Definitely. But there’s also disproportionate representation at play.

Let’s say there’s a mass exodus from the shittiest of shithole states leaving only, say, 100 people. For sake of argument, that’s sufficient for the state to continue existing and with a state government.

That 100 person state still gets two US Senators and (at minimum) one House rep (technically, it retains as many reps as it had as of the last census up until the next census in 2030). It also qualifies to be one of the required 34/38 states to call for a constitutional convention as well as vote to ratify the proposed amendment.

So, the takeaway is that all elections matter. Get out and vote every opportunity, and vote for sane people who aren’t going to pull this kind of crap.

if voting wasn’t this important, why do you think they’re working so hard to disenfranchise so many people?

60% of the population disagrees, yes. However…

The Constitution provides that an amendment may be proposed either by the Congress with a two-thirds majority vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate or by a constitutional convention called for by two-thirds of the State legislatures

So, 34 red state legislatures can propose an amendment. To be ratified, it requires 3/4 of the states (38 out of 50) to ratify it.

For either of those steps, I’m not sure if the citizens of those states have any say in the matter or if the legislatures can do it all themselves (plus or minus any veto from the governor of those states or legislative overrides of those).

So, they need 34 states to propose an amendment and 38 to pass it. As some else in this thread said, they already have 28.

Second, yeah, all of the above plus some.

Should turn around and sue Nintendo for facilitating the facilitation of piracy by making the consoles in the first place.

“We believe this deal is in the best interest of the flying public, our airline customers, the employees of Spirit and Boeing, our shareholders and the country more broadly,” Boeing President and CEO Dave Calhoun said in a statement late Sunday.

Fixed that for them.

It’s funny how mergers and acquisitions are always the cure all for every company’s woes, but every time one company gobbles up another, everything always gets worse (especially Boeing). Then the cure for that is to…buy another company. It’s like the corporate equivalent of “Of course having a baby would save our failing marriage”

Wish I could take credit for the term, lol, but I heard it elsewhere.

Yeah, I took it to a few local places, and none of them would do anything like that. I lived in the boonies at the time and didn’t want to tow it all around everywhere. I’d already driven it like that for 4-5 weeks, and the left spring was pressing against the underside of the bed. One good pothole and it would have likely punched through lol. Figured I’d pressed my luck long enough. I had a welder and could have probably fixed it up good enough for farm use, but no way would it have passed inspection.

Just parted it out since everything else was in great shape (especially the transmission that had been rebuilt not 4 months prior 😢)

Ended up just buying the hybrid I drive now since its main use was for my 110 mile daily commute.

Yeah, my 2004 not-quite beater truck came to its end that way. The frame rusted out where the leaf spring shackle attached, and there’s no real way to fix that. Surprised I was able to drive it as long as I did with it like that (it was my daily driver at the time lol).

For my OG beater truck, I got a lot of its body parts from a local salvage yard. Some of the parts I got were rusted in the same spots as mine, just less so (e.g. the quarter panels on S10s were notorious for rusting out).

Replacing the bed isn’t too bad if you have someone to help you lift it on/off and you can find a donor in good shape. I had to pull the bed off my old beater truck to replace the fuel pump, and did the work myself (plus an extra set of hands to lift the bed on/off, naturally) On that one, it was only like 6 bolts holding it down. Hardest part was that two were seized up and had to drill them out (and replace the bolts afterward).

Unless there’s major pushback from car buyers in the next 10 years, I’m going to be holding on to my 2017 hybrid for as long as possible. May even look into doing an EV conversion on it or possibly some aftermarket way to make it a plug-in hybrid (there is a plug-in hybrid version of my car, and I’ve been looking to trade-in for that, but I cannot find any within 250 miles of me).

Yep!

I’ve seen enough EV conversions to know it’s not rocket science. The instrument cluster just displays the values relayed to it over CAN bus, most of the sensors are the same as they are on a conventional ICE vehicle, and the only real difference is the powertrain. There’s some consideration for the battery placement and management, but that’s pretty much it. Leave the touchscreens in the backseat for the kids, and give me physical buttons to operate the vehicle.

You missed “synergize backwards overflow” but other than that, I think you hit most of the business buzzwords.

Maybe if they’d focus more on making them functional vehicles instead of smartphones on wheels, it would simplify that problem.

Thanks for this.

FYI: The Tesseract UI puts MBFC badges on posts with their bias/credbility ratings and provides a short report and link to the full report on their site.

I wonder how hard it would be to pull this list into a JSON file to use as an additional reference?

Trump still bragging about “acing” his cognitive test (the one he took to rule out dementia). Then had the gall to say “I’d like to see [Biden] take one”.

Really wish Dark Brandon would have come out to play. “Woman, Man, Camera, Podium. There. That’s what you keep bragging about”

It might be live on the CNN site? I’m watching the PBS stream on Youtube since the CNN embed video refuses to load and kept crapping out.

Q: Will you accept the results of the election, regardless of who wins?

Trump: “…and all they want to talk about is a relatively small number of people who went to the capitol”

So far, he’s twice refused to answer the question.

🫡

Be sure to tip your fact checkers, people.

He’s just adding “black” to his earlier immigrant fear mongering spiel. He spewed the exact same thing to an earlier question, but he just added “black” jobs and “Hispanic” jobs to that version.