This is my true fear.

Like…Trump makes W look good. He’s now got this public image of a slightly daffy uncle. Like 2000-2008 were just “Earnest goes to the Whitehouse”. As if he’s as dangerous and malicious as Mr. Bean.

By extrapolating from there…there’s gonna be someone that is gonna make Trump look good.

It spawned out of post-WWII American nationalism, and it is being ignored by people embracing pre-WWII German nationalism.

Nothing to see here, folks

What do you mean “it’s disrespectful to hang the flag behind my pavement princess’s over-the-cab exhaust and roll coal”?

Brother this is 'murica, it’s disrespectful not to.

/s, of course.

Somebody has to sleep with them or else they start shooting up shopping malls.

Look to the Xiaomi Mi AX6S. Quite capable router and only like $50 on AliExpress. I just got a second one to use as a mesh node and wireless bridge for a bunch of stuff that gets a terrible signal inside of a solid wood entertainment center.

This is the USA. Since when is the US part of the rest of the world?

Seems most the world wants to distance themselves from us. Except for some shithole countries.

I also appear on any graph that shows the months between July and January abbreviated by the first letter of the month.

Don’t worry, kid. You’ve got two arms, and that’s above average.

According to Wikipedia, he’s actually a criminal defense attorney in California, and also “The Fish”, original lead guitarist for Country Joe and the Fish.

Case in point.

I went to Texas for the eclipse. Made a big family vacation out of it…landed in Houston, rented a Mustang Mach-E, stayed there for a few days, drove to Austin for a few days, drove to Dallas for a few days (and for the eclipse, was at the Perot), then back to Houston for a few more days.

I say this because this was a lot of highway driving. More than I would usually do. And I absolutely loved one-pedal driving in the city, and the adaptive cruise control and lane keeping on the highway. I trusted it much, much more than in our 2019 Odyssey.

Anything more than that, I don’t think the tech is really ready for. I wish it were. I know theoretically a computer could be a much, much better driver than humans…but it takes a non-trivial amount of intelligence to drive. We take it for granted, because a lot of it is practically instinctual to us, and almost entirely subconscious. It’s an incredible amount of identification and complex decision making that goes into it if you actually break down the number of inputs you observe and variables you “know” the values of (such as stopping distance for various surface and weather conditions).

I imagine power is the tricky part. Badge readers and the like that use RFID also use wireless electricity to “power” the card. The range of that is limited without massive coils. You may be able to harness power from heat in asphalt (from traffic or sunlight beating on it), but I’d think that’d also be very limiting.

Better would be low power RF beacons set up at every transformer or every N utility poles. Something like BLE, maybe a little bit beefier. Power is readily available. They don’t require data. All they need to do is broadcast their exact location and time (which they can get from GPS receivers).

I can’t ignore the old TV.

I’m honestly impressed there are still functional, floor-model rear-projection TVs.

It’s absurd how much power the executive has. The president shouldn’t matter that much. They are responsible for implementing laws that are written and passed by congress. That’s pretty much it. Maybe appoint a SCOTUS judge or two. And a bunch of lower court judges. Pending senate approval, of course.

Instead they are now nearly unilaterally in charge of the strongest military and largest economy the world has ever seen. Or at least they will, if Project 2025 or Agenda 47 is to be followed.

To be fair, a lot of people believe that choosing neither somehow would absolve them of any guilt should fascism win.

What kind of troll named the towns in Newfoundland?

There’s also a “Dildo” and a “Placentia” on the larger island.

Well, to start, you need an old psychologist, and a young psychologist.

And probably several psychology grad students.

And then you can have a scientific study.

^Al(l|abama) cops are bastards$

Trapped.

Demand a shrubbery.