mriguy @ mriguy @lemmy.world

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Oh no

Of course, if they’re in the army, can’t they be executed for treason and the like?

From the way they are acting, they clearly don’t seriously think there will ever be a chance of them losing power, so they probably will go for it.

Of course, they’re probably also fully aware that if the Democrats ever DO regain power, they will trip all over themselves to “let bygones be bygones” and restore the filibuster for the Republicans to use.

That’s the same threat he’s made to every state, city and institution. Do exactly what I tell you too or I’ll use the power of the federal government (unrestrained by congress or the courts) to crush you. So, what he’s implicitly saying to any mayor.

So there is literally no point to paying attention to what he’s saying - he’s going to do it regardless.

Definitely stealing that phrase!

since this is the thing the right armed themselves for

No it isn’t and it never was. That was the excuse they used to cover their gun fetish. They always saw themselves as the shock troops of the authoritarian takeover, and the fact that they are delighted it’s happening is confirmation.

Sure, they could, and probably should. But evidence suggests they won’t. So what’s the point of them spying on him? They’ll collect a bunch of information and do nothing about it.

But you can be sure that the spy agencies are watching him. He's already too powerful for comfort, and it's their job to spy on people like him.

And do what? It was very clear that if Trump got elected he’d take a wrecking ball to the country that we will probably never recover from, at the behest of a hostile foreign leader he’s been openly conspiring with for decades. What exactly did they did to stop him?

Looks like they may need to destroy a few more government agencies that collect and distribute labor statistics. That will solve it.

My wife was sure Musk wouldn’t make it past March.

“When the elephants fight, the grass is crushed. When the elephants make love, the grass is crushed.”

Somebody has to dare him to prove it, and maybe he'll show how he rigged the voting counts in the swing states.

In most household shocks, you touch a conductor, and you are the resistor to ground. Your resistance is independent of the drive voltage, so if you touch a 110V wire, the current will be half of what you get with a 220V wire. So the voltage determines the current, and thus the lethality.

There’s lots of other factors that go into the effective resistance like the amount of moisture on your skin, what shoes you’re wearing, and what the floor is made of, etc, but in all cases twice as much voltage will cause twice as much current. You are by far the highest resistance element in the circuit, so your resistance will completely determine the current - most household circuits are capable of supplying 10-15A continuously, so your resistance is the current limiter.

It’s a bad idea either to go touching live wires either way, but the rule of thumb I heard was was that a 110V shock usually won’t kill you and 220V shock usually will.

You perceive your place in the world relative to others. Billionaires have reached the level where there is literally no amount of money that will make their lives better than they are. So the only way left for them to feel they are making progress is to make everybody else’s life worse. That’s what they are doing now. As more and more people in the world in the world become food insecure, homeless and scared, they can continue to feel like their lives are getting better. Trump is helping them acheive that - the amount of money they are losing doesn’t meaningfully impact them.

He’s already given him at least one, like all of the other tech billionaires at the inauguration.

But what they failed to understand was that one of Trump’s major innovations was moving corruption from a one time payment to a subscription model.

Karma’s a bitch.

You can’t just assert that. They’ll vote whatever way they’ve been paid to vote.

Fun fact - some soldering irons regulate their temperature using the curie point. There’s a disk of ferromagnetic material with a particular curie point in the tip. A magnet in the barrel of the soldering iron is attracted to the tip, and when it sticks to the tip, it switches the heating element on. When the disk hits its curie temperature it’s no longer magnetic, and the magnetic switch opens and shuts off the heating element (it’s on a weak spring). When the tip cools down enough it becomes magnetic again, and the magnet is pulled to it and turns on the heater. You can have different tips with different curie temperatures, so one soldering iron can do multiple temperatures with very cheap internal electronics (basically, just a switch).

Elon Musk, guardian of free speech!

A road built and maintained by taxpayers is much cheaper (to a shipping company) than building, maintaining, and operating a railway. Making taxpayers responsible for the infrastructure you use is one way to make your business much more profitable.

Yes, but that’s all subsidized by taxpayers, so it’s more expensive overall but cheaper for YOU.