Try running enough processes on your computer that (all threads of) the CPU is pegged at 100%, and try to interact with it without pulling all your hair out. If the usage goes to even 98-99%, suddenly the UI is usable. A 10% drop in the number of cars driving around can easily give a much more significant improvement in travel times, and that appears to be the case, given that the buses are actually running not just on time but ahead of schedule.

Presenting Nazi salute, openly admiring members of modern German Nazi party...if it walks like a Nazi and quacks like a Nazi, it is not incorrect to call it a literal Nazi.

As to complaining about misuse of the word "literal," as much as it pains me, the language evolves, and most dictionaries have accepted this and added an additional definition to "literal" to capture the now-common usage meaning "figurative", e.g. https://www.merriam-webster.co.... The only thing worse than a pedant is an incorrect pedant.

I would really like to explain to me how it is that the party stuffed with literal Nazis is so vocally outraged by so-called antisemitic activity.

People are gullible and ignorant. Always have been and always will be. Plenty of individual persons, perhaps even the majority, are informed and discerning, but the organism known as "the public" is much less than the sum of its parts.

I'm assuming you're either trolling or a bot, because I don't think a human with the brainpower to keep breathing could have missed the point so completely. The point is that the HPV vaccine has absolutely zero effect on whether those girls are going to be sexually active or not. Tangentially, neither does abstinence-only sex education according to every study ever conducted.

Have you ever heard of opportunity cost? I get that BNPL is predatory and only exists because they can charge ruinous fees to at-risk low-income people who miss payments. And of course you should not get something you can't afford just because you can't pay now. But if you are going to buy something anyway, it's stupid not to take a truly interest-free loan.

Since you mention mortgages as the exception, would you ever voluntarily take out a mortgage at 6% if a 2% loan is available? Why then would you give away money now when you can instead hold onto it for several months earning a few percent interest? Not wanting to do business with scummy companies, not wanting to profit off of others being exploited, not trusting that these "loans" really are interest-free, those are all perfectly good reasons not to use these services (and I don't for precisely those reasons). But making flat-out wrong statements in a post decrying lack of financial education is ridiculous (as in, deserving of being ridiculed).

Buying things on credit, including the newfangled BNPL schemes, can make sense for rare or one-off purchases. If the loan truly is interest-free, you can save quite a bit in opportunity cost by holding onto that money longer (and nominally investing it into something more productive than under the mattress.) All assuming you're not in danger of triggering some onerous penalty. But that only makes sense if you are going to pay off or otherwise discharge the loan before you need to re-buy that product. If you buy a new Xbox every time a new generation comes out, BNPL makes sense, as you'll pay it back before the next 4 years or whatever rolls around. Same with phones, maybe clothing, dental checkups, power tools. Hell maybe propane refills, HOA dues, oil changes.

But groceries? Long before you pay off the first loan, you need to restock your pantry. So you put that on loan too, and the next week. And pretty soon you are spending money at exactly the same average rate, just shifted back however many months. So how does paying later for something you buy every week make any sense?

Ground beef is cheap? I mean, compared to steak, sure, but it's still at least twice as expensive as any other protein.

What is the cosine of a prejudiced government employee?

Because not living well is still better than not living at all. If your choices are a welfare barely-making-ends-meet existence or starving to death, most people choose the former.

How the hell do you have such a low id if your first car was a friggin Prius?

Did you see the price tag? Banning isn't the answer. Put a 100% tax on it, earmarked for animal control/shelters. Anyone paying that much already isn't going to blink at twice the cost, so you've created a solid revenue stream where you want it. Banning this won't change the population meaningfully in any way.

They are targeting people "who are responsible for censorship of protected expression in the United States." So what about all of the US government officials who are censoring students' right to protest the war crimes actions of Israel in Gaza? That's about as protected as free speech comes, yet the administration deports legal visitors for engaging in free speech. I wonder if they are even aware of the hypocrisy.

Also, am I the only one who finds it weird that literal Nazis have twigged on anti-Semitism as unacceptable?

Pssh, low-background steel. Look up "ancient lead" or "archeological lead". We take lead from ancient shipwrecks (used as ballast) and use it as shielding for our most sensitive radiation detectors, because all of the Pb-210 has decayed away. A lot of it is of questionable legality. Whenever a new shipwreck is found, dark matter physicists jump for joy.

Obligatory xckd: https://xkcd.com/2321/

Glass is great for reuse, but that takes a lot more effort and organization than chucking it into a common bin. Glass recycling is just about as energy intensive as making new glass, and it's not like there's any shortage of raw material. Aluminum, cardboard, and precious metals are the only things that make sense to recycle with current technology and economics.