newport
24d ago
To be fair to yourself, the antagonism may not have been entirely unwarranted since I just kinda dropped this without elaborating. Sorry. RoyGBivens is correct, it's a copypasta from shortly after Biden dropped out and Harris took over the nomination.
I intended this to be another example of what 07mk was talking about on /r/stupidpol.
newport
24d ago
I was over at my dads house today helping with some household chores. He lives in a very rural area of a very red state. At the end of the work we went to one of the nearby country bars. It’s the kind of place that farmers, truckers, legit cowboy boot wearers and the working class go to unwind with a cold one.
Vice President Harris was on the TV and the local gun store owner said to his auto mechanic (friends since high school),
“You know what? She ain’t so bad. The economy is recovering, nobody’s rioting, and we’re standing up on the world stage again. Can’t believe I’m saying this but Ol’ Oakland Kam’s got my vote this year.”
I looked around and all I saw were heads nodding in agreement. I heard a few calls of “Yes sir” and “Damn Straight” from the men around me. Even saw the lonely ball cap wearing farmer in the corner raise his drink with a nod.
newport
6mo ago
Louis Rossmann has built a 2 million subscriber youtube channel complaining about this specific issue. Apple designs their laptop displays such that they cannot be repaired without replacing the entire upper half of the laptop, and has also made it basically impossible to source the replacement part from anybody besides themselves. This makes third party repairs just as expensive as repairs from Apple themselves.
newport
9mo ago
unable or unwilling to enforce this
It's probably this. Large metros across the US have mostly stopped enforcing laws related to license plates and traffic more generally, because the violators are disproportionately racial minorities and enforcement quickly becomes a PR nightmare. Here in [boring but large US city] it has gotten to the point that the local subreddit makes memes about fake temporary license plates and police forces of surrounding smaller towns troll the borders to make easy fake tag citations (because the smaller town police don't have to worry about the political fallout).
newport
9mo ago
I don't see why they don't invest in (nuclear?) desalination plants
California is (unsurprisingly) anti-nuclear. They were planning to shutter their final remaining nuclear power plant (Diablo Canyon) last year, and the only reason it didn't happen was because the resulting blackouts would have been a political disaster for Newsom et al.
newport
10mo ago
For my anecdotal two cents, it feels like it's a mix of legal liability and the great PR obstacle. Normies won't accept autonomous vehicles until the accident rate is zero, not merely slightly better than the average human driver.
Elon's chud arc may also be a factor in reduced enthusiasm.
newport
11mo ago
NY presumably has some law on the books like the Migratory Bird Treaty (which bans keeping owls hawks geese etc as pets in addition to hunting them) but for other wild animals. I believe lots of states have laws like that even if they're rarely enforced. Somebody either had a Karen moment or otherwise was trying to troll him and reported him, and whatever office is in charge of enforcing that law said "finally we have an excuse to exercise our authority!"
The modern replacement is On Patrol: Live (which was known as Live PD until it was canceled and later rebooted in the wake of the Summer of 2020), and it's about a 40/60 mix of non-live curated bodycam video and "live"-broadcast ride-along cameramen. With a small delay in case on-camera death happens and so that the producers can pick the most interesting feed out of the handful of police they're filming.
I don't know how to feel about how entertaining it is and what that says about me, but it can be very entertaining.
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