TimmyDeanSausage

Can we get a relocation care package for all of the reasonable people stuck in red state hell-holes!? I’d move to literally any blue state if I had the resources and reassurance it won’t be sucked into US federal far right bs. So done with this scam country.

I think you’re right, I side-stepped the point a bit. I was pointing out the similar complexity of modern ICE cars with the relative simplicity of EV hardware. EV’s are so much more simple, down to a component level. An electric motor is a single spinning shaft with a couple bearings involved.

I’m really only speaking on current technology that consumers have access to. Planned obsolescence and ransom-ware software that locks everyone out of doing repairs, except for a certified dealer technician, are issues that are affecting most vehicles being made these days. So, to criticize new technologies over software issues like that just seems ignorant, or disingenuous to me. Further than that, IMHO, most of the legitimate issues with EV’s come down to systemic or political issues that essentially boil down to some human minds not keeping pace with overall human imagination and advancement, and unchecked industry leaders/monopolies throwing down constant road blocks to protect their current profit schemes.

To your point, with the way things are now, generally speaking, someone in a very rural area is probably better off with a 90’s era 2.4L Toyota T100. At least until the infrastructure and auto industry standards catch up.

From a mechanical standpoint, this is a silly argument. I’ve worked on cars for approx. 15 years as a hobby/side hustle, owned a mobile mechanic business for 2.5 years, and worked at a auto shop for a time as well. Trust me, EV’s are far more simple, hardware-wise. You could argue they’re not simple, software-wise, for the average consumer to work on themselves, but that would ignore the relative complexity of modern CANbus systems in new cars, with dozens of subsystems feeding multiple computers, all of which can malfunction and cause problems for the whole system. Such as when an led tail-light breaks and that bricks the whole car, leaving the owner potentially stranded.

ICE vehicles have to rely on and maintain multiple pressurized systems (with dozens of specialized seals), vacuum, dozens (sometimes hundreds) of sensors, relays, and valves, not to mention rapid heat differentials, all of the moving parts with bearings and added weights to counteract various forces…

I love the idea of only having to work on suspension/steering/brakes from time to time. Have a motor issue? Unplug it, undo a few bolts, and put a new one in over a single beer. Sounds awesome to me…

Except, in all cases, there were a lot of dead doctors, teachers, and children. The UN investigated each instance and found war crimes. The aid convoys were with registered international aid organizations and, upon investigation, they were found to be legitimate, had no weapons, we have footage of the attacks happening, they were not entering legitimate Israeli territory, and Israel has not shared any evidence of hamas operating out of these locations or via aid convoys.

If I take the time to back this up with sources, would you be receptive to the information? Don’t want to waste my time if you’re not willing to assess evidence that disproves your currently held beliefs.

Yeah, I guess I just don’t buy that there was a failing in her messaging. I think many Americans bought into a very unwise narrative, or got comfortable through the Biden admin and checked out. For all of Biden’s faults, at least he was stable, predictable. I think people became complacent through that. They decided that who the sitting president is doesn’t make THAT much of a difference. Unfortunately, when we have an admin that brings us people like Lina Khan while the other brings us Ajit Pai (and all of the current right wing SC justices), it makes a very big difference.

We have footage of them bombing schools, hospitals, shooting up aid convoys… What is there to deny?..

I agree with all of this. But, none of that makes Trump a better, or equally bad, option. He’s far worse on every issue you mentioned. Sometimes it’s necessary to look at where we are and act accordingly. We’re not living in a world were we have access to real progressive candidates of the likes I want to see. Our democracy has been on life support for the past 24 years, and was seriously ill for 20 years before that. We have more aggressive treatment options, that could work, and a sizeable portion of the country decided to pull the plug instead. Now we all have to deal with the fallout.

Left leaning people that abstained over Israel or working class issues, do you feel you made the right choice? Are those issues going in the right direction now that Trump is the incoming admin? Do any of you feel that teaching the DNC a lesson was worth risking minority American’s rights, increased wealth disparity, necessary funding for Ukraine’s defense, and our strategic relationships with many of our nation’s greatest allies?

In your example, there is clear, observable evidence of genocide occurring. They are killing civilians and demolishing critical civilian infrastructure. So, saying Israel is committing genocide has a certain amount of truth/accuracy in it, and the intent isn’t to smear Israel, it’s to point out what they are actively doing, while the world is receiving constant updates. In other words, there is objective evidence behind the claims.

Hate speech is the opposite. It has no objective evidence behind it, and the intent is to make specific people/groups look a certain way. We can typically infer the intent of hate speech by the words they choose to use, and the way they frame their “argument”. We employ critical thinking to do this. This process can also be peer reviewed for further accuracy.

Sure. That doesn’t change the fact that 77 million Americans voted for him. It doesn’t change the fact that the GOP ran him again, despite him being a twice impeached (now) convicted felon. It doesn’t change the fact that he had more big moneyed interests contributing to his campaign than ever before.

We can criticize bad strategy without misplacing blame. The dems ran a candidate that beat Trump with a wide margin last time. They are completely out of touch with their base, so they didn’t realize how much the circumstances had changed. Also, swapping candidates mid campaign, IMHO, was kind of brilliant. It completely threw Trumps team off. They had a whole strategy for Biden, spent millions on attack ads against him, then were forced to scramble up a new strategy with very little time. I enjoyed watching that. I also watched all of the debate’s and many of Harris’ speeches. I felt that she was a clearly better candidate. She was clear on her message/plans, relatable, competent, intelligent, relatively classy when speaking about her opponent, and she constantly talked about working class issues. The media’s portrayal of her ignoring working class issues, and that being why she lost, is the complete opposite of what I witnessed with my eyes and ears. All of that is to say, although I am certainly not some huge Harris fan, I felt she was competent/intelligent enough, and was far better than either of the other options.

The people who are to blame are the people who ran Trump, the people who voted for him, and the people who sat this one out because there just wasn’t enough info/evidence to sway them one way or the other (/s).

Because I have nothing to downsize to aside from moving back in with parents… Not doing that. I share a house with 5 roommates. My and my partners vehicles are both junk cars that I’m constantly fixing. We have no luxuries, we don’t go out, and we rarely eat out. Not sure what else to cut.

How would you address the already over-burdened immigration system to deal with the influx of new H1B visas? What kind of specific measures would you propose to keep corporations from abusing H1B workers?

I wonder how many of these “micro-retirees” are people looking for jobs, or people who are burnt out and no longer looking after having been looking for months. My main freelance gig dried up over a month ago, and I haven’t been able to find anything substantial, that pays my bills, since then. I’ve been looking at all sorts of different things, but the reality is, I can leave the industry I’ve worked in for 15 years and take a big pay cut to take a job with skills I gained from hobbies. Or, I can somehow come up with ~$5k to pay for additional training and certifications I would need to get a better job that would pay my bills. That’s an oversimplification of my situation, but I really wonder how many people are caught in situations similar to mine in which, there aren’t really many options that work for me, or that I can reasonably obtain without outright lying on my resume.

Surely you would support expanding the H1B so that it’s easier for H1B workers to change jobs then, right? Let them come, but also nuetralize any options for corporations to abuse the H1B system. Sounds like a reasonable compromise to me.

I think she means like what she recently intentionally played a role in facilitating

I’m autistic, and have met many autistic people throughout my life. Our most consistent trait, as a group, is our unwavering empathy and dedication to our individual code of ethics. We’re not people that can typically allow or stay in a scenario where we, or others, are being abused. Not to say every autistic person is a saint or that there are no autistic assholes out there. I just believe that, given my personal experience, it’s extremely unlikely a man as evil as Elon could be autistic. Also, the way he seems to live his life, in general, just seems to be counter-intuitive to everything I have come to understand is essential to living a healthy, satisfactory life as an autistic person. We are all capable of different things but, my point is; IMHO, if he were autistic, given his behavior, speech, lifestyle, and overall presentation to the world, he would be such an anomoly, if he were autistic, that it is far more simple to conclude that he’s lying about being autistic to justify him being an asshole.

Why not? All they have to do is make a single payer option available. Make it functional and accessible, and people will switch to it as their current insurance policies end, or when they move to their next job. The health insurance stock market will likely initially dive, then stabilize into a long downward slope. I’m sure the feds have all kinds of “quantitative-easing” tools they can use to make the process less painful for the ownership class. Whatever pain they do feel would be a necessary consequence of the wrongs they have committed being made right.

The obvious solution is to put a plan into place to transition to a new system over time. There’s no reason it has to come all at once, unless there’s a viable way to do that without collapsing markets.

The conclusion to any problem is never, and should never, be “Welp! The problem is too big to fix now! Guess we’ll just leave it as it is!”. Every problem has a solution. Most problems have more than one.

Further than that, as a recently unemployed working class person who was paycheck to paycheck before my freelance gigs dried up a month and a half ago (slow season started early this year), fuck the stock market. Why should I worry about the extractors losing money when they have already created a system in which, through no lack of effort on my part, I have nothing left to lose. I’m in the top 10% of technicians in my city, in a very niche field, in one of the largest cities in the US, and I can’t afford my bills because my industry is dominated by a single monopoly. Anyone who doesn’t serve the monopoly directly either serves it indirectly, or feeds on its scraps. Small company owners (I’ve worked with many) justify paying people just slightly more than the starvation wages the monopoly doles out. Unions are gaining ground, but it’s very slow progress and they haven’t really expanded far beyond entry level positions yet, which I leveled out of well over a decade ago.

Fuck the stock market. Fuck the rich. Why should I care about them when all they do is extract?

True. But it’s an introduction to a genre that is very satisfying for the people that do enjoy it. But yeah, I haven’t played it for years and haven’t looked at the current price tag

The only thing they care about is feeding the money machine with new drones. Everything they say and do towards that end is posturing.

Add factorio to this and it’s perfect