The world will guaranteed suffer. Not needlessly though, it is quite by design for the benefit of billionaires and their politician henchmen. While the rest of us grovel and die, and supplicate and debase ourselves for table scraps, they'll be dynamiting the planet into their image.

Quit bitching

no u.

Civil discourse got us into this. Good faith got us into this. Civilized behavior got us into this. Meanwhile we've been outmaneuvered by people with more resources than scruples. If we can be saved, and that's a big if for every day that passes, then it's going to take sudden and drastic action. Otherwise privation may be all that can pry open the eyes of our deadweight brethren, and by then it will likely be too late.

There in lies the issue. Democracy is a numbers game. And the smarts seem to be outnumbered. If Trump doesn't kill us, climate change will. Despite an abundance of frank, clear, damning information about the dangers of both. As for increasing the smarts ranks; the American people chose the guy who wants to dismantle the department of education over the guy who wanted student loan debt forgiveness. Meanwhile, we're using what precious remaining time we have left to act on preventing global cataclysm to argue about what bathroom people use.

The paradox is that less intelligent people are more excitable. So what we get is smart, civilized peope with no balls, and dumb energetic people willing to kamikaze. You can't reason with unreasonable people, and unreasonable people see no reason to reflect on their actions. It's a dangerous feedback loop that has put us on a collision course with collapse.

Edit: long story short, hot take, the smart people need to figure out a way to attract more dumb people.

Huh?

Only just now?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_boarding_schools

We've had freedom of religion perhaps, but never freedom from religion. Christian gobbledygook is baked into America's DNA, and deviation from that has always resulted in a paddling.

Take Trump for example. A dyed in the wool contrarian. The walking talking embodiment of cutting off ones nose to spite their face. Refuses to acknowledge any authority but his own, often at the hazard of himself and others. And even he feigns to bend the knee to religion, and play act at being a Christian. That's how truly compulsory it is.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_affiliations_of_presidents_of_the_United_States#List_of_presidents_by_religious_affiliation

It may be unfair, but I've been increasingly judgemental of Tesla drivers, especially over the past 4 or 5 years. He used to just be a joke when he was tweeting edgelord stuff like his nightstand and trying to have images scrubbed from the internet of when he was still bald. Model S, model 3, model X (s3x, hur dur). Then I was made angry by the hyperloop and his distracting, unproductive impact of the way America thinks about mass transit. Then I got mad about Starlink, first as extremely expensive, dystopian sky litter. Then as a frightening glimpse at communication control in places with civil unrest/protest. Then he bought twitter, and did a hilariously bad job at running it. Installing a cartoonishly bad sign on his building and whatnot. Naming it something idiotic. Then helping bring Trump back from the dead. Then everything he has done in the 2024 election cycle. I don't know how people can stand to be associated with Elon and all the he represents in any way. It would be like driving around in a Jimmy Savile-mobile.

You just made me mad by helping me realize that the Trump bros are going to break water by removing fluoride long before they fix water by removing lead.

Ranier Wolfcastle in front of a brick wall saying "that's the joke."

Do not be fooled. The GOP is not running a failing campaign, it's just that they are putting all their energy toward backdooring the whole democratic process itself. Their campaign is little more than a diversion for their coup.

I'm going to disagree with most of these comments. They don't protect the prong so much as they protect the cord or other objects in the cords vicinity (painted surfaces, fragile surfaces, etc). The little plastic cap that covers tire stems on cars and bikes , while keeping it clean when installed, are primary to prevent chaffing issue on the inner tube whike shipped and stored; same thing with this prong shroud. They have holes in them as to not retain moisture I imagine.

Long story short, the prongs are metal and have corners. They are the strongest, "sharpest" thing in the box. The plastic isn't protecting the prongs from us, it's protecting us from the prongs.