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Given most of the hires in this administration, I don't think credibility has ever been on their mind.

I don't think there's a reason he could've given for the attack that would've convinced people. It's just increasingly apparent that world peace and human betterment would've been better served had one of the 2 aggressor nations lost its leader, rather than Iran.

Hoping they manage to give Israel a bloody nose. Or perhaps even decapitate the Israeli regime.

I haven't dug into the details of this very deeply, but I trust that the transit geeks that I follow on social media generally know what they're talking about. I appreciate y'all.

Oh, I see how I got confused. And it was in fact entirely my bad. Restaurant Shed is the term used for outdoor dining structures, and I got that mixed up with sidewalk sheds.

At least I'll work on keeping the terms clear in the future. Thanks for poking me on it.

I bet India loves the phrasing of this - that the US decides whether they can buy Russian oil, rather than the Indian Government.

If Modi were not a terrible person, maybe we could hope that he'd cut all economic ties with Russia until they're done trying to eat their neighbours.

I wish the subway would directly take people to the airport, or alternatively for passenger fees to cover the AirTrain entirely. Not sure why the AirTrain should exist as a separate-fare system.

Ah, sorry for the confusion. I've seen the terms used in confusing ways (a lot of people call the outdoor dinning facilities sidewalk sheds) and may have not been careful in my own usage.

Huh? The sheds are there to allow for outdoor dining. They get more space for customers, customers get to have a cool experience, parking spots might be eliminated. Win-win-win.

If they're citizens of voting age they must be able to vote. Regardless of how one feels about other issues around them.

C-level execs are actually not necessarily all that clued.

Good. However well meaning the nonprofit, it is a really bad idea to have non lawyers doing this.

In this war I'm hoping Israel and the US suffer an embarrassing and high-cost defeat.

Otherwise we're all just mostly guessing a lot of the time on what parts of our own experience is relatively common or more distinctive to us, and it can lead to missing out on good conversations.

that it gives one license to ask a lot more questions without sounding like a horrible snob. Maybe that is a way through this.

The examples are endless, and as I'm writing this maybe I should figure out how to phrase these in ways that won't sound arrogant or make people feel lessened by their answer and use them as conversation starters

I have found, thankfully, that by taking on a social role of an eternally curious sort

A lot of people ask things that look like they might be rhetorical questions or ways of letting off steam, but they also might be genuine uncertainty - "I don't know how someone might think that".

Another example, I don't know if everyone can synthesise other parts to songs they're listening to.

I often find myself wishing I could easily know (without a lot of tedious asking) more about the average human experience, because it's hard in many cases to know what perspectives/abilities/understandings are reasonably common, nearly-universal, or rare.

I wish I had the luxury of pushing so hard against FlexLM and other anti-consumer DRM stuff in other industries. This stuff never adds anything the user wants - it's purely there to limit potential use.

There really isn't an effective middle ground here. You can be somewhere between "denuvo is fine" and "I don't like Denuvo but I don't care much" and do nothing - practically the same position from an action POV, or you can take a real stand against it and accept that this'll hurt some studios.

And I get that some of these studios are full of wonderful people who really want to make a great product, but I think it's important to keep a hard line on this. If a publisher releases software with Denuvo, people should put in some effort to disrupt hype for that software and try to make it fail.

I've been pushing for people and orgs to be careful with what they believe, but a surprising number of people get pretty angry about this - they think it barely matters if an accusation is true so long as it points at someone reprehensible.

It would be really nice if Denuvo - the invasive piece of anti-consumer software some software publishers attach to their games-and-other-things - were on its way out.

Over the last few years I've been raising a fuss over anything published with it, trying to disrupt buzz. Gets tiring.

Thank you for doing this, and for having good messaging.

It would be lovely if this were possible, but I expect broad pardons to block nearly every go at justice.

Bibi should not be a free man.

And, while I despise the regime, I wish them the best of fortune in destroying/repelling US and Israeli forces.

I laud the nations brave enough to condemn and refuse to support it. I am disappointed in nations that feel a need to go along with it because they want to trade with the US.

I condemn the legislators in the US who are too cowardly to cut the finances out from under this invasion.

There is no real justice in war, but reciprocity can approximate it, and can impose costs on it. This war is senseless, stupid, and should be condemned in harsh terms. There should be costs.

For every government official in Iran killed, I hope a similar fate befalls an Israeli or US official of similar position. For ever Iranian civilian killed, I hope an equal number of those of the aggressor nations meets a similar fate. For ever building destroyed, for every city flattened, likewise.