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Tell it to Julian Assange and Edward Snowden.

Sort of the hard math of building clean green energy is where it is most cheap and abundant to expand. Texas, for instance, has been a boomtown for wind and solar thanks to its geography (and the ERCOT [mis]management of the grid accidentally incentivizing construction through sky-high prices at peak hours of solar/wind production). Florida is another fantastic state to develop, entirely because of the commercial demand mixed with the abundant natural supply.

But the real snag in the liberal plan to blue-ify red states with green jobs is that all the jobs are still private. Obama/Biden had a chance to put together a brand new TVA with lots of dedicated infrastructure capable of delivering at-cost electricity to undercut fossil fuel provides while creating jobs that paid well above the prevailing rate for wages. Instead, they just handed Wall Street magnets and their allies in the construction industry a series of blank checks.

I mean, what exactly would an email dump accomplish? Hard to embarrass these guys in any way that matters. They just keep plugging on, doing crimes and ruining lives, while sending their goon squads to rough up any news reporter who asks a difficult question at a press briefing.

The fact that this is "Iran" implicated in the data dump only gives the bigger media outlets one more excuse to ignore the release and freeze out anyone involved in its distribution.

Very easy to believe a bunch of angry New Yorkers taking to the streets over a popular leader getting snatched and dragged off. Hell, folks were out cheering for Luigi Mangione not more than a few months ago. Zohran Mamdani is an even easier sell.

The problem is what they're running up against. The NYPD has a bigger budget than the entire North Korean military, with tanks and planes and automatic weapons to match. And while the city isn't particularly MAGA-inclined (even Curtis Silwa, the GOP nominee for mayor, is a Trump-hater), the current mayor and his friends in the police are fully Trump-pilled.

Mamdani is in a curious position of having a large popular following within the city that is alienated from both D and R parties.

This means he can win elections. But it also means he's exposed to whatever legalistic horseshit the heavy hand of the state can throw his way. I fully expect the Dems to look the other way as Trump's legal goons try to run Zohran out of town. The Hillarycrats would love nothing more than for Andrew Cuomo (or even Eric Adams) to get the mayoral race handed to them through the removal of a legitimate populist in their ranks.

You probably think computers are supposed to solve real problems

It's crazy to see how much of our society hinges on having access to the internet.

Paying bills, applying for jobs, registering for any kind of public or private service, long distance travel or communication... A technology that was supposed to make life quicker and easier has become this firehose of annoying digital chores, scams, and red tape.

Lemmy wants to rail on Windows 11 AND they talk shit about your average person not understanding filesystems.

At some point, it just becomes exhausting to hear people explain-o-brag about their ability to navigate the command-line, like typing "dir" into a cursor field makes them the hottest thing since Alan Turing.

Millennials will tell you they are tech geniuses, then throw up their hands when their dishwasher breaks or their check-oil light comes on. The need to be cluelessly smug rivals any 90s-era Boomer.

All the girls who were used to constantly being in demand suddenly… aren’t. And they’re HORNY. And not in a very good way. In a very sad/depressing way.

Had a friend who joked that if anyone questioned whether she was still hot, they only had to count the rings.

Non-monogamy is the logical extension of unlearning person-ownership

Like, that's definitely coffee-house sex philosophy truthiness. But it ignores the desire for someone(s) to come home to and rely on. A relationship is more than just getting off. And monogamy (or committed poly, if that's your vibe) is about building a friendship with the loved one and a community with their social circle.

You don't own your partner any more than you own your parents or your siblings or your closest friends. You just want to be near them regularly, because you love them. And when there's only so many hours in the day, you dedicate yourself to these people because you want a relationship that's deep rather than a series of flings that can only ever be shallow.

Strangely enough, I've got a couple of friends on Tinder who have noticed that their pool of people gets much better after their age rolls over "40".

Whatever it is about the Tinder algorithm automatically seeds the worst, grossest, weirdest, gnarlest dudes to anyone under that line. And then anyone over that line gets access to the pool of "normals".

How can immigrantion matters be considered a civil matter if you criminalized someone’s immigration status?

Because you have a judge who rubber stamps your twisted legal reasoning. And you've got a liberal opposition that only knows how to shrug at fascism and deflect blame onto college leftists for not voting harder.

Can we revoke trumps citizenship and deporting him?

Ask Merrick Garland.