Cyclists should do whatever they need to do to feel safe and all the car brained morons can STFU. Many bike lanes are poorly planned and are more dangerous than the road. You legally have to share the road with all legal road traffic and if that slows you down a few minutes then you need to suck it up and cope.

Dude… masking is important… A lot of neurodivergent, or even NT self soothing behaviour are really aggravating to be around, especially repetitive noisemaking… Most ND kids can not tolerate being around repetitive noisemaking, but also use it to self sooth. That combination is a recipe for disaster.

If it weren’t for SOME masking, many kids would just have to be isolated 99% of the time.

Masking is part of what we all do to get along, it’s just that for NDs it can be excessively demanding, or particularly risky…

That being said, I hope you find more people you can at least RELAX the masking a bit around…

This is the real bullshit take. “Keep them all away from me”? Who the fuck are you, the fucking Queen?

You were a kid once and everyone else put up with your shit, and you’ll put up with the other kids around you like a big boy and shut up about it. Kids are how our civilization got here. It’s how you got here.

Not wanting kids, not seeking out kids, all that stuff… 100% legit. Pressuring people into having kids they don’t want sucks ass, growing up as an unwanted kid is probably a big part of anti-natalism anyways… No one should feel like they need to have kids unless they really want to.

But being offended by seeing kids in public is pants on head stupid… Like yeah, you don’t like kids so I guess either we end as a species or all the kids grow up in the mines or something so you don’t have to see any …

Just the worst take…

That’s dumb. No one who opposes cars and trucks in cities oppose vehicular deliveries in appropriate sized vehicles

Oh yes… I forgot that no one from New Jersey or the area surrounding New York ever comes to New York 5-6 days a week for 8-12 hours… All those bridges are just for the architecture of it.

God you’re dumb, especially for calling your word vomit “intellectual honesty”

ID for voting is stupid. It is PROVEN that voter fraud is a non-issue, so voter ID laws pivot exist to disenfranchise voters.

On the other hand, as the mayor of a city, you can’t run subsidized or non-profit grocery stores for the whole state plus new jersey. It’s just not sustainable, especially not during the delicate early phases where any hiccup will be blown out of proportions by the media.

One is a provable non-issue, the other is a significant practical risk.

There was a comic on here a while back that had a hungry guy walk up to the grocer and ask for a job. The grocer said no. Then he asked for food and the grocer said no. So he took the food.

If you can’t get what you need to survive using the social system (unfortunately it’s currently poorly regulated crony capitalism), and you can’t get what you need through charity, then you TAKE what you need to survive.

Any system that lets you die when you were willing to work is a failed system.

You have a lot of down votes but I think there is philosophical merit to your statement.

Biologically “male” and “female” abilities and attributes have a massive overlap and are at worst bimodal distributions. There is no singular meaningful action that only one gender does. So you would naturally think that humans would be equal.

Except… Women give birth to new humans. In modern times we have enough scientific explanations to take some of the magic out of the fact that human life is created inside of women. This act is so philosophically terrifying and traumatic that it creates the “female” category unavoidably in the mind of anyone who even hears of it.

The “male” is something created out of lack. It’s an attempt to create a category by focusing on the differences between two entirely overlapping sets because the “female” is a category. Everything else, like patriarchy as a whole, flows from there.

At the end of the day everyone is just “people” and a bit less than half of us can create new life as a bonus feature. Everything else is a social construct.

“you are more valuable when going to the toilet” is the most mysterious thing I’ve read all week.

Why? To whom? What specifically about the toilet? Does my value also increase at urinals? What about if I shit in the woods?

So many questions.

This sounds like one of those things where for 299.99 you too can discover this one skill. Then you sell a 2 week bootcamp where you teach people that skill and it turns out the skill is just applying to lots of jobs.

I’ve got you tagged as “solid dude” for some reason and you’ve never let me down. Every comment is solid!

What I said has nothing to do with chads and Stacey’s. It’s an outcome of an almost 4:1 gender ratios on dating apps. The outcomes are the same in anything that’s badly matched. 4:1 jobs to employees means employees will jump ship at the slightest hiccup seeking greener pastures with very little getting done. The opposite ratio is of course worse with employees being abused in every way like in every recession.

Any time the ideal ratio is 1:1 and you throw it off that hard you’re going to have dysfunctional human behaviour because we’re not designed to have so many options. We evolved in deep scarcity and a key aspect of our survival was optimizing our choices. When we have no choices, or too many choices we are dysfunctional. Fuck even too many brands of shampoo is stressful to choose from.

I’m not judging anyone or stereotyping anyone here. The same would happen with reversed genders. It’s just dysfunctional human behaviour because of shitty algorithms.

No, the problem with dating apps for women is that there are tons of “regular” guys looking for a relationship, but because of the gender ratios there are also quite a few “top 5%” guys relative to the number of women. Guys that are very attractive and have great charisma, the kind you’d see on the bachelorette or similar shows.

What ends up happening is that most women will match with these guys (the same way men will swipe right on every supermodel looking woman just in case). So you have relatively few guys dating pretty much all the women they can, because our society says that sleeping with a lot of women if you can is a great way to show you have value. And for these men there are plenty of fish in the sea and no reason to settle down so they get labeled “fuckboys”. Fundamentally these men would normally be completely inaccessible to most women, but the gender ratios on dating apps create this situation where average men don’t get any matches and average women are only dating fuckboys who don’t want a relationship. Then they leave the app and quit dating for a bit out of frustration.

In a normal setting average men and women pair up over shared interests and goals, and fuckboys date supermodels (over their shared focus on aesthetic beauty and charisma I suppose).

Obviously this is an overgeneralisation. But it’s not exactly a gendered issue since if you flip the genders you’d other still get the same dynamic. The problem on these apps is the gender ratios. You can’t have health matchmaking when there are 10 men for every woman (or vice versa).

These fucking conservatives crawl out of the woodwork like cockroaches anytime the government does something heinous and use their piss poor understanding of EVERYTHING to try to justify the heinous actions. It happens every time, and I wish just once to see one of them use real and relevant facts, just so I can pretend that these people live in reality for just one second.

Hasn’t happened yet though.

This guy has no fucking idea how the law works. Destruction of evidence requires a primary crime, the one you’re destroying the evidence for. There is no crime, therefore no destruction of evidence. Only an incompetent or corrupt judge would let this even go to trial.

That’s stupid. We have foster systems, adoption, orphanages, children have even survived living in the wild or with wolves. There are many non parent ways for born children to survive.

God what a stupid, el obviously false statement. If you spent half the time thinking about it as you did typing it you would have deleted it in shame.

All fetuses are non-viable without being allowed parasitic access to the mother’s bodily resources.

This is bad solidarity. Each of us takes up the issues that matter to us, and we support eachother’s causes as we’re able.

I’m glad people were more supportive than you when female genital mutilation was initially banned, and I hope the effort of people like this succeeds in banning male genital mutilation the same way.

Whatever issue you think should be fought, I hope it’s progressive and good and you get the support you need to see it through.

California should defer $1B in federal tax payments until they get the Medicaid payment lol

This graph can’t be right… Why does it add up to exactly 100 min? What counts as social vs non-social? What are the other categories?