For the same reason Dr King did.

To put it more simply: non voters were by far the largest voting block this election. They had the greatest impact in our democracy.

Solvo is looking pretty solid too. Proudly open source, inexpensive, feature rich.

He also murdered her.

It’s unlikely that you would get a dowry if you also murdered the peasant women. With how unjust Indians law enforcement is, you likely would not face the same scrutiny though.

Of course they are less evil, just stupid. They still think this is civil politics.

With an incredibly rare 60/40 senate majority, 59 dems wanted to vote for single payer, 40 Republicans did not. Only 1 dem/dino was with with them, and that was enough to fuck us.

Any of those 40 GOP seantors are as bad as the dems 1, so yes, having 40 bad things is worse than having 1 bad thing. Any of those GOP senators could have voted yes and done something good for once, but none did. In that vote, the dems fucked us 1 time. The GOP fucked us 40 times.

Our political system is fucking abjectly stupid though, and the 60 seat “do nothing” filibuster is maybe the worst invention in our politics. It gives outsized power to shitty, rural states, and now with partisan lines cemented, means we cant get fucking anyhting done, ever.

Fuck lieberman into the ground for his bullshit, but he was only the last issue with single payer happening.

Obama fucked uo by negotiating with the GOP for a full year, only to get 0 votes.

Ted Kennedy fucked it up by dying in that year, which allows the the state of Massachusetts to really fuck up by electing the GOP Senator version of truck nuts, Scott brown. That shitfuck was elected in 2010 to fill the seat till the next full term, and then lost in 2012. Massachusetts elected a GOP senator for 2 out of something like 50 years, just long enough for him to vote no on single payer. Massholes deserve a hearty fuck you for that.

That’s what made which made the shitheal Lieberman the swing vote. Also, to split hairs, he was an independent that caucused eith Democrats at time time, but basically literally a DINO.

The GOP still fucked us out of single payer, but thats to be expected. Dems just fucking stumps all along the fucking way let it happen.

The electric robot ones basically do, in the sense that they go and charge when needed and then return to cutting the area until it’s done.

Electric mowers are good and common now. There are even solid robotic ones.

You could solve this with machines and just electricity, but sheep seem smarter.

And this simple security flaw was humorously left alone until they clamped down on sane use of customers printers.

It reminds me of what happened to the PS3. Sony shipped them with an option called “other OS” that was a full Linux install. Tons of enthusiasts and orgs, including Universities and the USAF, used this to turn hundreds of PS3 into computer clusters for research or to do other interesting things.

Well, about 3 years in, Sony decided to just disable that feature out of the blue. They were of course sued and lost millions because of it, but the fun part is that up to that point, for literally 3 years, they had no piracy on the console. It had a semi novel protection scheme that no one had hacked, a point they touted proudly. Well, about a week after that, geohot, a hardware hacker, broke this scheme specifically because they disabled “Other OS,” which allowed piracy on the console.

Its almost like pissing off your deeply technical user base in the name of enshittification can backfire.

They need them some goats. They will clear out every damn thing.

Sleep is almost off, and hibernate is just fancy off.

IDF bulldozer operators talk about killing innocent people too, not just the dead. One of them killed himself over it, which is the most justice any of them will ever see for mass murder.

The article is gruesome, as a heads up.

Also very helpful for people who don’t realize they are lactose intolerant.

Coffee will still get you rolling, but in a much kinder way.

They hated him because he was right.

A better article from NASA that lists way more info, including the goal wattage in 2030 : 100 gigawatts, or roughly 20x the current power generation. It should be able to power roughly 8 million homes when complete.

Reading the two, it’s likely the article the posted one is AI generated/copied from.

Sandy and mostly devoid of life, the Kubuqi Desert in Inner Mongolia once had a reputation for being a “sea of death.” More recently, its dune fields have become a sea of photovoltaic possibility, transformed by a surge of newly installed solar panels. The construction is part of China’s multiyear plan to build a “solar great wall” designed to generate enough energy to power Beijing.

The project, expected to be finished in 2030, will be 400 kilometers (250 miles) long, 5 kilometers (3 miles) wide, and achieve a maximum generating capacity of 100 gigawatts. So far, Chinese officials say they have installed about 5.4 gigawatts.

The Kubuqi’s sunny weather, flat terrain, and proximity to industrial centers make it a desirable location for solar power generation. Panels are being installed in a long, narrow band of dunes just south of the Yellow River between the cities of Baotou and Bayannur. The OLI (Operational Land Imager) and OLI-2 on Landsat 8 and 9 captured this pair of images showing the expanding footprint of solar farms between December 2017 (left) and December 2024 (right).

The solar farm that resembles a galloping horse—Junma Solar Power Station—was completed in 2019, setting a Guinness world record for the largest image made of solar panels. It generates approximately 2 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity each year, enough to meet the yearly electricity needs of 300,000 to 400,000 people. Junma means “fine horse” in Mandarin.

In addition to generating power, planners hope that the installation will have other benefits. They think it may help curb desertification by preventing the movement of dunes and slowing winds. Also, the elevated panels create shade that slows evaporation and may make it easier to grow pasture grasses and other crops beneath them. Analysis of Landsat data indicates that solar projects have contributed to the greening of deserts in other parts of China in recent years.

As of June 2024, China led the world in operating solar farm capacity with 386,875 megawatts, representing about 51 percent of the global total, according to Global Energy Monitor’s Global Solar Power Tracker. The United States ranks second with 79,364 megawatts (11 percent), followed by India with 53,114 megawatts (7 percent).

China’s solar growth has been particularly rapid during the past decade. Between 2017 and 2023, the country’s operational solar capacity surged by an average of 39,994 megawatts per year. The solar capacity of the United States expanded by an average of 8,137 megawatts over the same period.

Not getting this experience on Mastodon. I hopped on after Lemmy, but so far I’ve had several positive back and forths with people.

Bikes are only allowed on sidewalks in the US because our streets are insanely dangerous for anyone not going the speed limit or up, which even class 3 ebikes generally cant managed.

A push for Ebike safety is absolutely just a abject refusal to actually work on car safety like reducing speed limits, reducing lanes via road diets and regulating vehicle sizes, which would resolve all the other issues.

These little bribes are very common in the US. Shops/restaurants give cops free food/drinks to stay on their good side, and so the cops will “patrol” the area more.

Its been what, 8 years since the original switch was released?

They had plenty of time to decide on a better name.

In my experience, people want “it will work.” They will not accept “it could work” at all.

“It should work” is the perfect amount of hedge, even when you know “it will work,” because all of us have been burned by simple assumptions that were right 1000 times before and were somehow wrong this time.

Buckets is also good and runs on the same “envelope” model. I find the UX of buckets much better, personally.

Not actual FOSS, but its a free unlimited trial that you pay for when you want to.