From what I can tell from within the Mastodon echo chamber: quote replies and moderation

Someone can logically agree to something but emotionally still hate it.

Logically, car drivers should understand and appreciate the zipper merge, bc it makes traffic better. But emotionally it's too difficult for them to let someone in ahead of them.

Same thing you can explain about alternatives to cars making traffic better. But when they see money or (God forbid) space on the road going to infrastructure other than cars, it will feel like a zero sum game again.

That is the biggest challenge I've experienced in trying to promote alternatives

If you go back far enough, whales are a type of fish, just like us humans

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Same, I think they must be AB testing and I don't get assigned into the shitty group

You can find it without them boosting it for free. But you don't have to watch it to understand the story

"Car driver kills doctor on bicycle"

A longer cable for charging my phone

It's really hard to put myself in the shoes of someone so against cicadas... Like I get that it's possible to not like them so intensely you wouldn't want your name to be inspired by them, but I'm just not sure how I'd have that person in my life.

See I got the whole different interpretation of the story.

I thought the sewer man was in need of coffee and the soldier was trying to help him out.

Weird that I did not at all sympathize with the woman in the story.... I guess I'm conditioned to not like women with starbuckses

On one hand I'm glad the media is reporting on this. On the other hand they seem to be signal boosting a lot of the messaging from the right

I still remember fondly an occasion at a wedding when my friend group all got placed at the same table, and we were 90% veg with one couple who ate meat. They remarked on it, and we all spent the rest of the meal joking about how it felt to be the minority, and they had to field questions like, "If you were on a desert Island with only vegetables, what would you do?"