Good point.

If you drive like the test in Australia, you’ll be pretty good. If you drive like the test in Greece, you’re a rolling hazard. But also doing mandatory motorcycle tests in some SE Asian countries were insanely easy. Just demonstrating bike control and then doing a short 5 min ride around a block, literally breaking the rules to keep in flow of traffic, and they pass you. Though I’ve found in most countries that have that, it’s IMPOSSIBLE to fail, they just tell you what was wrong and have you keep doing it again until you get a tick.

So again to your point, it’d be very country-specific on whether the driving culture there makes the test an absolute nightmare or not.

Also more cost.

Crying is literally a natural response to stress. You’re meant to do it to release stress.

Always wondered which came first; the Dunce hat or the KKK hood.

No, there’s been quite a few now. Racist, mocking, socially damaging. It’s clear the company is led by a clueless board.

Makes sense. I’ve lived in three Australian cities and getting around on bike, bus, and rail is much easier than driving. Plenty of friends I met never even got a driver’s licence.

But as you get away from a city centre, things become challenging. By the time you’ve left a city region, you enter the Australian sprawl of nasty climate and nothingness between bits and pieces of civilisation peppered around the national map.

It’s a land where one state would be the 16th largest country (I forgot about WA) 10th largest country in the world. A place where I almost all cities, you can fit several European nations in between your’s and the next closest.

It’s car use and costs on roads reflects its low population having a density per square kilometre comparable to the scarcist places on the planet. But if you are in a city—at least those I was in—the infrastructure for not having a car is great. You’re really punished for driving a vehicle in one, yet many still do and are miserable every morning and afternoon.

In shell
Drawing pictures
Of fence tops
With him on top
Lemon yellow sun
Eyestalks raised in a V
The dead lay in pools of pale blue below

Scientists tried to give attention
To the fact that his shell turned left
Snail Jeremy the Wicked
Ruled his world, but

Jeremy didn’t get laid today
Jeremy didn’t get laid today

Clearly I remember
Pickin’ on the boy
Seemed a harmless little mollusc
Oh, but we unleashed a hedgehog
Gnashed his radula
Shot darts at mantles
How could I forget
He hit me with a surprise bump
My shell left hurtin’
Oh, tipped right over
Just like the day
Like the day I heard

Scientists tried to give affection
But the boy was something the others wouldn’t mate
Snail Jeremy the Wicked
Ruled his world

Jeremy didn’t get laid today
Jeremy didn’t get laid today
Jeremy didn’t get laid today

Try to forget this… (try to forget this)
Try to erase this… (try to erase this)
From the postdoc paper

Jeremy didn’t get laid today
Jeremy didn’t get laid today

Good.

Whenever I drive in another country, I’ve done some decent research on not just the law differences but the culture difference. But it’s never enough and at the end of each day I look up the things that puzzles me on the road earlier.

You can easily be involved in an accident if you don’t know, “That’s just how they do it here.”

Some countries the standards are loose, others are very tight. Some countries have things unique to a state or region that are totally different in other parts of it. Driving around people that have transitioned from one to the other is always tense.

And at the end of the day, if you can drive how you’re supposed to in Japan, there’s nothing to worry about with the test.

No.

The topic is about Barbie.

If they’re going to continue trying to be relevent to combat declining sales “inclusive”, they can’t be making unrealistic dolls, especially when their whole mantra is a source of women’s weight issues in society.

And this ain’t their first rodeo of making insulting versions of people in an effort to market themselves as inclusive. There are so, so, so many Barbies that show a company has no idea what they’re doing but will sell anything out to flog a buck.

They pump insulin.

They’re inconvenient, but much better than a few years ago. Having an app for the monitor now is a game-changer to avoid people hearing a self-destruct countdown beep under your shirt. But one of my friends actually still prefers shots three times a day, You just kind of get used to that if it’s all you’ve ever known, so for some people it’s not as big a deal as others make it out to be.

So with that out of the way, you may have replied to a comment mentioning insulin pumps, but what do they have to do with the post, anymore than the doll’s hair colour?

Geez. I wonder why they didn’t include all the other ones…

Computer Engineer Barbie of 2010 was great. It included a backstory of accidentally getting a virus on her sister’s computer as Barbie admits she knows nothing about computers, is just a designer, and relies on boys at her school to help. Of course the laptop was pink.

There’s so, so, so many of these all the way up to now… Oreo Barbie, the Doll’s of the World collection, the sleepover ones that have apparel that says “Don’t Eat” on it.

If it’s not clear now, Mattel relies on making Barbies that will make money at the time. So girls can be happy other girls manufactured dolls for them in factories in a country known as “Oriental”. This is the point of the post.

All you’ve done is link their public-facing marketing material which implies it works.

That’s clearly not the point of this entire post and why it’s been posted where it has. Have you read the article? This isn’t about what you’re talking about.

How could someone’s mind possibly extract that from anything I’ve said, or are you just trying to be a troll?

Should just make up that Biden’s name was apparently on it. MAGAs will scream to see the list again.

What does that have to do with what I was saying?

In the context of what I was saying, everything. If you were just sprinkling random facts to random comments, then nothing. Because what you said had nothing to do with what I said. Maybe you were just responding to the wrong comment all along, haven’t realised yet, and have gotten confused.

Yep. You can rollover to Mattel’s blatant profiteering off inclusivity hype with thehr legacy of gender stereotypes and female ideals. I’ll remain bitter and call out their bullshit.

Did you not notice you’re in nottheonion?

Thanks, Captain.

A broad DCCT (Diabetes Control and Complications Trial) study conducted in the United States, with a population of people living with Type 1 diabetes, established that intensive insulin-based treatments (pump or at least three insulin injections per day, with a view to returning blood sugar levels to a normal range) which allowed for better control over blood sugar levels, had also caused an average weight gain of 4.8 kg compared with traditional treatments (a maximum of two insulin injections per day and broader blood sugar targets).

I have a friend with T1 that used to skip meals to stay skinny after switching to a pump caused weight gain that couldn’t be exercised off. This is what young girls do.

Are you a Mattel employee?

The new Barbie wears continuous glucose monitor (CGM), a device that tracks blood sugar levels, on her arm — while holding a phone displaying an accompanying app. She also has an insulin pump attached to her waist. And the doll carries a blue purse that can be used to carry other essential supplies or snacks on the go.

Back in my day we just used our imaginations to make Barbie be whatever we wanted.

But now kids with Type 1 diabetes loading up their bodyweight can join in on the Barbie-borne eating disorders., because…

This new doll “enables more children to see themselves reflected in Barbie,”

💰

Those 2,145 employees, in turn, make up the bulk of the 2,694 civil staff who have agreed to leave NASA under a slate of offer

Sounds like civil staff was top heavy and voluntary separation packages were offered. Those that accepted and NASA also agreed on would’ve been redundant (or close to it) positions already.

If you couldn’t get your project properly funded and found out $400M a year goes to legacy senior civil staff, you’d want them gone too.

Tribalism will tear us apart-… No, wait… You know what I mean.

It’s the sense of belonging that’s ironic. The kind of stuff Charlie Manson would work with. In the end the pursuit of inclusion isolates us to camp versus camp; prehistoric human nature didn’t just go away now we have civilisation. Its 'more normal that people exercise it by pigeonholing themselves into groups like gender stereotypes or Hogwarts houses, maybe a sports team. Whatever gives them a sense of being something with kin, but not actually going too far.

This? This is going too far, but they won’t bail until they feel accepted into another camp. That’s what it’s actually all about.