I hit that in my mid 20s. Turned out my headlights sucked and I needed to clean the inside of my windshield.

Great healthcare plan in pod tower 251282598.

Doesn’t that work with just a big USB stick? I’ve definitely plopped a Linux HD in a new computer and had it work with almost no changes (fstab and maybe adding graphics card support).

Circulating Teslas is 29999 vs 30000. If there’s 30k worth of demand, they’ll make a new one. Oversimplification but that’s the idea. “Raising more awareness”, I mean… maybe? Actually, probably, if it was really a huge spectacle.

Financially, this doesn’t make sense. Decreasing supply without changing demand means more money goes to Musk/Tesla. Same principle as a stock selloff.

No, I’m talking about the electorate. As for the issues where the politicians have a bipartisan consensus, usually that’s when the electorate starts making doublethink-style excuses to find a difference where there isn’t one.

Probably takes a whopping 5-10 developers to set up the systems in question from scratch with FOSS. “From scratch” as in, not accounting for whatever insane backwards compatibility requirements exist, though that’s not some impassable obstacle either.

I’d say, of the ruling class. Said fascist movement being basically a stage production of their creation. Said neutered opposition (Democrats) likewise being a stage production of their creation.

People often disagree with this framing, but honestly, spend a few years comparing viewing events through this lens vs through the D vs R lens. Things will make a lot more sense.

Americans are ruled by a politics of opposition. Anything Trump does, the opposite must be good. Anything Biden does, the opposite must be good. Nobody thinks about anything from scratch.

This is single-handedly the biggest contributor to the longest period of peace in our history.

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“Democrat” refers ambiguously to both the politician and party elite, and the general electorate that associates themselves with that organization. The latter is, in the majority, “against it” in the sense of responding to a survey question that they don’t like it, but not nearly enough to actually do anything about it.

alias l="ls", I’m immune to this problem

MAGAs have no reason. “Trump said so.” Probably nuked because it became a nuisance for credit card companies and banks due to enforcing rules against overdraft fees and deceptive lending practices. On the flip side, it’s yet another trade regulating agency with an overlapping mandate on a hundred different industries, meaning any company in those industries has to comply with every one of those agencies’ interpretation of the law. Speaking from experience here, that is a headache even to people with good intentions.

They love their government contracts.

How’s enabling genocide working out for you? The world is collapsing.

This hideous reality was here before I was born. God knows what will happen to it in my lifetime, but if it goes away, it will be because of the solidarity of the people, not because of cowards continuing to rubber-stamp every crime against humanity the system wants to commit.

Me? Own WHAT? A lifetime of never supporting mass murderers? I’m not the cog in the genocidal system, fuckwad. Own the fucking mass murdering politicians you keep voting for out of your own self-instilled sense of helplessness. A world of people like me actually WORKS. A world of people like you dies in a rapidly approaching nuclear holocaust. And the most insufferable part of all is you actually presuming to speak down on US. That’s a firm “fuck you”, to you, from me.

First, our entire system is made up. The fact that we’ve spent centuries entrenching traditions and imaginary institutions around it has no bearing on the fact we could collectively throw it out tomorrow. Second, there were options besides D and R in the election, regardless of whether or not the population collectively chopped its own dick off and decided not to vote for any of them out of paralyzing fear of the other party winning.

Think the main point was, “let’s not, as a population, vote for ANYONE who commits genocide.” But noooooo. That was too much to ask.

A subtle reminder that it’s not just corporate greed, money itself has actually increased dramatically in supply.

Anyone else remember when they got their last equally distributed proceeds from inflation check in the mail? Me neither.

Not quite what I mean. The way that control is orchestrated between the whole apparatus for the moves of the machine to function synchronously (media support of wars, wars happening in a way that benefits the largest companies, etc.).

For example, the way that even CNN seems to just be reading from a script re: manufacturing consent for the Palestinian genocide. It’s beyond something like “they’ll lose their White House press credentials if they don’t play nice”.