Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

You are so fucked. Still, I wish you the best of luck.

He really is that stupid.

In after Baud. Damn.

Oh FFS you might as well trust a 6-year-old with a flamethrower.

Those who are easily outraged are easily manipulated.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

One way or another, he’s a liar.

the 10% who apparently lack object permanence

President Musk and Trump are both poorly raised, coddled 8 year old boys.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires.

Republicans: slavery is when you own me. freedom is when I own you.

The snowflake in chief appeared visibly frustrated when questioned by a reporter about egg prices.

When you’re in more danger from the IDF than from Russian shelling, that’s really bad.

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

People are weird.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

With all due respect and assumptions of good faith, please fuck off into the sun.

Jesus watching the most hateful people claiming to be his followers

Giving in to doom is how we fail to fight for ourselves & one another.

Reality always gets a vote in the end.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

“Just close your eyes and kiss the girl and go where the tilt-a-whirl takes you.” ~OzarkHillbilly

Rupert, come get your orange boy, you petrified old dinosaur turd.

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From the ‘No Kidding’ department:

Talking on a mobile phone while driving your car is just as dangerous when using hands-free equipment as when holding the phone in your hand, according to a Swedish study published on Monday.

The National Road Administration (SNRA) tested 48 people in driving simulators, dividing them into two groups — one with and the other without hands-free mobile phone devices.

The drivers in both groups received about 10 phone calls each during 1.5 hours of simulated driving in different conditions. The test revealed almost no difference in reaction time between the two groups.

“It is the distraction of the phone conversation that is the problem,” Ingemar Skogo, the SNRA director general, told Reuters.

No kidding. ANYONE who has had either a learning or memory course could have told you this- it was not holding onto the phone that was causing the problem, it is the attendant COGNITIVE INTERFERENCE with hand-held OR hands-free phones that is the problem. In other words, “It’s the distraction, stupid.”

Alan Baddeley has constructed an entire career studying these issues- I wish lawmakers would pay attention to some of his work, or at the very least read what I have written about this issue.

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    Andrew Lazarus

    While I realize that using a hands-free cellphone impairs driving skill, I am surprised that there is no ADDITIONAL danger by using a handheld phone. (It’s like learning that low-tar cigarettes are as bad as high-tar, which IIRC is false.)

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    serenity

    Then you get the people who argue, “How is that different than having a conversation with somebody in the car?” The difference is, the person who is riding in the car with you, can see what is going on and knows when to stop talking and/or assists you by pointing things out. The person on the phone does not see anything that is going on and is not inclined to stop chattering nor are they in a position to help you notice things you may otherwise miss before it’s too late.

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    JKC

    Does anyone know of a study looking at accident rates with use of hand-held 2-way radio mics? I’d be curious to see how they compare with phone usage.

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