TheSanSabaSongbird @ TheSanSabaSongbird @lemdro.id

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04 Nissan Frontier over here. I specifically bought it because it has a manual transmission which is hard to find in the US. I drove all the way up to Seattle from Portland to get it. There are maintenance issues given its age, but I still love it. Apart from the bullshit bells and whistles, it's still every bit as capable as any new pickup in its class. I've doctored it up a bit over the years, so it's not fully stock anymore.

My own purely anecdotal observation is that there are still far more of us Xers who know how to drive a manual transmission. One good thing about it, for my wife and I at least, is that our gen Z kids never asked to borrow our cars and just bought their own automatics or borrowed from their grandparents.

My wife's car has an especially fiendish hydraulic clutch that will stall out if you even look at it funny, so that helped too.

"Most of the world"? Really? Maybe in the developed world I guess, but definitely not in "most of the world." In most of the world law enforcement is very much a pay for service business like any other. Well, in a lot of the world anyway.

You're going to want to work on that one some. I don't think you're ready for primetime yet.

Lighten up Francis.

I used to think that way as well, but extensive international travel has shown me the error of my ways; turns out that morons are pretty evenly distributed throughout the world.

Well that was easy.

This is true, but agriculture is a trap in the sense that once we adopted it, there was no turning back.

And your point is?

Simply trotting that out as a truth tells us nothing about how you propose to build a modern system that respects how we've evolved as a species.

Meanwhile, the problem with communism is that it relies on everyone having aligned incentives on a nation-state level, which is a pleasant fiction and can only be achieved through authoritarian coercion.

Again, you are focusing on her rather than on what she actually said. That's what I find so telling and unfortunate. Are we really so shallow and politically inept that we can't hear a message simply because we dislike the messenger?

It seems like you are telling me yes, that's exactly how shallow and politically inept we are.

If so, that sucks, especially since you are almost certainly correct.

This is the correct answer. There will be no cease fire until, at minimum, the hostages are released. The other problem that the Israelis have is that there's no evidence that Hamas has any intention of honoring a cease fire as they've willingly violated many such agreements in the past.

I don't have a strong opinion as to what the correct choice is here for Israel, I'm simply stating the facts as they relate to the possibility of a cease fire.

My wife's old iMac over here. It's lightning fast too.

No it's not. What do you imagine the entire Florida case to be about if not the illegal handling of classified documents? This is a matter of public record and can be confirmed on a huge variety of news sources.

That's a default vote for Trump then.

This entire thread is pure amateur hour. The ignorance on display here is very disheartening and speaks to how a lack of media literacy contributes to the larger dysfunction. People know something is wrong, they just have no idea why or how it's gone wrong.

The Internet destroyed it. This entire thread is pure amateur hour when it comes to knowledge about the news business. US journalism has tons of problems, but they aren't related to anything people in this thread are talking about.

This is objectively bullshit.

No one chooses to be a drug addict or an alcoholic, you cretin.

You still have the problem of misaligned incentives together with the fact that the only way to mitigate it is through coercion. This is why all communism inevitably leads to authoritarianism. The strength of capitalism is that it can absorb and indeed is designed to allow for the fact that humanity's cooperative impulse --due to the fact that we evolved over hundreds of thousands of years to live in small bands of about 30 to 150 people-- cannot work at the level of the modern nation state.