Health risks for the neighbors. Animals take it into other yards. decomposing or just dripping trash seeps into other yards, etc.

I don't know; what's the problem with that?

Well I think the issue with that is that selling crack is illegal. Whether it should be or not is another issue.

So I'm still not getting why people PARKING is an issue.

People parking on laws or not, that's a consequence of living near a roller coaster park / exhibition site (and it won't be stopped by disallowing parking on lawns); and to a lesser extent, of living near other people. The only reasonable thing that can be done is limiting noise during certain hours.

Oh no, they're making property taxes lower for people that live there and showing potential buyers the truth of living near a roller coaster park / exhibition site! Those monsters!

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And when they WERE used, it would have only been in the kind of sausage that you peel - not in those where you eat it casing and all.

Why do the neighbors take exception to it, though? How does it affect the neighbors if someone else messes up their lawn and flower bed?
From May - August my neighbors have friends over pretty much daily, enough to have (along with their own cars - they have 3 generations of family living together) 8 - 9 cars parked on their property and in front of their house (parallel parked on the street). Should I take exception to that?

I find this disgusting.
My daughter and one of my stepsons want(/wanted) to code games. There's a million and one opportunities available to my daughter. But my son's dreams were crushed pretty quickly because he doesn't learn in the "normal" way - he learns it with real-world examples, hands-on experiences, and while being allowed to fidget and doodle. But explain the rules to him and then give him a sheet of busywork and he's lost. Over and over he was reprimanded for the teacher's lack of ability to teach him in a way he could learn. Told he had no future in coding because he "couldn't" do things. Bullied and made fun of for mistakes and inability to sit still much more than a normal boy-child. But give me 5 minutes of doing things with him in the ways he can learn and suddenly he could do all that work he "couldn't" do.
That son is now 13 and has given up on coding (despite my efforts the drive was just killed in him before I got to him). My daughter is now 7 and already beginning to make games. She really isn't any better or worse than stepson was in the beginning. But she can sit still and learn in the "normal" way (i.e. the common girl's way) and she's a GIRL who's interested so they throw all kinds of opportunities her way. If she goes to a coding class and a boy bullies her? Or so much as giggles when she makes a mistake? It's stopped immediately. And here's a gold star for trying while you have a vagina.

It's obvious to me, even around my tits; you don't get equality by raising women higher. You get it by treating all genders EQUALLY. And if that means less women than men like to code? So what. Shouldn't we be encouraging kids to do what they want to do rather than pushing them into one thing or another because of their gender?
And if you don't want equality for boys, think about this: all of these girls are going to be screwed when (if) they eventually want to start a family; there will be no smart men with careers, no equals for them.

I think you may be confusing your times; by the 80s kids had Atari 2600s and Apple IIs.

Speak for yourself. If a movie is actually good I want to own/keep it, so that I can watch it again at a later point without having to pay again.

Although with doctors, girls are often pushed to be obstetricians, pediatricians etc. Something where they will be working with women and/or children. You won't see a little girl that wants to become a penis doctor encouraged. IMO this is because women want women doctors working with themselves and their children - because the men might get some kind of sexual pleasure from it (in their minds, not in reality). I think the lawyer thing is because women want women lawyers, someone that they feel can relate to their feelings about whatever they need a lawyer for. But, a woman software developer doesn't benefit other women in any way that they can see. A woman isn't uncomfortable if she uses software designed by a man. Women don't (yet) imagine that a man is getting sexual pleasure when she uses his software.

We have become a culture that centers around womens' feelings, to the point of throwing everyone elses' feelings and desires - even future women - out the window...

Because humans spend more money.

I do wonder why I am paying so much for health insurance if everyone elses' insurance is supposedly going to pay if I get sick or injured.

And then immediately get hit by a bunch of lasers that are shining at the plane because people think it's fine, since the blinds are most likely closed. No, it's much easier to stop people from shining the lasers at planes.

So what about smaller planes that are flown by sight rather than instruments?

Maybe because people already understand the danger of kids playing with guns?

It doesn't really matter since pilots have to have regular eye exams and are not allowed to fly at a certain amount of vision impairment.

But there really isn't much alternative when for most people that hour is at the same times.
My car would get a lot more use if it could drive itself home after my husband is at work, or even if I could just sit in the car and do something else (other than driving) while dropping my husband off. But I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing... I would drive more and walk less.