shalafi

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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

The Supreme Court has often stood against him and is now. He thought he could buy them, you thought he could buy them, they don't agree with either of you.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

neckbeard freedomfighters

LOL, that is delicious.

Been downvoted plenty of times for saying I don't get 1/10th of the Windows hassle lemmy talks about, probably less. Don't have the LTSC version of 11, but it's from a plain Jane ISO, not a factory install, which I would bet is the cause of many people's pain.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Worked just a couple of months ago. Doubt it will this time.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Our electrical guys are prepared to roll hard and fast after a serious weather event. I'm stunned that so much infra is still above ground though.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

And yet lemmy eats it up without question. Kinda reminds me of conservatives.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Where does the endorsement come in? Nothing in the article.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago (2 children)

They need someone like me doing interviews. Every time I see videos like this, the presenter is obviously liberal, got that vibe. Middle-aged white redneck like me could really get people talking. To MAGA, I'm "safe", not some city-slicker lib come to dunk on them.

And no, not saying the interviewer did anything like that at all. But I hope you get my gist.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago (6 children)

We're not even this backwards in Florida. Solar is booming out here in the sticks. Our soil sucks in NW Florida, so while you may see miles and miles of woods and forests, the top soil is paper thin, sand all the way to China.

We're happily converting that poor land to solar, fast as we can go. Haven't seen it make a dent in my bill, certain there's plenty of fuckery. We had a cool quasi-private/government power company, our politicians sold us out to all private.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Sounds fun to play around with, but lonely, socially isolated people will get sucked in. God knows the internet has created enough people like that, this just feeds the beast.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I voted in the Florida special election for our 1st district rep, knew damned well she'd lose. But here's the important bit, she didn't lose as badly as expected. And the other race was a good bit closer than expected.

We can call people like MTG an idiot, but even an idiot can look at an Excel sheet and see slippage. So yes, vote, even for a certain loser. They are paying attention.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world -2 points 1 week ago

Can't get my head around this, especially after Somali pirates became a thing, article didn't help. If armed men are trying to board my ship, I'm shooting back. These men didn't sign up to be soldiers, but self-defense is not only a human right, it's common sense. You have no idea what those pirates will do to you. Couple of dudes with scoped AR-15s would make short work of these jokers, just lead 'em a little. For that matter, equip them with real hunting rifles.

Take a look at the article picture. Those guys would be lucky to hit any damned thing with that tiny boat skipping over ocean waves. Try running and gunning, even with airsoft. No matter what you have to pause to shoot and these ships can't pause. Meanwhile, the defenders have the high ground and a perfectly stable platform. And it's not like the pirates can get the drop on ship's radar.

What am I missing here?

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

To be fair, the logistics are challenging when there are multiple pieces spread around and mixed up.

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