Almost the entire rural Republican base gets screwed by Deere daily. Now that there’s an official attempt to fix the issues, killing it would be a direct attack on those supporters.

And as much as Trump doesn’t actually give a shit about anyone else, it would signal that the Republican party, as an extension, don’t actually give a single shit about them either. Something that base has been clinging to like a life preserver in an ocean for years.

It’s simpler than that.

The two options on the ballot were telling citizens two basically opposite stories.

1. “It’s not that bad, solutions are hard and complex”. With wages stagnating for decades and costs continuously going up, and nearly half the population living effectively paycheck to paycheck. Factually correct in context, but a hard pill to swallow.
2. “It’s bad and we will fix it”. No actual plan, probably not even the intention of a real plan to fix anything, but acknowledging what the average person felt instead of seemingly brushing it off.

Once we get through those simple messages, then we get to the fact that the media since the Cold War has completely fucked actual education of what socialism, fascism, and every other ism other than Capitalism is. It is no wonder a ton of people either decided to not vote or at least vote for the side acknowledging there are issues that need fixing.

Seems pretty fucking basic here. No quorum means no business can be done. It’s the first step of any sort of meeting to conduct official business.

They’re performing fake business to show to their dipshit constituents that don’t pay attention and will believe whatever they’re told.

To be fair… that State is on fire pretty regularly, the President has nothing to do with that, the shitty utilities not maintaining infrastructure properly are usually to blame.

Probably just both honestly.

Accidentally cutting off fuel to the wrong engine after the bird strike, or possibly both engines, would mean no additional power to climb and do a proper go around.

And no engines running means no power, which would mean no flight data recorder since this plane predated required battery backups for that system.

Even under rapid charging conditions with a full charge time of just 12 minutes, the battery achieved a high capacity of 705 mAh g⁻¹, which is a 1.6-fold improvement over conventional batteries. Furthermore, nitrogen doping on the carbon surface effectively suppressed lithium polysulfide migration, allowing the battery to retain 82% capacity even after 1,000 charge–discharge cycles, demonstrating excellent stability.

Assuming that this is scalable for production… Which is a big if for many of these “breakthroughs”, then this could replace current Lithium Ion batteries in most devices with a noticeable bump in capacity. Everything else is pretty par for the course though with current technologies.

The full charge time is meaningless without knowing what capacity they were working with. And a quick skim didn’t seem to have that in the article.

Well, it only looks like nothing because our power demands have increased as well.

Current Lithium Ion Polymer batteries are a far cry from the ones of a decade ago, despite being very similar tech.

The main issue with most of these alternative battery approaches are either low capacity, or low charge cycles. Finding a chemistry that both packs enough power in a small enough package to run devices for long term, and that don’t wear out quickly is difficult.

Not sure why it matters where the material came from at this point. Haven’t courts already said LLM learning didn’t constitute a violation of copyright? That conversation stopped very abruptly just a bit after ChatGPT became available to everyone.

And they’ll increase premiums across the board by 1% permanently to cover the cost and increase profit. The line must go up.

Oh? The places he’s looking at actually work fairly efficiently already? Or the inefficiencies are outside their control? The inefficient sections are the places he can’t go, like the DOD?

Most people don’t care. And that’s fine, they don’t have a reason to. There’s a lot of other things that are probably a higher priority for them.

Bigger question is if you’re going to be doing things that are in any way considered shady or bad, why would you not take any precautions?

And? That doesn’t really contradict what I said. There’s a TON of shit that gets modeled and never ends up in the final design chosen when designing any infrastructure improvement.

At the time those decisions were made (months ago), I’m sure there were many factors used in weighing what option to go with. Things like:

1. The odds of this scenario actually happening at various speeds and with various vehicles.
2. The initial purchase and installation cost difference between the various options available.
3. Ongoing maintenance costs associated with the various options.
4. The convenience to officers/officials using the installed option every day to close and re-open traffic.
5. The option of just closing the street permanently to traffic, and the knock-on effect that would have with all other surrounding traffic in the region.

I’d bet thousands that many of the people complaining now about the fact a simple and now clearly inadequate option is being installed, are the same ones that would complain (or did complain at the time, I don’t live in the region, so I don’t pay attention to their council meetings) about more expensive options that were likely being considered as well. What got approved is clearly one of the cheapest options available, just above having to put out and bring down mobile barricades every day. When the cheapest option is picked, it’s usually because something better than the status quo is necessary but NIMBY-type dipshits were the ones in the council meetings complaining about cost over everything else and effectively controlled the conversation.

Perhaps the news should research and go back through those council meetings and see why this option specifically was chosen/approved. I’m willing to bet we’ll see that exact scenario play out.

Well, they were only planning for a built-in, easy way to block off the road temporarily. They didn’t have a reason, at the time, to need to plan against a terrorist ramming the crowd with a vehicle. Just something better than temporary mobile barricades needing to be moved in and out basically every night.

On the other hand, this entire scenario shows how ridiculously and needlessly large and dangerous modern trucks are, like the F150 used here. So naturally, that aspect will be completely ignored by the media and politicians.

Gotta love the down votes people give for pointing out that it doesn’t matter whether it’s the US government, a foreign government, or even just the company having an agenda, someone has control over the algorithm and thus what people see.

They seem to want to believe that ignoring the idea that a foreign government can control what we see on social media is somehow inherently better, and that it isn’t a legitimate national security threat.

Does that mean it needs to be banned? That’s debatable. But it is delusional to insist that it’s not a national security issue to have a foreign government in control of the social media nearly 50% of the population interacts with (170m monthly US users in Jan 2024).

It used to be that every village has an idiot. And everyone in the village knew who that was. They’d talk about whatever they thought and everyone else would ignore them, because they were clearly an idiot. Then came the internet, and these idiots started to find each other. They formed a group of idiots, sharing their idiotic ideas. Everyone else ignored this group because it was clearly filled with idiots.

Then the villagers who weren’t quite that stupid started to see this group of people talking. The group was large enough that they didn’t notice their village idiot in the group. Of course there’s a bunch of them in there, so they must know what they’re talking about, right? So the next level of stupid up the chain joins, and this continues on up until you have a large enough group following these idiotic ideas with no basis in reality, and a faux belief in being right solely because they’re in a large group and no one knows that it was started by the obvious idiots.

These groups merge and meld ideas, occasionally grabbing onto conspiracies that have legitimate roots, usually not. Sometimes they’re right just by sheer chance.

Ah yes, pulling the logs from superchargers which already have to log usage to charge customers, and interacting with the same API every owner has access to via the Tesla app (a similar door unlock capability like OnStar had 20 years ago).

Yeah that’s totally the same as a conspiracy theory requiring uploading one-off software variations to specific owner vehicles in the hope they die without anyone else that interacts with the software update system noticing. Totally the same. Not a batshit conspiracy theory at all because you don’t like the CEO.

Do you ever actually read back what you post?

Yes. But see, need optimize headline maximum eyeballs, maximum ad revenue. Aubrey Plaza number 1. More eyeballs.

At least you know Shank is on your side. No ulterior motive working for the billionaire class. He’s just as fucked by the system as you are.

Ohio’s include descriptions of suspects, victims, vehicles, locations, etc.

Same here in AZ. I’m sure there are times photos are posted to Twitter too or something, but that’s separate from the actual alert info.