Well, I'd kind of like to imaging some day, those that do survive will solve all the problems, conquer the stars and spread to distant worlds yet unseen, but yes, I don't particularly care what race. We are all human.
Well, I'd kind of like to imaging some day, those that do survive will solve all the problems, conquer the stars and spread to distant worlds yet unseen, but yes, I don't particularly care what race. We are all human.
The problems that exist don't have quick solutions, but yes, taxing billionaires a lot more has to be part of it. There are so many parts to it. Still, that is an excellent start.
I'd argue, I guess three things are the greatest threats to our civilization. 1. The lies. Garbage in. Garbage out. 2. Most are out for themselves. A lot of work is bad, duplicative, or inefficient because profit before all. 3. More people are not trained to resist faulty arguments
That all being said, I think Mandami is part of the team. We should support him.
The mission for the democratic party is not just to win. The mission for the democratic party is to save our democracy, and to do that we must win. We know the price of failure now. We really need to focus, without fail, on winning first and foremost and make sure we support each other in this time.
The left here, by all accounts, is the center or maybe even the right of center other places. Some of this is just an allergy to a word, but we elect people not words. We need to stop playing politics using the rules Rs wish us to use.
Could be. Seems as plausible as any Trump action.
That is my guess as well, though it could be a grift, or some other performative stunt or fascist EO. The only thing I'm semi certain about is trump will never announce that he is stepping down for health.
Attached garages, at least where I live, have to slope to daylight to get leaked gas mostly outside. Eventually if we go all EVs that requirement will likely go away.
My concern would be more the batteries, not that we see a current problem, but eventually you will get more people that are repairing battery packs and taking shortcuts. Of course, any car repair can turn dangerous, so this is not actually new.
Any country that can help Ukraine, that is the way...
Agreed, or to put it another way, countries with nothing in common, suddenly have something in common...
For America to have a bright future we must care more for it, and less for ourselves. The original JFK once said, "Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country." We need that, not this fraud that is Jr.
The fragmentation in the republic was caused by a lot of the mostly republican effort and it has worked, in that they have gotten power, money, all the oligarchs truly wanted, well everything perhaps but the future we dreamed of. That gets farther away. We need actual patriotism.
The end result of course is a republic fraying. This CDC mess will kill many, and countless more in the future. The Republican party has built so much on lies, that the structure itself seems unstable, while the Democratic party seems unable to rise to the occasion, to find the message that unites.
Whether they believe the ends justify the means or whether they simply lack even the smallest stirrings of patriotism, I do not know. It seems as likely as any that they got high on their own supply, and the dark forces they unleashed that gave them power has corrupted their purpose.
Mencken wrote, "For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." America is a place where people of no morals can make use of those who don't practice any kind of intellectual rigor. It has become beneficial for the republican party to cultivate ignorance.
Trump would say they don't respect us. Before he would have been wrong, but it is clear now that he has changed that false statement into a true one. Happy Labor Day everyone.
You know. I read that in a hurry, well skimmed, and thought well that's Trump. I was just skimming cadence and such, then I actually read the content. It must so annoy Trump that someone can copy him so well. As far as I'm concerned we should _never_ stop mocking Trump.
I think in the end, we have to stand up for the majority, focusing on winning their votes, while protecting the rights of the minority. We need a party of patriots that is truly working for America as a whole. That seems the key. Patriots sacrifice for their country, not demand everything now.
You have been right for a long time, and I'm sure you are correct here. The problem is, it works. We are quite easy to divide. Some will withhold support from the Democratic party, because they don't get everything they want, while others will if by some chance you do. Everybody wants it now.
Trump's taste is horrible. Here is a building I found on the internet some time ago. It is an old Methodist church in Gary Indiana. That thing must have been truly impressive in its prime. It is falling apart now. sometimes-interesting.com/wp-content/u...
He is starting to look, to be honest, as out of it as some of Joe Biden's pictures looked, and Biden was still governing competently. (That election was another matter.)
Mona also points out the Democratic Voter Registration problem.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJHN...
I'll note it is a very good thing that they are doing this and I certainly don't want to stop them. Anything done to save our planet for future generations is a good thing. Also, eventually, we will have to copy them, so there is that.
I think Nixon was the beginning of this path. People became determined to never have that happen again and succeeded, though it is worth noting that the tendency for the wealthy to always want more, and to manipulate their way there would have occurred regardless.
I think the fact that we are ignoring things that work, such as solar and vaccines for politics, is not a promising sign...
Trump is a good example why I'm still a little wary on nuclear, even though you can clearly make safe plants. Basically, there is always a bigger idiot, and he might be put in charge. I agree with should be going all out with solar and wind...
Good.
No, people allowed this. Sure the propaganda was a part, but there is no exception to our civic duty to vote in the best choices we can, regardless of the difficulties. I do agree about the spine bit though. That is necessary.
Basically, it seems another attempt to sow division. Democrats aren't perfect, but the biggest reason most people don't have a lot of the Democratic wish list items is people keep electing republicans, or don't elect enough democrats.
Trump should have to answer this question, because it is a very good question. I can't honestly think of a Trump policy goal, beyond being so awful no one wants to be here that this serves, and even then the possible blow back is huge. Maybe it's another attempt to distract from the Epstein files?
Agreed. People need to have realistic expectations of people. People become public servants either to serve the public or serve themselves. People often try to drag others down that doesn't fit all their expectations. Too many good people don't enter politics these days.
Agreed. We know it is possible because they do it around the world. The only thing to avoid is mag lev. Let someone else avoid that costly mess, until the tech is mature. Trains, particularly electrified trains have to be the single cheapest form of bulk transport.
The rest I agree with. It is, however, not going anywhere. I do hate how it hoovers up everything without ever paying for even one copy of each book, or resource, or giving back in any way.
It is not useless. It is not what people think it is. I think we will see a sort of soft crash at some point, where people get disillusioned. Even if you do build an application quicker, the AI had no real understanding. There will be problems.
I worry that we will get a nomination and then some group, I don't know which, will not find him or her good enough and this will never end, because we sabotage our own chances.
We would have been so much better. Instead she wasn't good enough for some. Seriously 1/3 of the people stayed home. You still see people trying to blame her for not being good enough on whatever issue and the alternative is an actual psychopath.
Agreed. Remember that the old versions of Windows did many of the same tasks that current Windows does. Yes they were buggy, but today's computers are what a hundred times faster, and yet you do not see it. Software continues to get worse... AI just ads to this...
150kW, that is the number I'm seeing. Six would be six times that. A lot of homes probably don't use more than 5kW on average. I'm not saying you can't build infrastructure that will handle those numbers, but those are big numbers.
This cannot be highlighted enough. Trump did not seek any actual proof of his innocence. He covered up proof of his involvement via one thousand FBI agents, and then traded a move to a cushy prison to one of the perpetrators so she lied for him.
That way, when you are running out of charge, you could possibly just pick up a new vehicle, and let the current one charge at a sane pace.
I think they pretty much have to. Batteries might reduce the instantaneous draw on the grid, and maybe you can get enough so that the batteries last. I still think most charging needs to be overnight. Then again I think someday we will just order cars to our houses when we need them.
Okay assume 100kWh per car. Assuming you charge 40 of that on average. Assume a panel produces 4-5kWh per day, so you need at least ten, plus the batteries to charge one car. Now assume say 500 cars a day (Modern gas is about 1000). That is around 5000 solar panels if my math is correct..
Thanks for Gavin and everybody fighting against this madness...
In percentages that is 37, 12, and 5.5% of the total global, or over half of all spending on defense in those three countries. Now I know Trump has motivated some to spend more, but if over half of the offensive ability in the world is controlled by non democracies, we are in serious trouble.
So many people don't seem to understand how serious this all is. They are flat out trying to end democracy, forever, and are making credible progress. In 2024 the US spent 997 billion on defense. China spent 314 billion. Russia spent 149 billion.
Let me rephrase that. The attainable voters want crap done that helps them, and probably don't care about left or right that much, or even the environment, though they should. They just see their bank accounts and how hard it is to keep afloat and vote against those in power.
No, I'd still say we are crap at messaging. I'll agree that the message is also a problem. The Democratic party is the centrist party, but I think the attainable voters are to the left. I'll also note that a lot of the lefts goals we'd have had now, if we stopped losing elections.
I'd argue that Biden _was_ going in the right direction with Ukraine, energy, the environment, Chips, etc, but that Democrats are crap at selling anything. I'd also argue it wasn't enough. (We didn't have enough in congress.)
Every choice we make has to be the path that will at least save the core values of democracy and the country. We have to win, no matter what.
True, he is basically the perfect weapon to destroy Western Democracy, and a great many of today's republicans want it gone. They _want_ an authoritarian. In the mean time democrats can't seem to consistently get the binary choice we have. It is Democracy or else.
I'd bet a lot of people didn't. There was a massive amount of push back against her at exactly the wrong time. That is probably partly why Trump won. We need to be on the same side. I'm seeing more nonsense about Gavin. If he is the candidate, then once the primary is done, we need to be all in.
It's almost like when collective rights were lost, the employers just kept winning...
But we can't chase 1% of votes and let what thirty percent just stay home. We need to go where the votes are, and help the people, and that is going to make the oligarchs mad, since they are going to have to pay their fair share, but that is also math.
The time for trying to get along with the republican party is gone, and will never return. We need to accept that and stop wasting our time on them. Yes, we can accept former republicans. We have more in common after all, with, well, anyone that respects democracy and rule of law.
Basically Trump lied like hell and promised he would make everything better by the power of BS, like some damn cartoon character, who likely didn't get a second season. We need to make it clear that we _are_ going to make things better, and not let bureaucracy stop us.
I'm not a fan of blaming the democratic party. The choice was stark and terrible for anyone with a functioning brain and minor effort. Unfortunately, this is likely right. We need to focus on those not in the cult. The focus needs to be a lot more left. The difference must be equally stark.
Best to likely try to follow orders that are technically legal and stay in position until they have no choice but to say no, this is not legal, and they refuse, while first telling the troops why it is illegal, since they will be out of a job five minutes later.
Yes, if only there was an Noble Prize for the person most responsible for increasing the likelihood of World War III. He'd be a contender, and I think could win it. He has, after all, worked so very hard at it.
He is using the powers of the federal government to commit assault on states that do not bend the knee. It's almost like when you elect someone who has a track record of assault, that you get more of it at a larger scale...
This.
Business always looks for ways to save money, which is usually to reduce or eliminate labor costs. They _always_ chase whatever the new way is, outsourcing to China, India, H1Bs, and now AI. This will eliminate jobs. Some will be permanent, and some till they release they screwed up. She admits it.
Can you imagine the spin in the white house? I bet you he has no clue how much a lot of the country despises him.
I was about to write something similar. That is not Trump's writing.
Epstein had countless victims. Trump sent his guy to bribe Epstein's partner to declare him innocent. She as guilty as Epstein, and is a proven liar, and is desperate for a pardon. How about Trump release the damn Epstein files and stop trying to force himself on those who do not want him there?
Pod Save America's take on the mess with the CDC and such. Yes, it is bad. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3P2...
That all being said, they say their is a problem when there is currently not a problem, but sure, I'm perfectly find with making voting more secure. We also need same day registration, and all the rest.
He of course has no authority to force any of this. I do think complex voting machines with screens and fancy software need to go away. There is just too much interest in hacking these, but even the simpler scanners need to be built with a completely secure pipeline and kept secure the entire time.
Trump is not saying this out of any real interest at fairness. Still I'd go for in person only voting for most, if we had rides to polling places, two weeks voting, etc. Simple paper ballots with fill in the ovals are honestly a good solution. They are dead simple, and easy to validate.
It does allow some people to visit blue states so that is not a bad thing. Maybe expose them to some art, literature, or even the odd play while they are there. It can't hurt. Of course a lot of the guard are likely from the respective states.
I'm curious if we are going to see a drop in support for the republican party from the members of the national guard, and those they personally know. I'd think so, since this is clearly mostly nonsense, particularly how they first filter all red states from their targets before choosing.
I didn't. I noted they made it worse.
Vance mentioned doing prayer and stuff, but it is the second part they fail at, and here you are showing one of the things they did do was _to make the problem worse_.
This is the ideal, I think. Those kids created this video nine years ago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y3w...
Then I hope we can find a way, if not now then in some future.
You're likely correct. What a sad existence that must be, for their greatest joy in life to be ruining another's, and they call themselves followers of Christ. What a joke.
Divide and conquer has allowed them to, for now, crown themselves as king of the castle, but the walls are rotten, mold is everywhere and the economy is about to go to crap. The way back is to be America again, not Russia.
From time to time you see startups make great things. They are young enough to have a core mission and to more or less be a team. The right has made it hard for the country to ever be a team again, thus creating this mess, but being a team again, is the only true path back to greatness.
RFK Jr Must Resign. I fully agree. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQY5...
The purpose of a representative democracy is to represent the people, not to carefully divide up the people so you can do what the hell you want to do, no matter what. This is direct treason against the core principles of democracy. It is saying we don't give a f*** about what people want...
Some of this appears to be designed to prop up red states at the expense of blue states. They attack the blue states in various ways, including immigration raids, yet largely ignore the red states, where immigrants dare not say anything.
I'll add as a counter point, if you assume that you are created by the divine, then the divine gave us the potential to solve problems ourselves, and one presume he did that for reason.. That if after being given everything we need, we refuse to do the work, well that's on us, no matter what...
We had that an insurrectionist can't, but the Supreme court pointed out that he hadn't been convicted of that, I think was the reasoning. Obtaining a conviction before 2024 was fairly unlikely with how well Trump delayed everything. That is a problem.
I could argue Rupert Murdoch, though I'm not sure I'd win. Either way, remembering those that provided the fertile ground that grew this mess is worth doing.
There was an old science fiction show called Lexx on Showtime where one of the characters was called Kai. He was kept animated by proto blood, which always seemed in danger of running out. The story is, well I'm not sure I'd recommend it, but the bruises on his hands reminded me of the show.
Chapter 2: Reagan and the great betrayal... www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBAX...
In other words we need to show a better vision so there is contrast, and then defend that to the hilt. The vision needs to, regrettably, mostly remain high level, for details give you something they can attack to death by taking it out of context. How we let them disclaim project 2025... *sighs*
Agreed, we aren't getting out of this mess through slow iterative change. The American people will just switch back and then everything gets worse. We must do every legal thing we can to fix this mess.
Again, if we are serious about stopping illegal immigration, and I think we likely should be, we need to go after employers. I'd far rather have legal immigration with a possible but not necessarily easy path for those that have been here/contributing for a long time.
Are we certain they haven't been? The failing health might be them finally giving up on the whole Trump AI model. They may finally be ready to install the Vance model.
I'd be watching for AI Trump. I'd bet they have been working on a model for awhile. They have the funds to pull it off. They might even have found an actor.
Courts are not worthless. Without them Trump would be a lot farther into taking over the country. That he has a corrupt SC blatantly aiding him and violating the constitution is a problem, but the rest are often doing their jobs. I doubt anyone is getting paid back though.
It is good news. I can't see the SC ordering them to pay back the money. My guess is it might stop the tariffs this applies to, though these are country based, and he could just do more that are focused on key industries. Republicans might also force some through, maybe.
This has details. www.cbsnews.com/news/cvs-wal...
Who knew engineering worked? We literally elected a ****ing moron who rather than helping the country is only focused on ending democracy and ruling for life, and it was all easy to predict... Sure maybe not the speed, but still...
Agreed sadly. BS and bullying. Neither are great building materials. Hopefully we can turn this around and goldfish memory people don't hand it back to them to finish the job when after two years we haven't entered a golden age, but instead fixed perhaps a third...
I want to see people doing work valued over money doing work. In other words, society should be biased towards earning money doing something, instead of earning money by investing in the stock market. Right now the former is taxed much higher than the later.
It is more likely that he knows he is lying; that he knows his insane policy will kill people. He likely simply doesn't want to add any proof in the form of people who could testify that he was warned in case it comes to a court case, well that or he doesn't see a point.
Worse case make sure to get a passport. It's an utter pain and expensive to travel. I think states should be able to cobble together some, but I doubt many red states ignore Trump's CDC. Blue might try to.