Hmm. I think lane-assist probably makes people worse at driving. Anything that lets people pay less attention on the road does, it trains drivers to be less alert. Adaptive cruise and automatic braking are probably a net benefit but “car safety” is not trending in the right direction.

AI crap is worse than not commenting.

Hating Communists has always been an acceptable form of bigotry. You don’t have to listen to what they say, just dismiss them (and insult them!) for wanting a world that doesn’t run on money.

Stop this ecofascist shit.

We can support the current population, it’s just not profitable or popular to do so.

Birthrates naturally level off as societies develop. Many are already seeing negative growth.

Our current standard of living is mostly predicated on offshoring the suffering and waste to the global South, but even that could be comfortably leveled off if we weren’t living under Capitalism.

We don’t need large AI farms, we need empathy. The techbros will not save us.

It’s complicated. (Ignoring for the moment that we deposed the sovereign government of the Kingdom of Hawai’i for a strategic outpost and tropical farmland.) Japan wasn’t trying to invade the United States at all, they didn’t want us to interfere with their attacks on the rest of the South Pacific and thought crippling our fleet would buy them the time to do that. And we were already putting pressure on Japan with a naval blockade so it’s not like Pearl Harbor was unprovoked. (And we had been supplying their enemies.) It’s not really a “defensive war” for the US like it was in Europe.

I know enough of those words to agree!

they’re not public

This is a huge issue, honestly. Discord’s search function is awful and you have to find the right server before you can even try to find the information. Any standard search engine can find a post in a classic forum.

Also, scrolling through giant pages of constantly updating chatter is a miserable interface. Split it up into pages!

ALSO, Discord has poor tools for managing everything. You can’t merge topics or move posts, that should be day 1 stuff.

That’s just the Twitch brainrot. People that want forums back (including me) do not want to be in a room with 13k people. That’s not a community, it’s so much bigger than the monkeysphere.

Easier to argue that even WWII wasn’t a defensive war (not that I think we should have stayed out of it, just that everything since then has been for sure us causing problems).

We aren’t even at “Registered Republican Bathroom Only” levels of division yet. (Incidentally, sundown towns still exist in this country)

The Civil War never really ended because we never actually dealt with the traitors. We compromised on slavery and now we have more slaves than we ever did when a man could own another man, we just need to throw them in jail first. John Brown was right.

We’ve always been divided. Natives against colonizers. White against black. Slavers against abolitionists. Urban against rural. “Communists” against “real Americans.”

Unity had always been a lie, a story, an excuse for a slow compromise that keepa the landowners ahead.

I was never made to “tutor” but my assigned groups for projects were conspicuously full of problem children I was expected to balance.

I like math just fine up until trigonometry and at that point my brain just can’t hold onto it. Failed college calculus three times. There’s something about the formulas and rules and applications that isn’t intuitive for me at that level. I’m much better at the Earth Sciences and had no problems with chemistry.

“Liking” math isn’t really accurate either. I don’t care about math, I care about things that require math. Geometry and algebra are useful in a ton of other disciplines and activities. Playing with numbers doesn’t make me feel smart or accomplished the way a puzzle does.

“I know him well socially and the man is not overcompensating.”

“Men who are high value men like Stephen Miller take risks, they’re brave, they’re unafraid, they’re confident, and they’re on a mission,” Watters said. “And they have younger wives with beautiful children.”

These people are completely broken.

I think you’re right, Joe Rogan is like a perpetually stoned teenager. His mind is easily blown and he enjoys that feeling but he also likes the way cash smells and is easily manipulated.

I don’t know how many concepts are actually cemented in his head enough to form ideals and I would never accuse him of being a good person, but he’s clearly a different kind of stupid than the malicious cruelty seen in so many right-wing chuds.

Portland and Seattle say hello.

We’re like four months out from racial slurs in official acts. You know, again. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Wetback

I’ve never felt existential dread while contemplating life or death or the scale of the universe so being comfortable with mortality I guess.

"Whatever! I do what I want!

Whatis that, like 6%? Seems about right to me. Might even be a little low. There’s a LOT of terrible drivers who can’t stop scrolling Instagram long enough to get to the grocery store.