You don’t have to assume anything - you can just read the bill.

Cops and politicians drive on those roads, and their civilian cars would be limited to posted limits, so I wouldn’t call my assumption that they would be changed based on faith in their good faith diligence rather than simply their own self-interest.

“A lot of speed limits exist simply to generate ticket revenue.”

I’m fascinated by Americans who react to things that are in widespread use in other places in the world with, “It is impossible that this works.”

When somebody suggests that because something can be circumvented, it’s useless, I know I’m not dealing with somebody that’s very bright. Literally everything on planet Earth can be circumvented. The locks on your car can be circumvented very easily by somebody who is determined to do so, therefore to remain logically …

Actually, it screams “government me 0.00000000000001% harder, daddy” and wouldn’t you know it, the kids are behaving like they’ve just been grounded for 50 years.

Sure, actually, let’s enforce the rules we already have. Let’s do that by adding so many cops that any time you speed, you are stopped and ticketed, and thus you cannot speed.

It’s called a computer and/or cellphone. Nerds do a lot of the things you take for granted, the least you could do is support the occasional application of their craft that results in less death. Never stop repeating to yourself: the people dying in car crashes are very often people who did not cause the crash. This…

“They are revenue generators”

Some of the smartest and most successful people of all time have also been addicts. The answer is simple: it’s designed to exploit the chemistry of the brain, it makes her feel good, and she values that feeling more than the harm it may be causing her and/or society at large (which I contend is real to some degree but…

I know what you mean, the idea that if there’s a small problem, everything should be stopped and fixed, because if not, then who’s to say something that’s a big problem would be fixed?

Well they charged you regardless of whether or not you played the game. And that was 6 or 7 dollars of way back when money for 2 nights.

The sky is perpetually falling in some peoples’ worlds. Seems exhausting. I fail to see how this is different than renting games was from the video store, save for the format of the offering.

“I couldn’t find any USB-C to USB-A cables”

I’d like to suggest that the commonly held definition of an audiophile is somebody who is into very high end audio reproduction - typically expensive home stereo equipment in order to play recordings at their highest possible quality and fidelity. So I think that somebody with a TikTok that amounts to distributing…

Excellent zing.

“Cake and eat it too” is a good summation of exactly what annoys me so much about McFarlane’s work. Like this air that he’s a bright enough guy, but too chickenshit to look uptight in front of the cool kids.

Maybe the funniest aspect of this: the stupid people who believe this walkable city stuff is a nefarious plan to restrict movement are the same people who’re up in arms about the vast quantities of people seeking asylum who are all doing it on their legs and would have an infinitely harder time overcoming the bodies…

If that was a consideration we’d all be saying, “jeez, it’s hard to imagine 1600 is a long time ago, it’s such a big number!”

It takes some real mental gymnastics to imagine she wrote a letter, posted it to her Instagram, and hoped that as few people saw it as possible