I’m about done here, but I’ll take the bait this once. Republicans didn’t do shit until we stupidly voted them back into power. Trump was on his way to jail until millions of people who voted for Biden found some dumb ass reason not to vote for Harris. Every horrible thing the Supreme Court has done for the past 10 years would have gone the other way if the “But her emails” crowd had held their noses and voted for the admittedly horrible Hillary in 2016. If 1 percent of Florida Nader fans in 2000 had voted for Gore, we could have had someone who wrote a book about environmental issues instead of someone who got rich exploiting oil and gas. Obama wasn’t perfect of course but he did get healthcare access for millions of people who didn’t have it before and was working on other things that would have made things better until the 2010 “shellacking” swept democrats out of power and neutralized the rest of his presidency, just like what happened to the very flawed but better than republicans Bill Clinton in 1994.

I’m farther left than ANY of the democrats I’ve mentioned and it sucks we have to settle. But the things some people insist don’t matter baffles me. Truly, what would you have Senator Merkely do? Go nuclear and shut down the government to stop benefit cuts? Done. It’s not accomplishing anything either, because trump is a lawless president and the republicans in congress refuse to stop him. He just keeps paying ICE and uses the so called shut down to defund things he doesn’t like. This is possible because we voted republicans back into power.

The problem is always republicans. The only way to stop it is unity. Instead we splinter. Nice.

Yeah but nobody’s more exactly like everyone else than me.

You don’t know any people like me.

People: Vote Democrats out of power at all levels of government.

People: “Why won’t the Democrats do anything?”

Democrats: Do literally the only thing they can do given the people voted them out of power.

People: “Empty gesture.”

People suck.

High speed rail such a great way to travel medium distances anyway it’s downright criminal the US hasn’t figured it out yet.

It’s a drag, but that’s just an example of a poorly planned city. I’ve lived in places like that, but it doesn’t have to be that way. I saw a you tube video about a city in the Netherlands I think it was where every house was within a 5 minute bike ride of a train station, and you could get around the city on a bike just fine, but if you wanted to drive, you’d have to go around to a road that looped the outside of a city. https://youtu.be/r-TuGAHR78w

You know how California got sick of greedy companies ripping off people for insulin so now they’re going to sell insulin themselves at a reasonable price? Yeah, they should do that with apartments.

The only reservation I have about this whole comment is the word “slow” in the first sentence.

Then nobody better tell me that protests don’t accomplish anything. Besides all the things you aren’t admitting they accomplish, getting republicans to shut up for a day is a damn miracle in itself.

I think the theory is that the people who contribute and/or donate are a subset of the people who frequently visit. The smaller the superset, the smaller the subset is likely to be. I could be wrong; I’m not part of the subset that reads the articles.

The overwhelming crush of tourists was the only thing I didn’t like about my trip to Kyoto. Yes, I’m aware that I was part of the problem. This doesn’t seem like it’s really cracking down on over-tourism so much as generating a bit of extra revenue to help defray some of the public impacts of over-tourism. It seems pretty reasonable to me, as it’s directed towards the higher-end tourists rather than pricing out tourists of relatively modest means. But I do wish there was an actual solution to the problem of immense throngs of people flocking to popular tourist destinations. Maybe if a few other cities could put up some 600-year-old golden pagodas, we could spread them out a bit.

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Fair enough. But I just meant in general for anyone else reading this.

On some cars the traction control is disabled if the tpms light is on so it might not be a great idea to ignore it all winter. TPMS sensors aren’t that expensive.

Anyone surprised? Yah me either.

I’ve decided I won’t click on or upvote any more articles whose headlines contain the words “melts down,” “destroys,” “fumes,” “implodes,” etc. unless someone literally did implode, melt, emit fumes, or get destroyed. That pretty much leaves out Daily Beast.

There is again, but there was, too.

The funny thing about people who say it’s not a bubble because AI has value is that the asset category having value doesn’t prevent valuation bubbles from forming.

Houses have value: you can live in them. Yet there was a housing bubble.

The internet has value: you can watch cat videos on it. Yet there was a dot com bubble.

Tulip bulbs have value: you can grow pretty flowers with them. Yet there was a tulip bulb bubble.

In my experience, whenever you start reading news stories asking if something is a bubble and quoting investment bankers say, “no, it’s not a bubble,” well, usually it’s a bubble.

It didn’t happen on his watch. It happened on his direct fucking orders.

I regret ever getting mixed up with Amazon in the first place. I canceled Prime, stopped ordering from Amazon’s website, found a Kindle alternative, pulled the plug on my IoT crap, and unplugged my Echoes. No regrets. YMMV.