You’re essentially asking them to accelerate towards a stop instead of temporarily incoveniencing you.

Pro tip: 3 seconds in between you and the car in front of you. That way this won’t ever inconvenience you again.

Yeah that just seems incorrect — have you driven a Tesla? Because they absolutely have the feature I’m talking about.

One thing to keep in mind is a feature of EVs is automatic braking when you take your foot off the gas. Mine has different settings on how hard you want it to brake. I think the idea is that it’s safer for something like an accident (which it is) and you gain some energy back into your battery.

I think that might be what you’re experiencing here.

That’s the thing, it doesn’t matter who I picked first — expecting Republicans to take responsibility for everything their kind has done is an impossibility. These people will never pay reparations willingly. It doesn’t matter if they’re to black people, gay people, trans people; these people will always try to get out of it despite having terrorized them for generations.

Shit, just look at the Nazis. A Jew signed the Treaty of Versailles? Well it must be the Jews that are the reason why we’re suffering post WW1 — certainly not because of the consequences of our actions. These types of people are perpetually punching down.

Oh, don’t get me wrong. My idea of a second chance involves what amounts to MAGAts choosing to voluntarily become slaves. It starts with reparations for African Americans, then we keep going down the list of people who have been harmed by their idealogy (I don’t really care what the order is, eventually we’d reach everyone that isn’t republican).

In other words, it’s something that will never happen.

I’m gonna be honest here, it’s gonna take a lot for me to feel like Republicans deserve a second chance. Like, every registered Republican gets to pay reparations — for starters. And I don’t mean to me specifically, I actually just mean straight up reparations to black people. We can talk about reparations for everyone else in the world fucked over by them after they agree to that.

They’re a .mler — you didn’t provide sources that were Russian or Chinese so lol get wrecked.

‘If white, then pay reparations’ is their answer

If you leave your mouth open for long enough, you break the vacuum holding the shit and piss stink in and you’ll start smelling.

Well, I’m an idiot and sometimes I need help 😂

I’m sure he’d pivot away to something else, considering that he pivoted from talking about trans rights to try and say “I shouldn’t have to worry about walking with my daughters down the street and walking into two dudes making out.” Basically suggesting that gay and trans people are the source of moral decay in the U.S.

The guy is the literal poster child of boomer moral decay, by the way. Digustingly obese, entitled, racist, MAGA.

You absolutely did, but let’s take your statement to its logical conclusion.

Roughly 85% of the world is religious. By your definition, they are simply all evil. So why then would you care about Venezuela being bombed, Iran being bombed, literally anywhere being bombed — they’re evil! Anywhere that has religious people is fair game, because religion is evil.

It’s almost like making blanket generalizations about most of the world is just fucking stupid. Weird how that worked out.

The kind of corruption and evil entitlement that people get is indeed unique to religion.

That sure as hell sounds like goalposts shifting to me.

Nope, my MAGA coworker hates gay people and is staunchly Athiest.

I guess that’s true, I have actually mentioned it to a few of my coworkers – they all had a reaction that more or less spoke ‘there simply isn’t enough time for that’ lol.

Tangentially, there’s also this bilibili show called ling long reincarnation that, whether I’m stupid for liking it or not, is awesome. The thing about it is that I’ve always felt like there’s something lost in translation about the show, or there are themes that I’m simply unaware of due to… well an overall lack of knowledge about Chinese language and culture, I suppose.

Idk, full immersion would be best like you said — I just have no idea where I’d find that in California. I’m sure there are places, but then there’s the extra layer of somehow finding enough time to actually absorb the language through immersion. Perhaps I’ll just take up Spanish lol, I always did well in it in school and it’s close enough to English. I think it would probably be much easier to find people who speak Spanish here.

Well, to answer your primary question — many of the people on the team I work with speak… it’s either Cantonese or Mandarin, I think they told me Mandarin but I’m not entirely sure. It isn’t something that would necessarily help me on a professional level, but it would help me on a personal level with many of them.

That’s genuinely my motivation, I don’t really care about ‘seeming’ bilingual — this is mostly to bring me closer to people who have helped me at work.

Ahh… that’s much better than what I thought you meant.

… huh?

That’s a fair assessment, it could have gone from heavily biased to just outright state regime media.

Was VoA not propaganda to begin with?