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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They have a right to feel smug⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  This shit drives me nuts. The locals will be like “oh well, the bugs usually aren’t this bad…”

  Sure Jorge, the bugs always just follow me from the US whenever I visit. The entire European continent has such a weirdly abusive relationship with the very concept of climate control.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They have a right to feel smug⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Me, being smug about how I can have a bookshelf on both sides of the window and still open it fully without a large piece of glass protruding into the room:

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They have a right to feel smug⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  This. I have these windows in one room in the US because I installed them myself. IDK if they are significantly cheaper in Germany, but for the price to have one professionally installed in the US I could have actually replaced the entire wall with floor to ceiling windows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Simpler times?⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The correct answer is to get good at math, go to college and study engineering, land a six figure job, and then circle back around and fuck her dad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't forget to turn purple and remove your arms⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It turns out I also cannot sleep with things strapped to my face.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't forget to turn purple and remove your arms⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I legit cannot sleep on my back these days because I will wake myself snoring.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IT'S A TRAP⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  All the people tied to the track will die after a few days anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your test for people?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  But do you even bring your glass back to the bar before you leave?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a drink with taste of energy drink without caffeine?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Has gen z jumped the shark?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*A clean colon is like driving on a country road on a sunny day...*⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How many times do I need to ask you to stop posting my grindr profile on social media?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dinner is ready! ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  D is the obvious correct choice because the western food in Asia is superior to the Asian food in the west.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Very important update: it's up to 14 poptarts!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is the Borzoi named Abbey?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think conservative feel the same need to burn it all down as everyone else felt when trump won again?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They don't actually give a shit about Charlie Kirk. They just want a catalyst for their enabling acts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pied⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I'll allow it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Important update: It's 10 poptarts⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Great now it has captured my soul

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨if charlie kirk is so pro life then why is he dead?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fucking welfare queens thinking they are just entitled to blood like that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨if charlie kirk is so pro life then why is he dead?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  K

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨language learning⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This guy over here doesn't even know about java.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨language learning⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Shit I don't have any kids

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So it's basically the standard platformer formula going back three or more decades?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Misogyny or something... Idk⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Left thumb, upper ankle, clavicle, ears, appendix

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's been downhill since 2020⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Right, Obama didn't snap his fingers and fix every problem in the world or country, but it really felt like we were finally getting to a point where we had a new liberal voting coalition which would start to push US politics left, so that we could finally unwind a lot of those underlying legacy issues.

  Fixing the core issues which created this "obligate imperialism" in the first place were never going to be fixed in the span of one decade, but Obama arguably set us up to grind out more progress in the next administration.

  That's why this whole thing is so frustrating. We were on the path to a supreme court majority and burying a lot of old school conservative ideas in the coming decades, and now we are farther away than ever, because so many people can't see the long game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's been downhill since 2020⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It was 2014. That was the final year of that Obama high where things really felt like they were turning a corner before we were slowly confronted with a world where Donald Trump might actually be president, and the only one standing in his way was somehow Hillary Clinton, a woman that Republicans had been preparing to beat for literally 20 years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thank G*d I grew up in the 90s. Everything is woke now. Smh my head⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This vexes me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thank G*d I grew up in the 90s. Everything is woke now. Smh my head⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am literally shaking

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you share⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Deeper daddy!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I saw what you did there⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A folding job site saw fits nicely into a closet. The nicer ones are very nearly "cabinet grade" as they say. There's also safer ways of doing this, though perhaps not more compact.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And they even get a seizure when you take their ipads away⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean there's other things besides brain rot. Also people did raise kids prior to iPads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So an entire third of the road is basically left empty so people can speed?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  From a purely traffic load perspective, the whole "fast lane" thing doesn't make a huge difference, and the aggressive obsession with it is actually a big part of the psychology which creates traffic in the first place. Traffic capacity is generally optimized when everyone is traveling close to the same speed and has enough following distance to safely maintain that speed, which is why speed limits are set for the slowest road users. Just in general, speed does not increase road capacity beyond a certain fairly low limit because it requires dramatically increased following distance, or in the absence of such responsible behavior, it massively increases the frequency of traffic disruption.

  The worst case is a few people traveling much faster than the slowest road users, as these few users both take up more space, and cause more disruption. The "fast lane" concept is rooted firmly in an unfortunate behavioral reality and has basically no real scientific basis beyond that. Even if you had perfect robot drivers with perfect reaction time and the ability to see far ahead of themselves, the critical capacity speed only increases slightly because the maximum stoping distance is still limited by rubber and asphalt.