[-] TrueStoryBob@lemmy.world 20 points 5 days ago

The off the shelf commercial parts (game controller, computer monitors, etc) weren't that bad of an idea... the bad idea was to not get anything that was fire safety rated. That whole submersible was a fire trap.

[-] TrueStoryBob@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

He's already got my vote. He's by zero means perfect, but I live in a swing state and cannot throw out "meh it's terrible, but good enough considering" because it's not perfect.

Here's some things he could do to make "meh, it's terrible but" into just "good":

  • Put any kind of pressure on Israel.
  • Expand the Supreme Court.
  • Executive order giving the NLRB Sectorial Bargaining at the Federal Level.
  • Force the FCC to regulate data collection.
  • Go back in time and allow the railroad workers to strike and threaten nationalization if the hedge funds that own the railroads don't play ball.
[-] TrueStoryBob@lemmy.world 159 points 3 months ago

Didn't someone have a picture of a Tesla in the wild with a bumper sticker that read something like: "I bought this before I knew Elon was a complete idiot."

[-] TrueStoryBob@lemmy.world 46 points 3 months ago

Her district is germandered at like +25 Republican... she's going no where. But also, having the Republicans do a ton of party infighting during an election year is great if you don't like them. Makes them less appealing overall to voters. Let them flight.

[-] TrueStoryBob@lemmy.world 92 points 3 months ago

An election year is a great time to blow up the only part of the government your party controls... I say let them flight.

[-] TrueStoryBob@lemmy.world 35 points 3 months ago

Needs exactly four Republicans House Reps to do what I could only describe as the funniest thing ever.

[-] TrueStoryBob@lemmy.world 43 points 3 months ago

An Acquaintance: "Oh my goodness and they said that people could actually be living on Mars soon! Isn't that just neat-o?"

Me: Having watched enough hours of "Science Fiction and Futurism with Isaac Arthur" to qualify for a doctorate

Me: "Yep. Sure is super neat-o."

[-] TrueStoryBob@lemmy.world 21 points 5 months ago

I sit to pee because I'm lazy. The dresses I wear while belting out ballads from Skykid shows are just to assert my dominance in the workplace.

[-] TrueStoryBob@lemmy.world 28 points 5 months ago

I mean... that's putting a lot of faith in the dishwasher to work properly every single time you do it. I don't know if I've got enough trust in the 1995 beige "landlord special" under my counter right now.

[-] TrueStoryBob@lemmy.world 74 points 6 months ago

My Nephew: "What's a fax machine?"

Me: "A landline network of low quality printers people used to use to do invoices and file for divorce."

My Nephew: "Landline?"

[-] TrueStoryBob@lemmy.world 57 points 10 months ago

Southern Georgia, USA.

This is more of a regional rationalization about occasional weather hazards. Here in coastal Georgia, we get snow from time to time, about a half an inch to two inches once every three to five years. There's a lot of people from colder climates that move here for work or retirement; they hear "a possible light dusting of snow" on the news or from a weather app and think that means nothing. Where they're from it's just normal, happens every year and there's often more. They'll even laugh at us for shutting down the schools and staying home from work for freezing rain. Here's the thing: no one here knows how to drive in snow and will likely only see black ice a dozen times in their lifetime. Further, we have no salt/sand trucks, we have no plows, we have zero civic infrastructure to meant to deal with our very occasional ice storm or light snow. It happens so infrequently that there's no way to justify spending taxpayers' money to prepare in that way for those kinds of situations. So we shut down the schools and most businesses for a day or so and everyone mostly stays home. We're not necessarily unprepared for winter weather, we just prepare in a different way that makes sense for the situation.

[-] TrueStoryBob@lemmy.world 53 points 10 months ago

Can Musk do that? I would think this goes against Apple and Android app store rules right?

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