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@br00t4c

#Billionaires: “If you need more money, stop drinking lattes!”

Also billionaires: “Why isn't anyone buying my lattes?!”

@Tharpa @otownKim

If Trump dies now, then that thinly-disguised reptile Vance smooth-talks its way into the White House and starts a eugenics program that makes Trump's proposals seem mild. Vance's associates have proposed rounding up all the non-rich people, killing them, and using their corpses as vehicle fuel, for goodness' sake. They're inhuman. And there's not enough time for Harris to inform the public of their intentions.

So you'd better hope Trump doesn't expire before election day.

@ryanc

Ugh. The syslog protocol is so, so bad. Somebody at UC Berkeley must've been on some heavy narcotics.

If #Trump loses the election, and the USA survives this attempt to destroy it, then it will have been by the sheer luck and/or grace of God that those trying to overthrow the United States and institute a #fascist #dictatorship chose a senile, incoherent old man as their figurehead.

Even if our #democracy survives this assault, we will have come far too close to losing it forever. I don't like surviving by the skin of my teeth. Our defenses must be shored up somehow.

#USpol

@susankayequinn

It's coming!

I see offerings on Amazon for small solar+battery systems for only like $300. Little things, just enough wattage to run a small appliance or something, but still, that is shockingly cheap.

Unless there's some kind of economic or political catastrophe (like Trump winning the upcoming election), it seems to me that household solar is now inevitable and the oil-and-gas industry is basically screwed. Just gotta keep up the inertia.

@susankayequinn

Planes have the problem of low surface area. To capture lots of sunlight, it has to be big…but being big makes it need more sunlight! Decarbonizing them is probably going to need either better energy storage or fusion power.

Ships are another story, though. Humanity invented a zero-carbon way to propel them millennia ago: sails! The OG wind power. I've heard that research is now happening to develop newer, better sails to at least supplement the motor. Seemed pretty cool.

The saddest thing about #StarTrek isn't that physics might forbid such things.

The saddest thing is that human nature almost certainly forbids them.

@br00t4c

It's probably not. The best quantum computers right now can only factor very small numbers.

@JoeTheDumber

Then let us elect Harris, thereby forcing SCOTUS to directly break the rules and giving Biden good cause to ignore SCOTUS.

@br00t4c

@Blinxeto @br00t4c

His plan is to destroy the US economy. Simple as that.

Why? Because a ruined US can't protect Europe from Putin.

@sophieschmieg

Maybe, but that sounds like a *giant* footgun for timing-attack vulnerabilities. Merely changing the compiler version could create one, nevermind compiling for a new ISA.

I didn't say it's easy to implement such a thing, but it is absolutely necessary.

@inthehands

@lanodan

The highway outside my apartment is louder than the computers inside.

I kinda miss all the '90s computer noises: whirring-and-clicking disk drives, screeching modems, crackling CRTs, and that cheerful beep when the computer turns on.

@SuperDicq

@br00t4c

3am? Holy moly. I'm starting to wonder if he actually believes his own bullshit.

@br00t4c

Holy crap but that comment section is overrun with blatantly lying MAGA trolls. I think I'm gonna be sick.

Anyway, Fox News? Really? I hope Walz and his allies know what they're doing…

@br00t4c

Kernel of truth. If the Democrats win a trifecta, they may pass laws that make it significantly harder for Republicans to cheat their way to victory in the future. If they want to win an election after that, they'll have to actually earn people's votes, instead of blatantly stealing them.

@br00t4c

We are the United States of America, the mightiest and richest country under the sun, and these MAGAts think we can't fund more than one disaster recovery effort at a time?

Shame on them; they make our country look weak and impotent. Where's their patriotism? Where's their pride?

#USpol #Biden #Harris #Trump #MAGA

@br00t4c

Sometimes it feels like most humans don't have consciousness.

Which #StarTrek theme song is your favorite, and why is it Voyager? 😋

#StarTrekVOY #StarTrekVoyager

@br00t4c

I'm frankly shocked that he's actually going to maybe suffer some kind of consequences for that.

@br00t4c

They're still gonna vote for Trump, though, and Vance's smooth talk just conned the normal people into voting for Trump as well.