That is a super misleading headline. What's the efficiency improvement over existing technology, instead of raw barium titanate?
What a time to be a snake oil sales person.
I actually did find that person. We're pretty happy, grumbling and isolating from the world together. There's people and then there's people, and the latter are just awful.
Translation: awaiting orders from handlers.
In related news, people in hell want ice water.
Your defense of the Democrats boils down to "at least we're not the GOP." And you're not wrong. I've done my part by voting against the GOP in every election since I was eligible. The Democrats themselves don't even do that. I wish their effort would at least match mine, seeing as it's their full-time job. And I wish you held your reps as accountable as your fellow voters.
As individuals, we can only influence our friends, family, and kids as best we can. Sometimes that's not at all. We're all now familiar with the trope of "Fox News ate my parents' brains".
This isn't a game or a movie that necessarily has to have a happy ending. Sometimes shit's just fucked. As long as the propaganda machine is in place, millions of people will be brainwashed.
I agree with you that the parties are not the same. The GOP are outright evil puppets of the billionaire class. The Democrats are ineffectual cowards who've made careers out of paying lip service to the right thing, and every now and then doing something helpful if it's convenient for them and doesn't piss off their billionaire donors. A lot of the time that ends up translating to the same results for most people.
I don't buy the "sorry, our hands are tied" line we always get from the left. Dems throw up their hands even when they do have majorities. The first meaningful opportunity the Democrats had to obstruct Trump's agenda, after the left base had been screaming for weeks for their representatives to do something, Schumer rolled over immediately. I can't take this party seriously anymore.
It's not a rhetorical problem. It's a propaganda problem. People aren't being reasoned into right wing politics. It's being beaten into their heads day and night by talk radio, cable news, local news, and YouTube; and this has been going on very deliberately for decades. The right wing powers-that-be have been busily, patiently, creating a massive, pervasive propaganda machine for a long time while the left sat on their hands. We're now seeing the results: a world where the right can do and say literally anything they want without consequence. Their base is very literally brainwashed through brute force repeated messaging that nobody can compete with.
We needed the Democrats to do something about this propaganda machine before it became unstoppable. They already didn't do that.
The best thing any of us can do is try to steer kids away from the propaganda before they get sucked in.
Working class: "Can we have meaningful reform?"
Conservatives: "No."
Liberals: "No 😘 🌈 "
This particular flower is native to my geographic area, although there wasn't any in my suburban city. So I got a big bag of conservation seed and dumped it everywhere, and it went nuts. Best "weed" ever.
It flowers for most of the season, but it's most magnificent right now. Hoverflies and other tiny pollinators love it. Honeybees do too, but they're a little big for them.
Two of my favorites. The rose smells heavenly
It is exhausting and unhealthy in some ways. But look around... None of this shit is good for our mental health. I've done my time trying to make the best of being surrounded by truly disgusting people, and even help them despite everything. I'm done.