Like in a housing shortage you’re hoarding property and profiting off it.

Housing shortages are caused by bad government policy: namely, low-density zoning. Direct your anger towards the entity that deserves it, and make them fix their fuck-up.

(Note: I’m not making some kind of Libertarian “all government is bad” argument here. I’m saying that in this specific case, the laws need to be changed.)

US, mid thirties, and I not only drive a manual transmission, I go out of my way to insist upon it. For example, I own a truck and an SUV made in the '90s because it’s difficult to find newer ones without an automatic.

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instead of bending over for unreasonable shitheads in your party.

Why do you think he’d be inclined to do anything other than bend over for himself?

Huh, that’s the kind of thing that would just make me start visualizing how many I could fit in there.

Not for long if Lennart has anything to say about it, I’m sure.

I agree with you even though I’m only guessing at the episode you’re talking about and I have no idea which of the two Vortas he was.

(It’s the Ferengi hostage exchange episode, right?)

The European Union is a confederation, just like the United States under the Articles of Confederation was.

People in North America identified with their colony/state first, and the United States second back in the 1700s. Give it time…

I get that they’re different countries, but different states here might as well be.

^ This guy Articles of Confederation.

(Seriously, the European Union basically has the same kind of structure now as the United States did between 1776 and 1789.)

Less than a week until Dragon*Con!

They were both apparently being broadcast by ABC at the time, too.

My argument applies to any cylindrical projection.

speeding is bad…

True.

…and that lowering car speeds is good…

Also true.

…so all these changes can be implemented.

No, see, that doesn’t follow because not “all” changes are good. Only modifying the geometry of the street is good. Changing the number on the speed limit sign should only ever be done in conjunction with that geometry change, and even then it’s just an afterthought.

It’s really, really, really important not to give the people in control of the budget any excuse to think that they can cost-cut “fix the geometry” down to “install lower speed limit signs” and still have it count as accomplishing something!

Well played.

I’m just as annoyed by the overuse of the Mercator projection as the next guy, but no, I don’t think we can blame it in this particular instance. Consider the similar case of a day/night map, which pretty clearly reads as 50/50 even when it’s Mercator:

(Upon further scrutiny comparing these two maps, I think the missing Antarctica might be a factor too.)

Also, relevant XKCD.

Look, you’re not wrong from a moral perspective; it’s just that your sentiment isn’t useful either.

• When roads are designed appropriately, the vast majority of people don’t speed and the ones that do are incorrigible. In this, case, trying to shame the latter group to stop speeding is ineffective.

• Conversely, when roads are designed inappropriately, the vast majority of people do speed. In this case, successfully shaming a few of them into driving the speed limit only makes the situation worse because having a wide disparity of speeds is even more dangerous than everybody uniformly exceeding the speed limit.

The bottom line is that, from a traffic engineering perspective, trying to shame people into not speeding simply doesn’t ever improve the situation. Moreover, bringing it up in a discussion of how to fix speeding is actively unhelpful because it’s a distraction that serves to dissuade policymakers from forking out the money for the solutions that do work!

I’ve been surprised that hasn’t happened already since even before Jan 6.

Nobody cares about your condescending non-solution that ignores human nature and is therefore worthless.

Traffic engineers have to design for the reality of how people actually act, not some theoretical Platonic ideal of how they “should” act.

Edit: that first sentence is harsher in tone than @derpoltergeist@col.social deserved, in retrospect. I’m not going to rewrite it because I still mean what I wrote, but please treat it as being addressed towards people who make that sort of argument in bad faith instead of at Pablo. (Sorry, I guess I’ve still got some leftover cynicism from Reddit.)

I have a similar issue (also Firefox on [K]ubuntu 22.04) every time I open a link on a logged-in site in a new tab, but in my case merely refreshing the page is enough to get me logged back in.

I assume is most likely the fault of the fairly aggressive mix of extensions I’m running rather than Firefox itself, but I haven’t actually tried to troubleshoot it yet.