For that, you have to assume that the people who voted for Trump wanted exactly what Trump brought us. They didn't. And it was pretty historic that a terrible candidate and person such as Trump managed to win over what should have been a slam dunk. Blue wave.

You do understand that a large subset of people vote against a candidate, don't you? And those people contributed to the eroding demographics once solidly Democrat. Elections are almost always close. so demographic erosion is a bad thing. And some Democrat positions, as one example abandoning the working class telling the Teamsters president directly that the Democrats were going to win with or without them - surely didn't resonate, especially when the working class was once a given to vote Democrat.

You don't like what I have to say, too bad. I've made a number of posts of an introspective analysis. I'm a troubleshooter by nature and employment. You might disagree, but ....

Your reply is Blah blah blah. And yes, Virginia, sometimes we can take a big portion of the blame for our failures. Simply blaming the "enemy" and maintaining your own innocence can lead to a repeating pattern of failure.

Amazing you read one thing and become spittle flecked enraged. I enjoy pissing you off, although it is too easy, sometimes I feel bad about it. But not too bad, There is a certain satisfaction in pissing of unhinged people.

You focus on the trans issue, yet ignore the other things. In fact, it is not about being bigoted about trans people. I state that I do not support transitioning children. I state that I do not support schools providing so called gender affirming care, and keeping that a secret from the child's family. I doo not support biological men playing on women's sports teams. I have no issue at all with an adult doing anything they like as long as it doesn't harm others. I've been clear on that.

You appear to be more obsessed with transgender people than me - your outrage over one thing supports that thesis Not that you care - I even tried to agree with your assessment., but still you cannot hold your temper. Might seek some counseling for that.

I have a solar battery system that has had 100 percent uptime since installed years ago. In the meantime, my mains power was off for over a week earlier this year, and a number of days last year. So that storm that knocks out wind will knock out any power source. Regardless energy storage isn't all that complex, given that hydraulic storage is in regular use, and the present electrical grid gets along pretty well via switching power. A cell array, battery array, charge controller, and inverter isn't terribly complex. I designed and put mine together all by myself.

It is also expensive to a fault, and has to be propped up liability-wise.

I've always said that extremely safe fission based electrical plants can be built. Just not by humans. Humans have bean counters who want cheap, management that wants fast, and people who ignore the rules, calling any disagreement the province of tree huggers.

Things like Solar and wind become more installed all the time, and storage is proceeding apace (although lot of wind emplacements don't need storage)

I'm okay with not having the pace China can do - their pace includes a lot of tofu dregs, that seem to go missing against all of the breathless promotion of the Chinese approach.

You are 100 percent right. Not one word to argue with. America is being put to the test, with one idiotic idea after another.

Hopefully the Democrats will support the working class, males, and not the far left academic, biology denying, misandric group they have been obeying for some years. A group that is actually in its zeal has a strong anti-woman aspect. All idiocy is not the sole province of Republicans. We have to learn that again.

There appears to be some backlash to Cheeto and his inner circle's ineptness, in a voting year that usually only has Republicans voting. That's good.

I get a lot of pushback because of my post curb stomping analysis. And yes, it is easier for some to simply give a one reason excuse. Life of a Cassandra, I suppose. Speak truth to power always, just make sure it is the truth.

Vance meant that as a compliment you insensitive clod!

Might be an audio driver issue, I use a lot of them.

Windows 10 and 11 don't play well with audio. The whackiest one is I had some 20 audio drivers on one system, each with a specific name. Some for transmission, some receiving, and some with IQ parameters.

The update came along, saw the first driver, then renamed every driver the same name with a number suffix. Software quit working. The software company eventually got it changed so Microsoft couldn't work its magic. It turned out to be a pain to get rid of those drivers too. Windows didn't like their names, but definitely didn't want them removed either. But it is still a nuisance for my students who continually get the uninstalled update instability. They don't have as many drivers as I do, but their working systems suddenly stop. At this point, I just tell them to put off the updates as long as possible. Update when they don't need to use the system, and learn to pray.

Troll, amirite?

In level 1000 irony, I had to take classes along with every other male on campus, that told me I was a rapist, if I hadn't - it was I hadn't yet. Lot's of males are teh cause of problems in posters and other media. We had to use pronouns, and include them in our emails, mandatory, and yes, there was a "queers for Palestine" group. I suppose they weren't going over there and announcing their sexual preferences, they don't last long if they do that.

Truth is -1 troll on Slashdot some times, and just like the people on campus who want complete control; of speech, you don't want to hear anything contrary, and see to eliminate it. Mark this one troll as well - don't stop squelching opinions now, you're just getting started.

Why he needs to demean blue collar people is beyond me. They build the civilization he uses to shitpost on Slashdot.

They sure as hell aren't stupid by profession, they have the standard spectrum of intelligence. I come from a coal and limestone mining background. In academia I've worked with people that are not all that smart. All a spectrum. There are some majors in college that you have to be pretty smart. There are also some majors that seem to attract idjits. Some think milk comes from the store, and their fuel comes from these funny square buildings with a bunch of pumps outside them. Their civilization would disappear really quickly without the people they think they are better than. And few could do the work these guys do.

The met coal thing is interesting. I've been in Erie PA a number of times, and there are some coke ovens a few miles away on the Lake Erie shore. Seems when they open the ovens, there is an incredible volume of steam clouds released. I would have loved to take a tour.

Exactly. It's all fun and games until the bridge falls down even though the engineer had good vibes about it.

Or me, wrestling with electromagnetics to keep the RF spectrum from collapsing. https://www.ntia.gov/sites/def...

If a college gave out 4.0's to majors as is the claim, they'd be shut down when the buildings start falling, the rockets blew up, the power grid collapsed, and the RF spectrum became unusable.

You don't get those degrees handed to you, but the after graduation renumeration is commensurate with the responsibility and knowledge.

The cool part is, all the superior countries send students here. Why do they do that? I mean, you guys are smarter than us - so there must be a reason. And boy howdy, foreign student tuition is expensive.

I've worked in an academic environment for heading toward 40 years. We have a lot of top notch students, world class researchers, and a good number of them come from countries you would consider better and more enlightened than us. I disagree with your opinion. We have some lame majors that are based on peoples opinions, but I fear you are getting your knowledge from Vladimir Putin. Either that, or your superior attitude is based on insecurity.

And many pay for their students to go to college in teh USA. Why don't these superior countries pay for all their students to go to their superior colleges.

And why would they pay the really high out of country prices for their students to go to shithole colleges in the worst country ever on the face of the earth, populated by idiots.

And even worse, what do we do to them here that so many stay here? I mean, you're smarter than me - so tell us. You universities have to be ten times the simple offerings, and they are all free.

I bet you think that all milk comes from the grocery store, and gasoline comes from a gas station, without anyone in the middle.

I work in academia, but I'd love to see the ubermenschen after a couple weeks of a full scale labor strike. I predict cannibalism.

Part of this is a product of adult children that have no idea about money, as they went through their youth without having to pay a cent. Mumsie and Daddykins did that.

Another part is the concept that if you have a college degree - any college degree, you are an ubermenschen, soon to be doing meaningful work, and being a CEO or at least a millionaire in a year or so. That's how an unemployed Gender studies major can still think she's superior to a master machinist making 6 figures a year.

Finally, appears that no one was watching the henhouse while the little foxes were robbing it. A loan system that allows adult children with no concept of finances to use the loan Money for whatever hits their fancy should have never existed.

Tell me you haven't been on college campuses for a while without telling me you haven't been on college campuses for a while.

You are more likely to be told what you are allowed to think than anything else.