The number of syllables matters a lot for navigated directions to drivers because you're moving in real time and there isn't time to waste on fluff talk ("You'll take your next right" (5 syllables) as opposed to just "Turn right" (2 syllables). If you get your instructions too late because the navigator is just too verbose, then you might have to abruptly make a turn, which could lead to an accident. It is a real safety issue. Also, assigning ownership (i.e. "*your* next left" as opposed to "the next left" ) to roads and public property is not only false, but just so dumb and very annoying. The Google navigator also often no longer speaks the exit numbers or street names! Furthermore, deliberately using ambiguous and grammatically incorrect language to communicate just normalizes this practice and perpetuates it even further in society. That is why people (broadcast newscasters, podcasters, online influencers, TV anchors, etc) and AI systems (like Google maps) that have large audiences should always use perfect English with excellent pronunciation and annunciation, so that dumb humans can learn to speak better; more clearly, more accurately, more concisely, etc. But this recent Google Maps change fiasco is all part of the enshitification of everything thanks to humans becoming stupider due to AI and the mainstream media promoting degeneracy and stupidity rather than intelligence, dignity, and virtue.

Because Google changed the phrasing of the American English narrated directions by making the speaker sound like an dumb blonde airhead. She says: "You'll take YOUR next right" instead of "Take the next right" "At the next intersection, you'll turn left" instead of "At the next intersection, turn left." The phrasing is like a mom talking patronizingly to her 5 year old child. I blame the horrible changes on DEI and putting a woman who never read more than 50 books in her life in charge of the phrasing. There is a solution to this problem: Configure the Maps app to navigate using British English rather than American English!

which allows people to offload their thinking from their own brains to a machine, but it is also government backed loans for students who obtain worthless degrees in majors such as the ones that end in the word "studies".Its government backed loans for students who obtain worthless degrees in majors such as the ones that end in the word "studies".

"Screw SpaceX!"
We hate Elon because his politics don't align with ours, therefore we think it is great that NASA isn't giving his company money for this Mars mission, especially because Elon wants humans to colonize Mars so badly. Double whammy!
Slashdot has become so biased during the past decade.

1) The elite want you to be dependent on them in as many ways as possible. They want to be the sole providers of the energy used to heat your home and cook your food. In fact, they really want to just own your home so that they can rent it out to you. 2) Their greatest fear is the armed rugged individual who is smarter and more competent than them. They want to sew division and discord in homogeneous communities that have high numbers of these individuals. That is why they keep pushing that diversity-is-our-greatest-strength lie; to bring individuals into your communities that have suckier cultural elements, lower levels of conscientiousness, lower levels of empathy, lower IQ, and that have a lower net resource output or even one that is negative (i.e. net consumer rather than net producer). They are terrified of these prosperous communities that don't their currency and are minimally dependent on the companies and governments that they own and control. Examples: The Amish, certain Mormon communities in the West. 3) FACT: Wood is renewable, and when properly seasoned and burned in a clean burning stove, produces no visible smoke. It is an excellent heat source and can be harvested by anyone with a chainsaw, trees, some wedges and a splitting maul. Some seasoned woods when burned smell amazing, like fruit tree woods and certain coniferous woods high in sap. 4) FACT: Burning wood releases CO2 into the atmosphere, which plants love. The higher the atmospheric concentration of CO2, the faster plants grow, resulting in shorter growing seasons and higher crop yields. This is why they sometimes pump greenhouses full of it. CO2 makes the planet green. Without CO2 it would be a barren wasteland. So if you really want a green planet, then you should support measures that increase atmospheric CO2 levels up to about 1000 parts per million. This article is just further evidence of the mask slipping on the elites who seek to deceive people into becoming less self sufficient and more dependent on them. Remember the scene from V for Vendetta, "I want everyone to remember why they need us (government programs, the elite)!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?... You would do well to become as self sufficient as possible. Burn wood for heat, get solar with LiPO4 battery bank for electricity, get your water from a well/spring, have your own septic system, grow your own food, hunt game and raise livestock, run Graphene on a de-Googled phone and GNU/Linux on your computers. Transact as much as possible via barter or alternative currencies. Pack heat. Burn WOOD. Then you won't care about what your government does because you won't be dependent on them and won't even need their fiat currency much. All governments are temporary and will eventually fail. Stay out of their way when they go down and don't believe their propaganda.

For at least 2 reasons: 1) You have a right to face your accuser. In this case, your accuser is a machine not a human. 2) The government cannot ticket you for a crime that you did not commit. Therefore, they have to know the identity of the driver, and cannot assume that the driver is the same person as whoever registered the vehicle. The burden of proof is on the government, not the vehicle owner or driver.

For starters the cost of housing would go down

And what if it doesn't sell for half off? Government enforced price controls are disastrous. What's next? Government forcing consumers to buy the clothing at 50% off? Newsflash: forcing people is bad, and governments often don't know better than you on a variety of issues especially about how to best spend your hard earned money.

EU leaders are doing everything they can to prevent the planet from getting greener faster. They have such disdain for that other necessary plant foot that isn't hydrating. They also spread climate alarmism FUD, and then exploit people's ignorance in order to manipulate them into giving up some of their precious freedom and to happily pay carbon taxes, thereby empowering the very state that oppresses them.

Electing an "equity focused board member" probably means changing (dumbing down) curriculum and/or grading scales in order to achieve equal outcomes. In other words, by inflating grades without achieving any improvement in actual learning of useful information. This happened in my children's school district when a DEI hire was put in as Superintendent. He then hired even more DEIs to replace far more compentent retirees. The result was that over 10 years there was a drastic decline in academic achievement as measured by national standardized tests. I would be curious to see how IQ correlates rather than test scores or GPA that are vulnerable to grade inflation and equal outcome based policies that are pursued by bleeding heart ideologues.

The more people that accept the fact that IQ is mostly hereditary the better. The more intelligent we can make humans the better. Anyone who wants humans to be dumber is either dumb themselves or evil.

If you just eliminate the income tax, which is what Trump has said he wanted to do. But if he won't or can't without Congressional approval, then he shouldn't try to kill off Direct File.

You are correct. Yet another case where the government screws up the free market and where new laws will have lots of adverse unintended consequences that myopic lawmakers are blind to.

Either what you said or they will just dramatically raise existing fees and/or impose new ones. Either way they will get their money or they will go out of business. Government needs to stop meddling in the free market for credit and most other arenas too actually.

The CPI is a lie. Does that inflation calculator website that you used factor the CPI lie or some other measure such as the PPi or the more accurate shadowstats values?