Oh hey, it’s this asshole. This guy is the reason I reacted to that news about making all court rulings only apply locally with some humorous positivity. (also because humor helps me cope with general awfulness)

Hooray, I’m glad my thought process for initial steps was correct. If you don’t mind me asking, my thought process for the recommendation of canvasing as opposed to something like flyers is that doing so would make you and your efforts come across as more human and genuine, especially if part of the pitch was that Comcast was astroturfing, do you know if that’s something that actually works?

I don’t have any experience doing this, so take everything I say with a grain of salt, but my first step would be to collect information on how similar projects have turned out in the past, in terms of cost and adoption, as well as how much money Comcast is spending to counter this effort and what kinds of services they offer in the area at different price points. Then see if there are any people in the community that agree with you on the deployment of municipal internet who could be convinced to make the effort to assist you with convincing the rest of the community. With that information and those people, organize a canvasing effort, as in go door to door and actually talk to people about their stance on the matter. I would focus on that “locally owned and operated” argument, as well as the fact that if Comcast is spending money trying to prevent this they surely must be expecting to earn even more money from not having any competition in the area, so they can get away with higher prices and worse service.

Honestly I think it would be funny to see them try. The vtuber market is pretty resistant to allowing the kind of abusive monetization practices that techbros like, at least from my observations with Niji and the like.

I mean, this is late even by that metric.

I always assumed it stood for “thank goodness it’s fridays” honestly.

I mean, the reason why polyandry is so much less common is that nine months is much longer than half an hour, or at least that’s the most obvious reason.

Oh good, I was hoping, but it’s basically impossible to tell over text.

That’s a different guy, in case you didn’t know (the name is spelled different as well).

What, so I get to stop caring what Matthew Kacsmaryk, that one judge in the fifth circuit who is the only judge in his division so he is easy to shop for, has to say. I’ll be honest, this sounds like a win to me, though I do admit it is going to make protecting the country from Trump more expensive.

The most effective piece of propaganda in history.

My stance on fixing the debt has long been that the only answer is to invest in robust social programs. Such social programs pretty much always increase economic activity, which the government gets to collect taxes on every step of the way. Of course that only works if such investment exists and the government is willing to collect those taxes, neither of which seem to be the case anymore.

That’s really not a very specific list. Being comprehensive and listing all religions that exist would be unreasonably and unnecessarily verbose.

You forgot the whining about DEI.

That didn’t happen.

And if it did, it wasn’t that bad.

And if it was, that’s not a big deal.

And if it is, that’s not my fault. <- You are here

And if it was, I didn’t mean it.

And if I did, you deserved it.

Nope, it was so they could take the 30% cut of every penny that is spent on one of their platforms, and also so that it would be extremely inconvenient to leave their ecosystem since doing so would mean leaving behind most of your data.

See, I’d have said George Santos is the poster child for that.

To be clear, Elon Musk removed radar from Tesla vehicles and not Lidar, but a) he had it removed even from vehicles that had the hardware for radar and b) radar would have been enough to pass all the tests in the video anyway.

Take a second to think about that though, why is your neighborhood bigger than entire cities? Spoiler, the answer is that it was built that way, with absolutely no thought given to how people might function if they don’t want to have to drive to the grocery store or their job.

I saw the video pop up in my Youtube recommended, but didn’t bother watching because I just assumed that any cars tested would be using LIDAR and thus would ignore the fake road just fine. I had no idea Tesla a) was still using basic cameras for this and b) actually had sophisticated enough “self driving” capabilities that this could be tested on them safely.