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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Japan cancels cherry blossom festival over complaints of tourists littering and ‘defecating’ in yards⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Look, the story is full of deceit. If crimes were committed, they would have called the cops, right? Or posted pictures and video. Of course they would have … unless the perpetrators were rich Japanese folk. This is common sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The way to do that now is to send them abroad to disappear or die. That’s the deflection. Otherwise there are dead bodies in the US and state murder charges with no statute of limitations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks. (A.K.A . Investors panic because they don't understand what "real" videogames are)⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Basically you don’t understand. Investors sell when they think the companies will fuck shit up. That could be because they think the product is obsolete, or it could be that they think manglement is going to do dumb shit. Take your pick. Remember, it’s gambling about the future, not about what’s right or reasonable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some car lovers oppose bike infrastructure, when more bikes would mean fewer cars on the road?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s an easy fix. Just jack up annual registration or taxes, but only for large trucks and SUVs, to $10K a year. Problem solved… Or make it a scale based on engine size, or total car width/length/height, whatever. It’s so easy to regulate… And in fact the US used to regulate large vehicles more strictly, so we already know that it can be done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some car lovers oppose bike infrastructure, when more bikes would mean fewer cars on the road?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you ride in a town or city a lot, you know one big piece of the answer: jealousy.

  If there are more cyclists, you’ll see them more often riding by you at red lights and lines of cars at stop signs. Drivers hate this; it reminds them that sometimes cars are slow, and they love their cars, so they get angry.

  If there are more cyclists, drivers will have to be careful not to hit them, and being careful is annoying. Right now, depending where you live, the driver can say “almost no cyclists are out here, so I wasn’t expecting them, they need to be more careful”. And the drivers believe it, and their friends do, too. But more cyclists around would make those excuses look like the BS they actually are.

  And related to the second point is that, if cyclists increase in number, they will demand (and get) more bike lanes and protected areas to ride and park. This will absolutely come at drivers’ expenses. Drivers know this. So even though fewer cars would decrease congestion, drivers know that they would be inconvenienced in other ways, and that would again remind them that they aren’t as important as they want to be.

  Finally, in the US specifically, large SUVs and trucks are causing massive increases in dead pedestrians, children, and cyclists. The increased death rate over the last ten years is appallingly high. If cycling is normalized even more, clearly political opinion will shift, and those giant vehicles will be heavily restricted or taxed, or their insurance rates will skyrocket, or drivers will be charged more frequently with manslaughter for the death that they cause every day. People are reasonably afraid that their unreasonably large vehicles will be taken away from them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon goes to therapy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh my friend, stereotyping is kinda ridiculous. You have no idea what other people know unless you talk to them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Israelis demonised as a ‘vehicle for hatred of Jews’, says UK terror laws watchdog⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s weird to watch the news from the UK. People protest the deaths of innocent folk, including huge numbers of children in Palestine, and they’re accused of being anti-Jewish or pro-terrorist. And that’s not to say racist jerks don’t exist because they are out there in large numbers. But it’s fairly clear watching a protest what the protesters are opposing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Parents... Huh...⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am curious what they meant by “emotionally scarred”. Like, reality can be harsh, and learning that leaves an impression, but that doesn’t mean that the process was messed up, although it could have been.

  Awkward is not bad, not always. It depends on the details.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can pets tell who's petting them without looking?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And their hearing is good. They know who you are by how you walk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the difference between an American liberal and a liberal outside the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It all depends who you ask. There are no fixed definitions, not globally. That’s why policies are important points for grounding.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Never attribute to capitalism that which is adequately explained by stupidity.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And the original expression was wrong, too. Ignorance is real, but so are malice, greed, jealousy, hate, etc. Sometimes someone does something shitty and our instincts said they meant it and we’re right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The first point, more than anything else, is to use the word “we” when you actually mean it. If you can’t do that, you can’t handle a complicated societal situation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why aren't tall people also wider?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There is interesting physics in this, because you can look at height and say “double it” but our bones are three dimensional. So, what exactly are we doubling? Our height and girth? But then what about our weight? Our intuition doesn’t quite tell us these things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A swing and a miss⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why isn’t "Democrats would never get away with this" seen as a problem for the left?”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think if you look at specific examples you’ll learn more. Who is getting away with what?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We’re All So F’d | NVIDIA x Palantir, Global Surveillance, "Pre-Crime" Arrests, & AI [GNCA - GamersNexus Consumer]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  We. Who is we? Most of the world is not fucked. :-)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Linux user here. I want to read dramatic complaints. Any kind, if it’s dramatic. Or write a boring one and I’ll move on. Starting a flame war for complaint style is boring. Better topics for flame wars exist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man Charged for Wiping Phone Before CBP Could Search It⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If he had received a valid court order to not delete anything on his phone, then doing so could put him in legal trouble. So what you said is not true in general. But most of the time, for almost everyone, almost all of the time, then, yes, it’s okay to wipe your phone… And because the article did not mention a court order, we can be sure that there wasn’t one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We can play that game too⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I love the “but I don’t use that so I shouldn’t pay for it” argument. Like come on, my dude, that’s what a society is about. If you don’t want to live in society, move to Siberia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can posts like this actually be real?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Doubtful. Rare situations exist, of course, but this post has no real objective, so best to assume it’s fake.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Always question those who are the "teachers"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They find it entertaining. Sad, maybe, because OP didn’t bother to use their brain for a few seconds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨JD, you dog.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Better the couch than me.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨She is making a GREAT point⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you looked up sexual assault or rape rates in your community or country? It is definitely a high enough number to scare a normal person. Probably many of those crimes are repeat offenders, but that doesn’t help the victims.

  There’s another question that I don’t think you can answer. How often do women close to you talk about this subject? And if they never have, then maybe there’s a good reason for it. Because we can find the above data and we know that people around us have gone through some horrible stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨She is making a GREAT point⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure who’s she targeting because I know a lot of guys who would love to have birth control pills.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There was no need to ever improve upon THIS⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s really interesting that I agree with you, but so many people insist that they’re new and fancy tools are somehow making their lives significantly better. And obviously it’s an opinion question, it’s not like they’re lying, but I just don’t see the value that many of them do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Right, and we should protect them by passing laws penalizing companies from such shitty software. Cuz the average person can’t access the source code.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Might wanna get that return shipment prepped, my insomniac friends out there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any way the average American can insulate themselves from the AI bubble bursting?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course a massive stock market collapse would affect regular non-investing Americans. When companies go out of business, when inflation kicks into high gear, that affects entire communities.

  But exactly how, that’s the question. If you know the answer to how, then you can easily prepare for it. Still, pretending that it won’t hurt you because you’re poor seems to be at odds with the past.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any way the average American can insulate themselves from the AI bubble bursting?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would say Japan never recovered. The yen is weak, the cost of living is skyrocketing, and Japanese people have said in large-scale national polls that they struggle more to make ends meet than they ever have. Also, the rich are getting richer, and there are far fewer permanent jobs than there were two decades ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any way the average American can insulate themselves from the AI bubble bursting?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Here, OP is asking about their situation even if they have almost no investments. In other words, they’re asking about the downturn on the national and global economy, and how that could make their life bad. Since it obviously can (through, for example, job loss or difficulty obtaining groceries), then some amount of preparation might be reasonable.

  Another good question is what to do if you have medium-size investments and you don’t want to see them tank. That’s what you are talking about.

  “That was never real money anyway.” Rich people sometimes say that, but everyone else knows you’re wrong. We save a percent of our paycheck every month to make sure we have money for retirement. We all wish we had guaranteed benefits, but that system was scrapped by greedy rich assholes decades ago, so now we are gambling that our savings will increase, because if they don’t, we’ll be working until the day we die… So if we feel like that money is real, maybe we’re right.

  And if you feel like the money isn’t real, can you give it to us? Couldn’t hurt, after all, because it’s all fake.