the most hilarious part of this whole thing is the assumption that I have a new car 😂 y'all, my car is 20 years old. the most advanced technology it has is a panel that tells me which direction I'm facing, my gas mileage and the temperature. it doesn't even have an auxiliary jack 😂

exactly, which just reinforces my point: "safe" driving is not the same as SMART driving. if we want to anticipate how likely someone is to do something dumb that causes an accident, we not only need to reevaluate safe vs smart driving, we need to follow other indicators of dumb behavior.

my credit score is excellent, and my last accident was nearly 20 years ago, but my last speeding ticket was 2 months ago.

if you have a bad credit score, that suggests you're probably dumb & irresponsible. whereas "safe" driving behavior, as I explained above, isn't necessarily smart driving behavior. just because I'm speeding doesn't mean I'm driving dangerously. I actually slam on my brakes way less often than other drivers I know, because I'm OBSERVANT. I know how fast I can go, not based on a sign, but based on the road, other cars, my car's condition, my reaction time, etc.

hot take: I don't necessarily want "safe" drivers, I want SMART drivers. I want OBSERVANT drivers. I want drivers who are aware of the road conditions, their car's limitations, and the cars/people around them. I want drivers who notice when someone is creeping towards the edge of the lane so gets out of their blind spot before they even signal they want to change lanes. I want drivers who can anticipate others' speed to zipper properly. "Safe" drivers are often dumb, hazardous drivers.

that's basically what I did 6 years ago, although in retrospect I should have forgone 2 tickets at $60 each in seats too far away to see a anything that wasn't on the jumbotron and just grabbed one ticket for $250 that was right in front of the stage 😕

😂😂😂😂😂 okay Tim, Black men who experience the worst of our two-tiered justice system will definitely sympathize with a wealthy 77-year-old white man who wasn't even charged until 8 years after the crimes took place, never had to set foot in a jail cell, got wall-to-wall news coverage & after decades of crimes ranging from racial discrimination to insurrection, was only convicted of *falsifying financial documents to cover up an affair with a porn star.* just like what Black men experience! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

why would you put this image in my inbox with no warning

I swear to God if they're about to argue that we should prioritize policies conservatives like when those assholes wouldn't vote for Biden if he tossed Trump's salad on live national television...

I mean, the latter is kind of A LOT MORE IMPORTANT than the former?! I would consider it a dereliction of duty if the media was like "Republicans just took away women's bodily autonomy BUT BIDEN JUST MADE HEARING AIDS CHEAPER WEEHOO CHEAP HEARING AIDS THAT IS SO MUCH MORE IMPORTANT THAN ANYTHING ELSE GOING ON RIGHT NOW LET'S MAKE SURE EVERYONE KNOWS ABOUT CHEAP HEARING AIDS!"

okay, I guess DON'T campaign on this 🤷‍♀️ Americans are fucking sociopaths

because of course the only artificial sweetener that doesn't taste like formaldehyde, and actually helps prevent cavities, will also kill you. fuck it, man, let's eat like shit and die young.

in Texas we call that "August"

our media is completely fucked

there is zero reason scientists should be astonished. in fact, I'll make a prediction that this record heat "streak" lasts ANOTHER 12 months, and 12 months after that, and 12 months after that, until eventually it ends purely because we've either evacuated the planet or boiled to death.

anyone else ever think about how fucked up it is that a former president has "fans"? like you would never see a headline about "Obama made a surprise appearance and greeted his fans" or "Clinton posted on social media addressing his fans"

it's a fucking cult

I am once again asking Lisa Murkowski to switch parties, especially now that we all know Democrats can win in Alaska.

Susan Collins can go drown in a lake.

mate Black families didn't vote any which way because Jim Crow didn't let them vote at all

I can't say I'm surprised by the GOP's return to open racism but I did not have "racism is a good thing actually" on my bingo card

I can't with the fucking mealy-mouthed criticism of Trump's flagrant authoritarianism. "Trump promised to be a dictator on Day 1. That rhetoric threatens to throw into question the potential legal quandaries raised by an attempt to theoretically hinder the effective functionality of democratic precedent."

they say this like it's surprising that, of the people who even survived the assault in the first place, few of them lived to 100 YEARS OLD. next you'll be like "it's the 200th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. all the survivors are already dead."