Ebiikes are a legal workaround loophole for motorcycles.

And as her +70.9% gains in 2024 were somewhat extraordinary, Nancy Pelosi spawned a host of similar apps - I believe autopilot has subsequently been broadened to include other lawmakers of both parties.

Autopilot
PelosiTracker.app
Quiver Quantitative

You realize there are a bunch of homes available for sale in all sorts of places for next to nothing. The problem isn't "housing", it is "housing where people want to live". Declining population in places like Italy have created housing collapse where nice houses aren't sold, and sit empty, and they'll pay you to move into one.

FWIW I fully agree with you that the PEOPLE of other races aren't themselves the problem.

The problem is the exploitative cleave-lines that leaves for opportunism in democracies. It's so much easier to blame easily-visually-identifiable "others" than actually address much more subtle and pervasive issues like poverty, drug abuse, etc.

I'd point to immigration as an example. The US is quite literally a nation of immigrants.
The most patriotic people I know are 0th or 1st-gen immigrants.The problem they immediately identify is that now the centrifugal forces seem to be winning - instead of new immigrants being encouraged to become American, they're pushed into factional enclaves and the melting pot is lost. (Their comments, not mine.)

LOL "flamebait" for describing the immediate replies accurately.

Pardon me for calling a spade a spade. I didn't mean to offend.

So you're saying that - literally - the whitest, most homogeneous society on earth is the best place to live, exemplary in structure, society, and well-being?

And insisting that's what ... complete coincidence?

Funny, that.

You neglected to factor in the fact the Musk - for ideological reasons, let's be clear - is hated almost as much as the Orange Tyrant on slashdot.

Meaning that facts-be-damned, Elon MUST somehow be made the bad guy. Even if that's irrelevant.
The simplest explanation - that he tossed some $ at an opensource competitor to Google, and then this entity took his $ and turned for-profit - must be discarded.

Look at the replies to your comment.
- "well Musk tried to buy it later" how does this matter to whether a business was funded on false premises?
- "well Musk was going to take it for-profit." Setting aside that this is essentially verbatim OpenAI's own argument against the suit, again, what Musk was "going to do" isn't relevant. Yes, whether it's on moral grounds or Elon being butthurt at being cut out, the point of "we take your $ as a nonprofit, turn it into a for-profit but keep your $" is the question.
- your daring to side with Musk means you apparently implicitly fellate Musk. Persuasive, certainly.
All of these, note, are 'climbing' in mod points.

I mean, it's pathological: Everyone here is largely against AI and Sam Altman...until Elon's the other side.

It isn't colonial, it is industrial. The current format of school is that of preparing for a factory workforce. We are post industrial, knowledge/AI/Whatever it will be called workforce.

Educators need to come to grip with getting EVERY child their MAX educational value we can. This means breaking the rows and columns of desks in a classroom, and getting kids their most valuable education they can get. This means some will do much better than others. Talent has gradations. Not everyone can be a Astro Physics expert.

I fully agree with this move by the EU and do rather often approve their commonsense pro-consumer legislation.

As a small-government conservative, I believe it's one of the main remits of government to counter monopoly behavior. ... At the same time, I recognize that the EU isn't nearly democratic enough, and does unfortunately stray into overregulation / wealth-farming from "naughty capitalists" who dare to be successful/don't kowtow to the EU.

NEITHER the US model nor the EU models are great.

Not really.
Here is the report, finding it really didn't take a lot of chasing.
https://drive.google.com/file/...

I recommend you read https://www.nationalreview.com... as well. Putnam is clearly uncomfortable with his findings (credit to him for still honestly publishing the data; not sure that would happen in 2026), and so makes some leaps unsupported by what he presents, as in
"it's a short-term effect"...based on absolutely nothing in the report.
"we will find new ways to boost social solidarity." that's ideology and faith, not data.
He talks about the 'benefits outweighing the disadvantages' again, failing to prove anything about the benefits.

And yes, to your point all my data is American data. Absolutely agree that different scales apply to different contexts, nationalities, etc (Reference here Geert Hofstede's seminal work on cultural alignments and differences in such issues).

I find it curious and unsurprising in 2026 that my post - which was intended to be challenging - has been modded to -1 Troll. This is the case for nearly any unpopular political stance on Slashdot today.

"the best places to live in the world, in terms of health, happiness, and quality of life"
Are those our metrics now? Are they yours?

Men are happier than women.
Conservatives are happier than liberals.
People of faith are happier than those without.
If are seeking to make people happier, I'm surprised that you of all people would be advocating conservatism and faith.

Oh, also, actual data shows diverse neighborhoods are UNhappier, consistently. (in case you need the link: "The Downside of Diversity" https://www.nytimes.com/2007/0... )
What precisely are you going to advocate with that info?

"fair" is subjective. What you think is "fair" isn't really fair. It is objectively unfair to use qualitative terms in discussion of policy.

What would be fair, is that Government live within the means we ALREADY tax out of the public. Cut Spending first. Then, when all cuts that can be made, are made, then MAYBE we can have a discussion on tax increases.

Its Not Your Money.

Envy isn't a virtue.

The problem here, is "fairness" is subjective, not objective.

Use of that particular term is deliberate tug on the emotional center of brains. it works, which is why Progressives ALWAYS use it.

Which is exactly what they said a hundred years ago when they instituted the "income tax".

Rich people will move out. And take their wealth with them.

Taxes are regressive. All of them.

"Imagine you're in the Arctic, a voice **from a meditation video** tells them, "

Anyone else see it?