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the law doesn't determine what is safest, physics does.

the law also varies by jurisdiction and in some places having cyclists treat stop signs like yields rather than full stops is the law.

just be careful not to de-gender someone who makes it known they have one and prefer particular pronouns.

I still don't know a good way to ask people their pronouns.

in-person you can do this by offering yours when introduced. this protects binary trans people trying to use cultural indicators of gender from some abuse and normalizes the practice for non-conforming people, nicely resolving the competing accessibility needs of people trying to use existing gender norms and people outside them.

online you can ask your admin to do what hexbear does with display names and ban anyone being shitty about it.

bro you're absolutely right bro the status quo isn't political

probably in some kind of camp

should use a dark background on the text

Cloaking devices were introduced in Episode I

no they were introduced in a TIE Fighter expansion, and if you're going to say there was a romulan-ass cloaking device in phantom menace i'm gonna need a wookieepedia link beacause i do not remember that shit

The tracking device makes hyperspace jumping a game of hopscotch. There's not really a point.

instead of a dumbass chase that makes no sense you can microjump some of the ships in front of the rebels, or call in more ships from somewhere else if there's time for the fucking b-plot.

Those rules are established in the books/supplemental materials, which aren't canon to the film series. The film-makers have no obligation to respect them. Episode 7 also breaks/rewrites the hyperspace rules.

throwing out the canon was the first bad decision jj and the other execs made, but even without knowing or caring about anything but the movies... all the fucky things disney movies did with hyperjumps means things like the falcon's escape from mos eisley didn't need to happen and the blockade of naboo couldn't have worked because the "can't go to hyperspace in a gravity well" was thrown out. the big fights against the death stars (hell the death stars themselves) were totally pointless because you could just destroy anything big and slow moving by hyper-ramming it, etc. indefensible on both matters.

It makes sense that people change over long time skips, and they did outline the rationale for his mindset changes in the flashback.

it's hack writing to have a change like that happen entirely off-screen, and the flashback is just luke about to murder an innocent person who hasn't done anything wrong yet because of a vision. how the fuck does luke get to that point in 20 years of whatever happened after the battle of endor where it's heavily implied that the rebels were going to win the war? it's totally unearned. (Also the state of galactic politics being completely unchanged from the beginning of a new hope is stupid and terrible but that's not rian's fault.)

oh yeah for sure

. But rather than hate on Rey being a main character

i didn't mention her at all? There are probably problems with Rey but i don't know what they are because everything about the story is so nonsensical. She's a soft reboot of luke, i guess, the same way the movies were soft reboot rather than a logical progression of the pretend material conditions at the end of RoTJ. not to mention anything resembling 30 years of books exploring post-endor events.

the only good thing i think is killing snoke like that. subverting expectations just to subvert them isn't good, just like tropes aren't automatically bad but the snoke death added stakes to the events.

Luke's character "development" happening entirely off-screen (and throwing out better character development from decades of books) makes the flashback scene completely unbelievable. kylo is no jacen

content theft

abolish intellectual property

scientology is a helluva drug

why are there suddenly cloaking devices in star wars

why don't the imperials hyperjump in front of the fleeing rebels?

why can several characters leave a chase in progress visit some planet and come back to the chase still in progress?

the holdo maneuver breaks several in-universe rules about how hyperdrive works.

there's plenty of problems with the film without being a frothing misogynist. It's better than rise of skywalker but i'd rather watch the holiday special.

cyclists would not need to do those things if there was proper infrastructure and if car drivers weren't out to kill them.

making bikes come to a complete stop is less safe because of the acceleration curve of a bike, if the way is clear it's safer the cyclist and anyone else around for the cyclist to maintain speed

i dislike pineapple and like pizza so

some kinds of fire extinguisher could accomplish this. bit expensive though.

yeah, new wrecker just dropped

fuck christmas it's a waste of fucking time

fuck santa he's just out to get your dime