I’ve seen stats from Switzerland (IIRC) that said 70% of vehicles breaking noise limits where motorbikes. 20% were trucks and busses. 10% were cars. You want to address transport noise? Get rid of bikers.

It’s nice to see that it’s getting some attention but I’ve been seeing stories about this for years. We will be long dead before this is addressed, let alone solved.

This is some highly enriched, weapons grade bullshit. You want drivers to see you? Don’t drive like an idiot. The best way to be hit by a car when you’re on a motorbike is to drive way faster than everyone else, change lanes constantly, overtake cars on the right and split lanes. Guess who does that the most? Idiots on loud bikes.

On top of that you will not hear a bike driving behind you, no matter how loud it is. I have no idea in what fantasy scenarios laud bikes save anyone. It’s 100% just a stupid excuse used by obnoxious idiots.

It’s a joke with a weak setup, not a social commentary about loneliness. Pointing out the setup is not factually correct is like pointing out horses don’t go to bars.

It’s a joke about a guy wearing a camo.

I think you just buy one for decoration. Not everything has to practical.

It doesn’t. I already said there are different reasons why some laws are not passed. With circumcision specifically people may not see it as “forced genital mutilation” but as a harmless procedure. It’s a matter of education and cultural thing. I don’t think most of Americans would agree with you on that but that doesn’t make all of them bigots. On top of that people may think it’s not practically enforceable as you will not have police checking baby penises and people can simply take kids to trusted doctors. Headscarf ban is easier to enforce so it could be done as “low hanging fruit” type of thing, even if it’s not top priority. Nothing here proves bigotry the way you think. You’re still basing this only on your opinions about Austrians. You may be 100% right about it but you can’t really prove anything.

In this case priority is a matter of perspective, not logic. Banning circumcision may be more important for you and me but it doesn’t mean it’s the priority for Austrian voters and legislators.

The idea that banning head scarves is incrementalism towards banning genital mutilation strains credulity

I didn’t suggest that, you did. You said both things could protect children’s rights. I just pointed out that the fact that some law doesn’t address entirety of a problem doesn’t prove anything about motivations behind it. Many different things influence the scope of laws. Not just the intent of the legislators but also things like popular support, how much would the enforcement cost, is the enforcement possible in practical terms or some undesired consequences of such enforcement.

I saw an article the other day about women in Spain not sunbathing topless anymore because of all the “nudify” apps and pervert glasses. Are gyms going to be next? And I mean “going to the gym”, not “working out topless”.

Botellon: just drinking and socializing outside, usually something a group of underage kids/young people would do. Not a party, not simply getting drunk. Like hanging out but with some alcohol.

Not really. “Aproverchar” means more like “I have this things that I would normally throw out but I will used for X instead”. You wouldn’t say “I had some left over chicken so I appreciated it to make corquetas”.

In Spanish that would be “picaresca” and Spanish people also think it’s something that doesn’t really exist in other cultures.

sorrow

Yep, sounds like “grit”.

Are any of the ads on social media not dodgy? I opened YT without adblock not so long ago and was immediately served ads for scam product from China. Facebook was also full of ads that were obvious scams.

Yeah… that’s not how any laws work. Lawmakers make compromises all the time and introduce some rules gradually. They made non-smoking rooms mandatory first, then they banned smoking in public workplaces and businesses open to the public, then they banned smoking near to bus stops and so on and so on. You don’t go “if the law was created to protect non-smokers they would ban smoking everywhere where non-smokers are. If they don’t, then this isn’t their motivation at all”.

the iPhone manufacturer wants to use personal user data from Siri conversations

They will only use data from AI users using AI to train the AI. Sounds reasonable. If you don’t like AI and you don’t use it your data will not be used for training. At least for now.

It’s crazy how many people got hurt by a meme in shitpost community.

Good job OP!

Every woman she knows with a degree dated/met the same guy? Small world.

Are you kidding? I would kill for modern phone with Blackberry keyboard. I mean there are couple of nice options now but nothing works with deGoogled OSes and I’m definitely not going back to stock Android… But I loved all BB phones, even the Android ones. The keyboards worked great and had sooo many great features. They had some models without keyboard but they just were not able to compete in Android market.