lobotryas

Call me a teenager because, years later, I still enjoy the things you mention about driving stick.

The difference is that I own two cars: a boring and comfy automatic for DD and a manual Porsche for the weekends.

There’s always a financial angle in most situations. After all, taking care of a really sick patient (or someone with a difficult condition) costs the state money. If you read the article there are sighs that this may have been a consideration in some cases they list.

Go buy a few private acres for that. If your dog shares public space with others you don’t get to just let it off leash.

Did you seriously just suggest that Amazon time the individualistic liquid consumption and bladders of their drivers? Do you have any idea how much outrage that would cause?

At least you could suggest retrofitting each truck with a urinal. That would make more sense despite being equally untenable.

Because there is a belief, not unfounded, that some portion of refugees (percentage depends on party affiliation) are lying about their situation and are actually just economic migrants.

Consider that paper filters may be more environmentally friendly than metal ones. Just look at a comparison of CO2 emissions between reusable bags and paper ones as an example. You’ll probably have to use a metal filter thousands of times more past its expected life span to break even with how much CO2 making it released into the atmosphere.

Yes. Hire an architect with a proven track record and significant experience and give them the responsibility. Reading a few medium articles or an O’Reily book won’t be a substitute.

Agreed. Retrieving a single random record was enough to prove vulnerability. Analyzing several days worth of data (why??? What does that prove???) crosses the line firmly into black hat territory.

I’m sorry, but you can’t speak for all vegetarians in the world. Some may find it offensive so we must err on the side of caution.

After all, it’s just one word. /s

What I love most are the efforts spent protecting hypothetical people who may take offense and who aren’t actually there.

“Oh, you’re actually agnostic? Well, you still can’t say that word because another agnostic person may find it offensive.”

The real root cause is that everyone wants to live (for obvious reasons) in places where housing supply is constrained like SF, LA, or NYC. Home ownership is easy in places like Detroit or Oklahoma boonies, but unsurprisingly no one wants to go there.

Instead of cramming more people onto the same set of square mikes, how about we develop more (non coastal) places for people to aspire moving to instead?

Not everyone has to or should move to California.

At some point one (ideally both to avoid conflict later) will have to decide to go all in on your idea or otherwise it will always limp along due to the two of you not having enough time to devote to it.

> People are going to do what they want

Sure, but that doesn’t stop us from trying to influence people in other areas, so why should it stop us here. By this argument we should abolish all laws because what’s the point of telling someone “don’t murder” when “people are going to do what they want”?

Your post makes it sound like you are also against taxing cigarettes or taxing cars with big engines or banning guns since we should not (or it would be pointless) to influence behavior in such ways.

For that last part just give this number a call and those boys will hook you up: 800-225-5324

So basically: “I’m not calling you racist, just your entire peer group”.

Cool, thanks.

You do realize plenty of white people live around the world outside the US too, right?