Reminder that we didn't win the similar long fight over seatbelt usage by gently persuading skeptical anti seatbelt people with empathetic outreach, or by having cops write tickets, but by having manufacturers make cars do a little annoying beep if you didn't wear it.
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I don’t think his confirmation is inevitable but it’s not just about RFK because he represents a lot of people - MAHA isn’t going away if he’s rejected. If maximizing vaccine uptake is the ultimate goal (as it should be), is the best strategy to browbeat or build bridges? bsky.app/profile/dave...
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Getting the open container rule changed was a struggle
The newspaper published the names of those with the most DUIs. Winner was +25, with 3 separate court appearances on the same day
“My car was stolen!” Tell your insurer, not us.
“My kid took my keys!” Take the insurance increase out of their allowance then.
I’m sure there were medical exemptions, but they were not handed out like lollipops.
https://youtu.be/KynuvJqrnIw?si=WObhQmXR14aKAt0k
Personally, I'm 100% ready to reach out across the aisle in a spirit of empathy and understanding. All I need is an example of the right reaching out across the aisle to the left in a spirit of empathy and understanding, so I can do it correctly like them.
People lined up around the block to get polio vaccines; they'd seen entire wards of iron lungs with children.
Modern vaccine hesitancy is partially due to how successful vaccines are at preventing disease
Then we decided the tobacco companies should be put in charge of anti-smoking ads, and that's going as well as you'd expect.
I don't think we had annoying beeps before the 1990.
Designed procedure rocks!
You do not cajole a narcissist; that just give them power.
Hospitals won't let you work or volunteer there if you aren't vaccinated for certain diseases.
Children can be excluded from care centers or schools if not vaccinated.
Let people opt out of vaccines, but their HMO deny any resulting claims if they do. Cash up front to treat.
Between individual rights and the needs of the collective, this issue inherently straddles a moral line I'm uncomfortable crossing regardless of risk. Open to suggestions.
I was in a lot of arguments about how hostility doesn't change hearts and minds, and fuck hearts and minds. People change when they stop being invited to gatherings, when they don't get the promotion because every coworker who's not Archie Bunker hates them...
Not trying to be difficult, it's something I've been mulling over.
Like I'm assuming shame meaning appeal to any ACTUAL morals or decency, which lol no.
but isn't embarrassment over the -perception- of violating those?
for the base: see the business where they were wearing diapers over their clothes in support.
if they're all in lockstep it's really hard to embarrass them, you know?
You know?
And when it comes to the "leadership," we're mostly talking about pathological narcissists triply insulated by extreme wealth and sycophancy three deep in every direction.
What THEY think is embarrassing is often completely orthogonal to what any normal person might care about.
(I learned a few years ago that most other countries require vaccinations for chickens/eggs, making cookie batter perfectly safe. We truly live in a hellscape.)
I had a couple in one restaurant I worked at and I instantly opened those doors because FUCK, but those workers at Sheetz always seem immune. 🤪
We don’t need to give these people legitimacy.
And while I hate all antivaxxers, I hold special antipathy for people who claim "religious exemptions", as you're almost certainly lying.
Zero mainstream religions actually ban vaccines, and gonna guess anti-vaxxers don't actually all coincidentally follow obscure fringe religions.
I can think of high demand groups that are anti vax, like fundamentalist LDS groups but they tend to be anti vax and anti school.
https://youtu.be/2xcQIoh3FQQ?si=el4jJG74ccRKJtLx
I guess they figure the former has great potential to harm others, whereas the most obvious victims of helmet-less motorcycle operation are the people on the motorcycle.
We just went to New Orioles and by the end of the week my throat and eyes were constantly irritated because of the amount of second smoke I was exposed
to.
It’s totally because there are a bunch of laws limiting where you can legally smoke in public and it became too inconvenient for a bunch of people to bother with anymore.
Where everybody has been vaxxed🎶
🎶And they’re always glad you masked🎶 (I know, so 2021)
One even had a description about pwning the libs.
So you also insert your keys into the side of your small intestine during a side impact, too.
A real "am I out of touch?" moment for me
Those larger airbags in some cases killed kids sitting in the incorrect way.
Which...I didn't learn from the manual, but I did feel a certain warm glow of pride when I could smoothly turn while flipping the bird at the impatient asshole behind me.
"No, we don't want it!"
"Okay, it's nice to not have to scrub the walls every week." "Wow, business is better and employees are healthier!"
Or in summer now most of the outdoor seating is back to parking spaces. What's better for business, space for 30 extra people to sit and patronize your cafe, or two car spots?
(There are of course countless other such examples, which I chose to forget/ignore)
They improved the food, lowered the prices, or folded ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
“it impedes my movement and i can’t respond as quickly”
“my liberty”
i heard yelling about this into the mid90s!
"Listen as the narrator desperately begs people to care about their children!"
https://www.ghsa.org/state-laws/issues/Motorcyclists
Anti-vaxxers should be required to carry a large binder detailing all the hoops they jumped through in order to remain infectious & dangerous to the public.
I still drive a stick & the car won't start unless the clutch pedal is depressed
Been that way since the 90s
"I go to a church and I don't want my child vaccinated" is not a sincerely held belief.
The only reason I know about the seatbelt bypass stuff is it gets commingled in with various seatbelt extenders or dog safety belts.
One big difference though were laws, courts, and an insurance industry that harshly penalized belt refusers financially and sometimes criminally. The cranks are well into capturing those institutions now.
also..
There was a tragic accident where 10 of 12 people riding in a pickup where killed when the driver lost control
MD was sick to ban & fine riding in the bed of a pickup as a result
Me:
Car: The door is ajar, the door is ajar
Me: no it is not, it's a DOOR!
As for the buzzer, my VW Rabbit had one, emphasis on had. It was removed on finalizing the purchase
Meanwhile the Japanese companies just put the cats in and dominated the national market, because nobody was going to make a separate CA version.
That might work
-Indiana Jones
but that's more effort than most people, even most oppositional people, will put into it.
There's also no standard weight for those alarms. The alarm doesn't go off in my current car but in others I've owned, a box of cereal would probably set it off.
A lot of people don't think about things being thrown around the car until it's pointed out. (Unbelted passengers can even injure belted ones.) As long as you're comfortable being hit by whatever's on the seat, I have nothing more to say about it.
Punisher skulls & thin blue line motifs also seem pretty popular for those clips, which is why I ultimately opted not to get one.
I can't even count how many times my neices got clotheslined by the seatbelt in my Camry, mostly when they were trying to get out of the car.
I miss my Camry.
https://youtu.be/r_UP_EiXwKA?si=tpy1zqujkNI8j_xm
Oddly, this approach worked.
Just the simple, “okay, we’re not going to provide child supervision for your little petri dish unless you get them their shots” was remarkably effective!
Though apparently it’s also becoming more common to be non-smoking. All of Colorado’s appear to be primarily non, though some have a distinct smoking lounge.
I live near the Muckleshoot rez in WA. Fireworks are illegal here on the county level, but people buy them from the rez.
Overall, this seems to be more about the passage of time (old people no longer driving, people driving faster)?
thank fuck
NHTSA introduced a regulation to require seatbelt interlocks (couldn’t start car until you buckled) and people got so mad that Congress passed a law banning them
And…yep. They got a lung transplant there 😶
The DL voter sphere is overflowing with defiant personality types, isn't it
FDA says eciggs are "markedly less risky," but if a vape firm just quoted them it would be an "illegal health claim."
In 2015, 12% of teens vaped ≥ once/month.
In 2024, 5.9% of teens vape ≥ once/month.
It is strange that the field of illicit drug use preaches compassion, but tobacco control still preaches shaming and stigma.
https://www.odmp.org/officer/15433-trooper-randall-wade-vetter
The fact is that it’s going to come to that because insurances companies are in business for profit and sick people cut profits
[Taking a big toke of his own farts] "If maximizing vaccine uptake is the ultimate goal, and given that it goes without saying that appeasement best achieves that, then surely you must agree that we should appease!"
There's quite a lot of scholarship lately that says our climate is changing more due to changes in insolation and polar precession than the effects of greenhouse gas emissions.