Those of us who paid attention knew Musk and his companies were awful at least as early as 2014. All these Tesla bumper stickers that say, “I bought this before he went insane” or whatever are bullshit. He was an insane asshole 10 years ago, but you weren’t paying attention.

It’s wild how predictable it is. How can a city that is home to such a vibrant punk scene and surf culture be a bastion of fascist-dick suckers?

Wait, did you seriously reply that it was no longer “reportedly” and use as proof a source that says “IDF believes” twice with no actual proof? Seriously?

IDF believes something is not proof. It is the same as me saying, “I believe the IDF is intentionally killing civilians and using made up rationale for it by saying there are fighters in there.” It is likely true, but it isn’t a source of truth.

So the researchers are saying there is more load during mid-day but there is also excess capacity due to solar, and that is better than charging at 3am with low load but also low generation from renewables?

I’ll try to remember to look into that tonight

You have very bad reading comprehension. The person you are quoting never praised Saudi Arabia and never said they were the saviors of anything.

A) “Reportedly” is the key word.

B) Is that really justification for murdering 28 innocent civilians in a hospital?

A couple years ago my non-gamer girlfriend came home from work and asked if I had ever seen the Leroy Jenkins video since I used to play WoW. I was like, “yes, yes I know about that video.” She thought it was hilarious even though she had no idea what it meant.

My rarest that I still own is a full collection of Shakespeare works from the early 1800s bound in leather. It is absolutely beautiful but isn’t worth much because the leather binding isn’t original. I did have a signed leather bound copy of Ender’s Game that was 1 of 2000 or something. I bought it for $200 brand new and sold it for $1500 a few years ago, though.

I’m impressed by the ability of the dogs to strip search people since they don’t have opposable thumbs.

When Republicans say, “don’t threaten me with a good time,” they aren’t just joking.

It’s so dumb, too. It saves money, but the party of fiscal responsibility doesn’t want that. It is the open market self-regulating, but the party of open market and limited regulations wants to regulate it out of business.

Only in very specific cases:

For parents of a child, it is only a crime for these cases:

Noncustodial parents; 
Fathers whose paternity the government hasn't recognized; 
Parents in active custody cases; 
Parents with a court order requiring them to do so; 

In general, though, you don’t need explicit permission to take your child out of state.

For non-parents, it is only illegal if done for the following purposes:

Transportation With Intent To Engage in Criminal Sexual Activity;
Travel With Intent To Engage in Illicit Sexual Conduct; 
Engaging in Illicit Sexual Conduct in Foreign Places; 
Illicit Sexual Conduct in Connection With Certain Organizations; 
Ancillary Offenses (to sexual misconduct);

Attempt and Conspiracy (to those acts above);

It’s weird that noncustodial parents are more restricted on taking kids out of state than random non-parental people.

Who is going to tell them that this is one of the most obviously unconstitutional things ever. I mean, it’s hard to imagine how much more unconstitutional it could be.

I prefer vote by mail, too. However, real-life implementation of it only leads to a roughly 10% increase in voter turnout. That only brings us from 55% turnout to 65% turnout, which is pathetic.

Bidirectional is a “hell no.” One-directional I can get on board with, though I don’t like the idea of my thoughts being available to anyone else. Minimal interface where I can control typing of a keyboard or drive a car or whatever, sure. I don’t want anything that can read ALL of my thoughts, because once that thing is connected to the internet then you know it’ll be monetized and weaponized.

Literally every single election the talking point is how many people didn’t bother to vote. And it’s always the same percentage. The only time it changed much at all was after Trump killed a few million Americans with his COVID policies. The only way to make any change more is to have a national voting holiday plus compulsory voting.

Yes, we all know that. This entire story is the church stating publicly they don’t consider compelled by law to be sufficient justification.

I’m talking about the punishment for breaking the church law is basically “take a time out for a bit” while the punishment for following church law is “child gets a lifetime of pain and trauma.” Priests are choosing their own personal connection to their friends rather than helping to prevent child abuse.

This story right here is the fundamental argument against anything pro-business conservatives and libertarians espouse about the free market. Why would any company lower their profit once they have everyone used to that level of cost? This is the most obvious outcome from the situation.

You know what, you’re right. We should definitely not protect children from a lifetime of trauma because of tradition. What was I thinking?

And this is clearly not something the first amendment is intended to protect. The first amendment is about government punishment for private speech and allowing religion to be practiced. This doesn’t stop the religion from being practiced, it just says priests have a choice between a temporary time out from the church and a temporary time out from society if they choose to protect child abusers. And even if it were about this, we ALREADY have laws compelling people to report crimes. You think because it is a priest they get a special pass that lawyers, therapists, and doctors don’t get?

If the lawyer believes you might commit a new crime based on the way you talk about past crimes, they are required to report it. Therapists might have to report past crimes, depending on the age of the victim and the type of crime. They have to report current and future crimes if there might be danger to others.