Oh yeah for sure I get that and I agree, the actual response is to have your local town break contract and/or ban them from installing in your area which also means electing people who would support such actions.

And that's the core of the issue, Flock's interest is naturally going to be to turn a profit which may or may not align with the interests of the citizens or the towns.

You can call everyone stupid as much as you want but if your solution is "no license plates" and limiting public photography in public spaces you way as well be proposing we all get some Tinkerbell fairy dust and float ourselves to work.

The government wishes it was even 10% as powerful as you imagine it to be.

Incoherent rambling but you sufficiently vice-signaled so mission accomplished.

Honestly less than I expected. For comparison what does something like a Camry or a Golf or more standard cars cost?

You do know that cuts the other way because Biden was significantly a better President than Trump so apparently by science more cabinet meetings is a bad thing.

None of us are ready for Woke 2.0 but we brought it upon ourselves, ironically for not supporting the black woman.

Obama still 1-0

You know this would probably be more true if the Republican's had come to their senses and nominatoed Nikki Haley or even DeSantis instead of Trump in 2024 but there's an ever-increasing possibility that Trump's absolutely inability to govern is going to turn the public against those policies.

Immigration for example, the concept of "abolish-ICE" was fringe lefty shit 2 years ago and now it's going mainstream. Also on that topic for all the circus of mass deportations have American's seen positive results from that? Is the job market better? Is inflation going down? Is crime going down faster than it was already? The answer to all that is no and people are starting to see that and some, (definitely not all because for many this was always just a bigotry based position) are realizing that the "your problems are immigrants" people were selling them a lie, and it's always been a lie.

The Republicans have also pretty much bled away all their gains with minority voters because they just can't stop being racist.

The truth about the immigration issue was never a lack of enforcement dollars but enough funding for the legal system around it, judges and courts along with reforms to the refugee process, which is exactly what the Lankford bill would have improved and what Harris would have signed so we'd have ended up with basically the same or better result.

Same with climate change, same with taxes, same with the courts where we now have more mainstream politicians talking about SC expansion and the public being more open to it.

The silver lining of Trump may be that he ushers in an era of a second New Deal because he managed to be such a colossal fuck-up.

Please link us to one actual signed deal.

There has been exactly one signed deal, the 2015 JCPOA because Obama was a better negotiator than Trump and actually understood how international relations and incentives work.

There is no "gulf coalition" because Trump is a terrible leader who is incapable of building coalitions. That's your boy you put your chips on and are too chickenshit to show your face now, a real dumbfuck following bigger dumbfucks. Seriously, eat shit.

Everyone trying to answer this with technical responses is just dead wrong, sorry.

The explanation is simple: Republicans have been claiming "climate change not real" for 40+ years now and in that timespan the actual evidence keeps stacking up against that, it was already stacked up in the 90's.

So what's a political party to do when faced with overwhelming reality? Change course in light of new evidence? No, make your new reality with force.

That's all this is, a continued denial of reality because Republican politicians and voters would rather die than have to admit the libs were right about this, because after all if they were right about this what else could they be right about?

The same reason you see folks here whip out the same tired arguments about wind and solar power we've been hearing for 30 years.

What I want to do is this. I just want to find, uh, 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have, because we won the state."

Oh like say, Peter Thiel or the other cadre of billionaires taking advantage of Sleepy Don?

Also you admit there is 0 evidence of "autopen" anything with Biden right? That it is in fact a fabricated story that you fell for? Meanwhile Trump can't even explain what EO's he's signing and falls asleep during cabinet meetings.

This is the Republican playbook and too many supposedly smart folks here fall for it like a 78 year old grampa. So ready to eat slop all because you all love chicks with dicks too much for your psyche to deal with.

Irony really is dead.

- Except for solar every power generation system requires concrete. Coal and gas plants aren't built on soil and nuclear takes ungodly amounts of concrete. This is a nonissue bad faith talking point.
- Metal is recyclable and turbine blades last the life of the unit, 20-30 years. Link a source for the 7-10 claim. Also landfills are fine, do you think your cities trash ends up as fairy dust?
- If you think 300 gallons of oil is a big deal you don't know anything about industrial machines. Look up KT3406E on Youtube, he refurbs CAT engines and I was surprised many of them are filled with drums of oil instead of quarts. Also you do think a gas turbine takes no lubrication? Nonissue bad faith talking point.
- Notice the tricky bad faith language here, It takes 3~5 years to install a wind farm. A "farm", that means dozens or hundreds of turbines, he's trying to make you think a single turbine takes that long. Meanwhile there's a decade long waitlist to get gas turbines.

Your entire post is a worthless racket.

To their credit the music industry did figure this out, whether by accident or intentional. You don't hear about music piracy pretty much at all anymore because you can get a subscription to like 90% of all recorded music for like $10/mo these days and in many cases can just listen for free with ads. Sure you don't "own" it but the convenience-to-price is huge and there's still vinyl and CDs if you want to own it.

The people left pirating are that slim minority on private trackers who want to trade pristine FLAC collections, the what.cd and waffles crowd.