I can drive a mile or two in a couple minutes, in any weather, at any time of day. I can get a full supply of groceries or heavy bulky items at any moment. Far less common, but I also have extra clothes, a stocked medical bag, and other stuff wherever I go. I can do this all on my time frame in an instant’s notice. I can get across town to help when they need to get to urgent care quick, or think someone is breaking in. I can get to the hospital if I need it, I can leave town in a hurry, I can visit my parents 4hrs away at any moment.

I guess if public transit could do that, I would take it. The autonomy of having a car means they are not going anywhere. The absolute best you will possibly do it reduce car use. I rarely grocery shop anymore because our local store has a bizarrely affordable home delivery option. If I can pay $10+cost for groceries, I am not driving 15min to the store on a busy weekend. I would carpool to work, but what if I had to leave early, or had to go to a friend/family emergency…20min for the local cab to even get to me is not acceptable in the second scenario.

Autonomy and convenience are what you are looking to remove/replace. I am not saying there isn’t a path. It is worth looking into it, for sure. I just don’t see it, yet.

Weird, of the people I know that have had their licence suspended, I don’t think any of them actually stopped driving.

Let’s see how the Make Russia China campaign goes!

BREAKING NEWS! Fans defend their own teams and bash opposing teams! …and I guess that fact somehow lines up with objective realities of a political situation and means both sides policies are the same…because reasons‽

Did you just call that person and Operation…that is really strange.

I don’t get to see Biden for 6hrs out of the day like you seem to…I don’t care who runs. I’ll vote against P2025…run who you want, the DNC are knobs, but they make the call that our stupid FPTP system allows.

Not mentioning with how hospitals are run now there IS only one doctor per specialty covering 3 county hospitals.

Hey, of the DNC pulls the trigger and runs Kamala or Bootygreg or some other younger Dem…well, I am voting AGAINST P2025, so I don’t care…but I am not voting third party and spoiling the vote because “old man old”…his crew is competent and doing good things. Shitz have him take Kami or Bootyjudge as VP and just bow out after the race…again don’t care.

Right? If the other doctor brought in a bunch of fishermen and a stockbroker, and a radio host, and a mime to help with the surgery and said “I saw this on TV once and I am an expert” then started up a chainsaw…I’d worry a little and take the other guy.

Your point of the US doing bad shit is not relevant to the topic, just you pointing something out. The point was either “the US, that does bad shit, will either be on the good guy side or the bad guy side of the next nazi-war” the non-vatiavle of “the US also does bad shit” is not relevant. If you want to dive into that completely separate topic…one side will further entrench “US does bad shit” and the other side will maintain the status quo on “US doing bad shit” AND be the option that still allows for potential change…and also fights against the nazis.

Pick your poison.

Come November, the US is going to have a Pro-NATO, anti-nazi leader…or the exact opposite. That is what I was referring to. Your nonsequiter comment doesn’t merit engagement.

I was gonna say, we use hacking as a term for a lot of things, even is something like cracking is more accurate. It is like Clip vs Mag in firearms…when you say clip EVERYONE knows what you are talking about.

Exactly this. They ALWAYS lose this fight.

Hey Germany…can you wait until we (the US) are not on the nazi side before doing the whole “lose a world war” thing again?

His thoughts can’t go that deep. It stops at black vs white.

I LOVE Linux and I am still to lazy to use it on my gaming PC… normal folks don’t want anything to do with it. Effort is an allergen.

“popular” as it “it came on every computer every Luddite got from Best Buy and contracted to every business”

Honestly, it Linux was as easy as Windows and played every steam game without any effort, windows would drown a slow death.

I have nothing critical on it, and I will make my 8.1 last as long as the disks and fans still spin!

Oh, wow! I am using that in political chats, given our current political climate.

Army here. After getting out, it took me a VERY long time and a lot of mental struggle to start calling magazines “clips” in passing conversation, just to troll everyone at the range.