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msprout@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Karoline Leavitt boasts Trump wouldn’t hesitate to arrest SCOTUS justices0·2 days agoI dunno if this is anyone else but me, but, in the US this weekend, I heard a radio advertisement on our local Clear Channel / CBS station that was just a guy without music, forcefully stating that “tariffs are a matter of national security.”
That was honestly so surreal that I wasn’t sure if I had imagined it.
I mean I was referring to having a shop in your garage so you can build furniture, but you’re not wrong. Construction carpentry is one of the more intense trades I’ve seen.
msprout@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Musk leads MAGA meltdown after Dem demand for mass protests0·2 days agoMy understanding is that he never actually paid out any of that money he promised to voters.
msprout@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Trump Continues To Push Idea Of Replacing Income Tax With Tariffs0·2 days agoSadly, the “concept of a plan” line was from last year. :/
msprout@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Trump looked unbeatable on the economy. Then he launched a trade war.0·2 days agoI have to admit, if Trump changed opinions about him via destroying the economy, I have yet to see it. All the dipshits in my world are crowing about how they had been preparing for this for decades.
It’s never too late to enter carpentry. I know quite a few programmers who do carpentry as their main hobby. Something about the math and the amount of careful planning is highly transferrable, I guess.
msprout@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Backblaze responds to claims of “sham accounting,” customer backups at riskEnglish0·3 days agoHonestly, I know a lot of companies that would be absolutely fucked if Backblaze went under in a dramatic fashion.
msprout@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Spain and Portugal Hit With Worst European Blackout in YearsEnglish0·3 days agoI get it, I’m just poking fun a bit.
msprout@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•China Calls BS on Trump’s Story About a Phone Call From Xi0·3 days agoYou got that right friend. 🤝
msprout@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Spain and Portugal Hit With Worst European Blackout in YearsEnglish0·3 days agoGoing through that experience is what made me eventually buy a solar generator when I had the money in the right spot. I’ve felt really unsafe until I managed to get one figured out. Jumped on a Black Friday deal prior to the pandemic and got a DJI Power 1000 and two solar panel sets for $500.
I’ve given it a fair shake at this point, and just with the light in my enclosed back yard, I am collecting almost 400W/h, which is more than enough to run the fridge for a few days by cycling the power so it runs for only a few hours total per day.
I really really recommend folks explore solar these days. Battery storage technology has really, really improved since the early 2000s. Solar panels aren’t meaningfully any more efficient, but the real advantage these days is that panels are dirt nasty cheap if you are willing to wait on freight times. You can even buy a $30 panel rated at 6W and connect it to a USB power bank and run your vapes, Flipper Zero, etc on solar!
msprout@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Spain and Portugal Hit With Worst European Blackout in YearsEnglish0·3 days agoI agree with you wholeheartedly, but it’s odd that you’d point to events from the 1960s when we have blackouts every summer in Texas now, lol.
msprout@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•More Chinese leave the knot untied as marriage registrations dropEnglish0·3 days agoI deeply respect anyone who chooses any alternative to monogamy, but y’all have no idea how stoked I am that I get to call my partner “wife.”
It’s totally fair to be as vanilla as an unsalted cracker if that’s what you feel! The ‘Q’ part of LGBTQIA is super duper important, as how can you be sure you’re straight without ever asking?
msprout@lemmy.worldto Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Getting mixed signals from Reddit. Furthermore I shall henceforth be on Lemmy full time.0·3 days agoIt’s nuts, but once I learned that it was just an LLM doing content moderation (and probably the appeals, too), things made a lot more sense.
Spez is the exact kind of guy who would believe that community moderation is an “unsolved problem” and not, y’know, perfectly solvable by the same ol’: ya hire people to do it.
msprout@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Young independents grapple with frustration over the two-party system0·3 days agothe problem here is that nobody takes the time to think about how civics actually work in this country. the most important, qualitative elections people can participate in are municipal and state ones, but none of y’all ever turn up. guess who has been voting in municipal and state elections since the 80s? if you already guessed in your head, you’re probably already correct.
if you want living wages in your area, start by electing a mayor or city council that will actually do it. if you want police accountability, make your city or town do it. hate the entire political system that works in your area? you actually have the power to change that! they’re basically the last civil workers who actually have to be somewhat pragmatic and not operate entirely on polemic lines. nobody cares if you’re republican or democratic if the sewers aren’t running.
it’s not that hippy-dippy — the phrase “think globally, act locally” is basically the play from here until forever.
msprout@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•China Calls BS on Trump’s Story About a Phone Call From Xi0·3 days agoi mean, don’t get me wrong, i may not agree with China’s ethos, but it’s at least an ethos. Usonia is just basically collapsing under the weight of our own virulent individuality and greed right now.
Fascism is here, and the Second Amendment has never once been restricted in any practical fashion. That means that fascism rose to power while everyone was fuckin strapped. Nobody has done shit so far except that one kid in Butler who was a bad shot.
What do you still need so that you’d have been a genuine threat to the world’s global military hedgemon? A personal F-15 Eagle?