They seem to be getting ready to use the pink triangle for its first purpose again.

Might be a different symbol this time, given that the pink triangle became the first pride symbol.

I know that the Rav4 Hybrids have a real hand brake, at least when they first started making them. Not sure about the newest ones.

Did toyota get rid of their hand e-brake? I thought they were one of the few left that still had a manual e-brake.

Unfortunately this time, it’s not just Russian propaganda.

That makes sense now! Thank you, I was having trouble wrapping my head around it!

Any clue why there are 2 bars per year grouping?

I thought it was maybe number of cases in each year, but 2000 at the beginning of the graph and when 2000 appears later don’t match.

Boycotting seafood from a cou try that recently had an oil spill or a country where a contaminate was found to be used in factories would be apolitical boycotts.

Late 2015/early 2016, Trump himself said that he could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and not lose any votes.

Sorry, I turned the frogs gay.

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For some health insurance, there are payouts for losing a body part. In college, the university gave each of the students an emergency and dismemberment t policy so that in a catastrophe, you’d have some form of coverage. Crazy to see how low the payout was for losing an eye, leg, hand at the age of 18 was.

Right! In Florida, they don’t have an excuse as many of them witness how quick and efficient it can be to pass through a security checkpoint with Disney World right there scanning thousands of people every day.

Ban the guns and put up a security point to make sure nothing is making its way onto campus.

There also the fact that speakers on modern tvs suck because they want only a little black frame around the screen. CRTV speakers pointed at the viewer and modern tvs point downward or behind the screen, so everything is a bit muffled. It’s like they forgot that audio is a big aspect of watching shows and movies or they are wanting to make a ton of money off a separate speaker system.

If we were having this conversation in 2017, I’d agree with you. However Trump announced his run over 10 years ago and has been spewing more of the same shit since then. The excuse about not knowing isn’t really valid anymore. The morons who voted for Hitler are called fascist, just as were the bigots who fervently supporter him.

Gen Z was born 1996-2009, the oldest were 19 years old in 2016 when Trump campaigned to drain the swamp, which famously didnt work.

Only racists and fascists voted for him after 2016. He was surprisingly open about all the terrible things that have happened so far in his second term while on the campaign trail. Although I never listened to his campaign ramblings (nor did a large chunk of his crowd), I didn’t see reports about the drain the swamp slogan after the first term.

How did it take them 9 years to feel duped?

Yeah, it’s crazy working as a server now. $2.15/hour plus tips. You have to be somewhere that makes good tips. The law only guarantees that you will make at least $7.25/hour and the restaurant is supposed to pay you to that average only if tips don’t get you to minimum wage.

That’s true, international tourism is down across the country, not just domestic tourism.

I imagine there’s a lot less tourists since ICE started showing up in big numbers in LA. The presence of a large oppressice force also makes some question whether they want to go out or not, especially those close to the people who have been kidnapped.

The people who write the laws are saying they are OK with this. The law doesn’t mean much when the corrupt have the pen and paper.

My problem is that sentences end up like the meme, where autocorrect does nothing to address the typo.

It loves leaving words like anf alone, even though it’s not a word.

What are you talking about with PrEP? It’s not tied to having insurance, there are LGBT sexual health clinics where you can get free PrEP even if you don’t have insurance. If you go the traditional route for medication and get a prescription through your PCP it’ll depend on your insurance, but that’s also not always the safest route. Granted if you live away from the city, you will have to go the traditional route, because there aren’t likely to be any LGBT clinics nearby unless you decide to drive into the city for your quarterly appts.

In the 90s, health insurance was almosy exclusively tied to your job. There were a couple policies that you could get if your job didn’t offer insurance, but they were expensive. Today, if your job doesn’t offer insurance or if youre out of a job, you can not only get insurance on the marketplace, but you can even get financial assistance. That financial assistance didn’t exist in the US 30 years ago outside of Medicaid. It’s not universal Healthcare, as seen in other countries, but the ACA is overall an improvement on the system.

I agree that there are still rights to be won and attitudes to be changed so that people can live their lives openly without threat of violence, just noting that the overall situation is better now than it was 30 years ago. For example, I saw a story about a trans teen in North TX (a small town north of the DFW metroplex) in the last couple years. If that story was from the 90s, it would’ve been about the death of the teen and that’s what I was expecting. Instead, the article was about the teen being kicked out of a school play because they were trans. It was a relief that the teen was still alive, which shows some positive growth, however there’s still work to be done.

The younger generations are better at inclusion and I’m hoping that trend will continue. As the Silent Generation and Baby Boomer politicians (who have been ruling for the better part of 60 years) leave office, I’m hoping they are replaced by younger, more open-minded politicians. I’ve seen articles mention how in some elections that’s happening, it just hasn’t reached the leadership of the various branches yet. Hopefully, when it does, we can reshape the system to help everyone and build better defenses against those who would abuse their power for the rich. My concern is that if the conservatives are rallying behind a goal, while progressives grow increasingly pessimistic, that we may not see shift that we really need to make progress.