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It's honestly baffling how incorrectly the U.S is built.

It's easy to understand once you realize that the secret ingredient was racism.

Basically, it's because of a combination of mid-century modernist utopian urbanism (a big influence was Frank Lloyd Wright's "Broadacre City," which was really closer to the opposite of a city) and the effort to find new ways to perpetuate racism despite SCOTUS outlawing de-jure segregation.

More specifically, the newly-created FHA came up with preferred development patterns that were low-density and car-centric in part because it was expensive and therefore helped exclude black people, then redlined everything that didn't conform to that preference in order to deny black people financing for their homes and businesses.

(This reply lacks a lot of detail and nuance, mainly because I'm writing it on my phone and lack access to references to cite.)

License requirements can't be strict unless the infrastructure makes accommodations for people who fail. The US is so car-centric that driving has to effectively be an entitlement, even though it's supposed to be a privilege, in order for people not to be stranded at home.

Linux is not a real-time OS*. For a car ECU, something like Speeduino would be a more appropriate choice.

(* Or wasn't until a week or so ago, at least. https://www.zdnet.com/article/20-years-later-real-time-linux-makes-it-to-the-kernel-really/)

Ironically, my cars don't run Linux for the same reason my computers do: I'm militant about protecting my property rights and privacy, so I refuse to have any car new enough to have "infotainment" because it's all closed-source and Tivoized. It's effectively hostile, despite the Linux kernel at the bottom of it.

I'll buy a car made after the mid-2000s when I can re-flash the whole thing with non-DRM'd community-supported software, and not a minute before.

Even in her incoherent nonsense she somehow manages to engage in projection, with the bullshit notion that Democrats (instead of Republicans) would want to suppress voter turnout.

You don't "shame" criminals, you prosecute them. Fucking get it right!

We need to be ready to march in the streets if entities like local precinct offices or the Georgia Election Board try to pull some fuckery too, long before the fuckery even makes it to the MAGA SCOTUS.

The thing I almost hate most about all this is how asymmetric the tactics are. I mean, us non-fascists could do the same thing, but it wouldn't help us, and would only hurt us and help them instead. And this is just one of a dozen different things they've been doing that selectively play only to their advantage (obstructing Congress, spreading FUD about election integrity, using bad-faith rhetorical tactics, etc.). It's like they have a structural advantage that I, at least, don't know how to negate or overcome.

I was playing D&D (for the first time) and my party were a group of exterminators killing giant spiders on city rooftops. The first thing I did when we got up there was tie myself off to a chimney. Later, we were fighting a really big spider that was right at the edge of the roof:

Me: "I hurl myself at the spider."

DM: "You mean you try to hit the spider, or try to grapple the spider...?"

Me: "IDK, I just throw all my body weight at it."

The spider ended up splatted dead on the ground (traumatizing some unfortunate passerby), I ended up dangling off the side of the building, and one of my party members had to make a saving throw to dodge the rope as it swung through his square, LOL!

The Dominion war was about the Founders trying to eliminate any threat to their status as the ruling class.

Looking at the etymology of "equities" everything claims it comes from "aequitas," the Latin word for "justice, equality, conformity, fairness," but I find myself wondering if it's also related to the "Equites" or "equestrian" class (the class just below the aristocratic "patrician" class, basically being defined as mechants/businesspeople wealthy enough to own horses). Frankly, it would fit just as well.

My greatest fear is that anti-gun liberals don't have the guts to actually resist fascism when push comes to shove.