… Yeah, I’m going to go ahead and blame the catastrophic decline on Trump. Sure, Fox News, Reagan, Citizens United, and a hundred other distracted disasters preceded Trump, but that Nazi shitbag has driven the U.S. straight off a cliff. The damage from his hand selected supreme court alone is terrifying.

Pro tip:

Put the thing in your cart, enter your info, then don’t check out. Check your email the next day. Many companies will email you a promo code to make the sale. Successfully did this just last week.

Surprised he didn’t paint it orange with gold accents.

Nobody loses money like trump

I suppose I never got that far into the show. After the scene where Billy Bob portrays himself as an expert on why windmills don’t work, I just about threw my remote at the TV. It’s just plain lies. Viewers took it as truth.

"Do you have any idea how much diesel they have to burn to mix that much concrete?

"Or make that steel and haul this s*** out here and put it together with a 450-foot crane? You want to guess how much oil it takes to lubricate that f****** thing, or winterize it? In its 20-year lifespan, it won’t offset the carbon footprint of making it.

"And don’t get me started on solar panels and the lithium in your Tesla battery.

“And never mind the fact that if the whole world decided to go electric tomorrow, we don’t have the transmission lines to get the electricity to the cities. It would take 30 years if we started tomorrow.”

For some reason I read State of Fear recently. At the end of the book he wrote page after page of why he thought global warming wasn’t real.

I can’t recall the exact language he used, but he said something to the effect of “we shouldn’t use any global warming protections until we can exactly predict the weather for ten years. If we can’t predict the weather precisely, the obviously we can’t prove global warming is real.”

Aside from being full of misleading and cherry picked data. The book was terrible. The whole thing read like a bad science lesson from a second rate conspiracy theorist.

If you really want to vomit from propaganda masquerading as entertainment, watch Landman.

It depends on what you’re voting for. The House of representatives is based on your district, not your state as a whole. There are some very oddly shaped districts to take advantage of this.

For anyone that doesn’t understand what gerrymandering is:

1. Imagine your favorite soccer team scores however many goals in a season. Now you have the power to reallocate those goals amongst whatever games you want. Instead of losing some games 3-1 and winning some 4-0 you win every single game 2-1, except you lose one game 40-0. Still the same number of goals, but your record is significantly different. Now do this with votes by district.

2. Different districts get different voting support. There are areas that the line to vote is very long. Sometimes hours. This isn’t an accident. Some people just don’t have time, capacity, or the effort to spend half of their day voting.

For example: Georgia banned giving water to people waiting in line to make conditions worse.

Could we say that technically Australia created him? Rupert Murdoch is the devil.

Great call out. I love my EV but there is a massive loss in range between 20F and -20F. On a nice day I get like 3.8 mi/kwh. Dead of winter I get 1.8 mi/kwh. That is with the heat at 68F.

Also losses on a combustion engine are minimal in winter. Winter blend fuel takes an efficiency loss up front, but I don’t really notice any significant loss beyond that even as the temperature plummets. Heat is a byproduct of combustion, so you aren’t wasting energy to keep yourself warm even if the heat is blasting. Similarly, running the AC doesn’t really hurt mpgs in my experience. I’m guessing running the AC in an EV in 120F Arizona heat would drain that battery quickly.

EV’s are great for so many reasons (and generally far superior in my opinion) but saying they have the same efficiency problems in extreme temperatures is misleading. Especially since it’s very easy to make a bigger fuel tank to extend range. It is not easy to do the same with a battery.

… Right, except the closing costs go to the bank, not the government. And these days, in so many markets a basic house can cost a small fortune. So, the bank wins on closing costs as well as the loan.

Buy a home. The paperwork costs a % of the home’s value. It’s the same paperwork whether you buy a 2 million dollar home or $200k home. It is not a insubstantial sum. Plus you you tip your realtor a % of the sale value. Absolute scam.

Yeah… I wouldn’t recommend shooting at a metal object from a few feet away.

Also, I know it was a different era, but if I saw someone shooting an inanimate out of anger today, I would assume that person belongs to a certain cult.

I never liked avocado or guacamole until I vacationed in Mexico. A freshly ripened avocado is significantly tastier than what you’ll find in the average grocery store.

…I still don’t like fish.

I’m not even sure if you guys are real. And Lemmy is pretty obscure.

The crate is the dog’s safe space, not a punishment. If I need my dog to be in her crate, I reward her when she goes inside.

There are also hand motions to go with common commands like ‘sit’. I’ve found this makes it easier for a dog to understand me.

I think I’ve seen this episode of Stranger Things. Don’t let that thing reach maturity.

You could always start by teaching English in another country. I recall that it pays quite well and is in demand in many countries. The requirements are also very low.

As for learning another language. You get better at it when you’re around it constantly.

Oh no, you couldn’t possibly take out all of the AI data centers. That would be so awful for the shareholders.

US military spending is already ~40% of global military spending, which is an insane number. Halving that budget could fix so many problems.

I was just discussing how bad sensors are on any vehicle. Automatic lane steering is scary to use and does not feel like an actual driver even when it is working. Those sensors that alert you of something being to close go off randomly at street lights all the time. Factor in weather, faded lines, missing speed limit signs, dirt, and a million edge cases, and there is no way a vehicle can safely be trusted to drive itself.

So many consumers aren’t aware of these risks. More so, the people taking these risk aren’t just putting their own lives in danger. FSD needs to be illegal.