“Hey, participate in your own judgment by some person on the internet who wants to somehow gatekeep a friggin drivetrain.”

Nah, I’m good. I’ve lived here for decades and can drive in whiteout and icy conditions without AWD, but choose the added benefits and control of having it these days. And the hell with dealing with those conditions with RWD ever again.

Fig. 12: Proposed design for Salmon Gambling. Six labeled fish enter, one makes it out. The remaining five become sushi available for the viewers.

Not having an AWD version is a non-starter for me up here in the frozen North.

What a boneheaded reply. Don’t be a fuckwit. Cut the ableism, lack of awareness, personal privilege, and national differences. What are people with disabilities supposed to do? People who don’t or can’t drive? People talking care of their infirmed family? People without the thousands of dollars needed to enter a country and live there without a job until they find one that will sponsor them?

According to you, they should take the risk on being sent back to the US poorer than when they started, end up homeless in a strange place, and/or let their family members die alone without support.

I say this as a US citizen trying to get out and having done a TON of digging into what it takes to leave here specifically and go to a European country. There’s more involved than you seem to know. And a boatload of risks.

Not everyone lives where and how you do.

It’s not easy. The oversimplification here is absolutely off the wall. You don’t know their situation, so saying “just leave” in the most blasé way possible because you were lucky enough for it to be easy for you is borderline insulting. Family, pets, financial situation, medical situation, and so many other factors play a role in why someone can’t up and leave. It costs a lot to immigrate and move thousands of miles away. Not to mention language barriers.

Nah, Sontarans are smarter than that.

It’s very real. Ruined people’s lives and even negatively impacted plants and animals nearby. He also performed an experiment on people at a con with a control group and a group being hit with infrasound to prove out the effects.

Benn Jordan has an excellent video on this where he investigated infrasound and spoke to people impacted by it. Well worth watching.

Suspend PreCheck, GE, and ongoing FEMA aid work “due to the shutdown” instead of the wildly expensive, unnecessary, cruel, and downright weird ICE ops. Every day this administration finds new lows to sink to.

How people supported and continue to support this trash heap of humanity bungling around as an administration I will never understand.

Uncle Deadly. Though I’d also be fine with Animal or Gonzo.

What makes you say that? We have Mint and leave the country all the time. The Minternational Pass option is one of the main reasons we signed on with Mint.

The constitution only matters if its enforced. That’s no longer the case. It’s not worth pretending that we’re living in times where it was at least marginally followed nor enforced.

Now that it’s acetaminophen and circumcisions that cause autism, can we please go back to vaccinating people?

I was still holding on to at least being able to vote out enough of his supporters during the midterms that we might be able to block some of their insanity or even reverse one or two things during the back half of this election cycle, but I’m pretty sure that seals it up. That’s the end of voting mattering, y’all.

Well done to all who voted for him for any reason, as well as those who could have voted and didn’t. I hope you all experience everything this administration wants to do to those it deems as lesser than itself.