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That’s fair, but there’s a wide gulph between transient homeless and wealthy enough to pay all your bills and still travel the world. The overwhelming majority of people in the middle have to work full time to maintain their standard of living, and even the destitute will have responsibilities that prevent them from slinging a pack over their shoulder and riding the rails.

I agree that people should be encouraged to get out more and see more of the world, but that’s like telling people to eat more fresh vegetables and home cooked meals because processed fast food is unhealthy. People who can and do reap the benefits, but not everyone who would, can.

You could chime in that you grew up poor on a farm where your grandma’s garden was your only source of food, and that wouldn’t counter the point that for most people, fresh produce is either unavailable, too expensive, or too time-consuming to be a regular part of their diet. Likewise, most people cannot drop everything and become nomads hitchiking across the lands like fucking David Banner or Jarod the Pretender.

To put it another way, Travel is a luxury enjoyed by the unencumbered, whether by wealth or absence. It is not an option available to everyone.

It’s got chemicals, and it’s made with dihydrogen monoxide, and cells and dna and proteins and all the sciency shit you won’t find in all-natural grass-fed beef.

Mexico, too. I’m never sure if people exclude it because they consider Mexico to be Central America, which it isn’t, but North America includes Central America anyway. Or do they just forget Mexico is a country?

I’m old enough to remember Abscam and the Keating Five. Apparently bribery is OK as long as it is done in public.

If you didn’t want to be a bigot, you should have been born rich and traveled more. That’s just science, don’t @ me.

Kinda seems like he got everything he ever wanted.

What those names make me remember:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLHRjaUBb3o

Touch screens have no business in dashboards. I don’t care how sleek it looks to replace all the physical buttons. You have to look at a touch screen to use it. That alone makes them entirely unfit for the purpose. Physical buttons that can be identified by touch and provide tactile feedback are the only interfaces that make any fucking sense at all.

This fees like something so obvious that I cannot understand how we got here.

I wasn’t going to bother, but this kind of makes me want to delete my Facebook account.

Not really. There are plenty of social media apps and services that aren’t toeing the line. TikTok is being targeted because of their relatioship with China.

This was your fucking idea! We don’t have to do comprehensive immigration reform, but the GOP demanded it be done before funding support for Ukraine.

It’s a transparent stall tactic. “Now is not the time to shit, but I refuse to get off the pot.”