And finally, delivery drivers are mostly underpaid immigrants, cut them some slack.

Of course not, it's not the frigging drivers that are benefiting from the practice. The fact that the people being forced to fuck me are immigrants is irrelevant to this discussion, that's just clouding the water with bullshit.

THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT I SAID.

At least we can agree that Israel is a genocidal rogue state.

Being okay with genocide as long as you have other interests you don't wish to risk by taking a stand against it is kinda basically "complicit", isn't it?

lol cope harder

Naaah, just privatized suicide services. Oh wait, we have those, we call them long term care.

Perversely, while it would be easier for someone with no equipment to maintain in their home, it would be a bigger pain in the ass for a bike shop here to maintain than a typical cargo bike would be.

Okay, but it equals one.

How is this in any way difficult to grasp?

UW administration hates its students.

humour presented unironically as a guide to one's own emotions.

you forgot dairy and meat

Since coming to understand the consequences to our health, our climate, our governance and culture through corporate manipulation and propaganda, and most of all, to intelligent animals, I can't really look back on this stuff with nostalgia. It feels like looking back on neglect and abuse.

Unfortunately, that doesn't work in general. It is easier to poison discussion than it is to convince people with arguments. One person screaming obscenities prevent an entire room of people from having a rational discussion. It's an asymmetrical effort, it's hard work to produce quality information, and it's free to generate gigabytes of slanted information.

If you are a human being, there are many things you know are true, but you act as if they are not. We are not rational creatures, we are social creatures. We don't respond to arguments, we respond to social cues. It is more important for an extremely social creature like a human to agree with their social group than to be objectively correct.

Not always. Sometimes, the whole system collapses, and then after a period of insecurity, we all enjoy a period of massive prosperity.

I agree and have often said the same thing! If you're going to park illegally, inconvenience drivers, don't ENDANGER vulnerable users!

Delivery drivers don't "have to". They are exploiting an externality and making me less safe so that they can make more money than they would if they took the extra two minutes to park legally and use a dolly. They are literally monetizing my endangerment.

"National treasure" doesn't prescribe a jurisdiction.

You kind of have to be going out of your way to be getting exposed to it.

I was a total Rust junkie, I was playing 40 hours a week. Then they dropped support for the Linux client and wouldn't let Proton users do EAC. I had to stop cold turkey. But I fucking did it, because fuck capital-driven operating systems designed to exploit me and my own computer against me.