Horses can’t just go galloping around everywhere. It’s hard on them, hard on their hooves if they’re carrying a rider, and they require distance to get up to that speed. They have limited endurance, and if they eat right after a hard gallop, then they get bloat and die a painful death. Trust me, a bicycle is faster, and easier, and all around better unless you’re commuting around the hills and backcountry.
So when the EU says Europe first it’s totally okay, but if the United States says America first it’s totally toxic? Seems a bit two-faced to me.
I seriously doubt they’re not capturing the information just because you told them not to. They’re just going to treat it differently. But have no delusions that they’re respecting your wishes as you think they should.
I have never seen an opt-out work as it should. Operating systems just re-enable everything through system updates. Apps do it through app updates. A lot of updates seem like they’re for nothing other than getting you to agree to a new more intrusive ToS. For websites, spam lists, and that sort of shit, they just create a new mailer program and opt you into that. Sure, they’re not sending you the one you opted out of, but there are 500 more on the back burner. Some of the worst offenders will have dozens or even hundreds of different lists and force you to opt out of each one individually. Then of course there are the spammers who just don’t even capture the opt out. Or put the opt out behind a login that you don’t even have. Or serve the opt out page through an ad-click network which is blocked by your filter list, firewall, ad blocker, or DNS. There are a hundred ways they circumvent the laws and legislators are doing nothing to stop them.
An eBike would be faster, and way easier to maintain and store. They don’t require insurance.
At least people are still pretty friendly over there, and really down to earth. I spent some time in Eastern Washington this spring and had a really good time. I was in a small town and it seemed like a long lost piece of Americana.
Washington isn’t purple. Washington is two States split in half by the Cascade mountains. It’s all blue on the West side, and all red on the East side.
Ladies and gentlemen, the government of the people!
This sounds awesome! Many of us have commented on the lack of expression, masterworking, and soul in modern architecture. This would be a really neat development.
Thanks. That’s what I suspected.
Okay, thanks for the clarification. I guess I can see the merit in both systems. Like obviously it’s more humane to just let them stay, and government bureaucracy rarely works as it should. On the other hand, having a loosey goosey permissive policy seems like it would surely encourage more illegal immigration. But the whole argument against immigration made by the right is so two-faced. They’re the ones hiring people without documentation so they can shave operating costs at the cost of human exploitation. I think a better system would be to severely punish employers who hire undocumented workers.
Are you asking me what Mexicans have to do with the illegal immigration issue in the United States?
I guess it closes a loophole, but to my understanding, more Mexicans have been leaving the country than arriving over the last decade. Perhaps that has changed since Biden took over.
I don’t understand this. As long as I can remember, marrying a US citizen meant you were safe.
Very few boomers had any say in how anything turned out, just like you don’t have any say in how things are going now.
The lack of procreation will continue until conditions improve.
Don’t care! Cure balding first!