Bwahahahaha.

So you expect two change candidates, one from the Republicans and one from the Democrats and you expect the mysterious Democrat to have run a better change campaign than Trump?

Trump is 100% about change and destroying norms. No one can out-change Trump. That’s a losing battle politically.

What. You seriously expect someone to pretend they are the change candidate vs Trump?

Did you forget about the election?

Immigrants from Springfield, Ohio are eating cats and dogs.

And now Trump is moving for mass deportations.

The good news is that Trump is ignorant and bad at his job. I dunno how long it’d take to setup detention camps for immigrants but it’s definitely coming.

I’d say that any Hispanic or Latino, even Puerto Ricans, are at risk. Depending on which state you are in. Arizona is known to throw out US Citizens for deportation if the sheriff thinks you look funny.

The fucker paid for Pennsylvania votes last election. Literally paid for them.

He grew up in Apartheid South Africa and calls his African American workers ‘Plantation’ and none of them can move up the ladder in any of his companies.

He God damn knows what he is doing.

See for yourself.

We need to save and remember this moment. The assholes are already rewriting history as we speak.

Biden was a Charismatic leader?

What we have here is Elon Musk helping out on Trump’s branding.

Even Team Trump, as fascist as they are, are being run by entire teams of teams. The spokespeople are just that, speakers.

A leader doesn’t make the decisions. The leader just unifies the people.

If there is a leader, any leader at all, who’d try to lead the progressive cause? And one that people would really behind?

That’d be a good first start. Even celebrities like Jack Black.

No. I’m just aware of the need for a charismatic leader.

Civil rights had Martin Luther King. Among other leaders. The idea of doing this without leadership is the fundamental flaw.

Cool.

Give me a name. And stop stalling.

And who will lead this revolution? Biden? Kamala?

Go on. Who is the leader? Do we just gotta all rally behind Jill Stein now?

Frustrating but predictable.

Personally I’m pretty happy with how fucking awkward Elon was while doing it. The whole gif is really cringe.

It’s a long way to 2026 folks. We are going to have a lot of Federal Level damage in the next couple of years. Even if Democrats get elected in 2026+ we will have absurd debts to pay and likely be forced to raise taxes and be the bad guy again.

Those NPCs are going to be part of American Politics for the next 20 years.

This isnt a laughing matter. This is the new reality of politics for at least 4 years and with serious possibilities for decades or even a century.

Uhhh, Trump is literally the executive.

He just commands the FCC or other authorities to ignore TikTok. He can extend this ban evasion for all 4 years if he wants.

Congress and Supreme Court do not control the executive powers. The President does.

Card Catalogs were these index-cards we kept in a cabinet that helped people look for a book. And don’t say “word of mouth”, because card catalogs didn’t help with that. Card Catalogs helped you go from “Author or Subject” to “Book”, so you were literally trying to figure out a book you already “had an idea” about.

Tell me, how do you look for new books today? Do you use Amazon’s search engine? Google’s search engine?

Internet Directories were these lists of webpages that we used to organize. It was before webrings. The gist is that an internet directory is a list of cool websites on a certain subject, and we can keep those lists organized. Alas, no one used them after good search engines were made.

Curated TV Networks are losing out to Netflix, Youtube, and TikTok. All of which are search-engine based media consumption technologies. All hail the algorithm.

Now tell me where “search” is actually losing in our society. Maybe Google isn’t as dominant as it once was, but Netflix is still a damn search bar.

Maybe TikTok is finally something different: you don’t even search anymore. The algorithm assumes it knows what videos you like and shoves the next video into your face.

As someone who has grown up watching Card Catalogs lose to electronic search, Internet Directories lose to electronic search, photo albums lose to electronic search, Curated Network Televisions lose out to ellectronic search, large-scale advertising lose out to electronic search…

I don’t know. But whatever it is, 20 years from now, we’d say “Why didn’t you have a search engine that could do that for you?”

Netflix has a substantial number of caching boxes owned by Netflix on the edge.

This means that a neighborhood has a cache server with 20TB of video serving everyone in the neighborhood (and maybe also the next 3 or 4 neighborhoods). So if everyone watches the same episode they only pay for one cloud download / bandwidth cost.

Netflix outsources cloud for their core infra but then runs very very heavy edges around the world. It’s backwards but if you think about Netflix and the watching pattern of neighborhoods (ex: neighbor likely tells friends a new show is good, then everyone watches it) it’s to the benefit of Netflix to run their infra like this.

I wouldn’t be surprised if these caching servers help each other out like BitTorrent either to avoid central cloud bandwidth costs.

L2 charger at work returned 3.4mi/kwhr !!!

L2 charging at 50F (and below) is clearly way more efficient than L1 charging.

With this, I can safely say that L1 chargers should be avoided if possible.

2.87mi/kwhr is the final number for 50F test.

That’s +38% range. Or conversely, a 28% drop during freezing conditions. Or 72% efficiency near freezing compared to 50F.

Measured from Kill a Watt and therefore still a L1 charger that may have other inefficiencies.

Huge differences between 50F and 30F. Very curious indeed