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[–] [email protected] 26 points 17 hours ago (11 children)

According to Tim Urban's blog article on Tesla and Muck from 2015, one of Muck's stated goals was to jumpstart the other auto manufacturers into producing their own EVs to accelerate the trend toward a more sustainable energy future. Whether that was true then or now is irrelevant, but it is nice to see EVs of many brands being made and purchased. Obligatory Fuck Muck, existential disappointment that he will forever be.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

Good ol' wank-o-clock.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago

I'm sure all that arrogance will keep him safe from the people he's about to disenfranchise. The people who have illnesses, diseases, injuries, and chronic pain that make their lives almost not worth living, but thank goodness they have medical care to assuage the suffering just enough. I'm sure those people won't have an axe to grind if someone decided to deride them mercilessly as unproductive societal waste as they're just trying to get through the day without treatment or medication.

[–] [email protected] 92 points 3 days ago

She's in the elite ruling class, so she gets to do whatever the fuck she wants with impunity while projecting false accusations onto anyone who fits in the 'other' category while her dumbass base of uneducated gerrymandered trolls eats it up.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago

If only there could be any alternative sources of energy out there to discover and develop to diminish the dependence on petroleum. If only :(

Oh well, at least there's an infinite supply of crude oil along with an atmosphere fully capable of absorbing all that liberated carbon without any adverse effects.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago

Holy bullets, godman!

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Another problem with storing carbon as cellulose is it uses up all the available water. So the trees would need to be cut down and turned into charcoal to release the H's and O's, and then buried.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Looking forward to the future where I just think about pizza and it materializes in my mouth.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (4 children)

If he were to bomb a nuclear facility in Stockholm that then experienced a catastrophic meltdown, but for some reason the residents supported the action against them, would it be called the China Stockholm Syndrome?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (7 children)

Because civilians are always the most worthy and deserving target of state-sanctioned violence.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (2 children)

To be fair, it was probably the US Air Force, not the Army, who flew the planes and dropped the bombs...

 
 

A page from The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why by Amanda Ripley

I guess it's not exactly surprising, but it seems to explain a lot of things I'm witnessing in my later adulthood. I've always felt deeply impressed by selfless heroes, but I never really pondered the profile of heroism.

 

Senate Bill 918 would allow children as young as 14 to work overnight shifts.

Currently, teens are prevented from working earlier than 6:30 a.m. or later than 11 p.m.

Gov. Ron DeSantis is in favor of the bill.

“Yes, we had people that left because of those rules, but you’ve also been able to hire other people,” DeSantis said at an immigration panel, according to the network. “And what’s wrong with expecting our young people to be working part-time now? I mean, that’s how it used to be when I was growing up.”

The bill, according to CNN, would also eliminate working time restrictions on 14- and 15-year-olds if they are home-schooled and end guaranteed meal breaks for teens aged 16 and 17.

It went in front of the Senate Commerce and Tourism Committee on Tuesday, where it advanced with a 5 to 4 recommendation.

FIXED IT!

 

Five Minnesota Senate Republicans are seeking to dub “Trump derangement syndrome” (TDS), a term coined to describe a form of criticism of President Donald Trump, as an official mental illness recognized under state statute.

Eric Lucero, R-St. Michael, Steve Drazkowski, R-Mazeppa, Nathan Wesenberg, R-Little Falls, Justin D. Eichorn, R-Grand Rapids, and Glenn H. Gruenhagen, R-Glencoe, are the five politicians who drafted the bill that would add the so-called “syndrome” to a lengthy list of definitions related to mental health care in Minnesota.

If passed, a section of a statute that includes definitions for terms including “diagnostic assessment” and “outpatient services” would be appended to add one for TDS. The authors describe TDS as “the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal persons” in reaction to Trump’s policies.

If something like this passed, wonder how easy it would be for the authorities to confiscate someone's weapons and/or forcibly relocate them to a 'mental asylum' for 'treatment' to cure their 'TDS.' Big 1984 vibes in this bill.

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