I’m not shocked.

Minnesotans have the highest voter turnout, have the second hours per capita of volunteers, has a rich history of immigration, and in general neighborhoods, churches, and other ‘third places’ are both welcoming and tight knit.

Hell there was a massive “socialist” co-op movement here in the 70s and 80s that had a huge and lasting impression on our politics.

Even our conservatives in the past tended to be the ‘libertarian’ type of conservatives, though of course the national circus has been having an influence since around 2015.

But even to this day polls show that identity politics don’t play as well in Minnesota as they appear to on the national stage. People don’t care about what happens in your home (perhaps to a fault), but if you visibly contribute to the community even in a small way (shoveling snow for or with a neighbor is the very true trope), you become one of us.

The massive protests following George Floyd’s death proved that Minnesota is a place where normal people will take real political action when they are pushed.

All this in mind, I think ICE was always going to fail here. But the death of Renee Nicole Good has dumped gasoline onto the fire and is turning what would have been a quiet failure they would have just stopped talking about nationally into an explosive situation.

I don’t know where this ends. I don’t want Minnesota to bleed any more then it already has, but I know we will stand firm.

I came into this world naked, and I’m leaving it naked!

56%? So basically the popular vote when voters actually fucking vote.

It’s the same damn statistic every time. 60% people horrified, 30% cheering, 10% cheering while making a good show of wringing their hands.

First past the post, education politicization, political disenfranchisement, and gerrymandering have created millions of monsters. I only hope democracies abroad take this as their wakeup call to fix the broken systems creating the global authoritarian / auth-right movement.

Nah, she thought she was done. You can see her putting the cap back on in the screenshot, or just watch the video where she runs and rings a bell signaling she’s finished.

She also did the math starting at the hundreds place and working down.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiWWeArRk9g

Another option: https://www.debuyer.com/en/

Made in France

Fuckin football team with a side hustle.

https://github.com/th3jesta/ha-lcars

I much prefer QT. The GTK ethos since Gnome 3 is basically: “We’re making this for our own needs, we don’t care about what you want”

And while I sympathize and understand the frustrations that downstream brings, I don’t think any project not part of Gnome/GIMP should be building on it.

QT is built from the ground up to be used by anyone, regardless of needs or use case. It’s a better fit for building complex software like desktop environments.

It’s like the pigs can’t read.

In Europe you could also check out Starlabs, which are more local and will have extensive replacement parts available.

https://starlabs.systems/

Decades of destroying our education system and rigging our first past the post system in their favor. Our politics are fucked because our political systems are fucked and have disenfranchised our voters.

I blew out my unbranded brand jeans in 3 months. Levis last me significantly longer at a third the price.

Carhartt.

W… Will this mean team orders under comprehensible and non-insane circumstances?

Ugh. Probably not.

For true BIFL, you want jointed hardwood lumber. Amish furnature sellers are a reliable source, though expect to pay a premium.

But it’ll be bombproof.

I’m pretty sure that’s the ‘hot seed water’, since technically coffee berries are not cherries and the ‘bean’ isn’t a pit, it’s a seed.

Bullies never expect their targets to resist.

Honestly the current system of time is pretty decent. Base 10 isn’t inherently superior for everything.

However.

The calendar… Awful. Messy. Arbitrary. I feel like we missed the boat when the world didn’t immediately adopt the International Fixed Calendar.

Ah, damn.

I gotta say I disagree.

Even the best solar panels (best being lightweight, rugged, and decent output) are usually 500g without a battery pack, and then you have to tinker with it and haul it in the open.

Real-world testing with a highly recommended solar panel, the Nomad 10W, says you can charge a 10k battery roughly every 2.5 days in “good” conditions.

A good 10k battery bank (nitecore 10k @150g) + the Nomad 10W (500g) = 650g

Now on day 1 with these nearly ideal conditions you’re going to have 10k mAh in your power budget

Day 2 you have (10000/2.5) = 4000mAh solar power for a total of 14k mAh

Day 3 you have 18k mAh

Day 4 you have 22k mAh

Day 5 you have 26k mAh

Day 6 you have 30k mAh

For a whole week you have 34k mAh.

The alternative is you use your 650g budget to buy as many nitecore battery banks as you can afford. That’s 650g / 150g = 4 10k battery banks.

That’s 40,000 mAh in 600g vs 34,000 mAh in 650g during nearly ideal conditions.

Break even doesn’t happen until midway though day 9. 9 days of ideal solar conditions to break even and begin seeing a benefit to bringing a solar cell.