I really don’t think Americans will be taking up arms against this, certainly not en masse.

Why can’t it just be a website? Why does everything have to be a fucking “app”?

It was 14 for me. But I wouldn’t wish it on anyone else, kids shouldn’t be laborers and it was mostly a very bad experience.

To use your logic, you don’t get to decide how I interpret the responses to my comment.

That’s correct. So if you felt like others were taking your words too seriously, then say that. Without the reflection at yourself, in the English language you’re telling others how they should be feeling rather than saying how you feel. I hope a grammar misunderstanding is all that really was.

And for the record, I do regret coming on so strong. I’ve been stressed today and this is not the first time in the past 24 hours I’ve realized too late that I could have been more diplomatic. So, sorry about that.

Lol no, you don’t get to decide how other people are allowed to feel about your opinions. Also wtf is a cleft asshole??

This is kind of the core question of disability, I think. What is disability if not a mismatch between your own way of navigating and functioning vs assumed normativity? If your own way of navigating and functioning was the assumed normative mode, would you still be “disabled”? A lot of our societys normative behaviors can in some way be hindering to those exhibiting them, but society is ready to provide full support to compensate for such things as they are a part of the normative mode. It’s a fun thought experiment to consider how difficult it might be for a more or less normative person to function in an autistic society that only recognized and provided for normative brains to the degree that our own society provides for autistic brains. And on that note - Would an autistic society be better at providing for those people than ours does for us? Or would we close ranks around a new normativity the way that our own too often does?

IT is fun until management comes in and wrecks the place with a load of time-consuming demands absent any reasoned justifications beyond things that don’t concern IT.

I see you guys are taking this way too seriously

Who the hell are you, the arbiter of what is and isn’t serious?

What I really don’t understand is how so many people end up wondering about some facts in a conversation, then everyone goes “huh, that’s a good question” and just drop the subject and talk about something else. It usually takes less than a minute to do a quick search and everyone has a phone these days. So… how? How?!

The normie urge to blindly accept without question.

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Please explain what you mean by “letting them [prices?] work correctly”.

Data Center used LOBBYING.

It’s super effective!

Data Center’s power bill was reduced by 75%!

Also they can build nuclear power generators for the data centers but never for the residential power grid.

I appreciate the apology. It’d be good for me to try and exhibit a bit more patience too. Thanks.

What would I do? Contemplate where the fuck I went so ethically wrong in my life that I became a landlord, that’s what.

Your jokes are indistinguishable from wrecker behavior, get better jokes.

Yeah I remember like half the time I read about a road fatality in NYC it was mentioned that the driver was unlicensed. Absolutely an institutional “fuck it” indicator.

Gotta rip off that band-aid! Every flunk is an opportunity captured to educate an under-trained driver or identify what is otherwise making them unsafe. It wouldn’t just be about taking these people off the road, it would be about making them safe enough to go back on it should they be willing to do the work required to get there. I had an ex who’s mom drove around without Rx lenses and literally couldn’t read the road signs. Just a rolling disaster waiting to happen. If she had to re-test she probably wouldn’t flunk, she’d just finally get her prescription filled. There are probably millions of situations like hers that simply having a test on the horizon would fix.

Appropriate! I’m actually a pro-2A gun owner who believes states should have licensee-paid training course requirements operated by ranges alongside properly funded per-gun licensing programs, both of which potential buyers would have to pass/obtain before use, perhaps additionally subsidized with a small annual fee per gun.

I definitely am guided in this opinion by the way I think we should regulate cars. Cars and guns are way more analogous to one another than hard-line advocates for either are usually comfortable admitting. I think that both have their place but need to be treated responsibly. The current lassiez-faire approach in most states is definitly a major factor in the number of deaths attributable to both. This doesn’t mean it has to feel punitive or be needlessly difficult, it just has to comprehensively address obvious risk factors.

We need that here in Oregon. ODOT effectively functions as this giant mechanical titan that only knows how to expand highways, stomping into town once a year to force local residents to rally to prevent the same lane expansion projects annually, over and over again. We have to win every year but the titan only has to win once. ODOT is actually filled with considered and talented engineers but ODOT’s mission means they can only do evil, we need to reprogram the robotic titan to let them do good.