A white one, which means surrender.

This just adds more variety...
The smell of tobacco is just as disgusting, but it's been legal for a lot longer. Smokers regardless of what they smoke usually tend to be oblivious to how badly they stink.

There are also lots of other unpleasant smells on public transport, and even if you set out clean in the morning by the time you're travelling home on a hot overcrowded train you're going to be sweating.

How would they even know that you're gay? Even if you travel together noone has any reason to think you're not friends/colleagues/relatives/etc travelling together unless you advertise otherwise.

But yes your point about public transport being an unpleasant environment stand.

Most of the assholes that give people grief are not actually homophobic or racist, they just use whatever slurs they think will provoke a reaction. The same "racist homophobes" will still happily harass a straight white male if the situation arises.

No it's generally not...
Trains are heavy and require a lot of energy to move them, and in most cases don't take you directly where you need to go so you might have to take an indirect (ie longer) route, and will usually have to travel to/from the station at either end.
In order to get close to the claimed energy efficiency benefits over cars, trains are often packed well over their design capacity - that means no comfortable seats, you will be standing with other passengers right in your face.

Those trains which are sufficiently quiet that you actually get to sit in a comfortable seat are nowhere near the claimed level of energy efficiency.

Trying to force more and more people into overcrowded trains and buses might increase energy efficiency, but it is very unpleasant for those doing it. A much better solution is to simply reduce people's need to travel, which covid proved does work.
This means remote working when the job allows for it, and for jobs that are unsuitable for remote work designing cities so that employees can live closer (ie within walking distance) of their workplaces.

If you eliminate most of this unnecessary daily commuting you'll easily exceed the 3% target.

This is just modernisation. Drones are now a more important war fighting tool than guns.

Exactly this. It's the "nuclear deterrent" of ancient kings.
Convince the people that you have an all powerful weapon on your side, so that any attempt to oppose your rule would result in a certain horrible fate for them.

It's more that the traditionally christian countries have developed faster, with higher standards of education and more emphasis on critical thinking rather than blindly believing a 2000 year old book.

If you look at church attendance rates in christian countries they have been in severe decline for years. A lot of younger people have abandoned religion entirely, and religious leaders have been forced to become more moderate in an attempt to slow the decline.

Thats the difference between science and religion.
Science is ok with saying "we don't know the answer".
Religion is not ok with that, so they would rather make an answer up than admit they don't know.

Harris is a christian, Biden is a christian...
Who exactly was the non religious candidate that people could have voted for?

Most islamic countries publicly block access to sites like pornhub. It was most likely blocked in afghanistan before the taliban regained power.

The taliban don't consider themselves to be immoral. In fact quite the opposite, they consider themselves to be the moral police enforcing what they believe to be the words of Allah.

In fact, one of the key reasons the taliban were founded was to put a stop to the practice of raping young boys, something which was extremely common in afghanistan at the time:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Whatever you might feel about the other policies of the taliban, im sure most people would be in full agreement with the taliban policy banning the rape of young boys.

Those liberals are full of contradictions...

You should defend muslims, they have a right to practice their religion, traditions and culture!

Wait, their traditions include treating women as property? No muslims are bad and they must abandon their traditions!

So do muslims have a right to uphold their traditions, or should they be forced to change them? Can't have it both ways.

Well since the banned technology is wired, it won't be very difficult to trace the wires...
Also not very difficult to cut them.

Anything that relies on voluntary responses to surveys is going to be unreliable, as it's going to skew towards the kind of people who respond to such surveys.

Most people don't want to waste their time with such things, especially if there's no reward for doing so. A lot of people will also be suspicious and suspect phishing or some other kind of malicious behaviour. They need to find a more reliable way to get information.

I have a macbook pro here, and 2x 4k monitors.
The monitors support both type-c (displayport) and hdmi.
I tried connecting the macbook using hdmi, but it will only do 30hz. If connected via type-c it does 60hz and HDR.
So now i use 2 of my type-c ports to connect the monitors, and have a completely useless hdmi port empty that i can't use for anything else.