Authoritarians need to project an appearance of peerless strength, intelligence, and infallibility. The people who fanatically believe their policies will directly lead to what was promised aren’t doing it on the basis of those policies, but instead on the trust of the confident strongman who made them.

Most people with that little money aren’t going to go out of their way and assume the risk of investing in new ventures. They’re going to put it in some managed or unmanaged fund recommended by someone else, and that money is going to be invested in something safe and presumably profitable on an infinite time scale, like a megacorp (or 500).

It would amazing if the everyday worker’s savings went towards aiding the local community in starting new businesses, but I wouldn’t count on that being the default.

Naw. Wear that shit with pride, then take a Snoop-level rip from a bong.

The researchers said it was “maddening” that such easy action to fight the climate crisis was not being taken, and said people should be angry. Stopping the leaks can even be free, given that captured gas can be sold – methane is the “natural gas” that fires power stations.

It’s maddening but expected.

When corporate decisions are based solely on pleasing investors, fixing a leak isn’t a priority. It might be a long-term investment that eventually pays for itself, but it comes with a front-loaded cost that diminishes the profits of the current quarter.

The only way to get them to care about the problem is if it’s actively unprofitable or comes with personal liability for the leadership, and the only way that will happen is with regulations.

In other words: “why about the survivability of the species when we can instead care about making our investor’s loins tingle?”

Eventually we’ll get his second term declared invalid, and roll back all of his EOs, legislation, etc., including pardons.

Let me fix that for you:

Eventually he’ll get his second term declared invalid, and use that as his reason for running for his third term.

They’re not awesome when your workflow revolves around the command line and you’re stuck choosing between wasting days trying to layer your configuration on top of the project devcontainer or giving up and using the unconfigured bash shell included.

The Darwin kernel is based on BSD… sort of. It’s a monstrosity hybridization of an ancient version of BSD and the Mach kernel.

You should do dev work in devcontainers anyway.

Devcontainers work for Visual Studio Code when developers are more than happy to click their way through running builds and debugging problems. But, as someone whose workflow is optimized for the command-line, they can fuck off.

You do know that people can have multiple motives, right?

Damn those Big City libs. Life ain’t all commuting like a commie and making money by jackin it at a desk in front of the secretary. In the real world, ya can’t just be a chickenshit little bitch afraid to get dirt under yer nails. Ya gotta do the right thing and make hard decisions!

Do ya shoot the dog, or do ya shoot the neighbor’s dog? Do ya claim he was vicious and untrainable, or do ya blame it on rabies? Do ya use the ol’ reliable glock, or do ya take the hard work to pull the good stuff and grab the semi-auto from the truck? Libs–they just don’t hafta make those kinds of choices!

Rubio’s remarks were widely interpreted as making the U.S. look subordinate to Israel’s interests.

Look? If that’s the extent that most people are willing to bury their heads in the sand, it might be time to invest in excavation companies.

On the other side of the half-adjective glass, consider that Trump’s biglyest advantage has been the cult of personality propping him up. Vance doesn’t have the experience or charisma to be able to sell himself to morons as their one true messiah and savior. The moderates will fall in line, but the brainwashed indoctrinees who wanted Trump and only Trump won’t just settle for a consolation prize.

I hope you’re not American or else that would be a big ol’ bowl of hypocrisy.

Calling them accelerationists is giving them too much credit.

They don’t want to see it burn, they just want to feel like their “team” won. Whether it burns and hurts them doesn’t matter as long as they think it hurts the “woke libs” more.

People who lack empathy simply can’t understand that lifting others up will pay back in kind and lift themselves up, too. It’s all a zero sum game to these pricks.

Is that for USB A and USB C? USB PD could be riskier if it shorts VBUS to D+ or D- since it can negotiate up to 12 volts, IIRC

Damaged ports with shorted pins, voltage fluctuations, etc.

The passenger electrical system is as isolated from the the rest of the plane as possible, but if the entire thing fails, sure then yeah you’re fucked and have bigger problems

Most modern airplanes I have seen have in-seat USB charging ports

You probably shouldn’t trust those to actually work. Or even to be safe enough to not kill whatever you plug into them.

I can’t wait for the Criminal Repercussions In Manipulating Electees act.

Agreed. That retort was spot on.

• No attacking his personality.
• No attacking his physical characteristics.
• No strawmen.
• No name-calling.
• Just a direct cut at his oxymoronic qualifications and lack of care for the working class.

I wonder if anyone from MAGA could actually define what “checks and balances” or “separation of powers” means.

I guarantee both would lack self-awareness and instead be defined with a generous sprinkling of “woke”, “antifa”, or “liberal” in the definition.

Maybe:

“Checks and balances make it so a woke liberal president can’t take away our freedom by himself.”