If airplanes had a 1/3 chance of crashing for the first several years of commercial aviation, I don’t think many folks would be all too open to being told “you don’t hate airplanes, you hate crashing, we can fly safely too”

And you gotta keep in mind that big tech wants to be the government

In our defense, Italians kept coming here and eating Parmesan. It makes sense we’d pronounce it closer to the Italian

I may only speak English, but I really don’t speak whatever they’re talking in England

Oh ok I thought they were some sort of weird person who doesn’t want to use the gregorian calendar…

We need to switch to being vocally anti ALPR and mass surveillance

Leaving to go drink smh

Yeah I don’t need my partners to be friends, but I need them to get along and like each other

Yeah what the hell that just kept getting worse

I moved across the country

I love this implication that they really can’t comprehend that those of us who oppose it largely don’t use it.

To the detractors, this experiment is based off one done in Australia, and it can have good results. Some may decide they actually don’t need to drive as much and start using more public transit, and others will be able to more precisely point to pain points with not using a car.

Yes, they need more transit oriented development and better transit access, but this should be able to help

Yeah, a train won’t do much without transit oriented development.

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When you wake up having to pee in the middle of the night and don’t want to turn the light on

Also in general, as someone with a vulva, my mental model of a toilet is that the seat only is up for cleaning.

Yep, I got professional, hick (Appalachianish), and my actual accent. Hick is more useful than one would assume

Yeah that’s a midlands accent. It sounds hard to place, but you can tell where it isn’t. It’s not a Philadelphian, or a new Yorker, or anywhere on the east coast really (so many accents over there). Definitely not Californian or southern. So really it just sounds like the midwest (not Minnesota) or like it might be Pacific Northwest. The big thing though is it’s easy to understand. Boston or Baltimore for example would be terrible accents to make the default for newscasters.

Really it’s like how the BBC has an accent

As an American I’ve seen enough brits speak to notice different accents, but I couldn’t tell you where any of them go on a map. And I kinda have to stop and think to notice that there are different accents there because all of them just register as “English/Welsh” or “Scottish”.

I have a similar experience with Canadian accents but I can usually tell Ontario apart. And I can kinda tell the difference between a kiwi and and aussie accent, but I gotta think about which it is and I definitely couldn’t tell Western Australia from Sydney from Queensland

From Ohio, I pronounce it wahr

At which point they sound like a Canadian pretending to be Australian