That’s literally multiple people conspiring in secret to achieve an illegal goal.

And it’s just not necessary.

We’re more alienated and isolated than pretty much any time in history, they really could just tell their base “go arrest your neighbor for woke and await further orders” and they would do it. There’s just no need for a conspiracy to manufacture riots, their loyalists will happily kill their neighbors. They can just do this whenever they want.

The cruelty is certainly the point, though, and that contradicts your own conspiracy theory. They aren’t trying to manufacture riots per se, they just want to make people suffer. Even if there are no riots they get what they want.

manufactured riots come hell or high water. “marshall” law by mid-terms, mark my word.

This conspiracy never makes sense to me.

If they want martial law they can just do it. Just lie and say there are riots, boom. There’s no need to manufacture actual riots.

The rich will throw away their perfectly fine boots after a few years because they aren’t in style anymore.

This is exactly like when gun lovers try to say “this isn’t the time to discuss gun laws” and “they would have found a way to hurt people regardless”. Zero difference.

But actually this is exactly when we should argue about the existence of cars: someone just performed a live demonstration of how dangerous they are in the hands of someone who wants to kill people. Without a car, mass killing would be much much harder and it would also be possible for people to defend themselves or escape the danger. Cars also enable impulse killings in a way knives don’t, because carrying a knife has to be premeditated whereas with a car the murder weapon is always readily available.

I guess? But it’s also morally just to reuse disposables, repair instead of replace, conserve and reduce waste, and delay new purchases as long as possible. I’m doing environmental conservationism just by being poor!

Chelsea* Manning

But, yeah, most people just do not care if they are spied on because they don’t think it will be used for anything besides advertising. Trump is going to wake a lot of people up to the immense power we’ve handed over to our tech overlords.

Over a million people around the world die because of cars every year. The most recent number I found for Canada was 1,998 people.

Let’s compare that to knives. The most recent number I found for Canada was 138 people stabbed to death. Globally, 97k. Orders of magnitude in difference.

Most vehicle deaths are accidents, but you can’t ignore the fact that cars kill far more people than knives.

I don’t like cars, and one of the reasons is because they’re extremely deadly and driving is basically the most dangerous thing we do on a regular basis.

But not anything could be used as a mass murder weapon. Killing nine people with a kitchen knife would also be quite hard (technically possible if the attacker gets lucky, but still more likely to result in the attacker dying)

The fact that cars are all potential mass murder weapons isn’t my primary reason for wanting to ban cars, but it’s totally a reason.

The tool is very relevant when it enables greater amounts of violence.

Killing nine people with your fists is extremely hard and you’d probably die trying. A car, gun, or bomb makes it much easier.

I consider my appearance to be armor. I put on makeup and cute clothes and style my hair so I can face the world. Helps my social anxiety.

Also, totally doesn’t take that much time. 20 minutes max once you get into the habit of it.

If lab grown teeth give me better reception then I’m all for it!

Any time we use words in a way that’s different from a conversation it requires learning. That ranges from argumentation to story telling to, in this case, search queries. If it’s different from talking to another human, it’s a different skill.

Well either they sell them at a loss or they just let them sit on lots forever.

Tesla would rather recoup some revenue than just scrap all their remaining inventory.

Cynicism. I think it’s important for people to know that these people all belong in prison.

Yes? People aren’t born knowing how to use search engines. You learn this stuff.

Surely you see how using a search engine is a separate skill from just writing words?

Point is, people don’t want to learn. Natural language searches in the form of questions are just easier for people, because they already know how to ask questions.

Do you think you were born knowing what search terms are?

We spend most of our time communicating with humans so we’re generally better at that than communicating with algorithms and so it feels more comfortable.

Most people don’t want to learn to communicate with a search engine in its own language. Learning is hard.

Okay, but you said “doesn’t sound too bad”

Insider trading sounds pretty bad, regardless of the fact that it is normal.

Let’s not pretend like these children aren’t having this behavior reinforced by their parents.