Given how invested they are in apologia, owners hearing that are liable to somehow take it to mean the thing’s better at avoiding pedestrians because of said “targeting.” I might start referring to it as “pedestrian execution mode” to drive the point home.

Or a bottle of water.

The only way this wouldn’t be supremely disappointing would be if they were keeping all staff and only introducing this for lower-importance sequences to reduce the famously insane workload. But yeah, I know I’m only kidding myself to even entertain that idea.

The two matters aren’t mutually exclusive and ultimately their motives don’t matter as much as the effect. Getting riled up and indignant about some people’s racism is useless and even counterproductive-- especially compared to focusing on the source.

Racism being systemic means there are barriers to overcome at every income level. Everyone has already bought into it at varying levels, so you can’t just go “See, look, they’re racist!” Outside of a few like-minded people, the typical response would range from shoulder shrugs to annoyance at best. Many will even perceive the accuser as acting superior.

If we’re talking about racism on a systemic level, exposing that there IS someone who benefits is necessary to get people invested in societal healing. Most people are constantly tired and from their perspective, don’t have the energy to care about what they perceive as other people’s problems. Make it their problem too, and maybe something will change.

Campaigns and general influence by wealthy people who want poorer folks attacking their fellow poor folks and not them. Same as racism in general.

I had to actively seek sources out for my own sanity. The people compiling it don’t cover every area I’d like, but there’s good news happening too. Two sources I know of are Sam Bentley and Good News.

Yikes, proper waste handling could use more attention in the news, despite the seemingly endless flow of other problems. (Lots of good news too, but that gets even less attention.)

I’m sure in addition to what’s been publicly stated as happening right now being indefensible even to the most in-denial people out there (at least out of those who want to be able to believably claim they care at all about human rights), it helps that in the UK at least, cases have been moving forward against war criminals with dual citizenship. (Identified “veterans” of the genocidal campaign have been charged elsewhere as well but I haven’t heard how those cases are progressing yet.)

Oh, I didn’t realize you were using colloquial English there.

Actually, “lay” is the past tense of “lie,” AND “lay” is a separate verb from “lie.” Most people will incorrectly (for formal English anyway) confuse the two verbs, using transitive “lay” when they mean to be using the intransitive “lie.” (E.g. “She lays down” is not a valid conjugation in formal English, and should be “She lies down.” If she’s putting something else down though, “She lays it down.”

Here are the respective conjugation charts for both verbs, if you want:

• https://www.wordreference.com/conj/enverbs.aspx?v=lie
• https://www.wordreference.com/conj/enverbs.aspx?v=lay

In some regional or cultural dialects though, maybe it’s all “lay?” I grew up with (and taught) more formal English but I do try to respect established differences in standard Englishes (as long as I’m aware of them). :)

*It’d be “lies” for present tense, but “lay” is correct for past.

No it isn’t. For the benefit of anyone not intentionally being cold and maybe just having some trouble putting themselves in others’ shoes, I’ll go on.

I’m not from the US, but I completely understand the extreme hurt, alienation, and disillusionment described here. I’ve felt it myself too, from here in Canada. The sense that an entire country might as well have just rejected you personally, with the rise of all those “anti-woke” campaigns and–despite what it should have meant for them-- seeing white women and other people of colour willingly vote in increased numbers (within their respective demographics) for patriarchal white nationalists (along with the poor and middle class once again voting for the least favourable party toward their interests).

That kind of added alienation (because there is always some background alienation to start with, especially for black women) within a land that should feel like your own home, and from people you thought should theoretically have your back? It makes you feel unsafe. It makes you feel like a scapegoat on top of that, when you start hearing talk from DNC people about how they have to stop caring about equality so much. The question arises of whether anyone-- as a matter of principle-- truly cares about justice for you, when you always cared about it for them.

I don’t know how long it will take, but for a lot of people, all the hope that was crushed will have to be replenished.

I have seen the aftermath from when someone rolled her foot in platform heels. (I was nearby, but didn’t see her foot go perpendicular to her leg like I heard about afterwards.) It was many years ago and I don’t think of it often, but I don’t recall ever buying any kind of platform shoe ever again after that.

The term sodomy on its own usually means anal sex, but in this particular case, the verb form “sodomize” is indeed referring to

They don’t want Gemini, so they stated probably the best way to avoid having Gemini. It’s a privacy-minded comment. Despite being Google’s own phone, Pixels may be the only phones you can unlock to flash with a different ROM (GrapheneOS) and then be able to lock again after for security.

Wth is wrong with a fade (low or otherwise)? I’m afraid to know what kind of meme is so horrible when it just sounds like a basic haircut.

Also, big donors are angry at them, so I guess they’re trying to win those donors back.

It’s also reported here. This fits with the reports of complaining that Democratic Congresspeople have been doing about the progressive wing of the party wanting them to fight back against DOGE. They and party leadership may well be aiming to not just talk like it, but fully become the new Republican party, in hopes of having a stampede of “moderate” Republicans who aren’t happy with Trump come their way.