Epa didn't write that law, congress did. The Energy Tax Act was also congress.

Epa also did a lot of good, destroying them was throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

I want smaller vehicles too. But I'd prefer the air be clean and the environment not be poisoned with industrial waste in the process.

It's largely the being glad the epa is gone and using ai as a source

Cafe standards created a perverse incentive, that's not disputable by reasonable people. What is disputable is the EPA's involvement in this specific act of congress that was administered by the NHTSA.

Wtf, why‽

I'll also add that context matters too. How you hit on someone at a music festival is vitally different from how you hit on them at a community potluck. I've had success flirting with a woman I hadn't met before by complimenting how her boobs looked in the corset she was wearing, but had I not been in an event where sexual forwardness, including between women, is normal. To make a comment like that basically anywhere else would be mortifying.

Generally try to err on the side of respectful, but learning what are normal and acceptable styles of flirtation and general interaction in a space is part of hitting on people in that space.

Yeah you need to work on that. Humans exist in community, we need it. Casual small talk with strangers is good for everyone

Men are adult humans, they can control their arousal when told that someone isn't interested.

I sincerely believe men can behave better. I have many men in my life who do. The ones this post is about need to learn to do so

We need an anarchist Mr. Rogers. Just someone pure of heart to talk to kids about taking care of their neighbors no matter what the government says. Little everyday lessons in consensus and how to deal with the conflicts that arise when different people have different big feelings. How everyone is special just for being themselves and we should encourage our neighbors to be their unique selves.

Except it's not, it's intentionally maintained around a set of rules. Those rules resulted in it growing into this shape

Yeah anyone who's lived in one can tell you that. Blocks are easy to walk and you can put shops inside because they're convenient. This type of suburban neighborhoods just can't do the same. Even attempts to put shops and restaurants nearby wind up being good, but just no genuine substitute for the real thing of a walkable neighborhood.

When has the flu ever debilitated a military? It's just the flu, a minor and common disease. /s obviously

Fr though, so many people don't seem to understand that a flu can kill an otherwise healthy young person or cause long term damage.

Yeah, I'm the (pop culture understanding of the) bottom in my marriage and I'm the one who brings home the veggie bacon. My wife still pays at sit down restaurants, but it's with money I earned. At bars though I get the drinks so she doesn't have to get up.

Addendum: dining rooms and bathrooms are different rooms for a reason, don't shit where you eat

Closer to like 1450 here. We tend to have about 7-10% sales tax

Yeah at 750 I'd buy one for my living room instead of an extra long hdmi cable from my gaming pc to the TV

But we must always focus on our goal of minimizing suffering. The path to evil comes when we focus more on us vs them and hurting the enemy than we are on building a better world. Fetishization of violence is a dangerous path.

I lament that I believe that violence and public executions are necessary, but I do. But I also don't believe it's sufficient. We must also build a better world.

Yeah, love is only for people you're in a relationship with and those you aren't seeking a relationship with. You can say you love your best friend, but if you start dating them, while the intensity of your feelings for each other may increase, the relationship is back to an early stage, just in a new track. You haven't built that track up enough for that word to feel safe and comfortable.

When you're pining over a friend you're partly thinking of them in the romantic relationship track. This means professing love doesn't just come off as "I care deeply for you" or "I'm interested in romance", it comes off as "we're getting pretty serious in my head, you should get in on it."

In general mismatched feelings are deeply uncomfortable and the more mismatched they are the less comfortable.

I have, but they were a motly mix of lesbians and bi men. Also trans people of all varieties. And now that I'm thinking about it, probably some gay men too.

That tracks with the people I know who aggressively pursue liberty. Those of us with tits average about 1 out.

Shit now I kinda want to put up a statue of a French anarchist…

Yeah it's really hard to completely destroy history if your enemies are dedicated to preserving it. For example Franco couldn't kill the republican narrative of his war, he could only drive it into secrecy.

Soldiers ensure your reign, but scholars legitimize it. Oh and minority groups have a vested interest in maintaining their own scholarship that's proportional to how hard you try to stop it.

I'm surprised they're being arrested for stalking, usually they don't face even the threat of consequences for that