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Feel you - hope you'll have safer ways to bike in the future! Maybe there are some kind of bike advocacy groups in your area?

As a Russian communist with relatives in Ukraine, count me in!

(Historical context for others: 1917 has seen two revolutions, February one, which ended monarchy, and October one, which brought bolsheviks, the communists and socialists siding with Lenin, to power. Lenin has then taken Russia out of the World War I)

Maybe we should cripple ourselves

Naaaaah

Maybe we can become rich and dominate others

That's what's actually on their mind.

The entire right-wing propaganda goes as: "if you work hard and make smart choices, you'll become rich too and will be able to exploit others for your benefit". The rest are seen as passive doomer mob that just aren't dedicated enough, and so end up subjugated by the alphas who pushed hard to pursue their dream (to dominate others and live a rich life on their backs).

This kind of propaganda works beautifully well on young folks who didn't yet get to experience just how hard and unlikely it is to build a successful business or high-payed career, especially without compromising on one's principles.

Afaik, you can set it up not to have any image, or have any other one.

Servo and Ladybird are both worth keeping an eye on, but neither is even close to be ready yet, unfortunately

We're unlikely to see the grand price fall in the coming year. Can get a bit cheaper, though.

Fast lane is for driving at the speed limit. If the front driver goes by the limit, you hold no right to complain.

Do not normalize speeding.

You should do both.

Conditions of early Earth are often complicated to recreate, and it takes a lot of simultaneous reactions going just right to make it work - but Earth had billions of years, and we don't have such a luxury. Still, we are very close, and we already created a lot of biomolecules out of basic blocks like water, carbon dioxide, and ammonia.

Humans have plenty of faults in their design - why do we have reproductive organs, which need to be kept clean, right next or combined with exhaust (urethra/rectum)? Why do we have two legs and vertical organization of the body that adds huge gravitational stress? Why do we have pelvis shaped in a way that makes birthing more painful and complicated? Why people with uterus have bloody and painful periods? Why do we have so many vulnerable spots on the body where they should clearly be reinforced? etc. etc.

We also have plenty of rudimentary organs we don't need anymore, that are either just sitting there for no intelligent reason at all, or are actively causing trouble for us (like appendix or wisdom teeth).

This all doesn't fall into the line of intelligent design, unless divine creatures just enjoy crafting us at random and see how we survive anyway.

Sure, they could still do that, they may engineer us in a very odd and imperfect way, they could make our DNA similar to other animals to make us guess if we actually descent from them instead, etc. But this involves so much jumping through the hoops we may as well cut it off with Occam's razor. Evolutionary theory offers clear sequence of how we got where we are, it shows clear relation of all living organisms and the ways they develop into what we know today. So, it wins.

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