In 1944, freedom was conditional. It depended on fitting into social expectations, on being legible to authority, on not attracting the wrong kind of attention.

If your “freedom” depends on fitting in and not attracting attention, then you’re not free.

I said seagulls, hmph, stop it now!

They’re prolly all gator dung by now…

They called his bluff. That’s hilarious

This person has nice handwriting

Yeah that’s why you do multi-stage like conventional jet -> ramjet -> scramjet

But again, yeah if it needs to carry a rocket then it might be unfeasible. We could try your gauss cannon idea, that sounds fun. Like a maglev train, but shaped like those rides from roller coaster tycoon where you could launch people to their deaths. Except instead of crashing, the rocket kicks on mid-flight. It could work.

Are they all Czech? I’m too ignorant to tell slavic languages apart.

Wrote I wrote though was a romanized version of ふわふわチーズケーキ, which is Japanese for “fluffy cheesecake” and is what the one in the top left is called

Oh no he didn’t just insult my favorite congressman!

It’s not even true either. Jamie Raskin is highly intelligent, and professional, and he even kept serving while undergoing cancer treatment. He’s a hero.

trump on the other hand, is trash.

This whole conversation is about it becoming more economical as the technology develops.

In the context of some places (cough, america) trashing initiatives related to EVs, your naysaying isn’t doing much to bring it closer to reality…

It is. Don’t let the haters fool you.

It sounds like you’ve only tried the baked goods from the konbini. Yeah, Famima baumkuchen is gonna require a beverage to help it go down.

But go to an actual bake shop in Japan, and they take as much pride in their craft as anyone else in Japan. There’s a reason the Japanese have earned a reputation for excellence.

Also, while you’re correct about Japanese desserts being less sweet, that’s part of the reason I like it. It isn’t as nauseatingly sweet as the stuff in the US, which loads everything with sugar. Japanese cuisine in general is about subtle, delicate, balanced flavors, not overpowering your taste buds.

Even in Europe, desserts are more balanced. In America, it’s like you’d think the sugar lobby was entrenched in politics or something, with how ubiquitously everything is over-sugared.

Fuwa-fuwa chiizukeiki!!! 🤤

Yeah I traded a whole cow for three beans!

Good to see these young heros fighting the good fight

This is true. I was circumcized as an infant, and when I started having sex around 19, I wondered why it didn’t feel as good as it was supposed to. I thought I was doing something wrong.

So I tried harder and harder, inexperienced as I was, and didn’t learn how to make sweet, gentle love until much later. Even then, it was more for my partner’s pleasure, because my dick just isn’t that sensitive.

It caused a lot of problems in my relationships early on. Frustration and feelings of inadequacy on both sides, because I was “hard to satisfy” literally unable to feel satisfactory pleasure…

So a human growing up with a cut foreskin simply adapts and the brain perceives more sensitivity from the other nerves to produce the same levels of sensation.

That is just false. You sound like someone who isn’t circumcised.

Without the foreskin intact, the glans is subject to friction throughout the day as it’s in contact with the inside of one’s clothes. This reduces sensitivity over time and builds thicker, drier, and rougher layers of skin. Whereas the glans of an uncircumcised penis is basically a mucus membrane, on a circumcised penis it’s more like the skin of a knuckle, but thicker.

Even the glans loses sensitivity. On an uncircumcised penis, that whole area is basically a mucus membrane. On a circumcised penis, it becomes dry an rougher, like the skin on your knuckle. It absolutely does reduce sensitivity.

Also,

I would consider that as much loss of sensitivity as amputating a leg is loss of sensitivity.

You wouldn’t say doctors should amputate babies’ legs to reduce risk of gangrene, would you? How is that even an argument? “Oh, those nerve endings don’t matter cause it’s just like losing a leg, nbd.” What the fuck?

I was circumcized as an infant without my consent, and my mutilated dick wants you to stop downplaying the severity of its fate.

A piece of me is literally missing, and you want to say I’m not mutilated because that would offend you? Why, do you have uncomfortable feelings about your own situation that you refuse to examine?

I thought scramjets were supposed to be really fuel-efficient? Just launch them with your gauss cannon idea so that they don’t need much fuel to get up to speed.

Maybe you’re right about the weight though. I’m not an engineer.

Well you’re moving the goal posts, because this chain of comments is about “when the grid is built out more, EVs will be a viable option for more people.” So your “In today’s world” argument is irrelevant to the conversation.

Also, in today’s world, people are still capable of planning ahead to make sure they don’t run out of juice. You have to do the same with gas engines when you’re crossing the mid-west, where fuel points can be a hundred miles or more apart. People still run out of gas on their normal routes if they forget to pay attention.

EVs are currently used so sparsely that chances are the wait for a charging port is quicker than the line for gas at any highway rest stop. There’s no reason why the EV infrastructure can’t be built out more as adoption grows. It should already be being built out for future-proofing, but the fossil fuel lobby won’t stop crying about it because they don’t want people to consider EVs an option.

If you want to keep burning dead dinosaurs and accelerating global warming, no one’s stopping you. Just don’t force us to listen to you crying about it when gas is $10 a gallon and your pickup can only get you 5-10 mpg.