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jj4211 ,

Agreed, WW2 scale became crazy because Japan and Germany were just allowed to conquer so much so fast before a meaningful response. Russia is being held to a much tighter theater from the onset.

jj4211 ,

We have a young person here on student visa and he's struggling to get a more persistent arrangement and thinks he may have to move back next year when his visa is done. He's hoping for an h1b, but that's a lottery... If there's something he's missing, it'd be good to know.

jj4211 ,

The ioniq 5 N has that covered, evidently:
https://youtu.be/DSIguemKIbQ?si=Do2diTJm8-_Hb9Ro

Or playing cards in the wheels

jj4211 ,

I'm thinking it has that polaroid vibe.

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1990 wasn’t 20 years ago

Well yeah, it was much more recent, right?

jj4211 ,

Guess the new part is he pinky swears they can keep the Western half of Ukraine. As long as they don't form alliances and agree to weaken the military protecting the Western half...

jj4211 ,

I think as candidates Clinton, W. Bush, Gore, Obama, McCain had sincere support overshadowing the need to stop some particular bad person instead. As misguided as I think it is, Trump voters also are all about Trump less than stopping Biden. I can't personally remember a race where "the other side must be stopped" as pretty much the sole consideration among the voters until the Trump era.

Yes, third party candidates are dismissed in a self fulfilling prophecy, but also that reality drives most reasonable would-be third party candidates to one of the viable parties, generally leaving third party candidates that wouldn't be that popular anyway.

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Note I didn't claim the were progressive or that Biden did nothing, I'm saying voter sentiment is basically "not trump" rather than "for Biden". I'll accept that Kerry was in a similar position of being the "not W" candidate, but other than that I can't think of a candidate whose popular support was so much more about "the other guy" than the candidate themselves.

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human fucking rights

Literally...

jj4211 ,

It's one of those things that depends on the situation. As it stands, they want "no compulsory education", but it's because they don't like what the students will learn. However, if they could be assured that the compulsory education would be consistent with their views, then they would be all about compulsory education. No need to fear the Bible, there's plenty of "help" interpreting it available to people reading it...

Same on abortion rights. Currently the rhetoric is "well, it should be up to the states, not the federal government" but if they can ban it nationally, suddenly they would not be in favor of states like New York or California deciding for themselves.

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He might not have had a history quiz, but it's entirely likely least on occasion he still had a dream that he forgot to study for a history quiz, or forgot to go to a history class he signed up for all semester.

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They didn't claim no one else understands. Yes, it is because someone else was responsible, but the fact remains in the moment people who are so blessed lack the life experience to recognize the awesomeness of the state of things, resulting in "youth is wasted on the young"

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tool bench full of fun power tools

More tools than you can count on your fingers, like 4 or so.

jj4211 ,

I'd be happier if he ran off to a non extradition country. They can still elect him from prison, he wouldn't be a martyr. I don't care as long as he is out of my hair.

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He won’t be elected. Ever.

Unfortunately, I think you are gravely underestimating his chances.

jj4211 ,

He lost during a crazy pandemic that caused massive uncertainty, at a time when most of the economy was 'shut down'. And even then, there were enough electoral votes to give him the victory that were less than a 1% margin of going to Trump. So he was shockingly close to winning, given the circumstances. Voting was also easier than ever in 2020, and many of those measures to make voting easier have been undone. So in 2020, you probably didn't need to go to a job, and even if you did, you could easily mail your vote in. In 2024, a likely Biden voter is more likely to have their job tie them up and are also less likely to reasonably be able to mail in a vote.

More than half of Americans think the economy is in bad shape (whether or not they are accurate is beside the point). That's generally a bad sign for an incumbent. Trump's tossing out populist fodder as promises he would certainly break, but there's a large population willing to bet on that longshot.

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Left half of my face black, right half of my face white. Then I could fight those no good people who have a black right side of their face and white left side.

jj4211 ,

Clinton had downloadable content?

jj4211 ,

Wait til you hear what they call 'classic rock'....

jj4211 ,

In my state, you can be independent and vote for either.

But yeah, I voted in the Republican primary this time, to vote against Trump, even though I would have wanted Nikki to lose, but would rather risk that than Trump.

jj4211 ,

Note that if doing a LFP battery, then you don't have the Cobalt issue. Also, as I could most recently find, prices on LFP are such that currently it could be about $7,000 for a pack that can get over 200 miles in a typical EV. CATL claims they'll have it under $4500 for that capacity battery pack by the end of this year. Analysts are suggesting that 2025 might see that battery pack go under $2800 or so. If that comes to pass, then it's a slam dunk that an EV will incur less cost over a decade than the ICE maintenance and repairs, even ignoring gas vs. electricity costs.

The price has been coming rapidly down, after the shortages have subsided. Of course, whether the supply chain and pricing of the big automakers reflect this... well we have to see. However, Ford at least proclaimed they "managed" to save $8,000 cost per unit of mach-e, and most of that is likely just the battery pack getting thousands of dollars cheaper (they also redid the rear motor and other touches, but the bulk of that number is probably just battery cost reduction).

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Though many of those "SUVS" we would have used to call "wagons", before SUV was 'cool'. The battery weight (sadly worse with LFP) is the enemy, being most of the weight to carry.

So you can have yourself a Mini Cooper SE, with "only" 400 pounds more weight than the gas counterpart, but you only have 115 miles of range, and your MPGe is only 10 more than the typical 'SUV' electric.

The most problematic facets of traditional SUVs are (so far), not common in EVs:

  • High center of gravity - Thanks to batteries, generally an EV SUV has a lower center of mass than even a lot of sedans
  • Absurd nose limiting front visibilty. Thus far most EV SUVs have pretty car-like noses. To get those vaguely decent range figures, they can't afford the stupidity of cosplaying as semi trucks like the 'big ol SUVs' like to do.

If hoping that smaller cars will pave the way to reduced kWh for good range, unfortunately the battery packs themselves are the biggest problem with weight. So you'd be really looking toward a breakthrough in energy density before you could have, say, a little Miata to toss around cheaply and lightly wear a cheaper battery with lower capacity and still get at least 100 miles of range.

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Hypothetically, let's say that he is secretly game for the cease fire. How does he pivot from implying that the conditions are not met as things stand today to suddenly adopting a stance that is consistent with your proposed interpretation?

If what you said was true, that he is willing to consider the threat eliminated, then he would have said it already. Since he implies otherwise means he is requiring something more than the current situation. There's no path to just abandon his stated position without something actually changing.

jj4211 ,

The analogy about Nikki Haley is apt, to 'pivot' is trivial, to credibly pivot is another. I promise not a single Trump supporter suddenly believed Nikki's change and it didn't buy her any clout. If anything, it undermined her previous bet of 'party will move beyond Trump soon'.

Similarly, Netanyahu pivoting won't appease any of his hard core supporters. Also, this presumes that Netanyahu is some secret moderate trying to appease extremists rather than actually being a key proponent/leader of the extremist agenda. This would be like saying "Trump is looking for an opportunity to pivot toward a pro-immigration stance, but his party just won't let him".

jj4211 ,

Even if he "had" to cheat and drive, he could've chosen to be like a minute later and call from anywhere except a driver's seat of a moving vehicle.

jj4211 ,

Based on what I've seen, I'd also say a homelab is often needlessly complex compared to what I'd consider a sane approach to self hosting. You'll throw all sorts of complexity to imitate the complexity of things you are asked to do professionally, that are either actually bad, but have hype/marketing, or may bring value, but only at scales beyond a household's hosting needs and far simpler setups will suffice that are nearly 0 touch day to day.

jj4211 ,

Yep, and I see evidence of that over complication in some 'getting started' questions where people are asking about really convoluted design points and then people reinforcing that by doubling down or sometimes mentioning other weird exotic stuff, when they might be served by a checkbox in a 'dumbed down' self-hosting distribution on a single server, or maybe installing a package and just having it run, or maybe having to run a podman or docker command for some. But if they are struggling with complicated networking and scaling across a set of systems, then they are going way beyond what makes sense for a self host scenario.

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One implies he will personally forbid them from selling.

The other implies no one will want to buy them because they'll be too expensive by their nature.

jj4211 ,

I was not saying he is correct, saying that was his likely meaning in this context. He's not exactly got a great track record of being smart or correct. Just in this case he didn't seem to mean a ban outright.

jj4211 ,

Little John? So when's Robin Hood going to come help him out?

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Yes because the ultra wealthy have NEVER commited a crime against the American people.

Most of the time, they don't have to commit a crime against the American people, we gladly make all kinds of unreasonable stuff legal for them.

jj4211 ,

To run as a Democrat in ND is to automatically lose. The portion of the electorate that will refuse to look beyond the team sports identity is so huge, if you actually want to participate, you have to technically be a member of the correct "team".

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Typically, people take fewer days off when "unlimited", as they don't feel they are owed any particular amount.

jj4211 ,

Well there goes my assumption about her strategy. I thought she was positioning herself as the person who would not kiss the ring if Trump should lose, as the "obvious" choice to lead the party that feels they need to throw trumpism under the bus.

Now, it seems pointless, she had both appeared too anti Trump and also ultimately just another Trump adherent. Seems to be a good way to alienate both sides of the Trump phenomenon.

jj4211 ,

I can understand the perspective, but if the Trump administration deliberately interfered with the PSLF, then it's a fair point in the obvious goal (to contrast his approach versus Trump's). Of course, conveniently they waited for an election year, when they could have done this in 2021...

jj4211 ,

While he specifically is problematic, more damaging would be if he proves that the American people will sign up for a guy who refuses to accept losing and tries to underminine election results and who inspires and endorses folks who openly declared they wanted to control elections to force their party to win.

That green lights a possible destruction of democracy.

He must lose to show everyone that rejecting and manipulating elections is completely unacceptable.

jj4211 ,

Might not be the only reason, but it's one of the reasons, and perhaps the most critical.

Of the reasons, this general idea is the most existential threat to our democracy. Everything else, in theory, could be undone in a subsequent election/term. The supreme court appointments are the second most dire, as those can stand for who knows how long.

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First form?

jj4211 ,

But that if that "idiot" does propagate, but so does everyone else, no skin off the species back. If the selective pressure returns, well then the others keep going.

jj4211 ,

Exactly, even if 7 billion people died, well there's still a billion people. If 99% of people died, well there are still millions.

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if you can afford kids or not.

To amend that, if you are responsible and think you can't afford kids and have the restraint and planning to select not to have children.. there are plenty of people that can't afford as many children as they have.

In fact of those that can "afford" kids easily, they are still more likely to stay at one or two.

jj4211 ,

The implication is clear, the issues are all matters of voting including "save democracy". It's the statue of Liberty, a clear symbol of American democracy. It is clearly directed squarely at people saying protest by not voting for Biden.

I get the gravity of the situation, but Trump's side has repeatedly made it clear they would go harder on Gaza.

jj4211 ,

On point except not sure the Constitution has to change.

For example Alaska implemented ranked choice voting, and states have implemented proportional allotment.

jj4211 ,

Also, the whole reason he's complaining about comedy being destroyed is that he hasn't been relevant in over 25 years. So even ignoring everything, he's some boring old dude that hasn't been that relevant the entire life of most of the graduates. They selected someone that the staff might be impressed by, but not someone that is vaguely interesting for the actual graduates.

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Seinfeld is a Billionaire. If I ever had 1% of that, I'd never try to force myself to be relevant and happily accept I'm not relevant anymore.

I'd expect that's in fact the natural trajectory of being in pop culture, that your time of relevance is fleeting, and plan accordingly. No hurt feelings that no one is lining up for your material anymore, it happens to almost every single person in that field. You only can make your legacy worse by trying to force things, exit on a high note.

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In this case, the potential doesn't relate to climate change, but to pollution. It might make carbon a teensy bit worse, but probably not enough to matter (and growing the algae would presumably more than offset that tiny bit).

jj4211 ,

Of course, glass is brittle and in most cases loves to break into sharp pieces, so people don't love it for a lot of applications, particularly in packaging/shipping. When glass is involved, it generally demands more packaging to protect the glass from breaking.

jj4211 ,

Yes, depends on what's the behavior of just sitting around outside, getting rained on a bit, sitting in a humid warehouse, exposed to bugs and rodents.

If hypothetically it only breaks down if shredded and mixed into compost, then it may be interesting. However in such a case you'd likely struggle to reliably identify and segregate it from the rest of the plastic waste stream to apply this special treatment without putting bad plastic into the mix.

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