The old Chevy Sparks are basically golf carts with 4 doors and permission to drive in the roads. They are the least “techy” EVs I’ve seen in person as they are really just a battery swap with the minimally-appointed ICE version of the car, which is very sparse on the electronic doodads.

Whew boy, the boogaloo and the kraken would like a word lads

I don’t disagree, it’s just nice to see my country pushing for any tiny amount of adherence to international laws in this specific case and I hope we see more of it.

The US stands with Israel, but we aren’t going to stand by while they commit war crimes. Good on the Biden administration for forcing this course correction. I hope to keep seeing more and stronger evidence of our commitment to human rights and the international order during this war.

Shatner for one, who at the time was arguably still the most-recognizable name in sci-fi TV and movies.

Legally speaking, you pretty much consent to being recorded when you step outside your own private space as far as I know.

I think maybe the terms used are different, but if the bar is a business owned by a private person or company, and is allowed to say who can be in there or not, set dress code, hours, rules about outside food etc, that’s what would be considered a place of business in the US, and those aren’t publicly-owned or considered a public space as far as the rights of those people in that space. I get that “pub” literally means “public” but they aren’t owned by some government entity, you don’t have a “right” to free access to them, and the rules about what can and can’t take place there are set by the private owners.

I wonder about that, because how many things are already recording our activity in some way when we’re out in public? And what would “knowing that you’re being recorded” consist of? Like if there’s a security camera on the corner of a building filming the sidewalk, and I don’t see it, is my privacy violated? If someone posts a sign that says “cameras in use” is that enough? It’s just an interesting question because obviously there are a huge variety of recording devices everywhere these days in public and as far as I know there’s really not much in the way of laws dictating how or whether the device owner needs to warn people who may wander into it’s range in public.

I agree that self harm is a tragic response to the kind of environment she was apparently in. I do not agree that this act somehow makes her “perception of the world” (whatever that very broad phrase might mean) unreasonable, or that it proves she has an “extreme personality” (again not sure what, definitionally, that is). I think perfectly normal people react in unexpected ways to extreme environments and unless you have some reason to assume to otherwise I’m not sure it’s reasonable to look at self harm and then default to questioning the person first and not the situation first.

It’s my right to have my personal computer display what I want it to display. It’s my right set my device to reject internet traffic I don’t want to receive. It’s my right to instruct my machine to download the data I want, and refuse to download the data I don’t want. If you make something publicly available online, then the public can consume that or refuse that, in part or in whole, as and when they wish. If a company or a browser wants to try and interfere with that, then they’ve chosen their fate.

And the idea that debating these people does anything other than platform and broadcast their sickness is destroying both social media and the news. We don’t need to both-sides every issue and pretend that it’s a debate, when it’s people who view certain others as sub-human vs people who don’t. Whether certain groups should exist or have the same rights as the rest of us is not a debate topic and we need to stop treating it like it is.

Sometimes. Other times that’s just what they want, to be given a voice and to waste your time and to feel legitimized by the engagement. It’s 100% fine to be intolerant of intolerance, it’s the only thing that holds a tolerant society together.

Is boiling the tap water just like superstition or what? or is it really not treated/cleaned by the local water authority to be fit for human consumption? Just curious what people think the benefit is, because in the US and Europe from what I know, we treat our public water so that it can, you know, be used by the public safely?