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Are we just going to ignore that her hands have to be between 180 °C and 215 °C to melt the solder keeping those components in place? /s

The problem with that approach is that the “rugged energy individualist” idea would only a thin veneer and as soon as you scratch the surface you see it isn’t true.

Currently technology solar isn’t able to affordably support the amount of energy consumption most Americans have or want. It would be either astronomically expensive for a single American household to have enough energy systems to be completely 100% self sufficient (in most States in the Union) or the American household would have to drastically reduce its energy consumption. I don’t know if you know us Americans, but we don’t like to cut back on anything.

The feasible technology we have today that is still expensive, but at least attainable by many, is for 30% to 70% household energy generation. The remainder (depending on the time of year) comes from our socialized system of central energy generation and distribution (the power grid).

I say this as someone with solar panels and EVs that has gone carbon free energy at home. Its expensive for the equipment and installation and still doesn’t cover all the energy needs year-round. Nine months out of the year we have no energy bills. Three months of the year, we do. That’s just physics and the limits of my wallet.

I’d need a reason to use Edge. If it used a different browser engine, that would be a compelling reason.

Thats the description of both Vivaldi and Brave browsers, which also haven’t out-Chromed Chrome. Both are Chrome engine with built in ad blockers.

Hey Microsoft, how about innovating instead? Edge is a Chrome engine browser like dozens of others out there. Why not write a new browser engine to give customers a choice? Or at worst, how about contract with Apple to license Webkit bringing a third solid choice for a browser engine to Windows. You’re not going to out-Chrome Google Chrome browser, so stop trying.

Darin McFarlin, 47

Marissa Divodi-Lessa Herzog, 29, and her 7-year-old son.

That man was legally an adult at age 18 when his future finance was just being born. That seems like a red flag.

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I see. You wanna go ad hominem.

I’m not sure you understand the definition of an ad hominem attack. Nothing I said to you was ad hominem. I asked if you practice what you preach. Unless you consider what you preach to be objectionable then no ad hominem language was used. Even if you do consider your own position objectionable making my questions to you insulting, it is unreasonable for me to expect you’d be arguing a position you yourself don’t agree with, so even then nothing I said would be ad hominem.

We buy very few newly produced goods, preferring estate sales and thrift stores.

Those are the products of mass production and economies of scale. Simply acquiring them secondhand doesn’t wash away their provenance. If you were to get your way and eliminate companies that exercise economies of scale, the mass produced goods you’re buying from estate sales and thrift stores would quickly vanish as a source for you to buy more.

I am done discussing any of this with you at this point.

That is your choice, of course. I hope you have a nice day.

If this is your belief, can I ask if you’re living it today? Do you eschew any mass produced goods and instead purchase only goods made by artisan craftsmen? If not, why not if its the superior way?

I think you’re confusing symptoms of late stage capitalism with economies of scale.

Do you honestly think that handmade goods only by craftsman should be the exclusive way we have goods made?

Any worry that if you’re restricting businesses from growing that you’d also be sacrificing economies-of-scale that work to drive prices down?

Just a guess but its probably two groups in opposition:

• “temporarily embarrassed millionaires” who think they need to protect their future income
• those that think the fantasy of “trickle down economics” actually works and that enacting this measure will drive out billionaires leading to lower income for those that are not rich

A reduction in monopolistic capitalism and an increase in independent businesses. We need way more competition.

How big does a company get before it would get the “non-independent business” label barring it for operation in California under your proposal? Are you thinking a ceiling on net revenue, number of employees, or number of physical locations in the state?

I’m confused on your posted fix here. As cited in the article many fast food employers are already paying over minimum wage so they wouldn’t be hit hard by a minimum wage increase. The only reference to any specific category of fast food employers that would struggle with a minimum wage increase in the article was “smaller chains”. I doubt Mcdonalds would fall into that category.

So what is accomplished with your proposed fix of banning McDonalds from the state?

“evil maid” attacks need to be renamed to “evil students” attack.

The extra context from the article makes this a much more human response from both people:

Sam, who has CPR training, asked her supervisor if she could assist. The supervisor watched the woman heaving her weight into the man’s chest and gave no response.

“I start sobbing and said, ‘I want to help, please!’ I know she’s going to get tired and need to be subbed out,” Sam told The Western Edge.

The supervisor, who Sam perceived to be in shock, had a simple reply: “It has to be management or safety team. Please get back to work.”

“I need to help,” Sam said.

“Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work,” Sam recalled the manager saying.

This likely wasn’t entirely some cold calculated policy cooked up in a conference room by lawyers or executives that. The supervisor themselves was clearly not prepared to be dealing with just watching someone die at work under their management. The supervisor was stunned and trying to come up with an answer to a situation they were not prepared for. I don’t think they acted this way out of indifference or malice, but just being unprepared.

I’ll say Sam was also stunned and unprepared. Why ask permission to help someone? I would like to think I’d just run over a do it. However, just like the supervisor, Sam feel back on asking for permission to help from a superior instead of acting. I don’t blame Sam at all in asking. Sam was stunned too. I would be stunned too.

We’re also left with only a partial account of what happened. Were there other management and safety team members attending to the victim by this point? We don’t know. Again, no blame to Sam, but I also don’t see the supervisor’s reported statement automatically as cold-hearted indifference.

oh, its a shadow on his face. That took me way too long.

I wonder how quickly he’ll flee to Minsk or Moscow as soon as the details of his deeds in office are uncovered by the new administration.

Its nice to see attire featured suitable for both a wedding, job interview, or court appearance.

I’m assuming Kennedy’s brain worm wants to delay/suppress this report because it is factual evidence against the brain worm narrative that vaccines are bad.