aelwero

aelwero , 5 months ago to politics in Trump beating Biden in Georgia in early 2024 poll

I agree with this... Getting people to turn up to vote in key places is the determining factor this time, same as last time. Biden won specifically because people showed up. It was very much a "not on my watch" kinda thing

aelwero , 5 months ago to politics in Trump beating Biden in Georgia in early 2024 poll

It's pie in the sky to have polls this early, and even if it wasn't wildly premature to look at polls, they aren't great at actually predicting the outcome, because the people who conduct polls have a tendency towards polling people and areas that'll tell them what they want to hear...

aelwero , 5 months ago to News in Many Republicans seek a largely unconstrained president: Reuters/Ipsos poll

Well, Bidens currently the guy that'll get the magic wand... So... Maybe not so great?

It was phrased as a hypothetical though, so I get it. Still silly, as eventually the pendulum comes back.

aelwero , 5 months ago to News in Many Republicans seek a largely unconstrained president: Reuters/Ipsos poll

Okay... Should congress likewise be allowed to pass laws without any oversight from the president or the courts?

Should the court not be constrained by the laws created by Congress and approved by the president?

(Just to be clear, that's a fuck no...)

What the hell do you mean half the population doesn't think checks and balances should be maintained? It's a very fundamental concept of our governmental structure... If you suspend the system if checks and balances, the partisanship we're currently struggling with becomes an absolute nightmare, for everybody... Imagine a president that can willingly ban whatever they don't like... A congress that can fund everything, or nothing, at will... Courts that can convict on feelings...

Y'all crazy

aelwero , 5 months ago to Home Improvement in Foundation advice

You need way more details here...

Basement or crawlspace? Do you have piers already? What's under the wood, and is the wood above or below grade?

aelwero , 5 months ago to TechTakes in some AI jackasses decided to reanimate George Carlin’s corpse and make it say embarrassing shit

Imagine AI Carlin having a one on one conversation with George Carlin... I can't even fathom the amount of hostility :)

aelwero , 5 months ago to World News in China set to lose crown as top U.S. exporter after 17 years

The Biden White House has also maintained the tariffs on Chinese products worth $370 billion imposed by predecessor Donald Trump.

That's a hell of a sentence :) I guess we can agree on some things... Tarrifs on china, truly bipartisan...

aelwero , 5 months ago to News in Black man who spent 44 years in prison before he was exonerated gets record $25M settlement

I imagine they'd specify that? There is a complete lack of any reference to priors, and in context, that implies there were (because they'd make a point to specify no priors in an article like this...), but just the life sentence on a rape charge, and dude wasn't paroled, seems a bit much, ya know?

aelwero , 5 months ago to 4chan in The dating pool

Cause thats unusual...

aelwero , 5 months ago to News in Black man who spent 44 years in prison before he was exonerated gets record $25M settlement

How many people spend 45 years in prison on a legitimate rape conviction?

aelwero , 5 months ago to Physics in A method to straighten curved space-time

To describe phenomena on the scale of atoms, we use the second great theory: quantum mechanics, which differs from general relativity in basically everything. It uses flat space-time and a completely different mathematical apparatus

It's weird to me, that the common method of attempting to describe a four dimensional thing is to immediately reduce the three dimensional thing to two dimensions...

The word "curved" is problematic for the concept of space-time because it invokes one or two dimensional thought. Space-time is a four dimensional model.

The best description of the effect of gravity on space-time on my opinion is actually a joke... Gravity sucks :)

aelwero , 6 months ago to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics. in Changing climate casts a shadow over the future of the Panama Canal – and global trade | Facing a near unprecedented ‘rainfall deficit’, the Panama Canal has been forced to restrict use

Lol... 3/4 of the traffic is US bound. The Pacific is half the planet, so anything not stopping in the Americas has a shorter route in the other direction.

Essentially... yeah I do :)

aelwero , 6 months ago to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics. in Changing climate casts a shadow over the future of the Panama Canal – and global trade | Facing a near unprecedented ‘rainfall deficit’, the Panama Canal has been forced to restrict use

If only there was a cost effective and fuel efficient way to get large amounts of cargo across the US... Oh wait, we figured that out 150 years ago at promontory Utah didn't we? What happened with that? Oh yeah, that panama canal thing was cheaper...

Modernization and electrification of rail is the answer to this problem, and quite a few others. Expand that OG rail run through Utah, and add one through the south end of the Rockies from LA to Atlanta. Full double set of electrified rails to run bidirectional traffic coast to coast in a northern and southern corridor.

We had an answer already, this was a shortcut :)

aelwero , 6 months ago to The Right Can't Meme in We CaN't sAy MeRrY cHrIsTmAs AnYmOrE

How does this differ from saying that women belong in the kitchen, or that being black means you rob people?

Stereotyping has, for my entire lifetime, until the past few years (trump I guess, until trump...), been something you'd only really see happening among the Republican types.

Now it's become almost an exclusively Dem thing...

I get the whole "statistically speaking" aspect (I have a LOT of neighbors with lifted ram trucks on very clean mud tires) of your comment, but that same logic is behind all the other stereotypes as well... How is yours good and theirs bad?

aelwero , 6 months ago to Work Reform in The Blue Cross (Michigan) strike has now ended

So pay raises for 22 years without the union, or pay raises for 5 years with the union...

Yeah that's cool, yay for "progress"...