I still don’t understand how we got here. My mom is a Botanist by education, with a graduate degree from a respected university. She lives in a small community right in the center or some of the most extreme wildfire risk in the country.

She brought up one day that if only her Governor would make sure the forests were raked up, the wildfires wouldn’t be a problem.

It’s so baffling.

Nah, don’t give him, or his voters that credit. Motherfucker has been this dumb his whole life.

“Donald Trump was the dumbest goddam student I ever had.” - William T. Kelly, University of Pennsylvania, Wharton

He’s got to be the most extreme example of Dunning-Kruger effect out there.

Thinks he’s a certified genius, meanwhile all his handlers have to break down concepts for him in such simplistic terms, he ends up literally thinking injecting bleach or putting powerful UV light inside the body are the solutions to COVID, or raking a forest is an actual solution to preventing widespread wildfires.

“There’s illegal immigrants in prison taking post-birth contraception!”

Leader of a gang responsible for a sizeable portion of the evil shit that has happened in world history says people should think about supporting someone who is less evil.

Okay, guess your followers should switch to Buddhism, Hinduism, Confucianism, Atheism, or any other of a big handful of less-evil -isms to choose from than Catholicism.

Well the polls, surveys, questionnaires and polls; that’s not got much polls in it.

Except capitalism could otherwise be called “Greed: The Game”

Capitalism takes greed and puts it to work as the center of an economic system. While greed has either destroyed or deformed communism any time it’s been tried at scale, there’s 100% no separating greed from capitalism - they’re inexorably linked.

I mean, he paid with his life. And he suffered longer too.

“Take the Princess and the Wookie to my ship.”

I guess James Earl Jones, Carrie Fisher, and Peter Mayhew can now all ride together.

As the saying goes, “the opposite of love is not hate, but indifference.”

Elon/Tesla designed this truck to be controversial, to generate discussion, and engagement. The best way to disengage from exactly what this thing was designed to do is not to meme about it, it’s to ignore it completely.

I see plenty of them around here on the road, but I also see endless regurgitating of this shit online. I kinda get it what it’s boomers on Facebook, but I expect the Lemmy crowd to get tired of the same joke after seeing it the nth time. Guess I place too much confidence in you all.

The worst fate a car that begs for attention can suffer is fading to obscurity. Why keep giving Elon all the attention and engagement he wants? Ignore the stupid thing.

Lol, coming from a whole gaggle who can’t stop but breathlessly “educating” others why the Cybertruck is terrible.

I’m on your side, it’s fucking horrendous. But Jesus, it was clearly designed to grab attention. Why keep giving Elon what he wants?

Point to me on this doll where the Cybertruck touched you.

Ugh, we’re still at this? Folks that claim to have their eyes melt out of their face every time they see a Cybertruck sure spend a lot of time posting pictures of them online.

I see about 100 of these hurr-durr cybertruk dum posts for every one I see out on the road. Funny that 99% of the Cybertruck I see is coming from the “haters”.

That combined with it being able to lock weapons onto multiple targets simultaneously, and also being quite stealthy so it can do these things way before the targets even know it’s coming.

Can’t speak for the security or that extension - I tried it once several years ago and immediately ran into the same problems. Since then, I’ve used JDownloader2, which is a standalone app, on both windows and Linux Mint. Works great for me.

One is the presidential nominee of the Republican party, the other is a has-been hack columnist. These two things are not the same.

How DARE people answer a vague question with their own experiences!! Who’d guess that a question asked in English gets answers from people in predominantly English-speaking areas?! Fuck all these people for not discussing the habits of the Layards’s Palm Squirrel and why Sri Lankan boomers love/hate it!

This seems odd to me, as solar power generation often increases the need for power generation that can be quickly brought on- and off- line to fill in the gaps outside of daylight hours, on cloudy days, etc. Natural Gas plants are some of the fastest-reacting available in this regard, so installation of grid-scale solar projects often come along with natural gas plants as well.