Totally. Every next safety measure from airbags to seatbelts are about adding extra inches, rarely even full feet, and they are shockingly effective.

Largely true, but it’s crazy what the difference of just a few feet of slowing down does (rather than zero feet of abrupt stopping) to acceleration forces. The crumple zone on a car only has to be 3 feet long to turn a 60mph crash from a fatality to a horrific injury.

That goose is so fly they call his feathers “up” instead of “down”

Dang, really thought that’d work…

Semenal album more like it

This is definitely making me Rage

Seems to me like the one locked door and the literal hiding room would be the two most important places to look. How did they ever consider the search done without going in these two rooms?

Specific strings of letters are filtered in some instances. So it isn’t that word, it’s the 4 letters that are being filtered out in the middle of the word. But apparently it’s only on some instances.

Lol yep, what a weird freaking place

Took me so long to figure out what the word around the “removed” was. For others (using a symbol so it isn’t removed again), I think it is “susp|cion”

Good to know, thank you! Yet more reasons to avoid it

I think the point is that to you, it’s just semantics. But, to use your example, given that some people have started intentionally using “female” in place of “woman” as an (arguably) subtle way to exclude trans women, it suddenly becomes more than semantics to both trans and anti-trans populations. That’s what Smotherlove is saying about “dog whistle” language only being transparent to the perpetrator and the victim.

So from your/my perspective (admittedly assuming you’re neither trans nor anti-trans), it’s largely a case of “a few rotten apples ruining it for the rest of the bunch.” What should just be a semantic difference has been coopted and intentionally weaponized by some, so all of us have to be conscious of whether or not we’re making that worse.

It’s also not a new phenomenon. Many epithets start as PC terms and then become offensive based on how a specific group starts to use them, notably, almost every one-time PC terms for Black Americans and people of color. Unfortunately, it’s basically the reason that, for at least 100 years, (responsible) individuals/media have had to change terms for many marginalized peoples every 10-20 years, with many other examples, like “Oriental” and the terms that predate it, and plenty of others.

I was recently in palm springs, and not only is it among the shittiest-vibe towns I’ve visited, with some of the worst restaurants I’ve been to anywhere in California, I saw a depressing, near windowless, one-story home with no yard for sale at $3M. Their market made absolutely zero sense, I feel like this was inevitable, especially after speculative building during the pandemic.

What is this from? It’s great

Some before her, some after her.

I hear they eat food cooked by rats

Not that hot, only Luke warm

Idk I feel like chaotic neutral would be something surprising without being much more likely to be negative for someone else than neutral. Something actually random would be a note like “look in your socks” or a random phone number

But there is in causing panic or a potential breakup

So you really don’t believe someone can like something for themselves and not for how others see it? In my mind, that’s a sign of massive insecurity on your part, projecting that 100% of others think that much about what people think about their stuff, rather than just buying things they like.

Some people are definitely compensating, but you can buy a Porsche as a trust fund baby with something to prove, or as an engineer who is enthusiastic about design, performance, and guaranteed replacement parts for even discontinued models.

I think you’ve gotta worry a lot about what others think of you in order to assume that’s the only reason someone else would buy something.