Sometimes people use “respect” to mean “treating someone like a person” and sometimes they use “respect” to mean “treating someone like an authority”

and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say “if you won’t respect me I won’t respect you” and they mean “if you won’t treat me like an authority I won’t treat you like a person”

and they think they’re being fair but they aren’t, and it’s not okay.

https://kottke.org/18/05/the-respect-of-personhood-vs-the-respect-of-authority

I mean good for you, but as a fellow homosexual, I demand acceptance.

Tolerance is a pathetically low bar. We deserve equality and respect.

That’s so real.

I’m can’t be a man, I’m just a guy

We are against private companies tracking you across state lines on behalf of the police. We are not against toll cameras, speed cameras, red light cameras that enforce rules at a single point.

I’d wager this driver just thinks he’s above paying tolls, or bring punished for breaking traffic laws.

Absolute individualist power fantasy. Same with shooting someone in self defense

How do you convince yourself that 27 vs 30 is a difference that matters in any way

That is indeed the case; I believe “we” here refers to society, and functions as a synecdoche for the auto industry

Why did you trust a LLM to source and interpret that information for you in the first place?

It’s okay to be embarrassed because you didn’t know about the setting.

Are you this condescending to everyone you talk to?

Or maybe some of us have normal sized phones

In the absence of unionization, the worker should take every opportunity to bolster their position in the employer/employee power imbalance