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Well, it's just the one state so far, and it was blessed by a senator that Trump and crew habitually seem to bully, so maybe it's different for now?

With the comma splice?

It sure looks that way, at least. Democrats should start coming up with a plan.

I like how the article ledes with a statement suggesting it's a problem for the Dems to solve. It's not blaming them, the same way we say "the solution will come from Dave" doesn't blame Dave ... but kinda does.

I like how the Dems are supposed to swoop in ... somehow ... and just save the day, despite having absolutely no power to do so. Can we confirm we're gonna have elections and one day the Dems may be on a position to influence policy? Can we get that settled, and maybe also decide women are again equals, and maybe a girl marrying a girl also isn't a sin, and that honest criticism isnt too much for frail orange egos?

Can we do that before working on (checks notes) the apparent dem responsibility to fix a pricing issue caused by a greedy CEO's people?

When she was looking at a new car this year, our old one reaching a decade and already a halifax-burnaby tour to its name, the prime issue was still range anxiety and crappy outlets.

But for po' kid me, it was cost: our old car cost 0 capital now, but the new one way, way, way more than 0. Shebover-ruked me but went with the ICE because the costs would be spread out better, she says.

Whatever. But that's the issues we're still dealing with. Me, I barely drove the old one and I'd need the beep-key to find the new one; but in our current economic climate, less-expense-now is how many more of us may be thinking.

I like electric cars. I still think the Tesla (with lidar) is really a great unit except for Musk and except for gull wings and that ugly 'truck'. But sticker shock and range anxiety will be a thing for a while (it's a gas hybrid next).

Okay, so the fiat as a battery car seems way too much fun between garage visits, but yeah.

It's absolutely not considering the consequences of the heavy metal mining that is required to produce those massive batteries. It also totally ignores the problem of how to dispose of, reuse, or recycle those old batteries once they can no longer be effective in your vehicle.

You've answered your own question while it's still relevant. But wow, is it tiresome to repeat the same things.

1. Heavy metal mining is a short-term thing, and you already know about the carbon batteries that's replacing them.
2. Need more lithium and also have a growing junk stash of tons of lithium batteries full of .. lithium? Take a minute ... see if you can get there.

They've used this to try and schedule meetings with Trump when he's the most agreeable and focused.

After 6 months you'd have enough to retire to Vietnam. Another 6 and you'd have enough to pay yourself a low salary forever.

Another 6 and you'd fund a small house in a smaller town where you can retire, and another 6 and you'd be dead from stress.

Hmm. Show me it can treat calcaneal growth and I'm in!

Can Canada get back down to a c$600k average home price? ** Cries in Vancouverish **

It sounds like there was a reasonable bit of doubt there. Are we set up to handle that in our system ?

Talk to this guy:

Lower_lifted and every Lemmy user causes climate change. Yep. you’re complicit if you use servers that are powered by fossil fuels as most do.

That's where the debate changed to be about Lemmy servers using too much electricity.

Lemmy.ca is probably powered by waterfalls anyway.

Except,

If it isn’t being done in Canada and we are relying on someone else for it, we should be on that

and

anything we can do on our own we should be doing on our own

don't mean the same thing. The former is "everything we're not doing" and the latter is "everything we're not doing but can."

At least the light is bright from the gas.

Canada doesn't need its own payment system.

The EU does and we'll just be compatible. That's best.

Base it all on the euro just to kickstart the greenback's tumble from international relevance.

I can't do AppleTV. Quitting them after Ted Lasso was an ordeal for someone who has no other apple device except earpods. Never going back. And no they can't send me another goddamned code.

But that's a good idea : I wonder if our Crave or just Prime would have it.

You need a VPN to hide who is on USENet, I bet.

It's a nice town. But it's so small you could almost miss it as you drove through.

Their goal is profit.

If we wanted a non-profit we could lightly steer as a populace to ensure it's modern and safe while remaining its most affordable, we would have brought it in as an arms-length crown corp.

We still can, if we wanted that, but we have to understand the realization of delayed or skipped maintenance on infrastructure and the huge costs we have to support to bring it back into line publicly if we do. The gov can't half-ass anything without blowback.

Big font is because the people who need to read it the most - me - often overlook it.

I'm glad for it. I'm grateful the warning exists so I know I'm not debating actual news.

I'm just sad we lost him before he got a chance to really grow up.

Abortion is more complicated, but opponents would argue there's another life at stake, so from their moral framework, it's not purely personal either.

This is another issue I'm surprised we're still even debating.