silent_water [she/her] @ silent_water @hexbear.net

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dang she makes us sound so cool

I'm pretty sure the venn diagram is a circle

it's looking like it's going to happen... context

it's not easy to stay federated when it's the mod and admins behaving badly as they shape the userbase and decide what to foster.

RFK thinks from one end to the other of that worm, for sure

liberalism

this post aged like fine wine hahahaha

anyone else hearing bars from the internationale at the start? this sounds like a pop homage.

weather is caused by the sun -- no sun, no energy in the atmosphere. so defeating the sun will eventually kill the weather (and all life)

the sun gives me migraines

AC works fine at home because you're going to leave it plugged in overnight. it's unworkable when you want charging to complete quickly. the advertised 0.25-1hr charge times aren't possible over AC. the amperage needed would produce an absurd amount of heat without absurd wire dimensions that you'd never actually be able to lift and plug in. fast charging uses DC at or near the battery voltage so the supplied amperage isn't massive and you don't run large losses to a rectifier. to put this in perspective, even with DC, wires are usually liquid cooled to keep wire dimensions down and they're still larger than any wire you've ever seen/used for any other purpose.

consider: the F150EV can power your house for 3 full days as a generator. that's how much energy you're trying to get into these batteries and it's supposed to happen really fucking fast.

I mean, if you're going to pretend this is the first election of all time and the last election ever, sure. or you could take history into account and make a longer term plan so that you don't have to keep making choices about who the "lesser evil" is. if you abdicate any possible collective power, the ratchet will keep turning the dial further and further towards fascism.

tbf, talking to twitch chat day in and day out will make the best of us sound kinda smug

feelin mighty happy I voted for Gloria La Riva

uhh he rides trains sometimes? can we ban him from trains? I feel gross taking trains a genocidier rode.

I'm not sure I've ever heard anything as incorrect in electoral strategy as voting for "99% Hitler". elections come every 4 years. a loss today need not remain a loss forever. make the dems come to you! force them to bargain with the left instead of the right!

it's not a strategic vote! it's an abdication of strategy that pretends only the current election matters! it assumes the present is eternal and that no electoral strategy could ever consider the future. an electoral strategy would admit the left has no real power absent a dedicated bloc and would work on creating one. to do so, you must be willing to sacrifice a few elections, because you must withhold votes and force the democrats to the bargaining table. otherwise you will forever be trapped in a cycle of voting for the "lesser" evil. FPTP does not preclude a long-term electoral strategy.

withhold your vote as a bloc with the rest of the left. force the dems to bargain with you if they ever want to hold office ever again.

until and unless we collectively withhold our votes and so express real and actual power, the left will always remain powerless. repudiate the democrats or be forever doomed to an endless cycle of voting for the "lesser" evil. (no moral calculus can ever frame a genocidier as the lesser evil - he's so far beyond the moral event horizon that I no longer care to calculate)

false dichotomy

they're lampooning liberals' circular reasoning