@inthehands@Impossible_PhD I continue to be confused when people put Thune up as an anti-Trump bulwark. But admittedly I don't know much about him. Is there some evidence? The lowest-effort source for me to dig up is the 538 Trump alignment tracker, which shows Thune voting "with Trump" a whopping 91.4% of the time. That's *more* than Scott (84.1%). So...
@mekkaokereke@ohmu all of these things can be true simultaneously, plus I've seen a bunch of people talking about starter packs over here -- I believe the pixelfed guy wrote up a proposal
@inthehands@dumbledope wonder how many times this kind of thing has been carried out, but never discovered so the would-be resisters went down in history as collaborators
@inthehands well, previous generations sent the Voyagers into interstellar space running on fumes and a poor excuse for a calculator as compute, but it took until the 2020s to get the Parker close to the sun... obviously there's other factors in there but it's a data point
@inthehands@rationaldoge if you run the dishwasher late because it saves you money due to incentive pricing, that's different IMO. Because it's the power company or public policy creating that incentive which could lead to collective action!
@SmudgeTheInsultCat local man stages bicycle accident using roadkill, when pressed for explanation says "I was running late for a flight and thought it would be funny"
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