Whatever situation we Americans find ourselves in where we need to adapt from one to another, a mnemonic will form. Human brains are cool.
Examples of ones I've developed:
500ml = 16.9 oz because those are the measures printed on the plastic soda bottles that come in 6 packs
100 km = 62 miles because of that one sign I pass driving into Canada
30 cm = 12 inches because that's the length of the ruler

If I ever find a need to regularly compare pounds/ounces with grams an appropriate mnemonic will arise from the situation and it would gets added to the list.

Facial recognition has been obliterated by mass adoption of face masks, to the point where heartbeat recognition systems using lasers are being investigated to replace them. I don't understand why the government is going to waste money on what is essentially an obsolete security measure when they have this.

Make it so that reclining moves the seat bottom forward into your legroom. You have full control over how you want to allocate your space, and 0 control over anyone else's. Problem solved.

City run by democrats for at least 30 years. I donâ(TM)t know or care why there arenâ(TM)t enough cabs (whether it is government or taxi companies limiting them), but the situation was horrible. Forget about not being able to handle unusual demand peaks like concerts. Even the every day peaks of plane arrivals at the airport and train arrivals at the station had people waiting 30-60 minutes to cram into cabs with 4 strangers. Then wondering if one of these strangers is going to grab your luggage when they get to the destination before you. Uber/lyft basically gave us a way to tell the worthless taxi companies to pound sand, and if they all fail into oblivion it will be a glorious day

I live in a small city and they are limited, and take multiple fares while charging more than uber/lyft.

You talk out your ass and need to be shouted down by anyone with half a brain, shithead

Ah yes, tell the people of California that the gig worker economy is going to be completely upended unless they elect Republicans less than a month before a Governor's recall election, I'm sure that will go well for the Democrats.

Good analogy. The only counterargument I can add is, the government didn't need to ban horses or subsidize gas station installation to help the automobile spread, it all just kindof happened.

If in 2030 every single parking area (lodging, shopping, rest stops) has charging stations but there's only 1-2 gas stations in town, and the number of auto shops dealing with ICE has dropped due to fewer customers, they won't need to ban them.

There's a whole lot of jobs core to a functional society that are service industry, including:
-Transportation (Pilots, truck drivers, bus & railway drivers)
-Maintenance (Electrical, auto, plumbing, specialized systems such as elevators)
-Education, Elder and child care
-Banking

If it leaked from a lab, it would generate pressure for banning gain-of-function research, which would prevent a recurrence in the future.

The joke "what do you call someone who only knows one language" "an American" should be a point of shame. We have several states bordering a Spanish speaking country, two bordering a French speaking province, but most importantly within the US itself is an entire territory with 3M+ Spanish speakers. I've half-assedly "learned" both in US schools and can at least read signs and follow simple directions given in both languages. "Learn to code" is not even remotely an appropriate substitution.

How about a coverup of using shoddy construction materials [NY, Cuomo Bridge]?

Do you not recall the entire Northeast power grid failure of 2004? Texas's isolation may have sucked for Texas, but it was probably good for its neighbors.

Infrastructure isn't where the differences lie between high and low tax states. Low tax states also happen to have lower regulations, making it cheaper to build infrastructure and operate public services. Florida was able to build higher speed rail (Brightline) and while it's not as fast as CAHSR is supposed to be, it exists and is transporting customers, a marked improvement over not existing. Colorado (a state that is also low tax) just built out Denver's fully electrified RTD commuter rail network for less than the cost of building a single NY subway station.

As for Florida man, compared to human feces everywhere in cities like SF (NYC seems to be developing a similar problem this past year), and random rioting, I'll take Florida man stories. Miami is a pleasant, clean city. It has a Metro and bus system, and a free automated people mover. Compare the neighborhoods of Miami Beach and the Rockaways.

Travel the country (or for that matter, the world). As an NYer myself, I think we are getting ripped off, having the 49th highest taxes in the country. Can you say with a straight face that NY's infrastructure is better than everywhere but CT? Where is all this money going?

That's a solid argument for eliminating tipping entirely and going to straight hourly wages like the rest of the non-European civilized world.

At least the rules for China's cancel culture are clearly stated - in her case it has never been allowed to criticize the CCP. The US's is arbitrary, whereby things that were OK to say and do in the past are resurfaced and litigated in the court of public opinion based on today's rules.

The semantic overload of the phrase was masterful. They took a statement that no reasonable person could possibly disagree with, built an organization around it, and intentionally conflate criticism of the organization into criticism of the phrase. The only people who can argue through the emotional manipulations are people like Terry Crews who can speak from a position of authority on the matter, and right wingers who have built up an immunity to such arguments (but as a result come across as assholes when they do it).

It generally needs to be well reasoned dissenting messaging. The problem with most talking heads on the current mainstream media (this includes Fox) is that it doesn't know how to do that consistently anymore. The writers who've moved to Substack do (Taibbi, Greenwald, Tracey, Weiss).