You made me remember a trip i got to go on work to madrid. I paid for staying through the weekend. The streets were full of bars hostels and young people on holiday. Didn’t see anything too wild but people were lit up. It was fun but I didn’t have to live there.

The idea of a big pro trump protest in manhattan is kind of amusing. There might be protests other places but that could turn ugly quickly.

One thing that might reduce the beta test time is a few major accidents involving 10+ vehicles. That could cause a push for legislation requiring more stringent testing.

I don’t know how much they currently test for bad behavior from other drivers like unexpected lane changes, sudden stops, and combinations currently. I imagine that would require a large testing facility and a bunch of cars they can wreck repetitively. It wouldn’t be cheap.

I don’t think they can just use /r/IdiotsInCars for training.

Inflation is coming down. Maybe the fed will turn the crank down some more but I don’t expect by much. I hope the job market stays strong and workers get raises.

Every time I look at that I read that the extreme tactics were controversial at the time and still are.

I’m sure you can find the wikipedia article, but here’s a relevant quote.

“Searle says the methods of the suffragettes harmed the Liberal Party but failed to advance women's suffrage. When the Pankhursts decided to stop their militancy at the start of the war and enthusiastically support the war effort, the movement split and their leadership role ended. Suffrage came four years later, but the feminist movement in Britain permanently abandoned the militant tactics that had made the suffragettes famous.”

And if you think about it, there is obviously some limit where extreme tactics will hurt more than help. Would you advocate bombings because some suffragettes used that tactic? Burning cars?

Civil disobedience is a critically important tactic to get attention and drive change, but we should be able to discuss particular tactics and not just say “but the suffragettes”.

Yes. But you need 8 eyes to be a spider so you need 4 more shots. Not really. There are some species with fewer eyes. Is your spidey sense tingling?