I love car owners for that. It’s always “what about me? What about prioritizing me?”. My local community Facebook page is full of them, they are all so mad about the only bike lane in the neighbourhood and after the last snowfall(two huge ones back to back) they could only complain about not having their back alley and their sidewalk cleared like the city wasn’t scrambling to clear everything.

My car was trapped, too. As usual I just took the metro and had the barest amount of patience.

A fairly generic lady and that’s what you took from that guy’s comment?

Ok so he’s threatening people who have the advantage with…something? I mean they could just as easily go “no, we’re good” and then the US would have neither chips nor factories.

If he’s hoping to have that technology here so the US can steal it, well obviously that’s crazy and these companies have already considered that.

And even if he was going to be nice to them that’s kinda wild that Mr. Super-racist would be so ok with using American labour to enrich foreign executives.

Is “the Art of the Deal” about how you can put yourself in absolutely awful bargaining positions while begging for others to do your job for you? ‘Cause he’s excellent at that.

Man, why is it so common to find those people among the group that is so clearly privileged even compared to poor people that are otherwise exactly like them?

I mean, I’m sure it’s because we fetishize hardship and idiots feel like they aren’t of value unless they’ve had some kind of major setback so having privilege makes them feel like they didn’t still earn whatever it was just because doing it didn’t come with a heap of other issues but fuck.

Oh, who did they erase?

“She should smile more” but for using what it at least not Twitter.

Oh my god shut the fuck up.

Erasure of DEI programs? DEI doesn’t erase I just wanna make sure I’m understanding you properly.

Women and visible minorities are often given the absolute worst conditions for getting out of the shit cycle started by white dudes. This can mean that they don’t have great scores on tests and stuff and that can look like they are, by default, not as smart if you’re the kind of person whose brain is barely firing enough to allow you to breathe.

So you extend that out and suddenly it’s “wait if they get hired at all and they’re not as smart that means they don’t deserve it!”. DEI does, I’m sure, bring some people in that might not be the best candidates but it never brings in people who are unqualified for the job like the racists believe, and the even the metric for “best” on paper is clouded by the aforementioned lack of support.

They’re connected because these people believe that there’s no way a straight white male would ever lose to a minority or a woman despite the fact that most of the people who believe it are huge losers barely stumbling through life while ignoring the fact that they are supported by everyone else.

I’m a straight, white dude whose parents can financially support me when I need it shit’s hard enough as-is. To act like I don’t have serious privilege and like so many people don’t have it even worse than me…god I can’t even fathom that level of self-centered egotism.

Would 1,620 of those bombs work instead?

Fun fact I learned just now is that termites and ants first come together at “insecta” but are otherwise entirely different. Also I was checking because I knew that ants are basically wasps and wanted to see about termites, so that’s also a cool fact.

They’re out there pretending that everything is fine and telling anyone who’s actually trying that they need to calm down.

First, you said “I completely agree with him”. If you do not understand how that might mean we think that means you agree with his rationale then writing your assignments by hand clearly didn’t help you that much.

But anyway:

Because sometimes you need to research things for homework? Because the kids with reliable internet will still be able to use it, will use it, and will have an unfair advantage over the kids who don’t have the same level of access(usually because their parents aren’t as well off, perpetuating the cycle of poverty). Even if we decided that every single piece of homework was to be 100% handwritten that wouldn’t make the internet go away and these problems would still persist.

It’s so much more nuanced than some weak take that doesn’t do much but expose your lack of understanding of the issue. Yes, there are some clear advantages to maybe scaling things back a little but this not the way to do it, not even a little bit.

I imagine if those obey the robots.txt thing that it’s not a problem.

ADHD mode says “wow that’s pretty fucked up, but if I ain’t gunna understand it then I’ll go do something else I guess.”

Just double-checking though yes it seems obvious, does the UK refer to the sidewalk as “pavement”?

How is this not already a thing? The pavement is not the street, don’t put your personal vehicle on it I mean is it that difficult?

He is literally, outloud, complaining that the reason is because maybe kids who are unsupervised and have access to things are somehow going to have less access(??) to conservative viewpoints. The society he’s so afraid of creating is one where he cannot control children’s access to filtered, conservative-biased media, and since pretty much every conservative talking point is a lie, exaggeration, or manipulated perspective they desperately need to be in control of the flow of information. They’re literally banning paper books, bro.

Also this is about hotspot use being expanded outside of schools(“off-premises”), but if that comment is your take then maybe reading comprehension isn’t your thing. Guess those paper textbooks didn’t really do anything to help you, either.

(Literally in the first line it explains that the intention is to help kids without reliable internet get their homework done. He just hates poor people, big surprise.)

And just like the first commentor, 95% of my roadrage is “how have none of you figured out that tailgating is literally why this traffic exists I figured it out on my first trip on the highway!!”

God, I love the metro. My blood pressure and general mental state has improved so much.

(I will defer to you as you have the greater experience but I’d like to offer my experience)

As a 6’5” person I’ve noticed that, when I want to apply force(non-combat, anyway) that it can be more difficult for me when something at an average height is below my center. I don’t have the advantage of pushing off the ground, it’s only weight unless I crouch and a shorter oppenent can crouch as well, forcing me into a more uncomfortable position to get even with them. Even if I bring a sword up high to crash it down all that does is leave me wide open so it seems a niche case.

You don’t need to hit the head to take someone out of the fight and a low attack, I imagine, is harder to block than something more at torso level. Especially if, as in Anakin’s case, you’re midair, but of course that’s not exactly common normally haha

So I guess it isn’t that I don’t believe you and more that I don’t fully understand. There are a few scenarios where I could maybe see it but you don’t need my entire train of throught barreling through your station unsolicited haha

If they don’t blow themselves up, that is.

Man they’re not even doing the dog-whistle thing anymore, huh? Fucking disgusting, I hope he experiences the everlasting warmth of a car fire in the near future.