I live in a mid-sized midwestern city with a couple of multi-use paths that make it possible to get around town or just get some exercise. For the last 40 years it's been great for bikers, walkers, and joggers. However, the past year I've seen a crazy uptick in "e-bikes"—and not the pedal assist kind. I guess we call them "e-scooters" even though they look like bikes. These jackasses are zooming around at 30mph uphill, downhill, and giving no warning with bells or horns, making themselves a danger to everyone on the path. "Motorized vehicles" are banned from the bike path, but these riders are either willfully or ignorantly ignoring the rules because they're riding a "bike" and there's zero enforcement on the paths.

Have we reached the point where we need speed cameras on a fucking bike path?

You just lost the game there.

To add context to this: the bill does appropriate $50 Billion over the next 5 years for rural hospitals. Still, it's not expected to make up the shortfall from payments made by patients using Medicaid.

Source: https://fortune.com/2025/07/04/rural-hospitals-1-trillion-medicaid-cut-big-beautiful-bill/

What happened to âoelive and let live?â Some people are born one way but their brain chemistry tells them theyâ(TM)re another way. Leave them alone and stop pretending like they started the culture war.

You're blaming the patient. Americans had their appetites whet by cheap goods after those goods were made cheap by shipping labor overseas.

But then DEI planes will start crashing into helicopters. You'll be sorry then!

Capitalism: “We must have unemployed people so that Capitalism can work!”

I don't have a better answer, I just think that's sadly ironic.

Let him cook.

Education already is mostly controlled by individual states, aside from standardized testing. And even then, the College Board (which manages AP and SAT) is a separate nonprofit organization.

The thing states may miss out on is about 268 Billion (13.6%) in federal funding. And sadly this seems to be getting rid of special education.

You can always judge a society based on how it treats the least of its members.

Our children should have the freedom to worship in schools!

...no, not like that!

Seemed pretty good back in the 90s. Then No Child Left Behind was passed by the Bush Administration, and everything has been "teaching to the test" since then. Funding is dependent upon graduation rates, and schools want to keep funding, so they keep teaching to the tests...not enough kids passing the tests? Well we'll just lower the standards a little bit...

Time to start bottling water in Arizona and selling it at gas stations in Utah. Fluoride can become the new trendy additive.

If only I had mod points

Nature isn’t opinionated on whether you live or die, it’s just the state of things. It created US who live at the expense of OTHER things. Agriculture wasn’t part of some master plan, it was just a convenience that spread when other tribes realized you could store food instead of finding it that day.

Humans hijacked nature.

Maybe we've just hit peak gaming. How many of us have Steam libraries full of games played for less than an hour, if at all? As a teen in the 2000s with just a Nintendo GameCube, I was desperate for new games. As a single 30-something with disposable income, I couldn't even beat all the games I own in my lifetime (not without a long stint of unemployment, that is).