Her father, Mark Shry, testified at the hearing that Shry is a “nonviolent alcoholic” who “sits on her couch daily watching the news while drinking too many beers.” He added that she “becomes agitated by the news and starts calling people and threatening them.”

I think it needs to be an all or nothing situation, when the only driver variables on the road are also other autonomous cars then it means they can communicate the info to each other (at least that is the vision). When the two have to share it is the less than ideal behavior of people.

I don’t like all-or-nothing conclusions regarding tech like this. Should self-driving cars ever be the ONLY mode of transport available? No. Should they currently be given complete free range? No. Yet are there situations where self driving cars could make perfect sense and be safe. Yes.

It seems conservative judicial thought is a game of limbo: how low can you go.

Middle ground is, what, driving women who need abortions to the border of an abortion-legal state and making them walk the rest of the way? 

“Alex Crow, 30, was a priest who listened to confessions at the McGill-Toolen High School in Mobile, also visiting classes and chaperoning trips with high school students.”

They’re not a failed experiment; they’re just not ready yet. 

Aesthetic injury? So, in his mind, one of the functions of babies is to be seen by other people, namely their doctors, so doctors suffer an injury by not getting the chance to ogle them, which implies there is an inalienable right to look at them . . . even ignoring that he just devalued them into wild animals, he’s…

Kyrsten Sinema should shut the fuck up.

was a priest who listened to confessions at the McGill-Toolen High School in Mobile,

Any “tool” that allows one person to be an obstructionist asshole with precisely no meaningful way to end it or repercussions, is a tool that should be removed from the toolkit.

Ah, Senator Sinema finally realizing the downside of making yourself thoroughly irrelevant to both sides.

Nobody should listen to Kyrsten Sinema. 

It’s fun how meeting in the middle actually just means conceding to the right wing. Sort of like how being an independent of the “centrist” variety is just a euphemism for enabling that right wing.

Brainwashing? I think they mean grooming.

Even the Pope’s Exorcist is a pedophile. Is nothing sacred?

I know i’m not the brightest light in the room at times.. but just like when I stretch too hard and my back hurts a certain way, I feel like i’m stretching my brain to understand this convoluted argument in any reasonable way to the point where it starts to hurt.

Quote: (From the article) “Unborn babies are a source of profound joy for those who view them.”

yo they need to RICO the fuck out of the Vatican

It’s not even comparing us to animals, the fetus is the animal in this horrifically cruel metaphor, we’re not the fauna or even the flora, we’re the dirt.