In the eighties when cell phones started being installed in cars, some people posted their phone numbers on their back or side window. That didn’t last long.

They’re not “speed enforcement cameras” they’re part of a mass surveillance system with the feature that records speed and adds that data along with all the other data it collects and associates with your plate number and any beacons your cell phone is transmitting.

If it was about speeding or safety they’d design the road better or have police patrolling more often.

Just take a look at how these systems are abused by the government in the UK and US. Does this still make you feel safe?

I’ve always assumed this (and assumed that other people assumed this), because if you talk to homophobes they’ll eventually say something like “it’s a choice!” because it’s a choice for them. It’s not a choice for me because gay porn doesn’t turn me on – and if it did I wouldn’t care anyway because that’s how I was raised. But it DOES turns them on, AND they were raised in an environment where this is THE WORST THING EVER, so it upsets them and they get all irrational and punchy (lesson learned: DO NOT discuss this theory with a homophobe.)

TLDR; IMHO Homophobes who think orientation is a choice are closeted gays because logic.

It would be nice to see a better study. Interesting if one hasn’t been done in all this time…

I find it astounding that Americans STILL think there’s democracy in America.

It’s gone and it’s not coming back for a long, long time.

Yeah, that last protest – the biggest ever in the US wasn’t it? – did so much.

Protesting is what got you here. And they want you to keep protesting uselessly while they continue to take apart America.

I don’t think this has anything to do with autism, ADHD, or neurodivergence.

Intelligent people are curious. That’s what makes them intelligent.

IMHO neurodivergent people don’t have a trait for “curiousity” – they’re just more intelligent (if their neurodivergence isn’t too severe) and so are interested in things. That’s why there’s so many in technical and engineering fields, mathematics, science – the really hard stuff (hard for most people.)

Yeah, it’s still not easy because there’s so much other stuff going on inside the mind, but all that other stuff is going to lead to some pretty cool thoughts that could turn into a paper, project, business, thesis, etc. (if you manage to remember them long enough to write them down!) Over years this builds brain matter and this is where the intelligence comes from (again assuming the neurodivergence isn’t severe.)

By “intelligence” I mean the raw ability to process information and gain understanding from it. Not IQ.

That’s why accountants and auditors exist.

If you’re suggesting that it shouldn’t be done because its too hard – it’s not. That’s just a dumb excuse.

You just said why it’s a stupid, stupid thing to do: Trump would have caved anyway. All Carney had to do is wait.

That he would cave so quickly shows how little he values Canadian interests over American profits.

That’s EXACTLY what the general understanding is. You just need to think about it for a few seconds.

Some people just don’t want to or even have the ability to think and just parrot what their peers say, or they’re just bigoted pieces of shit and this lets them get away with it.

Anyone complaining about “woke” is a bigot. Call them out.

There’s nothing preventing capitalism from being socialist, except right-wing propaganda.

Capitalism is a (very powerful) financial tool for societies. It can help them prosper or it can be abused and turned to fascism.

The key is to keep the Capitalists out of government to prevent legislative capture by corporations.

Look at the Scandinavian countries to see successful social-democratic countries that have embraced capitalism without frogmarching into fascism like the US. Sure, they’re not without their problems, but I’d rather have their problems.

Where does the money for the investor’s dividends come from?

That happened a decade ago. You can’t find many pet supplies anywhere anymore because one company owns the distributors and the stores – and they don’t give a shit because they’re American and Canada is too small of a market to support, so it’s left to wither and die.

The same with Veterinary services. They’ve all be bought up, made into chains, or signed bullshit distribution or service agreements by a single (American) company and now it costs many multiples what it used to for no reason except greed.

That’s not how it works. If you’re American, you pay taxes to the US no matter where you live. If you work overseas you may have to ALSO pay taxes to the country you’re living in, unless you expatriate yourself (where the word “expat” comes from) or denounce your US citizenship completely and emigrate. It’s a mess.

Let them cry all they want, because they’re not going to leave. And if they do – good riddance. They contribute nothing to society anyway.

Americans are brainwashed to believe that there’s only one particular and specific way to protest, and beyond that all you can do is kill people.

They haven’t yet realized that there is a huge swathe of options in between, and it requires no organization or depending on others, and no violence against anyone. You can just quietly do stuff. Probably less risky than doing anything publicly in a country with ubiquitous surveillance and the law no longer matters. Protests are great for showing the level of public support for a movement, but if the government doesn’t represent the people their effect will be minimal for producing real change.

There currently is no cost for ventures into fascism. Make it so expensive they’ll think twice next time (if there is a next time.)

These points were all disproved long ago. The jack is a the same thickness as the display.

The reason is because BT headphones have a much higher margin, and need to be replaced every few years because of the battery (if not already replaced because they were lost or damaged).

It’s just a dumb cash grab.

That’s the best part, you monsters.

LOL at your downvotes. I went to Catholic school and was taught BY PRIESTS AND NUNS that Jesus probably wasn’t one person but a composite of numerous roving preachers (a fad at the time). Oh, and early Christianity probably started as a mushroom cult. If the Catholics (Catholics!) could learn to apply reason to religion anyone can.

Reddit is useless for questions. If you’re a subject-matter expert in something, find the subreddit for it and prepare to be horrified.

Trying to be a Reddit clone.

Reddit was shit to begin with. It was a dumbed down forum site for people who found sites like Plastic or Kuro5hin too intimidating or complicated(!).

Slashdot-style upvoting would instantly solve a lot of “Reddit”-type problems, because instead of just good/bad, or like/dislike, the reason for the vote is noted, such as “insightful”, “funny”, etc., and you can then filter and sort comments much easier. Just filtering out “funny” comments saved soooooooo much time.

Another thing: Why don’t creators of threads have the option to admin their own threads? It’s their thread! It wouldn’t be appropriate for discussion threads (for obvious reasons), but for interpersonal posts and questions, it makes perfect sense for the creator to be able to have control over what appears in the thread to keep it on topic and the trolls at bay. It’s pretty rare to see a post where someone asks a question that doesn’t quickly devolve into an offtopic mess, and the creator is usually attacked for trying to bring it back on topic. This has made Reddit useless for question-answering (and besides, the most upvoted answer is almost always wrong.)

Is the purpose of these forums to enable authentic conversation, or just to farm content regardless of quality (to be sold to AI companies, presumably)?

They’ll false-flag or just start killing people. They don’t need a reason anymore.

This whole “don’t have violent protests because they’ll declare martial law” is a psyop preparing people for martial law and pre-loading it with the assumption that when it does happen (and it will) it will be the fault of the protesters, despite evidence to the contrary.

Fascism 101 guys. Don’t be a sucker.