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Filling out a W4 is going more complicated too.

I read that earlier today and had to take some Tums.

Whatever happened to filling out your taxes on a postcard?

They'll be changing the size of postcards to accommodate this ...

Filling out a W4 is going more complicated too. Whatever happened to filling out your taxes on a postcard?

The estimated lifespans for modern EV batteries can be as high as 1 million miles. See the second table under https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... Most EV batteries will outlast the cars they're in. And where are you getting that $1000 figure from? The average sales price of a used car is about $20,000.

I mean, I can point to Pat Robertson as an example of the homosexuality stuff and the President of the United States for the immigrant shooting.

Can you provide a single prominent member of the left who advocated violence and bigotry of some kind?

You've got the SJWs I suppose. So lets see. On the right we have a religious leader with millions of followers and the POTUS openly advocating violence on national TV. On the left you've got a handful of annoying blue haired college girls that nobody listens to except the guys trying to get down their pants.

Then again, and I hate to admit this, if you're trying to get down the pants of a blue haired college girl she seems like she's got a lot more power over your life than Robertson or POTUS...

Okay so to "revolutionize farming" what percent of crops need to be grown indoors under artificial light and what is the financial and environmental cost of that? I support progress and things like geothermal greenhouses if they reduce energy used in shipping. If you put a greenhouse partially in ground and use an air intake buried underground you can grow things that would be otherwise shipped in. Even if you supplement the lighting a bit that might be a win but I don't see how this revolutionizes agriculture in a sustainable way.

https://www.usatoday.com/story...

A woman can have multiple partners, become pregnant, and pick which one she wishes to raise a child with.

Not sure which country you are in but in the UK that isn't the case. In the event that you are wrongly named as the parent of a child you can request a DNA test, and if the mother refuses then you are deemed not to be the father.

In order to get a DNA test you of course have to suspect that you are not the parent first. But if you do, there is pretty much nothing the mother can do to avoid the DNA test other than to accept you have no legal obligation to pay maintenance.

I'm in the USA. I'm not certain where you get your information from, but we have a lot of men paying child support for children that are not theirs biologically.

https://www.abc15.com/news/nat...

Florida: https://www.myfloridalaw.com/c...

In 2014, a rape victim was forsce to pay child support! https://www.usatoday.com/story...

He was 14, she was 20. She raped him, became pregnant, and the law says that he must support the child that his rapist mothered.

Here's Wikipedia on the subject : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Now if you want to know why a lot of men are pissed, we live in a country where bullshit like punishing rape victims is sancioned by the threat of jail time as long as they are males, and as I wrote, you can be forced to support a child that your wife just felt like fucking someone else for fun. It's real, and it carries the force of law. The only part the internet plays is giving us the links to the examples.

Naaa, they just work for the FBI https://www.usatoday.com/story...

Normally, I would disagree with the following quote:

The ranking Democrats say paper ballots are "basic necessities" for a reliable voting system, but the companies still produce machines that don't produce paper results.

But if these vendors can't even patch their systems, I don't trust them to implement an auditable system that guarantees privacy based on a solid understanding of modern crypto.

So, sadly, paper ballots seem necessary in 2019.

Yup, that is true. As things stand people can ... oopsie daisy, wipe the database containing the key voting data whenever it is convenient: https://eu.usatoday.com/story/... Kemp's explanations sound hard enough to believe as it is. If there were paper copies he'd really have to stretch to explain why the paper copies accidentally caught fire and burned to ashes in an old old oil drum in the yard behind his office the very same day the database was wiped.

Just to play devil's advocate, I think he was citing this article: https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/columnist/cox/2018/12/26/aviation-review-record-number-passengers-flights/2375060002/

Sounds like a lie to me, how much more completely can one apologize?

https://theintercept.com/2019/...

Will you apologize for your lie?

Quick reminder of what we're stacking this up against:

https://www.usatoday.com/story...

I think whistling and looking the other way from that kind of thing, calling the recognition of Islamophobia as being just as bad as anti-Semitism "watering down," is disgusting.

Given that Mueller spent two years and tens of millions of dollars checking on things like that with no resulting charges against anyone

Other than 23 people?

You also have more hackable cars.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/driveon/2019/02/06/your-car-might-hackable-heres-what-cybersecurity-experts-say/2777300002/

Perhaps the highest-profile car hacking occurred in 2015 when security researchers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek hacked into a 2014 Jeep Cherokee and were able to control the steering wheel, disable the brakes and shut down the engine.

Already, many modern non-autonomous vehicles that are on the road today are drive-by-wire and are susceptible to complete remote takeover.

I've yet to read anything about how autonomous car manufacturers are protecting their systems against hacking.

According to a report by USA Today, Oracle has a history of discriminating against job applicants who are American citizens. The managers prefer foreigners, whom the lawyers at Oracle help to get H-1B visas.

We should scrutinize the layoff to determine whether American citizens are overrepresented among the terminated employees.

Clearly, the other 1.99999 million of them just suffered from bad luck, like Venezuela is currently experiencing. As Heinlein wrote:

Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.

This is known as “bad luck.”

It is an SUV not a hatchback. Even Teslarati proclaims it an SUV. And it's curved roof and door compromise it's role as an SUV. Apparently, based on your statement, because of battery constraints. So better to make it a poor SUV, than come out with something that does 225 miles - but has a usable interior (in terms of square shape). Better to do a BMW X6-style body that is universally derided as useless - poor for a car, and unusable as an SUV.

which she never claimed

She sure as fuck did.

Warren's 1986 registration card for the State Bar of Texas could put an end to all that. The Washington Post obtained a copy of the signed document in which she wrote that her race was "American Indian." This supports the two critical charges against her: that she knowingly and personally claimed Native American heritage, and that she did so for the purpose of career advancement.

the Mueller investigation continues apace with multiple convictions and indictments. It's even profitable. And China-Gate is just getting started.

The whole of the USA has had a "mild" winter?
https://www.usatoday.com/story...

every school is on anti-bullying initiative

I remember those. They used them to punish me for fighting back against bullies.

every teacher and parent is hypervigilant about all kinds of nonsense issues (i.e. stranger danger)

Well of course the teachers want to protect their students from strangers. Mostly so they can molest them themselves.

Lemon Laws typically require that there be a problem with the car.

Every car Tesla builds is a lemon.

Stop and Frisk in Toronto was one of the main drivers of crime downwards. Since Toronto stopped this in high crime areas, the crime rates are screeching ever higher now.

For others who are reading this and modding it up, a bit of perspective.

The Stop and Frisk version in Toronto was known as Carding, and had problems. It targeted blacks disproportionately.

Read and watch these:

DocZone: Stop and Frisk

What You Need to Know About Carding

You also make it sound that Toronto is a kill zone. Yes, murder rate has gone up, and is the highest in Canada, but compared to cities in the USA, it is nothing.

Baltimore has 56 per 100,000, and Chicago had 23.8 per 100,000 in 2016.

Toronto's worse year in a decade (2018) is 96 murders for 2.8 million people, so 3.4 per 100,000, and that is up from around 2 previously.

But...but... a group of cute kids said we HAVE TO DO THIS NOW. And that's good enough for me!

Tesla still has a long way to go, but when Ford recalls nearly 2 million vehicles.... I dunno...I guess when Ford recalls 2 million vehicles I'm glad I drive a Chrysler.

You are aware that Chrysler is generally at or near the bottom of the quality rankings and that they have numerous huge recalls of their own... right?

So Ford just recalled 1.8 million vehicles which nearly equals their annual production of 1.9 million vehicles.

Umm... You might want to check your figures. Ford sells more than that in the US alone each year with global production around 6 million per year.

Most adults don't wear brightly colored sports shoes as normal daily footwear.

If you want any sort of sports wear, you get Nike. As one Colorado store owner found out when he decided not to stock Nike products, if you don't have Nike, you don't really have a sports store. They have exclusive contracts with the NFL, for instance, you can't stock NFL wear without buying Nike products.

"As much as I hate to admit this, perhaps there are more Brandon Marshall and Colin Kaepernick supporters out there than I realized,” said Martin [after announcing the closure of his store].

adequate

I don't think that's how I would describe the care given by the VA.

The industry, points out AFL-CIO's secretary-treasurer Liz Shuler, boasted sales 3.6 times greater than those of the film industry in 2018, yet much of that financial success isn't felt by the developers working on the games that generate those billions.

So let's take a look at that. How has unionizing helped income equality in the film industry? Apparently not much, as two of the five companies with the worst CEO to median worker pay ratio are film studios, and a third is a TV studio.

If you look through that list, you get the sense that the presence of robust competition within the industry is the important factor, not unions. About a third of the companies on that list enjoy IP monopolies (copyrights, patents) or regulatory monopolies (ISPs). And several of the remainder have close to a natural monopoly.

Reminds of various stories where fans were disappointed:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nba/2016/12/15/lebron-james-no-show-stings-fans-grizzlies-cavaliers/95460652/
https://www.cleveland.com/cavs/index.ssf/2017/03/lebron_james_kyrie_irving_defe.html
https://news.abs-cbn.com/sports/12/15/16/nba-lebron-james-fan-left-disappointed-after-cavs-rest-star

https://www.usatoday.com/story...

If I'm Reading this right, about 15% of American adults smoke these days, compared to about 42% of adults in 1942. Granted, this story is about teenagers that will soon be adults, and a million more than expected is not a number to be scoffed at, but really when we start getting numbers down that low, I don't know how much more outrage is necessary. The number is never going to be zero percent, no matter what the Puritans wish.

I'm surprised it's as high as 15%. I almost never see people smoking anymore- and vaping is pretty rare around here.

If I'm Reading this right, about 15% of American adults smoke these days, compared to about 42% of adults in 1942. Granted, this story is about teenagers that will soon be adults, and a million more than expected is not a number to be scoffed at, but really when we start getting numbers down that low, I don't know how much more outrage is necessary. The number is never going to be zero percent, no matter what the Puritans wish.

https://www.usatoday.com/story...

Topping the list of items found polluting our beaches and waterways were 2.4 million cigarette butts, which contain plastic filters. That was followed by 1.7 million food wrappers and 1.6 million plastic water bottles.

Forgot about cigarette butts. And that is one of the major polluters. First world nations may be cutting back on this product, but that is not necessarily the truth in third world nations.

"Lawmakers said they were concerned about the effect on the company's 50-acre facility after seeing a Department of Homeland Security map showing a barrier running through what they described as a launchpad..."
Does it? Let's check this out: As you can see on the wiki about the South Texas site ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ) and a map of the site from SpaceX https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... show that the launch sites (ostensibly the "pads") are just south of Brazos Island State Park pretty much right on the coast, with the control center buildings almost directly west of them. The launch area is about 2.8 miles north of the Rio Grande, which is actually the border (but the Trump wall wouldn't of course be precisely in the river, it would logically be set back somewhat).

Yet https://www.usatoday.com/borde... USA today says:

The Texas fencing is full of gaps.
The border fence begins in Texas, but it's miles inland from the border's edge at the Gulf of Mexico. Elsewhere, fences start and stop with huge gaps in between. This is all pedestrian fencing, pictured in red on the map, designed to stop people from crossing

...with the diagrammed fence just east of Brownsville, complaining that the proposed fence starts "miles inland from the Gulf of Mexico"...ie 10-12 miles from the SpaceX site, and nearly 15 miles from the pads themselves.

So the USA today map and overflight show that the proposed border wall starts at least a dozen miles from the plotted site of the SpaceX facility.

Someone's astonishingly wrong or lying deliberately.

I sure as fuck hope someone loves these two guys, because they need something: https://eu.usatoday.com/story/...

Many sad cases, but not this one. Sure, they may not be guilty of raping this woman. According to the article, they dealt drugs with her boyfriend though. With all the people dying from drugs, dealing is not some innocent occupation. Convicted for the wrong reason, but not the people I'd like to see out among us anyway.

Like all the murderers

Someone loves this guy: https://www.thelocal.de/201505...

rapists

I sure as fuck hope someone loves these two guys, because they need something: https://eu.usatoday.com/story/...

robbers

If only someone had loved this woman who so clearly deserved to be in jail: https://www.wsbtv.com/news/tre...

violent criminals

It feels very likely that this chap's family loves him: https://www.foxnews.com/us/con...

criminals don't do those sorts of things, do they

Yes. Most criminals are productive members of society. Shit, you're a criminal too - good luck getting through the week without breaking the law.

so they can be looked after like little babies

Yeah, American prisons are all about loving care, afternoon naps and breast feeding.

make our neighbourhoods shitholes

The people living in a neighbourhood make it good or bad. You live in yours; guess who makes it a shithole.

I'm with the professor on this one, let them lead by example and stop using air conditioning in government office buildings.

This is a plethora of marketing doublespeak. Here's one gem I've seen before:

In a letter to the FCC on Monday, T-Mobile CEO John Legere made a personal pledge to regulators that the "New T-Mobile" would not raise prices on its service following the merger

They won't raise prices following the merger. No. They'll wait 3 whole minutes and then raise prices in a completely unrelated way.

This entire pledge is devoid of content. How about putting some measurable numbers on that? How about "not raise prices on its services in the 12 months following the merger".

How does 3 years sound?

T-Mobile promises not to raise prices for 3 years if Sprint merger is approved

T-Mobile CEO John Legere typically proposes deals to wireless consumers. Now he is offering one to the Federal Communications Commission.

If the FCC approves the telecom company's $26 billion merger with competitor Sprint, T-Mobile will put price increases on hold for three years, Legere said in note sent this week to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai.

You don't need road service because you've changed tires since flats were much more common. You even go back to when bias ply tires were common (as do I). Things are different today:

https://www.usatoday.com/story...

Lying to congress always has got people in trouble.

There's *lots* of people who have lied to congress and not gotten in trouble. Remember this guy https://www.usatoday.com/story... Sorry but Trumps main crime is that he wasn't the establishments choice. He certainly has his faults but to pretend that Hillary would stand up to scrutiny is to forget the email server issue that would have landed any 'normal' person in jail no questions asked. Note that this is not so much to excuse Trump as to say that *all* guilty parties need to be locked up. I personally love the bipartisan approach of locking up both the Clintons and the Trumps.

Americans are making 20% less than they used to (article says "Millennials" but I don't know about you but I took a paycut when the economy crashed in 2008).

Men and Women are now fighting among ourselves over 1-3% (a percentage that might just be due to men not taking time off for child rearing) while the ruling class is laughing all the way to the bank with that 20%.

This has been modus operandi for centuries: wedge issues. You find something to divide the working class into manageable chunks. Race, creed, sex. Hell, when the Japanese couldn't do it with race because they were all Japanese they made up classes based on jobs and kept books of them by name.

Don't fall for it. Demand better pay for all workers. Support the push for higher minimum wage. Vote in your primary for pro-Union, pro-worker candidates who refuse corporate PAC money. Demand all workers get healthcare that isn't tied to your job so you can switch jobs at will.

We've got bigger fish to fry than this. Don't get into the trenches with your fellow workers fighting while the rich laugh at you

You are correct to be suspicious. Anyone can lie. A valid point, and one I wish more people would lead with.

However, Cohen was giving these interviews to the FBI. Mueller took that information, used his not-insignificant resources at the FBI, and determined the information provided to be credible.

What that means to us lay people is that the FBI has used it's resources to verify that information and found it to be credible. It lines up with the other information they possess. The FBI doesn't think he's lying.

So, if you'd wish to doubt it at this point, you would have to know more about the topics in the Mueller investigation than the FBI does, which is exceedingly unlikely.

My favorite part of this story is that Cohen paid a guy who was recommended to him by Jerry Falwell Jr, to create a social media campaign called, "Women for Cohen", that promoted how sexy he was, like sexier than "Andy Garcia in The Godfather". It contained photos of Trump and Cohen together with the caption, "Two Handsome Men" and a photo of Cohen with Diamond & Silk (who are a pro-Trump minstrel show) captioned, "Look at that stud!"

https://www.usatoday.com/story...

You gotta admit, Trump only surrounds himself with the best people.

Oh, and since Jerry Falwell Jr's name is in this story, it's worth mentioning that Jerry Falwell Jr and his wife met an attractive pool boy while on vacation in Miami and ended up giving him $1.8 million for...something.

https://www.miaminewtimes.com/...

Part of me is really gonna miss Trump when he's gone. You gotta admit, he's done the "circuses" part of "bread and circuses" better than any president since WWII. You got your porn stars, you got your Putin, you got your Rudy Giuliani (who fucked his cousin), you got your evangelical leaders w/ pool boys, you got your Women for Cohen. Haberders. I don't know how I'm gonna be entertained when Trump is gone.

Are you trying to claim that a funding bill requires a supermajority in the Senate? That would be news to - well, just about everyone.

No, it would be the facts.

The whole reason the original House bill could not be passed was that it required 60 votes.

Not really. Even subscribing to 4 of the current players is STILL less than a cable bill.

Netflix $10.99 pe month
Hulu $10.99 (as low as $5) per month
Amazon Prime 8.25 per month
Disney $10.99 per month

Cable television companies report average spending per subscriber of about $85 a month, while the average among satellite TV providers tops $100 a month,

Facts say otherwise. I do find some things saying USA is in top 5/10(of ocean pollution, nut specifically plastics), but provide no information on it, and feels more like FUD. (however, New York needs to stop dumping trash in ocean)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/w...
https://www.usatoday.com/story...
https://www.ecowatch.com/these...
https://www.dw.com/en/almost-a...

I wouldn't get all that high and mighty about who is the most polluting. Of the ten top polluted cities, CA has 8 and the other two are Phoenix and New York City.

The only river I've ever seen on fire was in the upper east coast, not the middle or south.

from being dependent on importing crap from other nations

Given the auto sales numbers.. i think you mean the "foreign cars everyone wants to buy" instead of the domestic garbage.

Look below, as far as cars go, the domestic market is just toast... which is why they are all exiting to go build trucks.

https://www.usatoday.com/story...

1st place: Honda Civic
2nd place: Toyota Camry
3rd place: Toyota Corolla sedan
4th place: Honda Accord
5th place: Nissan Altima
6th place: Nissan Sentra
7th place: Ford Fusion
8th place: Chevrolet Cruze
9th place: Hyundai Elantra
10th place: Chevrolet Malibu

The folks charged with securing the border overwhelmingly want a wall to assist their job

Well, we have a lot of good reasons not to give a shit what they want. Fortunately, we don't usually let thugs and nazis make policy.

https://theintercept.com/2018/...

https://www.usatoday.com/story...

https://www.theguardian.com/wo...

So, what are these negative effects on the environment? Tornadoes and cyclones are down. Temperatures are moderating (average daily highs aren't increasing, but average daily lows are - meaning the temperature swing through the day is less). What's the impact? Additionally, you do realize that cold is 20 times as deadly as heat, we should encourage a bit of moderating of low temperatures to save more lives.

Google disagrees

http://hrmasia.com/harsh-facto...
https://www.usatoday.com/story...
https://www.techtimes.com/arti...

This is the Progressive future, as assumed and envisioned by Conservatives who hate any form of change and demonize it where ever possible.

My utopia is your dystopia and all of that.

Down with democracy

No real progressive would say or support that. That's fear mongering by your own leadership.

Down with the moral teachings of all major world religions

A good number of progressives don't like religion because it specifically runs against it's own moral teachings when convenient. Case in point: The Bible says to care for the poor and downtrodden, to welcome travelers and immigrants, and to live lives free from material attachments. Guess what the official rhetoric of the self-proclaimed defenders of Christianity is? The poor deserve it, damn everyone who is not one of us, and Greed is good.

We love the morals, but we hate the contradictions. You don't need a religion to teach or uphold morals and ethics, but you do have to teach and uphold them.

Down with happy healthy childhood

More demonizing.

Long live financial oligarchy!

That is not true in the slightest. We have, as a platform, removing money from politics. It's a fundamental requirement to be against money in politics to be able to call yourself a progressive in the US.

Brendan Eich was forced out as CEO of Mozilla for the horrible crime of expressing a political opinion shared by the overwhelming majority of the American populace and considered obviously-correct for all of history until the last five years.

Just because it was considered "tradition" does not make it immune to re-evaluation. Further same-sex relationships are present in all species not just humans, your view of history is wrong, and so is your view of the present.

However, I will agree that forcing him out via mass Twitter posting for his personal beliefs was wrong. It's not democratic in the slightest to have a random group of unrelated third parties dictating who can and cannot be employed in a given business. If it were a big enough issue, let them file a complaint, but they should not be dishing out personal attacks like that nor should any person or group give in to pressure to comply with such lynch mobs.

Long live sodomy! Long live emotionally damaged children!

Governor Matt Bevin, is that you?

Too bad - it's going to be forced on you literally at gunpoint

The only ones who have been pointing guns around here are insane sociopaths, and people frothing at the mouth over the idea of starting a civil war to purge the other. In other words, people who believe in dictatorships and absolute authority over the will of the people. As stated already, no real progressive supports such a position.