Maga is so incredibly good at picking the biggest possible losers to rally behind
I always thought they perhaps started from better candidates, but even after the most simple vetting those candidates somehow fail ideological purity tests ( such as “candidate is great on white supremacy but poor on abortion, NEXT!”) or some other bullshit maga metric, and what remains are people like Mr Lumpy Pillow.
After much back-and-forth, Lindell finally grabbed the papers and tossed them on the floor.
Thats awesome! There’s now video proof he was served and he can’t deny he never wasn’t.
Process servers take note of this. If you want your target to accept the papers, simply have a second person attempting an interview.
The gas price increases are what will doom Trump.
I’m going to say its “energy prices in general” that will sink him. Gasoline is certainly one of the biggest ones. However, Americans are being squeezed on energy prices in all areas. This winter just ending has been pretty cold and natural gas prices have been higher. Electricity prices too with the double whammy of increased demand from data centers and the decline in supply. Supply is not keeping up because of trump’s war on commercial solar and wind generation, and pissing off our wonderful neighbors to the north that have abundant electricity from hydropower for export.
Worse, consumers, hit with high home and car energy prices, will seek substitutions. Home PV solar and EVs are pretty good solutions to this. Then consumers will see that trump canceled PV solar and EV tax credits in his signature BBB.
In June we’ll see the next auction rates for electricity generation. I think its going to be even worse than the last auction rates. With climate change increasing heat during the summers, we’re going have months of eye-popping electricity bills at the retail level right as the November elections are getting underway.
“What about her emotional support Lewandowski?” wrote veteran and political commentator Andrew Donaldson, a reference to Corey Lewandowski, the on-again, off-again Trump adviser who reportedly ran vast swathes of the department for Noem and has long been rumored to be in an extramarital affair with her, which they both deny.
This is comedy gold!
I would think having trump endorse you for a race in Europe would be ballot box poison.
Timberlake’s lawyers had sued to block the release of the video, arguing it would “devastate” Timberlake’s privacy by revealing “intimate, highly personal, and sensitive details”. They also said it would cause “severe and irreparable harm” to his reputation by subjecting him to “public ridicule and harassment”.
I mean, Justin can just not drive drunk if we wanted to avoid this.
Usually US issued coins carry a small premium over scrap gold. It would be a public service for someone to acquire theses coins after they are issued, melt them back to regular gold and sell them a regular gold bullion.
Currently I need a small form electric truck with at least 2ft of ground clearance and preferably no giant nose on the front that small children can hide behind, with at least 100mi of travel on one charge and the ability to go 300mi in one day with full size charging stations.
You want to go back in time and get the Chevy S-10 Electric from the late 90s.
The Leaf was the first mass-produced affordable EV in the states
Well, technically the GM EV1 probably holds that title, but I agree with you in spirit.
I’ve known 6 year olds with more bowel control than trump too.
He’s a Jan 6 participant. Apparently he likes his terrorism home grown and “Made in the USA™”.
See, no sane person would smile while exposing a person death sentence to the whole world.
In that interview trump looked like a six year old that had been told a secret and couldn’t wait to tell everyone else what it was.
First, thank you for the context on his history. That is helpful. He’s clearly a MAGA piece of shit.
What is interesting is that it appears that even MAGA pieces of shit have limits. For this guy, destroying our own nation is apparently a-okay, but he’s not onboard with destroying another nation. I wish he was more principled than he is, but I suppose I should be content he’s not chanting war hawk invasion like trump is.
In reality, it means having to show a valid passport (which is a massive pain in the ass to obtain) or having a copy of your birth certificate (also a huge pain in the butt to get).
And for people that have changed their name since birth (either marriage or other reasons), the birth certificate isn’t valid under this proposed bill. So passport book ($130+$10 for a photo), or passport card only ($30+$10 for a photo). And since passport book/card requirement doesn’t apply to every American, this is effectively a selective tax targeting largely married women.
How is this anything else besides a violation of the 24th Amendment to the Constitution:
Twenty-Fourth Amendment:
Section 1
The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.
Section 2
The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
It eludes to it here:
In one script, victims in India are told they are being contacted regarding claims of “illegal advertising” and “harassing text messages” sent from their mobile number. Another script, on the desk in a fake Australian police office, instructs scam workers to call restaurant owners claiming they are from a police department and need to order boxed meals for an event. At a fake Singaporean police office, a fraudulent letter stamped “notary public” accuses an individual of money-laundering.
Putting myself in the place of a victim, if someone calls or txts me randomly claiming to be a bank office that is investigating a problem with my account, I’ll probably dismiss it, or at most make a phone call to my bank (to a phone number I know is the bank, not one they give me).
If instead its a video call where I could clearly see they were in a very convincing bank, I might give it more legitimacy. I probably helps the scammer actors to be in the set to maintain the mindset. They could probably work together with other scammers in the same building something like: “Sir, I’m contacting you from [your bank]. [Police department from another country] has reached out to us because your account flagged for attempting to pay for [illegally imported goods]. I’m sure this is a mistake, but can you jump on this Zoom call I’m in with the officer so we together can make it clear to the officer this is not your doing?”
For most common users they don’t care. They don’t even know what soldered RAM is.
They should, because when it’s time to sell the laptop one with soldered RAM is gonna be worth a lot less (at least to me).
There’s an irony that the most valuable laptops for resale right now are the ones with soldered RAM. Why? Because the socketed units have their RAM stripped for resale separately from the unit. Even corporate fleets are doing this now and the bulk resale laptops are arriving without SSDs and RAM. Which units still have both? Units where both are soldered and not removable.
Chromebooks with low RAM are fine for many use cases. I’ve got a chromebook with only 4GB of RAM and its perfectly fine for web browsing or watching streaming which is the only things I use it for.
Fair, but there’s still the potential of it becoming a paperweight if the RAM chips give out or Google forces AI shit into ChromeOS.
These sell for $149 USD brand new. A general user would not spend a second of time troubleshooting a failed one. They’d just buy whatever the current model is for $149 which would probably be 4x as fast and with more storage anyway, then pitch the old one in ewaste.
Fair enough. Although Asus sells at least one laptop with 8 GB of soldered RAM, too.
Granted, it’s “only” a Chromebook, but still.
Chromebooks with low RAM are fine for many use cases. I’ve got a chromebook with only 4GB of RAM and its perfectly fine for web browsing or watching streaming which is the only things I use it for.
Soldered RAM is almost always a bad thing, no matter the size. Maybe when it’s the most the mainboard can support it’s not too bad but even then you’re out of luck if it ends up dying.
I used to think that too, but then I realized that the way I use computers (and it sounds like you do too) is to keep a unit a long time, take care of it, and use it to its limits (and perhaps beyond). There are millions of users that don’t do what we do. They may be young kids that end up breaking the unit before 2 years pass. They may be a fashionista that has to change out their unit when the new fall color comes out (so they may not even own it a year). They may be an older person that only uses it to check facebook to keep up with their kids.
In all of these cases soldered RAM is just fine because the user will never reach the point they need to upgrade it. What they get in return for this is cost savings and likely a smaller (thinner?) unit, that is probably a bit more structurally sound (because it doesn’t have to have a door or clips to have the RAM sockets accessible.
For users like you and me, soldered RAM is a bad thing. For most common users they don’t care. They don’t even know what soldered RAM is.
I daily drive my personal Macbook air M2 running Asahi (only booted into OSX twice in the time I’ve owned it). I really like the experience of Linux (Fedora) on Apple hardware.
However, its still got some growing pains before most folks would be happy with it as their primary. One of those limitations abslutely applies to the Neo. Asahi Linux on 8GB of RAM is VERY cramped. I’ve got 24GB of RAM and even I run into limitations sometimes. The other issue is the current maturity level of power management. Asahi does not have full use of the low standby power states. This means that even with “sleep” your battery will exhaust itself in less than a day if its not plugged in. The alternative is to power down the unit entirely, which works fine to save the battery, but means having to open all your applications back up when you power it back up. Since Mac hardware doesn’t use ACPI, hibernation is also not available, which would also be a fine way to address this.
None of this is criticism agianst the Asahi team. They’ve done AMAZING things so far and what exists today is fully usable to me. Improvements also come early and often. The team is amazing!
However, Macbook Neo probably won’t be a good use case for Asahi Linux for the forseeable future.
EEEs were amazing! Not because of their performance or specs, but because they were a fully working compute for dirt cheap at only $199! Remember, these were released 5 years before the first Raspberry Pi. The original model of EEE with its 7" screen 512MB RAM and 4GB of slow SSD storage were plenty of compute for small tasks or portable applications. The cheapest fully functional laptop you could buy at retail those days would still cost you $800-$900 for a pretty horrible machine.
Linux was part of the secret sauce that made them successful because it meant they didn’t have to pay for an OEM Windows XP license.
I can see a potential problem with this suggestion. How many of those wildflowers are net nitrogen fixers? If they are net-negative this approach could be draining all the nitrogen out of the soil during off-rotation years meaning large amounts of petrochemical fertilizer would have to be used to make the field productive again for nitrogen consuming crops (like wheat and corn).