Bookmeat

It also doesn't help in oligopolies where you are stuck with mostly bad options.

Exactly, the government's probably not getting that for free. There's money to be made in suffering.

They've all got compromat. So they all shut up.

The list of who voted for the resolution is sadly short.

Good for you. (Not sarcasm). Now the rest of the allies need convincing.

Heads firmly stuck in the sand looking for petro-profits.

Maybe it allows Biden to send more aid in time before Trump takes over. Most other resources are thin and can only go out the door as new ones are made to replace them.

Pardon

These anti-safety features are getting more common and annoying. My personal peeves are turn indicator lights that are red instead of orange and then on top of that are the animated ones. Cute, but now I have extra processing to do, often at night, in the train, to figure out whether they're braking or turning. Of course this is a non-issue on BMWs.

Or headlights that turn off when the turn indicator comes on. Or strobing bicycle headlights that blind drivers for a split second before making the cyclist invisible in the absence of light the next moment.

I always let my lawyer speak for me when I'm innocent.

Looking at you, Scholz...