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the great thing is that we live in a society controlled by laws and corporations cant get away with testing everything they want on public roads. your freedom or desire for “responsibility” doesn’t negate others’ rights

>propaganda

you mean a movement where an entire half of the population have been treated as less than, coerced, not has the same rights, earn less money, and are still routinely demonized with 2000 year old paleolithic thinking?

why do men think they can get away with everything, and that the moment women try to speak up they are evil?

parody work is super popular-- people really love to see porn of their favourite characters, age/gender/year of publication be damned

i've never needed to present ID in any mandarake or book-off or the like. of course if you go to events, they'll check ID to make sure you are 20+, or i'm sure if you look young. point is, the content is just there, even in some konbini, and it's not the norm, but certainly isn't demonised-- look at maid cafe and idol culture. /shrug

japan has fully legal drawn porn of children and tentacle beasts and whatever else, you just need small bars over genitals and beasts. you can buy it in a bookstore anywhere across the country freely, how is this not “down” with adult content? weird take

i cold turkey switched to colemak. i can go between that and qwerty. i went from t9 to full thumb typing. i use 5 different keyboards (with different custom layouts) daily.

the human brain can do all this and more if you let it and deal with a small amount of lag in building the neurons up

so you have high speed long distance and commuter rail, and then local transit options. and you can stop at places other than coty centres. my route from berlin to hamburg has a bunch of smaller stops.

asia and europe get by fine with rail. if china can build 20 subway systems and 50 HSR routes in 10 years so can america

unfortunately, there are millions of people for whom the cruelty is the point. the attacks on LGBTQ people, on hispanic people, on women, on anyone non-white just prove that people really do want these hateful cruel regulations, against anyone who is not what they deem as "american"

as far as meeting "actual people"-- yes, there are definitely people who are anti-gay anti-trans anti-women pro-war pro-hate pro-"america" and they are pretty gross, authoritarian, and fascist-leaning, and to me that's not what america is about.

saying that everyone's fear is made up is just coming from a place where white well-off christian people just don't see problems and that's pretty sad

you do know that jews come from the current state of israel right? and that they lived there before the founding of said state? and that, no, neither group of 7M people are going to pack up and leave.

this is a pretty bad take. if you don't think that elon's antics don't colour the decisions of his employees or companies that could sign deals with his companies then you're really quite oblivious.

few people want a loud, extremist man, in bed with one of the most polarising figures of our time who seems quite unstable ranting at all hours of the night, especially when his company isn't delivering. politics is everything, you cannot divest from it.

this is 10000% the wrong approach— the approach is to build better, more walkable cities, with better zoning, and public transit so elderly or disabled people aren’t left out of society.

these people shouldn’t be behind the wheel of a car; to me one of the biggest annoyances with american life

this is a thing in the us as well—- tho the cutoff is august or september normally. there’s no name for it, but it’s real.

and american kids are also way more like to make friends in their school peer age group. i believe this is almost a universal truth for the first world

everyone has pronouns, just that they align with their outward gender / gender identity.

btw i'm a sr engineering manager at a faang and my directory page has they/them pronouns on it. i don't care if people mess them up, and i don't correct people, but it's nice if they make an effort. the most nonbinary thing i do is paint my nails, but everything else about me is masc.

and i've worked in rural parts of america and have had the exact opposite: a conservative opinion including "hey this republican is a really great candidate, now go vote in the next election!" from companies on the s&p500.

silicon valley-ite here: we have normal gaming machines and linux boxen too …

stop applying american ideas to the french system. europe has many checks and balances at several levels, and embezzling Union funds for your campaign does in fact make you not eligible to run for office for some time. it’s not even permanent.

family friendly for very strict definitions of family

what is OpenAI doing other than making deals with companies and doing business?

you'd hate the german language where der/die Freund/in can be friend or romantic partner and is extremely commonplace in the language

it’s cheaper and more permanent to just lay fibre and copper to provide internet. we don’t need 3000 satellites launched every few years to do so.

i think you’re overinflating elon’s importance. (not that he designs and builds starlink, anyway)

it’s not about reading opinions, it’s about the world’s richest man enabling nazis, pushing misogynistic views, and destabilizing the globe so he can make a buck and push his obsession with mars. oh and let’s not forget the anti-queer, anti-black stuff.

what’s wrong with women?

he should keep his opinions to himself because he wields more power than billions of people combined, is the richest man in the world, and has said and done pretty heinous things. platforming nazis and right-wing white supremacists, siding with fascists who tried to stage a coup, calls for the murder of muslims, calls for the removal of rights for trans people, and is now calling for treason charges against politicians who did not support donald trump.

not only that, but he disowned his child, calls people slurs and insults them for not supporting him, and is just generally an unpleasant person. he bought an election and unfathomable power, pretty uncool if you ask me.

he also hasn't said one or two messed up things, he tweets them every second. if you are apologising for a racist/white supremacist/nazi/fascist you should look very heavily in the mirror. and if you support the things he supports, well, good luck.

norway was almost full EV purchases last year. cold weather issues are totally exacerbated.

also, i drove in a tesla, and the number of cameras doing weird and confusing things with bad perspectives weirded me out. i don't know why, but it just felt wrong, and too much information on the screen too. like they tried to do every technical thing just because.

and if you don't think musk is a danger, idk what to tell you. either you support him or you just don't care about human life.

this is more of a problem with the power of landlords and bad regulations for the average person. in europe in a lot of countries renters have the right to make changes and in some even the right to have EV chargers installed

and yet he supports the AfD, far-right "influencers", re-platformed actual nazis, doesn't think j6 was terrorism. the only reason he isn't antisemitic is because he hates muslims more, but either way it's all fascism and racism and none of it is right.

using IQ as some sort of gotcha here fails at face value -- major dunning-kruger vibes, as an HNer (almost as bad as saying redditor) has no formal education nor training nor certification to make qualified statements on diagnoses.

15% for handling all the stuff necessary to do proper customer service isn't unreasonable. everyone wants their cake and to eat it too. they already got the ability to list their emulator, it feels like a lot of begging going on, which honestly a teen writes an app and it gets big and now years later wants to make an entire career on it even though it was never permitted by apple and feels like they have a right to complain? especially when their product is focused on piracy (let's be real here). feels pretty duplicitous.

our eyes invent colors that aren’t even there “physically” in tbe true sense of the word. and colours are even cultural, so there is a lot of leeway with what a colour even is. even in genders there are differences in cultural colour perception.

non-spectral colours are very real: greyscale, pink, brown, and purple which are mixes of multiple wavelengths of light

then you have things like:

* green is blue (japan/china)

* homer’s wine dark sea

* colour word development which has some near-universal linguistic phenomenon where the start is light and dark words, then red, and there’s a list on and on.

he doesn’t need the money, for one. he missed out and didn’t control it, and now he’s jealous that it took off. oh well, world’s richest man and smallest violin.

i actually dont know how you can say this with a straight face