GreyEyedGhost

Well, looks like they just found a hundred thousand or more. Time to lock them up?

This is fairly inaccurate, as well. Paid work was certainly lower, but prior to the Industrial Revolution merely putting clothes on your back was a fairly labor-intensive task. One estimate puts it at 10 spinners to supply one person on a loom, and this work was often done by women at home, and was generally paid work in the Middle Ages. A British census in the mid 1800s, which over-represents unpaid work in domestic services as laborers (I'll let you decide if that counts as women being part of the economy or not), still had about 50% of women in the census as employed.

The definition of terrorism usually runs along the lines of, engaging in acts to cause fear for the purpose of achieving political goals. So, stalking someone isn't terrorism, but sending pictures of a politician in various locations with crosshairs drawn on them saying you will follow through unless/if they do x would be.

Now, the question becomes, are these arsonists setting fire to Tesla vehicles and showrooms because they want Musk to stop his political antics or because Musk is a giant asshole? I honestly think you could get reasonable doubt on that, provided you actually had a fair trial and weren't dropped in a deep, dark hole somewhere.

Ah yes, that's the more reasonable interpretation.

There was a story of where a deer was hit by a Tesla in FSD and didn't even slow down. If it can happen to a deer it can happen to a person, and LIDAR would be a lot less likely to in either case.

You can get 100% cotton items, probably even bags if you look hard enough, but you're right, most cotton items are a cotton synthetic blend.

Political portraits often try to paint people in the best light, even if they have to be as accurate as a caricature to do so. Makes you wonder just how ugly this guy was if this is the best they could do.

Cotton degrades, plastic just keeps getting smaller for a few centuries until it finally breaks down. And most of those bags are just non disposable plastic.

When your defense is, "Actual Nazis would say you need to work on your Nazi salute if you want to do it right," you need to realize you're also saying, "Actual Nazis would recognize this as a poorly done Nazi salute." And him being an unfit, physically inept fuck doesn't make it less of a Nazi salute, no more than my hour of playing tennis doesn't make my attempt at a backhand swing any less of a backhand swing just because Serena Williams would fall on her ass laughing if she saw me do it.

It's very easy to find an image of a politician, or anyone really in the public eye, doing what appears to be a Nazi salute. Pretty much any gesture that starts with the hand below shoulder level to above head level may well briefly transition between those two that could result in an image that appears to be a Nazi salute from one angle or another. It's much harder to find video that closely mimics actual videos of Adolf Hitler doing a Nazii salute, even harder to see it happen twice just moments apart.

I'd argue it only pertains to research they're giving grants for. We don't have serfdom here, where what these researchers do in time they haven't paid for is their concern unless it actually impacts them. And if they don't know what their grants are for, that's their problem.

I saw someone else mention that after I posted and that seems the most likely reason.