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My greatest fear is that anti-gun liberals don't have the guts to actually resist fascism when push comes to shove.
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and at least one of AZ/NC/GA by numbers which do not warrant a recount
That's the thing: there are no numbers which do not warrant a recount here in Georgia anymore. The MAGA elections board has passed rules that force them to do hand counts (which they can easily fudge to be slightly off), then use that manufactured discrepancy as an excuse to refuse to certify. Even if there are a fucking million more votes for Harris, ratfucking it so that one hand count comes out 1,000,001 and another comes out 1,000,000 will cause them to say "welp, something went wrong and the vote is invalid" and send fucking Trump electors anyway.
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No. That's a way better option than a fascist dictator actually gaining power.
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With a single-family house, you can also choose to DIY (especially since the scale is typically smaller), or make cost/quality trade-offs without having liability to your neighbors or being beholden to their opinions on what to do.
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I hope the American public has the will to make it ugly for them, if necessary.
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Last time I went to Costco, my the second most expensive thing on the receipt was tax.
That just means you bought a whole bunch of cheap things.
grue Now • 81%
No it isn't.
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Anybody else misread that exclamation point as excited at first? A little horrifying, NGL.
grue Now • 66%
Then it's a mistake.
Source: I literally have a degree in this shit.
grue Now • 95%
I'm a traffic engineer and I've literally never heard of such a thing (except on freeways).
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It's absolutely wild that the brunt of the impact was clear on the opposite end of the state from the coast.
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Hi, civil engineer* here. Nah, fam: a lot of the time we don't even use formulas; we just look shit up in tables or interpolate on a graph!
(* To be fair, (a) I specialized in traffic, and (b) I didn't do all that much professional work as a civil engineer before switching to software "engineering" instead. That's even less mathematically rigorous most of the time, LOL.)
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...and Trump doesn't intervene in the same conflict.
Or intervenes more... to help the genocide proceed faster.
BTW, he'd also hand Ukraine to Russia so that's another genocide right there.
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INB4 @georgetakei@universeodon.com posts a "first time?" meme.
Tap for spoiler
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_Americans
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What I'd heard is that importing a bunch of Haitians was helping to fix the place.
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You say that as if the United States deporting indigenous US citizens to Mexico isn't a thing that's actually happened before.
(Wikipedia calls it the "Mexican Repatriation", but the only differences between a mixed-race "Native American" from the Southwest and a mestizo "Mexican-American" from the area of the Mexican Cession are speaking English vs. Spanish and how they choose to self-identity.)
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what use cases do you have in mind that require root access?
Ownership.
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From the article, it sounds like the first couple mentioned in the article already weren't able to get insurance this time.
Hiers and her husband Clint were still finishing the electrical work in the home they painstakingly rebuilt themselves, wiping out Clint’s savings to do so. They never will finish that wiring job.
Hurricane Helene blew their newly renovated home off its four foot-high pilings, sending it floating into the neighbor’s yard next door.
...
The Hiers, like many others here, can’t afford homeowner’s insurance on their flood-prone houses, even if it was available. Residents who have watched their life savings get washed away multiple times are left with few choices...
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Don't mind me; I was just going for linguistic flourish rather than exact verisimilitude.
www.wabe.org
cross-posted from: https://yall.theatl.social/post/3894145 > From WABE Politics News: > > A Fulton County judge indicated Tuesday he is unlikely to invalidate controversial new rules on certifying election results but could still issue a ruling clarifying that certification is mandatory. The […]
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20368770 > It’s easy to understand if you realize that America is essentially a corporation rather than a country, and that country is only representing its shareholders. > > In case you’re confused - if you’re not rich and powerful, you’re not a shareholder. You’re an employee or a commodity or an expense, and you exist to enrich the shareholder class.
www.yorkregion.com
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/30050658 > > “They are not safe. They are anything but for safety,” said a woman **who added vehicles in the two-block section sometimes drive in the middle of Springbrook to avoid the bollards.** > > Oh, so drivers behind of the wheel of an automobile are the danger. Why remove the bike lanes rather than the car lanes? > > I heard that Etobicoke's NIMBYs are insane, but this is a new level of stupidity from Richmond Hill.
["The absolute state of US public transit and micromobility infrastructure." -- @TheTechnician27](https://lemmy.world/comment/12607726)
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/13698320
www.asomo.co
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20696202
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20166859
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/16756563 > Source: [Imperial War Museums](https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/14006) > > Image Description: > > a battle scene set in a British village street, featuring a dismounted Territorial Army cyclist, in uniform and chin-strapped forage cap, loading his rifle. Behind him stand two more members of the battalion, one firing his rifle, the other placed his bicycle against a wall. In the background, the remainder of the battalion come to join them.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19969965 > The Ontario government is considering bringing forward legislation that could prohibit the installation of bike lanes when lanes for motor vehicles are removed as a result, sources say. > > Siemiatycki said "this government has signalled that the car is king," pointing to prior steps the governing Progressive Conservatives (PCs) have taken to ease costs for drivers. > > He sees the PCs as making a clear play for the votes of motorists, and believes the policy would also appeal to many drivers frustrated with congestion on the roads.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19969965 > The Ontario government is considering bringing forward legislation that could prohibit the installation of bike lanes when lanes for motor vehicles are removed as a result, sources say. > > Siemiatycki said "this government has signalled that the car is king," pointing to prior steps the governing Progressive Conservatives (PCs) have taken to ease costs for drivers. > > He sees the PCs as making a clear play for the votes of motorists, and believes the policy would also appeal to many drivers frustrated with congestion on the roads.
saportareport.com
cross-posted from: https://yall.theatl.social/post/3784650 > From the Saporta Report: > >  > One year after organizers delivered 116,000 signatures to city hall in an effort to get the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, widely known as “Cop City,” onto a ballot referendum for voters to make their voices heard, the community dissent over the project took center stage at a city council meeting on Monday. “Stop Cop […] > > The post [Atlanta’s democracy disconnect](https://saportareport.com/atlantas-democracy-disconnect/columnists/grace-donnelly/gracedonnelly/) appeared first on [SaportaReport](https://saportareport.com).
www.latimes.com
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19800270 > cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/13355390 > > > Archived copies of the article: > > * [archive.today](https://archive.ph/6SZOq) > > * [ghostarchive.org](https://ghostarchive.org/archive/UgBhc) > > * [web.archive.org](https://web.archive.org/web/20240915141505/https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-09-15/sometimes-we-have-to-escalate-to-be-heard-when-were-demanding-a-livable-future)
www.latimes.com
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/13355390 > Archived copies of the article: > * [archive.today](https://archive.ph/6SZOq) > * [ghostarchive.org](https://ghostarchive.org/archive/UgBhc) > * [web.archive.org](https://web.archive.org/web/20240915141505/https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-09-15/sometimes-we-have-to-escalate-to-be-heard-when-were-demanding-a-livable-future)
www.theguardian.com
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/13254852 > Theres none so blind as those who don't want to see.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19541562