Or you could read all the way to the end of your quote, and try basic reading comprehension

Sure , let’s move the goalposts

So, I see, you’re painting Trump and Putin as the underdog. Everyone pushing them around

Yes, that term usually denotes a person or group not in power.

Google says

A person, group, or organization that uses violent action, or the threat of violent action, to further political goals; frequently in an attempt to coerce either a more powerful opponent, (such as a citizen or group targeting a government), or conversely, a weaker opponent, (such as a government, or even an internal citizen or group, being targeted by a larger government).

He’s not a terrorist, doesnt match the definition. You may notice a lot of comparisons to hitler though. Trump is a better match for a despot

But that’s kind of the problem. If it’s only supported in one or two apps, is it really an open format?

For example, I use Libre Office on my laptop. However the printer driver for my printer is no longer supported and Microsoft keeps installing a broken one over the one that works. I can no longer reliably print from my laptop.

But printing from my iPhone has been flawless for years. But if I try to look up how to edit and print open document format on my iPhone, the answer is “Microsoft Word”. How is the “open” format not supported, and why do I need to switch to a proprietary format?

Or a less douchey version is …. While this may be well intentioned, it’s really not going to work and he needs to find another way to contribute

This is the least weird thing … as a father, I always preferred an activity with my kids to celebrate Father’s Day, especially something that makes a difference, something that celebrates caring and protecting, and encourages my children to develop habits that care and protect. We generally did something like wilderness cleanup, or clean up grounds at community centers.

As my kids become adults and have less need of care and protection, it would be easy to say that Father’s Day no longer applies. But it applies to me if I say it does: taking care of people doesn’t just disappear. In the last couple years I’ve been putting some thought into whether I’d continue to meaningfully celebrate Father’s Day and how.

If I were close to someone who was attacked, who I couldn’t protect, who I wasn’t able to sufficiently care for, who needed a womens shelter, why wouldn’t that be one of the possibilities?

Sure

• church fundraiser
• state lottery
• Penny ante poker
• social gambling like March madness or superbowl squares

I’ve tried to like it but I just can’t. How is it entertaining to just give your money away, literally without anything of value?

I’ll do Super Bowl squares and March madness, because it’s a social activity. Once every year or so I’ll buy a lottery ticket for one night of amazing dreams.

But organized gambling, like casino, inline, track, sports bets always just feels like they are robbing me. I did bet at a horse track and a dog track a couple of times but it’s just so sad watching these old people piss away their social security checks. Now we have polymarket which seems like mostly a way for immoral politicians, celebrities, business people to enrich themselves with insider knowledge

Yeah, we need to ban for-profit gambling

Mary Barra gets all kinds of shit and pressure to resign for saying she believes EVs are the future, despite cutting way back on GMs attempt to build them

I generally shop for reliability and longevity also but

1. EV inherently fewer things to go wrong
2. Where’s your price threshold? What if you can get two sketchy cars for the price of that Honda? Three?

Regulatory capture should never be a part of a “Free Market” and that is one of the reasons it is failing us

Or you could have both. According to all the testing agencies, modern teslas are among the safest most reliable cars.

And it’s not just the huge amounts of instant torque that can be a blast, but the noise, or lack of! The silence even under hard acceleration just makes it seem effortless. I also used to feel a thrill with the noise of a powerful gas engine but that feels like an awful lot of effort just to not accelerate well. I seriously feel Ike it’s similar to a stream engine train: “full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing”

We tried that. At least twice. One political party decided that investment was “fraud, waste, and abuse”, and shut it all down, driving manufacturing out of the country.

Google says 25% of the worlds oil passes through the Strait of Hormuz, but it also says 55% off the worlds oil is used for transportation.

We should be able to fairly quickly (ie. Decade) cut oil by double what is impacted in trumps war

Yeah, let’s send thermodynamics to Guantanamo where we can violate them in freedom, FREEDOM! No interference from those pesky laws of physics, just FREEDOM

Unfortunately, that’s arguably still true, in the us. Given the current administration’s desire to roll back the calendar, outside EVs have been effectively banned, and many of the choices we were finally about to get were cancelled.

If I were looking for a new EV today, Tesla is still by far the most compelling choice available to me.

Australia is also central to renewables because of the number of articles on grid storage.

Oh I totally agree. They are not very useful and even if they were there is also not a market/customer base.

But Boston Dynamics Optimus is getting pretty decent. There are claims that even at an expected price of $200k, over its lifetime that is cheaper than human menial labor. It can swap out its own battery, so tHere’s at least one useful skill

The goal of Tesla-bot is to hit $20k. While that doesn’t seem likely, even double that price could be affordable for small offices …… if it could do stuff.