Don’t know if you’re in California and poor, or not. I am. Gas is way cheaper. Don’t misunderstand me, I think things have to move in this direction, but unless it comes with a big subsidy (something along the lines of the heat pumps mentioned in the article), make no mistake, it’s fucking poor people.

California has the 2nd highest electric rates in the country. Not sure why they want to fuck poor people even more. I’m for getting things clean, but this is treating a symptom and not the disease.

Before even going through the comments, I know that I’m going to be further embarrassed by my fellow citizens.

I can’t answer. Only add that I looked up my own mod action list some months ago and saw that I had been banned from a handful of communities for 3 months. But it had happened like 7 months before, and I never noticed. I’m guessing that is what happened.

If someone stands in front of a crowd and yells an opinion, I don’t think they should get angry when they get a bunch of replies instead of having the crowd elect a spokesperson who then gives a committee-decided solo reply.

I think they have learned their lesson.

After reading Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future, I’ve just been crossing my fingers for homemade drones to start taking down private planes.

As someone who doesn’t have any social media, aside from this place, I always wonder what the reaction would be to me.

But then I’m up 3-4 times during the night peeing.

Top comment on that page is perfect:

One wrote their own operating system incorporating others ideas on operating systems, the other’s mom bought theirs.

Mexico only occupied California for a score of years or so. Anyone claiming “This was Mexico once” (as the article did) is an idiot.

As always, are we the baddies?

https://archive.is/vbRdP

It’s against The Constitution for him to even hold office. It makes me laugh (in a gallows humor way) when I hear pundits or whoever talking about violations of The Constitution as if it still holds sway in this country.

I took a course decades ago when I was at University working towards my BA in English Literature. It was titled “The Canon”. Basically, how do we decide what books are “good” enough to be included in a literary canon. After months of discussion, research, justification using criteria such as critical acclaim, popularity, longevity (popularity over time), etc., it pretty much came down to whatever you, or the little group you are working with, agrees on. As you say. Like a particular food, I may not like something while you may like it, we would both be right. That said, Rowling’s writing, for me, was absolutely awful. But again, someone with a different background, expectations, or whatever may have not noticed the poor and repetitive prose, and instead just liked it. Fair enough. I’ve read that the books became better written as she chugged along, but I never found out. I do know that I like some things even though I can understand why some people may think are pretty bad. Hell, I grew up on punk rock in the late '70s and early to mid '80s and, with some notable exceptions, they weren’t the best musicians. I still loved, and continue to love, a lot of that music. When I worked at a book store back in the early '90s when book stores were still a thing, it became pretty clear that good writing isn’t in any way a requirement for a book to become a best seller.

DNC explicitly doesn’t want any Dems replaced, and voters love dropping to their knees for incumbents. As the saying starts, you can wish in one hand, and shit in the other.

I wish that turd was a fake president. Still blows my mind that the insurrectionist, proven rapist, with 34 felony convictions, got elected by us morons. Reelected. Holy crap, what a shit timeline.

I’m often a dick. I probably wouldn’t say anything immediately, and then use that asinine opinion to dismiss anything else the person says later. Forever. They say something about <whatever topic>, “Yeah, but you also think vaccines kill people, so we already know you are an idiot.” Just on repeat on every opinion they voice, until they never want to say anything around me or talk to me.

I said absolutely nothing about the story, only the crappy writing. And as an aside, I honestly hope you don’t equate popularity with goodness or quality.

We didn’t mean THAT type of freedom!! Only the freedom we allow you to have!