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Is it really the safety standards? I thought it was a combination of all the stupid "truck" exceptions and our equally stupid culture where the iamverybadasses choose their 3-ton grocery and kindergarten shuttles out of fear because they want to "win" any collisions.

Yes, please.

I'm a big bearded white guy and look like I should drive a stupid truck, or at least I would look that way with some shades and a baseball cap. Where I live is pretty white, surrounded by rural areas, so the trucks are everyyywhere. I doubt I need to convince anybody on here that these vehicles are bad, but I have a couple of observations from my perspective here in real america(/s).

I have a couple of friends who are those rare truck owners due to legitimate need because they are literal farmers, in addition to their day jobs (this is the USA, after all). Not only are their pastures on steep hillsides, but they only have huge animals like horses and cattle so that comes with pulling trailers and hauling bales of hay, etc. The trucks LOOK like they are farm trucks, their back seat areas in the cabs are dedicated to dogs, and the drivers are... petite women. 🤣 They are super nice and generous too, so I get to do the "have a friend with a truck" thing.

But, since I live close to a Home Depot, I don't borrow one of the trucks unless I am buying 12+ foot (3.66+ meter) lumber or an appliance.

Every time I'm at Home Depot in old clothes with cuts on my arms and legs, loading standard 8' (2.44m) lumber into my decade-old economy sedan, I'm surrounded by people who look like me demographically but are dressed much more cleanly and getting into shiny clean late model luxury SUVs or the hulking pickup trucks that cost even more.

In the US at least, if you look at the entire TOP 30% of earners, the majority of that group would have five-figure incomes. Not destitute, but the exact kind of middle/working class incomes where people are getting beat down by prices.

I didn't exactly say I was innocent. 👌😎 👍

I do read what they say though.

Wow, this is really impressive y'all!

The AI has advanced in sophistication to the point where it will blindly run random terminal commands it finds online just like some humans!

I wonder if it knows how to remove the french language package.

You just aren't thinking like a billionaire, man. What you do is get the two people anyway, and still force the 70 hour work week.

Your job is not to find a reasonable steady state of operation. Your job is to exploit the resources before you (even the ones with emotions and families) to extract value for the shareholders in the most efficient way possible, before somebody even more evil and clever than you figures out a better way and we direct future fresh meat to his meat grinder instead of yours.

I really dont think anyone expected how the trump admin is treating immigrants,

Considering the audience on this platform, that hyperbolic statement is erring in the wrong direction. Not only do I bet that a majority of people reading this expected it, but I half expect to see somebody else reply "EVERYBODY expected this, you son of an honorable dame" or something like that.

but most right wing people won't be exposed to any media that clues them in.

I do believe that audience would have plenty of genuine "nobody expected this" reactions. Are you a recovering conservative yourself? I grew up in that world. Been there, friend.

Turtles are kind of in between with their wedge-shaped heads. They need the awareness to hide from predators, but some of them are also predators themselves or they at least snap at fruits and veggies to eat them.

Here's my tortoise doing his best disappointed-in-you baby yoda:

And here's the yellow belly slider locking target on to some shrimp.

But it sounds like the rules aren't as consistent in the water, judging from other comments. Even something like an alligator snapping turtle's eyes are no further forward than these pics.

Yeah I know that. The error of conflating the two was not mine.

The underlying point -- and I'm going to explain it because it is often left unsaid on lemmy and serves as the basis for sarcasm -- is that the motive for kicking all the "illegals" out of the country comes from a place of hate, ignorance, and fear rather than some kind of rule of law purity.

That's why it gets pointed out in an "I told you so" fashion when somebody in favor of short circuiting due process for "violent illegals" loses their legal immigrant spouse or gets their own US Citizen ass whisked away to another continent.

If it were about the law, they wouldn't want to circumvent the law to hurt the "others" faster.

aside: it sucks that every time I use an em dash in a comment it makes me wonder if people will think I use some LLM crap to compose internet comments for 17 people to read, lol

Your comment just made me realize I did a kind of GOG holiday sale shopping spree this year after having not done a steam holiday sale purchase in like a decade.

And the majority of it was having cheap easy drm-free access to some very good and very old games. Like yeah I know I have my ISO of the TIE Fighter collector's cd-rom somewhere around here, but if I can permanently have legit drm-free access to all versions of the game for just a few dollars, then supporting the business enabling that is a no brainer.

That last paragraph about ~"we voted maga ... we want the illegals gone ... never thought the leopards would victimize myyyyy immigrant" sounds so on-the-nose and oblivious that it makes it sound like a badly written fake.

But as a white USian from a conservative family, and especially during this wonderful holiday time of year, I know in my heart that I am not-too-distantly related to people who are every bit that ignorant about the world.

So the space obsessed man-child generated his own stupid encyclopedia, and for this generous all-giving knowledge resource he chooses a stylized BLACK HOLE for the logo.

It feels like the nerd equivalent to that quote about how the anti-semite arguing in bad faith enjoys seeing others frustrated by their hypocrisy. Here lemme just find that pasta...

Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

Jean-Paul Sartre