It’s not necessarily because they don’t want to.

I mean, it is because they don’t want to …

it invites harassment.

That’s why they didn’t want to.

Male sure there’s a EULA up somewhere first.

I have a coworker who believes “they” are trying to get us all to live in 15 minute cities so that we can’t have cars because that’s how they’ll keep us from… Driving to other cities? I don’t know, keep us from… something good, I guess?

Here are my walking distances:

• To the nearest convenience store: 1700m
• To the nearest chain supermarket: 1700m
• To the bus stop: 640m
• To the nearest park: 800m
• To the nearest big supermarket: 1.7km
• To the nearest library: 3.1km
• To the nearest train station: 35.4km

Straight-line distance to Big Ben: 7514km

Kept all the units identical to yours for ease of comparison

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I feel like the simple solution is that if you can’t have topless kids because of pervs, then you can’t have topless kids and gender isn’t part of it

And it would still be worlds better than the worst ICE cars, it would only be worse than average.

Murder Harem: Furry’s Vore Safari Edition, or even the vanilla crap I am actually even slightly into.

Don’t worry, we won’t tell.

“Space” as a volume is probably infinite, but even just talking our local stellar neighborhood or even just the solar system and space is already ridiculously more empty and big than anything you could compare to on earth. With I guess the possible exception of high-precision vacuums in laboratories.

Space is, like, SOOOOOO big, and stuff.

It’s gross that anyone would make the list for reals, but I imagine they get a lot more traffic from people who think they’re ridiculous.

Even just a hand grenade is probably plenty. Or a particularly expensive firework.

Well, yeah. There’s only two kinds of people in the world: cis/het white people and bad people. Freaky combinations of the two are ahistorical, just like prosthetics.

God please say I don’t need the /s

It is hilarious to me that there’s an encyclopedia entry for this. MAGA probably already thinks Wikipedia is woke trash or whatever.

Come on, name one time he’s ever lied before. You can’t even name two. There’s not even a dozen times. Certainly it’s less than a hundred? A thousand?

ETA: Wikipedia says it’s nearly 31000 just while he was president, if you count false or misleading, still more than 5000/2.5 yr if you only count outright falsehoods.

Well, he can’t use the song anymore, so he’s allowed to back down now. That’s just the rules.

How does it ever change?

I don’t know. But I’m going to keep trying.

I’m definitely going to vote, and everyone willing to listen should hear why, like you said.

But I’m also going to keep talking and listening to the people I disagree with, and nuts to your therapist.

Again, I agree with you. I just see the danger of refusing to acknowledge how a group conceptualizes their own position, even if they’re being deliberately blind to other factors.

And I wish people could spend more effort trying to understand each other’s perspectives, because otherwise how does it ever change?

I’m only barely talking about pro-life/anti-choice or pro-choice/pro-death here, too. The same kind of thinking and focusing on aspects the other person isn’t addressing is everywhere in discourse these days. And a lot of them are very close to home for me and I guess I want them to be able to consider my perspective. But they won’t, because they think of the world this way, so they see me as a problem and a problem-causer just by being me.

Any way… Rant over I guess

All the cool kids are still thinking about black holes. Not worrying about them, but

On the one hand, I absolutely think it’s worth calling out. On the other hand, they’ll often be very quick to try and turn it around on you, calling anyone pro-choice pro-death or saying they “want to kill babies”.

Obviously those aren’t quite the same thing, but they see it as the same and I just wish there was a way to bridge that gap and have everyone listen to each other…