I’ve had opnsense running for 7 years without a single issue. It might be the most reliable part of my whole setup.

It doesn’t help that the way these cams are rolled out involves just lowering speeds on roads that have had consistent speeds listed for decades , then dinging people who speed. On the internet you can find extremists of every type. Doing 11 over the speed limit is not in any way equivalent to doing 50 over, nor does lowering the speed limit on existing roads always lead to safety increases or accident reductions. It can sometimes , but the internet would have you believe that it always absolutely works, the 10s of millions cities gain in revenue from this doesn’t affect their deployment decisions of cameras at all, and someone doing 11 over the speed limit (often 9 under the former limit on that road) is a terrible human being.

It’s designed to be a wholly alternative reality that you have to subscribe to wholesale. There’s no easing into it.

No he’s suggesting he’s completely confused and is going to tune out.

You have to get increasingly creative to get grant funding in this environment.

Did they hit it?

I do think that Trump is the final metastisization of something that was already festering. I do think if not him, then someone.

This is absolutely true because Trump is fundamentally not a fluke, but rather the inevitable culmination of festering rot at the core of American culture. If not him, it would have been someone.

https://youtu.be/ks2fVj_pMXk

As long as the luxury space communism is gay, I’m happy.

A lot of the remainder speak at least passable English too but answer no out of spite.

No because statistically most of those roles will be played by Gary Oldman.

Asimov also had this concept baked into the foundation series. “Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent”.

And conservative media has convinced half of America that all politicians are corrupt, and liberal politicians are more corrupt than conservative politicians, so that the left has no moral basis to accuse the right of corruption.

I believe this was the whole (or most of) the explanation at one point, but here in Trump’s second term I simply don’t believe it. The evangelicals who support Trump have long since simply made their peace the hypocrisy - he is God’s instrument no matter how personally flawed. Much of the rest of his base see hypocrisy as a sign of strength - yeah we condemn stuff and then do it ourselves , and we win anyways. Wtf are you going to do about it loser?

Your whole explanation seems like a post-hoc rationalization based on the increasingly untenable assumption that most people are genuinely good if you just get past all the noise. Evidence suggests that people will gladly vote for a wretched person like Trump if they think it means they’ll pay $50 less in taxes, all else be damned.

Trump is the culmination of long-festering sicknesses in American culture, not just the result of a media scam that just happened to bear fruit now.

So that when some friend or family member repeats a “gotcha” like “but you flew to Dublin for an environmental conference, lol” you can respond with “Yes, and I offset that consumption with x, y, and z, and I signed a petition to make next year’s conference virtual, and” etc, etc, etc. Show that the environment matters to you morally and that you are trying to do the right thing.

Most of the public opinion on this isn’t former through personal conversations with climate activists. It’s formed through mass consumption of the media, and the information environment currently maintained by the corporate media environment will never allow for that much context. Even if they mention carbon offsets momentarily they’ll follow it up with a 20 mins opinion segment from some lunatic just giving his opinion about how hypocritical it is regardless.

The average American does understand hypocrisy and morality.

Even if they understand it, they certainly don’t care about it enough to vote based on it.

Drinking anti freeze to resist being sprayed with liquid nitrogen is peak too.

Also I knew I could never be an actor when I tried to do the line “you gotta leave. Now.” in the same intonation as Chris Lloyd but couldn’t.

Suburban commando starring early 90s Hulk Hogan, best enjoyed on the original VHS .

Congrats guys you found a way to make a dating app with an even more skewed sex ratio.

True, but it prescribes rule by one party (the party of the proletariat) alone. In any possible practice this rule can only be held by a party that claims to represent the proletariat, a claim that may or may not be true at any given time.

It’s not “just democracy” when it explicitly prescribes a one party state.

mandates the implementation of direct elections on behalf of and within the confines of the ruling proletarian state party

The democratic part is only within the ruling party, the one that claims to represent the proletariat.

The CCP’s authoritarianism stems in part from their attempt to implement the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. The concept itself is pretty weird.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictatorship_of_the_proletariat