Just one more petroleum derivative fuel bro, one more and I promise we'll be off of it for good trust me bro just one more

Because we keep emitting?

There's no mystery to this, there's too much money in petroleum for too many people for us to just stop using it.

Fair enough. IIRC there's a mandatory civics test to complete 8th grade nationwide which was, ostensibly, intended to prevent electoral problems like this

I honestly think we should have a 20 question multiple choice basic 8th grade civics quiz before people are allowed to vote. We no longer have an electorate that's informed enough to be capable of voting. Score 60% or higher on that quiz or get the fuck out of the booth.

I read this as preparation for round two of the USA's China tariff boogaloo

Don't just look at sdb hits in the log. Open up that entire session in journalctl kernel mode (journalctl -k -bN where N is the session number in session history) and find the context surrounding the drive dropping and reconnecting.

You'll probably find that something caused a USB bus reset or a similar event before the drive dropped and reconnected. if you find nothing like that try switching power supplies for the HDD and/or switching USB ports until you can move the drive to a different USB root port. Use lsusb -t and swap ports until the drive is attached beneath a different root port. You might have a neighboring USB device attached to the bus that's causing issues for other devices attached to the same root port (it happens, USB devices or drivers sometimes behave badly.)

Always look at the context of the event when you're troubleshooting a failure like this, don't just drill down on the device messages. Most of the time the real cause of the issue preceded the symptom by a bit of time.

Time to donate to teen shelters in the blue cities because I suspect a whole bunch of kids are going to be needing that help soon.

~75M people out of ~340M asked for this. That's like 22% of the population. The rest of us absolutely did not ask for this.

They're good at representing their constituents all right. Sadly their only constituents are people donating to their campaigns.

Sounds like a libertarian utopia!

Our legislature passed RCV here in CA and our Dem governor vetoed it. Can't be electing progressives over more big money neoliberal Dems, gotta keep that voting power bloc intact

I don't think he'll care. GameStop has become a pawn shop for children these days, that's where they make their money.

And yet with all of that being true his response to covid was objectively better than Biden's for the reasons that were already written down when you decided to reply to this post and not that one

You realize that the entire reason COVID spread so fast and sickened so many is that Trump gutted the CDC (and more specifically gutted the CDC's pandemic task force) then aggressively pushed misinformation during the opening phase of the pandemic right? The few folks remaining at the CDC were under politically motivated orders to play down the pandemic the entire time Trump was in office so that Trump could try and pretend his economy (which he inherited from Obama) wasn't shitting the bed while he ran for reelection.

Remember the bit where Trump thought a big pandemic would be good for his voting numbers because it was supposed to hit the blue cities harder than his red state supporters? Remember how we needed freezer trucks as temporary morgues for a year as a result?

Were you not following the court's impact on public health policy at all? Every sane state passed a mask mandate and other public health measures to combat COVID spread, then the courts (appointed by Republicans no less) crushed those efforts

Remember 8+y of "Thanks Obama" when the dude passed a healthcare act that got tens of millions affordable coverage?

"business man like me, he say it like it is"

Business man: word salad - slur - word salad

Oh no! We lost and democracy's in danger, hurry and donate to our fundraising drive!

Trump just made the right populist noises and voters elected him over whoever the Democratic Neoliberal Committee decided to stand up this time.

Yeah 34 was essentially a hit on one particular AIDS foundation in LA that's politically active. Landlord associations took offense and went after them with 34

Check this shit out: https://calmatters.org/california-voter-guide-2024/propositions/prop-34-patient-spending/

As usual voters fell for the packaging rather than actually reading about the effects.

I think that was a huge part of Trump's appeal. It's hard to be happy about watching the wealthy drain the country for 35y while you're stuck working at Wal-Mart or a gig job and effectively treading water while waiting for a medical emergency to bankrupt you or for prices on everyday goods to outpace you. It's a choice between getting fucked over while a certain class of person gets richer or fucking everybody over and that appealed to a whole lot of people.