From fiction to reality: Could people ever embrace a ban on flying?
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Spot on. Just like a lot of other things (taxes being the notable one that I can remember) an unreasonable amount of US people hate it when government does anything useful with their tax money.
Want an ID? Fucking do it yourself, but oh btwz here's this shitty paper that you can never share or lose or you're fucked.
Want to know how much tax you should pay taxes? Figure it the fuck out yourself (but then we'll still do it for you and ruin you if you fuck up)
Want to avoid going to jail? Be fucking telepathic and know how to do it yourself.
It's a pretty insane thing to tolerate and yet here we are.
I won't give the mouthpeices much credit. But be careful in underestimating them. Self-delusion is deep and complex, and that's frightening enoguh. Even more frightening though, is that if you go searching deep enough in conservative donors networks, conservativeism always winds it's way back to members of the 1% seeking unchecked power.
Conservative and religious institutional donors do think ahead, and they are a special breed of cruel, ruthless, and smart. Yes, most of the conservative bloc is dickwaving while they push the "give money now" button of reaction hate politics. It's pretty obvious that on the surface there's nothing particularly thoughtful going on there.
But the underlying strategy is as fascinating as frightening. There is a LOT of effort that goes in behind the scenes to figure out how to manipulate literally every aspect of people in society. These big donors typically have highly lucratice connections, often very direct ones, to big corps. Some of the most insidious manipulation that goes on in our society today is the result of capitalist businesses finding ways to perpetually squeeze us harder for a dollar. It's no coincidence when we see the same tactics being used in politics.
So yeah. I don't entirely disagree with you but progressives consistently get our asses handed to us when we underestimate anything.
Keep up the good work. Teachers here in Portland got significant gains from the last strike, even though ultimately they didn't get as much as they needed. Budgets for education in this country are ridiculous. Getting passed over due to 1%er concessions and their for-profit whiney horseshit is so normal that I think many folks have forgotten what a good system we could have.
Oh sure, he's an absolutist: Free speech for him and people he likes? Absolutely. Free speech for people he doesn't like? Absolutely not.
Check!
Also, I forgot all the tomfuckery he pulled with starlink in Ukraine, cutting off access and the like.
It's truly a testament to how much shit this guy has done that we forget so much of it.
Literally only the best strategies here! I mean lets recap:
- Threaten to buy company then double down and agree in writing as a bullying tactic: check
- Roll a nat 1 on your intimidation check: check
- Be forced to follow through when called out on being mentally an 8 yo by the feds: check
- Fire critical employees, like basically all of them: check
- Yoink verification away from public news orgs: check
- Let anyone pay to be "legit," even if they're parodying you: check
- Rename twitter to the stupidest thing imagined since head-on (apply directly to the forehead): check
- Gut content moderation policies but also stop enforcing regardless: check
- Post own hate content and racism to the platform: check
- "Accidentally" run ads next to hate content: check
- Be told your sign sucks and to take it down by city: check (lol)
- Become a living embodiment of "big yikes" energy while telling aforementioned advertisers to "go fuck yourselves" on live TV: check
- Hallucinate about making x into a libertarian wechat alternative: check
- Tank the value of the company while blaming literally anyone else for your failures: mission in progress, #1 priority
10/10 solid buy, gonna grab some long calls rn. The koch boys and rupert murderjock must be holding back a tsunami of jealousy by now 🤣
Yes, exactly. The short term solution requires that people recognize the greater evil in the room and defend what little progress we've made. We can't let perfect be the enemy of good. Our first part the post voting system is horrible, but until we can build up enough progressive movement to update it to a better system, priority 1 is exactly what you said.
Choosing not to vote for Democrats because they're not perfect is choosing to step back and give republicans a free ticket to burn all of our progress to the ground. It's naïve to think otherwise.
And honestly, that naïveté is holding us back from actually addressing issues like us aid to israel. Enoguh splintering among progressives will by default give control back to republican leaders who would happily sit back and watch palestinians die while lying about it and blaming it on anything anyone else other than themselves.
Fuck Amazon. I cancelled amazon prime years ago when the facts came out on how much damage they were doing to us and to our environment. I use it as little as possible now, and I'd certainly never consider using their steaming services. I'm forced by some 3rd-party companies to use AWS, since many sites exclusively host their content on them. But, that's as far as I'll go.
Pretty much every amazon employee is strangled by the fucking neck and kept on as little pay as will avoid federal lawsuits. I'm not going to be any more complict in this total monopoly if I can help it.
Free Geek here in Portland OR used to do this. Might still be doing it too, but I haven't been back there since 2018 so I'm not 100% sure.
But yeah, the last I was there, you could walk in and just buy a refurbished laptop or desktop with Linux on it. They would even give guidance on what people needed if they weren't tech-savvy.
Earthen walls are also effective at keeping our trolls, though obviously then you have an earthen wall to stare at so it may not be what you want...
Just a sidenote, I absolutely love the website's warning for adding this to your cart.
*Note: By adding this product to your cart you confirm that you are not Anish Kapoor, you are in no way affiliated to Anish Kapoor, you are not purchasing this item on behalf of Anish Kapoor or an associate of Anish Kapoor. To the best of your knowledge, information and belief this material will not make it's way into the hands of Anish Kapoor.
Hell yeah lol
Yeah turns out that hosting a critical climate convention in the heartland of big oil companies with anti-scientific marketing and absolute monarchies with anti-human rights policies... Isn't a great idea.
Yeah, exactly. In terms of online followers it's just not that big a change. Even in this article they say she has just over 100 mil followers right now.
I'm sure that a few bots and angry basement goblins unfollowed her, but it's much more likely a little whoopdedoo in the datastream.
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Oh no. Anyway...
Seriously though, if it doesn't come out on PC it probably means I won't be missing anything for the first couple years it exists. I can't recall an exclusive that I felt I needed right away.
Especially the old-school ones. Halo is just so much better on PC, especially now that I can torture my friends with brutal legendary difficulty mods for halo 3... Good times.
Ooof, I'm sorry about that. Yeah, as much as I like the idea of PHEVs getting the best of both worlds, it also means risking the worst of both as well. Ultimately if the manufacturer cheaps out in the gas engine it'll be a rough experience no matter how good the EV side is
This tracks with my anecdotal experience. The EV drivetrain on my 2017 model 3 has been bulletproof, but I've had plenty of issues with Tesla's poor build quality in other areas. Here are the notable examples:
- Tesla had to replace two control arm joints that were poorly designed and didn't seal out water, so they started squeaking/creaking extremely loudly
- Two repeater camera assemblies that also didn't seal against water well enough and stopped working
- A faulty frunk actuator that locked the frunk shut (no, there's no manual release except from inside the frunk lol). I don't keep anything too valuable in there now.
- So many software bug fixes. I'll add to that, the original Intel computer just wasn't good enough for this car needs it to do and it shows.
Honestly this isn't too much worse than some of my ICE car experiences. I had a brand new Subaru Crosstrek which just kept going back for software updates (not having OTA or at-home usb updates SUCKS) as well as a pair of recalls around the engine. In one of those, the Subaru dealer nearly destroyed my engine by fucking up the timing chain alignment entirely on their own. Fun times.
No, I'm sorry, I wasn't trying to make it sound like being vague was a bad thing. I just wanted to make it clear that I can only speak to my perspective. It is 100% fine to be worried about being identified online.
My acquaintances (or friends)...
At some point you'll need to ditch those "friends." Real friends do not behave like that. Real friends will genuinely listen to you. That is part of the definition of being a true friend, not my expressed opinion.
Not sure where you're currently living as you didn't say, but where I am (US) the conservative chunk of the nation is generally hostile toward any type of minority and will happily spread lies about them. Some "progressives" will as well, honestly some are progressive in name only and are just as bad. As an LGBTQ person I've had to cut people out of my life because they chose that cult of intolerance over being able to be a fucking human and listen to people's problems.
Difference is I have the luxury of being able to hide that status at work by not being visibly out. I know things would be much harder if I wasn't able to mask my status. So, I know it doesn't fix anything, but I'm really sorry that people treat you that way.
If you are looking for a permanent cable run, rather than those fuzzy-brush covers (which have zero insulation or fire-block potential) you can get in-wall ethernet wall plate ports that will seal air out and provide a permanent ethernet receptacle in the wall. The advantage of these is that once you install them, you can disconnect the cable from either side of the wall if necessary, rather than having to snake the cable back out of the the wall again. In your case, even if you're just going from one side of the wall to the other, this is worth doing if the cable would stay there permanently or if you plan to pipe Ethernet in even after moving the modem to the garage later (not that I recommend that - just keep it inside if you can).
If you use foam to fill any voids or gaps around the cable, make sure you use fire-blocking foam inside the wall (can get it at any hw store). It's required by code in some areas, better safe than sorry. This is for inside the wall, i.e. you don't want to see it because it's typically a bright orange color.
I recommend you use a shielded and outdoor-rated Ethernet cable if possible to cut down on interference. Most good quality cables now are shielded, but wanted to mention just in case.
It's not like our current state of affairs is equitable either though. Flying is specifically cheap today because of a combination of subsidization, lobbying, and big business demands. It's not built to be fair to the little guy either, and if it ever is it's just a convenient side-effect.
As much as big oil, airlines, automakers, et al are subsidized, if we could round up even 50% of that money, we could easily accomplish low-cost mass transit and reliable long distance rail. Even high-speed rail between major cities in some cases. Combined with cutting out taxpayer subsidized air, thay would go a long way to make things more equitable