she and Kelce have been hailed as the All-American couple, a veritable Norman Rockwell painting come to life.
Okay, but they’re far above a real American couple in status, riches, and lifestyle. This may be the least important part of this whole thing, but they’re still part of the way upper classes with zero of the problems the rest of us have.
Can we stop worshipping the rich and famous in general, please?
I did consider the source before posting and you may be right about the intent of the article. Then again, as they say, a broken clock tells the correct time twice a day. My concern is the quoted sentence from the article and it appears (at least to me) she is doing almost nothing to prove otherwise, n’est-ce pas?
Or maybe you espouse views that are farther right than you like to think of yourself as. Views that would have put you, for example, on the side of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging.
You should consider asking yourself whether you need to more reading on this topic before having an opinion.
The hand ringing around Tlaib is in her support to Palestinians and opposition to Israel. While I don’t 100% support her position on it, it is nice to see someone in the government with a different opinion on that matter. Given her district, I don’t think that stance is going to cost her votes. Her seat is safe even with an Israeli PAC offering $20M to anyone to run against her.
Start a playlist/audio book, whatever before you put the car in drive. Then let it play while you drive.
Set your destination before you drive, then hit “go”…and then follow the directions while you drive.
Did you get a text or email? Cool it will still be there when you get done driving. So instead of looking at it, just keep driving.
It’s genuinely, seriously, legitimately, honestly, definitively not that hard. Stay off your phone, focus on driving your 2000 lb death machine. People did it for damn near 100 years before touch screen phones were invented. YOU TOO CAN DO IT!
To play devils advocate just a bit–this is objectively reducing folks productivity and quality of life, particularly for folks that aren’t privileged to work from hom, live near work, afford to purchase hands free tech, or be child-free etc… These folks probably already have inequitable quality of live/productivity challenges. Not saying it’s a “bad law” or anything, safety is almost definitely worth it, it’s just annoying that as usual the measure will most negatively effect more vulnerable people.
It would be fun to quantify productivity loss and quality of life loss vs. gains in safety/public health–i’ll look around for statistics.
Bluetooth has been standard in cars for almost 20 years depending on the manufacturer, you don’t need extra equipment to handle calls that are actually emergencies. I’m not a fan of the law for different reasons, but people need to stop using phones while driving, you don’t need to try and up productivity that aggressively.
There is no devils advocating safety of other people for the sake of your personal entertainment. You owning or not owning a phone does not impact whether or not you need to drive to where you are going. You texting or not texting does not influence the need to drive your car. You killing someone because you couldn’t be bothered to keep your eyes on the road instead of on your phone is not an acceptable trade off, on any world, under any scenario.
I am on an on-call schedule for a hospital and i need to be able to answer my phone when it rings, even if I’m driving. If I don’t, it may negatively effect people in a real way. I can pull over, and doing so on the freeway may be more dangerous than simply answering the call. My reason for posting this post is to help understand how folks are using hands free technology and other strategies to stay safe while also doing what they need to do. Entertainment is there too because I, honestly, want to get better at not being distracted while driving, I have terrible ADHD.
I didn’t mean to offend with my response above, pardon me. I was trying to understand how this ties into other equity vs safety vs freedom topics more generally.
I don’t think anyone thinks that folks should be recklessly endangering each other for no benefit but entertainment. People do endanger themselves and others for all kinds of reasons, including entertainment–folks motorcycle in the rain, they drive tall heavy cars, they don’t run their headlights 100% of the time, etc.–should all of these things be illegal too, because they are less safe than convenient alternatives? Is that “reckless endangerment”? Honestly, I would probably say yes–but it’s not like I’m an expert.
If we say “there is 0 tolerance for making our roads less safe”, even for “good” reasons, then why not say men under 24 may not drive, and anyone over 80 can’t drive at all. The safest thing for everyone would be to never drive, and that seems silly to say…not that I wouldn’t love to walk to work, my kids’ preschool, and the grocery.
You can answer your phone in one tap, which is in accordance with the law. All of your arguments come across as deflecting, making excuses and rationalizing why you need to be or have a right to be on your phone more, when the reality is that you don’t.
You don’t need to pull over on the freeway to answer your phone, you can use a ear piece with tap to answer. You don’t even need to look at your phone to do it.
I’m so curious as to how reactionaries will deal with bird flu. They could always be screeching toddlers about COVID because it meant being hygienic and polite to avoid a 1% FaTaLiTy RaTe, even if that didn’t reflect how severe it actually is without killing you outright. I have no clue what bird flu looks like in the long-term, but there’s that immediate 50% fatality rate. In theory that should make them take it seriously. BUT, in addition to all that 1984 COVID precautions which also suppressed other respiratory viruses, the only way to avoid this one is to not. eat. burger. That is their entire identity and they’ve spent the past four years hyped up on COVID denialism.
It's concerning to hear that the Michigan GOP has defaulted on a significant loan and hasn't made any payments for months. Financial responsibility and accountability are crucial, especially for political organizations. This situation raises questions about the party's financial management and could impact its credibility and trustworthiness with supporters and donors who used guaranteed $100 loan. I hope they address this issue promptly and transparently to restore confidence.
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