Buelldozer

Sadly it’s a near inevitable outcome of an overly powerful Federal Government attempting to deal with a population this large. The more powerful the Federal Government gets the less able it is to balance the different desires of its citizens and the less popular it becomes.

The solution was to NOT have such a powerful Federal Government but we tossed that out the window around somewhere between 1900 and 1920. It may not happen now over this but the clock is ticking and it’s going to happen at some point over something.

It will be terrifying and terrible when it happens.

Markets will still consider it a win if Trump does not else good in the next 4 years except for extend the “tax cuts and jobs” billionaire and corporate handouts.

Of the Top 10 most profitable companies in the world 8 of them are American. Those 8 companies lost enough Market Capitalization in the last 24 hours to fund a mid-sized Country. “The Markets” are not fucking happy at all.

Inflation from the Fed helicoptering money around was probably the most predicted thing that’s happened in the last 50 years. It should have surprised literally no one.

It’s also no surprise that it hasn’t gone away. That’s called deflation and every central banker on the planet would rather be eviscerated with a rusty spoon than allow deflation to happen.

Setting up a dual wan edge device with fail-over isn’t difficult, it’s the paying for two ISPs part that most people don’t want to do.

This pen / pencil thing has been corrected so many times for so many decades that it’s ludicrous people are still bringing it up.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-nasa-spen/

Random bits of pencil lead floating around in a high tech environment is such a poor idea that even the Soviet’s quit using pencils once Fisher’s Space Pen was available. A pen which Fisher itself paid to develop and then sold to both NASA and the Soviet Space Program.

See, Republicans have been raiding Social Security for petty cash for decades…

That’s a popular opinion but it’s not supported by any reputable source I can find.

Here’s USA Today.

Here’s Politifact.

“Fixing” Social Security can be done pretty simple by just raising the taxable income limit. That could be done at any time but of course Congress is about as useful as wet toilet paper so nothing will happen until it’s a pants on fire emergency.

https://archive.ph/6Xb9o

Syncthing

That is a very cool project that I’d never heard of. Thanks for sharing!

I don’t like this at all.

There’s overlap because of Federal Elections. You can have one set of rules for State / County / City level elections and another set for Federal.

Tesla could have just dumped paperwork on a less busy area and said file all this shit.

I wondered about that myself but I’m not familiar with how Tesla dealerships operate, especially since it’s Canada.

If I was this Judge I’d be requesting a 24x7 security detail from the US Marshals.

but the sales numbers reported by some of the dealerships in question are nothing short of miraculous.

Eh, maybe. I appreciate your skepticism but as a former Sales Guy the ending of the iZEV program would have made sales, including fleet sales, pretty damn easy.

Let say you’ve had a company considering buying 50 EVs for their fleet and suddenly its in the news that the rebate program is ending. You now have 250,000 reasons to call the Dealership and get those vehicles under contract (Sale or Lease).

It works the other way around too. The Sales Schmuck from the dealership goes through his book of recent visitors to the dealership and calls them up. “Hey, I just wanted to let you know that the iZEV program is going to close down. So if you want to save $5,000 you should get down to the dealership right away.” so the person who was interested runs down there and inks a deal.

Those scenarios aren’t just plausible I’ve personally done them. The ending of a rebate program worth thousands or even hundreds of thousands of dollars is a powerful closing tool.

Also the sales numbers only appear “miraculous” if you assume that the transactions all happened in those two days when they almost certainly didn’t. A couple hundred individuals buy cars in January meanwhile the phone is ringing off the hook with fleet sales and suddenly the paperwork is behind.

This looks and smells strongly of fraud.

Transport Canada has the paperwork, you can’t file a rebate claim without it, so its just a matter of time until the truth comes out. If Tesla tried to defraud the Canadian Government then I hope they get crucified for it.

So I’m cruising through the rules surrounding Canada’s iZEV program and contrary to all of the media coverage I can’t find any requirement that the vehicle be “delivered”… It’s even described on the official Transport Canada website as a “Point of Sale” program. Delivery at the time of sale doesn’t seem to be a requirement.

Further if you look at the process, which also references this as a “Point of Sale or Lease” program, and the e-forms the end purchaser IS involved with this and consents to Transport Canada contacting them about their purchase.

The number of vehicles does seem high but only in the context of individuals however the iZEV program allows for Fleet Sales and some entities could claim up to 50 vehicles. Now all of a sudden what would need to be 8,000 individual sales could theoretically be as low as 160.

After reviewing the process and the forms it seems believable that Tesla slammed a bunch of legitimate sales into the system at the last minute. It’s a LOT less believable that Tesla made up all of these sales as the documentation requirements mean they’d certainly be caught the minute anyone checked.

As a taxpayer I would like to know WTF the USAC is doing with 9 Billion dollars a year 'cuz were sure not seeing much of that investment.

I honestly can’t figure out what Congress is doing with these kinds of programs. There’s another one called BEAD (Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment) that was created in 2021 that had yet to get a single household connected to the Internet as of September 2024 despite having already spent $20 BILLION dollars!

So for Fiscal Years 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 the US Federal Government according to official figures spent a combined total of 46 BILLION FUCKING DOLLARS ((9x4)+20) and has nearly nothing to show for it.

Yeah, the courts needs to be looking into this.

Shush Greenie. It’s a Billionaire’s playground and there’s so many of them knocking around that you can’t throw a rock without hitting three of 'em.

The guy who came up with checks and balances really overlooked only giving one branch a military

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The United States didn’t start keeping a large standing Army until after WWII!

Take a look at this from Statista for most of our history the US would build up the military for a war and then strip it back to almost nothing as soon as the fighting was over.

The original guys didn’t fuck it up we allowed Congress to break it!

Not gonna lie, I don’t get the hate.

TEAMs was terrible going into the pandemic but it’s steadily gotten better, especially over the past 18 months. Reading down the comment chain though I’m in awe at the amount of problems that people are apparently still having with it!

TEAMs via app or browser on my Windows 10 box at work? Fine. TEAMs via app or browser on my Windows 11 Surface? Fine. TEAMs via app or browser on my wheezy HP laptop with Windows 11? Fine. TEAMs via browser (Firefox even!) on all three of my Linux systems? Also completely fine!

Hell I’ve got Creative T-60 USB-C speakers, a logi webcam, and Turtle Beach headphones hooked to a USB sharing KVM for two of those linux boxes and it still just works.

I must be the luckiest dumb-ass alive when it comes to MS TEAMs because at least for the last two years it just works.

Yessss Republicans keep grabbing that 3rd rail. Clutch it tighter!