Appropriate! I’m actually a pro-2A gun owner who believes states should have licensee-paid training course requirements operated by ranges alongside properly funded per-gun licensing programs, both of which potential buyers would have to pass/obtain before use, perhaps additionally subsidized with a small annual fee per gun.

I definitely am guided in this opinion by the way I think we should regulate cars. Cars and guns are way more analogous to one another than hard-line advocates for either are usually comfortable admitting. I think that both have their place but need to be treated responsibly. The current lassiez-faire approach in most states is definitly a major factor in the number of deaths attributable to both. This doesn’t mean it has to feel punitive or be needlessly difficult, it just has to comprehensively address obvious risk factors.

We need that here in Oregon. ODOT effectively functions as this giant mechanical titan that only knows how to expand highways, stomping into town once a year to force local residents to rally to prevent the same lane expansion projects annually, over and over again. We have to win every year but the titan only has to win once. ODOT is actually filled with considered and talented engineers but ODOT’s mission means they can only do evil, we need to reprogram the robotic titan to let them do good.

It would not be an administrative nightmare. Many other responsibilities in society require more rigorous continuous government compliance than one test every five years, fluid administration of compliance generally just depends on sufficient funding for that administration.

Lawsuits challenge every new law we create, that’s par for the course and surviving that just requires well-considered legislation and state attorneys. You knock down the first lawsuit and the rest get denied on precedent of the first.

These aren’t the damning challenges you might think they are. They pale in comparison to the real challenge: Getting popular support for such a bill in the first place.

I don’t like the idea of cracking down on drivers once they reach a certain age. Everyone ages differently. Just require that all drivers re-test every five years. I bet we’d be surprised at how many 40 year olds flunk out.

I’m sorry, do you not actually like when other people concoct the worst possible interpretation of what you said and then imply publicly through flawed logic that it’s what you really meant? That’s only something you enjoy doing to others? My bad.

I stay away from torrent files, preferring magnet links only. Seconding the other user’s suggestion of backing up appdata to preserve your torrent library.

Surly you aren’t implying that there is literally nothing better to spend that money on, that all saving is hoarding, and that if someone of finite means saves $70K they should spend it on a luxury car with the intent of asserting ownership over public thoroughfares?

A fool and his money are soon parted.

Oh I do know many Connecicutters are hurting. I have been to Hartford. Seen that shit with my eyeballs.

Seems so nonsensical to me. Even if you’re someone who drives every day there are perfectly serviceable used cars out there for $5000 whos remaining useful lifetimes outlast the repayment period of a new lease or loan.

West Virginia: Buying a $500 used car in cash
Connecticut: Buying a $50,000 new car in cash

Laws don’t even have to change if nobody is enforcing them.

This might have been the hardest part of Mamdani’s fight, but the fight is far from over. Remember that he still has to beat Adams in the general election. And word is that Cuomo is far from done, he’s gathering support from millionaire / billionaire benefactors to either boost Adams or run in the general himself as another independent. Cuomo always ratfucks people, always has, be ready for something nasty. And personally I’m paranoid that the DNC will close ranks against him to endorse a challenger, similar to how they shut out Bernie against all popular support.

Keep fighting.

Edit: Cuomo just announced that he will be running in the general as an independent. Mexican standoff between The Good (Mamdani), The Bad (Adams), and The Ugly (Cuomo).

See that’s the thing. Not only is this a transit-fireard city doing transit-forward zoning, the pictured comments are also just inventing an imagined issue. It’s actually not at all difficult to find parking in Portland. It’s very easy.

Native portlanders are often a bunch of big babies when it comes to city life issues in a way that suggests they’ve never lived anywhere else. Parking is laughably simple to find in Portland, it’s fucking easy mode compared to any other city. Only core downtown is metered (Even then only business hours, and it’s only a few dollars), and there are no alternate side parking rules to speak of. Literally it’s easier to park in most Portland neighborhoods than it is in many suburbs.

Also most of these infill housing complexes are built close to transit, by design.

Typifying a nation state by to it’s goals, rhetoric, and past actions is not antisemitic, but the government of Israel definitely wants you to conflate it as such.

Language parsing engine working as intended.

I’m pretty far out on the radical fringe, but this title is too sensationalized even for me.

Usually this is just an indicator that you aren’t actually on the radical fringe. Not trying to contradict your point or anything, but this is a sort of overton window-shifting rhetorical tactic that gets on my nerves because it actually works against a movement. Even if you didn’t realize you were doing it.

Regarding the opinion on terror rhetoric though, I do think it’s a fine strategy to call what cars do to our street like terrorism. It’s usually not definitional political terrorism (Usually), but the situation we have today required political choices which have resulted in actual terror on our streets. It’s a bold choice of words, and sometimes you have to be bold to hammer home a point.

And on that count… It should be “crash”, not “accident”. “Accident” partially aliviates blame and suggests an inevitability.

Alright, back into my pedantist cage.