The best metaphor i have is that your brain is an automatic and mine is a shitbucket stick shift. I CAN get from A to B but it requires total focus the entire time because i am manually doing all the stuff the chip in your car does for you.
The Brightline deaths resulted from the psychotic refusal of motorists to follow basic safety principles. It’s almost impossible to be accidentally hit by a train. In contrast, motorists kill ~40K and injure 4.5 million every year. Let’s focus on the real hazard: automobiles.
why are men so self conscious about their height like there are many more important flaws to be self conscious about for example the lack of emotional intelligence
i disagree w NHJ on many things but she wrote an entire article about the futility of individual choice until school segregation is broken and everyone on here is hand-wringing about good or bad parenting based on school choice. you people are in absolute thrall to individualism
Everyone wants *their* child to go to a good school but nobody wants to do the hard work of making sure that *every* child goes to a good school. You cannot be a champion for education and be against public education. We are the public.
The Nikole Hannah-Jones article should be read as an indictment on the US education first and foremost. Parents just shouldn't have to make these kinds of decisions. Access to quality education should be a universal public good, not a luxury.
the one last thing i’ll say about the nikole hannah-jones piece.
as someone who was homeschooled, i can assure you that Many people are sacrificing their children’s education on the altar of their political convictions.
I wish more Americans could wrap their heads around this. Amsterdam is easier to drive in than Atlanta -- despite far, far less road capacity -- because so FEW people have reason to drive cars there.
Give people choices, and the whole city works better.
i think the generation that grew up doing lockdown drills and facing school shootings are allowed to mock the man who said that gun violence needs to happen in order to keep the 2nd amendment
Kanye West did a song titled Heil Hitler and is currently doing a concert tour, which has included multiple dates at Raymond James stadium in Tampa that has banned Macklemore for saying end the genocide & free Palestine
fucking absurd
It shouldn't be controversial to say that Palestine has undergone so many 9/11 level attacks and it's fucked that not only is nothing done for the victims, but governments are still actively funding the terror state that has done, and continues to do, 9/11 attacks on Palestine.