Based response tbh.

While you are overreacting to the accident itself, driving is not for everyone. I strongly disagree with driving being a basic skill everyone should have. This is some North American cultural mythos created to help further push the responsibility of building decent public transit off of our lawmakers and governments.

Driving is a challenging thing to do correctly, and a not small number of people have no idea how to do it, but are on the roads anyway. While I believe you should take an accident like that with a growth mindset, the clear truth is you’ve never felt comfortable behind the wheel, and your skill set doesn’t seem to be built for that. If it’s important to you, I suspect you’d be capable of overcoming the unique challenges it presents to you, but it’s not. There are ways to live without being a driver, and things you can provide to others in exchange for them being the drivers in your life, and imo, that is fine.

Don’t quit driving because you had an accident. Decide if being able to drive matters to you, and decide how you want to live.

38% is in fact shockingly high.

I might have misread a b as an m.

Well, I can be wrong, and they can still be fuckwits.

So DOGE’s cuts saved just over $150 million (apparently I can’t read), and we’ve already burned through most of those saving mobilizing the national guard to tear gas people foolish enough to claim Trump isn’t king? Fantastic. I am so tired of all this “winning.”

Edit: I misread some stuff but the essence of the absurdity I am directing my anger at remains the same. Fuck fascism.

On the contrary, it’d be rude to expect any other answer. Shoving expectations onto a complete stranger and then judging them for firmly denying you is what’s rude here.

With you in spirit, but they have too much control over too many lives to just be dismissive about.

While I am sure there are real, specific reasons that can be pointed to as “the reason,” the real answer is that you can’t put two narcissists in a room together and tell them they’re on the same team. This always was the only possible outcome.

Don’t get me wrong, the gap is huge, but this graph is designed to misrepresent the information.

The scale starts at 45% and tops out at 60%. Even the bottom of the scale is only JUST below half, and the top is only 10% above it. The midway point is not the 50% mark, which one would expect to be the case for a graph showing percentages. So that low point is not the low point the graph insinuates, and the gap is only 15%, not the like 95% differential the graph insinuated until you start looking more closely.

The message is ultimately factual, but misrepresenting data to misrepresent vibes is still misinformation.

It doesn’t.

I’d challenge the word “illegal” in the Republican strategy, but I’m with the spirit of your post.

In any other setting, when we take specific, tiny stones and carve patterns into them until they can perform tasks for us, we call it magic.

The BMI was created by a social scientist to place people into rough categories for a study on how obesity impacts social interactions, in greater research on how the “average man” represented a social ideal. The fact that we now use it to define who is obese and overweight is a little insane. While it’s been adopted by major health organizations (and hopefully adjusted by genuine health professionals), it is a horrible singular indicator of physical health. People in the extremes are statistically more likely to face health issues. This is not the same thing as “being in the obese category makes you unhealthy because you are fat.”

They’re not sending their best.

Doing the lords work, my man.

I’m so sick of watching these fascist fucks do their best to replace the empire they don’t like with an empire they do like, all the while cosplaying as a modern leftist. These guys are left wing like Stalin was left wing.

The term “eighty-six” is a verb, which the Merriam-Webster online dictionary defines as informally meaning “to refuse to serve” or “to eject or ban” a customer, and “to reject, discontinue, or get rid of” something.

Trump: “He called to have me killed!”

Calm down, snowflake in chief, he said you deserve to be let go. An opinion most of your country agrees with.

Uh, excuse me? They’re not American. Their skin is 1-2 shades too brown. They were here for the land and jobs that belongs to honest, god-fearing Americans.

/s because holy fuck, that could be a real response today.

His departure isn’t as painful as his presence.

Okay, this is a cute way to push Linux and all, but Windows 10 reaching end of service really doesn’t mean we have to give up using it. We could easily have years before the end of support causes compatibility issues for the average home user.