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It really do be like that.

People really out here thinking they have the authority to decide who we are. Like, sometimes it’s just a slip, like, it’s not what they’re expecting and they have to remind them selves, but, like, sometimes, it feels like they’re trying negotiate, walk us back.

“Oh you haven’t earned that. You haven’t put enough effort in to claim that. You’re not really that because I don’t feel like it.”

sometimes it’s absolutely intentional, and it hurts, like, I’m not asking you for anything, I’m telling you who I feel like I am, I’m trying my best to preform with what I have, and you’re rejecting that because apparently my feelings don’t matter, but you hang ups do.

early on, one of the big tenants of colonialism was that any land being used by some other group was free to be taken so long as those using it weren’t using it “properly” ie “improving it” (maximizing profit). The most notable argument for this comes from John Locke.

This defined a lot of the English and later UK interactions with the highland Scott’s, the Irish plantations, and the settler colonialism of the US and Canada.

You’re not using this resource and labor to serve, pursue, and create more capital, so you are using it wrong, and thus we who will use it properly are entitled to take it. The fact that you can’t stop us from doing so only proves this, since if you were using it properly, you could afford to fight us off.

This feels a lot like that. Like, colonialism but targeted not at resources and land, but at leisure and creativity. You’re not monetizing this, so we, the business idiots who own the data centers, are justified in taking it to monetize, the fact that you can’t stop this proves you should have monetized it to pay for ways to stop us.

Trump realizing he’s been played, and is terrified of his greatest fear, gas prices going up.

Motorcycle is a broad category, most e-bikes fit under it. The defining characteristics is a motor vehicle steered by handlebar from a saddle style seat.

They don’t have to be loud, but many drivers intentionally choose to make them loud. This comes down to a cultural issue, more about that later. Arguably most sports cars are much more obnoxious.

The accident rate and danger tends to come down more to cars than to motorcycles them selves. Most deadly motorcycle accidents are collisions with cars, and most of those are deemed the fault of the car driver. They’re also unreasonably fast for the form factor, again, because they have to mingle with cars, particularly on the highway.

Motorcycles are held to the same emission standards as cars, unless it’s not a road legal vehicle like a dirt bike, or not fast/powerful enough to require a license, like a moped. And they’re generally way more fuel efficient than cars due to being physically smaller, most getting between 70 to 90 MPG. Even Harley’s, intentionally outdated and inefficient designs, get 45MPG better than most cars.

Most can fit 2 people, which is more than most cars tend to have in them at any given time, and with pannier bags they can carry more than most cars will carry on a day to day basis, with most people never carrying cargo in their car beyond a few grocery bags.

They’re statistically much less dangerous to pedestrians than cars. I have no idea where you got the idea they’re more dangerous to pedestrians from.

They’re generally actually much easier to maintain than a car being smaller and less mechanically complex. The reason that so many motorcyclists tend to spend a lot of time maintain them is because they’re doing more of it them selves rather than taking it to a dealership or a mechanic.

There is absolutely a cultural issue among motorcyclists, but much of that comes down to how often they’re nearly killed by inattentive drivers. Constantly being put in danger by car drivers not paying attention tends to make people a bit hostile to car drivers. Much of the rest comes down to the fact that such a risky activity tends to attract people who are in to it to seem “cool”, which will attract some shitty people.

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I mean, I could handle the prices going up if wages went up in equal proportions.

I wonder if any aquarium supply places might be selling it.

Aquarium supply shops often sell “fish antibiotics” which are literally just normal antibiotics from the same facilities that make prescription antibiotics, but sold cheaper, without prescription, and in bulk. They’re meant for dispersal in to aquarium systems to help fish, but a lot of people just buy them for human use. I know at least one case where someone had a literal 50 pound bag of GHG from a aquaculture supply company for a fish farm, again, without a prescription or any real oversight. So it wouldn't be surprising if other human relevant hormones show up from such services.

Obvious disclaimer that you shouldn’t take antibiotics for minor issues and should always take a complete course, less for your own health but because doing so casually might breed antibiotic resistant strains that are supper dangerous for society as a whole.

What? Having issues with the water holding system?

Get a crack in your cistern?

Often times the services have a fleet of accounts, they have them do reposts of old popular posts with titles and some content rephrased, then some of the rest of the fleet copies the top comments and rephrases those and posts them below.

This builds a history of realistic and semi popular looking posts in a way that is fairly easy to automate . Anyone who looks closely could potentially figure out a given account, or even cluster of accounts, is farmed, but it takes effort and time to prove it, more effort and time than it takes for them to spool up another batch of bots.

Yah, that’s like, the point.

If the concerns about Iran’s nuclear potential were so huge, why not strike their shit a month ago, or 2 months ago, or 3 or 6, or say, 5 years ago.

Nah, this is about coning the US leadership into a war so they can’t back away from as things deteriorate further in the strip. As the quiet part not said out loud becomes reality.

They’re important nutrients for the electric eels living in my stomach.

Of course not, absurd accusations