tburkhol

Need new rules in House and Senate, too. The majority party gets majority in all the committees, gets to pick all the committee chairs, etc. All of the current non-D/non-R members 'caucus' with one of the major parties, making them de facto members of that party. A third party with enough representation to block the other two from gaining majority would almost certainly end up in an alliance with one, leaving us back with functional two-party politics.

The law only gets you compensation after the abuse and destruction ends. If anything.

Even 50W, 24/7, is 36 kWh/month. $3 where I live; $12 in CA.

All she had to do was say 'no,' and she could have protected her constituents and 330,000,000 other Americans.

A 'point' is 1 person in 100. When they say that people sympathized with Israel 'by 13 points', they mean that 44% of people favored Palestine and 56% favored Israel. Why not just say "13 percent" then? Because 56/44 = 127%. 27% more people sympathize with Israel when their net support is 13 points.

When the margin is 43 points, it means 29-71 (minus undecideds). 71/29 = 245%, and I guarantee you will break people's brains if you tell them that 145% more people sympathize with Palestine than Israel.

My impression is that 50501 aren't actually organizing anything, but just providing a one-stop forum for actual, local groups to advertise their events. And maybe a little bit of, "hey, let's all do something on [this] day." If you're not already in a local activist community, it can be hard to find them.

Point being: if you can step up, do step up, but please don't organize a Fyre Festival.

What I expect is that those people will either a) receive a form letter saying that their Medicaid has not been renewed, b) simply not receive new Medicaid card after applying and being silently rejected, or c) have a hospital administrator explain that they owe $10,000 because Medicaid will not cover their charges. Obviously, the hospital is greedy and mean.

Unless those communications include the explicit phrase "because of Donald Trump's Medicaid cuts," few people will draw any connection between the mysterious, bureaucratic determination of Medicaid coverage and their 'tells is like it is' hero, bankrupt casino owner, Donald J Trump.

I love the story that Napolean went to the unimaginable luxury of having a whole set of aluminum tableware made up to awe his visitors.

My Pi spends all of its time around 55°C in a 20-25°C room. Main server idles at 47°C. Those aren't worrying temps.

Believe the "Don't really care" jacket was for a tour of a disaster zone, or maybe one of the kids-in-cages camps.

I've watched enough Lock Picking Lawyer never to want a consumer 'smart lock.' Half of them can be opened with a magnet. Maybe commercial grade is better, but I've been locked out of my job after every power failure for the last 10 years, until someone comes along with a physical key.

Re homeassistant on a Pi: homeassistant does a lot of database transactions, so you may want to have db storage on something other than an SD card.

If she hadn't personally suffered for Trump's policies, she'd still have the same nasty values.

What's difficult for me is - now that she's learned the Leopards-eating-peoples-faces party will happily eat her face - can she extend that lesson to the Leopards-eating-peoples-legs party or the Bears-eating-peoples-faces party. Because if these people have to personally experience each of the obvious and horrible consequences to realize that the next charismatic ghoul is a charismatic ghoul, then we are no closer to a better world.