With all due respect, you’re telling on yourself.

This is conclusion is gob-smackingly obvious when you frame it differently: Are we born and do we compete with each other to sacrifice our whole lives to boost The Economy? Or is humanity—living a good life filled with family, friends, love, and leisure—what’s important, and economic activity is good only so far as it supports us? If it’s the former, then it doesn’t matter how many people are hurting as long as The Economy is healthy. If it’s the latter, then the mere existence of billionaires is bad and wrong.

We don’t need two political parties that answer the question in the same way.

Yes, and? EVs are quiet, if we ignore the noise they make?

I’m not going to claim that EVs are loud.

I’m going to state it as a fact: EVs are loud. About as loud as ICE cars. I live on a busy street, so I know that this is beyond dispute. The tire noise and wind resistance dominate the noise produced above about 30 kph. ICE vehicles these days have efficient engines and good soundproofing. Many are virtually silent if they go past my house slowly.

Unexpectedly, the hybrid-electric city buses that go past are among the quietest vehicles. They must use tires designed for a quiet, comfortable ride, because all I hear is a slight whoosh, even when they pass by in the quiet, wee hours of the morning.

(To be fair, EVs with quiet tires and moving <30kph are virtually silent, too.)

The outlet has three wires (black, white, and green), and the device to be plugged in has three wires (black, white, and green). The whole point of the plug is to connect each color wire to its counterpart, and only to its counterpart.

This meme is a parody of PSAs aimed at telling people walking and cycling how to avoid getting hit. Y’know, the personal responsibilty + victim-blaming approach.

Yet when it’s applied in Utah, they melt down like snowflakes.

The harder they try to memorialize a forgettable nobody, the more I’m convinced that he deserved it. Remember Cato the Elder’s famous quote about statues, and who has them.

Finally, good messaging and some backbone! Keep it up.

What, was the statue as fragile as his ego?

To demonstrate what actual hostility looks like, I guess.

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I’ve been to several amusement parks and festivals that have parking lots so big and unwieldy that they have to have a public transit system to get drivers from and to their cars. Talk about evil!

Maybe about 10-15 years ago, there was this song by a group called One Eskimo that a local radio station did its duty in trying to force it to be a hit by gushing over it, and playing it all the damn time. It was a duet, but the male and female singers recorded their parts at ever. so. slightly. different. tempos.

Gah! Absolutely caused me physical discomfort listening to it. Like, wanting to jump out of my skin. Luckily, the effort to force the song up the charts failed (probably because it’s awful), and I’ve never heard it since. Amy Winehouse’s “Rehab” is bad for the same reason, but the tempo of the vocal track is so far off from the tempo of the backing band that it doesn’t cause that effect.

Let me suggest an alternate explanation: Americans secretly love getting stuck in traffic jams. Even in a hyperindividualistic culture, people need a way to feel connected to other humans, and everybody getting stuck in a traffic jam together is one of the few group experiences that Americans have left. Everybody suffers, but they suffer together, and that’s oddly comforting. It doesn’t work, though, if those commie bicyclists can zoom right by, and get home faster. Everybody has to be part of the ritual self-flagellation, or the suffering is meaningless. Therefore, making traffic congestion worse paradoxically improves their lives.

I mean, this sounds ridiculous at first, but at least it’s logically consistent…

Doesn’t take much, as MAGA lives in pants-shitting terror of everyone and everything.

Pro-tip: When people emerge from the right-wing bubble, the disconnect from the observable reality that’s obvious to normal people makes them sound like a kook. The only way to make this statement make any sort of sense is to presume the unstated: “Last 2 shootings [that matter to me and my political agenda] was people either trans or in a relationship with a trans person. [I’m pretending that all of the shootings that don’t align with my political biases didn’t happen.]”

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Wake up, babe, new cope just dropped.

A day of celebration, I take it.