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@willie_ole @KeyTryer Its not just porn, it also includes sex toys. Of which the availability of such items was considered a major part of the sexual liberation (and even feminists) movement back in the 70s-80s. The magic wand became famous on this front. So it's not as simplistic as you say.
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🍄 Good Ole Willie Boy 🇧🇪 🐌
🍄 Good Ole Willie Boy 🇧🇪 🐌@willie_ole·
@KeyTryer "sexually repressed means anti porn" is everyone just so fucking mind broken and addicted to porn that they cant differentiate pornography with sex with a partner?? can you really not make the difference between the two? you people are mindless cattle its abhorrent
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@dimenpsyonal Shouldn't be expensive in the UK either. High energy costs, both gas and electricity, have huge knock on effects. Basic energy sources should be as cheap as possible. Plus solar panels are dirt cheap to operate, so any country with a lot has no excuse for high electricity costs.
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@PropelledPingu @drantbradley Hey as long as the grades (or project, paper work, etc) is finished by the agreed due date it all works. Never a requirement to expedite something ahead of schedule lol
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Propelled Pingu@PropelledPingu·
@drantbradley If grades are due in 40 minutes and they’re only now doing it, I wouldn’t say they’re much better than the student
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@streetsforall I've heard these gates kinda suck though. Do they actually read a card instantly and allow people through fast, or does it take like 3-6 seconds per person like like I fear?
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@EO_Halloran @Kildareman2 The cars on the other side are clear by the end of the video, so the bike should move back into the lane so they can pass wide then. There is no logical reason to defend this at that point.
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Enda O'Halloran@EO_Halloran·
@Kildareman2 Its not protected. I would never let an SUV close pass someone I care about on a bend like that Those cars coming the other way mean they wont overtake with a gap. And they're more likely to slightly cut the corner than not in that situation Waiting 10 seconds is fine
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@Artano618 @1davidj @cookeddickhead What about all the weapons systems helping innocent people like in Ukraine? How do you balance the legitimate good uses of weapons with the possibility of them also being used for evil? I'm sure the workers at artillery shell factories were happy to be helping defend Ukraine
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Kivvy Cat!@KivvyCat·
was talking with a normie co-worker and he brought up his friend who works at Lockheed Martin and I said, "Oh shit, is he working on the child seeking missiles" Let me tell you, that was NOT the correct dialogue option.
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@BIMBOSATTVA_ @jacabral1210 Did you want to throw that power away then? If everything was great I don't see the reason to go and change how everything works. Trump is fucking up US military power, global political power, and damaging institutions/gov agencies that built the empire to start with.
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→prudence／／🌲❤️‍🔥・@BIMBOSATTVA_·
It could also because Americans by and large have the best lives of any empire in human history and we have no actual reason to revolt? That's why everyone in the entire world wants to move here and will do it illegally if they cannot do it legally
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i hate the idea that americans won’t revolt bc we’re ”lazy” and not because our government has spent the better part of 100 years and trillions of dollars /perfecting/ the art of global counterrevolution and repression. this is literally the final boss lmao

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@frapposting Transit sucks so much in this country.
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frap@frapposting·
what do you MEAN you cant fix a problem with my ticket at the BUS STATION what do you MEAN i have to sit on hold listening to an automated phone call to fix an issue with my ticket WHILE IM STANDING INFRONT YOU, THE TICKET PERSON. THAT CONTROLS THE TICKETS. AT THE TICKET COUNTER
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@jerrythom11 @JacobAShell That actually just makes the situation more confusing! When they have so much power to forcibly locate the stations in the best positions, but actually choose not too. Sure it still might be more expensive, but its a one time cost for permanent infrastructure improvement.
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Jerry Thompson
Jerry Thompson@jerrythom11·
@JacobAShell The state being overpowering can confiscate land. Yes its not always but its on the heavy side in Communism and other Totalitarian rules. In the USA, private property is nearly sacred! The state used Imminent Domain but only get bits and pieces, and private owners ask for $$$$$.
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Jacob Shell@JacobAShell·
A key thing about Chinese high speed rail which Americans mostly don't know is the stations are way outside the city centers, like airports. EG Hezhou station below is 4 miles from the city center. Cities that rise high enough in China's development rankings get a subway line connecting the station to the city center. What does "high enough" mean? Well Hezhou is 2.5 million people and still doesn't have such a subway. Siting the stations far outside the city centers has made the lines cheaper to build, and lets the lines be relatively straight so the trains can maintain high speeds. It also means, though, that the image of walking from a city's central district into the main HSR station is not a thing in China like it is in many European or Japanese cities.
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@Wizardgames15 @JRUrbaneNetwork I mean they are expensive, and hard to retrofit in many systems. I'm in favor of chest high (not full size) ones in most places, though. Exception is the DC Metro. Architectural masterpiece, a great icon of the capital. Screen doors would ruin the fuck out of the aesthetic.
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wizard@Wizardgames15·
@JRUrbaneNetwork The American obsession with no screen doors anywhere
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@alanthefisher @PostOpinions @DominicJPino Public transit should get government assistance, but they should also be operationally break even or profitable. It is a waste of valuable resources that the DC metro has more employees, more expenses, and fewer riders/income than a decade ago. That should absolutely be improved
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@MagneticNorse By the way, why don't busses not have underride guards like semi-trailers do? If that was a small car like a sedan the driver would have had their head crushed. There should be a bar at the rear of the bus to stop cars getting shoved under it.
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Magnetic Norse@MagneticNorse·
A schoolbus, stopping in front of a residential home, is rear ended by a full size truck that doesn’t slow down at all. Head on a swivel, gang.
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@heatloss1986 It seems the primary use of guns in the future is against cruise missiles and low cost drones, which would otherwise be a waste of valuable a2a missiles That specific mission could be accomplished with a gunpod. If they remove the internal gun they should require a pod for sure
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Heatloss@heatloss1986·
Fun fact: the gun was about as effective in Vietnam as the worst air-to-air missiles when adjusted for firing attempts. The Navy's Sidewinder (AIM-9D/G) was a little over four times more reliable and effective. The Navy Phantoms never flew with their under belly gun pods.
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cdrsalamander@cdrsalamander

Here’s the video. I once again stand to demand that the F/A-XX must have a gun. The Smartest People in the Room™ have been telling us for seven decades that a gun on a fighter is “obsolete”—and on occasion winning the argument. However, every time there is an actual shooting conflict, it is needed, and used. Q.E.D. Next slide.

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@the_transit_guy The new fare gates everyone is installing especially annoy me. They are so insanely slow. Slow to read cards, slow to open, low throughput, too small. Just copy the system Japan made 25 years ago you useless fucks. Make the gates taller if you need to but take the basic idea.
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Hayden@the_transit_guy·
I think we literally need to pay for every elected official and policymaker to visit places with high speed rail if we want our country to not be so far behind.
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@dannycantalk Not incompatible though. Tokyo has some of the highest transit use in the world, almost no one drives. Because of that its also great for drivers. Wide, fast 4 lane roads everywhere with no traffic. Its often even faster to drive than take the train, because so little traffic.
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DannyCanTalk 🌈
DannyCanTalk 🌈@dannycantalk·
I do not want a walkable city. I do not want trains. I do not want busses. I want a car that can take me anywhere I want at any time. I don't want to be dependent on transit schedules. I want to choose who I'm traveling with, rather than going for luck of the draw. I want to be able to control my own climate while traveling. I want to be guaranteed a comfortable seat. I want somewhere to keep my things during a day out instead of having to carry everything with me. I want to buy and take home loads of groceries too big to carry without having to trouble myself with delivery services. I want to go through drive thrus. I want to be halfway home from work and impulsively decide to go to a restaurant on the other side of town and just change direction immediately. I want to drive around a new city to take in more than I could on foot or on a fixed route. I want to do road trips where we make up our journey as we go. I want to explore my own city at will without any particular plan. I want to visit small towns out of reach of even the most expansive proposed public transit systems. Essentially, I want freedom.
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@sp6runderrated Its still a bad faith argument because he is pretending that having better transit wouldn't help him too. Tokyo is a city that almost entirely uses public transit. Because of that it is also amazing for car drivers. Wide, open roads. No traffic jams. Driving can be faster even.
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sp6r=underrated@sp6runderrated·
I like this because it is drivers being honest. He isn't making any of the normal bad faith anti-transit arguments. He is a totally self-interested actor. And if he has to demolish your neighborhood to get a freeway build he will. Way more honest.
DannyCanTalk 🌈@dannycantalk

I do not want a walkable city. I do not want trains. I do not want busses. I want a car that can take me anywhere I want at any time. I don't want to be dependent on transit schedules. I want to choose who I'm traveling with, rather than going for luck of the draw. I want to be able to control my own climate while traveling. I want to be guaranteed a comfortable seat. I want somewhere to keep my things during a day out instead of having to carry everything with me. I want to buy and take home loads of groceries too big to carry without having to trouble myself with delivery services. I want to go through drive thrus. I want to be halfway home from work and impulsively decide to go to a restaurant on the other side of town and just change direction immediately. I want to drive around a new city to take in more than I could on foot or on a fixed route. I want to do road trips where we make up our journey as we go. I want to explore my own city at will without any particular plan. I want to visit small towns out of reach of even the most expansive proposed public transit systems. Essentially, I want freedom.

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@MCCCANM What is the cause? Its not hard for EMU on rails to run extremely reliably. They have a lot of internal redundancy. Or did they do the typical US thing and decided to use "not actually a train" that is slower, more expensive, and less reliable than just using a fucking train?
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@IISheldonII @bdb153 @PollTracker2024 Playing pointless politics to keep power is fine, actually. His vote didn't matter either way, but if dissenting on this bill helps the dems keep power its the best move. This is a team game. If someone needs to take an L to help the team long term so be it.
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Sheldon@IISheldonII·
@bdb153 @PollTracker2024 If you have to vote like this in order to keep the seat then the seat isn’t worth holding.
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Politics & Poll Tracker 📡
Politics & Poll Tracker 📡@PollTracker2024·
WHTM: Bill banning whites-only housing passes Pennsylvania House by 1 vote It passed on the House floor by a 101-100 vote. A single Democrat, Rep. Frank Burns (D-Cambria), joined every Republican in opposing the bill. abc27.com/pennsylvania-p…
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@TimeCommander @ZFlawles1s @Davidhutson78 @electionsjoe Shouldn't discount this was just a play to keep him popular in his district too. The dems knew it had enough votes to pass, allowing him to be a dissenting vote doesn't matter and might help them hold on to power long term. Need to play the game a bit to stay in control.
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@John18Hamilton @_BRCooper @303SnowWolf I would absolutely not go over 7,000 miles per oil change. That is 3 times per year if they do 20k. The severe conditions schedule on a Toyota Corolla is 5,000 miles per change. Which is honestly what most people should be following.
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