My point stands. 10% loss against a woman. 9% against a black man. Let's take those 2018 numbers and not shoot ourselves in our own foot by doubling down. The electorate already spoke. If Beto had the closest numbers despite his shittery, let's get a more viable candidate without the sexist and racist baggage. I apologize, but it seems obvious to me.
Once again. This is Texas. I am perpetually disappointed by my state. But the numbers don't lie when it comes to a general election.
I've already voted for Beto multiple times. On the political scale the man was luke warm and because of ego and funding, we got jack shit. Give me the most milquetoast dem candidate possible so I can actually have a chance here. Beto fucked up one interview. Just one. And we are still recovering. I'll take the most basic ass bitch dem over "revolutionary" any day of the week in regards to Texas politics. Because the boring one may actually have a chance. This is not a paradigm changing situation. Hell I'd take newsom over here in Texas. And I fucking hate that guy.
Picking candidates in a primary is not about electability. It's about party representation. And it takes more than that to win an election, especially in Texas. This isn't a swing state where we get that sort of luxury. This is a fight where it's a 60/40 split in an average year. Cross over votes and mobilizing the independent demographic is our only chance.
If Crockett gets the nomination, I have low expectations of a dem victory. I see better odds where we can pick up the disgruntled Christian old school Republican vote. And talerico can do that. Crockett cannot.
Talerico is more electable by the simple fact that he is white and a male. He is inherently a bigger threat to the GOP in Texas.
This is fucking Texas. You don't want a firebrand because they will never get elected. This seat hasn't been held by a dem since LBJ for Christs sake.
You want the boring Christian white boy. And then you can build off of that.
Don't get me wrong. I like Crockett. But in a general election against a GOP party that has held this state in a stranglehold for the last thirty years, I'm voting on electability. Those independent voters are worth a hell of a lot more here.
Aw come on. You can put more effort into a rebuttlal than that. I used all those fancy words to explain my opinion. Don't just cop out and fold like that. It's lazy and trollish behavior.
I know as much as you do about it. All that either of us know is what we directly read in the article. And it has a clear bias and motive imo.
I never said they shouldn't seek funding. I'm calling out the article for being an obvious vehicle to solicit funding. They already published it. I don't opposed that. I oppose the method and hype train mentality exhibited.
It's true, the idea isn't utterly original, but I don't think it's meritless. But I'm not going to read into something like this article and fantasize this contraption as the ultimate solution to water scarcity in deficient locals.
Please don't mistake my skepticism for willful ignorance. But please do get off of your high horse
Nope. I havent. Never put any effort into it. But I do know a fluff piece when I see one. My point was, this isn't revolutionary tech. And it's not being rolled out all over the place either. They built it and rolled it out onto a Caribbean island. Is it actually scalable? Is it practical? We don't know. What I see is that it's part of a campaign piece to solicit funding. Fairly obviously too.
This is just building a better mousetrap. Sure, some good can come from it. I hope it does. But I'm not going to prop up every article that doesn't pass the sniff test. Cancer already would have been cured a thousand times over if you were to believe every article promising that "this is the fix we've been waiting for"
So my first thought is... This man made a dehumidifier... And yeah. He did.
Then it says it's powered by ambient thermal energy. Sounds cool.
A sloped tarp and a collection bottle in the early morning can do that.
I mean. I'll give him credit. 1000 liters from something the size of a shipping container isn't an insubstantial amount, but even the lowest tech can manage significant results at the right scale.
Give me some solar panels and a long line of consumer grade dehumidifiers.
Sufficient space was never the issue with extracting moisture from air.
Tal has a big up against crockett that will play big come the general election here in Texas.
Talerico is a white male. Crockett isn't. This is Texas we are talking about and, as disappointing it is to say, it will play a massive role in an already uphill battle. He's just more electable at face value for that fact alone.
I like both candidates, tal gets the edge for his funding methods to be sure, but the electability argument is a big one when you are talking about a Senate seat that hasn't been held by a dem since LBJ.
Don't need to decrypt anything if someone gets caught with an easy phone unlock or flips. End to end means end to end. With the size of some of the groups and potential to infiltrate, I would assume that the comms are already compromised to one degree or another. If you get one of the ends, encryption means nothing. I bet kash's FBI just doesn't know who has it yet.
If I recall correctly, you can, but it removes your node from the public networks everyone else is using because hams cannot use encryption for coms as part of the rules for ham operation, as the non ham network is encrypted by default. You would have to build a secondary network independent of the public node list.
Correct me if I'm wrong. But that was my understanding of the difference.
Oh it's a hundred percent just the novelty communication technology that is in vogue right now. I don't really know if it's a true zeitgeist technology or if someone with a lot of product to sell who is playing with the social media algorithm. But I guess I don't really care much.
The trick is to find a way to seize on that opportunity. Now that our mesh network is structurally sound and sufficient, I'm working on using a raspberry pi to automate our ham club meeting dates, testing dates, and field days, and then blast those messages once a week or so over the mesh network. That way, an impulse buy turns into the discovery of a fuctional network and afterwards, a random person can discover a whole local community of people with all sorts of new things to learn.
You can lead a horse to water. But you can't make him drink.
first you need a trough. That's the mesh network. After, the horse needs to be thirsty. That's the curiosity people have. information, the when and how and where, you can automate and passively tell them about. that's the water.
I've come to the realization that mesh nodes are little more than a gateway drug into the world of ham radio. And for that I'm grateful.
It's not as good, and does everything worse than radio. The only real world use I have found is for when cellphone networks get overwhelmed at things like music festivals and large sports games. No one else's texts go through, but I can toss by buds a node to put in their back pocket and we can stay in touch.
our local mature club is building our local mesh network out now as an introduction to the ham world. And it's working. It's getting the younger kids and adults through the door. And from there, it's an easy thing to get them interested in more useful and fun forms of communication.
My point stands. 10% loss against a woman. 9% against a black man. Let's take those 2018 numbers and not shoot ourselves in our own foot by doubling down. The electorate already spoke. If Beto had the closest numbers despite his shittery, let's get a more viable candidate without the sexist and racist baggage. I apologize, but it seems obvious to me.
Once again. This is Texas. I am perpetually disappointed by my state. But the numbers don't lie when it comes to a general election.