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>There's a reason why you're advised to keep your seatbelt fastened when seated. I simply don't understand some cabins that have cocktail bars in them - are you
by coldtea 2y ago
>There's a reason why you're advised to keep your seatbelt fastened when seated. I simply don't understand some cabins that have cocktail bars in them - are you absolutely crazy?
No, just not pusillanimous about it, given the odds.
- ghaff 2y agoThere are a bunch of things airlines could do. Eliminate drink & food/snack service. Strap in 3 point harness for the whole trip and pee in a bottle if you must. I suspect those would be… unpopular. At least some airlines banned hardcover books during takeoff and landing for a time.
- onlyonhn2 2y agoCareful with the non-declared /s. Some of these people would actually push for these reforms given a little encouragement.
- pooper 2y agoCase in point, make self driving cars cheap enough (under USD 20k new for a decent electric car with self driving) and I'll gladly support a complete ban on humans driving on public roads if that means the self driving cars can coordinate and drive better.
- wizzwizz4 2y agoIf you're making such a major change to the infrastructure, replace the roads with train tracks, and the cars with electric trains. It'll be cheaper and safer. Cars that can only be driven by computers in controlled conditions defeat most of the point of having cars (i.e., mobility for people unable to use public transport).
- portaouflop 2y agoThe point of cars is to provide mobility for the disabled?I would guess we would have a lot less cars around if that were the case, at least in the city (no idea how it is in the US, I heard you can’t even walk there in some places so )
- wizzwizz4 2y agoGiven how wasteful they are, that's the only good justification for cars. But per the social model of disability (https://www.scope.org.uk/social-model-of-disability https://www.scope.org.uk/social-model-of-disability): > The model says that people are disabled by barriers in society, not by their impairment or difference. Barriers can be physical, like buildings not having accessible toilets. Or they can be caused by people's attitudes to difference, like assuming disabled people can't do certain things. in areas without usable public transport, everyone has this "disability". Individual action can't make public transport magically appear: only policy changes can do that. (Or anarchically setting up your own public transport, I suppose, but that'll probably get you arrested in America.)
- coldtea 2y agoWhy even allow people to go to places on their own (whether car or EV or public transport) without the written consent of the state?
- gpderetta 2y agobe careful on that slope, you might slip and get hurt!
- mejutoco 2y agoFirst we would need self driving cars to exist I am afraid.
- yawpitch 2y ago> No, just not pusillanimous about it, given the odds. Fascinating; an exemplar of both toxic masculinity and grandiloquence in a single word.
- shlant 2y ago>toxic masculinity Would love an explanation of how you got here
- yawpitch 2y agoDuckDuckGo search for “pusillanimous meaning”, 2nd definition from the top. > Destitute of a manly or courageous strength and firmness of mind Not much of a leap.
- portaouflop 2y agoI guess because it’s a snobby way of saying “they weren’t pussies about it”
- coldtea 2y agoYou've guessed wrong. The etymology is latin for "small (pussilus) spirit/courage (animus)" meaning "faint of heart".
- coldtea 2y agoYou keep using this term "toxic masculinity". I don't think it means what you think it means. Or perhaps you also think only men are brave enough to go to airplane bars (or to untie their belt or stand from their seat during a flight even when it's not "absolutely necessary"?)
- yawpitch 2y agoPer DuckDuckGo, the 2nd definition of “pusillanimous” in the American Heritage Dictionary is: > Destitute of a manly or courageous strength and firmness of mind; of weak spirit; mean-spirited; spiritless; cowardly; -- said of persons, “Destitute of a manly spirit” implies that there is such a thing as a manly spirit one can be more or less possessed of… that falls well and truly under the scope of the meaning of toxic masculinity. And perhaps you, for some reason, think that women aren’t perfectly able to engage in toxic masculinity? Either way, I only use the term where and when appropriate.
- HeyLaughingBoy 2y agoPusillanimous: when Monty Python taught me a new word :-)