Yeah but you did just describe massive changes in scenery in America. You can do 12 hours of the same here for sure, the great plains are really big, but usually 12 hours of driving later the scenery has changed. It’s 14 hours from Duluth Minnesota which is on Lake Superior to Sundance Wyoming which has the devil’s tower monument and is past the great long stretches of nothing that makes up the bulk of the Dakotas. Des Moines is a city surrounded by nothing but corn and open road (with a distinct feel from the Dakotas) and is 12 hours from Memphis Tennessee which is adjacent to Appalachia. Baltimore Maryland, a coastal city on the Chesapeake Bay and near a bunch of swamps driving 12 hours west and north can get you into and out of the Appalachian Mountains (and not a short cut of them), barely dodging Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and Toledo (with an optional roller coaster detour at Sandusky) while you hug Lake Erie, do the entire border of Michigan and Indiana before landing in Michigan City, Indiana on Lake Michigan, which looks like it’s just outside Chicagoland.

And out of curiosity I checked what a cross country trip looks like, NYC to Los Angeles is 50 hours, while the longest road trip between frequent destinations is Key West to Seattle at 63 hours. The latter of these begins on a tropical island, goes through swamps, deep south agricultural areas, Appalachia, Midwestern agriculture, the Mississippi River, Midwest agriculture, great plains, badlands, Rockies, pnw valleys, cascade mountains, and ends in a rainy ass wetlands, but this one has wild disparity between day length over the year.

It’s not rage bait, it’s mocking the rich

It also helps that they don’t understand the reality of organ reception or being an irl cyborg. Anti rejection meds make you immunocompromised. Cochlear implants sound off and require extra mental effort to process compared to biological hearing (and have less true sound). Robotic arms are heavy and inconvenient to the point many prefer simple prosthetics.

Maybe someday we will have versions of some of these things that are genuinely equivalent to being abled. But I don’t know if I will live to see them.

Also if they believe the outcome is inevitable in the near future it’s a certain kind of sensible to race to be first. It’s a variant on the prisoners dilemma where they can see each other racing to rat the others out in the hope that the first will get a discount on sentence length.

I was going to make a pithy comment about Obama but nope turns out he’s a boomer. Boomer ages are roughly Trump at the old end and Obama at the young end. So yeah y’all lost your chance at having a potus with kamala. The silent generation may manage another though, because somehow they took power and barely ceded any to the boomers.

Us millennials will get a solid decade or two of power and then you’ll see. You’ll all see! Who’s occupying wall street now?

Hey us millennials had to do that too. Just not as often

My generation would go out and not come home until we’d killed an industry, just to take jobs from the generations that killed our chances of owning a home

There was a gen x?

Yeah the state of ohio having a swat team and even some armored vehicles is somewhat reasonable. Ohio State University’s police department on the other hand should not have an Mine Resistant Armored Personnel carrier.

But also, if it gets to the point that we need to bust out the automatic weapons and shit, maybe an elected member of the state government should be approving and leading.

And they make a point to be the biggest baddest and scariest. Like mother fuckers you already have the monopoly on the legitimate use of force. You’d be terrifying bringing lever action rifles and revolvers against someone with a kalishnakov, because if shit goes down bad enough you can bring in the national guard or rope in a bunch of deputies, or just the fact that yall have the power to imprison people without governments getting mad

It’s downright affordable compared to the destroyer you haul out to the lake house you rent for family vacations.

I have very mixed feelings on this. As a person who has managed to keep hold of her sanity I’m appalled, but as an American it makes me feel a bit patriotic. America, just because it’s a terrible idea to let you do it doesn’t mean we aren’t allowed to stop you.

Give unions machine guns again dammit.

Of course not. It’s hard to shoot your neighbors

Hey, they also get more training that teaches them that their instincts are never wrong and if they feel scared that means they’re in mortal danger and that it’s better to kill than risk any danger whatsoever

But the cops are heroes who protect us or something. Who else will demand answers about my one hitter and ignore the clear signs of forceful entry when my home was invaded.

I’m a lesbian and I’ve seen guys bag each other flirting on that level

It’s because percent just means ×0.01 and multiplication can be rearranged

Oh jeez I tried again after a bad experience with Ubuntu like 10 years ago. I imagine 20 was awful. And yeah Linux is really good now. I hate having to go into my windows partition, it’s more borked than my Linux.

Yeah as a trans woman it was bittersweet when my hips stopped fitting in men’s jeans. They’re sturdier with bigger pockets and way more (but not really) consistently sized.

The problem in men’s sizes is tolerances in fabric cutting as they stack more and more sheets per cut. Women’s clothes do that while also playing calvinball.

All this means rhat as a long legged skinny girl with thick thighs, biker’s calves, and an ass I’d only trade while pant shopping, pant shopping is a long pain in the ass.

I’m gonna headcanon it as that. It’s the funniest and most likely explanation

DC has better trains than anywhere on the west coast