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Comment Re:So many mistakes for one investigation (Score 1) 25

They originally thought she was 25 to 35, and she's 58.

It can be hard to tell if you've got the resources for a bit of good cosmetic surgery.

They originally thought it was an accident, and now think it is murder... by a guy who is basically a retiree.

Yeah, that is strange. Given that there's no love lost between Rivian and Telsa, I think we should consider the possibility that Musk paid someone to kill his wife and set him up.

Comment Re:Not a China fan, but renewables coal (Score 1) 179

Just because it isn't pleasing YOU doesn't men it's a dictatorship.

No, it's a dictatorship because of the immunity to prosecution that past and present presidents have, recently discovered by the supreme court.

And the subversion of the Department of Justice, the Courts, the FBI to turn a blind eye to the president's crimes and to harass his enemies.

The Kleptocratic behaviour is also symptomatic, but, much like that it doesn't please people, isn't causal.

Comment Re:AWWWWWWWWWW.... (Score 3, Insightful) 145

That's certainly what Trump is doing.

On top of covering up the classified documents report, the Epstein files, losing every honest employee of the justice department by requiring them to pursue false charges against trump's enemies or immigrants or simply to lie to the courts, a continuation of the kleptocracy of his first term, and collecting the immunity of a king to the Whitehouse.

Comment Re:It WAS a meme (Score 1) 145

You're delusional.

Is there any particular point in that post to which you're replying that you think is a delusion?

Or are you merely trying to reduce the conversation to an exchange of ad hominems because that way you can avoid people discussing the facts? To support what you might have been obejcting to: Many memes that I recognise are unaltered pho.tos.

Even if many aren't I don't think it would be a perception rather than a delusion to think that they are. In any case, you're claim that they always are is not not right.

Or are you nor aware of what ICE are doing?

Comment Re:yow. this is getting dystopian... (Score 2) 145

There's a lot of hyperbole (imo) about Trump and adjacent stuff.

On the contrary. They're doing so much evil that the media don't have the time to get most of them to the people.

Although possibly right now, that's intentional to move the news cycle on from the fact that they're not releasing the Epstein files, and the likely reason that Trump has raped trafficked kids.

Comment Re:AWWWWWWWWWW.... (Score 4, Informative) 145

Your Government, BOTH SIDES, is corrupt, contaminated, and being repurposed to end your life as slowly, and as profitably, as possible.

This outright lying about people arrested by ICE, the colluding with despots to send people to Argentina for torture, and lying to the courts about it, the co-opting of the justice department to attack us citizens who protest, the kleptocracy, hiding the Epstein files in violation of the law passed by the congress, hiding of Jack Smith's report on the classified documents case, the sending of masked troops into US cities to intimidate, harass, beat and murder US citizens. The support of Russia's invasion, the threats of invading NATO allies, the ignoring of orders of the courts.

These things are not on both sides. This is Trump and his republicans.

Comment Re:It WAS a meme (Score 5, Informative) 145

Memes are alway modified version of images.

Not even mostly, in by experience. They're generally unaltered photos that portray an emotion or environment that are applied to various situations by text or context.

Or are they not only when Trump does it?

This isn't a meme. It's propaganda. It is further to the harassment of people exercising their first amendment rights to protest, in an effort to make first amendment rights harder to exercise. Much like the abductions, beatings, property damage, and murder of protesters that has been going on in recent weeks.

Al together, TDS sufferers: "WAAAAAAAAA!!!!"

Being concerned about the removal of first amendment rights isn't "Trump" derangement. Citizens would be very concerned, no matter who was doing it.

Comment AFAIKT, the legislation doesn't affect e-scooters. (Score 3, Insightful) 109

If I'm understanding correctly that the square brackets mean a deletion from the existing law, then this includes low speed e-bikes, but not low speed e-scooters.

I imagine that you'll see a proliferation of those amongst children under 15.

That this will bring a safety benefit isn't obvious.

Comment Re:Aircon (Score 1) 178

I have a neighbor who invested in this, and the first hail storm (we have them every year) that happens is going to make it nonviable.

Do you lose windows too?

Solar panels that can take 3-inch hailstones ( certified under the UL 61730 or IEC 61730 standard) are pretty standard now, just by the tempered glass. The usual reason to take the solar panels off the roof after a storm is to repair the roof that wasn't protected by the solar panels. If you're annually getting heavier hail than that then:
1) Holy crap
2) Yeah, there's probably not a solution that doesn't push the financial payback time towards 20 years, which does start being a shit investment. There are hard shells, but that doesn't work in the rooftop situation, unless you can quickly and safely get out on your roof. Wire mesh solutions might work, but the will drop the efficiency of the panels, especially if they're heavy enough to take a beating like that.

Comment Re: The problem is poverty, then. (Score 1) 127

The argument isn't about inflation, it's about feeling superior to those beneath you.

Isn't that what this meta-analysis refutes?
Highly classed societies aren't, of themselves, contributing to poor wellbeing or mental health.
Only where the average income is lower.

Comment The problem is poverty, then. (Score 4, Informative) 127

Note that I couldn't get access to the paper, except for the abstract.

Greater inequality was also associated with poorer mental health in studies in which the average income was lower.

This is the unsurprising fact. It implies that it's the closeness to poverty that has a negative impact on well-being and mental health.

While inequality is a cause of that globally, there are plenty of parts of the first world that include the meaninglessly rich alongside the adequately resourced.

On the other hand with less inequality globally, there'd be less poverty.

Comment Re:Called it - Politicians backing off (Score 1) 152

On the other hand:

[...]and through use of climate neutral e-fuels made from renewable electricity and captured carbon dioxide and biofuels made from plants.

If this can be ramped up rapidly, it will be just as good as electric vehicles. Electricity in Europe is still about 30% fossil fuel generated.

Comment Re:If Social is bad - outlaw it. Or regulate it. (Score 1) 137

If I understand your argument correctly, what you are saying is that since Meta already thinks it knows everything about you, then you should be forced to validate that information?

No, that age verification doesn't destroy privacy. It was already destroyed.

I mean, if you tell someone about a trick that you are about to perform on them, do you REALLY think they would then fall for the trick after being informed?

The challenge is that frequent social media use is strongly associated with lower self-esteem, depressive symptoms, anxiety, and other mental health challenges in children. It's not quite analogous to playing a trick on someone.

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