I like the way you’ve gussied up “objectively wrong as proven by science” into “my unpopular opinion.”

When your opinion contradicts known fact, it’s no longer an opinion. It’s a fantasy.

You can’t even change your “opinion” when provided with excellent reasons to, yet you judge people for not overcoming their biological imperatives.

A few more facts before I go: I’m not overweight, and you are a douche.

Rage bait is the generous interpretation. The “no one could be this stupid and awful” interpretation.

So what then? I guess you’re stupid and awful then.

Yes. I’m not sure how it’s the infrastructure’s fault that we don’t have better transit though. Better transit would mean busses here as we have decent bike support and regional rail. We do have busses, too, but for them to be better they need to go more places that the cars are going.

And actually the biggest reason we have so many cars is they keep building more and more housing further and further out from our town, which then needs to pass through our town to get anywhere.

There’s multiple layers to this, but if all you wanted to say was “your infrastructure is shit” then, well, you’ve said it.

You don’t. My first fake id was someone’s old military id.

They’re not being obstinate. You are working very hard not to understand that your job has to be walkable too.

Walkable: jobs, homes, and basic essentials shopping coexist near enough to each other.

It’s not walkable if you only have 2 out of 3.

I’m in an odd situation where there’s heavy traffic but we have very good bike lanes and bike trails. Yet I am afraid to use the bike lanes most of the time because the drivers are so insane. And half the people who do ride bikes end up doing it wrong because they feel unsafe: they ride in the bike lane against traffic or just ride on the sidewalks where they become the threat: to pedestrians.

This is every day where I live. It’s madness. Otherwise, the place is paradise. Beautiful area. People are great here. Until you get them into a car. Then they are inattentive, pushy, and unsafe. People die every single year. Kids on bikes get plowed over. It’s insane.

At a 4-way intersection, if I stop around the same time as a car to my right I always yield to them according to the “right hand rule” of right-of-way. But everyone else wants to go only by “who reached the line first” and they want to time it down to the millisecond. And guess what: they always, always determine that they arrived first.

Funny how that works. They’ve changed the rule from “right of way goes to whoever arrived first, defer to car on your right when in doubt” to “it’s always my turn.”

I guess it just really goes to show that no one “chooses” to be gay. I think we all knew that already, and one natural consequence is that every now and then a complete asshole MAGAt is going to be gay. It’s inevitable.

For every 1 speeder who’s trying to reach the ER in time to save their friends life, there are 10,000 deaths caused by speeding.

Give me a break with this bullshit second hand tale. I’m not going to treat tailgaters like they are on their way to save a life. They take lives.

Zero “people” are defending this. Anyone defending this is subhuman.

“If I’m tailgating you, you’re an asshole.”

The small dick energy of this truck is amazing.

So you’re saying it’s a one dimensional age check which doesn’t invade your privacy because you can just lie to it completely?

That’s a valid point. I just want to clarify that’s what you meant.

it inherently weakens one’s determination to survive

This is a good point. Aren’t Jedis quite selfless though? I would think that they would already not prioritize their own survival over other principles.

When you work on dissolving the self, one big benefit is you stop freaking out so much about death. You recognize that even though you’re locked into this very narrow subjective experience, it’s still one cell in a much larger process which will endure after your death. It becomes much less “the end of everything.”

I would guess that Jedis are totally there and wouldn’t change any of their choices based on whether their little subjective consciousness will cling to existence or not.

We had an election not long ago where I live and I voted against my interests again. I’m an affluent homeowner but I voted for greater flexibility for new housing construction projects rather than be a fucking NIMBY and worry about my property value. I also voted down a sales tax because it’s regressive and hurts people poorer than me the most, even though I know the county will seek that money via property or business taxes next, which I will pay.

As I did all this I thought about how we lambaste Trumpers for voting against their own interests. I still haven’t thought the issue through enough but I understood at least that people are sometimes willing to vote for a principle which will come at a price for them personally. So we can’t just categorically dismiss this behavior as always dumb.

I did it to help other people and Trumpers tend to do it to hurt other people, so it’s very different, but still an interesting topic.

Hey, I don’t know if you’ve heard about this or not, but… there’s pornography on Steam.

I haven’t actually. But now I understand why Steam asks for my birthday over and over. It’s surprising that people don’t complain about that more. All the new age verification laws have drawn vociferous ire, but Steam has been doing it for years and remains beloved.

Most corporate lawyers are there to steer you way around any danger. I used to think they would help me understand exactly where the legal boundaries are, but I’ve been disappointed time and again that they won’t play it even close to the line. To be fair to them, laws are written in language and always have room for interpretation so if you work in an industry where you’re doing novel things, they can’t always say exactly what will get you in trouble.

A lawyer that will lean in and go in hot on issues where it’s well known that you’re operating over the line… yeah that’s a very “wartime consigliere” kind of thing which I imagine few corporate lawyers are able to pivot to at the drop of a hat. Sorry, Tom.

No. Just near them.

That’s grammar school stuff. Graduate to the ice cold enema and your glory hole will applaud.

I never bidid before but now I bido and woo woo woo no doo doo.