Cyrus Draegur

May her body reach room temperature expediently.

thank you for understanding the intended tone (and kinda just a little bit making my day :3)

EVs have no gears

GOOD THING THESE AREN’T GEARS THEN, FUCKO
THEY’RE MODE SELECTIONS

EVs do, in fact, Park.
EVs can, in fact, Reverse.
EVs must, in fact, need to be capable of rolling free (Neutral) and it would be BETTER if you could do that by disconnecting the drive train to eliminate the risk of the “regenerative braking” system overloading its electrical system and making the battery explode.
EVs furthermore OBVIOUSLY Drive.

“Low” in the traditional sense is clearly not necessary, obviously, but it could be nice to have a mode selection for what people have sometimes described as “single pedal driving” where regeneration is configured so aggressively that letting up on the accelerator pedal will cause the car to decelerate rapidly without the need to touch the brake pedal.

yo SAAAAAAAAAAAME
and also actual fucking buttons switches knobs and dials for HVAC and media control
not to mention a normal fucking PRNDL shifter for selecting how I want it to move
why is this so gods damned much to ask for -_-

remember to NEVER DONATE TO THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AT LARGE EVER AGAIN so they can’t use our money to oppose the candidates we actually WANT.

Donate Surgically.

Cap in the back, low-key up front. Got it.

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it’s the ‘first they came…’ poem.

Well, that’s the thing, they encode the data of the security chip such that it’s a type of “media” whose “content” unlocks the functionality and copying the written media content is how they legally frame it as a tortuously stretched “violation of copyright”

they’ll make smaller shittier batteries that die more quickly so that they can charge more to replace them and put proprietary control chips inside them so either third party manufacturers of better batteries will have to “violate copyright” in order to make them work or YOU’LL be required to “violate copyright” to make them work, thus locking most people without the technical skills to circumvent the ‘security’ into only buying the shitty ‘official’ batteries until MORE regulation comes along to make them cut that shit out. In the mean time they’ll be blaming the regulations for the shittiness they adopted.

compulsory voting that attempts to actively single out and punish people for not participating, for instance, I believe WOULD result in them voting, out of spite, for the worst possible option. But if it’s more like, any plurality “victory” has a big asterisk showing how they were vastly outnumbered by the people who didn’t choose to pick a side, and that their momentum should be slowed proportional to how many weren’t motivated to agree with them as a check/balance, might have a cooling effect on the proverbial “hot temper” of their technical marginal win. That, yes, they can proceed with the planning and legislation but a sword of damocles in the form of an instant referendum if those who didn’t vote suddenly make a decision in light of which way the wind is about to blow finally decide to weigh in.

Sort of like how many people after Kamala lost were like “wait whats a tariff?” “wait what’s this project 2025 thing??” “wait obamacare IS the affordable care act???” - it might not work out for major elections but for all the more local ones where policies are more immediately going to affect people’s lives, it would be prudent. Also, even if an election is no longer actively running, changing your own position on the ledger would be a clear communication of loss in the confidence of an administration… the visibility of which, alone, would be good for prosecuting forcible removals from office for individuals who prove themselves unfit. Like that so-called alleged “George” “Anthony” “Devolder” “Santos” If That Even Ever WAS His Real Name.

a problem with direct democracy is that it still only ends up measuring the plurality rather than the majority. Now, I’d be curious to see a system tested that counts the silence so that a vocal minority can’t always act with impunity as if all the people who WEREN’T heard simply don’t exist, whether they chose to abstain or were otherwise prevented from participating through systemic phenomena (or just being overwhelmed with life).

I don’t think we can rely on there being some sort of compulsory system that forces participation, but rather one that keeps in mind the rate of participation so that if only 10% of the population votes one way and 9% votes another way, that measly 10% doesn’t get to act as though they have some kind of mandate.

Rather I’d have liked some kind of non-crypto-sludge ledger system where your votes are pseudonymous–only YOU can be certain of the identity of your vote but you can SEE where it is in the system and you have the ability to CHANGE it if your understanding of the stakes evolves–such that realtime polling approaching any given decision’s deadline can actually be tracked and campaigns can have a better idea of what their blindspots are in terms of who they’re reaching and what information is actually having a measurable impact.

Authenticating the veracity of this information and ensuring some system that actually manages to serve as a functional fairness doctrine is a separate problem that also needs to be solved.

Mint has been nice

In your position I’d be donating some of that money that’s otherwise sitting around doing nothing. But then again, I avoid tv and streaming shows like the plague and have actual niche interests that inspire me. I see people struggling, feel a fundamental urge to help them, and sometimes DO when I can afford it… And that shit is like a DRUG to me. Generosity feels fucking amazing @_@ oxytocin, adrenaline, serotonin, dopamine, it’s ALL there!

Do you perhaps fathom how unhelpful and standoffish single word replies are? Conversation is an exchange. If you are not at the very least matching their verbosity and sharing information that is also related to what they’re saying, you’re giving them very little to work with.

But I usually have the opposite problem: my prose is purple as hell. I’m ridiculously verbose and I over share to an absurd degree.

Yes

Fatigue.

We’re too distracted by struggling to survive our small local daily struggles to even SEE the big picture.

If there’s a time bomb in the room ticking down before your eyes, yeah that’s a big deal. If, in that same room, you’re also being attacked by a pack of rabid dogs though, chances are you’ve stuck a pin in the whole “what about the bomb” thing.

And if there’s a sniper outside the room preparing to shoot you without even a moment’s notice that you KNOW is there and that you can’t even see AS WELL, all you can hope for us that all the moving around you’re doing to avoid being dragged down and torn apart by the rabid dogs will throw off their shots.

They have BLINDED US WITH TRAUMA.

Normal people are fighting for their lives on a daily basis JUST contending with their landlords, their bosses, their financial institutions, their utility expenses, their groceries. They don’t see the ways in which these challenges are driven by the federal government’s policies on a national scale.

there is nothing in there but two arms.

one of them is the United States government

the other one is the Samsung corporation.

if not for the arms inside it, the puppet would be a limp hollow tube of colorful cloth.

i mean, it sucks and it should stop, absolutely the United States should fuck off, but I’m saying that if/when it ever does, it won’t be pretty.

NO! Warrior EMPEROR! of the galactic empire! (very space opera!)

Oh yes! Talk to him about MULTILEVEL MARKETING! Hell, OP might even be able to sell him garbage and make some money on the side if he’s stupid and desperate enough!!!