I’d be too chicken to try that even though I’m gay. T_T

Fuck that guy

https://www.firstinspires.org/programs/fll/

It’s the entry level competition from the same people who make the competition with those 2m tall robots.

I participated in their mid level one (18 inch / half meter cube size, metal parts) when I was in high school.

Zoning and laws like parking minimums are part of it, but it’s also literally the government paying for car infrastructure because that is a routine and unquestioned part of government budgets while any spending on other forms of transit is heavily limited and it’s expected to turn a profit from fares, which roads never do. The spending on roads should be questioned, and spending on other forms of transit should be seen as an important public service.

Well, for context, I come from the Chicago area which does have commuter trains but is still a massive sprawling hellscape because everything - including the train stations - is designed for cars. So it’s true that everything is too far apart there, because the car-centric design itself makes it so.

I guess I should specify - everything in the US is too far apart to be a good environment for people, because we built it that way. It is not too far apart for public transport to be built, though. Building public transport (as well as walking and cycling infrastructure) and specifically building less car infrastructure is the way to make it less far apart and make it better for people.

Cities in the US are far apart because of car-centric design, not the other way around. If we just invested more in other forms of transit, then our cities would not be so sprawling.

Maybe we should build more of those instead of sinking ungodly amounts of money into roads and parking lots everywhere.

New?

The moral of the story is: Watch PornHub videos instead of YouTube videos to do your part to support content creators.

They want targets which they can sell as very dangerous in their propaganda but which can’t actually resist them in reality.

Maybe if you didn’t threaten their rights they wouldn’t feel the need to arm themselves to defend their rights. Just sayin’.

No

Awoo!

Trans women when they have to go in the mens room and defend themselves against creeps.

Hmmmmmmmmmm

If these people are so amazing to earn that much money, we should ship them all to mars and we’d have a thriving colony in a few years.

Missed opportunity to call it “Rape Awareness Month” in the title.

Cry

Heck

To answer your first question, that sounds to me like arrogance and selfishness. It shows a belief that you think you know better than others, and because of that you can put those resources to a better use than the people who were exploited would have. I think that that attitude is often harmful even in people who think they have good intentions.

You should try to use your best judgement to decide how to best spend your resources, but you should not force those choices on others by taking their resources and redirecting them towards what you think is better.

As for “opting out of the economy”, I didn’t advocate for that. To survive, a person has to interact with the economy as a worker and a consumer. However, a person does not have to interact with the economy as a shareholder.

There is no ethical consumption under capitalism, but you must consume anyways. There is no ethical investing under capitalism, and you can choose to put your money elsewhere. That is the difference.