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But we're talking a very large city where the goal isn't to make driving a car more expensive "just because" its to reduce the number of cars in town.

From the article, its mostly about weight with Electric Cars having a higher weight threshold than Non-Electric Cars.

Also from the article, its not a ban, its just higher parking prices. So if you've got the cash, you can drive an H3 into downtown Paris all you want.

If nothing else, its making the "Pro-Driving Big Things Just Because I Can" people mad and I'm all for it.

me over hear keeping my Sopwith Camel in running order like a boss

Sysnthesis yo... "Israeli Occupation Forces indiscriminately kill Palestinians."

Does Netflix still do the "free trial period" and "get free months if a friend sent you" thing?

Are there any numbers about how many unsubscribers to compare to the subscribers? That'd be a juicy number.

At some point you've gotta make "your point."

If you spend all of your rhetorical energies smoothing out ALL the sharp pointy bits of your arguments to pre-emtively appeal to somebody, you're just doing the work of your opposition.

Then just drop the "terrorist" part.

The IDF is, in fact, an occupying force.

Gotta make sure those 420,000 people were actually sick first, if they're willing to wait 12+ hours at the hospital with a fever of 105 or with a broken leg or having a hard time breathing, then they've proven that they are ill/injured and actually in need of care.

Same as what happened when Hillary lost to Trump.

I don't think its that complex. Group A gave permission for Group C to move into Group B's place. Group C decided to get a bunch of Group N's support to start the liquidation of Group B.

Decades of Group B, playing to the "Rules Based Order" crowd resulting in no end to the violence Group C was doing to Group B resulted in Group B being more and more okay with countering violence with armed resistance.

Here we are.

Fuck... new political compass just made its way into the wild...

bu..bu...but the planes dropped the bombs/fired the missiles while in Israeli airspace so TeChNiCaLlY...

My ability to do math and predict my monthly budget costs is bad enough that it finally worked out in my favor... I'm still curious how that's happening, but I'm not inclined to look to deeply else I tip the balance of the universe out of my favor sooner that is bound to happen.

Things that I've had to come to grips with when I figure out that it was okay to be an atheist.

Human beings are not logical or rational. We can do logic and rationalizations but we are not fundamentally logical or rational creatures.

Its okay to think things and not have some ironclad sentential logically correct argument as to why you think a thing. When a kid is asked by somebody "Why did you do that?" and the kid answers "I don't know" and the person keeps pushing for the kid to have some cause/effect conforming answer, its the person who's wrong not the kid.

I mean, my eyes are shit and getting worse by the year. My brain has had issues remembering certain things and processing human speech into meaning for as long as I've been an adult. I've been in enough situations where I suddenly realize that I have no actual active memory of how I got here and yet the world still functioned. It just became something that I no longer felt any pressure or need to justify. Things can just be (maybe I'm wrong, maybe I'm right, maybe I'm in some inbetween state) and I still exist.

I think ... maybe...

Civilians injured in Ukraine gets the US Ambassador to say, "Hey, support Ukraine!"

Civilians injured in the Palestinian territories but there are no US Ambassador's tweeting, 'Hey support Palestine!"

So yeah, the USA isn't the world but if the place you live in is falling apart its understandable to shrink your worldview down to the that which affects you most or that you witness the most often.

1. Don't feel like you have to stare into the abyss all the time. This is just self harm. Its like habitually looking at entries on the old rotten.com website. Nothing good will come of it.
2. Do something, anything, that you can do alone. Plant some flowers, pick up trash in the neighborhood, read a manual about combat first aid or small engine repair, pick a country at random as far away from the USA as you can point to on a map and start learning about its history and culture.
3. Find somewhere to do something, anything, with other people. Internet book club, see if any local groups/orgs need help feeding the hungry or helping the unhoused, probably some groups not too far away that exist to support one minority group or another that could use some help in research or outreach.

Also, the world is a complicated place with lots of different actors. China is doing some pretty cool and good things. There's a lot of scary situations that probably will lead to positive change in Africa and South America right now.

That's pretty intense, good luck to them.