Yeah, and I'd rather not. But the car wash was too good to pass up, $20/month for unlimited washes, and I don't have a garage so my car collects crud. And $20 is cheaper than three washes at regular price.

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America already has too many out of control pigs. They're the biggest and most dangerous street gang in the world.

Didn't the English deal with a scummy king Chucky once already?

It's a more civilized time now, of course. Let him keep his head, just confiscate all of his ill-gotten gains and toss him in Belmarsh for the rest of his life. Then go down the list of royals, and any that refuse to disclaim any inheritance go in there with him.

They're too expensive right now.

Building a good one (gotta build because otherwise they're speed limited and even more expensive) would cost me a couple thousand dollars. My 1100cc motorcycle was cheaper, and it'll do 0-60 in under 4 seconds and tops out at nearly 150.

And they don't really work for most of my use case anyway, if I'm going to the grocery I'm getting more than I'd feel comfortable carrying on a bike. It makes more sense for me to use the plug-in hybrid car, uses no gas and much easier to transport the groceries. Now, it might make sense when I've got a client downtown if purchase cost was cheaper, it's easier to park a bicycle than a car or motorcycle. But free bicycle parking for a couple thousand dollar e-bike vs parking fees I can bill to the client isn't great, and anywhere but downtown and I'm still gonna have to take the car.

If it wasn't so hilly here I'd probably use the regular bicycle more. But I don't do uphill and I'm not 25 any more, I don't think I could beat cars off the line and treat the speed limit as a minimum like I did in grad school.

#4

Are we better off? No, of course not. Not a single police department has been defunded. Nowhere close to enough cops are in prison. The blue-wearing thugs of the world's most dangerous street gang are still torturing and murdering Americans mostly with impunity. They're still stealing more than all other burglars combined.

And pearl clutching right-wing scum are still enabling it and sucking up to the gangsters.

We would be better off with no police at all than with the scumbag pigs we have now.

Ugh. We need better than Newsom. Gun grabber center-right garbage.

Remember the REAL left will always oppose disarming the workers. And Newsom has pulled some nasty anti-union stunts.

Why do we still allow wood ties in the US?

Most of the world has gone to concrete.

How about instead we repeal speed limits on the interstates. 70 - 75 - even that one road in Texass that's 85 is ridiculously slow given car design speeds. Contrary to popular belief, the autobahn isn't really better maintained than US interstates.

Enforce "keep right, pass left" and ditch the limit.

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There are three big ISPs in my town. Of those, the only one I can get reasonable speed from is Comcrap. American Turdiphone and Turdigraph has fiber in most of the area around me, there's a fiber line a block from my house, but the best they can offer me is 6 megabit DSL. Wow's franchise required them to build out the entire city over a decade ago, but they didn't bother and there was no penalty.

Fortunately the local utility board is now installing fiber in their entire electric service area. Gigabit fiber at $65/month will be at my house next spring.

I got about two pages in, realized that the entire book was utter nonsense, and stopped. It's not worth bothering with, I've got better things to do with my time. James Joyce was obviously a lunatic, there's no point in trying to decipher that mess.

And nothing of value was lost.

A company culture should be treated like a culture of a particularly nasty bacteria, only handled in a BSL-4 lab.

The police we have are worse than no police at all.

Defund them. Shut them down.

None of those races involved a candidate supporting Israel's ongoing genocide of Palestinians.

Biden should pay attention.

Yarrr, matey! Thar be a better way.

(No, I WILL NOT watch ads.)

#8

I'm not seeing where he endorsed the guy who literally tried to have him killed. Just seeing that the dotard wants him to.

I mean, he probably will, he's that level of stupid, but I'm not seeing where he's done it yet.

ACAB

Are any of you under 50? (Ok, I'm not either, but I have been on the internet since I was 16, and yes, that's before the web existed.)

Cutting kids off from the internet is not an option. Making the internet "safe for children" is not an option.

It's here. It's going to be here. Teach the kids critical thinking skills and they'll be fine.

This lawsuit will fail, it's going to run headlong into the 1st Amendment. I wouldn't be surprised if it ends with taxpayers being forced to pay F*c*book's legal expenses.

Want to defeat the algorithms? Teach the kids about them. Explain the manipulation and let them take it from there, give them access to fact checks and teach them how to fact check.

#13

Right wing propaganda. Rupert Murdoch tabloid.

Both sides have terrorists.

Israel is far more effective at terrorism.

He should be in prison for war crimes.

What an absolutely idiotic take. Of course it's constitutional.

The only mention of the speaker is that they have to 'chuse' one. There's no mention of powers or responsibilities. After that it only comes up relating to presidential succession in the 25th amendment.

If they 'chuse' a temporary one, or one with partial powers & responsibilities there's nothing in the constitution to stop them.

#8

It's Arkansas. You think the governor's kid knows how to use a computer?