If you assess that protesting is not worth the personal risk, I fear that you might be undervaluing the risk of not protesting.

I keep seeing people talking about the Marines and the National Guard being deployed, and this is certainly egregious and the blame for it rests squarely on Trump’s head… But I have not seen many people mention that the LAPD are not being deployed by Trump. They are being deployed by Californian Politicians, and from the livestreams and videos I’ve seen, the police are the ones shooting LTL rounds and flahsbangs at civilians and reporters. Let’s not lose sight of the fact that the police response has been unacceptably violent, national guard or not. It is the violence from the police that has historically, and will in this instance as well escalate the situation.

Dr.Doom. He’s got experience and a pretty good track record all things considered.

Imo it looks remarkably safe as long as we ignore the person in the car driving into oncoming traffic.

No they fucking aren’t. That shit would be so much more expensive than a person. Liars, and not even particularly good ones.

I have a drip coffee maker that’s gotta be almost 40 now. It was given to me by an older family member when I moved into a new apartment. It still works fine as far as I can tell…

So I can steal all their shit too, right? It would “Implausible” for me to do so.

I don’t know about performance, or advantage (and I don’t think it matters since noone seems to care about the performance or fairness of non-proffesional sports unless it can be used as a bludgeon against trans people), but I happened to be arguing with my neighbor about this a few days and found that, according to the president of the NCAA there are “less than 10” transgender athletes in college sports out of about a half million. I feel like the whole discussion is a red herring. 1

If you make the 13th month a holiday with no work, you have my support .

I’m gonna guess your fatigue was low from running. Paying attention to your fatigue (and some kind of melee weapon as a major skill) makes the game much less of a drag in the first few levels.

I’ll admit Trump is a lot clumsier about saying it out loud, but 2000s Republicans were absolutely on the same wave. Being virulently anti-anyone-dark-than-an-italitan, actively eroding free speech, and hating anyone who worked for a living has been standard conservative shit since at least the 1800s. If anything, the 2000s Republicans had more of a war-boner to boot. Trump did in fact bring the facism home a fair bit more openly, but let’s not mistake a new hairdo for a new political movement.

Anything they use to replace the word “layoffs”.

That’s lame af. Flying on my dragon dude between my bases was badass.

It was pretty poppin in my city.

Just a funny story, but, I use an Ubuntu laptop as my work computer as a teacher, and once, while I was helping another student with work, a student opened my laptop and began trying to install Roblox. She got far enough to figure out it wouldn’t work, and started searching for how to install it. When I came over she was trying to figure out how to set up Wine. She got pretty close to getting it working before I came over. I was secretly pretty impressed with how fast she figured it out. It couldn’t have been more than a few minutes.

I suspect the devil is in the detail here. China is only the third largest supplier of auto parts overall at ~9%, after Mexico (41%) and Canada (10%). ¹ But for some particular vehicles, China is a much more significant supplier², and for some components, particularly components of EVs China is damn near the only supplier presently ³. Also this exemption seems to be set to decay over the next three years. This all reads to me as Trump making incentives for building out production for the worse kind of car that is less likely to grow in demand, and only putting those incentives in place for 3 years when it would take, like, 10 or 15 years to build the supply chain and production… All while locking us out of the fastest growing market for cars.

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But it doesn’t say “it can generate too much energy and damage infrastructure”, they said “it can drive the price down”. The words they chose aren’t, like, an accident waiting for someone to explain post-hoc. Like, absolutely we need storage for exactly the reason you say, but they are directly saying the issue is driving the price down, which is only an issue if your not able to imagine a way to create this infrastructure without profit motive.

I’m just gonna post the Cory Doctorow quote

"Take politics: One common refrain is that ‘‘I don’t even know what right or left even mean anymore, they’re just tribal identities.’’ Many years ago, I said something very like this to Steven Brust, who skewered me with his response:

‘‘‘Left’ and ‘right’ mean the same thing today that they’ve meant since the French Revolution. Ask someone, ‘What’s more important: property rights, or human rights?’ If they answer: ‘Property rights are human rights,’ they are on the right.’’"

People don’t vote because politicians don’t materially benefit them. When politicians provide significant support to regular ass people in way that materially benefit them you will see more voters turn out, not when you whine to them about them not voting. If politicians wanted this to occur, our state reps and their staffers would be in our work places, talking to people, giving them reasons to be involved with the political party apparatus, and providing material aid to the poorest and least represented among us with their own hands. We have bad voter turn out because shitty, myopic politics breeds political disinvestment. This post has it pretty much exactly backwards.

Anecdotally, I have friends from MA who don’t give one fuck about politics. Haven’t voted in years despite me telling them, messaging them with voter registration status, and locations, giving them every resource they need to make it as easy as possible. None of it mattered. Two of these friends in the last year have told me they want to vote for Governor Healy because they intend to use the free community college program, unprompted. Went out of their way to tell me. Another friend told me they like their state rep because they showed up at a union rally for their union and my friend realized from talking to the politician personally that the rep was a socialist who just happened to have a D next to their name.