He does not. Never has. Just one of the many reasons it baffles me that someone would vote for him.

He has a known track record of illegal bullshit all through his past and up until now but somehow people just ignored it? It’s madness.

Hope I get to buy that ticket one day.

As someone living there, me too…

------ I agree that from the outside it does look like the entirety of America doesn’t care ------ but

We have had some large protests, there’s growing discontent and assuming there isn’t a crazy amount of fuckery (there may well be though but we’ll see) the GOP will lose their majority in Congress. It’s possible then that something more may be done.

The problem is most people are comfortable enough and would prefer not to get engaged in violence but we have had some large non violent protests.

The bigger problem is that all 3 branches of our federal government (judicial/legislative/executive) are controlled by one political party and those in power are subservient to Trump and the MAGA pieces of shit.

I’d call it a design flaw but it is also kind of what happens with all Republics and ours was built this way on purpose. One could argue if all 3 branches of the government agree on something it’s probably worth doing. The question then becomes, what are they agreeing on and is it actually good for the majority of us or are we doing terrible things in the name of the state?

Idk I mean I’m sure I could, and people have, write a small dissertation here but I’ll stop now. Just … it’s fucked up for us Americans here in USA too and a lot of us hate it.

Is this not just straight up blatantly illegal on the face of it?

Am I taking crazy pills or is this timeline really so cursed?

Yes, they do realize that, that was one of the points they were making in the post.

Curious if this is from a game? I tried to do an image search and the AI says it’s just some AI art and not from anything but I had those half life 2 vibes.

Yes we’d certainly need proper oversight and responsible disposal of radioactive materials. It’s true, that can be problematic but I think the problems from that are smaller and easier to solve than the problems from fracking/oil well drilling/coal mining etc destructive practices for fuel.

I’m sure there’s been a lot of debate about it over the years.

But yeah nuclear power is pretty cool tech.

Tldr - nuclear power is awesome and USA electric grid is fucked and so are we if someone wants to attack it.

Nuclear power plants are actually awesome though, they’re one of the most efficient and safest forms of electricity generation especially when built and managed properly.

We’ve learned a lot since five mile island.

I think we should be pushing for more nuclear as a way to expand the power grid capacity and reliability. Of course other renewable energy systems as well, like wind and (especially) solar should be proceeding to be built up too while we decrease reliance on coal/oil/natural gas for electricity production.

It’s wild how backwards the Trump admin is on all of that. It’s also getting to the point where even non subsidized it just makes more sense to use wind or solar because it’s as cheap or cheaper than traditional fossil fuels now.

Personally, I’m of the opinion that if we can spend gobs of money killing children halfway around the world we have the money to fix our infrastructure at home. Like, regardless of what I said above, our electrical grid is so vulnerable to even amateur hour attacks never mind a sophisticated state actor like China or Iran. You could blow up idk … 20 or less substations and probably knock most of our grid out for weeks and that’s if you’re not using the backdoor software that was installed coupled with poor network security to just remotely fuck our shit up.

We’ll learn a real hard lesson about all that sooner or later at this rate. You can’t just keep destroying the soft power and goodwill your nation has built up over 100 years and piss off a bunch of powerful countries and expect there to not be consequences.

To be fair the Cuyahoga river burned once since 1969 and that was in 2020 when a tanker car got derailed so spilled fuel into the river (more info: https://all-geo.org/highlyallochthonous/2020/08/the-cuyahoga-river-burned-today-for-the-first-time-in-51-years-heres-what-we-can-learn-from-it/)

Honestly the 1969 fire spurred the creation of the EPA and a lot of new regulations on pollution (thankfully, except now our current admin wants to roll stuff back and not enforce the law so … I guess that sucks…)

The 2020 incident was just a freak accident thing and before 1969 it has caught fire like 10 times already, it’s crazy what people are willing to put up with. At the end of the day though, the river has recovered some and there are a number of fish and wildlife that live in it - it goes to show we can do better but we often choose not to.

And by we I mean large corporations, the government, and the billionaires.

That’s actually really wholesome.

Thanks for filling me in, I do think that makes sense. I know I got downvotes for thinking aloud but appreciate you answering.

Thanks for filling me in, I do think that makes sense. I know I got downvotes for thinking aloud but appreciate you answering.

I feel like maybe I need to read more about the whole “stop killing games” thing. It’s awesome and fine if they expect at some point the game will be able to be played through a free multiplayer tool that enables someone to host and pay for private games.

It’s quite another if they think companies should have to shell money out of pocket indefinitely to run infrastructure for multiplayer games after x years of release and/or once player base passes a certain threshold number.

I’m admitting my ignorance here but I do think it’s fair to at least question both sides some

If I ever make it over there I’ll have to try that. As a semi middle class American I don’t have the time and money to venture to Europe right now.

What that’s awesome they’re built a ferry for trains - like big ass trains rolled into a ferry going through the icey waters. Must have been quite the site to behold.

Just seconding that mr show is amazing. Honestly every episode always has at least one great sketch and the way they run into each other is very fever dreamesque (in a good way). Like there usually isn’t a clean cut between one sketch to another, they kind of just flow but the things linking them are usually odd - like it’ll be at the end of a sketch and zoom in on a tv in the background and that leads to the next sketch. Variations of that sort of thing.

Rockos modern life was such a banger show too. I’m an almost 40 year old guy and I still occasionally watch episodes of Rocko or a courage the cowardly dog when I need that nostalgia hit.

Well good for them, I haven’t met any - I think we could at least agree that’s very rare.

There’s no way those numbers are true as an American who’s in the industry. Like maybe super high end for USA and super low for France as outliers but you basically have to be a genius wizard to be making 200k a year as a software engineer anywhere in the USA. Even then it’ll only be in a super high cost of living place, no software dev in the Midwest is pulling 200k.

Yeah short of the insulation blowing between the studs like you said with stabbing holes … The other option is just replacing the plaster and lath at some point and when you do blowing insulation then. That’s a huge remodel though.

There’s definitely pros and cons to older houses, I bet if it’s made of those materials it has a cool layout and flavor.

I live in a place that was built up through the late 80s through mid 90s so the houses have a lot of variety. Feels like once the 00s hit and especially the 2010s single family home neighborhoods all became the same house copy + pasted.

Edited to add, if someone wants to explain to me what social faux pas I have committed I’d appreciate it, because I’m out of the loop here.

Eh, I wouldn’t worry about your imaginary internet points and the opinions of lemmy users that much.

Probably just haters gonna hate and I’d have to watch the video to see if you’re right/wrong, I don’t think it matters though so I’m not going to ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Toss a pic up here then so we can make some deep fakes.