You know shit’s bad when US media starts using the ‘China bad’ classic “but at what cost?” byline toward US consumers

Im guessing there’s a sister article somewhere on Forbes reporting lower than anticipated earnings for US phone manufacturers

Do you have any examples of high-profile left-leaning accounts that were showing overseas locations?

Im not really talking about things like USAID, I’m talking about his consolidation of power broadly and the normalization of the abuse of presidential power

• If trump dies, Vance doesnt need to be elected or Trump’s popularity
• The longer it takes for him to die, the more time he has to erode democratic structures that would prevent a technocrat like Vance from installing themselves permanently

Frankly I think we missed the window for the good version of him dying - especially if he dies abruptly in a way that could be spun into suspicion

The greater risk isn’t misogynist republicans IMO, it’s misogynist liberals who will cynically use her gender and ethnic background as examples of her unelectability instead of addressing their opposition to her populist agenda.

“I don’t take issue wither her being a woman, but dumb rural americans will, so we can’t nominate her”

Every time a populist candidate gains momentum in the democratic party, democrats suddenly become greatly concerned about electability. See: Obama, Sanders, Mamdani, Fatah, ect.

Maybe if democrats placed as much emphasis on a popular policy agenda as they do on identity, they wouldn’t have as much of an electability problem.

Lol, what?

He literally has a felony for bribing a porn star to stay quiet about their affair

I had my energy company remove their LVTC smart meter this week after they started using it to shut off our condenser unit during our 100 degree days

The fact that it exists at all is bad enough, but they were doing this at a time when our AC was already malfunctioning due to low refrigerant. On the day they first shut it off, our house reached 94 degrees.

The program that the previous owner signed up for that enabled them to do this gave them a fucking two dollar a month discount.

I use a smart thermostat to optimize my home conditioning - having a second meter fucking with my schedule ends up making us all miserable. Energy providers need to stop fucking around and just build out their infrastructure to handle worst case peak loads, and enable customers to install solar to reduce peak loading to begin with.

The other thing that kills me about this is that our provider administers our city’s solar electric subsidy program themselves. When i had them come out to give us a quote, they inflated their price by more than 100% because they knew what our electricity bill was. All they did was take our average monthly bill and multiplied it by the repayment period. I could have been providing them more energy to the grid at their peak load if they hadn’t tried scamming me.

FUCK private energy providers.