Driving a car is a privilege, not a right. They might never even serve time in prison. But no more license.

If a doctor was sterilizing people without their consent, would you have him practice medicine again like the fascists did?

My controversial opinion: once you drive drunk once, you should lose your license permanently.

You’re an adult. You should know better. You probably do know better. If you did it this time, then you’ll do it again. More people will be killed by you driving than will be hurt by you taking the bus forevermore. I do not care how inconvenient it is for you, you can restructure your whole life around never driving again so somebody else doesn’t have to restructure their whole life around a crippling disability or loss of a loved one.

These are dangerously selfish people and we shouldn’t feel sorry for them.

That’s not too bad, we could solve that problem in an afternoon.

As a dad, I sincerely hope the dumbest thing my kids ever do is make a bad investment.

Can you refuse their estate? If I had a terminal disease, I might buy a timeshare and leave it to someone I don’t like.

YET

Sounds like Greta

Speak for yourself. My acne is finally gone, I look super sophisticated, and they never really wanted my bulging muscles anyways.

They breed cows (and kill wild animals) just for you. More vegetarians = fewer dead animals.

A YouTube source implies no good sources exist.

This guy in the Linux threads: lol you folks are all nerds

Couldn’t you just search Airbnb for your jurisdiction, then catch the landlord red handed?

Why haven’t zoning laws caught up?

Ah yes the Tullock Spike

I agree that conflating a healthy economy with stock market growth is bogus. This misconception predates the 1970s, and is the same sort of chalkboard economics I’m talking about.

The chalkboard:

The results:

That doesn’t mean that economics as a whole is bullshit. It means that monetary policy in particular has been heavily propagandized. An economist who agrees with you will find themselves unable to obtain funding and ostracized. Just like Galileo was… But it was geocentrism - not all of astronomy - that was unscientific. Science is how you know if you’re a Galileo or just a crank.

You don’t use science to show that you’re right, you use science to become right.

— Randall Munroe

IMHO the mask simply came off in 2008 when they bailed out the rich and not the poor. They’re pissing on our legs and telling us it’s raining. As more and more people are forced into poverty while the stock market soars, more of us are rightfully asking these questions. So what are we gonna do about it? Do you trust your savings to someone who insists that the economy is rich people’s yachts?

I absolutely go off on people in public transit over that stuff.

Everyone else on Brooklyn 99: “um I don’t really feel so comfortable with this anymore”

Terry: “what part about what we’re doing did you not get”

IMHO part of the problem was that economics was more a branch of philosophy than a science until the 1970s, but the public never got the memo when this changed.

So we get doofuses who act like their economics claims are purely a matter of opinion, not falsifiable hypotheses. Try arguing for a UBI and watch how many chalkboard economists tell you what they imagine would happen, completely ignoring all experimental results.

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• Add fun thing for impossibly abstract reason

The engineer in me concludes that Christmas trees ought to be cat-proofed so they can be included in the fun.

Then you’re getting that upper body & core shovel workout.