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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • Space Engineers.

    It’s not so much that I’m stuck, as that I hit a motivational wall when I realized I have no goal.

    Just building stuff isn’t so interesting to me. I like to build stuff to solve problems.

    For a long time my goal was to get to the moon. Now I’m just bored. I’ve done a little stuff on the moon, including making a specialized drilling ship that gobbles up ore at a ridiculous rate then lifts it back to my moon base, and a welding ship that stores massive numbers of plates, and a loading station that automatically fills it from the base’s network.

    But I’m just bored. Kinda want to play it multiplayer, but all the servers are too ephemeral to build anything of consequence on.




  • I’ve reviewed 3 articles on this: the three top results on the event from a google news search for hinds county ballots. Those three articles do not back up what OP is claiming.

    There are many other articles. If someone else would like to step in and do some reading and add more sourced information about this, it would be greatly appreciated.

    As of now OP’s claim about Republicans’ actions in this event is unsubstantiated.

    Be skeptical, people


  • I just reviewed this article from WLBT (conceivably a local station?) that was published on election day, while this was happening.

    It opens with this:

    A member of the Hinds County Republican Executive Committee is considering filing a lawsuit to keep the polls open longer after a number of Hinds County precincts ran out of ballots.

    “We’re trying to figure out how to do it,” said committee member Pete Perry. “We’re trying to make sure voters get to vote.”

    In direct opposition to what OP claims, the Republicans were fighting to keep the polls open.

    Again, still open to conflicting evidence, which support’s OP’s claim.

    So far what I can tell is that Democrats dropped the ball, disenfranchised thousands of black voters, and then attempted to blame Republicans for it, after also claiming to take responsibility for the failure.



  • According to this article on the event:

    • The commission which screwed up the ballots order was composed entirely of Democrats
    • All members of the commission took responsibility for the failure (meaning they didn’t identify who actually made the mistake)
    • One commissioner blamed the failure on inadequate training from the Secretary of State’s office (which conflicts with the taking of responsibility for it)
    • When interviewed, the commission was unable to list any concrete steps they had taken to ensure it doesn’t happen again
    • (There’s no mention of any discussion of extending the polling hours)

    So it really, really sounds like a bunch of Democrats disenfranchised the black voters of Hind county, then failed to take responsibility for the screw-up, then failed to take it seriously enough to actually fix it.

    Happy to review any evidence to the contrary; this is the first I’ve heard of this debacle but the OP doesn’t seem to be backed up by the facts here.

    Anyone have evidence of the Republicans’ alleged actions here?


  • I rent a car for uber. They recently changed it so all rentals must be electric. I don’t have a way to charge at home, which means I pay 60¢/kWh to charge the car. I get about 200 miles of range for about $20.

    Those who charge at home, overnight, get subsidized electricity for charging an EV, so they pay 4.2¢/kWh, or about 7% of what I pay to charge the car.

    source

    It pisses me off that this decision, to force all rental uber drivers to use EVs, was probably made by someone who lives in a house and has no idea that people who rent cars to drive uber tend to live in shitty little apartments with no at-home charging.

    Not only do I pay through the nose for energy, more than I would pay for gas, I lose 1-2 hours of income per day just twiddling my thumbs in random grocery store parking lots.

    And that doesn’t count the time lost driving from station to station looking for an available charger.