A commercial-use van is entirely different from a personal-use car. Conflating the two is disingenuous.

Ah, so it was water heater corrosion. That makes more sense.

This seems…questionable. The entire information given is two sentences. This seems like something an eighth grader wrote for a school project.

‘Hot water dissolves lead faster’. Ok, how much faster? I feel like the trip from the water heater to my sink is negligible even if I had lead pipes, which I don’t.

If anyone has anything more substantial, please post it.

Sooo…

-Trans athletes form their own leagues. -Other athletes start competing because they go where the competition is and/or ideological reasons. -Olympics slowly become irrelevant.

Good job, Olympics.

I will remind everyone that as of 2023, about 3% of 18-24 yr olds identified as transgender. That’s a lot of people, and that percentage is only going to go up.

Yeah, because that means they actually care about things that matter you fake-detached empty-inside waste of oxygen.

Raised crosswalks should be standard. In a pedestrian area like a school crossing area, narrowed lanes with bollards as well.

For sure. No way I’m putting my kid on the floor at Chuck E Cheese. Just asking for the plague at that point.

Alright, I’ll bite. That baby is perfectly fine and probably enjoying watching their mom Do Things (babies love this for some reason). Obviously not the safest being where you could drop a skeeball on them, but Mom is very aware of that I’m sure. Laying face up on the ground is actually safer than trying to precariously hold them and risking dropping them.

Ah, so you’re a terrible person. My mistake.

…do I bring up the factory farms now or come back later?

As an alternative, consider not eating meat.

You can have both. “Well-regulated militia” and all that. A community group that trains and keeps guns in a central secure location in case of war etc is a very far cry from giving everyone a 9mm for funsies. Good luck convincing your government to let you do that tho.

Giving someone a flat tire is not even remotely comparable to beating someone unconscious

Piggybacking onto this (all of these are FOSS):

Endless Sky is a 2D sandbox space sim. It’s a spiritual sequel to the old Escape Velocity: Nova, and has very active development.

Feudal Tactics is an extremely simple strategy game that can nonetheless be quite hard.

Battle For Wesnoth is a whole-ass fantasy campaign turn-based strategy game that has been ported to mobile. Think Warcraft but turn-based.

Arx Libertatis is a port of Arx Fatalis, a first-person RPG. This one is still on my list to try out, but it looks interesting.

India manages with a population of over 1.4 billion people. It’s a mere six-fold increase from there to the planet, so probably whatever India is doing.

Let them fight

Crosspost this to Dull Men’s Club

I celebrate Kirk’s murder precisely because I have empathy. I am fully aware of the harm Kirk and his ilk have caused. How many women were sexually assaulted because their rapists were motivated by Kirk? How many minorities were discriminated against or had hate crimes perpetrated against them because of Charlie ‘I Think Empathy Isn’t Real’ Kirk? It is impossible to have empathy for people and not hate Kirk’s guts.

Automatic discounting of anything you’re saying because of use of LLM slop. Jesus fucking Christ dude, why are you coming into a situation where people are looking for clarity and feeding them garbage from the Hallucination Machine? Be better.

Have you heard of public transit? Quite useful for getting places.