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What are the benefits of an SUV over a minivan though? They seem objectively worse in practically all regards: worse fuel efficiency, worse doors, less cargo space, worse visibility.

27 percent is roughly the same percentage of white men that are in that age bracket in the US. The lower 21 percent in the humanities could be explained by there being less interest in the those fields from the white male population in the first place.

I wouldn't call that disenfranchised; I'd call that a correction. I suppose you could make the argument that more white men should be incentivized to go into the humanities though.

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Have you tried using the Gmail app? It's missing a whole bunch of features. For example, you can't even insert hyperlinks with custom text. For images, I often don't want to send an image at its full resolution. Rescaling images is a task that's much easier to do on a laptop.

I'm not sure how that would change things. It is still a representative example.

See also: http://archive.today/2026.03.23-031145/https://www.nytimes.c...

And there is precedent for the light manslaughter sentencing of an older driver. In 2003, George Weller, 86, killed 10 pedestrians at the Santa Monica Farmers Market after confusing the gas and brake pedals. He received five years of probation. The judge in that case said that Mr. Weller’s age and declining health had contributed to the decision.

You might also find the book Screw Consent: A Better Politics of Sexual Justice by Joseph J. Fischel interesting. I started reading it this week after seeing it mentioned elsewhere, and it touches many similar themes to this blog post so it's very fitting to see this posted today. The book discusses many things that I've had on my mind since #MeToo, but was never able to quite articulate.

https://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN9780520295414

Interestingly, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) doesn't seem to think headlight glare is a problem [0], as unconformable as it may seem. I suspect there may be a selection bias at play here though. They also conclude brighter = safer. Part of me wonders if the glare also forces drivers to go slower, counterintuitively leading to safer driving.

Anyway, either way, it sucks. Some of the headlight glare is so bad now that I'll see afterimage streaks from headlights even during daylight hours!

[0] https://www.iihs.org/news/detail/headlight-complaints-abound...