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3 days agoWho is using force, and how are they being stifled?
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What do you mean? Step out of the way of what by whom?
2·3 days agoTurnout was one of the highest at 64%. (2020 was the highest recently at 66%) It’s hard to get everyone to do anything.
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We need all the push back we can get. He’s doing wildly illegal stuff and trying to get away with it. The courts still have some influence to keep people from carrying out the orders, but this really is a stress test of the separation of powers.
Great video by legal eagle on the subject. This is very reminiscent of Nixon’s Saturday night massacre where many high ranking officers resigned in order to not carry out unlawful orders.
Where you getting the as safe as a motorcycle number? Aviation is usually very safe compared to automotive, and motorcycles are on the dangerous end of automotive.
Edit: looks like general aviation is 27x more deadly per mile than general driving, and about in the same ball park per mile as motorcycles. That’s a lot higher than I thought.
Looks like state subsidies, not federal?
On a smaller scale, SpaceX, Musk’s rocket company, cut a deal for about $20 million in economic development subsidies from Texas to construct a launch facility there.
Included in the local subsidies is a 15-year property tax break from the local school district worth $3.1 million to SpaceX. O
Which SpaceX subsidies are you referring to? Just the contracts they’re fulfilling for NASA and the DOD?
Cutting EV subsidies would lead to more gas cars, which isn’t good. Investing in public transit would be better, but encouraging EVs is also good.
0·25 days agoI don’t want to speculate, that’s why I was asking. Third party investigations showed previous allegations unfounded, so I didn’t want to jump to conclusions.
Do we know why they left LMG?
Mentioned fediverse at the end, so I think they’re aware at least!
I haven’t actually found anything that doesn’t work on Firefox on my personal computer. At work we also use Firefox, and some things don’t work on it, but some things don’t work on chrome or edge either, it’s a hodge poge.