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  • Once again, this time everybody join in, "electric cars aren't here to save the planet they're here to save the car industry."

    Electric vehicles don't really solve any of the problems that cars have. They just shift the resource and environmental problems into a different arena.

    It seems to me that the most effective way of dealing with personal vehicles is to use renewable power to produce gasoline (Blue crude).

    That way your gasoline is carbon neutral or even carbon negative until you burn it, can actually be kept sterile and separate and only mixed on demand so it doesn't go bad, and never has any sulfur in it because it's made from scratch.

    It also means that all of the vehicles that currently exist can still be used which would dramatically reduce the amount of energy necessary to keep a functional fleet of vehicles and doesn't need everything to be replaced including the infrastructure.

    Peaker plants could be built to soak up all of the extra renewable power when production is so much higher than demand so there's no need to worry about where you get the power to do this.

    There are solutions out here but they require a kind of rearrangement of how we do business at almost every level.

  • It's cynical, dishonest, manipulative, and completely unproductive.

    Based on that alone I completely believe that Nancy Pelosi did the math and realized that Democrats could argue for this out loud maybe even vote for it but there's no chance that it'll ever happen so it's a great chance for her to actually do politics with the voters which I thought she had considered beneath her.

  • Or this is the fall she was brought in for...

  • I've seen two this year.

    I've seen More bald eagles land in the yard year than I have seen lightning bugs.

  • 1994 a service called e world.

    It was a funny little thing, My 2800 baud modem brought me tons of adventures and gave me a place to share D&D ideas with others.

  • It's already not legal for ICE to hide their face and ID.

    Laws are for poors, queers and browns, not for the red white and blue blooded American patriots

  • What's the opposite of white noise? Because it's that. That's what I hear.

  • Much of the American Christian establishment is the type of Protestant that does not consider Catholics to be Christian.

    I know that doesn't really make a whole lot of sense but that's how Americans "do religion".

    Baptists don't care what the Pope has to say, seventh-day Adventists think he is actually the Antichrist. Most American Catholics don't really care what the Vatican has to say and would resent the implication that they're supposed to give a shit about the Pope's opinion.

    Americans just don't do religion very well.

  • Obviously something they've been doing got under his skin because they ousted their long time leader and spirit animal Bill Owens.

  • I second this.

    I have three large disk shelves, one made from a J23 CSA connected to an perc h730 in HBA mode, one made from a super micro connected to a LSI HBA card, and one that uses a repurposed DATTO unit with its original raid card flashed into IT mode.

    They are all extremely reliable, handling dozens of drives and I use only ZFS for all of my bulk storage. The best part is how much faster I can replace a dead drive with ZFS than I could with any raid 5 anything. Also, ZFS is flexible enough that you can put ssds in to use for journaling and slog.

    I have one machine with 192gb of RAM and I just use the ramdisk for slog. It's all streaming media so if it crashes only the buffered streams are lost, and this way I'm not burning holes through SSDs quite so quickly.

  • He had to know this was going to happen.

    I'm just amazed at how incredibly ballsy it is for him to go down there knowing that doing so is basically kicking a hornet's nest of entitled fascists that have already defined themselves by ignoring orders from the court.

  • She's a woman and 'the help'. I doubt they care what happens to her.

  • A book written by a woman? That sounds like DEI.

  • And it gets worse as they get older.

    I have friends and relatives that used to be people. They used to have thoughts and feelings. They had convictions and reasons for those convictions.

    Now, I have conversations with some of these people I've known for 20 and 30 years and they seem exasperated at the idea of even trying to think about something.

    It's not just complex topics, either. You can ask him what they saw on a recent trip, what they are reading, or how they feel about some show and they look at you like the hospital intake lady from Idiocracy.

  • In America, our system works like this:

    The police will shoot you, maybe burn your house or neighborhood down, steal everything you own, Lock you up without charges, and then if you can ever afford a lawyer to sue them you might get out of jail only to find the burned-out hole in the ground you used to live in was sold to a property developer and none of the money found its way to you.

    You also owe tens of thousands of dollars in back taxes on the burned down house for the time you were in jail, but all of the money for selling the house was given to some scam artist who knew you wouldn't be able to stop them.

    You can't afford to go to the doctor, but a third of your income is spent on health insurance. It takes 2 hours of work to afford a dozen eggs. You no longer have a car because they towed it from your driveway while you were locked up and you can't even afford to get it out of impound despite the fact that every day the cost of storing the vehicle goes up by more than you earn.

    This country is a fucking nightmare for so many people.

  • They were both extremely bad candidates who should not have been in a position to run. If the party had been allowed to speak they would not have been allowed to run.

    They weren't really candidates that failed on their own merits, they were set up to fail by being put into a position they should never have been in.

    Neither Hillary nor Kamala could have won a primary that wasn't rigged in their favor. Since they didn't get to their position as candidate based on their own merits, it's reasonable to describe their failure in similar terms.

    That said, there is such a thing as more than 100% blame, and this is a situation where A lot of people have a lot of blame. Those two women are 100% responsible for the stupid decisions they made. No one can take that failure away from them, but because of the nature of the mistake, there were a lot more people who should also be blamed and similarly excommunicated from politics.

    There are elements of sexism here, but that's just endemic to politics. They didn't fail because of sexism, they got to where they were because of it and were set up to fail by it, but there are a lot of problems here beyond and before sexism.

  • This is exactly what I'm talking about.

    Can you think of any media that has been edited or will be edited?

    I love archiving stuff and whether it's the aired only once episode of Rocco's modern Life, several episodes of it's always Sunny in Philadelphia, the TNG episode "Ensign Ro", or anything else!

    I'm wondering what is on your list of stuff you know to have been or will be censored?

  • They have already not done this with Putin or Netanyahu.

    There is a less than zero chance they will do this with a sitting American president. No one's coming to save us from him we're going to have to do it ourselves.

  • I hope they demand incredible raises.

  • Blocking nominations, slowing down general procedures, grandstanding about every fucked up stupid thing that Republicans are doing, Lock up the Senate and the house with debate and bullshit, introduce bills that would do the things that people actually want even if they're not going to get voted on, wherever possible don't cooperate, stop confirming his appointments, etc.

    The Democrats should not be letting Republicans get anything done. Republicans always manage to rule from the minority by just being obstinate little shits. The Democrats should at least try that.

    Donald Trump must be stopped and since that's not possible the least they should be doing is slowing his roll.