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Does the G20 ever deliver results?

It’s good for leaders to get together and talk to each other. But expecting something concrete to come out of this seems silly. That’s not the point. The “declaration” will just be the usual “we agree to work together for the betterment of humanity” or some vague bullshit.

Raising… pay?

No. There’s no way those two words can go together in that order. Get out of here with your crazy talk.

the problem seems to be when people take “apartment life isn’t for me” and then go to the conclusion of “they shouldn’t build apartments for anybody”

you don’t have to live in one. just let people build them. only allowing single family homes doesn’t make single family homes more accessible for anybody, it just makes land more scarce and housing less affordable all around.

it sucks more everywhere else

the idea that journalism can save america if only they inform enough people is a perspective only held by journalists. america knows what’s going on. they don’t need to be told. and they’re okay with it. only 1/3 of the electorate voted against trump in 2016, and approximately 1/3 voted against him in 2020, and it looks like about the same 1/3 will vote against him in 2024. and we’ve all seen what he’s been doing.

it’s not some secret that Trump is an authoritarian and republicans would rather cheat and win than lose a fair election. that’s terrifying and horrible, but it’s not news. everybody knows. and telling them isn’t going to change anything.

The video captured by Cruise showed that the ambulance parked behind the Cruise and did not attempt to pass the robotaxi in the rightmost unblocked lane.

If there is a lane open, and the ambulance waits behind a parked car for 90 seconds instead of going around in the open lane, is that really the parked car’s fault?

I know blaming the self-driving car is a fun headline, but maybe focus on the vehicle that struck and killed a pedestrian, rather than the one that wasn’t moving

america is already a democracy. if they wanted different leaders, they could elect some.

the problem is that they don’t want different leaders. the leaders aren’t the only bigoted fucks.

Can we all just stop pretending that “Elon musk says…” has any meaning at all? He says all kinds of shit. If twitter gets voice and video calling, that will be news when it happens.

But Elon musk saying it’ll happen doesn’t really have any more weight that me saying it’ll happen. And I’m nobody