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I use ostensibly a lot lately. Seems like an appropriate word for our times.

That’s the level of copium I’ve been mainlining since his heel turn. Like I didn’t want McCormick in the primary, and I definitely didn’t want fucking Oz, but this is pretty bad.

I feel like Fetterman knows his health is failing and he won’t run again, so he’s just selling out entirely. His initial support of Israel made sense with the demographics of Pennsylvania, but he’s gone too far to avoid losing in the next primary for anything statewide.

Not exactly. Like every good urban legend, there’s an element of truth to give it legs.

Tryptophan does metabolize into serotonin, some of which further metabolizes into melatonin, which can make you sleepy. But there isn’t more tryptophan in turkey than there is in other meats and some vegetables. It is an essential amino acid that you get from pretty much every meal that contains protein. Also, an overabundance of tryptophan doesn’t necessarily mean more seratonin or melatonin.

People get sleepy after eating a lot of turkey because their bellies are full of turkey (and probably stuffing and corn bread and mashed potatoes and gravy and pie and a few glasses of wine)

That’s actually a myth.

Except that’s not what they’re doing here. That might be the next step, but this is just reevaluating the recommended schedule of vaccines for children and adults. They are going to make it optional, and parents won’t be forced to vaccinate their kids to send them to public school. Most people will still get their kids vaccinated, but some communities won’t reach herd immunity levels and children will die.

From your lips to the ears of Elpis.

There will still be significant demand for childhood vaccines among people who aren’t vapid dipshits, and the price per dose will likely go up because people will be more desperate for them when all the outbreaks happen. Look at the demand for measles vaccines right now. 15 years ago, parents were like “Oh, yeah, I guess the kids probably need a booster maybe.” Now, those parents are like “Oh fuck, we need a measles booster because vapid dipshits are trying to kill everyone!”

I mean, it’s also entirely possible you’ve heard a failing magnetic drive, a humming battery, or a squeeky mechanical thing like brakes or bearings. Those are all strong indicators of a significant problem with the car, and should be fixed immediately. But if you hear it every time, as soon as the car starts moving in a parking lot, that’s the safety feature.

God that site is cancer on mobile.

Others have addressed your other questions, but I want to add that the “coil whine” that irritates you is probably the car’s slow-moving warning system. EVs are effectively silent at slow speeds because there is no engine noise or road noise, so they are required to make an annoying sound when maneuvering to get your attention. While it is an important safety feature, I agree some are very obnoxious.

Competition is good for the consumer. More options from more players will encourage more charging infrastructure and (ostensibly) more innovation. It’s not just Elon Musk vs China. Every automaker that wants to sell cars in the USA is on notice. If they want to compete in the EV subcategory, they need to focus on price and performance. People want budget-conscious EVs.

This is an easy case. Using published works to train AI without paying for the right to do so is piracy. The judge making this determination is an idiot.

Is this a slowpoke meme?

Is this tonight’s top story on the Nightly Olds?

Maybe it could be a headline in an oldspaper?

There’s a better one-liner there, but I’m not sure what it is.

It’s important to remember that it actually doesn’t matter if Garcia is guilty of any crimes. They might eventually prove that he committed treason, or murdered puppies, or raped someone, or some other crime actual Republicans have actually been convicted for without facing consequences. His guilt or innocence is not as important as the process we use to determine guilt or innocence. You’ve hit the nail on the head, but I think it’s bigger than anyone imagines. Without “innocent until proven guilty,” we literally have no laws. There are no legal foundations below that one, and everything is built upon it. It is to the law what thermodynamics is to cuisine. Without it, there’s nothing else. We could talk in theory about recipes (legislation), but you can’t heat or cool things. We could eat raw ingredients (natural law) but only if it doesn’t require refrigeration, that’s just eating naturally ocurring local food. You might think that’s a good thing, but a return to a state of nature is the opposite of civilization.

I always thought it was sort of a meta-allegory for Kirk’s plot armor. Like, for most people, there might be nothing at all you can do. Sometimes you do everything right, and you still lose. That’s reality.

Star Trek is fiction. Captain Kirk is mother fucking Captain Kirk. He will prevail, even when things seem bleak and hopeless. His losses will be temporary, and his victories sweeter because he never compromised his values to get them. His mistakes, however few and far between, will be opportunities for growth and self-reflection that will become critical during a subsequent event and help him prevail even harder next time.

The Kobayashi Maru was supposed to teach him humility in face of the stark realities of command. His response is to reject that reality and substitute his own. These are his voyages.

I’m in the same boat with you. I voted for him in the primary and I voted for him in the senate election. I gave money to that asshole.

But I don’t regret it because I voted for what I thought was the best option at the time. I voted for a progressive candidate against a centrist Democrat. I voted for a progressive candidate over a whackjob celebrity conservative. And I’ll keep doing that in every local, state, and national election, and candidates will know that’s the path to winning my vote.

I didn’t vote for the guy or the party, I voted for the platform, and next election I’ll be voting for someone else. This piece of shit won’t survive a primary challenge, and for that I’m optimistic.

She might have won the vote. Trump almost certainly cheated, exactly like he said he would. We should prove that Trump cheated so that we can prevent it from happening again, and so that we can punish the criminals that helped him in order to discourage future acts of treason against America.

But Harris still lost. She and the American public may have been denied a fair and democratic election, but an election happened and the results of that election were that she lost.

We need to focus on the first part, that Trump cheated and that we need to stop that from happening again. The argument about whether Harris was a good enough candidate, or enough people voted for her, or whether it was racism or sexism or some other factor that cost her the election, it’s all a waste of time.

America is diseased, and Trump is merely a symptom. This election shouldn’t have been close in any state, but the Democrats are so ineffective that it’s hard to imagine they’re really trying to win.

The waterproof IP rating is a misdirect. We had waterproof phones with replaceable batteries, they just weren’t required for most people. Batteries fail at a predictable rate, and decreasing or dead batteries are the primary reason people upgrade their phones.

Phone manufacturers wanted to seal their devices to make people buy a new phone when the battery dies. They started making a big deal about IP ratings, because it was a byproduct of gluing everything shut. But how often do you actually get your phone wet? Everyone has one story about dropping a phone in the toilet, or falling in a pool, but those instances are rare. not every phone will get wet or dusty, but every phone battery will die eventually.

The exploding phone was actually a lot less likely to break. Making the phone a rigid bar of glass and aluminum makes it more likely to be destroyed when you drop it.