SpaceCowboy @ SpaceCowboy @lemmy.ca

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Michigan is a blue state?

Yeah, and property taxes result in more low density housing, as that increases the amount of tax revenue per person. High density housing means less revenue per person but the costs of services per person is still about the same. Sure theoretically, public transit is cheaper per person with high density housing, but realistically it isn't because nobody gives a shit about public transit in the suburbs.

Of course there's more costs overall because more suburbs mean governments are pressured to spend insane amounts of money on building and expanding highways. But it's usually a different level of government that builds the highways, so doesn't factor in the decisions to create more low density housing.

I think it can be attributed to Musk because he's the driving force behind pushing the "move fast and break things" mentality into rocket science. They haven't figured out why the last one blew up and they go ahead and launch another one which looks like it blew up for the same reasons.

That might work with non-critical software, but when you're talking about large rockets it's bound to get people killed eventually. At the very least they could've built a launch site for testing where the rockets aren't going over populated areas. But naw, build it in Texas and fire untested rockets over Caribbean countries, because there's not enough white people in those countries for Musk to give a shit.

Yeah kinda. I don't think it's required to have bilingual labeling in all provinces in Canada but Doritos are "Zesty Mordant" across the country because it's too much of a pain in the ass to have different labeling in different provinces.

But there are many things that are traditionally produced and used locally where that's not the case. Every province has different building codes and building materials made in one province may not be up to code in another province.

Agriculture has similar issues.

A lot of it is just it doesn't have the required label from a particular provincial official that prevents something from being sold in a province it wasn't made it. Just stupid red tape stuff.

Yeah but the requirement of the GOP hiring process for a Supreme Court Judge is they have to be against a woman's right to choose. So in that pool, men outnumber women by a significant margin.

You'd be correct only if you assume they're hiring based solely on a candidate's knowledge of the law.

Get drones and missiles instead. Stockpile them in locations kept secret from the US. Refit our submarines so they're capable of launching missiles again. Keep a few subs in the Caribbean at all times so they can hit their King's winter palace in Florida.

That would be the best deterrent, other than nukes of course... which we'd need missiles for anyway.

So buy from Russia instead because the US has become a Russian puppet and we can't trust them anymore?

The only things the Democrats can do is performative. If ineffective performative actions are what you're demanding, then you really don't understand how bad things are.

Basically just critiquing the music the band is playing after the ship ran into an iceberg.

Well there was the episode where he started wearing a MAGA hat... but not because he supported the politics, he just wanted to be ostracized by everyone.

Also relevant is whether the people that process that FOIA requests still have jobs.

I saw a video about American booze being taken off the shelf, and it got interrupted by an ad for Jameson. That ad happened to talk about how very Irish Jameson is.

Jameson's marketing team is on the ball LOL.

Sure, we'll buy European booze, and maybe you could buy Canadian booze when you can. Also maybe Ireland and France could ratify CETA please? We will buy your whiskeys and wines, really odd that those two countries are holding out on us on that.

This put it in the lefties-only-no-righty-Irish-need-apply revolving-door personnel sector of NGOs

Ok, so you say the donors are not all left, so why would a politically diverse set of donors result in Mozilla having "lefties-only" hiring practices? Reading comprehension requires some critical thinking.

It seems Brendan Eich doesn't understand that it's a politcal diverse group that donated to Mozilla (as you do), given the next sentence. Someone with strong reading comprehension would understand logic of, but I'll explain it to you. His statement is saying that Mozilla became a politically biased organization because of influence from those that donated to it.

Though your strong reading comprehension may have resulted in you having a different interpretation of "lefties-only-no-righty-Irish-need-apply" to mean... well maybe explain what that means to us poor illiterate people that don't possess your intellectual prowess, LOL.

Also do you care to comment on your interpretation on the "glowies" remark? What does that word mean to you? What is Brendan Eich saying there? Something you agree with I guess.

Not gonna lose a lot of sleep over a hateful asshole getting banned from a website.

All hateful assholes believe their brand of hate is justified, just as you do.

I hope the US gets out of this as an intact democracy and without alienating every single ally in existence.

It's about 50/50 whether the US will be able to maintain any semblance of democracy.

The alliances are effectively dead already. Dropping military support to a country during an active war is a huge no-no. No one will ever trust the US ever again. It doesn't matter if there's a Democrat president in 2029, no one can trust the American people to not vote in a betrayer like Trump again. The first time Trump was president, it was like "they didn't know who they were voting for." Just a bump in the road of democracy. This time, Americans knew what they were voting for.

And we talk to Americans on the internet, we know that Americans don't respect their allies. The soldiers of allied countries that sacrificed everything in Afghanistan and Iraq doesn't even register with most Americans. There is too little sense of honour in the American population. Americans only care about money now, and that's not a motivation that can be trusted by anyone.

Sorry, but Americans are too untrustworthy for meaningful alliances to be possible.

It's far, far worse this time.

Last go around sure, there would be a fucked up tweet almost every day, but much fewer actual changes. Yeah Trump did some fucked up shit over those 4 years, but he's done more fucked up shit in the last month than in that whole term.

Well you already said I'm welcome, but thank you anyway.

You said it "sounds accurate" then complained about people's criticism of it. You didn't actually give any detail about what's accurate about it or try to explain it in terms that aren't "rude".

So my reading comprehension is fine, it's just your ability to actually explain what it is you agree with (in terms that aren't "rude") is lacking.

Alliance isn't dying, just the US isn't really part of it anymore. The need for alliance is all the more stronger and it's imperative to remove all dependency on the US defense industry within that alliance. The US dropping military aid for Ukraine proves the US is a dishonourable country and shouldn't be trusted for anything anymore. By all indications, the US is surrendering to Russia because Trump is afraid of Putin.

The capabilities of the F-35 only represents the capability of an adversary now. We should use the ones we have to develop radar systems so we can shoot them down, and reverse engineer it's capabilities to improve the fighter aircraft produced by the free world (which no longer includes the US).

Which is accurate? It reads like an unhinged paranoid conspiracist. Do you think Geroge Soros runs mozilla? Do you think it's being controlled by federal agents?

Waterfall is more like: You want to go to Mars. You start to build the rocket. Managers that don't know anything about building a rocket starts having meetings to tell the engineers who do know how to build a rocket what they should be doing. Management decides to launch the rocket based on a timeline that's not based in reality. Management tries to launch the rocket based on the timeline instead of when it's actually finished. Rocket explodes. Management blames the engineers.

The various methodologies don't actually change what the engineers need to do. But some of them can be effective at requiring more effort from management to interfere in the project. Bad managers are lazy so they're not going to write a card, so they can be somewhat effective in neutralizing micromanagement. I say somewhat, because bad management will eventually find a way to screw things up.