The one benefit of Vance replacing Trump is that he doesn't have a cult like Trump does.
I have a RAV4 Prime and I share a level 1 charger with a roommate. Neither of us drive all that much and it works out great. I basically always run it in fully electric mode.
Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed.
That word is "Nazi." Nobody cares about their motives anymore.
They joined what they joined. They lent their support and their moral approval. And, in so doing, they bound themselves to everything that came after. Who cares any more what particular knot they used in the binding?
—A.R. Moxon
If you know you're about to get replaced by RFK I'm a few months, how do you even get up in the morning, much less try to do your job?
Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed.
That word is "Nazi." Nobody cares about their motives anymore.
They joined what they joined. They lent their support and their moral approval. And, in so doing, they bound themselves to everything that came after. Who cares any more what particular knot they used in the binding?
—A.R. Moxon
I'm sorry but I just don't buy that. They don't have time to talk to anyone who's actually paying attention? They can't take ten minutes over the course of several months (for Harris) or years (for Trump) to listen to the candidates speak and see which one can speak in coherent sentences?
No, they're just too stubborn to listen to anyone who tells them anything other than what they want to hear. Or too racist to vote for a Black person, too sexist to vote for a woman, too brainwashed to ever vote for a Democrat, etc.
He'll probably respond with more military aid.
Then why do I see so many people talking about issues like abortion as if all men are against it and all women are for it?
There is no such thing as a factually wrong feeling.
So if I feel that 2+2=5, or the earth is flat, I'm not factually wrong?
They can't actually change the rules because it's a Constitutional amendment, but they can certainly ignore the rules. Who's gonna stop them, the Supreme Court?
So you're saying MAGA won't be able to access porn?
Strange comparison. The war on drugs wrecked so many lives, and hasn't really ended, just cooled off a little. I don't see that as a cause for optimism.
Calling out hypocrisy isn't puritanical.
He also has no reason not to appease them, and he's known for being willing to sign anything that's put in front of him.
Is Reddit even trying anymore?
I'm trying not to read too much into the fact that Reddit is down right now, but I've noticed pages have been increasingly slow to load lately, and I get a lot of messages about server errors even just voting on comments. It seems like they're barely even keeping the lights on. Anyone else notice the same thing?
What's the least shady political organization I can donate to in the US?
I still get tons of political calls, texts, and emails from donations I made around 2016 and 2020. Is there any organization I can use to donate money that won't harass me in the future or sell my data to someone else who will?
(I got a text soliciting a political donation while I was typing this question!)
Gboard: Why do I get "didn't" when I swipe "don't"?
When I swipe "don't" in Gboard, at least 30% of the time it decides I mean "didn't". I just tested it, and the accuracy was shockingly bad. I'd understand if the strokes were very similar, but "didn't" has a whole extra stroke in it compared to "don't". WTF, Google?
How is Reddit's current mobile site so bad?
When you try to edit a Reddit comment in their mobile web app, it deletes all line breaks from your comment so you have to remember to manually put them back before submitting.
The other big issue I have is that when you type in and edited comment, it will omit spaces between words at random. JFC, there's no reason to use anything but a vanilla HTML input element (because only markdown formatting is supported), but they somehow fucked up basic text input anyway!
My last little gripe is that nothing in the interface tells you that markdown is supported, which is extra dumb because the desktop interface tries so hard to hide the fact that markdown even exists.
(And yes, there are a host of other annoyances, but I'm trying to limit my criticisms to things that can only be explained by incompetence.)