I’ve met more than a few libertarians that view an essential role of the government is banning books that mention gay people.

A lot of libertarians are just Republicans mad the Republican party isn’t fascist enough. Their “small government” ideals often include government functions like making sure everyone worships Jesus.

FFS, I’ve seen idiots proudly waving the libertarian flag AND a thin blue line flag.

Not fucking good, the bill is hot garbage and the fact that so many Senate Democrats and Biden support it is an embarrassment.

It’s a bill criminalizing a non-problem that creates a worse issue than what it “solves”. We don’t need or benefit from a more militaristic boarder and xenophobic/racist rhetoric about people crossing.

This garbage kills people and promotes human trafficking. The bill Democrats should be supporting is loosening the boarder and opening pathways to citizenship. We don’t need more detention centers to separate children from their families.

This bill is the same as if the Democrats put up an anti abortion bill just to show that the Republicans don’t care about stopping abortions. Democrats implementing Republican’s fascist policies is not what we need. Not even as a “gotcha”.

A bill so bad that even the ADL is opposed to it.

I think we are on the same page. I completely agree that EVs aren’t enough or even the best solution.

Where does your power come from?

Right now? Primarily hydro with a strong solar and wind showing. Roughly 10% of my power is from Fossil fuels.

You are just shifting the shit elsewhere

Even with a pure fossil fuel grid, EVs still end up producing less CO2 than ICE vehicles. However, grids aren’t pure fossil fuels which means EVs are far cleaner than Fossil fuel vehicles. Especially in my current circumstance.

Less than 8% of energy consumption in the US comes from renewable energy. Another 8% come from nuclear.

13% while being one of the fastest growing energy production sectors.

https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/us-energy-facts/

That’s petrol / natural gas / coal powering your home, factories, shops, and restaurant

Not mine because I live in the Pacific North West which is the greenest grid in the US.

Corruption is a big reason. Mexican government leaders tough on the cartels tend to end up dead

Are you saying that systematic generational poverty imposed on black people via discriminatory policy and law is not a component of CRT

As far as I understand, no. Related for sure but not really what CRT is about.

The important thing about CRT, in my understanding, is that it takes a view that even with non-racist intent, racist laws are setup due to the lack of participation.

For example, let’s say a city wants to build out a mass transit system, however, nobody on the board lives in neighborhoods where POC live. As a result, when placing the lines they don’t consider the problems with running them through those neighborhoods or not having enough stops in those neighborhoods. A racist outcome even though the people making the decisions may have never considered race while making those decisions. It’s simply the fact that nobody affected by those decisions had representation.

The critical in CRT refers to critical theory, which posits that problems in society can generally be attributed to social structures more than anything else.

Another example would be in policing. Consider what may seem to be a good policy “Let’s send police to areas with high rates of crime.” The issue is, crime rates are a result of policing so a natural consequence of sending police to where crimes are found is police will find more crimes which creates a feedback loop. Add in just a few cops with racial biases (even unconscious) and now this seemingly benign policy has racist enforcement.

What CRT would posit is that getting more POC into positions of power would ultimately limit the effects of legal racism. A failure of the CRT notion is that while race is related, so is socioeconomic status. The issue with just seating a black person is black people like Clarence Thomas exist. Further, the black people you would seat are highly likely to have participated in the education and social situations that have caused the issues of systemic racism in the first place. You can’t just pick the person from the same neighborhood as the rest of the board that has melanin and think “This solves racism”.

In otherwords, America is broken on more than just race, class is a major issue. Which is what you touch on. People of color have by and large historically been forced into a lower class and that’s where a lot (not all) of the racism problems stem.

Hope that makes sense. This is mostly just my understanding though so feel free to correct it if you’ve got good resources on it. I’m not an expert, just interested in the rantings of my political enemies.

To be blunt, even this isn’t CRT.

CRT is more generally “for the longest time, non-white people have been excluded from civic participation which has led to laws and structures that implicitly benefit white people”.

That is, it’s a concept about political and legal power in the US.

And what’s more disturbing is what the right ACTUALLY means by CRT. They are mad about civil rights AND the historical facts about racism BEING TAUGHT AT ALL. Literally “we don’t want kids taught that slavery and segregation existed and/or that it was morally wrong”.

I think correctly defining CRT somewhat misses the more disturbing problem of “wait, what DO you mean by CRT”.

Hmm, so anyone want to fork the project? I don’t own their devices so have never signed their ToS. I’d love to see how they’d reason I’m breaking some law by hosting the code.

The media is starting to turn on Israel. It took them long enough and there’s a lot of damage that’s been done (like firing and sidelining all muslim commentators)

The lightest lightest pressure possible, basically a “maybe you guys should chill out a bit” has been said. Not cease fire, not “we’ll withdraw aid” but rather “this seems a bit much”.

Slowly, most media outlets are FINALLY getting to the point where “hey, maybe the fact that Israel just leveled 70% of Gaza, all the hospitals, and they’ve shut down aid, food, water, and power, while telling the residents to move up Egypt is a bad thing”

It’s insane it’s taken this long for Biden to put up even a modicum of pressure on Israel to slow down.

AAA says that EV batteries tend to lose power faster in cold weather, getting as little as 50-60% of their advertised range.

Right, and the EVs that lose that much range are the ones with the smallest battery packs. The heating requirement as a percentage of the battery pack goes down as the battery gets larger. It takes roughly the same amount of energy to keep a 40kWh battery warm as it does to keep a 150kWh battery warm.

The same logic doesn’t directly translate for a car as a bus.

Buses will have fairly large batteries (Bird does 150kWh). The percentage of the battery needed for heat goes down as size goes up because the interior size is relatively negligible in how much added heating capacity is needed to keep the bus warm.

But yes, probably wouldn’t be too crazy to throw on a propane heater in especially cold climates.

For sure, fuck republicans for their undemocratic actions.

1. Electric cars run just fine in icy weather

2. Heatpumps, which work a lot better for larger buses than smaller buses.

Bus routes are generally short, fixed, and planned. They are literally the perfect place for an EV.

Friendly reminder to everyone to check your registration status, like right this instant. Because some of these states have REALLY bad registration laws to try and keep you from voting.

https://www.vote.org/

Congress was going to create an agency with the teeth to enforce regulations. So Nixon made the EPA and made sure it couldn’t hold corporations accountable.

This is a bad take. There were already several federal agencies with some teeth, but their powers were hyper focused. The EPA was a consolidation of those agencies.

When the EPA was established and ratified by congress, it was super popular. It passed the house 401-21 and the senate 89-11. Being environmentally conscious was popular across the aisle. There were actually right wing eco terrorists if you can believe it (Ted Kaczynski). Under nixon, ford, and carter, the EPA saw massive expansions of power.

The reason the EPA became a bugbear of the right is Ronald Reagan. EPA was big government at it’s finest and reagan hated that. Reagan was the super sellout to corporate America and Clinton wasn’t a whole lot better with his “the era of big government is over”.

Waaa? Didn’t you read the supreme court’s real official and super enforceable and cool ethics standards they published in response to Thomas’s million dollar modest vacations?

I’m sure the upstanding justices will LEAP to follow their own guidelines. /s

The Walmart self checkout layout is generally just bad. Because they are paranoid about theft, it’s setup to make it easy for the worker monitoring to make sure nothing fishy is going on. However, that means that the customers that want to checkout often can’t see what’s open.

This creates lines as the machines aren’t fully utilized.

But further, it’s often the case that for whatever reason these machines need an employee to interact. With 10 machines running at full capacity, that means longer waits for everyone because 3 machines are waiting for an id badge scan.

Walmart can solve some of these problems with more employees but that cost money.