Because Democrats are cats and he's the world's largest laser pointer.

LOL...ok...wow.

You definitely WIN the internet today with that one.....haha.

Close to 100% want it to stop changing. Different states have different opinions about which way.

Yep, I just want it to stop changing...

I don't give a fuck which time they pick std or savings....just pick one and stick with it.

Really, there's nothing else the YOB has done bothers that supreme moron of the Senate.

What the fuck is a YOB?

Fantastically good idea. In the USA it would save tens of thousands of lives. Antivaxxers would disappear in nothingness.

I disagree....I'd rather err on the side of greater freedom of speech.

In a free society it is the responsibility of each person to learn to reason, research and come to their own conclusions as to what to believe and live (or not) with the consequences.

This is the responsibility you have as an adult in a free society with free speech.

And while your example is a single, well intentioned targeted one...this has much farther implications that vaccinations..

Who is granted the God Like levels of authority to be the arbiter of truth?

That's what can get dangerous....I'm more afraid of that than some idiot not getting a vaccine.

And if nothing else....if dining alone, I'll take my AirPods and my iPad and watch some YouTube or something at the table....keeps me entertained...

"Ordering in" is about the worst possible food solution there is, as far as I am concerned. I'd rather cook my own meal from scratch than deal with that inevitable disappointment.

Yep...the only use I have for delivery, is when I need food on days I'm too hungover to get up and cook.....

Ok well if you are trying to pick the women up at Applebee's rather than taking them there for a date, I think I have found part of your problem.

Well, you have to find and meet women, before you can actually date them, you know?

I never thought of Applebee's as a prime meet/pickuip spot, but hey, there's potential targets wherever you go....and always good to be in a place with alcohol...."conversation lubrication" you know.

Why the hell would I sit in a restaurant to eat food? More often than not, the music is shitty and/or too loud, there's a baby or two screaming its head off, a toddler running around unrestrained and unparented, and a gaggle of boomers all coughing up lungfulls of covid.

Maybe you're eating at the wrong restaurants??

I mean, step up, go to something a bit more high class than McDonald's....

And near the end of 2025...are you seriously still worried about Covid??

Nope....they've been the same since I was born....

And now, that's been quite a number of years....This confusion between the two is a very recent thing and it's stupid....hence us now having biological males going into women's restrooms and locker rooms, much less competing in their sports....

Those "rare genetic anomalies" can be up to 1.7% of the population who are born with intersex trait

You're saying that 1.7% of the population is hermaphrodite?

I seriously doubt that....

I've known women and men...most were straight, some were homosexual....

I've yet to meet someone that was not readily categorized as "dick" or "no dick".....that I've ever known.

Gender is a sociocultural construction. Usually it aligns with one's biological sex, but not always. It's certainly more than a feeling.

This is something being pushed in the past 5-maybe 10 years....and it's bullshit.

Anyone old enough to to remember back as far as the 2000's and before knows that this wasn't a thing in society....sure, we knew there were outliers as with everything. It used to be listed in the books as an official mental disorder....it still should be.

Aside from rare genetic anomalies you are a boy or a girl.....depending on where you have a dick or not.

Geez, life was SO much more simple a decade or so ago.....

...but their megaphones are drowning out reasoned discussion and making it all but impossible.

And recently...BULLETs have drowned out reasoned discussion.....

Hard to discuss when you assassinate people trying to openly discuss differences...

I was actually wondering how many close friends people typically had before social media.

I have never done social media and was around LONG before prevalence of SM and even the internet itself.

I''ve pretty much always had the same group of about 10-11 ( 1 passed a couple years ago )....very close friends I stay in touch with on a very regular basis. I live around many of them and those outside of my state...I"m on group text chats, and we *GASP* actually call each other and talk too!!

I've never found lack of social media accounts or interactions to inhibit my love for and interactions with my long term close friends.

Do most people not have real life friends numbering more than say 5+?

What about before the internet?

Remember the old saying goes:

"Friends help you move.....

........REAL friends help you move bodies...."

I find paddle shifters to be much more fun than a clutch and stick setup for manual shifting (even if its just telling an auto gearbox what gear to use). But i've always had a disconnect between what my feet, and what my hands, are doing. Driving a two pedal car is already a lot of focus and strain in auto D.

I've tried paddle shifters....and just doesn't work for me...

I mean, how do you down or upshift while turning the wheel...? When turning the wheel hand over hand I can't keep up with which paddle is which...

I've always had manual transmission cars all my life so far...stick on the floor.

Sadly, that's getting harder to find these days....not sure what I"ll get when the current car goes out to pasture...

The REAL headline and buried lede for the original post should be:

Trump guts nuclear safety regulations

“The president signed a pair of orders on Friday aimed at streamlining the licensing and construction of nuclear power plants — while panning the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for its ‘myopic’ radiation safety standards.”

We now have industry capture of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Who here knows about Admiral Hyman RIckover? All of this is worth reading:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyman_G._Rickover#Safety_record