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I'm in the market for a new e-reader and this is attractive even in the elusive price category.

Technical Collage isn't quite as good, but it's free if you live in State.

Age limits in Congress are popular among Americans

Well, who's reelecting him then, Canadians? Do Americans believe that incumbents have an advantage because voters are too stupid to choose? Maybe the problem here isn't the voters but the systems that have been built by the political machine? Why is it popular for American voters to want to limit their own power?

For every complex problem there is a solution that's simple, elegant, easy to understand and wrong. Age/ Term limits make perfect sense, unless you think about them.

The LAPD isn't a credible source.

just want to remind you that people in wingsuits also wear parachutes. There are multiple levels of failure here.

I support people who like dangerous sports. Except for gun ownership. That's shit is so stupid dangerous and reckless you don't have to participate to be killed.

Lots of cases, the throat is destroyed by a tumor, or the surgery to remove the tumor. These people may have to wear these for weeks for recovery or permanently. (permanent patients will likely have a similar port in their belly to pump Ensure into their stomach)

The most common cause is smoking of course. I've seen half a dozen people smoke through their trach.

depreciation per mile is usually a bigger cost than fuel.

OK, this might be something that a fleet manager would care about, but the average driver wouldn't consider in a hundred years. You don't have to swipe your card and pay for depreciation every four days. Not to mention that depreciation has no bearing on vehicle type and little connection to physical reality at all.

And if anything, EVs maintenance is lower than expectations. There is no robust recycling of EV batteries for instance because it turns out that the batteries last reliably for 30 years and most of the ones produced are still in service. Also EVs are by nature simpler, with many components being solid state. ICE are rube goldberg masterpieces, the result of decades of continuous development.

I'm from the bad old days when kids rode bicycles without helmets or parents.

Two neighborhood kids got creamed by a pickup truck. As a coincidence my family drove past the scene shortly afterwards and I'll never forget the surreal color of blood soaking through the sheets covering their bodies. I'm really glad I didn't know it was my friends when I saw it.

Eugenics remains popular so long as you call it something else.

Idiocracy (2006) has a plot that's entirely dependent on eugenics, and it's quite popular. It's common sentiment that the movie's plot is coming true in real life.

BTW, the plot is about how society has perverted the natural order; humans are breeding wrong; and it's leading to the collapse of society. You know, probably the most deadly lie in human history.

The quotation marks bother me.

We should quietly celebrate when MAGA gets hung up on the symbolic. Celebrate because they're not doing any actual harm, and quietly so as not to interrupt them.