WoodScientist

Samuel Clemens would be proud. Read this comment in Mark Twain's voice, and it is absolute perfection. Bravo.

Define official.

I ride an e-bike, but a scooter is tempting. The biggest reason? Theft and parking. When I take my bike, I have to spend a few minutes at every destination finding a bike rack, finding spot, and then awkwardly locking the bike up thoroughly. Then I have to also remove the lights to my bike, as those will get stolen if I don't take them with me. So I have to find a parking space, maneuver my bike, remove and pack away the lights, and lock the bike up with a cable and u-lock. Oh and often this is in uncovered bike parking. And I live in the PNW where it's raining half the year. In contrast, with a scooter I can just take it right in with me to whatever building I'm going into. A scooter just sounds like a whole lot less hassle.

Good thing the auto industry is funding fear mongering against automated forms of mobility!

Why wouldn't the president of the United States visit Washington DC?

For me, the only grey area where it might be acceptable for a white person to use it in any circumstances is if they're reading or quoting a very old work of literature. What if you're reading Huckleberry Finn aloud? You can say, "N-Word Jim," but that seems off. Or you be reading historical accounts. If there's some Jim Crow-era newspaper that just openly says the N word, censoring it may actually take away from the impact of the word.

But even in these cases, there's probably a better way to handle this than to just outright say the N word. I'm just not sure what that way is.

How? Generations of clever people ignored the naysayers who told them, "just do the work like the rest of us, you lazy bastard."

A tale as old as time. The abused grow up to become the abusers.

Honestly, I'm not even sure it's just the funding. Israel has the Mossad, famously one of the most effective and ruthless intelligence agencies on the planet. Is it really hard to imagine they simply have damning blackmail material on many of the political leaders of both parties? The carrot is the AIPAC money. The stick is the Mossad and its tools. Hell, for a particularly troublesome lawmaker, would they even be above resorting to assassination? Look at how many innocent people they're willing to kill to get one Hamas or Iranian military leader. If they thought killing a US House member of Senator was necessary to keep US support, do you really think they would be above that? I certainly don't. And I don't think they would be above subtly pointing that out to US lawmakers.

The Israelis are masters at assassinating foreign leaders. They mostly apply that to their enemies, but if they're convinced a US lawmaker is their enemy, there's no reason to suspect they would be above killing US leaders as well. I honestly believe that many US leaders support Israel in part out of a genuine fear for their physical safety. The killing of a US leader would likely be done quietly, rather than a bomb dropped on someone's house. But I have zero doubt that Israel makes credible death threats against US leaders.

Yeah....this is the kind of person that the mob was most useful for back in the day. This was the kind of guy that got his knees broken for being a wise guy.

Well, the vast vast majority of Hamas fighters are what a regular military would classify as "reservists." Hamas are mostly part-time fighters who otherwise have regular civilian jobs and live regular civilian lives. (Or at least they did before the Gaza strip was blown to rubble.)

A doctor involved in some of the experimental uterus transplants in cis women has written a paper on it and believes the barriers to such a transplant are surmountable. However, good luck getting funding for such a thing in today's world. We can't even convince people to not let trans kids die from lack of healthcare. Uterus transplants aren't even in the same universe as us right now.