Also, paint the cop cars something other than ‘war paint schemes’. Neon orange with blue and such mixed in, as is customary in most places, makes for a much less threatening look and therefore isn’t self-reinforcing that sentiment of ‘being at war’ with society.

If you’re one of those people: please also don’t drive.

Yeah, no.

Austin metro population - 2.28 million

This.

Yup, toxic masculinity all the way down in this one.

But wouldn’t that open the argument that masturbation is in fact mass-murder? As hundreds of millions of ‘potential lives’ are not being the chance to gestate into its potential.

Paracelsus, maybe?

This. It’s a design solution for a problem that didn’t exist and makes the work environment worse off.

It sucks.

This.

I flew a few times internationally, and frankly, I vastly preferred it to domestic plane trips.

The domestic ones were packed, the people shoddy at best about mask wearing, not leaving space upon check-in and boarding, etc.

Meanwhile, the international flights were all close to empty, extremely well staffed and the…

This.

It’s not like gamergate led to the rise of the alt-right and to the election of 45.. right?

/s

I cannot find it right now, but read a study last year that said that replacing your old ICE car with a new electric results in a smaller carbon footprint within a year and a half (about 18000 miles or so). And this includes both production of the new vehicle, electricity and fuel.

Can we make it so that folks in Congress (as well as the president and all his advisors plus all their immediate family) are explicitly forbidden from trading individual stocks?

Put your stuff into a blind trust or an index fund when entering office, then go back to individual trades after finishing out your term(s).

It…

Yeah, that’s where my mind went, as well.

And how would you power said giant factories?

While waiting for the rapture..

Same.

“Do they ACTUALLY think their reporting is going to change anyone’s minds?”

The alternative is nihilism, which won’t do anyone any good either.