speeding in school zones

Fuck the driver. He deserves to get “narc’d” on, before he kills some kid.

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Pretty straightforward today.

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“It's tempting to use the analogy of rats fleeing a sinking ship to describe the growing number of Republican elected officials starting to speak out against Donald Trump. But that's really not fair to rats, who tend not to be complicit in driving ships to the bottom of the sea.”

-Dan Rather (back in October 2020)

So close!

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I used to send this song to a friend of mine all the time. It’ll get stuck in your head for weeks…

Baby Come Back -Player

Green & yellow were trickier than purple & blue…

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It uses an electric compressor.

Why are you responding in such a condescending tone?  Was my reply in any way as rude?  Do you hold all of your internet conversations by talking down to your fellow contributors? You don’t know who we are; you don’t have any right to reply like that. Grow up. Keep your “gold stars” and “walk step by step for you’s” to yourself. If you can’t be civil to strangers, then keep your opinions to yourself. 

The compressed gas that “it” uses is compressed with electricity, yes.  

…and yes, I realize the gas is not compressed onboard, and that the car doesn’t accomplish this on “its” own.  I’m sorry my simpler phrasing upset you so. If I say “the car uses a DC power supply,” I don’t mean to imply that the car connects “itself” to the charger either. “It” (the car) utilizes a compressed gas source, which was electrically powered. 

Sure, that minuscule amount of electricity could be generated by way of fossil fuel power plants, but seeing as how this is a Tesla demo, probably a one-off (assuming Musk is lying about delivering - as he usually is), and Tesla’s “gigafactory” uses a massive solar farm in addition to the local power grid (which may include fossil fuels), it’s nearly a wash. A tiny “carbon footprint,” if any at all. Hell, manufacturing those bottle lids probably generates a larger carbon footprint. 

Like [@[email protected]]\ said, there are plenty of other aspects to this to make fun of.  Arguing that the compressed gas is somehow contributing to its global footprint is stupid. But then, so is arguing with strangers on the internet.

Hyundai Ioniq 5 is the best small EV in the USA. I highly recommend it.

We legalized marijuana too!

I don’t smoke weed and I don’t have a uterus, but I voted to protect both and I’m glad we won!

That’s because trump is a national security risk.

If your “faith” prevents you from doing your public service job, get a different job.

That photo sure doesn’t look like Jared Golden. Any chance to smear AOC tho…

That is embarrassingly low.

Here’s how it’s going to go down:

• Jon will ask pointed questions.
• Elmo will respond with rhetoric, lies, half-truths, incendiary nonsense, &/or dumb jokes.
• Jon will call him out on his bullshit.
• Elmo will respond with more rhetoric, lies, half-truths, incendiary nonsense, &/or dumb jokes.
• Jon will be appalled at Musk’s lack of integrity, ethics, intelligence, or humility.
• The next day, right-wing pundits will spin it as a victory for Musk - saying he made Stewart “speechless and dumbfounded” with his amazing performance.

Perpetuating the myth that student loan forgiveness means “your taxes are paying off student loans,” when it really means “government is telling banks to fuck off with their excessive interest rates on student loans.”

Tax money isn’t going to the banks* or the students. The students have usually paid off the loans, and are now struggling with the interest debt. The gov’t telling the bank to give up on that debt isn’t hurting anyone, but the bank doesn’t get as much profit as they could have - and since the banks own the senators & media outlets, we get the myth that student loan forgiveness means “taxes paying off student loans.”

*note - I think some deals do include the gov’t giving the banks some money to “cover their (imaginary) losses.”

When dementia strikes a tiny mind.

What kind of “small government” legislates morality?

“Party over country.” That’s their stance.