I don’t remember any scenes in Mad Max where there was a happy rich person living in their perfectly intact mansion with servants and a well manicured lawn.

The solution to this problem isn’t to ask a corrupt government to save you. They’ve already proven their word is worth jack by reversing policies of the previous administration. You should instead be trying everything possible to stop climate change. Including throwing money at the problem.

Whatever’s left of society won’t care that you’re immune to lawsuits. People who have never seen a tomato don’t care if you worked hard to get your fancy stuff. They’re just hungry.

These should be investigated for autopen use. I feel certain Trump doesn’t know what an ombudsmen is or how to spell it.

Dude has a dartboard with allied country names and a second dartboard with 3rd grade insults, and I guess a third dartboard with the most disproportionate responses to problems diplomacy ever concocted.

I’m no federal judge, but I don’t need to hear any arguments. Keep ICE out of schools.

You want to terrorize kids you can do it some other time, not while they’re learning.

Its more than just foreign relations.

The reason for continuous military, space, energy and other development isn’t just to push the state of the art, and its not just a jobs program. If you stop building things you forget how. You can still build something but it won’t be nearly as good because the people who learned the mistakes the first time around have all retired. Or in this case fired.

We will have at least a 4 year gap when this is over.

Switching gears, do you think infrastructure will be funded? Falling 4 more years behind in maintenance isn’t going to do any favors. This includes federally maintained dams and bridges, but also levees for storm protection near the coasts. Trump will throw you some paper towels after the next hurricane, then withdraw funding for FEMA.

How about the EPA? Are they going to continue to handle superfund sites? No? Well you can expect some real problems from this to bear fruit in a couple of years. Lawsuits against manufacturers doesn’t bring your home value back, or stop the cancers.

I’m mentioning these things because while people are seeing the damage done by alienating allies, and that is concerning to some, this doesn’t matter to trumps base, who have a particularly America centric viewpoint.

People need to be aware that the problems he brings aren’t just foreign and that if something doesn’t change soon there will be nothing left of the America they knew.

Be careful hosing it down or scrubbing it. Those radiator fins are delicate and shouldn’t be bent or broken.

I won’t say don’t do it because I dunno, its probably fine. But watch a how to video or read up on it first. Just don’t put a firehose on it.

It used to be fully funded with the money paid into it. Your current contributions are supposed to be paying for your future security.

https://www.fedsmith.com/2013/10/11/ronald-reagan-and-the-great-social-security-heist/

America does have this actually. I think at one point in about 10 years ago it was like $500k. I believe they raised it to something higher but it was less than $5m though.

Trump probably either didn’t know because the law doesn’t apply to him, or this is just a fee increase disguised as a new program his sycophants will applaud.

Anyone who works directly for a Musk company should quietly start looking for another job.

People in unions should strike right now. People who aren’t in unions should also strike, but I don’t expect miracles.

This is the biggest asshole boss indicator. There should never be a situation where someone in power “jokes” about firing.

He needs a very quick financial lesson in not fucking with his employees. One week of work stoppage across every company he owns should do it.

You’re strawmanning so hard. “The news I read doesn’t say that.” Is the context you’re missing.

Of course I’m not an expert and neither are you. What’s your credentials? You’re a war reporter currently in Gaza internet trolling rather than writing an article? Of course not.

Get the fuck outta here with your holier than thou shit. You’re so sure that I’m wrong and that Trump is somehow helping stop a genocide? When he called for America to take over the Gaza strip and remove all Palestinians? You really think Harris would have done that?

It doesn’t matter if he’s an idiot and everyone knows he won’t do it… Unless he does. He’s still escalating the crisis.

What are your plans for the next election? If both democrats and republicans are equally bad then who will you try to elect instead? You only have 4 years to plan this out and come up with a viable candidate, so if you’re not yet working on this I urge you to figure it out.

Has the bombing really stopped? I’m legit asking because the news i read doesn’t say that.

Trump just gave them 8 billion more in arms deals. The peace agreement was violated immediately. I still see reports of IDF killing random people.

But without knowing someone from there its hard to know what is real. All news sources are biased one way or the other.

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It seems obvious in hindsight. Sheet metal doors will crumple in a way that can’t be opened, trapping occupants. The fire doesn’t need to start in the relatively safe and armored battery system. It could be pinched wiring causing a short that ignites plastic interiors, or a fire from another vehicle spreading to the cybertruck.

I’m sure someone mentioned all this to them during design.

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The esp32 supports efuses that can be used to require a signed binary to boot. So they could lock their hardware to only work with their binary. Source code wouldn’t matter.

Of course if the source is open you can buy and put together your own hardware and then put their code on it.

I’m not advocating what they’re doing. Rent seeking is rent seeking even if they need to recoup development costs. I’d rather pay for open hardware and software with no monthly fee.

Vote blue and send huge amounts of letters and phone calls to your Congress people telling them to stop supporting this. Run new candidates under the Democratic party that push them further left.

Sounds impossible? Yes. People were force fed propaganda and gave up this election, because its a hard choice. There is no easy route. Its either revolution or try to change a party to something better. There is no option 3.

People told the centrists, I told my friends for fucks sake. I know someone who stayed home saying their vote didn’t matter and both sides are evil. I told them that is a vote for Trump.

They were right. Their vote didn’t matter because trump won by a landslide in our state. But what if they, and thousands of their compatriots, weren’t force fed propaganda on Facebook and TV?

The republicans won because of coordinated attacks that presented centrists with multiple trolley problems. I held out hope until the end, but I should have known what was going to happen when some reasonably intelligent people fell for it.

The Gaza strip is 141 square miles with a 2024 estimate of over two million people. I guarantee Trump doesn’t know how big it is, or the logistics required to displace that many people.

Not that he would care, but his followers need to be aware that this isn’t a small city or a united group of people. You can’t just send out an email and “tell” them anything. Especially after their communication infrastructure has been destroyed. So him saying they need to get out before his visit is no different than me saying he needs to resign by tomorrow.

Everyone who supports this needs to be aware that its a genocide. Supporting it is equivalent to volunteering to be part of it.

Write your tax return by hand and mail it in. The IRS downsized years ago and got rid of the people who read these things. They will try to OCR it and have a computer review it, but if there are issues then surely a human will need to look at it.

Would be a shame if everyone filed taxes in a way that was terribly inconvenient for them.

So is it alright to just assume trump is female? The email signature no longer states her preferred pronouns, so I think this is what she wants?

I realized a while back that social media is trying to radicalize everyone and it might not even be entirely the oligarchs that control its fault.

The algorithm was written with one thing in mind: maximizing engagement time. The longer you stay on the page, the more ads you watch, the more money they make.

This is pervasive and even if educated adults tune it out, there is always children, who get Mr. Beast and thousands of others trying to trick them into like, subscribe and follow.

This is something governments should be looking at how to control. Propaganda created for the sole purpose of making money is still propaganda. I think at this point that sites feeding content that use an algorithm to personalize feeds for each user are all compromised.