That‘s going to be younger democrats. They‘re more likely to be independent women or minorities that probably won‘t have the money or financial backing the typical white male republican will have.

I too am familiar with this device, though definitely not as adventurous.

That logic works just fine if you have all the money and lawyers.

I don’t think I’ve ever met a more vicious tool in the home shop than a radial arm saw or table saw. They just want to take a bite out of you, either via the blade itself or kicking some piece of material back hard and fast enough to take a piece of you with it. A table router is second to that.

A couple of those were directly profit motivated vs the government choosing to do some f’d up stuff on their own. Yeah, government stepped in, but who started the problem isn’t the same. Either way, wealthy people pushing the government to crush the peasantry for them isn’t much difference.

But so much media that uses a character that is against [hate, evil, whatever] using unmitigated violence to attack said hate.

So they’re just happy with the reductionist solution to the problem which is using violence to achieve their goal, skipping past the part where they were stopping a bad person and why they were bad.

I’d settle for affordable components at this point.

Seconded. Bautista did dumb-funny well in Guardians, serious in 2049, and just plain old acting in something like Glass Onion. He does a lot better than some top billed actors IMO, but then he has some mediocre characters too. Win some, lose some.

Stone Age, or some form of Scavenger-age in not much better shape than stone age.

Almost all of the accessible surface minerals have been mined. That means if the production chain collapses everything goes to shit. We cannot mine and refine the materials we need without heavy and specialized machinery. No reboot. The minerals are inaccessible. That machinery’s production relies on a huge amount of materials, from energy to electronics, and the logistical network to put it all together.

Our production chain is very discrete in a lot of ways. Electronics made one place, smelting another, fuel by ships, food over here, lithium someplace, copper somewhere else, iron from far away, medication over there, clothing someplace else. If the global network fails, that’s it. People starve. The specialized knowledge is lost to make things. Systems fail rapidly. The manufacturing of electronics quits, along with the rest of the supply chain. People probably eat all the seeds for crops. Lack of pesticide and fertilizer, plus climate change, wipes out yields for many. No way to harvest enough or transport it anywhere. Small pockets of humans might survive, but it’s gonna be hand-to-mouth or subsistence farming at best.

You’d go back in time quite a ways pretty quickly. People living tribally in the more remote parts of the world would maybe survive depending on how nasty climate change gets.

Of course the military is using it as a spy plane to shoot at “drug boats”.

Computing itself is fine. I can still do most everything I used to do on my PC pre-popular internet. I have essentially no cloud services on my PC.

However, the internet itself is a dumpster fire. It always was, except you had to deliberately looking for those places and they tended to be isolated back in the day.

Of course monetization destroyed the internet with corporations doing everything possible to carve it up and shove their ads and billionaire-controlled media slant in front of you, and their engagement-bait feeding of lies and giving a platform to controversy and stupidity on social media.

Most all of the good spaces are gone. Very few exist in anything remotely close to their original form, they’ve been corporatized, disappeared, or swallowed up by places like Reddit.

The people that wanted actual rights and a say in government, and disagreed with authoritarianism. I don’t know that I’d call them “further left”, they just dared to disagree with a cruel dictatorship.

AFAICT you cannot do that. I recall someone trying to do that to give a bunch of money charitably, the lottery refused.

If people could do that it would change taxation and hinder the State/Government’s ability to get those taxes. Or doing things like giving all the money to your brother’s charity or something and avoiding taxes. Obviously they are very much against that.

Most of those counties voted red. Giving all these billionaires consequence-free abilities to take everything. Leopards having a snack.

The only benefit to being Gen X is we were shut out by the Boomers maintaining their grip on everything for so long. Oh, don’t get me wrong. There’s plenty of Gen X idiots, too. We were the biggest trump voting group, for instance. (Seriously, my people? The anti-authoritarians whose anthems were Breakfast Club, Raiders of the Lost Ark, or even Total Recall? Hate the system, hate the Nazis, hate the rich corporate overlords?)

If anyone wants to know; it does have to do with handling stresses of flying and orientation in space, but it really has to do with dedication to the job and the skills of rigorously learning procedures and systems and applying the correct responses to situations.

Wash them if you can. I find most poly filled pillows get lumpy if washed. But, you can toss your pillows in the dryer on high heat for about 20 minutes. That helps kill some smells, bacteria, etc.

We should ask AI if tech CEOs are worth keeping around despite the negative impacts of AI construction and implementation.

Agreed she’s Republican Lite. Socially liberal but fiscally she acts far more like 1980s republicans.

Yep. Big-ass brodozer truck almost guaranteed to be a guy. The sun is behind them so not blinded by that. There aren’t too many excuses other than OUI (medication or otherwise) or messing with a phone.