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kent_eh ,

whatever “monster of the week” they pick as an enemy

Right wing outrage farmers have been doing exactly that for my enture life.

D&D was the biggest evil ever, back in my teenage years.

And before that it was the Satanic Panic.

There’s always something they want us to be scared of.

kent_eh ,

Trump is only too happy to repeal that shit so fast. Not only that, but big boi Trump also has alluded to glassing Iran

I’m convinced that he really doesn’t care one way or another. He only cares about telling his base whatever he thinks will get them worked up.

He wants power, and will tell people whatever he thinks will cause them to give it to them.

kent_eh ,

The problem is that there isn’t a left to vote for

In the current American political spectrum, there isn’t really anything that most other countries would recognize as “left”.

But given the current binary reality, whatever the Democrats are is viewed as left of the GOP rightwingnuts.

‘We will fight with our fingernails’ says Netanyahu after US threat to curb arms (www.theguardian.com)

Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed that Israel will stand alone and “fight with our fingernails” in defiance of US threats to further restrict arms deliveries if Israeli forces proceeded with an offensive on the southern Gazan city of Rafah....

kent_eh ,

Thats something that a lot of people seem to forget. This fight has been going on in one form or another since the creation of the modern state of Israel. And there is an almost unlimited amount of blood on the hands of both the Israelis and Palestinians. (As well as the colonial countries who set up the borders in the first place)

kent_eh ,

It sure would be nice if we lived in a country where policing was actually a civil service and not a damn street gang.

The cases you hear in the media are the ones that provoke outrage.

On a day to day basis the police have hundreds of interactions with the public that aren’t remarkable or noteworthy.

kent_eh ,

Unable or unwilling?

kent_eh ,

They had intense disagreements about how to build the country, and no single design or designer had enough influence to get exactly what he wanted.

The difference is they were willing to give-and-take to eventually come to a mutually tolerable compromise solution.

Contrast that with today’s “if you are from the other party, I will thwart you even if it is a good idea”

kent_eh ,

Oh goodie, you did the bare minimum and voted.

Have you involved yourself in actually improving the process?

kent_eh , (edited )

As a citizen of one of those “more Northern countries”, that is one of the things that concerns me.

kent_eh ,

The good things about his campaign promises is you know it’ll never happen if he gets elected.

Except you don’t really know what he will actually do. Some of it will be even more crazy than this idea.

kent_eh ,

Want to go farther? Fine! DC fast charging is, in fact, fast

Sure, but those need to exist at the appropriate locations, and be maintained in working order - neither of which is the current reality in a lot of places.

Add to that the lack of availability of affordable EVs and you are going to have the slow adoption we currently see.

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I was planning to get an EV of some sort the last time my vehicle needed to be replaced, but there were none available at the time that fit my budget and my needs.

I still intend to have one relatively soon, but the practical realities are still an impediment.

Transgender activists flood Utah tip line with hoax reports to block bathroom law enforcement (apnews.com)

Transgender activists have flooded a Utah tip line created to alert state officials to possible violations of a new bathroom law with thousands of hoax reports in an effort to shield trans residents and their allies from any legitimate complaints that could lead to an investigation....

kent_eh ,

Not only “trans activists”.

It’s also just average people who are frustrated with the stupidity of these kinds of discriminatory laws.

kent_eh ,

It has already started.

kent_eh ,

What’s your point?

Just because someone else is being bad doesn’t obligate us to do nothing about our own contribution to the problem.

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Pull your weight and set a good example for others.

kent_eh ,

We could have both.

kent_eh ,

but complicated since most jails don’t have remotely the capacity or security of a real prison and you’ve still got to figure out how to work his Secret Service detail into the picture. And also the protests from his cult if/when that happens.

Which are all things the judge acknowledged in his statement ashen he handed down the most recent contempt ruling.

Like it or not, there’s a lot more considerations to this than simply “lock him up”.

kent_eh ,

one that he has already prepared his goon squad to riot over

That concern for the safety of the officials who would have to enforce an incarceration order is one of the things the judge specifically referenced in his statement.

kent_eh ,

giving Netanyahu the 26 Billion in bombs

An American tradition of blindly supporting Israel since 1947

kent_eh ,

Also, there will probably be a response in the industry,

I dunno. There have been tool rental places with pro level tools for a very long time, and the tool manufacturers don’t seem to have reacted to stop it.

kent_eh ,

Ask her what she thinks about immigrants and minorities.

The guy she wants to work for has called them “animals”, so…

As China and Iran hunt for dissidents in the US, the FBI is racing to counter the threat (apnews.com)

After a student leader of the historic Tiananmen Square protests entered a 2022 congressional race in New York, a Chinese intelligence operative wasted little time enlisting a private investigator to hunt for any mistresses or tax problems that could upend the candidate’s bid, prosecutors say....

kent_eh ,

India had a Sikh activist killed in Canada a year or so ago. And Modi predictably freaked out when publicly called out on it.

Arrests were recently made in that case.

kent_eh ,

That’s a large part of it.

I think China is also studying the western response to Russia as they think about their own future activities in Taiwan

kent_eh , (edited )

I don’t see how you can in good faith be participating in an election

Thats the thing, Trump and the MAGAts aren’t participating in good faith.

kent_eh ,

They’ve been indiscriminately killing Palestinians long before October.

And during that very long time, Eisenhower, Johnson, Ford, Nixon, Regan, Clinton, both Bushes, Carter, Obama, Trump and until recently Biden didn’t stop selling Israel weapons.

And now Biden has started to cut them off.

kent_eh ,

In your pants?

kent_eh ,

I am starting to think this job is only available to Trump’s twitter followers.

Sycophants is who they want.

Mindless yes men.

kent_eh ,

Having an accountant “nope out” as soon as they get a look at the books is also a bad sign.

kent_eh ,

I hope this trend continues internationally.

kent_eh ,

Better late than never.

kent_eh ,

they say they’re putting them out from 48V to 800V, 48V is what most inverter systems use, so I imagine they’re targetting that size for “consumers” at the single-house PV system size.

48 volts is also what telecom uses in their infrastructure. That’s a much bigger market (and one with deeper pockets) than consumer installs.

kent_eh , (edited )

Thats great that you are looking for alternatives, but you aren’t the only reader here.

Other people have other interests and are looking for different things than you are.

kent_eh ,

declaring war against something you made up or doesn’t exist.

It’s one of the few things Trump has been consistent at.

kent_eh ,

On the other hand, clickbait and SEO gaming has gone on so long that using a site like Google has become significantly less useful

That’s the same old game of “whack-a-mole” that every search engine since the beginning of the internet has had to play.

Search engines try to provide useful results to keep users trusting them enough to keep coming back, and advertisers keep trying to use SEO to manipulate themselves to the top of the search results

kent_eh ,

sites blatantly shoveling shit for the sole purpose of gaming their algorithm

That’s the definition of SEO right there.

kent_eh , (edited )

If there is some sort of cease fire, the UN needs to bring in a Cyprus style peace keeping force to physically stand between Israel and Palestine for a generation (or probably more).

Anything less will just lead to the same repeated outbursts of violence that we’ve seen for the past 70 years.

kent_eh ,

…wikipedia.org/…/United_Nations_Peacekeeping_Forc…

As I said, it’s not a quick fix, but is has managed to keep the Greeks and Turks from killing each other there since the 1960s.

kent_eh ,

Or are they considered political megaphone parrots, hence a valuable userbase?

AKA: useful idiots.

kent_eh ,

At least some of it is retail investors who politically believe in Trump, don’t have any idea what they’re doing, and are getting sold a pretty terrible deal.

Those would be the same as the normal audience for “truth” social.

kent_eh , (edited )

Questionable if the are fully aware what their role is.

I doubt they are explicitly told they are cannon fodder.

But I also doubt they have been offered a lot of other options, either.

“Fight and maybe die, or refuse and guaranteed you will die a slow painful death in a gulag.”

kent_eh ,

but it can create situations like this.

Only if proper vetting of the contractor isn’t done. That part of the process should happen regardless of who the contractor is.

kent_eh ,

there are a lot of level-headed people among gun owners but there are also a worrying amount of terminally fearful people with violent ideation.

The problem is that both groups have the same ease of access to weapons.

Until there are a lot more reliable ways to tell the 2 groups apart, weapons need to be a lot more difficult to get your hands on.

kent_eh , (edited )

Most people aren’t actually that good at their jobs, only good enough

Most jobs don’t come with good pay.

They get what they pay for.

kent_eh ,

There’s satisfaction to be found when labour results in a tangible and lasting result.

There is also a satisfaction in a task that has a clear goal and end point.

kent_eh ,

It’s not in capitals interest to let people retire

Instead they just lay off people who have been on the payroll for “too long”.

kent_eh ,

Paying for premium gives more money to artists.

That’s what Spotify claims. Do we have verifiable proof that actually happens?

kent_eh ,

Florida seems to ban something every week.

Brought to you by the “party defending your freedom”…

kent_eh ,

Sure, but when Trump violates again, that doesn’t give the judge anything else to escalate to.

kent_eh ,

someone who really didn’t mean any harm up

That doesn’t generally fit the description of someone who intentionally takes a gun to school.

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