^ perfect answer, IMO.

I knew it! They ARE blowing smoke!

The next one is that she is not a real woman if they are sticking to the GOP playbook.

Well she is black after all… so that totally follows in MAGAtstan.

Oh he’s never tried to hide that he’s for sale… e.g. https://www.budget.senate.gov/chairman/newsroom/press/budget-finance-committees-launch-joint-investigation-into-donald-trumps-quid-pro-quo-offer-to-big-oil-

That’s the worst I’ve heard about Harris so far from the conservatives I know.

Oh rest assured they do far far worse. DEI hire, slept her way to the top… all the hits from the same old show.

If only it were physically possible to change that. Alas, the fifth law of thermodynamics says profit above all.

It is possible to change it, of course, but every attempt thus far has ended in authoritarian political systems with even less opportunity for you to be housed, fed and well cared for, much less able to get things like affordable EVs.

I’m pretty convinced, sadly, that this is mainly because humans basically suck.

By minimizing costs, including R&D. Further, the lower the price the lower the profit and usually the lower the margin. Companies are not incentivitized to make less money.

This is pretty basic stuff…

Ford could put all their R&D money into developing low-cost EVs,

Thus making the EVs very expensive… just sayin’

Edit: I don’t know why you are downvoting. These are economic realities as they exist today. More R&D => greater costs => higher price. Fully Automated Luxury Communism is, unfortunately, not a likely reality in our lifetimes.

I feel like “Republican objections” is kinda redundant here.

And yet 5/10 keep electing fuckwits.

Except the people who own the monster trucks never carry more than 1500 lbs and rarely take it on the highway.

All of them? Like every single one?

So smaller pickups can do much of the same as the large.

LOL. Have you ever tried to haul 6000 lb of manure in a 4 cylinder Toyota tacoma?

She should start calling him “Done-Old”

Yeah, Nebula is quite good. Really like Curiosity Stream too… I subscribe to both.

But alas, most channels I follow are Youtube only and not likely to change :(

Take control of the DNC away from the center right and get progressives in charge.

And in your mind does that get more or less votes overall? Does it actually win elections?

Because incredibly, not everyone is progressive. I know, it’s insane to me too. But that’s the unfortunate reality.

But do you have a viable alternative in your back pocket?

And I suppose you have a viable alternative non-incrementalist approach that is going to be appealing to the majority of voters.

To be fair the Democrats don’t have a platform other than

I’m sorry you’re ignorant. But the good news is that you can actually do something about. Go ahead! Give it a try.

This hiker chose to free solo an almost vertical wall and unfortunately paid the price.

This is incorrect. One because it’s not “almost vertical” (it’s a 3rd class scramble) and two because she was not technically free soloing - she wasn’t rock climbing and the protection in this case was the cables. I acknowledge these distinctions may not matter to you but they matter when talking about why these accidents happen.

Because you’d (a) need a harness; (b) have to know how to use it and use slings; © it’s not 5.4.

Many actual climbers descending this route do in fact use this, although for many that’s more about fear of chuckleheads fucking up than the actual descent - it’s class III but the wear on the rock makes it quite slippery in places.