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  • While I am generalizing about your average rabidly proud MAGA Tesla driver, I'm not saying that every Tesla driver is a Nazi.

    Your original comment:

    Tesla has become the official automobile brand of magastan. When you see one rolling down the road, or more likely stuck in 2 inches of snow, at least you'll know where its owner stands on things like equality and the new national norm of fascism.

    You're the one who just pivoted into the Nazi word use. Your original comment was clear. If you call for a false dichotomy, don't be surprised when "true patriots" push back as that rhetoric is what fascists use. I don't want you to drag the rest of us down with you.

  • I'm going to break this response down.

    Lots of rage here, but you know the right answer.

    Are you just trolling? No rage, I'm simply pushing back against people who paint people like me as "fascists and fascist supporters" with a broad brush and encourage others to do the same. They're actively making my life worse.

    I won't even dignify "you know the right answer" with a response.

    I'm a federal employee in the process of losing my career over this shit.

    I see you missed that I'm LGBTQIO+. I'm not cishet. I'm in fear for my life and the lives of my partner and friends, so I'm fleeing the country and starting over, hoping the next place doesn't want me to die at some point too. Sorry about your job though.

    Your last paragraph is just a big, lazy strawman that similarly suggests you never bothered to understand my previous comments before responding. I wasn't going to respond to it as I'm now quite sure you're just rage baiting at this point, but then realized someone on the fence about thinking like this might be reading.

    I've been actively protesting the US decline into fascism for over thirty years. I'm a scientist that worked in public health. I'm disabled and am a disability advocate. I am this "true patriot" you pretend I'm blaming with the radical notion that we...checks notes... not assume everyone who drives a particular vehicle that has been sold for over a decade is a Fascist or fascist supporter since the CEO went mask off as a neo-Nazi in the last few months. That clearly means I'm "hating the haters" and "blaming the true patriots". Clearly.

    Edit: just noticed my laptop is still logged into my old .world account. Oops!

  • Seconded, I use a Define 7 and it's fantastic. Best big black box I've ever owned.

  • So Google Search, even back in 2000, was an AI?

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    *designed in the Ukraine but assembled and shipped by our "trusted Chinese partners"**.

    ** partnership also first formed last week, sight unseen.

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  • Bingo. My first table saw was a heavily used Ryobi direct drive. It was noisy at hell and hard to use with precision, but it only cost $25 and helped me figure out if I wanted to get into woodworking or not.

    Seriously, if you're just getting into this, you don't need to drop $1000+ on a SawStop. If you have the money, fuck yeah, get one. If not, just use proper technique, tools, and PPE. Be extremely careful as even the cheapest, most underpowered saw will take multiple fingers off in less than a second. If you're not scared, get scared. I've been doing this for over a decade and my table saw still makes me wary. That's a good thing.

  • And they're all out of ideas!

  • Please stop spreading misinformation. You're on the internet. Kindly fact check yourself in the future. It's better for everyone, including you!

  • We had ours during the pandemic. While my friends and coworkers griped about toilet paper shortages, it was like having a hidden superpower.

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    If you don't know, I don't know if I'd suggest looking it up.

  • I looked up the page and it gets worse.

    You will need to shop for a car inverter. Find one that is at least 1,500 watts, and it will help you power your refrigerator for up to five hours—usually without damaging your car battery. Considering how much food we keep in our refrigerators, a $200 car inverter is a bargain!

  • Seriously. If these "media pros" are actually concerned, it appears my personal server adheres to higher standards than their industry.

  • I'd imagine an increasingly hostile world economy coupled with a then-looming but now beginning climate crisis might have a huge impact there.

  • I think a lot of the Internet is going to end up shitted up with this kind of nonsense. While leaving Reddit certainly tackles one issue, having a way to filter out the rest of this shit would be useful.

  • Socialism. When properly implemented, it has a fair amount in common with capitalism but you keep what you earn, the disabled aren't left to die, and billionaires aren't an option.

  • 🎶 Toxic marine threatened turtles, toxic marine threatened turtles, toxic marine threatened turtles. Revenge in a half shell, turtle chowder!🎶

  • Totally understandable, there's always a risk that a quick, snappy comment conveys the wrong meaning. My wording definitely could have been better, but I'm leaving it for posterity so future generations might learn to do better.

    And thanks to you too! Good conversation.

  • I agree with your point, but want to highlight that at no point did I suggest people can't be upset about multiple things. No offense intended toward you personally (or anyone really), but your response now seems to be the standard reaction to shut down anyone pointing out the disparity in media/public reaction between things like people dying or being repressed and material goods being vandalized or destroyed. It's getting better, but the theme of reporting tended to be that property damage is a tragic loss of irreplaceable treasure, while genocide was more akin to "some people went to sleep and didn't wake up again, maybe they should have complied".

    Of course people can be upset by multiple things. When the magnitude of upset over precious but ultimately replaceable things being destroyed is greater than that for irreplaceable people being destroyed, then we have a problem.

    At least that's my take and I'm anything but infallible.

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    People who park in the handicapped ramp boil my blood.

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    99% to passing the shopping cart test yet they failed right next to the goal.

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