I really don’t think it has much to do at all with ICE vs Electric vehicles. It just so happens that both transitions are going on at the same time. If anything, the electronics involved in running an average modern ICE vehicle are more complicated and more proprietary than an average electric vehicle.

I solved that for most of them by going AMD with my last upgrade. No more binary drivers solved most of my issues. All that’s left is really the anti-cheat kernel garbage. For that I just decided fuck it. I found it easier to stomach changing some gaming preferences than the Microsoft ecosystem.

I finally went 100% Linux and I’m never going back.

Seems way too arbitrary to set it so high, then have a flat cutoff. I much prefer the idea of starting lower and adjusting the rate up on a curve.

I agree completely. I also won’t say there isn’t a worst case scenario where we end up looking a whole lot like Russia does right now for a good long time. I think it looks like we are dodging that path, but I don’t think we’ve made it yet.

Right or not, I don’t think anything is written in stone yet. I don’t think anybody has a reason to feel comfortable right now. Not the fascists, not the Democratic establishment, and certainly not progressives.

Someone has to serve the food and clean the golden toilets.

Not right now we shouldn’t. Right now, we lose. A lot can be done with a combination of passive resistance, the courts, and (yes) electoral politics. Meanwhile, a cultural backlash against the right is building fast. The fascists really are racing the clock to consolidate power, and it doesn’t look like they are gaining ground fast enough.

I’m not saying it’s a secret, but it’s not exactly stuff the media is gonna be covering now, is it?

Sounds like armchair quarterbacking to me honestly, and you have no idea what else those people have going on.

One man doesn’t have to do everything. He is making space for those things to happen. Rent freezes and free transportation are at least cousins to mutual aid by my estimation, and they help free up resources in the community for members to do more. Again, one man, one role. Activists don’t make very effective politicians, and visa versa.

Who says he has to do it through purely electoral means? Why would you even assume that’s the plan? He’s a politician. The electoral part is where he fits in. That doesn’t mean he expects the rest of us to sit back and watch once he gets elected It’s never this approach or that, it’s everything.

We need a new party, or we need to renew the party. Since there is no path to the former that doesn’t go through the latter, let’s renew the party.

I think it hurts AOC more than it hurts Kat, and I can’t put my finger on why. Both are attractive and intelligent small women with a “young” look, but I think AOC has to fight a little harder to come off as a “serious adult”. Maybe it’s ethnicity, but I don’t think that quite accounts for it. Might be just me.

Any model year 2024+ Tesla needs to be open game for vandalism. The damn things should be uninsurable.

And election observer observers.

We aren’t talking about that money.

You don’t think there would be an expectation of getting something in return? That’s pretty naive.

I didn’t say that. However, that’s not how it works legally. Unless there is a law specifically restricting deposits in that account, whatever ulterior motives might be involved are irrelevant. Proving bribery is also nearly impossible in our current system, without solid evidence that the transfer of funds was explicitly tied to the abuse of power.

And the separation of powers is literally one of the foundations of US law.

I didn’t question it’s existence, only it’s applicability in this circumstance. We’re talking about a private citizen making a donation to a public fund. The president isn’t even involved except that they happen to be a “friend”. The separation of powers is irrelevant.

How could there be a conflict of interest? Were money being spent then it’s pretty obvious, but putting money in? I’m not saying I don’t see a problem here, but I don’t think existing law was written to handle this situation.

I doubt separation of powers is relevant since it hardly matters who “found” the donor or who’s “friend” they are. Had the president ordered a private citizen to make the donation (perhaps as a settlement with the DOJ or something) that would be different. If Trump did any favors for the money that would also be an issue, but that would be as hard to prove as bribery in the current system.

It’s certainly possible that there is a law against someone donating money to the account from which military salaries are withdrawn, but it’s also quite possible that there isn’t. It’s one of those things that just never would have come up. Are you aware of such a law?