Because you asked
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Kids do not have their own discretion, period
Right, no capacity for it, or the ability to learn from their mistakes (where direction comes from) until their 16th birthday, then BAM, just like that, they instantly learn all of it.
I mean I can read news articles.
And obviously very selectively at that.
And you can find the news articles the talk about the corporate commission overriding the locals.
All the chairmen of the ACC are directly elected on the same fucking ballot as the POTUS, and the mid-terms. They're not appointed. They're also not running on some one-off election outside the national election day that nobody pays attention to.
I think the governor is a Democrat so there's some hope but usually you can steam roll locals especially smaller ones. Arizona has a lot of small towns and small cities that won't have the strength to push back against a combination of large corporations and corrupt state governments. It's a reddish state, I think without cheating and gerrymandering it would be a blue state because the statewide races keep going blue but the local races keep going red and that's usually a sign of voter suppression and gerrymandering...
The same commission that determines both federal AND state districts in Arizona is literally the exact same fucking one that does it for California, a state whose only party admits that it's gerrymandered in its own favor.
Whatever the case though it's very difficult for Democrats and un corrupt politicians
It's interesting that you list democrats and "un corrupt" [sic] politicians separately considering the state I'm living in right now, which happens to be right next to Arizona, has been overrun with government corruption for the last decade. And guess what? They're all fucking democrats. Look at the current FBI investigation on the state FFS, and that was started under Biden. 23 charges on just one person who is really close to the governor. And if that's not bad enough for you, there have been 576 federal corruption convictions in 10 years in just California alone. That makes my current state, that I live in, more corrupt than even Illinois, New Jersey, and New York.
How one probe of the ACC that didn't even result in a conviction gets your attention more than what's going on one state over is anybody's fucking guess with a person as moronic as you. Rest assured, you're in good company with Donald Trump in the "what the fuck is broken in your head?" department.
to win small races like the corporate commissioner because people do not realize just how much power those kind of local races have but you can bet your ass corporations and billionaires do
It's done during the normal election, it's NOT a small race. If you vote for the governor, US president, a senator, or a congressman, either state or federal, then guess what? Your ballot includes the ACC in it along with all of the state referenda. How do I know this? Because I voted in that state from when I was 18 until I was 40, not fucking reading about it on shitty websites like fark.
You don't know shit about Arizona, you've never been to that state, and on top of it all, you're a raging fucking moron. So fuck off.
So she seems to have pretended to be a progressive long enough
If she did that, she wouldn't have gotten elected there at all. In Arizona, pragmatism will generally beat partisanism.
Hmm... Not really. The one city I've spent by far the most of my life living in (I think about half) is Chandler Arizona, so let's just say I'm quite familiar with it. There already is no shortage of tech jobs there if you want them, in fact the city began growing exponentially specifically because people out of state began moving there in droves. Many semiconductor plants, datacenters...you name it. By landmass, it is pretty big, and more than half of it was farm land, now almost all of it is developed. At the same time, it's also not like silicon valley cities where you're either tech or you can't afford to live there but somehow you manage to scrape by. Probably for the best that it stays that way. Look what happened to silicon valley during the pandemic. And it could happen again any time tech takes a dump after a major bubble. Like say, an AI bubble.
Diverse economies make for robust economies. For another example, see Detroit. If I was still there, I'd probably say no thanks. There are many places that could likely benefit from such a datacenter, but I don't believe Chandler is one of them.
It's good to a point, but what you don't want is Balkanization. Switzerland already has four official languages, so I see why they in particular might be acutely aware of it. There's a similar situation brewing in Mexico City as a lot of foreigners are moving in, with few of them even speaking Spanish, which is pissing off a lot of the locals.
Mexico city also has a related (but not the same) concept progressives are likely familiar with is gentrification, which is somehow bad despite balkanization being awesome because diversity.
What tells you people are leaving these?
Last I checked, Fecebook still has millions of active users, and fuckerberg is still raising a shit every time an app store adds a rule that restricts his ability to spy on people, as if he thinks he has any power to do anything about it. His net worth would take a major hit if people really left it, which would be funny, but it hasn't.
I still can't figure out what the fuck mastodon is, aside from the fact that Trump Social uses its code, and on toot.io right this second you'll find a feed of "toots" from people who only know how talk about how much they hate Trump, America, the right, etc. So I think it's safe to just call it Trumpadon. But at least it appears to be active, because there's definitely tooting going on. Or as the British call it, trumping. Either way, no obvious indication that people are leaving.
Bluesky is kind of weird, but there are sites that track how active it is. It gained millions of users at the 2024 election, then they seemingly just as quickly left. Ever since then, they come and go in little spikes that somehow correlate well with every news cycle featuring Elon. Oh, and the ones who stick around appear to find joy in painting swastikas on things, especially cars.
As for x...well, unlike Fecebook, it's not public and its valuation doesn't appear to affect the net worth of the guy who is most commonly associated with it, assuming its value has changed. The media enjoys quoting random people from it anyway as if the stream of consciousness of random twitter users is somehow newsworthy. But as with Trumpadon, no obvious signs that people are leaving.
You are projecting a lot of things that nobody has expressed,
It looked like you were having fun when you did it, so I thought I'd join in, didn't I?
Note how the moral judgement is only applied to the cases where civilians are the primary target.
Obviously I can't tell you what was in their heads with any certainty, but somehow you seem pretty certain that you can. You just did exactly that, after all. More than that, from the very first sentence in your very first post you seemed certain that I somehow "know it was morally wrong", despite the fact that I haven't even made any judgments about morality. Why? Because I wasn't the one out there getting shot, bombed, or kamikazed at all over the Pacific. Nor was I ever at risk of being tortured and starved in a Japanese POW camp. Obviously a different time, place, and circumstance, wasn't it? Much the same way it was no big deal to walk in on somebody in an outhouse and plant your naked ass right next to theirs.
But from that air conditioned armchair you've fancied yourself a proper judge and jury for 80 years ago in the Pacific theater. If you want to call out war crimes done at a policy level, as opposed to actions of individual soldiers, the best example I can think of is when the US handed over some half-million German and Italian POWs to Europe under the full knowledge that Europe was going to force them into unpaid labor, in many cases on de-mining duty, which was, even at the time, a war crime.
And what does this have to do with Porsche again?
Now you also expressed your intent to bait me into something, you are not arguing candidly, I won't waste more of my time here.
The statement presented was whether it was a war crime. The answer is a firm no, and I already gave it to you. How much more candid do you want?
Besides, I'm openly troll. That's about as candid as a person can get. I'm not afraid to play your game, let alone beat you at it. I don't need a moral high ground when the very bridge you're playing stupid games on was already claimed by me.
Social media in and of itself is not. Certain forms of social media have been shown to be harmful, but this doesn't seem to make any attempt to understand or distinguish which, rather decides to perform surgery on it using a pipe wrench to the face. This is what happens when you act on a moral panic.
Either way, let Australia do Australia, I'm only giving you my take on it. They already make highly subjective things like parental ratings on games, music, and movies law, which is de-facto censorship by virtue of the fact that it makes it impractical to sell anything even remotely questionable in that market when stores can't legally carry them. Exactly why Germans only get to play games for ages 5 and up on steam unless they leave the country. Then again, as every German will tell you, if you feed him a swastika after midnight on a full moon, he'll turn into a Nazi zombie, so maby it's for the best that they ban that kind of thing and censor stick of truth there. Every country has a unique situation.
Well, let's see what the data says:
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/se...
https://fiscaldata.treasury.go...
So...tax revenue is not decreased, and neither is welfare spending. And the US ranks high on the list of countries in terms welfare spending as a percentage of GDP.
https://oecdstatistics.blog/20...
The country that ranks the highest is France, and as you can see, their poverty rate isn't doing much better than ours. Notice Italy ranks third, yet their poverty rate is higher. As you can see, welfare spending isn't a silver bullet.
https://worldpopulationreview....
Indeed, we actually do better than much of Europe. Notice Scandinavian countries spend less than France and they're doing much better. I don't know whether it's coincidence or casual, but their economies are more market driven than even the US. We also know that countries who have eliminated their markets entirely (i.e. socialism) tend to fare the worst.
Note also that your preferred system where the markets are semi-free and the government exercises a heavy handed control of the private sector, forcing it to make decisions in the interest of the state when it suits the state, sometimes called fascism, isn't doing particularly well in the states that use it, such as Russia and China.
Indeed, I hope what you wish for happens to you as well. Merry holidays!
Oh and, honorable mention:
https://media.mbusa.com/releas...
Solid-state battery developed with Mercedes-AMG High Performance Powertrains (HPP) and cells from U.S.-based solid-state cell manufacturer Factorial Energy
Anyway, I am amazed you really need me to spell this out for LFP:
I only need you to understand what I'm saying.
it's quite a well-known chemistry, surely you've read about it? You know, cheaper, more durable, many more charge cycles, greater fire resistance, no M or Co thus no risk of conflict minerals, lower power density than NMC but not too bad, etc etc. Used in the R1T, the Mach E, the M3 & Y, loads of BYDs, etc
By far the biggest complaints levied against EVs come from the low energy density of the batteries (weight, size, distance.) This is going exactly in the opposite direction. It's also not cheap enough to make low end EVs competitive with petroleum cars, even in developing economies. Mach E and Model 3 and Model Y it was only ever sold in the budget, lower range version of each. R1T is a pretty big car, even for a truck. Yet rangewise it's barely competitive with the much smaller Model S. Unless you're going to pack a massive battery pack on an even more massive car, or you intend on making an even lower range Nissan Leaf, I don't see the benefit.
For sodium: there's been models in mass production since late 2023, including the Yiewei 3 and the JMEV EV3. Sodium's obvious massive advantage is that it's much cheaper due to sodium's enormous abundance cf Li. But there's also a lower fire risk, lower impact of extraction cf Li, no conflict minerals, many more charge cycles even than LFP, etc. But lower power density than Li chemistries
Just as above, you'd have a point for this if the topic was grid power storage.
For semi-solid state: the first mass produced car is the MG4 Anxin Edition. It's an LiM chemistry similar to the LMR chemistry you touted, but it's coming in mid 2026 in global markets, a full two years before the chemistry you described, and the production car is already finalised.
A couple of things to unpack here:
- The energy density of this car's batteries is claimed to be 180Wh/kg. That's less than what people driving around in Teslas right now already have.
- This was already supposed to be shipping by now
- Another Chinese company already shipped what it advertised as a solid state battery. Only it isn't. But they're still allowed to do that in China anyway.
If the underlying tech does what it claims to do and comes next year rather than three years from now, then you're almost getting somewhere due to the other advantages of lithium polymer, though we've still not seen any improvement in energy density.
The fact that you had to add "that were applicable at the time" means that you know that these actions were morally wrong.
So this is the topic here: nuking and firebombing civilians is bad and should be considered a crime
Nope. Both actions were to diminish the enemy's capacity to fight. Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined were firecrackers compared to Tokyo. The main reason nuclear weapons are banned now is because of the after then known effects of nuclear fallout. Tokyo itself could only feasibly (but not necessarily) constitute a war crime now, simply because we have the capacity for guided munitions. Furthermore, napalm, like any incendiary weapon, is still legal to use. In those days, the only realistic way to bomb anything (aside from nuclear weapons) was carpet bombing. If you tried to fly anywhere near low enough to get any degree of accuracy, on say a building, you would just get knocked out by AA fire. This may come as a shock to you, but just because John Wayne could shoot the gun out of the bad guy's hands instead of aiming center mass doesn't mean that police and soldiers aren't expected to aim center mass.
To this day, bombing is still done even if it is known that there will likely be civilian casualties. Nobody (other than people who think every John Wayne movie is a documentary) has any expectation to the contrary. You guys typically think the Bradley Manning leak video depicts a war crime, though anybody who has any idea what constitutes a war crime and what doesn't could easily tell that it isn't simply by watching the video. Once you add the context behind it, then it becomes blatantly obvious that it doesn't even begin to meet the definition of a war crime. Well, blatantly obvious to any reasonable person at least.
I don't think GP mentioned the people following orders in the context of assigning moral responsibility, I think this is a misunderstanding. The people with power and giving orders are clearly the first persons to blame, as in every war.
Nope. The topic was Porsche. Somebody mentioned Porsche's behavior. I quipped that they were founded by Nazis (or at the very least, Nazi collaborators.) A few posts later he comes in with "butwhatabout..." completely pointless (and off-topic) virtue signaling. So I verbally flicked him in the ear for being stupid, baiting him to do more stupid shit, then here you came to combine forces in a virtue signaling carebear stare. Either that, or one or both of you just came here to argue that Porsche has some kind of moral high ground. Not that it matters because both constitute internet entertainment.
You're right, they belong in bubble wrap.
Chemistry professors never die, they just fail to react.
