Don't be an idiot.

After bulldozing city centers to make them car dependent, you then passed a bunch of laws that make our illegal to put anything you might want to walk to within walking distance of most houses. And then utterly inadequate enforcement of anti trust and anti dumping legislation resulted in the destruction of everything that remained.

End result is now most Americans have to drive everywhere, particularly to big box stores stacked with the worst kind of food optimized for addictiveness. It's much harder to have "personal responsibility" when all the good choices have been removed to benefit the largest of corporations.

This is why the adult obesity rate is lower in NYC. It's not because New Yorkers are a superior breed with stiffer backbones and stronger wills, it's because the choices to be responsible haven't been completely destroyed.

Eh?

There's plenty of car brained idiots in Europe, let assure you. It's just that for a variety of interesting reasons, they didn't get to win completely, bulldoze cities to make them car dependent hellscapes and then cement that with the force of law to prevent you building anything nice.

But you know instead of just being randomly angry at Europe for not completely prostrating themselves at the altar of the automobile you could just get on a plane from America and visit. You might even learn why some people prefer it.

I think part of the reason people hate RMS so much is because he's a miserable dirty hippy who has the gall to be right repeatedly about problems with software decades in advance.

Sorry I was being sarcastic.

My point is they put in crap falsely labelled as infrastructure (as you say paint isn't infrastructure) and that's actually more dangerous than nothing at all. Then no one uses it, so the claim is made that there's no demand.

Which is complete and utter bullshit of course.

Fortunately London is a lot better than it used to be. I read recently the majority of journeys on the road in the city are now by bike. It's not perfect and also they've utterly fucked the buses, but it's a different city from a decade ago. Incidentally that's when I (experienced town cyclist and sometime XC rider) gave up cycling as I don't have a death wish. I started again when the LTNs went in and haven't stopped.

7 miles into work for me. It's not unified infrastructure, but between parks, segregated cycleways, LTNs, modal filters and traffic calmed areas, it's good enough. None of the roads feels like I'm taking my life in my hands.

I agree with you that a brilliant cycle way than ends in the middle of nowhere dumping you onto the murder section of the A fuck you makes the cycleway basically pointless.

They're very old and we don't know if they still work.

No they are not and yes we do.

The US doesn't just make nukes and leave them standing around in the Siberian tundra in a puddle of water while the local staff sell off anything they can find for booze money. The properties of plutonium are well understood and the simulations are very good. There's a regular schedule of maintenance, removing, reforming and re machining the pits.

Plus, just to make sure the simulations are accurate, they still do sub critical tests, where they implode something and check the emissions are consistent when near criticality.

Sapho juice is Ritalin

That's not only not what I said, it's not relevant to what I said.

So you're going to prove it, right?

The Jews came from the Canaanites, and they were not the first people in the Levant either, so you are wrong on top of wrong.

Link to where I said that Palestinians were the first people in the Levant, or fuck right off with your collection of straw men.

That's a gross mischaracterization. This is Apple refusing to give control of the accounts of children to the person with parental control of the children. People demanding that this only be done under court order are neglecting to note the fact that there is already a court order giving her parental control, which is in the first paragraph of the summary.

No, you have not been through this, because that is a wholly different scenario. There are literally zero similarities between this and that because you were using a shared account. That was completely your own fault. In this case, the children have their own accounts, and Apple is refusing to recognize a court order giving care, custody, and control control of those children to a specific parent. Instead they are arguing that their rules are more important than those of the government, and willfully assisting a parent without CCC of the children with abuse of a custody agreement despite being provided evidence of this CCC.

You could just look up logical fallacies if you are confused about them, x2

Lots of people say they follow various religions but then do none of the things it tells them to do. I don't take people's claims of faith seriously unless they back them up with corresponding action. Depending on surveys to measure faith is ignorant.

So you're saying birthright citizenship is biblical?

I still don't get why you guys don't understand you're increasing his cachet by saying his name all the time. You are making him more important every time you cry about his posting habits.

The way they have demonstrated they think other people should be treated.

Yes, followers of absolutely any religion are marks, but not all religions are created equal.

On the other hand all of the Abrahamic religions do suck. Judaism was developed to give Jews title to lands other people were living in already, and where they were never more than an ethnic minority. Christianity was developed in order to get rid of the Jews. Islam was created for basically the same reason as Judaism, just for a different group. It's all political.