Any second now we’ll catch him doing something illegal. After the successful coup by our oathkeeper buddies, then he’ll never suspect we’re watching!

You forgot the bit where rapidly decreasing their emissions is actually building a new coal plant every day somebow.

“Buy a new big car because it will be later year than a new small car and thus have newer safety features” is an incredibly wild way of drawing the exact opposite conclusion to the one you should have from that data.

Which is offset by the lack of safety regulation, high center of mass, heavier weight to crush the cabin in a rollover, and much higher likelihood of running over your own kids.

Stop spreading propaganda by cherry picking,

Now you’re dodging the point. You’re spreading the harmful propaganda, and using the fact that it’s effective to justify spreading it.

Which does not override the lack of safety of a tall heavy vehicle. Small cars are not less safe than emotional support trucks and full sized SUVs, because the latter get specific exemptions from safety regulations.

“I’m going to increase the probability of killing my kid, innocent hystanders because of this one specific critereon i’ve cherry picked” is an emotional argument.

I can object to it being used to justify killing kids for a feeling though. Which is what you were doing by suggesting it’s a prisoner’s dilemma.

A phrase that refers to someone being openly fascist/nazi rather than trying to hide their true intentions.

Mask-on: Bush era GOP or current European far right.

Mask-off: DeSantis

I like to pretend it’s a 5D chess long con (it’s not, but pretending is fun). It’s much easier to scoop off the scum when it floats to the top, and trump got a whole bunch of them to take the mask off so they can be arrested for treason.

Similarly it’s fun to pretend Apartheid Clyde went full fascist so that neonazis would replace their coal rollers with low-poly 90s video game pedestrian crushers to own the libs.

That’s a feeling, not a lack of safety. Intimidating people into buying big cars on purpose is still vile, but the people who cave are giving in to irrationality and putting their feelings above the safety of their kids and of others. Tragedy of the commons is when defecting improves your utility. The SUV/emotional support truck arms race is only decreases the utility of others in exchange for feelings of power.

Please do not liken incontinence or the wearing of makeup to pedophilia, rape, cowardice or being trump.

The only way to feel safe. The really big ego-support vehicles are no safer than a subcompact to be inside of, but they are far more likely to kill your own family.

The character adapted from daneel plays a major role, but the characterisation is really bad.

Having a category of entity that wasn’t considered in the base assumptions show up and throw a spanner in the works is consistentnwith the theme.

Having a singularity or error which needs correcting works.

Having the same people be the crux of every crisis is incredibly grating.

They also done my boy Daneel real dirty.

There’s also the bit where we have at least two “universe’s most special boy/girl” characters upon whom everything hinges repeatedly when the entire point kf the psycho-history concept is that major events like that happen one way or another regardless of the specific details.

I loved the content, and paid for it for over a year, but the app and website were so awful I wound up watching the youtube versions via newpiped and not bothering with any of the exclusives so I cancelled.

Researchers at weapons facility achieve 2MJ of heat for a cost of tens of MJ of electricity and chemical energy to power single-shot laser fired at target that took at least gigajoules to produce for method that will never have any relevance to energy generation.

But they pinky swear that at some point they might think about electricity so keep giving them a big chunk of the civialian energy budget.

Rail has some advantages. Efficiency, Tyre dust. Long term cost. It’s a bit harder for the next government to dismantle it. Higher capacity, more predictable path/easier to give intersection priority. Much much easier to automate if given dedicated right of way. Better accessibility.

Rubber wheels have advantages too. Quieter, more flexible (especially with a buffer battery), lower per-vehicle cost can increase the number of services.

I think the first goal should be getting any service that doesn’t get stuck in traffic. Then grade separation and consider the tradeoffs for rail.

Or. Don’t leave them to an even worse imperial power.

Stop wielding aid as a weapon, and repay them for what was stolen without using it to control.

It’s so weird that all these places the global north have been intentionally destabilizing are unstable and sympathetic to (even worse) groups that oppose the west. If only there was an alternative to undermining their democracies and exploiting their people and natural resources.