I saw the video where the “officer” held their “non-lethal” weapon right up to the face of a non-violent protester and fired. This was clearly intentional and should be treated as such. There is no legitimate complaint about qualified immunity (and no, claiming total immunity doesn’t mean that is legal) or that he didn’t know. This was intent to cause major harm for no reason other than someone disagreed. It was horrible and any actual law and order would impose significant jail time and reparations

1. Not getting off the sofa. Video doorbell pops up on my watch, no matter where I happen to be, so I can immediately decide whether it can interrupt what I’m doing.
2. Shut the hell up. Sometimes I turn off the chimes so I’m not bothered by yet another door to door sales drone. But I still have my watch in case whoever is at the door is legitimate
3. Intercom. My kid sometimes want to tell me something without coming inside
4. History. Yes, sometimes I want to scroll back through all motion trigger s in front of my door
5. Wildlife. Minor feature but it is occasionally fascinating to see what animals amble in front of my door. I’m urban so it’s limited but we have turkeys and coyotes

Dammit, I fell for rings assurances of “only in response to a warrant”. Mostly out of laziness, but still …… I really am going to have to figure out self hosting a video doorbell, aren’t i

For sure we should reduce overall travel.

• To the extent people still work from home: we do. On days when I work from home I generally don’t use a motor vehicle for anything
• to the extent we order online, we do. I rarely goto stores besides the grocery. Sorry retailers and local shopping advocates but a dedicated delivery vehicle is more efficient that you taking yours
• I’ve seen gradual progress in train buildout from the 2022 infrastructure bill. It’s very slow, piecemeal, not dramatic but there are more transit options

Here in the US, the reasons people generally cheer for ICE vehicles boil down to how expensive EVs are here. Legacy manufacturers sell them only in premium trims and dealers tack on excessive profit to help discourage them - they truly are not affordable here.

They don’t seem to understand this is a choice by legacy manufacturers, combined with protectionism bought by those same manufacturers.

I suppose there’s a range concern but I don’t see how that has any validity. As people have more direct experience, that should mostly disappear. While there are never enough chargers, most of the population has high speed charging convenient to them and most homeowners can charge at home.

the question is whether oil is still a hugely important energy commodity and the answer is a resounding yes

This is a HUGE reason to push for progress. Oil is critical to so much of modern life and we have no substitutes for all too much of it. We need more progress where we do have options (eg. EVs) so we can start growing out of our dependency before it becomes a crisis

This is one of the concerns I have watched with interest ……

• with the first mass market push to wind “grid won’t be stable with any significant amount”
• as wind and solar became more popular “renewables can only be 30% without destabilizing the grid
• this past summer “with today’s renewables and storage technology, the cheapest most stable option is 95% of the grid”

Your concern may be technically and historically valid but is rapidly disappearing

He wants oil even if the wind is cheaper, the wind farm is almost finished and already producing power

The problem is to not just that. Up here in New England we have no coal, no nuclear, insufficient gas pipelines, and taco Don Quixote keeps tilting at our windmills

My dishwasher uses high speed jets of 160° water to scour and sanitize.

Weekly? Every couple weeks? So you’re good standing in pee for a couple weeks, or you expect no one else to take a shower for a couple weeks?

Sure it all leaves through the same pipe, but it’s not like you stand in the toilet, no one ever lays down and soaks in the toilet, most of us don’t put children in the toilet.

Stephen mliller, life sentence

So we’re assuming someone who makes $89M is

• getting all her income through onlyfans
• is not incorporated
• has no deductible business expenses

I get some of these simplifications for the sale of discussion but the federal corporate income tax rate is 21% (yes, at least half of us are subsidizing corporations)

You’d expect her to being paid some salary as an employee of her corporation, and depending how the wrote it, it’s possible only that would be subject to sin tax, and it’s relatively insignificant

It’s an extra step. Sometimes that’s the best you can do

Seems like it ought to be another easy win in court, assuming we ever restore rule off law

In any just world we’d be able to hold up a mirror

Sure and maybe it’s all of our fault for accepting that. It’s easy to say they can abbreviate due diligence when you’re picturing them chasing people who are in the process of physically sneaking across the border. Especially when it’s balanced with people already established were generally treated as a civil infraction and with a defined process rather than violent criminal infraction

Thank you for adding to the discussion /s

Oh no, someone is putting their principals before their income and I’m sitting on my sofa judging them for not doing more