When knee surgery is tomorrow.

I’m just so surprised on behalf of state-sanctioned murder advocates that a punishment with zero ability to deter crime, dramatically higher cost than literally any other existing sentence, and a bare-minimum 4% error rate just keeps being shitty. We really ought to implement their reform suggestion sometime to “only kill the ones we’re completely, 100% sure are guilty” or whatever stupid, bullshit, vengeance-fetish fantasy they live in.

which naturally brings out questions about this person

It naturally brings out JAQing off as a way to signal support for the murder. Don’t bullshit me or pretend anyone reading this is seriously stupid enough to think that you’re being intellectually honest. Literally of course Israel is going to use the murder of a kosher grocery store owner in Dubai as propaganda. That has zero bearing on whether he deserved it, and you know it.

The removal of your comment should tell you that you’re a disgusting, bigoted fuckhead, not that you “hit a sensitive subject”.

You were asking if he was a Zionist or a “regular person” to see if he deserved to be murdered? A grocery store owner?

Go ahead, look at my comment history. You’ll hear me calling what Israel is doing a genocide constantly, because it is. With that understanding, my question is: what the fuck is wrong with you?

It goes beep boop, boo-boo bop.

Okay, I understand the sentiment behind this comment (and I didn’t downvote you), because men’s issues are often underrepresented or even ignored (see: rape) in key areas, but consider this (to clarify, this is fake data meant to mirror this article): two UN agencies come out and say that this year, 50,000 gay men have died from AIDS, 2,000 more than last year. AIDS deaths are on the rise. The report notes that even though non-gay men tend to be more affected by chronic illness overall, gay men are disproportionately affected by AIDS.

Or maybe there’s a report about how people in South America disproportionately die to a specific kind of insect-transmitted disease, and the UN creates a report on it. They note the vast majority of insect-borne illness deaths are from malaria in Africa, but that this specific disease most affects people in South America.

Would you be here standing up on a podium decrying that the announcement focuses on gay people? Or that it focuses on South America? The point of this finding is that there’s an area where someone is disproportionately affected, and unlike just “homicide”, a lot more can be done in the short-term to prevent domestic violence.

As another comment noted, this is whataboutism. I don’t think it’s being done in bad faith, but it’s still whataboutism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-brewery_syndrome

“I’m going to buy the least healthy version of the least healthy kind of milk.” —Folks concerned about their health

I genuinely feel bad. It’s like they’re so close. Going out of your way to care about your health is good. Challenging broad societal assumptions is good. It’s just that this completely fell apart when they arrived at the “now weigh the sources critically” stage. The charlatans who sold them this idea for profit should be in prison.

It’s a well-known best practice to deal with monopolies only after they’ve gotten utterly, catastrophically out-of-hand and have a fuckload of leverage, yes.

To expand on this, Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 has a FOSS re-implementation called OpenRCT2, and it’s considerably better than even the original. I’d recommend Planet Coaster, but honestly, I think the simplicity of RCT2 makes things a lot easier one-handed.

confused supporters of U.S. president-elect Donald Trump

Interesting tautology there.

Yeah, how dare a sitting member of the Senate Finance Committee target an American company worth over a billion dollars price-gouging the most important TLD on the Internet and arguably violating antitrust laws. Doesn’t she know that politicians are each only allowed one issue to care about? And that now she’s wasted hers?

Edit: Also, she’s literally the chair of the Senate Banking Subcommittee on Economic Policy which – you guessed it – includes issues regarding the Federal Reserve. Keeping an eye on the Fed is something she does as part of her job. Here’s her three days ago yelling at the Fed. Because that’s her job.

Haha, oh my gosh, I wasn’t even thinking of that perspective; I was seeing it as a big Squidward nose. This is so multi-layered.

If you imagine that the translucent glass is some kind of face shield, then it becomes a very stoic, no-nonsense riot or SWAT officer. If you imagine that the tiny little spheres on either top corner are the eyes and the top of the lamp is a silly little hat, then it’s not disapproving as much as it is scared shitless.

The inverse of robots.txt: crawling robots without their consent.

iPhones suck. This is still an objective improvement to them and currently an advantage over Android. Hatred and blind hatred aren’t the same.

It’s on the tip of my tongue. PARROT Act? PATRAT Act? PATIO RIOT Act?

What are you even talking about? They wrote: “My issue, as someone with their feet in two canoes, as they say, is with the mentality that rural populations are rounding areas [sic] unworthy of discussion or consideration. Broad statements that erase rural existence is alienating to these admittedly small percentages, but is alienating nonetheless.” My entire comment is spent addressing that paragraph. I’m sorry I chose to focus on the core point of their comment?

People who choose to live out in the middle of nowhere shouldn’t hold back the discussion of public transit and micromobility for the vast, overwhelming majority of people who live in areas which are able to maintain that kind of public infrastructure.

The problem isn’t that these populations aren’t worthy of consideration; it’s that they don’t deserve to get brought up as “Well this doesn’t help me, who lives three miles out of the nearest town in a row of five houses” as a way to shut down discussion of something that would improve the lives of basically everyone. (It would help them too, of course, because it would decongest the streets when they do drive into town; it just wouldn’t obviate their car. Also, people in urban areas are subsidizing the everloving shit out of their infrastructure already to allow them to even live out there in the first place.)

Urban areas account for 80% of the US population. This only fell from 80.7% in 2010, despite the fact that the minimum population for something to be considered “urban” doubled from 2500 residents to 5000 (under the previous criteria, this would have been an increase). That’s not to mention that there’s nothing stopping rural towns under 5000 people from having adequate micromobility infrastructure, like I mentioned. If your kid is walking home from somewhere, unless they legitimately got stranded somehow in bumfuck nowhere, chances are they’re within biking distance.

The kind of “rural” you’re probably thinking of where someone lives two miles out into the country is basically a rounding error. Please stop using it as a magical incantation to shut down discussion of reasonable public transit and safe and efficient micromobility.