If, during Trump's presidency, the labor force participation rate rises to 68% or more, will you admit in your book that you are the douche?;-)
Here are the possible explanations for a labor force participation rate increase under Trump:
- broken window economics (increase in low level/value jobs at a price of significant overall wealth destruction and great risk of fiscal and monetary crisis)
- dumb luck (this is not North Korea. . . but do you really believe the 'Dear Leader' has more influence on economic growth or labor participation than, say, technological advancement!?)
Understanding the above does not make one a douche. . . just capable of rational thought in the face of primitive tribalism. . .
On the one hand, it looks like Trump lied to a bunch of scared and vulnerable people to get elected (under the disguise of "not being another politician" and "not just being all talk"). . . On the other hand, a lot of his promises ranged from authoritarian to completely incoherent (Bring back jobs by attacking free trade when automation is the real job killer at this point? Bring back coal by attacking green technologies when natural gas is the true coal killer?).
Either way, the guy is a real douche in my book. . .
Been fun, but I just found out today that my friend's Japanese wife was told to "go back to your country" at the store the other day. I have lived in this city nearly 30 years and never heard of that EVER being said. No one ever said that to me in the over 10 years that I lived in Japan.
In short, shit just got real, and I have no time to dick around with some online discussion that is going nowhere. I have work to do in my home town.
Unless you have actually gone through and changed your citizenship, you haven't lived "as an immigrant"
Not citizenship, but permanent residence. I had Japanese permanent residence.
Well, I suppose if Japanese is your native language, it is no wonder that you have such queer notions about identity and racism; Japan is one of the most xenophobic and racist countries I have ever spent time in.
English is my native language. Funny. . . saying an entire nation is racist is, in itself, a very racist thing to say. Maybe if you were not so quick to judge your experience in Japan would have been different.
Which demographic would that be? Democrats just lost the House, the Senate, the presidency, and with that, the supreme court, so don't hold your breath.
Straight white male. You think ideology matters in Trump's America? This is about the "master" tribe, which people like you are not allowed to become "citizens" of. . . I despise this mentality, but I think I have seen it more than someone with your characteristics might have been exposed to. I feel like only that can explain how you seem to see Trump in such a naive light.
You accuse people of racism, xenophobia, and fraud for the flimsiest of reasons and express your disapproval and condemnation
No, I accuse Trump for what he himself has SAID. . . I am intolerant of unilateral intolerance.
Well, I'm accusing you of being a progressive and a Democrat; you certainly sound like one. And while you obviously don't understand why that offends people, I think it's important to make it crystal clear to you that it does. Perhaps that will induce people like you to reflect a bit on what you're saying and advocating, because obviously reason isn't getting through to you.
I am neither, but I don't want to get too ambitious here. . . if I can get you to make a single post where you properly use the term "bigot", I will consider this entire thread a yuuuge success.
Reading through your posts, I really feel like you are having this conversation with someone else. . . maybe someone in your past. . . maybe your parents. . . Anyway, I am not that person, but I hope you were able to find some kind of resolve. Seems like you really needed it. . .
I pointed out that Trump treated Obama like Hillary treated Obama.
1) I agree that you pointed that out, but comparing the birther movement to Hillary's 2012 primary campaign is just a strange argument that I cannot agree with. Birtherism is racism
2) Hillary is out of the picture now and using the "Hillary is worse" argument is meaningless. I am treating just Trump as he as treated others. ..
you are utterly intolerant of anybody who doesn't toe the progressive party line.
Where have I posted this? You seem to be lumping me into some kind of group because I am treating Trump the way he has treated others. Me being intolerant of Trump is not being a bigot, and your misuse of that word dilutes its meaning for all the REAL bigots out there.
See "bigot" above. You have no idea how much time I have invested in finding out about this or past elections.
Again, you are misusing the word "bigot". Saying you seem lacking knowledge of Trump does not make me a "bigot" in any sense of the word. I am not saying you did not spend a lot of time on this, just that saying you are against Hillary because of her stance on gays indicates your time spent was not very productive. You don't have to feel bad, though. This is the place to make mistakes. I have no idea who you are and when you talk to people in public who do know who you are you will not embarrass yourself now. ..
Clinton's support is rooted in her advocacy of economic redistribution in areas like healthcare, education, welfare, etc.; that is, people support her because they expect monetary benefits and expect others to be taxed to pay for them
All politicians redistribute wealth (yes, even Trump) and if you are against redistribution of wealth then you should go to North Korea. The biggest "redistributer" of wealth is capitalism, which requires a specialized government to support it.
You may not have voted for Trump but you certainly act like him.
See "bigot" above.
Again, I think it is time to expand your vocabulary. "Bigot" does not mean "someone who says things that I do not like." You are the one who started name calling and personal attacks because you could not logically defend your beliefs and the resemblance to how Trump acts is striking. No amount of name calling will change that. But this is a safe place to do that. It is also a safe place to admit that you jumped to conclusions and started name calling, and you are not really that type of person.
She will throw gays and lesbians under the bus if it advances her political interests, like she has always done.
Trump is going to appoint justices that will overturn gay marriage. Maybe that was not enough to vote against him for you, but saying you did not vote for Hillary because you support gay marriage is just completely wrong and not something you want to say to people who actually know you. You need to know at least that much about this topic. ..
Trump is president because of people like you, people who made the Democratic party such a bigoted and corrupt place that even gay immigrants like me left in disgust. Democrats won't come back until they kick people like you out.
Again, with the personal attacks. . . of someone you know so little about. How am I bigoted and corrupt? Where did my posts reveal that? Perhaps English is your second language? In which case. . . you are pretty awesome at English. However, "bigot" does not mean what your post implies you think it does. If you knew Japanese, I might be able to continue this discussion in a different language. . . but that seems statistically improbable. . .
Anyway, if I heard that a gay immigrant man was deb
I didn't say she "started" it. I said "[Trump] treated Obama pretty much like Hillary Clinton treated Obama".
So I guess your "pretty much" is the difference between Hillary appointing supreme court justices that will protect gay marriage and Trump appointing justices that will overturn gay marriage. I guess I am "pretty much" a billionaire. ..
Which part of "I didn't find either Trump or Hillary to be an acceptable choice in this election." did you not understand?
I guess I don't understand the part where you are willing to defend someone you are not willing to vote for. ..
I haven't "defended" Trump, I called him an "inexperienced, rude loudmouth".
Here I am, enjoying the sweet, sweet irony of applying Trump's "guilty until proven innocent" standard for the president which he established while Obama was president, and you start defending Trump under the "old rules" that don't apply anymore ("where is your proof of Trump's fraud"). It is Trump's obligation to prove he is not a fraud, just like it was Obama's obligation to prove, multiple times, that he was born in America.
Trump can't disappoint me because I don't expect anything of him.
Yes, "not expecting anything of him" is expecting WAY too much. I would like to hear what you have to say after gay marriage gets repealed. ..
But I will never be "united" with bigoted, ignorant, selfish pricks like you.
Yes, applying the same standard Trump established to his own standard makes me: bigoted: Exactly WHICH group of people am I bigot of again (don't think that word means what you think it does)? ignorant: You calling me ignorant implies you know more about this topic than me. Your posts make it clear that you just checked out this election and have no context to understand what is happening or how you have betrayed your own ideologies. selfish pricks: Again, please elaborate. Some one points out the flaws of your arguments and you resort to name calling. You may not have voted for Trump but you certainly act like him.
No, this is revisionist history (that only works for 18% of the American population). . . Hillary did not start the birther movement. The only way historians will be able to justify the birther movement is that people make bizarre, irrational arguments when they don't want a black president. . .
Yeah, people voted for Trump because he "wasn't a politician" and he would "shake up the establishment." Well guess what. . . he is a POLITICIAN now. And, you know who is going to work in his administration. . . the ESTABLISHMENT. The only real difference is that America gave the nuclear codes to a twitter troll.
I could never have voted for Hillary, if not for any other reason than because of her long standing opposition to gay marriage and her subsequent lies about it
It will be interesting to see how long people like you will defend him. Trump will eventually unite America. . . with his universal disappointment. . .
Trump set his own standard of presidency by how he treated Obama. Until Trump can prove, without a doubt (in long form), that Russia is not controlling him, I will assume his presidency is fraudulent.
Accordingly, me not having a copy of the bir. .., I mean, transcripts is not proof against the fraud but is, in itself, proof of the fraud.
Trump set his own standard of presidency by how he treated Obama. Until Trump can prove, without a doubt (in long form), that Russia is not controlling him, I will assume his presidency is fraudulent and that he is a mere puppet.
Defending Trump by saying Hillary is WORSE is meaningless and nonsensical at this point. The alternative now to Trump is not Hillary, it is Pence (after Trump is impeached).
Trump set his own standard of presidency by how he treated Obama. Until Trump can prove, without a doubt (in long form), that Russia is not controlling him, I will assume his presidency is fraudulent.
Telling someone how to act "because", is not compelling
I gave a clear reason: THE ELECTION IS OVER. Defending Trump by saying Hillary is WORSE is meaningless and nonsensical at this point. The alternative to Trump is not Hillary, it is Pence (after Trump is impeached).
Trump set his own standard of presidency by how he treated Obama. Until Trump can prove, without a doubt (in long form), that Russia is not controlling him, I will assume his presidency is fraudulent.
Telling someone how to act "because", is not compelling
I gave a clear reason: THE ELECTION IS OVER Saying Hillary is WORSE is meaningless and nonsensical at this point. The alternative to Trump is not Hillary, it is Pence (after Trump is impeached).
Trump set his own standard of presidency by how he treated Obama. Until Trump can prove, without a doubt (in long form), that Russia is not controlling him, I will assume his presidency is fraudulent.
But it's only "evil" when Trump is involved in something.
No, it is always evil when a president, at any time (before or after their presidency), conspires with foreign governments to defraud the American public.
Clinton lost and is now irrelevant to the discussion of the current state of corruption in our government. Trump now gets to face the public alone on the topic of presidential corruption and can no longer use the "but she is worse" argument. Neither should you.
Only/. would highly mod a post saying that we should all just kill each other rather than mess around with the tax system. . . because *incoherent economic argument that would make their Eco 101 professor spin in grave*
I think the primary demographic of/. now consists of the ape shit crazy, Trump supporting, conspiracy theory toting, Nihilist types. The reason for this being. . . those types tend to scare the rest of us away. . .
I might have unnecessarily put "ir" in front of "regardless", but you unnecessarily put a hyphen in nonstandard in a GRAMMAR NAZIS POST. I mean, come on!
So he automatically gets a free pass and is measured by lower standards? You must do a great job hiring people for your business. . .
Irregardless, saying our voting system is rigged without any credible evidence has invoked a kind of Godwin's law in my mind. . . For anyone who cares about our democracy, the primary goal at this point should be to make sure Trump loses by a large enough margin that any claim of a rigged election would be laughable.
Otherwise, these last couple months will seem like a VACATION compared to what is headed our way. Let's end this once and for all. . .
Or. . . maybe they want to do things like turn on A/Cs earlier in the day to cool off houses while the solar power generation for the day is still high, instead of waiting for people to get home later in the day and manually turn on their A/Cs (after solar power generation has gone down, so you have to use natural gas)?
Coming home to a cooled house is actually a plus for both the consumer and the grid, but don't let that get in the way of your FOX like "'bama's gonna take our guns!" like interpretation. . .
Yes, which is why you see EV sales drop in the U.S. at the beginning of the year (best to earn a non-refundable tax credit once you are sure you have accrued the tax liability, just in case you lose your job. ..).
If you don't make that much to fully take advantage of the tax credit, just buy a used EV since the credit is priced into the used price.
- Not sure who you are talking about. A/C at home is pretty guiltless because it matches almost perfectly with the solar load (cooling your house a bit earlier using a smart thermostat to better match the solar load would be my only Green nitpick, but use away. . . if it is hot and is also sunny, so. . . )
- Second, wtf, I am comparing running an ICE A/C on battery (guiltlessly for a very short period until the lead battery is drained) or with an idle engine (which is extremely inefficient, hence the guilt) vs an EV that is NOT CHARGING (why do./-ers think you need to be charging to be able to run the EV A/C for hours at a time without any noticeable battery drain. . . ). This is convenient vs the ICE alternative.
- Sure, you have thought things through without any relevant experience so your conclusions are completely off. Why don't you try driving an EV for a while so that you actually have some relevant context when you read posts like mine?
. ..shifting all the burden to power plants and onto the grid only causes . ..
- You do realize that combustion power plants being built these days are like 2x as efficient as ICE cars, right (have you heard of CCGT)? Not to mention it is way easier to regulate centralized power plant air pollution than air pollution from millions of individual cars.
- Here is the kicker. . . No, EVs currently are not a burden on the grid because they represent such a small portion of the demand. However, when they DO become a burden, that means the EV industry has produced batteries at such a scale that they are now cheap enough to use to stabilize renewable sources of energy. So your argument shows a complete lack of understanding of this topic and the economics at play.
- Maybe if you were not so quick to dismiss other people as stupid you would break your own cycle of ignorance and actually expand your knowledge on this topic?
No, why do I need to be charging to use the A/C? I have used the A/C for over an hour with barely any noticeable impact on range (without charging at the same time, of course. . . wouldn't that be a con if I had to be charging to use the A/C. Do you even OWN an EV?).
Wait. . . did I pick too late of a time to post and landed in the "Slashdot Prick Timezone" or what? WTF.
Some pros:
- The lack of engine noise definitely reduced my daily commute stress.
- Way better USABLE acceleration means I can easily change lanes anytime (I am sure a race car driver in a comparably priced ICE standard transmission could beat me, but most people are not race car drivers. An ICE car driven at the same routine acceleration would not last very long, runs the risk of going out of control due to the inconsistent torque, and is embarrassingly loud at pitiful speeds. When we occasionally rent an ICE vehicle, I am blown away by how crazily loud a little punch on the pedal is, resulting in an unsatisfactory driving experience in comparison. Having an EV has killed the joy of driving an ICE for me. ..
- Guiltless endless A/C when parked.
- For my routine driving, I never have to worry about "stopping to fill up" because I am doing that every night at home.
- Even at these gas prices, electricity + battery is cheaper.
Some cons:
- The endless times I get to hear "resale value sucks for EVs" because an entire industry is unable to factor the $7,500 tax credit new purchases get. ..
- Range. . . though Austin, TX has put in a network of supercharges, so not really the case for me anymore. Range never comes up during my usual driving routine, though.
I don't know what is more depressing, the fact that you would hand over your country to a guy like Trump for a little job security or the fact that you actually think Trump can reverse the effects of globalization and technological automation without making the U.S. the next North Korea. . .
Trump is not a candidate, he is an intelligence test. You failed the test.
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If, during Trump's presidency, the labor force participation rate rises to 68% or more, will you admit in your book that you are the douche? ;-)
Here are the possible explanations for a labor force participation rate increase under Trump:
- broken window economics (increase in low level/value jobs at a price of significant overall wealth destruction and great risk of fiscal and monetary crisis)
- dumb luck (this is not North Korea. . . but do you really believe the 'Dear Leader' has more influence on economic growth or labor participation than, say, technological advancement!?)
Understanding the above does not make one a douche. . . just capable of rational thought in the face of primitive tribalism. . .
On the one hand, it looks like Trump lied to a bunch of scared and vulnerable people to get elected (under the disguise of "not being another politician" and "not just being all talk"). . . On the other hand, a lot of his promises ranged from authoritarian to completely incoherent (Bring back jobs by attacking free trade when automation is the real job killer at this point? Bring back coal by attacking green technologies when natural gas is the true coal killer?).
Either way, the guy is a real douche in my book. . .
a fact bias? Because that could explain things. . .
Note: Moderators that modded this down had a small penis bias.
Been fun, but I just found out today that my friend's Japanese wife was told to "go back to your country" at the store the other day. I have lived in this city nearly 30 years and never heard of that EVER being said. No one ever said that to me in the over 10 years that I lived in Japan.
In short, shit just got real, and I have no time to dick around with some online discussion that is going nowhere. I have work to do in my home town.
Have a nice life and good luck. . .
No, but accusing him of "conspir[ing] with foreign governments to defraud the American public" is, given what we actually know.
Bigot: one who is intolerant or hostile towards different social groups. Trump != social group. The end.
she doesn't have any kind of coherent agenda or vision
Yeah, incoherent. . . compared to Trump's coherent policies
Unless you have actually gone through and changed your citizenship, you haven't lived "as an immigrant"
Not citizenship, but permanent residence. I had Japanese permanent residence.
Well, I suppose if Japanese is your native language, it is no wonder that you have such queer notions about identity and racism; Japan is one of the most xenophobic and racist countries I have ever spent time in.
English is my native language. Funny. . . saying an entire nation is racist is, in itself, a very racist thing to say. Maybe if you were not so quick to judge your experience in Japan would have been different.
Which demographic would that be? Democrats just lost the House, the Senate, the presidency, and with that, the supreme court, so don't hold your breath.
Straight white male. You think ideology matters in Trump's America? This is about the "master" tribe, which people like you are not allowed to become "citizens" of. . . I despise this mentality, but I think I have seen it more than someone with your characteristics might have been exposed to. I feel like only that can explain how you seem to see Trump in such a naive light.
You accuse people of racism, xenophobia, and fraud for the flimsiest of reasons and express your disapproval and condemnation
No, I accuse Trump for what he himself has SAID. . . I am intolerant of unilateral intolerance.
Well, I'm accusing you of being a progressive and a Democrat; you certainly sound like one. And while you obviously don't understand why that offends people, I think it's important to make it crystal clear to you that it does. Perhaps that will induce people like you to reflect a bit on what you're saying and advocating, because obviously reason isn't getting through to you.
I am neither, but I don't want to get too ambitious here. . . if I can get you to make a single post where you properly use the term "bigot", I will consider this entire thread a yuuuge success.
Reading through your posts, I really feel like you are having this conversation with someone else. . . maybe someone in your past. . . maybe your parents. . . Anyway, I am not that person, but I hope you were able to find some kind of resolve. Seems like you really needed it. . .
I pointed out that Trump treated Obama like Hillary treated Obama.
1) I agree that you pointed that out, but comparing the birther movement to Hillary's 2012 primary campaign is just a strange argument that I cannot agree with. Birtherism is racism .
2) Hillary is out of the picture now and using the "Hillary is worse" argument is meaningless. I am treating just Trump as he as treated others. .
you are utterly intolerant of anybody who doesn't toe the progressive party line.
Where have I posted this? You seem to be lumping me into some kind of group because I am treating Trump the way he has treated others. Me being intolerant of Trump is not being a bigot, and your misuse of that word dilutes its meaning for all the REAL bigots out there.
See "bigot" above. You have no idea how much time I have invested in finding out about this or past elections.
Again, you are misusing the word "bigot". Saying you seem lacking knowledge of Trump does not make me a "bigot" in any sense of the word. I am not saying you did not spend a lot of time on this, just that saying you are against Hillary because of her stance on gays indicates your time spent was not very productive. You don't have to feel bad, though. This is the place to make mistakes. I have no idea who you are and when you talk to people in public who do know who you are you will not embarrass yourself now. . .
Clinton's support is rooted in her advocacy of economic redistribution in areas like healthcare, education, welfare, etc.; that is, people support her because they expect monetary benefits and expect others to be taxed to pay for them
All politicians redistribute wealth (yes, even Trump) and if you are against redistribution of wealth then you should go to North Korea. The biggest "redistributer" of wealth is capitalism, which requires a specialized government to support it.
You may not have voted for Trump but you certainly act like him.
See "bigot" above.
Again, I think it is time to expand your vocabulary. "Bigot" does not mean "someone who says things that I do not like." You are the one who started name calling and personal attacks because you could not logically defend your beliefs and the resemblance to how Trump acts is striking. No amount of name calling will change that. But this is a safe place to do that. It is also a safe place to admit that you jumped to conclusions and started name calling, and you are not really that type of person.
She will throw gays and lesbians under the bus if it advances her political interests, like she has always done.
Trump is going to appoint justices that will overturn gay marriage. Maybe that was not enough to vote against him for you, but saying you did not vote for Hillary because you support gay marriage is just completely wrong and not something you want to say to people who actually know you. You need to know at least that much about this topic. . .
Trump is president because of people like you, people who made the Democratic party such a bigoted and corrupt place that even gay immigrants like me left in disgust. Democrats won't come back until they kick people like you out.
Again, with the personal attacks. . . of someone you know so little about. How am I bigoted and corrupt? Where did my posts reveal that? Perhaps English is your second language? In which case. . . you are pretty awesome at English. However, "bigot" does not mean what your post implies you think it does. If you knew Japanese, I might be able to continue this discussion in a different language. . . but that seems statistically improbable. . .
Anyway, if I heard that a gay immigrant man was deb
I didn't say she "started" it. I said "[Trump] treated Obama pretty much like Hillary Clinton treated Obama".
So I guess your "pretty much" is the difference between Hillary appointing supreme court justices that will protect gay marriage and Trump appointing justices that will overturn gay marriage. I guess I am "pretty much" a billionaire. . .
Which part of "I didn't find either Trump or Hillary to be an acceptable choice in this election." did you not understand?
I guess I don't understand the part where you are willing to defend someone you are not willing to vote for. . .
I haven't "defended" Trump, I called him an "inexperienced, rude loudmouth".
Here I am, enjoying the sweet, sweet irony of applying Trump's "guilty until proven innocent" standard for the president which he established while Obama was president, and you start defending Trump under the "old rules" that don't apply anymore ("where is your proof of Trump's fraud"). It is Trump's obligation to prove he is not a fraud, just like it was Obama's obligation to prove, multiple times, that he was born in America.
Trump can't disappoint me because I don't expect anything of him.
Yes, "not expecting anything of him" is expecting WAY too much. I would like to hear what you have to say after gay marriage gets repealed. . .
But I will never be "united" with bigoted, ignorant, selfish pricks like you.
Yes, applying the same standard Trump established to his own standard makes me:
bigoted: Exactly WHICH group of people am I bigot of again (don't think that word means what you think it does)?
ignorant: You calling me ignorant implies you know more about this topic than me. Your posts make it clear that you just checked out this election and have no context to understand what is happening or how you have betrayed your own ideologies.
selfish pricks: Again, please elaborate. Some one points out the flaws of your arguments and you resort to name calling. You may not have voted for Trump but you certainly act like him.
Yeah, people voted for Trump because he "wasn't a politician" and he would "shake up the establishment." Well guess what. . . he is a POLITICIAN now. And, you know who is going to work in his administration. . . the ESTABLISHMENT. The only real difference is that America gave the nuclear codes to a twitter troll.
I could never have voted for Hillary, if not for any other reason than because of her long standing opposition to gay marriage and her subsequent lies about it
Rich. . . so you voted for the ticket with MIKE PENCE!? and Donald Trump, who has been a consistent opponent of marriage equality. Face it, you were also duped. This IS Brexit all over. . . where AFTER the election voters are like, "what is the EU?".
It will be interesting to see how long people like you will defend him. Trump will eventually unite America. . . with his universal disappointment. . .
Huh? How did he treat him?
Are you being serious!? To not know this is to not know the origination story of the 2016 Trump campaign or the driving force behind his wanting to become president. There is even a song about it. Please tell me you are not an American voter and that you did not vote for Trump. . .
Knock yourself out.
Thanks. Trump established this standard for the president and two days ago the Americans (at least 18% of them) validated it.
Trump set his own standard of presidency by how he treated Obama. Until Trump can prove, without a doubt (in long form), that Russia is not controlling him, I will assume his presidency is fraudulent.
., I mean, transcripts is not proof against the fraud but is, in itself, proof of the fraud.
Accordingly, me not having a copy of the bir. .
Trump set his own standard of presidency by how he treated Obama. Until Trump can prove, without a doubt (in long form), that Russia is not controlling him, I will assume his presidency is fraudulent and that he is a mere puppet.
Defending Trump by saying Hillary is WORSE is meaningless and nonsensical at this point. The alternative now to Trump is not Hillary, it is Pence (after Trump is impeached).
Trump set his own standard of presidency by how he treated Obama. Until Trump can prove, without a doubt (in long form), that Russia is not controlling him, I will assume his presidency is fraudulent.
Telling someone how to act "because", is not compelling
I gave a clear reason: THE ELECTION IS OVER. Defending Trump by saying Hillary is WORSE is meaningless and nonsensical at this point. The alternative to Trump is not Hillary, it is Pence (after Trump is impeached).
Trump set his own standard of presidency by how he treated Obama. Until Trump can prove, without a doubt (in long form), that Russia is not controlling him, I will assume his presidency is fraudulent.
Telling someone how to act "because", is not compelling
I gave a clear reason: THE ELECTION IS OVER Saying Hillary is WORSE is meaningless and nonsensical at this point. The alternative to Trump is not Hillary, it is Pence (after Trump is impeached).
Trump set his own standard of presidency by how he treated Obama. Until Trump can prove, without a doubt (in long form), that Russia is not controlling him, I will assume his presidency is fraudulent.
But it's only "evil" when Trump is involved in something.
No, it is always evil when a president, at any time (before or after their presidency), conspires with foreign governments to defraud the American public.
Clinton lost and is now irrelevant to the discussion of the current state of corruption in our government. Trump now gets to face the public alone on the topic of presidential corruption and can no longer use the "but she is worse" argument. Neither should you.
Only /. would highly mod a post saying that we should all just kill each other rather than mess around with the tax system. . . because *incoherent economic argument that would make their Eco 101 professor spin in grave*
/. now consists of the ape shit crazy, Trump supporting, conspiracy theory toting, Nihilist types. The reason for this being. . . those types tend to scare the rest of us away. . .
I think the primary demographic of
I might have unnecessarily put "ir" in front of "regardless", but you unnecessarily put a hyphen in nonstandard in a GRAMMAR NAZIS POST. I mean, come on!
irregardless == regardless
Guess you can tell your grandchildren that you were being a grammar Nazis when the Trump Nazis' took over. . .
Trump is not the Secretary of State
So he automatically gets a free pass and is measured by lower standards? You must do a great job hiring people for your business. . .
Irregardless, saying our voting system is rigged without any credible evidence has invoked a kind of Godwin's law in my mind. . . For anyone who cares about our democracy, the primary goal at this point should be to make sure Trump loses by a large enough margin that any claim of a rigged election would be laughable.
Otherwise, these last couple months will seem like a VACATION compared to what is headed our way. Let's end this once and for all. . .
Or. . . maybe they want to do things like turn on A/Cs earlier in the day to cool off houses while the solar power generation for the day is still high, instead of waiting for people to get home later in the day and manually turn on their A/Cs (after solar power generation has gone down, so you have to use natural gas)?
Coming home to a cooled house is actually a plus for both the consumer and the grid, but don't let that get in the way of your FOX like "'bama's gonna take our guns!" like interpretation. . .
Yes, which is why you see EV sales drop in the U.S. at the beginning of the year (best to earn a non-refundable tax credit once you are sure you have accrued the tax liability, just in case you lose your job. . .).
If you don't make that much to fully take advantage of the tax credit, just buy a used EV since the credit is priced into the used price.
I run my electric-powered A/C at home . . .
- Not sure who you are talking about. A/C at home is pretty guiltless because it matches almost perfectly with the solar load (cooling your house a bit earlier using a smart thermostat to better match the solar load would be my only Green nitpick, but use away. . . if it is hot and is also sunny, so. . . ) ./-ers think you need to be charging to be able to run the EV A/C for hours at a time without any noticeable battery drain. . . ). This is convenient vs the ICE alternative.
- Second, wtf, I am comparing running an ICE A/C on battery (guiltlessly for a very short period until the lead battery is drained) or with an idle engine (which is extremely inefficient, hence the guilt) vs an EV that is NOT CHARGING (why do
- Sure, you have thought things through without any relevant experience so your conclusions are completely off. Why don't you try driving an EV for a while so that you actually have some relevant context when you read posts like mine?
. . .shifting all the burden to power plants and onto the grid only causes . . .
- You do realize that combustion power plants being built these days are like 2x as efficient as ICE cars, right (have you heard of CCGT)? Not to mention it is way easier to regulate centralized power plant air pollution than air pollution from millions of individual cars.
- Here is the kicker. . . No, EVs currently are not a burden on the grid because they represent such a small portion of the demand. However, when they DO become a burden, that means the EV industry has produced batteries at such a scale that they are now cheap enough to use to stabilize renewable sources of energy. So your argument shows a complete lack of understanding of this topic and the economics at play.
- Maybe if you were not so quick to dismiss other people as stupid you would break your own cycle of ignorance and actually expand your knowledge on this topic?
No, why do I need to be charging to use the A/C? I have used the A/C for over an hour with barely any noticeable impact on range (without charging at the same time, of course. . . wouldn't that be a con if I had to be charging to use the A/C. Do you even OWN an EV?).
Wait. . . did I pick too late of a time to post and landed in the "Slashdot Prick Timezone" or what? WTF.
Some pros: .
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- The lack of engine noise definitely reduced my daily commute stress.
- Way better USABLE acceleration means I can easily change lanes anytime (I am sure a race car driver in a comparably priced ICE standard transmission could beat me, but most people are not race car drivers. An ICE car driven at the same routine acceleration would not last very long, runs the risk of going out of control due to the inconsistent torque, and is embarrassingly loud at pitiful speeds. When we occasionally rent an ICE vehicle, I am blown away by how crazily loud a little punch on the pedal is, resulting in an unsatisfactory driving experience in comparison. Having an EV has killed the joy of driving an ICE for me. .
- Guiltless endless A/C when parked.
- For my routine driving, I never have to worry about "stopping to fill up" because I am doing that every night at home.
- Even at these gas prices, electricity + battery is cheaper.
Some cons:
- The endless times I get to hear "resale value sucks for EVs" because an entire industry is unable to factor the $7,500 tax credit new purchases get. .
- Range. . . though Austin, TX has put in a network of supercharges, so not really the case for me anymore. Range never comes up during my usual driving routine, though.
I don't know what is more depressing, the fact that you would hand over your country to a guy like Trump for a little job security or the fact that you actually think Trump can reverse the effects of globalization and technological automation without making the U.S. the next North Korea. . .
Trump is not a candidate, he is an intelligence test. You failed the test.