splinter

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[–] splinter@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

True, but I’m asking what they can do, and that’s far from clear. What do you suggest?

[–] splinter@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago

I agree completely. It’s clear we’re in need of much stronger constitutional safeguards.

[–] splinter@lemm.ee 11 points 5 months ago (3 children)

As you pointed out, they attempted to subpoena Musk and the republicans voted it down. They’ve also introduced articles of impeachment, which they successfully put through last time only to have senate republicans refuse to convict on the basis that trump was no longer president.

[–] splinter@lemm.ee 22 points 5 months ago (10 children)

Politely, I think this comment is unhelpful. What do you propose that they do? Our government is based to a large degree on the assumption of good faith. The Supreme Court, for example, has power because the constitution says it does. They don’t have the capacity to actually enforce the rulings they hand down.

The current president has basically said that he doesn’t care about the constitution, and is just concerned with stealing power for himself and his cronies. Elections are supposed to be our mechanism for dealing with that.

[–] splinter@lemm.ee 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Who said it resulted in no difference in voter turnout?

[–] splinter@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago

Is plastic vegan?

[–] splinter@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

I’m aware. The collateral for the credits are EV sales, hence my shorthand.

[–] splinter@lemm.ee 22 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It appears at the moment that the instructions were acknowledged and that the helicopter pilots were mistaken about which plane they were avoiding, not that they ignored instructions.

And regardless, the purpose of an air traffic controller is to monitor traffic continuously. Having the prescribed number of atcs would have made space for the tower to see that the helicopter was on a collision course and act to avoid it.

[–] splinter@lemm.ee 5 points 5 months ago

You misread the sheet slightly. The total profit for the year was $7.1 billion, of which $2.8 billion was renewable energy credits. I.e. their profit would have only been $4.3 billion.

[–] splinter@lemm.ee 21 points 5 months ago (2 children)

You are. Without the EV credits, Tesla would have folded years ago.

[–] splinter@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

No, that’s an incorrect summation of one part of my argument.

The response to your comment is in my second sentence.

[–] splinter@lemm.ee 6 points 5 months ago

There is no poly shaming going on here. The article makes clear that:

  1. Kennedy was not poly with his ex wife. He just repeatedly cheated on her.
  2. He invoked the term to try and justify his behavior. And he is the only person here who made any moral judgement about it - he called it “wrong”.
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