What are you seeing that I’m not seeing to the same degree? We’re talking about subconscious biases here. I am aware the one city I visited does not represent a whole country, but being a large city, likely has significant representation in extranational communities. I do not assume a particular vehicle has a particular driver. All I assume is when someone drives unpredictably in sight (in comparison to the rest of the driving culture present), they’ll be just as unpredictable when I’m near them. Like, I’m trying to keep growing here and try to talk about why racial stereotypes often “feel” correct. I don’t see it as any different than judging your own race from a different region - for me, that’d be rude NYC people vs slow southerners or optimistic coastal Californians. I’m only talking about mannerisms that unintentionally get construed as racial.

It sounds like one of the items you’re getting at may be separating nationality/ethnicity stereotypes from race stereotypes. Immigrants or children born in another country will have varying degrees of that cultural as part of their personality. Bartering comes to mind with Indians.

One I experienced recently was Hispanic drivers. We have a fairly large Mexican population here but I obviously can’t tell by appearance. There’s a certain combo of vehicle, modifications, and asshole driving style that would indicate to me the driver was probably hispanic. I took a trip a manufacturing Mexican city (read:non-Resort) and was shocked by the drivers. I saw the wildest maneuvers to get 2 cars ahead, every peice of pavement was valid for driving, and speeding is only avoided at checkpoints. Yet, I didn’t see any accidents, I didn’t hear any horns, I didn’t see any road rage. It was aggressive driving, but everyone just existed and cooperated. Obviously, if you’re the only one doing it, it makes you unpredictable and therefore it’s reckless, but damn, that adjusted my opinion so fast

Everyone crams to the front to get there faster?

Came to say the same. I’m not sure how much my location plays a role, but B&H is my go-to for many electronics, Best Buy is a backup, and Target is up there too. I can pre-order BB and Tgt as well, giving me a few stores to choose from locally. The physical stores need to compete with Amazon to survive, so they are

Amazon sources are equally hard to verify. The only difference is Amazon has a little more customer satisfaction power (by returns to a main warehouse) than ebay (now warehouses but still favors the customer). There’s continuously new ways to get counterfeit product sold on Amazon.

Hi, I’m local. Here’s what we know: the public does not know a drone from a quadcopter. The public has never watched planes fly over. The public has never watched planes fly over at night. The public has never watched planes fly from Europe. The public has no concept of the fact that they have no concept of distance without knowing the size of the target in view. The public has no concept of the concept that they cannot determine speed without knowing distance. The public does not understand the “hovering” appearance of planes heading straight towards the. The public has no idea what the difference is between a hobby drone and a commercial/military drone capable of hours of flight. The public has no idea how long the approach descent of a normal commercial jet lasts and has no concept of how “close” the multiple airports are to them. The public has no concept of the sound delay of a jet flying several thousand feet above.

It’s a fucking twilight zone episode

Edit: I knew I forgot one! We know people have never looked at stars before and identified Orion’s Belt as drones because they “didn’t move and have been there multiple nights in a row” (it’s December and he rises at sunset)

I see Mexican pesos as $ inside the country as well and either MXN or MX$ when talking to the US branch. 1USD = about 20 MX$. I’m seeing it at $700 USD on sale which would track at about 14k MXN but not sure who else has a similar conversion rate

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No, this was Jude Law and Nicholas Hoult and it was released this year

I bought a “mystery ticket” for $5 at a Regal and ended up seeing The Order. Pretty intense at times when you abstract to real life, pretty upsetting at times. Remember to be intolerant of the intolerant.

I have not been in a packed theater since Avengers Endgame. I have been to the theater dozens of times since then. Don’t go opening night or maybe even opening weekend. Most ticket sales at my AMC and Regal are prepurchased with assigned seats, so you can see what’s open and not blocked. You can move around anyway once inside. And all my local ones rebuilt the floor for a greater slope anyway

I thought Desmond was supposed to die in 2012

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I’d expect a county map to more appropriately show the trend. Coastal cities can steamroll stats for a state with vastly disproportional representation. I would expect cities to have lower obesity rates due to increased travel by walking while deep rural counties to have higher rates due to driving everywhere, including on your own property. Perhaps it’s not California and New York that’s doing the right thing, but rather LA and NYC doing the heavy lifting. A county map could also pull in variation correlated to ethnicity of people (genetics, imported cultural norms) and ethnicity/variety of food available, too (can you get fresh fare or is it all McDonald’s?). I would expect DC to be more in line with other large metro counties.

Basically the same issues with the electoral college. States are big and not necessarily a good representation of human statistics. Counties may not be granular enough, but I expect it to be an improvement. I’m not seeing date marked results past 2008.

I have no relevant comments for Colorado, I don’t get it

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Anyway, the parent comment probably meant text-overlaid pictures about 90s topics.

It’s another true half statement the middle management refuses to complete. “Nobody wants to work anymore for the wages offered for these types of jobs”. Same old story as middle management accepting “the customer is always right” (and entitling shitty customers) without finishing it with “in terms of market trends”

Gen Z already has some belief that Millennials did nothing but complain. No/not enough progress was made for all the protesting millennials cried for. It looks like Z is going the X apathetic route.

Yeah, they’re not going to suddenly gain $50k+ cash for a down-payment to replace their home. Yes, a mortgage should be cheaper than rent but a renter probably can’t save an extra 3 year’s worth of rent to put it down.

sees broken glass window with armed agents the other side protecting officials saying don’t come through, starts to climb through, gets shot, dies

“how could Biden do this”

That day was one of the few times a revisited 4chan since being an edgy teen. I knew they’d have a downloadable clip posted. Saved, just in case

Huh, I see ads and banners and signs all the time. I guess I should have guessed the only non-governmental propaganda machines that big are religious cults.

They could also just change the game they sold. I had an early print of Need for Speed Carbon for PS2. I couldn’t unlock most of the cop cars due to a bug, iirc. Later burns fixed it