As an electrical engineer in the utility space, it takes a very long time to do anything, and to have 100% renewable we need a big leap in battery tech. I think it is theoretically possible in an idealized world with no constraints and no economics but I’m not sure 2030 is going to work and not end with extremely…

Once again the government hates single people.  I mean really REALLY hates them.

I would guess that Sweden’s financial markets are vulnerable to losing their business in a way that US markets are not.

Sorry, but that’s not how tariffs works. Adding tariffs to imported mexican goods would increase the prices of said goods in the US, prices paid for by Americans.

I wasn’t expecting much, but I got to “I would 100% vote for the bartender who just won her first ever political office and has shown absolutely no skills nor achieved anything of any noteworthiness yet for president” and skipped the rest.

Some people just refuse to do the hard (easy to do, hard to accept) math. Same with the argument that the dems should have, uh, rearranged the numeric system so that 49 was more than 51 and blocked Kavanaugh.

Actual governance has to still happen- it’s not all politics, you know?

I’m not sure why most people can’t implement at least half of the things on that list. I already do and I’m not even struggling to pay my bills. It’s just smart money management.

I wouldn’t normally link to the Cunty Mental Telegraph, but this chap actually explains economics well despite being a bastard on all other issues:

That protest sign is prescient.

I am a CPA. Income taxes are due whether one is self employed or employed by another which I assume is what you mean by 10% to the Feds. So, there is no difference between freelancers and employees on that piece. The only piece that a self-employed person picks up that an employed person does not is the employer…

I don’t get it. In what job is inexperience a virtue? None, right? And certainly not the incredibly complicated process of crafting legislation that will affect millions of Americans lives. You don’t seem to really make a case as to why this is a good thing, just some naive sentiment of “old=bad, young=good,” which…

Bernie knows his followers very well:

Probably something like using the resources of the DNC to mount a campaign for POTUS despite NOT being a Democrat; whining and bitching when he wasn’t welcomed as the great white male savior then taking his ball and going home when he didn’t get his way.

The wording is absolutely fine. It lights up when you approach. It’s abundantly clear with context that the sign is telling you that there is in fact an overweight vehicle that must turn coming up. By the time you get that close to the bridge you’ve also received multiple warnings as you approached it. All you’re…

alarmingly, a lot of Glock ammunition, becomes engulfed in flames

I love the rich irony of HamNo criticizing another site, with such insights as:

Did you not read any of the articles complaining about TCJA that characterized the changes to the standard deduction, the limit to SALT, and the cap on the mortgage interest deduction as attacks on blue states? (They probably were, but they were also blows to policies that have been long documented to be massively…

Are far worse than younger people at telling facts from opinions

pretty sexist to describe a 28 year old female journalist as a child