Wh vote for the side that didn’t interfere when someone else bombed your family, when you can help elect someone who will encourage them to bomb every living relative too

Wasn’t them at the A Team?

Why do they even need runways for taking off? Yeah you want to make sure your engines start but it’s not like you need to reach a specific speed to get in the air nor do you need to be generating lift.

Imagine how much more quickly you could react by just dropping all your aircraft off the side at the same time (with engines running) rather than be bottlenecked behind individual runway use

I’m most afraid of all the hangers on plotting how best to expand their agenda. At least his first term had the incompetence to prevent some of his worst ideas but that may not be true this time.

My biggest fear is for the environment. Only the EPA and California are allowed to set environmental standards and the rest of us can only pick which to follow. Hopefully my state politicians will remain steadfast, but I have no way of supporting California when they come for the environment. If California can hold and the dozen or so that follow that remain true, maybe there’s still a hope for the environment my kids will live in

While I have no idea how to handle China’s ever bigger presence on the world stage, I know the spiteful antagonism is not it.

Yet what they’ll remember is the stock market skyrocketed

There’s already an article stating Trump did better than expected with almost every demographic. It’s not just white men

The more conservative you are, the less likely you are to travel. The less likely you are to be open to experiencing “them”.

When I went back to my high school reunion, I tried reconnecting with an old buddy of mine. I found it a little odd that his life seemed exactly the same as in high school, but eventually he admitted that he had never been more than about 50 miles from the town we grew up in. Never left the state, much less the country. Never left the surrounding rural cluster of towns. Never flew. Not even a road trip to a coast, amusement park or city. No changes in food from what he grew up with. No people different from him. What the everliving fuck?

Gerrymandering is clearly electoral fraud, but

• it’s not black and white. There’s no clear line between fraud and good
• the people benefiting the fraud are the ones in control of it
• gerrymandering does not affect presidential or senate elections

• There’s no way any number of women would choose someone promising to curtail their medical rights.
• There’s no way any non-white would choose someone so racist
• There’s no way any immigrant would choose someone scapegoating their culture and promising to deport them even if they are citizens
• There’s no way anyone who has listened to his speeches would choose a gibberish idiot
• There’s no way anyone who witnessed the mess last time around would want to repeat it
• There’s no way anyone who older person would choose a known real estate grifter
• There’s no way a parent would choose anyone threatening their child’s future

I’m sure we could go on, but I just read an article that Trump did better than expected with every demographic except college educated women. How ?

Yep, we did it. We are Homer Simpson. D’Oh

But it’s not just the status quo. If we don’t jump off the precipice, things were starting to turn around in. Several ways.

For me it’s the environment. I grew up when concerns about the environment were getting real, we were hearing about the scare of global warming, etc. we all started recycling and there were some big wins: clean air act, clean water act, ozone hole treaty, etc, but it’s coming up on half a century and we’ve just gotten worse in so many ways. But the infrastructure act is finally showing results and might be a turn around. EVs are starting to enter the mainstream, EV trucks are coming. I’m not so positive about BEV trains but at least they’re a thing. Renewable energy is the cheapest choice and finally growing rapidly. We have huge amounts of grid storage in place…… things are finally happening

For newbies to home automation, it’s finally getting to the point where we should recommend Matter/Thread.

I mean, I won’t use it yet because I have mature Zigbee and Z-wave meshes, and use Home Assistant, but they want to run HomeKit and don’t seem to want to do their homework

Everything is in git, and I tend to use IntelliJ as an IDE. So my projects are all in ~/Ideaprojects/[PROJECTNAME]

I used to live in a townhouse and no one would bother going along the row. Finally we got together with other residents and set up a table in the parking lot next to the street. That was a lot of fun hanging out with the neighbors all evening, handing out candy

Pre-COViD we used to take out the screen in our storm door (and after put in glass for winter). It really freaked some people out when we reached through to hand out candy! Even better when someone didn’t keep a good hold on the dog and he leaped through! Of course today I have a pit bull instead of mini poodle so that wouldn’t go over as well

Everyone has some anger and frustration, the fascists tell you that’s right and give you an easy target

And MAGAts are useful fools for Russia

Nope, we’re not tired of Larry yet, but “Be wary of Larry”

The article below this is

Donald Trump says that if wins the White House, he’ll fire special counsel Jack Smith “within two seconds” of taking office.

Imagine a criminal openly admitting he’ll use his power to evade justice, and somehow half the country is still voting for him

The hard part will be inelastic collisions