The oil companies and their billionaire oligarchs are making bank on this. Note that the Feds dropped the EV tax credit in the US and Chinese EVs cannot be sold in the US, and the picture will begin to come into focus. Also note that the best selling EVs in a country with artificially few options to choose from are manufactured by a company owned by… yes, a billionaire oligarch. The US is a Klepto-Oligarchy with a veneer of Democracy.
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AgentSeven@lemmy.zipto
politics @lemmy.world•Texas abortion ban caused pregnant woman’s death, lawsuit saysEnglish
13·1 day agoThey’re ambivalent about her death because they are mentally deranged and one less abortion in the world is more important to them than her living.
AgentSeven@lemmy.zipto
News@lemmy.world•Federal Reserve hikes key rate for 1st time in 3 years, defying Trump demands for a cut
8·2 days agoI find it telling that Trump has not been able, in this second term, to do what he appeared to do so easily in his first term (lower interest rates). I believe in some respects, the United States is under tight control, and it is not by Trump - or any president. Interest rates are set by… Those Who Set Interest Rates. Whether or not that aligns with Trump’s desires, as it turns out, is merely coincidental.
AgentSeven@lemmy.zipto
Political Memes@lemmy.world•They vote against help then become leopardsatemyface material
12·3 days agoRepublicans pass up no opportunity to deride the post office and they defund it/depopulate it every chance they get. I was just at the post office, huge post office in a major metro that’s always been very busy. It now has only one of three buildings open, half the lights off inside it and one clerk at the counter. The line is always out the door. Meanwhile several people in line, quite obviously Republicans (old, white, obnoxious/noisy), are bitching and moaning about how shit the post office is. Republicans are stupid, shitty, worthless people.
AgentSeven@lemmy.zipto
Technology@lemmy.ml•So what I'm reading is that they're either making a gentleman's agreement to let Chinese labs run circles around them or the easy gains are over and they're now running into a wall
54·6 days agoSoftbank and Oracle are gonna die
Please I can only get so erect.
AgentSeven@lemmy.zipto
News@lemmy.world•Trump Falls Asleep Onstage at September 11 Ceremony
401·7 days ago
Well, sure.
AgentSeven@lemmy.zipto
politics @lemmy.world•Trump says he’s prioritizing Iran war over gas pricesEnglish
5·7 days agomortgage rates are climbing
This shouldn’t be cited as a bad thing with inflation where it is. Interest rates are the primary lever that the Fed uses to control inflation. When interest is higher, inflation cools down. When you lower them it heats up. Not that it’s that big a help when the price of gas is doubling because of *checks notes* an unending war in the Middle East that nobody asked for.
Constant, nonstop lowering of interest rates ordered by a fucking idiot from 2016-2020 (going to near ZERO) most directly caused the current housing price situation. Guess which idiot I’m talking about. That’s right, the same guy who has been trying to do the same thing for the past two years because when property values go up, so does his bottom line and nothing else in the world fucking matters to the orange dipshit.
AgentSeven@lemmy.zipto
politics @lemmy.world•Buckle Up, Whiskey Pete. Your Worst Nightmare Is Coming For You.English
241·8 days agoMaybe win some elections and don’t get ICEd before you start threatening people? Just sayin.
AgentSeven@lemmy.zipto
Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Breaking Benjamin frontman pauses concert to rant about Fallout 4 modding beef: 'There was a modder in the community that was really mean to me'English
7·10 days agoFallout 4 Script Extender This mod list is PC only and requires F4SE
Silent Protagonist Get rid of the annoying voiced protagonist
SCDC - Subjective Cinematic Dialogue Camera Camera no longer focuses on you during dialog (goes with Silent Protagonist)
Extended Dialogue Interface Get rid of the abbreviated choice wheel, get a full dialog like FNV, spells out what you will actually say
Start Me Up - Alternate Start and Dialogue Overhaul Start the game as any character you like, Sean quests remain but become third party
Start Me Up - Patch for Silent Protagonist Required for Start Me Up to work with Silent Protagonist
Classic-Overseer-Monofonto Font Replacer Brings back the FNV font for dialog
HUD Plus Plus Not FNV related but really useful for gathering crafting mats
HUDFramework Required by HUD Plus Plus
Improved Map with Visible Roads Makes the Pip Boy map more like the FNV map
PerkPointsPerLevel Makes character progression more like FNV by doubling your perk points
Faster Terminal Displays Speeds up terminal displays so they are more like FNV
Deadlier Deathclaws Makes Deathclaws fearsome again
Preston Garvey No Radiant Settlement Quests Self explanatory
Mod Configuration Menu Required by several mods
No More Creation Club New Gets rid of Creation Club note on the splash page
Achievements Allows achievements despite mods
AgentSeven@lemmy.zipto
Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Breaking Benjamin frontman pauses concert to rant about Fallout 4 modding beef: 'There was a modder in the community that was really mean to me'English
14·10 days agoThere is a way to do it with several mods that I did. It works great.
AgentSeven@lemmy.ziptointerestingasfuck@lemmy.world•This jellyfish is the only known animal on Earth that cannot die of old age. When it gets sick or injured, it reverts back to a baby — and starts its entire life over again. Scientists call it biolog…
11·11 days agoIt’s true. There are a lot of articles like this one that go into more detail.
AgentSeven@lemmy.zipto
politics @lemmy.world•Donald Trump Took a Wrecking Ball to the White House. The Next President Must Do the Same
2·11 days agoThe country won’t be able to do this because, as strange as it is, 33% of it is literally in a cult that worships the man. Only with the true and full will of the country behind you could you hope to do what needs to be done: full asset seizure and trial for crimes and treason and whatever proper associated punishment follows.
But you can’t do it, because he fully controls 1 out of every 3 people you see on the street in America. While that’s far from a majority, it’s enough to make a proper accounting impracticable. 33% of the country would be going feraljak about the government being weaponized.
But even beyond him, there’s something else that desperately needs doing and that’s an overhaul of the Constitution. The document was fantastic for 1787. It is woefully inadequate to run the modern United States. Its biggest shortcoming, ironically, is the absolute inability of government to properly and deftly respond to the very success that it’s principles have brought to it.
None of it’s going to get done until everybody is so miserable that they no longer have anything tribal on their stupid, small minds. There’s going to have to be real pain, like starvation and suffering going on before real change is going to be able to be effected because people are still fat and happy enough to sit around and guffaw while Trump owns the libs, even as the cost of everything around them doubles.
AgentSeven@lemmy.zipto
Technology@lemmy.world•Australians will be able to switch off social media algorithms under planned legislationEnglish
5·12 days agoThis was what came to my mind as well, however Google does let you turn off your history for YouTube and when you do that (as I do) it just shows a blank page when you go there, so that’s one way it can be done.
Nobody does it because everybody likes to pretend they don’t like the crack until they have to go without. I do it on principle because YouTube has single-handedly changed a particular member of my family, one of the most innocuous people in the world, to someone who has loathsome opinions. I hate it a lot and don’t want that for myself. I am on no social media that serves up anything based on your previous clicking behavior.
AgentSeven@lemmy.zipto
Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Onlookers fear ‘something very wrong’ with Trump as he claims US ownership of the moon - Raw StoryEnglish
34·13 days agoGasoline is $5. Diesel is $7.
Oh interesting to see Space Jockey using the Motter Tektura font from Apple’s early days. Copyright is 1982, so they were definitely cashing in, as Apple had been using this font for their logo for nearly 5 years by that point.
AgentSeven@lemmy.zipto
Open Source@lemmy.ml•AI Crawler Index: 150 AI crawlers, the 74 operators behind them, and what blocking each one costs you
13·13 days ago“What you lose” OK, lol.
AgentSeven@lemmy.zipto
Technology@lemmy.zip•Mullvad shutting down their public DNS-serversEnglish
7·15 days agoHuh, I just switched to Quad9 this morning. Weird that this popped up.



Well, now you can’t say all the older not chronically online fans you know rave about it, because I’m older, not chronically online and I think it sucks.
Edit: I’ve just found out that “not chronically online” means “too incompetent to do shit online” so my apologies for misunderstanding. I thought it just meant, you know, not being online a lot. Like me. I’ve posted to Lemmy about 10 times in the past 5 days. I have literally no other social media accounts on the Internet. I was on Facebook for like a week in 2014 before I noped out. BUT! I can make an account on Lemmy, so my opinions about Star Trek are clearly only informed by being a chronically online mouth-breather.