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That person arguing manuals are unsafe, holy.freaking.cow.

That is a serious leap and some nanny state level opinion on personal agency and responsibility.

People get used too what they have, I get that.

A personal example for the readers, I was Indonesia visiting a gf's family and rented a couple cars to get us all across one of the islands. Gf's Aunt was driving the other car, I had the other. I had to turn around and trade cars with her because she couldn't fathom driving an automatic and need the stick shift I was driving. Blew my mind, but I acquiesced all the same. Driving sick from the right side was hella awkward for me anyways, not impossible, just not any kind of sexy driving on my part.

Rolling down a window is as much a distraction as drinking from a bottle of soda. If you can't handle that behind a wheel, maybe you should reconsider being behind a wheel in its entirety.

Some people, I don't get it

I'm backing you up homie, not arguing with you. You've got my upvotes

The extraction and refining of the copper ore needed for the motor, which has brushes (so a finite lifespan) but is also sealed without any way to replace those brushes (not to mention the hassle of getting into the door . I don't think I've ever done it, on dozens and dozens of doors, without breaking clips), so they're manufactured essentially as a throw away item, the opposite of sustainability.

Manual windows are easy, take no thought and if the window falls off track, you just get into the door and bend the track back into shape. Anyone can do it. You just got to open it up, roll it up and down a couple times to understand how it works and literally anyone can figure out their fix then. And at a cost of a few door clips, not an EXTREMELY overpriced $100+ for a 12v motor.

I don't like buying guaranteed points of failure in my purchases when I don't have too, that's all I'm saying.

As far as a percentage of your annual income goes, during the Great Depression houses were cheaper than they are today.

Shit, buying a house then was cheaper than RENTING today.

C'mon now, we can't ALL be drug dealers

Eisenhower, after leading the allies to Berlin in WW2 and then serving as president (used his general clout to get the national freeway system going) gave us the warning about the military-industrial complex. It was in entirely selfless, and he told no one about the content of the speech before delivering it live to the nation. Like that's up there with Washington and Cincinnatus stepping down. He was in a unique position to know intimately what he was talking about and it appears we didn't listen, which is super sad.

Well at least half of America is only liberal with their markets, some states moreso than others.

Some states are downright repressive/regressive when it comes to social policy.

The liberal, even the libertarian mindset is simple. Do whatever the fuck you want as long as it doesn't hurt people now or leave a mess for future people. Pick your path and then mind your own business.

Trying to legislate society into someone's personal ideology (re: fascism), religious code (re: theocracy) or anachronistic local traditions is oppression. No ones forcing anyone to get an abortion, no one HAS to buy a gun. Factors might compel one too, but that's a different discussion. At the federal, and probably state level as well, trying to homogenize a plural society is a recipe for failure. We are too big and too varied - and that's a GOOD thing. Pass whatever city ordinance you want; as long as it isn't legislating hatred, fear or violence.

Simply put; people need to mind their own fucking business again. If someone wants to make their business fucking, then fucking let them and move on, holy shit. Who do these people think they are? They won't believe a single thing said if it comes from a city, why would they think we're gonna stop our menagie of drugged up costumed orgies? Like ladies for real, if you haven't mixed a plan B into your morning cocaine anti hangover line, you just aren't living. Don't worry, there's enough for everyone. Socialism ftw.

Now, I've looked into starting a non-profit, and I plan to, once I'm at a point, but to my knowledge you can't single handedly start one, it needs to be a collaboration between two or more people.

Which calls into question why this is pit he'd the way it is. Duder said he was organizing for two colleagues, so did this guy just file the papers and the two black guys are the owners or are all three partners, what's the actual fucking story here and where the fuck is the journalism?

If he's the only agent listed, how the eff is he able to do that? Maybe my understanding is lacking, idk.

Simple.

We weren't bombed out from WW2 and back then, we had factories. More than anyone else in fact. America's 'golden age' had nothing to do with American exceptionalism (lols) and everything to do with no competition (but we still ran Keynesian capitalism, the New Deal, back then, so about a 10x bigger piece of the pie went to workers, affording them the American Dream, aka the middle class).

Add to that, the Marshall plan, which paid for Europe's reconstruction but attached to that money came the demand to end colonialism (at least overtly). So America was pretty liberal at the helm for a minute there.

But then came Nixon and the conservatives in the late 60s, Henry Kissinger going on about there being an "excess of democracy" (seriously when I first found out about this in 9th grade it made me sick to my stomach) was saying the quiet part out loud. The rich wanted to scale back the New Deal and return to laissez-faire. Enter Milton Freidman. Cue up Pinochet, Reagan and Thatcher - all peas in a pod. Citizens United. Regulatory Capture. Which brings us to today. Profit over people, wealth caused sociopathy (seriously, the paranoia, greed, and inability to form relationships with any real depth unmoors the psyche from society, thus, empathy atrophies and moral/emotional growth cease. "Money is the root of all evil". Hoarding money, withholding help, in the face of suffering will slowly chip away at you, until yr just as evil as well) and legislatures that are disgustingly cheap to buy. We're seeing the world remade into a giant money extraction farm. And we are the tax chattle. All so the rich never have to work a day of their lives.

Side note; Reagan slogan campaigning was "Make America Great Again". Yep, Trump stole it (prob w/o paying royalties). Trump would go on to mimic Ronnie in another way, by ignoring, thereby exacerbating, a pandemic. Trump with Covid. Reagan with AIDS. Imo Trump's leadership thru Covid resulted in the unnecessary deaths of more Americans than any other thing, ever, of which I hold him responsible. Donald Trump is/was/has been the deadliest thing to Americans, ever. Putin got his money's worth, ffs.

I am by no means an expert and I'm def interested in what others have to say on this issue as well.

I use Greenify and it allows you to quarantine apps and run them on an emulated version of Android. So there's one option

And the debt that degree costs will keep you beholden and subservient to the corporate overlords.

They've outsourced their own training and shouldered the costs onto teenagers.

There's a reason it's called "fuck you" money.

The first thing anyone should do if they're in business for themselves, as soon as the money becomes available, is hire an accountant and a lawyer.

Those are the only two industries who know how society really works

Close. More dripping, sneering sarcasm (snarcasm?) than anything else, as if saying thru tone "how is this not known?" A la Christian Slater in Pump up the Volume.

Man that takes me back to childhood. Slater was like the Keanu of slackers for Gen X. Kind of typecast into that rebellion role, like how Ryan Reynolds has made a career doing Van Wilder in every movie.

If only one side respects any modicum of decorum, then news flash; there is no decorum.

Dude is 100% right about Democrats. It's why only those who fall in love come out, because the rest know that the average Dem ain't gonna do a fucking thing for them.

Choices are; Rep -> continue to tax you 35% plus unofficial (taxation without representation) taxes like mandated insurance until everyone is broke or in jail.

Dem; SAME EXACT FUCKING THING but only at 70% the speed.

Why do you think populism is back? Why did/does Trump and Sanders have/had so many supporters?

I still vote for Sanders over anyone in the the Democratic party, without question. Cuz Sanders is willing to fight, and imo, for economic justice for all of us. The spoils need to be shared, the oligarchy dismantled, corporations de-peopled given moratoriums on business licenses and regulated to fucking high heaven -> the exact way the founding fathers intended and DID.

If you're suggesting a randomly assigned citizen watchdog collective who's compensation would be protected, prioritized, and pegged at a fair ratio to purchasing power, then I am 100% in agreement with you.

Pay at levels which afforded having children, buying a house, two cars, a stay at home spouse, while vacationing once or twice every year.

And a pension. Don't forget the pension.

We've falling a looooooong fucking way.

Isn't that how government works tho? City council is voted in, no ones being forced to do the job. If the people don't like the job they're doing, they can recall them and run themselves.

How is this a criticism? I don't follow, unless you're just an anarchist, do you have a better idea on how to run a city with your decades of experience doing so?

The protocol, the first that a state has released publicly for nitrogen, indicates that the gas will be pumped into Smith through a “mask assembly”, which will be connected to “breathing gas tubing”. “The mask will be placed and adjusted on the condemned inmate’s face”, it says, and then after the prisoner has been allowed to make a final statement “the Warden will activate the nitrogen hypoxia system”.

The gas will be passed through the mask into the prisoner for 15 minutes, or for five minutes beyond the moment that he flatlines, whichever is longer, the protocol says.

The details given are so vague, Denno said, that it leaves experts to “only speculate about how a state might conduct a nitrogen hypoxia execution”. She added that the placement of a mask on a prisoner’s face “is especially puzzling – what if the inmate tries to take it off, immediately or during the procedure?”

What a load of shit The Guardian has become. Just to be clear, did we all read the same thing? What details are left out? It seems pretty clear to me what they intend to do, does the how need to be written out in G-code or could your average person make that streeeeenuous mental leap themselves?

It's not a Pee tape. It's a P-tape.

The P is short for a word. Something something, Epstein didn't kill himself.

That would make him an Excremental.