That’s my roots. Maybe that’s why it appeals to me.

Clear, concise, and with respect. That seems exceptional for a modern parent.

Yeah, it’s funny. But, OP, please tell him he’s awesome for me.

Summary of cause: It’s unusually low forecasted load demand, 13-35% normal, paired with transmission lines that route excess to other geographics being down for maintenance.

US: Nothing effective is legal. As soon as a means is demonstrated to be effective Congress passes a law preventing future occurrences. In our late stage capitalism, a specific means being illegal is an indicator that the means is effective.

An “illegal” solidarity strike means the solidarity workers will not be guaranteed job protections. They cannot be compelled to work or criminally indicted. But, they can be fired. Solidarity striking workers should immediately begin job hunting.

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The US incarnation of capitalism has obviously failed. I’m all for revolution. But, I’ve no doubt that the vast majority of society would willingly give up their freedom, once again. Humans have been doing the same thing for millennia.

In the US during WW2 employers couldn’t keep employees because of wage competition. This made war production extremely inefficient and slow. The War Labor Board instituted wage ceilings for critical jobs. But, they allowed employers to compete with health benefits. Employment and healthcare became intertwined.

After WW2 the War Labor Board was dissolved and wage ceilings removed. FDR, who’d proposed and implemented The New Deal and led us through WW2, proposed the Second Bill of Rights aka the Economic Bill of Rights:

• Employment

• An adequate income for food, shelter, and recreation

• Farmers’ rights to a fair income

• Freedom from unfair competition and monopolies

• Decent housing

• Adequate medical care

• Social security

• Education

This would’ve disaccociated employment and medical care. However, FDR was labeled a socialist and authoritarian, demonized. We the People bought into the propaganda.

That’s how it’s been for eighty years: The leftists propose the same platform FDR did. And, they’re told to shut up for disturbing the idiots running in fear of one bad choice or another. All that’s changed is the efficiency and effectiveness of the hegemony’s propaganda.

Cardassisn optolythic data rod.

There you go again caring about which political party takes credit. Repeating the same fallacy over and over again only works on idiots, meaning the vast majority of humanity. See: The Engineering of Consent (1947), The Manufacturing of Consent (1988).

Think more, reactionary. It’s not rocket science. It’s not even algebra.

All this anti-third party logic fails as soon as the goal is outcomes regardless of which political party ends up taking credit. Just 5% of the GE puts another platform on every ballot in the next cycle. And, that immediately places immense pressure upon the duopoly.

It’s so simple there’s now a massive amount of state-sponsored propaganda trying to prevent too many from figuring it out.

All the lukewarm attempts to help, rooted in shallow understanding, reinforced my suicidal ideation. What’s the value of false love from a paid hotline worker one will never speak to again? It’s negative.

Be ready to love the shit out of someone yourself. Share their sorrow. Don’t try to fix it. Just try to understand. It’ll fucking suck. The other person knows it sucks for you. Tell them it sucks and that you’re choosing it.

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You don’t like it when you sincerely communicate nuance and are met with silent rejection? Only drug users ramble in such a manner. Don’t be so sensitive. The twelve steps are here if you want them. /s

I enjoy being “randomly” selected for further screening for five flights in series and having my balls fondled in public.

Also, post is not a genuine question.

I’ll answer yours in good faith.

what else do you expect them to do? Sit and politely agree?

Internally reach consensus to segregate themselves, then brigade the fediverse whole with content that allowed the majority to believe it was their choice.

Because such actions are well outside of status quo want for bandwagon validation they’re by definition “insane” and “unexpected”. But, the hexbear community is well aware that the majority is better off not yet knowing what they believe. Many expected such actions as it was an obvious moral and ethical imperative that lacked internal leadership support.

US Democratic voters unwilling to recognize systemic faults, perceive how they apply to their chosen politicians, or reason their way to incremental action beyond voting and virtue signaling. They’re the third of the country that watches while one third kills another third.

I’m a wilderness hiker, climber, skydiver, and ride a motorcycle. I’d not ask another skydiver how to protect myself when climbing. They could guess. But, they’d know so little that their advice could easily be dangerous.

OP, ignore everyone who’s not riding horses. Seek specialized guidance rather than general.

Do you understand how insane it is to have the aggregate of all human knowledge — the only comparable thing once being a physical library

I’m learning to build a house. The internet is useless. The pile of 1980s books in my FIL’s basement is teaching me the vast majority. The internet could be a wonderful thing. But, it’s primarily profit optimized bullshit. The only exception I’ve found is video-based basic computer science instruction.

Politics and News on .world. They seem to think that everyone that doesn’t agree wholeheartedly with whatever their politicians say is a fascist. They’re unable to discern left from right.

It’s also neato how whenever I take issue with FlyingSquid or Roki, both mods, my posts are soon voted to exactly -10. Lazy coders.