Notices by LostInCalifornia (lostincalifornia@spinster.xyz)

@barrybestt It was FDR who brought electricity to rural areas. Before the Rural Electrification Act of 1938 only 2% of farms had electricity, and that was decades after cities were electrified.

Edison had his role, but the profit motive only goes so far. (And the Sierra Club was founded as a protest over Hetch Hetchy, a damn built as a water reservoir, not for power generation.)

I like Sowell, mostly, but he's getting very tribal.

Probably the only disco song I can stomach:

https://youtu.be/6dYWe1c3OyU

@FeartnTired @astarsscreams more or less what the packet shows. a little more sparse

@FeartnTired @astarsscreams I plant heirloom Mexican marigolds, usually, ie, brought over by Spanish, evolved since.

They're a complementary plant for veg, and they're pretty.

@astarsscreams Marigolds are better.

@FeartnTired @astarsscreams @Brookryn Last time I ordered plants, the delivery guy put them in a locker 2 blocks away.

My poor tomatoes.

I ordered seeds this year. I'm running late with my gardening - still waiting for them to sprout, but it's going to be a long summer.

'Hector' linocut by UK contemporary artist and printmaker Vanessa Lubach #WomensArt

@Brookryn @FeartnTired @PohlMe Game of Thrones. Got his eyes gouged out.

@KeepTakingTheSoma @TriptychTwinsRidesAgain It's not a trade war.

@KeepTakingTheSoma @coel Everyone needs to know trebuchet technology.

I firmly believe that.

@taylan @sally @PurpCat You're thinking critically. Can't do that on the Internets. Have to bash the other side!

@KeepTakingTheSoma @jk_rowling as long as the words have fluid meanings.

@Flick @stephagain Sargent Fury was originally a WWII comic book character. The chances of him being a black man during our last segregated war were nil.

Samuel L Jackson does a really excellent job playing him in the Avengers.

@Flick @stephagain They didn't want a non white character. They wanted an actor who lobbied for the job --- lobbying for a job is a sign of commitment.

Fury is a major character in a major movie franchise. Swapping race can work, especially in a fantasy franchise. He's a prime example.

There are far more ways they change her stories than a single line describing a single character. Those bother me far more.

@racs Um, yes indeedy, the world is dependent on exports from California.

First thing that happens, global food prices increase (see effects 2002 to 2010, depth of the drought).

You may be able to afford paying more, but I doubt you'll find the effects pleasant. Things have a tendency to effect even those who lock themselves in a bunker underground.

Of course some of that will be unavoidable already.

@polarisera You mean stopping them from allocating taxpayer money back to taxpayers in ways the representatives elected by taxpayers have legally decided?

You mean that stealing? The stealing that was preventing it from going into Musk's pocket?

@quasi @polarisera Do you know why he went after the Consumer Finance Bureau? He's planning to turn X into a version of PayPal, and the CFB would be the organization that oversaw that.

There is also the multimillion $$ contract State announced to be Tesla cybertrucks. They claimed Biden approved that deal, but it was a fraction of what Trump will give him.

There is the FAA head he forced out, the air traffic safety inspectors he fired --- those people regulate Space X. Plus, he's insisting the FAA end their long term contract with a competitor and use Starlink instead.

He's stolen contracts without going through the bidding process, he's stolen from his competitors, and he's stealing billion$$ from the US taxpayers with no accountability.

He's also undermined and/or destroyed NOAA, which provides weather information to farmers, and people who live in hurricane and/or tornado zones. Rumor has it, he did that so the guy from Accuweather can privatize and charge consumers for information that should be freely available.

This list, FYI, goes on.

@polarisera @quasi The delusional comedy bit you do I enjoy the most is that you think you speak for America.

Trump is underwater on his approval ratings, and Musk is deeply underwater on his approval ratings.

Maybe you need to stop projecting.

@polarisera @warmbeverageenjoyer @quasi Look at that red line climbing

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/approval/donald-trump/2/

@polarisera @warmbeverageenjoyer @quasi Projecting again.

44% of the viewership thought it was positive. That's down from 52%+ who thought his speech in 2017 was positive, and down from all SOTU speeches given since 1993.

A large portion of the country simply didn't watch, so that's 44% of an audience of mostly Republican Trump voters who liked what he had to say.