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  • I’ve give it a good 15 to 20% chance that the public, or a governor, would show up with enough force of arms to cause a civil war. Outside of that I’d give it a 50/50 chance of working out for the Nazi’s. The reality though is that the left isn’t organized around any kind of physical force. The worst thing the right could do is cause that to change. Because of course they would immediately try to stop it, causing a military Streisand effect. If your political opponents are organizing to physically protect themselves from you, attacking them for it, will make them organize and react with violence much faster. The only thing worse than organized violence, is quickly escalating organized violence.


  • Honestly I don’t think she should run in 28. Nothing against Kamala, but we really don’t need a moderate centrist insider to bring us back from the damage Trump is doing. The nation would be far better off having a real debate with Pete, Tim, and Alexandria up on stage. Kamala would have too much power over the process, and would use every bit of it. Which of course means that’s exactly what’s going to happen, probably handing us a narrow loss to fucking Don Jr. or some other moron puppet.




  • The pizzagate qanon story was fed to qanon in order to muddy the waters in case anyone found the police reports from Epstein dropping off used girls at a pizza parlor in New York the summer of 92 when he was hanging out with Trump.

    The police reports are true, no conspiracy at all, just one of the earlier things Epstein covered up with money and connections. Trump was with Epstein that summer in New York. The timing of the incidents, and when exactly Trump was there I don’t know. The conspiracy being that it was an intentional fabrication fed to a qanon reader.


  • Skyrmir@lemmy.worldtoCyberstuck@lemmy.caBuilt for comfort
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    There’s distinct limits to modularity. Making a standard box size means it’s not really the right size for some things, so it’s wasted space, or bad design choices, to make other things fit. Sometimes it works out better, custom PC parts for instance, other times not so much. Israel tested out a standard battery size with drive through swapping. No waiting for a charge, just drive up a ramp, battery drops out the bottom, new one gets shoved in. It worked, kind of. It turns out the bottom of a car is a harsh environment. There were a bunch of issues that overall didn’t make it better than just plugging into an outlet and waiting. Given the market demands we’re going to end up somewhere between nothing modular, essentially disposable cars, and fully modular replace full systems at the drive through cars. My bet is that batteries will end up fixed, embedded, or otherwise integral part of the vehicle, while charging methods evolve around them. It’s easy enough to drop a mini trailer genset behind an electric car right now. So it’s just a question of when that becomes a real product with more integrated construction. Trucks with a bed make the most obvious early platforms to me. Typical low range usage that needs the bed space, and occasional long distance travel, covers a lot of pick ups use cases. That would be perfect for huge fleets of trucks in the US.