Rescue dogs and bomb dogs are cool, traffic stop K-9 units are an affront to civil rights.

This is the same reason police dogs shouldn’t be used.

Yes, but that perceived value has existed for thousands of years across many forms of civilization. Gold is a pretty safe bet. Humans like shiny.

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.

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!

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).

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.

Urban planning should account for routing large commercial vehicles while maintaining safe streets. This runs into a particular beef I have: driveways should never open onto arterial roads.

Well, they’re from Israel and of Jewish heritage and presumably practice the religion so there’s nothing else to call them. Can’t “true Scotsman” the government of Israel out of their identity.

“keikaku means plan”

Just like the American Confederacy! Turns out you can’t just ignore the bastards and hope they change.

Climate is different for a few reasons but the Gulf Stream is one of them.

Nah, if someone on my PvE team is cheating/exploiting that still ruins the experience. I play games like that to get better, the skill improvement is a huge part of the experience for me.

Why come you don’t have a tattoo?

Probably. Reasonable storefronts are the only thing keeping the warez at bay.

They want fuckin 40 bucks for a vinyl these days and they don’t even throw in a digital download for that price, and the radio is owned by like three companies unless you live near a college station.

Gaben is gonna be the first person to digitally upload their consciousness.