Bro’s legit out here thinking there’s some sort of meaningful wealth redistribution instead of winner takes all for the few, abject poverty for the rest.

Can’t he just do what America is known and loved for? … Denying entire countries their basic human rights, sovereignty, and democracy?

I legit think the state/oligarchy will kill him silently. Taking it to trial and giving this guy a voice could make things so much worse for them. They’re afraid of creating a robin hood, and class solidarity; of giving the working class a hero and cause to rally around.

They’re so close to creating a robot army that can suppress the masses. They just have to bide their time until revolution is impossible.

While most work is hard, and I dunno how bespoke this gig is, there’s a massive difference between a generic fry “cook” and a restaurant line cook/chef.

Most fry cooks, like a Macdonald’s, are a finely tuned production line where most of the food is pre-prepped and premade (most of the “cooking” is done in a factory). The “cooks” in those roles usually just assemble the pre made components, and in the case of fast food, have finely tunes tools to serve their generic menu.

A restaurant cook/chef requires significantly more attention to detail, skill, flexibility, and knowledge because most of the food is made from scratch, using raw ingredients, which is why there are culinary schools. Real restaurants can’t succeed with a kitchen full of deep fryers and teenagers pushing buttons. Naturally, the expectation is that they should be paid more because it requires more skill, knowledge, effort, and dedication.

Yet none of them really paywall you for using an adblocker.

Actually come to think of it, porn sites are the only place I allow ads (obv blocking the pop ups and other dark pattern fuckery)… probablys because I learned to ignore them entirely as a teen before ad blockers existed.

I’m happy to say that nobody in my family ever really code switched.

The closest was my WW2 vet grandfather responding to my disdain for nuking Japan with the higher amount of civilians killed by firebombing… but in a non-racist matter-of-fact kind of way. My disdain never stopped, but I did learn that there is no such thing as a moral or just war; only some sides are more moral and just than others, and each create hell on Earth trying to win it.

I’m not suggesting we abandon those ideals in the slightest. I’m suggesting we acknowledge reality as it truly is, hold the charlatan virtue signalers and criminals accountable — whoever they are — and start creating the ideal world we all thought was possible.

Be the person your dog thinks you are… but to everyone, including yourself!

It’s depressing, but the reality we were taught to believe never really existed. All of these aspirations were virtue signals taught to us by a capitalist oligarchy whose politics, policies, laws, wars, economics, and judicial system always clearly displayed otherwise with their actions.

It started with the virtue signal of “all men are created equal”; shitting all over non-landowners, women, and blacks.

The question isn’t if the emperor has clothes or not. The question is what we the people are going to do about it… probably nothing… also depressing.

So you can doom scroll faster… duh!

The millions of free porn sites would beg to differ…

When he declared Nov would be the last election, and winning it meant they wouldn’t have to worry about elections again, he meant it!

He’s doing exactly what he said he would do.

In reality, fuck you! There are no rules for the oligarchs, because you live in a corporate dictatorship. What you gonna do about it peasant?

Their laws are worth less than the paper they’re written on. Fuck em. He’s old enough if he gets enough votes. We’re already letting millions of mentally ill fascists elect criminally corrupt sociopaths.

Those are functionally equivalent? The consequences are nearly identical, so what’s the difference?

The fact it was an R told me everything I needed to know — that the accused SS agent is not corrupt (or corrupt enough) for fascists to utilize, so they’re scapegoating him as the “deep state”, and will replace him with a true believer.

The entirety of MSM is literally owned by the oligarchy who wants to remove the risk that democracy represents to their power and replace it with their preferred flavor of corporate plutocratic dictatorship.

They will never be fair and balanced until they are split into a thousand tiny pieces and restructured as non-profit journalist-owned and operated co-ops.

Don’t forget the part where they ideologically oppose the gov and claim that “free market” for-profit economics of corporate dictatorship will cure what ails ya.

If they do their jobs and don’t actively sabotage the gov people might figure out the grift; that they are greedy narcissistic criminals financed by private for-profit interests to destroy democracy and extract wealth from the people…

It’s just another day in the plutocracy that has probably run things the entire lifetime of “democracy”.

The only difference is with MAGA the plutocracy no longer need to hide behind lobbyists, campaign financing, super PAC’s, nepotism/cronyism, quid pro quo, virtue signaling about national security, etc to engage in corruption, loot the public coffers, and divert trillions to their own companies or cronies in the MIC or whatever.

The conservative propaganda machine has now successfully groomed and cultivated a mentally ill cult, who will let their king insert a microchip into their brains without a second thought… Hell, they’ll probably hand over their life savings for the privilege.

The entire internet backbone is fiber optic cables, so most data is already transferred using “beams” of light.

This is what computers do on either end of the fiber optic cables to transmit the data; except billions of times faster, using multiple “colors” (wavelengths) and similar tricks with light to stream as many 1’s & 0’s as fast as possible.

I doubt that would be terribly relevant. The lions share of the surplus energy should be predictable based on recent grid data + 24 hour weather forecasts.

Based on nothing but wikipedia the primary methods for desalination are distillation (boiling) and membrane; neither of which sound like ramp up time would matter.