Tinidril @ Tinidril @midwest.social

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Point? And who is telling anyone to "BeEeE aFrAiD!!". Vaccination is incredibly effective for measles, so most people have nothing to worry about personally. Still, who wants to see kids get an unnecessary disease that hospitalizes 1/4 and kills 1/1000?

This isn't fear, it's just disgust at having one more reason to despise far right morons. These are the same people who will wring their hands and cry "think of the children" for every damn oppressive piece of bullshit legislation they want to pass.

It never seems to work out that way anymore. The bad guys outlive us all.

This is frankly impossible to do in the modern workspace. Access to everything needed to do the work can be switched off almost instantly. Also, good luck getting financial institutions to comply or even meet with you when they know you're going rogue and don't have the force of government behind you.

Just talking from my own experience with these two vehicles, they will continue creeping along until I feel the physical brake engage.

It makes a certain amount of sense that a car that isn't moving can't generate power by stopping, and no regeneration means no regenerative braking. Were the car completely stopped it would have to start moving a little to get braking power, and imperfect efficiency would mean it's never going to be enough to stop the vehicle completely.

I know what you're talking about with smaller electric vehicles, but I think that locking operates on different principles. I don't think many of those have regenerative braking because the math doesn't make it practical at that scale. I definitely don't put myself forward as an expert though.

as with any war, there's never a solution that's going to please everyone.

I hear Hitler was particularly displeased with the way WWII ended. Pleasing everyone ain't the goal here Skippy.

Ending the war, by itself, is a good thing.

If either side thought that, there wouldn't be a war. Obviously there are "bad things" associated with ending the war that are considered worse than continuing it.

Do you think that if the Ukraine military and government surrendered completely today that it would mean peace? Not a chance. Russia would be oppressive and an uprising would begin the moment formal hostilities ended - as would be right and proper.

Russia does not have the manpower - in training or just raw numbers - to effectively occupy and quell rebellion in Ukraine. The result would be a bloody quagmire for at least a decade, and it would arguably be worse than the current formal hostilities.

Depends on the vehicle. My Nissan Leaf (full electric) and Chevy Volt (plug in hybrid) both brake primarily with regenerative braking, but pushing the brake pedal past a certain point engages conventional brakes.

I don't think it's even possible to come to a full stop in either vehicle without engaging the physical brake. Regenerative braking doesn't do much when you get under 10 MPH or so.

Not partially anymore. I just checked my maps and it's now just the Gulf of America. Where did the constitution give the President that ability again?

I won't say if I agree or disagree with you, but the argument you make is absolutely a legitimate one that we as a society should be considering in an ongoing process. Some level of forced integration was absolutely necessary after the end of slavery, but we all should want to live in a future where it's not necessary at all. How far along that scale we are, and how we push further in that direction are questions that current policy discussions largely ignore.

However, we also have to contend with the fact that overt racism is still rampant and that a large part of this country doesn't want a reasonable national conversation on the topic. The noise coming from the right makes it next to impossible for these conversations to occur. Sadly, that's why the politicians who rely on bigotry embrace that rhetoric, whether they are personally racist or not.

That's a lot of hand waving just to say "Iranian men are rapists because America". It wasn't Zionists calling them habitual rapists, it was you. Zionism is bad, but take some personal responsibility brother.

So... locking up the rapists wasn't an option? A statewide educational campaign against rape was impossible?

Are Iranian men just born different from other men, or is there something in the culture that could be addressed?

It's a common rhetorical shortcut to anthropomorphize evolution. Doing so doesn't necessarily indicate that the writer doesn't understand how evolution works. It's just cumbersome to repeat an explanation of random mutation and natural selection in every discussion of evolved trait.

Neither creatures nor evolution get to "decide" to develop a trait but, as countless evolutionary arms races show, useful traits and refinements do tend to happen in a way that evokes a sense of conscious decision making.

At least your priorities are clear now.

Are you just reading every other sentence or something? I voted for Harris. I didn't need you to tell me to vote for Harris. I'd rather see Harris in prison than the Whitehouse, but I'd rather see Harris in the Whitehouse than Trump.

But, if we want to talk about warnings, I warned people like you that preaching at voters was more likely to make them stay home than vote for your candidate. Pointing out why Harris was better than Trump on Gaza was good, but the constant preaching and harassing attitude could easily have lost Harris the election. The fact that it didn't end with the election is insane. It shows that your motivations were to virtue signal instead of helping Harris win.

Representative democracy is the system where people get the government that they deserve.

Yes, general strikes work differently. If people managed to unify to grind the system to a halt for a few days, I guarantee it would scare the fuck out of the capital class. As long as the people arev divided, they have all the power, but it's an illusion. The moment the people unite, their power vanishes.

The only criteria that matters for choosing a demand for a general strike is that enough people get behind it. That, and it should be concrete enough to show capitulation on the part of capital. There are clearly a lot of Americans who are fine with increasing their own suffering, as long as it hurts someone else more.

Context is important to discern meaning. Biden, the person, deserves nothing better than a jail cell. Harris too, on some level, though she's not as directly complicit. I voted for Harris anyways, because it was worth accepting that grave injustice to keep Trump out of power.

Is a decade ten months now?

Biden was the right vote over Trump, even on the issue of Gaza. However, it's fucked up to minimize Biden's culpability in the Gaza genocide this way. He wasn't indecisive, he was complicit and was actively involved in helping Israel lie and obfuscate. Maybe we as a country deserve Trump, or maybe we don't, but Biden and Harris did not deserve to win.

There is going to be benefit any time workers take their power back. The signal it would send would echo in every job/salary negotiation for years.

I think we might finally have a common demand that we can all agree on. Deport illegal immigrant Elon Musk and confiscate his ill gotten wealth. General strike time?