Xulai

Passport Whore Auditorium has a certain ring to it.

Agree.

Complaining about civility is the first step toward letting morons rule.

If one is making foolish or false statements, one should expect to be humiliated. Come back when you are better educated.

If one is being an asshole for no good reason or making false accusations against another due to losing an argument, they should understand that they are now a legitimate target for everyone to dump on with impunity.

Being confidently wrong, or an asshole without cause deserves equal or greater consequences to the harm caused. Public shaming via humiliation - aka incivility - is more effective than actual punishment or moderation.

I didn’t make the original statement, which sounds more like hyperbole than specific, legal, actions.

From experience I can tell you that I have personally encountered cyclists disobeying the law and endangering my safety more than any other non-car transport.

See, I was an endurance rider for most of my life. Meaning I spent long hours, 3-4 days a week on trails, on horseback, moving at speed.

On these trails, cyclists are required to stop and move to the side when they hear or see an equestrian.

The number of times they did this, over 20 years as an equestrian? 4.

The number of times they didn’t? Dozens, possibly over a hundred.

The number of times it caused a wreck and people got hurt? 3.

Cyclists whine about horse poop and having to stop, but WE maintained those trails, they did nothing other than whine and cause accidents.

I’m sure there’s some of you that are not complete tools, but there’s a reason you are despised by all other users of trail systems.

Choosing to believe in one set of imaginary friends over another- or none- is most certainly a hobby by every definition.

It is not essential for life. It is not required by law. People willingly choose and actively continue choosing to engage in the activities in their free time, and report positive feelings from doing so. When doubts arise, other members of the cult try hard to sway them to stay, often using threats. That’s a hobby. And a cult.

Found the cyclist.

Handy information to have for when all the hospitals close in a few years.

Because who wants a back alley surgery performed by people of questionable education using non sterile medication/implements?

Yeah, not a choice any of us who work in tech can make. But the small choices we CAN make do add up significantly.

Exactly, this.

But wait, there’s more…

Enabling a genocide- something all the candidates were going to do anyway- is deeply unpopular.

Supporting Israel at the expense of US citizens isn’t okay under any circumstances or leader. It is time to end this farce; the only folks who don’t listen are the ones being paid not to.

Amazon is already dead to us. Just like Tesla, Target, Starbucks, and Meta.

They will never be purchased from, or supported in any way- ever again.

They aren’t bootlicking, they’re telling you the fucking truth and you are too thick skulled and poorly educated to understand it… proving their point.

US citizens elected Trump. They believed the blatant lies despite being told the truth.

That’s all there is to it.

We are genuinely so fucking stupid as a society that we (not me- citizens in general) voted to give up all our rights and enable a Hitler wanna be.

And we are too stupid to understand that all it would take is a couple hundred thousand of us marching into DC and guillotining every member of government that allowed this, then allowing the military to conduct new elections with stricter rules. This process is literally in our constitution. Second amendment.

Prevent public officials from lying by law, stop lobbying, stop allowing money to matter in politics (no candidate may spend money on advertising of any kind.)

Each candidate gets one hour on free, live television/streaming to present their campaign. If they lie at any point, they are immediately disqualified. Then there is one debate. Lies are immediately disqualifying from public office here, too.

That’s it. Simple as can be.

But US citizens are too stupid.

Proper headline:

“Intelligent People Understand the Limits and Dangers of AI; Unfortunately AI Company Leaders Do Not, and Seek to Silence Opposition”

So they’re copying Dave and Busters by trying to become what they should have stayed to begin with.

Not gonna work. Dave and Busters is terrible.

But get some cool animatronic shows, .25 cent arcade games from the 80s- 90s, maybe even a few amusement center rides like the old Scandia centers had (go karts, suspended rides, bumper boats, mini golf). THAT would be worthwhile.