuses, service workers should have the same right to that compensation. Unfortunately, that realistically wouldn’t work. Exploitation is baked into our economy, so 0% is our best option.

The plane trip is a great analogy. There’s probably plenty of data on which aircraft can fly it and, optimizations aside, you might have the option of over-fueling to be sure you can accomplish it.

With a BEV your pitiful energy limit might mean doing all those cross country calculations just to reach the other side of the state. And even then the sheer number of variables (Will I hit traffic? Will a fast charger spot be available at X? When exactly will it drop below freezing? Will my battery be conditioned at start? Does M miles of ~N mi/kWh surface streets beat M-Y miles of highway…) makes it impossible to precisely say.

You basically have to drive by feel, hence my reckoning of my car needing 1.5-2x dashboard mileage buffer for critical margin trips. I’ve personally made the exact same trip in different conditions and pulled in from as low as 3% up to 35% battery remaining.

The only solutions are way better/larger batteries, much smaller cars, or massively expanded charging infrastructure. Unfortunately nothing [affordable] in the market is addressing any of those.