The other point of representative government is that the people making the decisions can spend the time to research what they’re voting on.
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No one should live under 24/7 surveillance.
Some of the poorer reps were doing that and Congress decided they didn’t like it.
There’s also value in it being decentralized.
We don’t need the entire country to have a second home in DC and to be resistant to bribes.
Congress should make good enough money that they don’t need to invest in the stock market and they don’t care about negligible bribes. Bigger bribes are theoretically easier to catch in the legal system and/or public accountability.
13·3 days agoThe subject matter isn’t the parodied thing. It’s not making fun of Tetris. It’s using Tetris in a pretty unrelated way to its actual purposes.
4·6 days agoMost of us aren’t on farms. But yeah, if you are I’d definitely look into it. Especially if you’re running large refrigerators and/or freezers.
Dude, all you need to do is spend $13k for one of these,
And then mount it 30 feet above the tallest tree or building near you.
How hard can it be?
I’ve looked into it for exactly this reason. 1 kW at night would go a long, long way for me. It doesn’t work.
If you’re lucky, a small turbine might be able to charge your phone. Maybe. Intermittently.
The turbines scale exponentially with blade size, not linearly. And none of it works well at suburb/city height. You need this things 100ft in the air with large blades.
At that point you might as well get a real one and power your neighborhood. Those things really don’t scale down effectively.
It’s probably to gather your phone number.
6·8 days agoIdk, it’s working pretty great for me.
My experience: https://lemmy.world/post/32326227
I expected his first term to go much as his first term actually did. I expected his second term to be worse, but not this much worse.
If he was going to dismantle NATO, I would have expected him to do it shortly after Putin got him elected.
2·9 days agoYeah, if you don’t do any political activism, and you don’t say things that are unapproved too loudly, and you don’t end up at one of those slave labor (BYD) or corpo plants with the suicide netting, then you can certainly get by with the way things are.
But political activism and freedom of speech and the bill of rights is also how we make things better. Without those, and without people who fought for those, we wouldn’t have “the weekend” as a concept.
And with how much efficiency has risen over the last hundred years, we should be able to do better than just the weekend.
Late, after the publicity, yeah.
Isn’t this old? Is this just regurgitated slop?
They have to. If China hears them talking shit, they’ll hunt them down.
BYD’s slave labor really helps them lower costs for the consumer.
China is already there. Republicans are working to get us there.
I want to gloat about them because I want everyone who can get them to do so. With 2026 technology the majority of residential energy should be produced on site.