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[–] socialmedia 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

What services does it connect to?

Edit: after I posted I saw in the summary that you're not sure whatserviceds it uses either. I wonder if there is a way to get the specifics from f-droid.

You might check out ironfox to see if it also has the same issues.

[–] socialmedia 32 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Its more than just foreign relations.

The reason for continuous military, space, energy and other development isn't just to push the state of the art, and its not just a jobs program. If you stop building things you forget how. You can still build something but it won't be nearly as good because the people who learned the mistakes the first time around have all retired. Or in this case fired.

We will have at least a 4 year gap when this is over.

Switching gears, do you think infrastructure will be funded? Falling 4 more years behind in maintenance isn't going to do any favors. This includes federally maintained dams and bridges, but also levees for storm protection near the coasts. Trump will throw you some paper towels after the next hurricane, then withdraw funding for FEMA.

How about the EPA? Are they going to continue to handle superfund sites? No? Well you can expect some real problems from this to bear fruit in a couple of years. Lawsuits against manufacturers doesn't bring your home value back, or stop the cancers.

I'm mentioning these things because while people are seeing the damage done by alienating allies, and that is concerning to some, this doesn't matter to trumps base, who have a particularly America centric viewpoint.

People need to be aware that the problems he brings aren't just foreign and that if something doesn't change soon there will be nothing left of the America they knew.

[–] socialmedia 21 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Be careful hosing it down or scrubbing it. Those radiator fins are delicate and shouldn't be bent or broken.

I won't say don't do it because I dunno, its probably fine. But watch a how to video or read up on it first. Just don't put a firehose on it.

[–] socialmedia 5 points 5 days ago

With Trump as president, I imagine any second now they'll be approved. Probably after they appoint the Boeing CEO as head of the FAA.

[–] socialmedia 13 points 5 days ago (7 children)

I will take away your healthcare.

I will take away your job.

I will take away your children.

I'll take away your children's protection from preventable diseases.

I'll ruin your children's education by firing most of the oversight and hiring an unqualified person to run the department of education.

I'll cause the things you need to buy to widely fluctuate in price due to tarrifs or the threat of tarrifs.

I'll undermine the government so much they can't get rid of me or my cohorts.

And also I'll boil your teeth. That was a fun one too.

[–] socialmedia 17 points 1 week ago

It used to be fully funded with the money paid into it. Your current contributions are supposed to be paying for your future security.

https://www.fedsmith.com/2013/10/11/ronald-reagan-and-the-great-social-security-heist/

[–] socialmedia 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

Just use something else on mobile. I use mull (until it becomes insecure because I think they stopped working on it) and fennec.

Fennec supports extensions and syncing so it should be okay for most use cases.

[–] socialmedia 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If its all normal shit that is totally needed to operate then why didn't they need an agreement before now?

[–] socialmedia 23 points 1 week ago (3 children)

America does have this actually. I think at one point in about 10 years ago it was like $500k. I believe they raised it to something higher but it was less than $5m though.

Trump probably either didn't know because the law doesn't apply to him, or this is just a fee increase disguised as a new program his sycophants will applaud.

[–] socialmedia 38 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Anyone who works directly for a Musk company should quietly start looking for another job.

People in unions should strike right now. People who aren't in unions should also strike, but I don't expect miracles.

This is the biggest asshole boss indicator. There should never be a situation where someone in power "jokes" about firing.

He needs a very quick financial lesson in not fucking with his employees. One week of work stoppage across every company he owns should do it.

[–] socialmedia 11 points 1 week ago

I'm not sure if this counts specifically as violating his oath of office, but he should be impeached now.

When that fails, they can call for a vote of no confidence in the speaker since they changed the rules to not require a majority, if I understood some of the drama last year. This will also fail.

But it stops being a public pity party and starts to hold people accountable. I want people to sign off on this crap. We need to have it documented who the traitors are.

Right now its just people telling the guy who is undermining our countries security and stability "Hey, you can't do that!". Then watching him do it anyway.

Fuck that. Write down on a piece of paper "Donald Trump is a fascist dictator and must be impeached.". Then vote for it.

[–] socialmedia 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Check this out:

https://global-power-plants.datasettes.com/global-power-plants?sql=select%0D%0A++sum%28capacity_mw%29%2C%0D%0A++primary_fuel%0D%0Afrom%0D%0A++%5Bglobal-power-plants%5D%0D%0Agroup+by%0D%0A++%5Bprimary_fuel%5D

Not sure if that link works correctly. This data is around 5 years old, but it shows the approximate power usage across the world based on the fuel.

If you restrict it to certain countries, like US, you'll see oil or gas is the number 1 fuel, and coal isnt that high.

But across the entire world coal is still the primary power source, by a huge amount.

I wish this project could be continued so we could get modern data. I know solar has exploded in popularity the last few years, but that might have changed nothing if the coal plants haven't been offlined.

https://github.com/wri/global-power-plant-database

That's the original project. Which ran out of funding and hasn't been updated in 3 years.

Anyway, I know this isn't quite on topic, but I think most people don't know where their energy comes from, even if they might have a vague idea. When they don't have the basic facts its easier for them to be sold on the idea of carbon capture.

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