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When the treatment is clear and the recovery virtually guaranteed, the support is freely given.

When the problems aren't visible, the treatment plan is more improvisation than schedule, and recovery is hard to quantify. Support is harder to give and rarer to receive.

Mental problems are more likely to fall into the later bucket, but there are a swath of physical ailments from the metabolic and hormonal to the structural that also get lumped in.

I'm also a little sad about it. I still think it is a "net positive", and I try not let let "the perfect be the enemy of the good". Yes, in a "perfect" world, he reformed, went into remission, and started working to remediate all the suffering and damage he had caused.

I don’t see it happening soon in Europe

Well, it's probably not coming out of the US, Russia, or China sooner.

https://imgur.com/D4DsUtX still works for me (US; no VPN)

I agree that it probably should be legal-ish. I think maximum curb gaps are a great idea, and minimum curb gaps are probably a good idea in areas where curb cleaning might frequently overlap with parking. But smarts and cycles should almost always be allowed to double-up within the same F-150-sized space.

right wheels need to be within 12" of the curb

park nose first

rear passenger wheel still more than 12" from curb -> ticket.

I agree that the status of violence being monopolized is a net good for society, it fact I tend to agree that it may actually be the most important distinction between "civilization" and not.

That said, state violence needs to be intensely reviewed and unjust or overuse of it should be rectified. The U.S. idea of qualified immunity tends to be eliminated, and in the few cases where it is justified can be replaced with a much more narrow policy/practice. And that's just to start.

Also, restrained violence in defense of self or others, including resisting unjust state violence, is universally acceptable. It's necessity shows problems with how the monopolizer of violence is imperfectly dispensing violence, which must be expected from an imperfect actor.

women are too stubborn to pee with the seat up

I think that's sarcasm, unless you actually meant to communicate that women are stubborn.

In any case, I think due to Poe's Law, you'd have gotten better votes if you included "/s" or "j/k" or another marker. (But, votes might not be a concern to you.)

Ah, the old PieFed RooSwitch!

^ /s ?

If you flush with the lid down, don't you consider the lid dirty, since it caught all those "poo particles" you are scared of "flying around"?

I too prefer the commercial oval/egg bowls to the to residential round bowls.