frezik @ frezik @midwest.social

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You're not wrong that the law should change, but there is one thing here. Generally, when we say that 3-wheelers are unstable, we're talking about one in front/two in back. The opposite configuration, which is what Aptera is using, is generally pretty stable. That one picture of a guy on a recumbent trike is unusual. You almost have to try to do that on purpose.

"ROFL"

Signed, everyone who has been involved in migrating a codebase before.

They won't, because then it's legally considered a proper car that has to have air bags and crumple zones and such. They can only make it small and cheap because it's three wheels.

Raising the standards would result in 20-50% of the worst drivers being forced to do something else. If our infrastructure wasn't so car-centric, that would be perfectly fine.

I have never once done the Pledge of Allegiance. Grew up a Jehovah's Witness, who think that giving allegiance to a country would mean putting that country over God. Even if any of my teachers didn't like this reasoning, they were obliged to keep quiet and accept it. There was a Supreme Court case about this exact issue.

Left JWs as an adult, so I never had to do it.

There's a lot more people with a plan behind the scenes this time. They only need him to sign the papers.

I'm a former Jehovah's Witness, so I'm well aware of the other groups targeted by the Nazis.

As for technology, they just put on a display of how well they use it. Signal can't fix dumb. This will always happen, and it will always be an opportunity to exploit.

There's psychological quizzes that are much shorter than that. There's a four question quiz that, on the surface, is about parenting. They're actually about authoritarianism, and the answers are highly correlated with support for Trump.

https://www.vox.com/2016/3/1/11127424/trump-authoritarianism

The two positions in this thread aren't as opposed as they appear. Nazis did think of themselves as special boys. That's why they thought invading Russia was a good idea.

There are sometimes counterfactual arguments where people say "what if the Nazis did X instead, would that have saved them?". And where a lot of these end up is the realization that for them to have even tried it, they would have had to be something other than Nazis. If it hadn't been invading Russia, it would have been something else.

Fascism is more fragile than it appears on the surface.

We haven't even seen the start of this opsec rocket diarrhea.

Are people actually arguing that? The USD/CAD has only been close to parity relatively briefly about a decade ago. A 70% drop doesn't get explained by that.

edited 26 minutes ago. My reply posted an hour ago

Fuck off. This is pathetic.

The bit you edited in afterwards? No, you don't get credit for that, and you still don't know what you're talking about.

Do you understand how gerrymandering works? It doesn't apply directly to Presidential elections.

The vote was within 2M. Yes, they changed the outcome.

The solution to the space elevator was sitting there the whole time.

Why are my neighbors mad? They have all the mint they could want now.

Maybe, maybe not. This has turned out differently before. Here's a tidbit from Homage to Catalonia (emphasis added):

But there were several points that escaped general notice. To begin with, Franco was not strictly comparable with Hitler or Mussolini. His rising was a military mutiny backed up by the aristocracy and the Church, and in the main, especially at the beginning, it was an attempt not so much to impose Fascism as to restore feudalism.This meant that Franco had against him not only the working class but also various sections of the liberal bourgeoisie—the very people who are the supporters of Fascism when it appears in a more modern form.

It'll come down on if they like authoritarian control better than they like money. They're getting burned on the money part, and there's no reason to think Trump's policies will make it any better in the long run.

But don't count on them either way. They'll still enact policies that are good for billionaires, not us.

He needs enough support that his most rabid fans will keep calling into congress with death threats if they don't let Trump do whatever he wants. The calls to congressional offices asking them to do fucking anything will drown those out.

Active duty service members look at how much veterans benefits are being cut--things they were planning on having for themselves later--which means the military isn't a reliable path to maintaining indefinite power. If Hegseth goes down, then they've thrown away any chance of controlling the military. He was supposed to be The Guy for that.

He's got ICE and maybe the FBI. Those can cause havoc on individuals, such as Gaza protesters and green card holders, but they're too small to grip the entire nation.

A lot will come down to city police and county sheriffs throwing in their support.

"Mike colors outside the lines, but doesn't eat the crayon. He does his best."