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  • No, it won’t change the minds of his base.

    But there are people he wouldn’t consider his base, that also tend to vote conservative, who were actually offended by some of those jokes. And then realized that hey, Trump and company are white nationalists, and that means that no minority will be safe.

    It’s a tiny minority of Trump supporters, but as close as this election could be, that’s more than enough.

    Now, Trump is planning on stealing the election anyway. Via disrupting or delaying certification of votes past December 11th, Which then means that there will be incomplete slates of electors, which means the election goes to the House, and each State gets one vote instead of the house itself voting.

    They’re going to try to use Section three of the 20th amendment.

    If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the President, the President-elect shall have died, the Vice President-elect shall become President. If a President shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, or if the President-elect shall have failed to qualify, then the Vice President-elect shall act as President until a President shall have qualified; and the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President-elect nor a Vice President-elect shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, or the manner in which one who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly until a President or Vice President shall have qualified.

    Fun times to live in…



  • The definition is that Tesla is shit.

    They’re selling a spotty lane assist as Self Driving when it is not.

    Other companies are selling actual self-driving cars, (even if those companies are fucking up as well) but Tesla is nowhere near that level of autonomy. All because Musk cheaped out on the sensor package.

    Teslas will never be self-driving, because they literally cannot detect the road and obstacles with just their little camera setup.

    They should not be allowed to call it self-driving, or autopilot, or anything else that implies that you can take your hands off the steering wheel.









  • Eh, it’s honestly safer than you’d think. The size of the reactor plays a huge role in safety.

    A reactor sized for a container ship would be literally incapable of melting down, because there just isn’t enough fuel to get to those temperatures. You could then limit the ship’s speed, and over build the reactor a bit, so that the reactor is never truly stressed during normal operation.

    Then for refueling, you just remove the entire reactor and replace it with a new, fully fueled one every 10 years or so.

    That’s where you want your controls.

    Other than that, yeah it would be safer than oil. A crash just means your reactor casing gets wet.

    The main worry is someone cutting into the reactor to take out the spicy rocks… and there are easier ways to get spicy rocks.




  • RCV does have some money behind it, but it also has some deep-seated structural problems that come up with disturbing regularity.

    Which leads to a situation where the results of an RCV election can be so bad that the district/state decides to axe voting reform entirely and go back to First Past the Post.

    This has happened a few times now, and it sets efforts for real voting reform back. If you walk into Burlington, Vermont and say “I have voting reform that will fix the problems of First Past the Post” They will tell you to fuck off because they tried RCV, and it failed horribly because it’s a bad system.

    So an attempt to get STAR going will face that much more pushback. So it’s better for everyone to resist RCV and push for STAR or Approval.

    Approval has gotten some wins, and is also picking up steam. I’d be happy with it, even though STAR is slightly better.



  • It also doesn’t take into account how Disney actually uses these movies.

    Disney makes the bulk of their pure profit in the theme parks.

    They just announced that they were dropping $50billion to upgrade the parks, with an expectation of making that back completely within 2-3 years.

    The movies, are seen as giant commercials for new merch and Disney parks.

    As long as the movie is seen favorably by the target age group (children who will want to go to Disney world) then it’s seen as a success.

    Then scenes from the movie can be used in the theme parks.

    As a note, the scenes used in the park, may have been made years before the movie was filmed.