It sounds like you’re disabled in this area, and it’s unfair that the world is not more accommodating.

“Change the world to accommodate my disability and I’ll quit being a hazard to people’s life, limb, and property” is not an acceptable attitude.

Being cautious is correct. Being unpredictable because you’re driving abnormally is super dangerous.

The reason we have a driving system is so that everyone knows that to expect from everyone else. If you operate outside of that system you’re a danger to yourself and everyone else.

If you can’t drive don’t get behind the wheel

Adding pockets costs next to nothing.

You think this is some overlooked thing that the clothing industry never considered? That this is some secret niche that just hasn’t been filled? They don’t sell. If they did, then there would be brands or clothing lines with pockets, and marked up for the piddly cost of the manufacturing expense.

That has NEVER HAPPENED. It’s not because the manufacturing can’t be priced adequately despite high consumer demand, it’s because for all the shouting at clouds, women, in general as a consumer demographic, do not buy pants with pockets.

“I saw it on YouTube and therefore it must be true, not basic economics”

The clothing industry doesn’t make many clothes with pockets for women because they don’t sell. Women all complain that they don’t get pockets, but then vote with their wallets.

This is a legit example of the intended meaning of the phrase “the customer is always right.” The market supplies what customers demand, and for all the fist shaking about having nowhere to put a phone, there’s very little actual market demand for women’s clothing with pockets. Majority of demand is related to outdoor activities so you see them there.

“Allowing bullying”

You walk up to kids that got their face punched in on a playground and tell them to quit being a little bitch, too?

Haters on here but yeah, it’s lame.

Are you trying to describe monogamous societies or polygamous ones?

OP is asking why Western societies frown on polygamy, but you respond by talking about the strategic value of having more readily available cannon fodder - I assume in polygamous cultures, because that’s the only thing that makes sense. A monogamous society, assuming relatively equal M/F birth rates, would have LESS available available military men, by your own description.

I’m not sure how that answers OPs question unless you’re saying that Western societies frown on polygamy because it was SEEN as just a tactic to raise armies?

Oh dang I remember that

I don’t know. Personally I don’t need a “place” to go visit someone that is deceased, but I have very close family that needs that place in order to grieve. Pets or human family, they need to be buried and have a marker.

When I lived in a more urban environment the only way to achieve that was through graveyards/pet cemeteries. With some land and the option I’d rather bury people at home now, but lots of people don’t have that luxury, but still have the need to “visit” deceased loved ones, and know where they “are.”

I’m not one of those people, sounds like you aren’t either, but that doesn’t mean that a graveyard doesn’t serve a useful purpose for the majority of people.

Could they be more efficient? Sure, maybe. But honestly do they really take up THAT much space?

Definitely fits the unpopular opinion tag, but I think you’ve got some blinders on your empathy if you don’t see their value.

Agree in principle. Haven’t seen Yesterday, but Across the Universe soundtrack is my go to Beatles cover album.

The game defined the factory builder genre. Everything that followed (Dyson sphere project, satisfactory, shapez, etc etc etc) came after factorio (nicknamed cracktorio because of its addictive qualities) was released.

Gameplay wise it’s a top down with some vehicles and weapons, which is not unique at all, but the core of the gameplay loop was unique and spawned an entire sub genre of build games.

For the akshuallys in the room, it is possible that there were factory line builders before factorio that I’m not aware of, but none had the depth and breadth and definitely none were as popular/iconic.

I believe the word you’re looking for is “comic”

When I was younger I went to a party at some random girl’s house that my bro was trying to get with. A few of us there, we all got shit faced. Made food, drank a ton, music, the works.

Girl had a dog. Small thing, maybe some kind of pug mix? I don’t know. Didn’t have the really messed up airway but it was close.

I love dogs, I love animals in general. I usually will hang out with a dog at someone’s house more than the people. This dog was super hesitant to hang out though, the girl said she was just really timid around men, always had been. That’s ok. I tried to break the ice through the night but it never took, doggie was always hesitant of me. Very very unusual, animals generally take to me very quickly, but like the girl said, dog was just not ok with men.

I wake up on the couch and it’s barely light. I don’t wake up of my own accord, I wake up because this dog is slobbering on the side of my face as much as she can reach with me on the couch. Dog is whining, constantly licking me.

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Wtf dog are you for real

I try to roll over and pass back out, doggie does not let up. Jumps up on me, licking face, being super affectionate. Total 180 from the night before.

My heart warms up and I start to pet her, she’s furiously licking my face. At this point my brain fog clears enough that I can tell it’s not just the dog whining I hear, but a baby is crying from somewhere

Wtf there’s a baby here?? I just spent all night partying in this house, there was no fucking baby, no mention of a baby, this girl that lived there was obviously ok with hooking up with my friend, he didn’t say anything about a baby either, wtf.

Baby is crying from some random room. Dog keeps hopping off me and back on, licking my face

Alright dog let’s go check on the baby

Dog leads me down the hallway to the baby’s room, baby is crying in the crib, room smells like dirty diaper.

Dog has stopped whining, is with me wagging tail furiously

Alright doggie where’s the diapers

I swear to God that dog showed me where the diapers were, the wipes, everything. Dog went and danced around everything I needed. I cleaned the baby up, changed her, held her for a little bit, and the dog was super calm and 100% cool with my pets now.

I left and never went back but I will always remember that little dog that didn’t trust me at all the night before but took a chance on my the next day and would not let me stay passed out because the little girl was crying in the other room.

Super fucked up situation in general but that dog was the shit. Most responsible fucking living thing in the house had four legs and probably eats its own puke

So yeah, sociopath. Shrug

That is the definition of unbridled selfishness, bordering on sociopathy.

If this is truly what you think and drives how you behave then you are a leech on everyone else that will follow in your footsteps.

I won’t have children either, but I still want the world to be better for them, and I do the best within my means to make that happen.

People like you, when they’re competent, are the ones that rise to the top of the corporate ladder and own businesses that expound the worst parts of capitalistic society. Greed, selfishness, disdain for the plight of others, no thought for consequences as long as they don’t affect you personally.

So, don’t care if you don’t want to. But internalize that you’re a POS if that’s actually how you feel.

I was skeptical about your claims about weight having such an outsized effect, but it looks like there’s merit. Seems like it’s a super complex area of study, and we have observational data that gives us rules of thumb that transportation and pavement engineers use to estimate pavement damages over time. Thanks for bringing that up, I’ve learned stuff today!

I still don’t think it’s as simple as taxing trucks though. Registration is part of the solution, but so is gas/sales/tire/oil disposal taxes, weigh stations, tolls, parking fines, crush charges, etc etc etc.

There’s a lot of things that would need to happen in order to effectively capture and recompense road damage in California, if that were a goal of the state. Unfortunately I have very little faith that California can do it - for all the good things about California, effective governance or municipal problem solving is not really on the list from what I’ve seen. It’s a shame, because they really have the resources, it’s just all such a mess.

I lived in California for 11 years and had out of state plates for the entire time, legally. Not even weird. There’s so many ways and reasons that you can live in a state, or work in a state full time and legally be able to register your vehicle in another state.

Registration fees are simply not the way. There HAS to be some kind of equitable use tax or fee.

A gas tax seems pretty dang effective to me. It doesn’t capture electric vehicles correctly, but honestly right now we WANT to encourage the use of electric vehicles so I don’t think it’s quite time to flip the table and try to implement a new system.

We’re still in a transition period and we need to do everything possible to discourage gas powered vehicles, and taxing the shit out of consumer unleaded and diesel is an awesome way to do it. Honestly, anyone suggesting otherwise raises my hackles. There’s not that many electric vehicles on the road in the USA, even in urban California.

I’m suspicious of any new laws that would reduce the costs of fossil fueled vehicles while offloading more costs to electric ones.

Not obvious, there’s tons of holes in that plan and I’ll throw down a couple I thought of while I brush my teeth. I lived in California for years.

-Out of state plates are not included. Sooo many out of state vehicles

-This has an outsized impact on shipping and industry such as work vans, small business trucks (can be argued that it should be, but I’m not convinced that the cost should be borne by those areas vs the bajillion people that don’t carpool to/from LA everyday)

-A heavy vehicle pays a premium at registration, but what if it’s only driven a couple times a year? Vs a lighter vehicle that drives 40k miles in a year. Has to have some kind of use component to plan.

I’d argue that it’s way more complicated than any sentence that starts with “the obvious thing to do…” Everyone wants a simple and fair solution buddy life is not that simple and California’s traffic, transportation, road maintenance, and road based industry is about as complicated as it gets.