Of the boomers I know

• one neighbor was a spiteful asshole, the other not
• my ex’s father is a fairly liberal vet
• my exs mother is not just liberal but is still at her age motivated by how much she can help people working at social services
• my mom is the most liberal in our family and frequently argues with my conservative brother

And boomers are NOT all the same

Google search tells me 48% Democrat, 46% Republican and the remaining undecided

That was one of my objections to replacing kitchen appliances for all too long. I’m not even going to consider all the same brand. But they’ve added enough “styling elements” that it’s tougher to fill a kitchen with similar appliances from different manufacturers

The problem is it’s not really people’s choice. Companies have gotten very good at disguising quality tradoffs and marketing has got very good at muddying the waters.

Since this is about tools, I’ll bring up Craftsman as an example. For many years, it was a quality brand accessible to homeowners. But as they changed to be cheaper they still marketed themselves as a quality brand and they seemed like the same price. It was only after the brand value was destroyed, that it became clear how “cheap” the tools had become and people were able to make a legitimate decision to move on

I hope so. It seems like she deserves at least that for the way they acted. If nothing else works to restore law, justice, morality, maybe enough large judgements will hurt their budgets enough to change things

Especially not true if the second strike. It’s such a farce to claim “they’re still trafficking” when it is just a few survivors out in the ocean clinging to the wreckage

If they want people to believe them, they need to share a sanitized version of their intel, and send a cutter over to pull heroin out of the water. Go through the effort of identifying the victims and justify that they were indeed cartel members

I realize all of that can be faked too, and I’m not sure I trust this administration even if they showed ”evidence”, but at least it would be an attempt to justify murder

While I go through logic like this, it all comes down to trust. This administration has not offered any evidence that they are actuating affecting heroin trafficking nor are they allowing due process. It’s straight up murder without due process or evidence. We only have their public claim and their rhetoric has too much history of flat out lying, too much history of complete disregard for human life.

Interesting news but why is this @politics?

Am I the only guy be who thinks this is somewhat wholesome, despite the tragedy? No one is stoking outrage, no one is casting blame, it casts the teachers in a heroic light, and it even looks like they were correctly prepared. They had and used bear spray, they stayed in a group, defended their charges: that seems like about the best you can do and sometimes it’s not enough.

Even just that this is a natural tragedy. Man’s best efforts will never overcome what nature can do: but it’s so nice that it didn’t start “rogue gunman opened fire at a school….”

I’m not trying to make light of the tragedy; they have my sympathy, but it’s “only” the tragedy

Edit: downvoting for the horrible source. I turned off reader mode and there were so many layers of so many ads that I could no longer find the article

6-7 miles walk, that’s a few hours

They have a World Cup coming up and not enough time to switch to a sane country. Fake trophy is a cheap bribe to keep that going

No kidding. All too often even clear looking articles seem to have important details missing

The key words I pick out are “in violation of lawful procedure”. I don’t like this choice either, but it looks like the city took a shortcut

Anyone can file suit. A judge needs to pass judgement. Hopefully the judge based it on something more legitimate than whining.

That’s still a conflict of interest - while it would prevent trading on insider information, it does enable making decisions what will increase returns on your investment.

There’s an entire universe of indirect investments where you’re not directly involved in decisions. That should be the requirement

They really need to embrace tourism more. Instead of being known for being exploited, uneducated, dying young, making the worst choices for themselves, toxic water and landfills, mountaintop removal, get their shit together and be a huge attraction for the beauty of their remaining mountains. There are tens of millions of people within driving distance: they need to ask themselves why we’re not clamoring To vacation there, to spend our money in their state

He was murdered and the criminal who made that decision admitted to the crime publicly (after cowardly trying to blame those he commanded)

The problem is they’re not repealing the truck exceptions, they’re repealing the increased efficiency

The problem is it’s very expensive. Solar installers charge tens of thousands of dollars and has a long history of scams. They take the place of the old trope about scammy used car salesmen. They’ve created leases and PPAs in an attempt to make the initial cost easier but only succeeded in being scammy

It doesn’t help that we have tariffs and other barriers to low cost solar panel imports, yet insufficient support for domestic manufacturing to be competitive.

The math is hard. Everyone wants to know the payback threshold from the huge install cost up front but it’s not straightforward.

When I looked into solar I found

• lots of scammers, poor service
• I calculated a payback of 12 years from install cost given free energy, which is longer than I’m likely to own this house. But they claim 7?
• I only have sufficient unshaded roof for half my usage
• is it poor service or scamminess that it’s so difficult to get them to explain that?

A big part of it is being realistic about how often that would come up.

Especially for those with their own house, charging overnight at home (like you do with your phone) is more convenient. It is so nice never having to go to a local gas station!

Forget looking for discounts like Costco, charging from home is half (for me) the cost of gasoline. Everyone likes saving money

The only time this doesn’t work is road trips, where I need to stop for 20 minutes every 4-5 hours of driving. If I’m eating a meal, it’s going to take longer than that anyway.

So

• 90+% of the time an EV is more convenient and much cheaper
• on road trips where I would have stopped to eat, it’s equally convenient
• on road trips where I’m stopping more than I would otherwise and for slightly longer ……. That’s actually very rare

Edit: looking at my charging stats, it’s only been twice in the last year. One of those was a 1,200 mile road trip that did wonders to overcome my range anxiety