Yeah I remember reading a negative review for a Raspberry Pi passive cooler case that was a complaining about the case getting hot sometimes. That's the one I got, because yeah guy, that's the thing doing what it's supposed to do.

Would not certifying the results mean that Joe Biden would remain as President? If they wanted to fuck around for too long, Biden could resign which would mean his Vice President would become President.

Someone calls an emergency number and says "My husband has a knife and he's threatening to kill me!"

Should the operator say "nothing we can do until you provide provide me with some evidence, ma'am" ?

This is dumb. Sure Elon Musk is a dickhead. And sure Cybertruck is a dumb vehicle that only dickheads would want to have.

But I'd rather the dickheads be driving a Cybertruck than some other massive vehicle that runs on fossil fuels.

Yeah and if not a bicycle then a Libertarian should at least go with an EV.

Gasoline requires requires far away refineries supplied with crude oil that comes even further away. The government needs to maintain a large military to secure foreign oil to keep the global oil prices down because that's the rate everyone has to pay in a capitalist system. Even then oilt prices are subject to regulation by OPEC, which is an international organization that we don't have any say in.

Meanwhile an EV can be charged by a wind turbine in your home town or even a solar panel on your roof. I suppose the lithium for the battery comes for further away, but once you own that battery you own it. You aren't dependent of oil coming from very far away every week. Sure you'll eventually have to replace that battery, but it's way less frequent than having to gas up. And if it came down to it you could probably produce a battery more locally without lithium if you're willing to sacrifice range.

The fact is a libertarian utopia simply isn't possible with a dependence on oil. Oil is the most international business in the world and requires the most support form the government to function. But with EVs it may be possible to have everything needed for a society to function within a small region. You need big government to get a reliable supply of oil, but with EVs and renewable energy, big government isn't as necessary.

And yeah bicycles are even better than EV in terms of libertarian ideals.

Reminds of the SNL joke about Kyrsten Sinema looks like all of the members of the Scooby Doo gang simultaneously.

It doesn't seem possible but when you look at her it's somehow true.

So let's recap the narrative:

1. Joe Biden stole the election, so we had to storm the capital! 1776 part 2!
2. It wasn't Trump supporters that did that, it was antifaaaaaa
3. Trump went too far we're done with him
4. After consulting the polling numbers, I now think Trump did nothing wrong
5. The crowd was infiltrated by the FBI, the deep state did this
6. While Trump was the greatest President ever, maybe he's just too divisive so maybe we should have someone else
7. I've always supported Trump (please don't primary me!)
8. Trump Forever!
9. Pardons for everyone that was involved in Jan 6, because it was the FBI that made them do it!
10. Jan. 6 was good and correct and we'll do it again, but this time we'll get it right! Because it's what Jesus wants us to do!

There was a documentary I saw once where they used the best estimates for how long it took the Great Pyramid and how large the work force was and then scaled it down. Like if it took a work force of X people Y number of years to build the Great Pyramid, then a few dozen guys would be able to build a two storey tall pyramid in two months with the same technology.

So they did that. And despite being inexperienced with the ancient technology and having to figure out how to push these massive stone blocks on rollers and make the corners around a spiral ramp winding around the pyramid, they got their little pyramid done on time. The math all checks out on people being able to build the pyramids provided they had a large enough workforce and enough time to do it.

Yes the Pyramids are impressive but it's because it took a lot of work over a lot of time to build them. But it required no special technology. Just a lot of dudes pushing heavy blocks on rollers up a ramp over many years.

Yes, the calendar was made by monks many centuries later that were doing the best they could to estimate when Jesus was born.

This is disputed by exactly no one.

Also, the monks were shooting for 1 AD to be the year of the birth of Jesus.

We've all experienced the walk of shame to the server room to hook up a monitor keyboard.

Yeah back in the golden era of streaming you only needed Netflix, most of the shows on there were good, and everything would eventually be on there. So piracy was too much of pain in the ass to bother with to save $10 a month.

Now there's 10 different streaming services most of them cost a lot more than $10 per month, you have to wade through pages of crap to find anything worth watching. If you hear about a show or movie that sounds interesting you can't just wait for it to show up on Netflix. You have to go and search for which streaming service has the show you want and there's a good likelihood you're not subscribed to that one.

It's now far easier to search on the 'bay for what you want to see (you have to do a search anyway) and they always have it. Yeah I guess you're not instantly watching it, but you're not instantly watching a thing you want to see on a streaming service now anyway, because have to scroll past a wall of crap to find anything.

My general feeling on piracy is that when you're young and don't have much money, you can't afford to pay for it anyway, you may as well pirate it. When you get older and can afford it then you should pay for movies and video games and stuff. But when they make it more of a pain in the ass to buy something than it is to pirate things, then I dunno what to say. I have money and want to pay for a service that I can just chill and watch cool stuff, but they seem more interested in various schemes to impress shareholders than providing me the thing I'm willing to pay for.

Damn... that started off good then took a really sharp turn into asshole town.