Fifty-eight percent of GOP voters said in the new survey convicted felons should be allowed to become president if they are elected. YouGov noted that just 17 percent of Republicans held that opinion in April....
While I think it’s funny that the tough on crime crowd is rallying behind a convicted felon it’s important to remember that sometimes there ARE people who have been politically suppressed. Eugene Debs ran in 1920 for the socialist party. He’d been convicted for speaking out against WW1 at the time. He didn’t win, but he did run.
What I hope is that Trump just doesn’t win. His support goes way beyond simple constitutional rights or freedom of speech. These GOP voters are not REALLY saying convicted felons should be allowed to become president. They are saying TRUMP should be allowed to become president. It’s populist, slightly cultish, and entirely frightening. Due process means nothing, personality and whatever they personally view as “strength” are what matters to them.
Their morals didn’t really change though did they? :( They’ve always been what they are. It’s just that the words that come out of their mouths don’t line up with how they act or what they believe, or even reality, a lot of the time.
There was a vote that happened in my youth where two parties ended up with (Edit: NEARLY) identical amounts of votes in the house. In my voting district there was an independent running who was fairly popular with the city and we voted him in. The end result was that during legislation there was some vote where the yes/no vote was split perfectly even between the two major parties and our little independent became the deciding factor Edit: My memory was faulty. He forced it into a tie with his vote and the speaker of the house had to be the tie breaker. But the point still stands that his one vote had a pretty large implication.
This is a very niche and unlikely scenario (it did happen though, look up Chuck Cadman) but it was a very clear indication to me that yes, voting does matter. And every one single vote DOES count and make a difference.
Just like Hitler before him, Trump is benefiting from the fact that journalism is an incremental, daily business. Every day, reporters have to find something new to write or broadcast. Trump keeps saying dangerous and crazy things, but that’s not new. He’s said it all before. His impeachments and the January 6 insurrection...
They say a facility to liquefy 15 tonnes of byproduct hydrogen will also be built in North Vancouver and the project, called H2 Gateway, will create more than 280 jobs....
So it seems like there will be 3 hydrogen producing plants built which should use electrolysis to make the hydrogen, which makes sense in BC since we have so much hydro-electric power. They also mention one plant in North Vancouver which would be a byproduct hydrogen plant which means they are processing petro-chemicals and are siphoning off the hydrogen byproduct. That’s not great.
And if we wanted to electrify our transport fleet in british columbia why not string up catenaries and order some trucks like the ones Scania made for the German test of electric highways? This makes way more sense to me to power a grid that the trucks can use directly rather than using a lot of electricity to produce a mediocre amount of hydrogen to convert back into electricity?
In Europe they have these catenary systems figured out. They’ve been powering high speed rail with them for years. They could certainly handle a few rigs in Canada.
Yes Louis Brennan designed a gyroscopic monorail in the early 1900’s but there’s a reason it didn’t work out. Every car needs its own gyroscope which is a lot of dynamic components that need maintenance. A regular two rail train is much simpler and cheaper to operate. The idea these techbros have that everything is made better with individual pods is pretty wasteful when we already have better and cheaper solutions to virtually every problem they have tried to invent for us. Are we even super concerned about rural folks taking transit? By definition they are a small portion of the population and have the greatest need for personal transport. Where we need transit adoption is in urban areas with large populations who all want to drive their personal 2 tonnes of plastic and steel right into town and park it (for free obviously) in their own little parking space.
A gadgetbahn like this will only serve a limited population and won’t be able to tie into the existing transit network. There might be niche situations where it’s not a terrible idea but it is not a good generalized solution.
I’ve just started using Searxng… you expect it to die soon? Is it because you expect other search engines to follow suit until there are no search engines anymore, only hallucination machines?
I hope there’s enough of a market for non-ai content that it doesn’t come to that. I think we already reached the pushback stage with image generation.
Toronto already has some of the worst traffic in the world, and with construction season here, delays will be even more “unacceptable.” What’s the solution?
“Google issued a stern warning to its employees, with the company’s vice president of global security, Chris Rackow, saying, “If you’re one of the few who are tempted to think we’re going to overlook conduct that violates our policies, think again,” according to an internal memo obtained by CNBC.”
I’m looking to be able to store assets that I’ve created and purchased (both 3d models and images, potentially audio in the future) on my nas and would love to be able to use something to browse them and filter or sort them based on what kind of usage license I have for them. So if I’m doing a commission I can filter out...
That looks cool for 3d models but it doesn’t look like it supports 2d images as well? If I have to use a different program for 3d and 2d assets then I will def be looking at Manyfold/VanDAM
That looks cool! But my folder is already 18gb and is well over the 10gb of free storage they offer. Also self hosting is out of my price range for them.
Oh you know what I might have clicked on the on premise supported version and saw the price of $695 per month and noped out lol, thanks I’ll take a closer look. I see the git repository now.
Just outside St. Louis, in the inner-ring suburb of University City, there’s a little neighborhood often called the region’s unofficial Chinatown. Growing up in the area, it was one of my favorite places to be; reflective of the city’s diversity and vitality, it opened up the world to me. This past December, when I went...
GOP support for allowing felons to be president rises after Trump conviction: Poll (thehill.com)
Fifty-eight percent of GOP voters said in the new survey convicted felons should be allowed to become president if they are elected. YouGov noted that just 17 percent of Republicans held that opinion in April....
New recycling method makes solar cells even more environmentally friendly (arstechnica.com)
Pretty cool stuff.
German parliament will stop using fax machines (www.npr.org)
‘A dying empire led by bad people’: Poll finds young voters despairing over US politics (www.semafor.com)
Guys what is wrong with ACATS (www.bitsaboutmoney.com)
The Media Still Doesn’t Grasp the Danger of Trump (theintercept.com)
Just like Hitler before him, Trump is benefiting from the fact that journalism is an incremental, daily business. Every day, reporters have to find something new to write or broadcast. Trump keeps saying dangerous and crazy things, but that’s not new. He’s said it all before. His impeachments and the January 6 insurrection...
$900M project to create hydrogen plants, refuelling stops in B.C. (www.cbc.ca)
They say a facility to liquefy 15 tonnes of byproduct hydrogen will also be built in North Vancouver and the project, called H2 Gateway, will create more than 280 jobs....
Self-balancing commuter pods ride old railway lines on demand (newatlas.com)
Google is redesigning its search engine — and it’s AI all the way down (www.theverge.com)
Why anti-LGBTQ legislation in Africa is a western problem (www.gaytimes.com)
Elon Musk’s Neuralink reports trouble with first human brain chip (arstechnica.com)
Trans children could be 'forced to detransition' under leaked NHS England plans (www.thepinknews.com)
Toronto’s construction season traffic is ‘unacceptable.’ Is there a better way? | Globalnews.ca (globalnews.ca)
Toronto already has some of the worst traffic in the world, and with construction season here, delays will be even more “unacceptable.” What’s the solution?
Boeing is getting ready to send astronauts into space with their latest capsule (www.infoterkiniviral.com)
s it is ready to launch astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) in cooperation with NASA
Google fires 28 workers for protesting $1.2 billion Israel contract (www.nbcnews.com)
“Google issued a stern warning to its employees, with the company’s vice president of global security, Chris Rackow, saying, “If you’re one of the few who are tempted to think we’re going to overlook conduct that violates our policies, think again,” according to an internal memo obtained by CNBC.”
Streamlined system aims to connect people with family doctors (www.cbc.ca)
Looking for self hosted digital asset management
I’m looking to be able to store assets that I’ve created and purchased (both 3d models and images, potentially audio in the future) on my nas and would love to be able to use something to browse them and filter or sort them based on what kind of usage license I have for them. So if I’m doing a commission I can filter out...
Mega drive-throughs explain everything wrong with American cities (www.vox.com)
Just outside St. Louis, in the inner-ring suburb of University City, there’s a little neighborhood often called the region’s unofficial Chinatown. Growing up in the area, it was one of my favorite places to be; reflective of the city’s diversity and vitality, it opened up the world to me. This past December, when I went...
Donald Trump's lawyers may have made misrepresentations to the court regarding the former president's bond in his civil fraud case (www.rawstory.com)