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arrow74

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  • Spicy Air ☢️

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  • If we didn't fight Nuclear energy for decades we wouldn't have been in half as much trouble as we are in now. But the oil companies won with their smear campaigns.

    Renewable energy is cheaper now, but that wasn't always the case. Also nuclear can be part of solving some of the issues with renewable energy. We can build massive battery banks and double our number of solar farms so that we have power when the sun goes down or we can reduce the need and incorporate nuclear

  • Anon needs a job

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  • That's a good one

  • Gasoline costs 50% more in the US than it did before the Iran war

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  • Idk modern medical care and pain relief is also pretty nice. There are some pretty brutal ways to die that we can avoid with modern technology

  • Hitchless Towing...

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  • Why did we skip past cool tech and go straight to idiocy.

    Like if your car and trailer are connected physically and digitally that could be cool an enhance safety. A trailer that can respond and assist a hard brake? Cool. Wifi or digital connection goes down? Okay now it just works like a normal trailer.

    But no that's too simple and it works

  • While wondering how much of this is going straight into Trump's pocket

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  • While wondering how much of this is going straight into Trump's pocket

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  • America's transit issues is a problem 80 years in the making and covers everything from a post WW2 economic boom to intense lobbying of congress by car manufacturers. Gas is one part of the function, but seems pointless to make up a hypothetical about undoing 80 years of history when we're discussing current events

    If you make gas expensive today it doesn't shorten anyone's commute. Maybe it applies pressure to build public infrastructure, but it's going to take decades to restructure the US. In that time the people suffer and have no other option but to endure the cost

  • While wondering how much of this is going straight into Trump's pocket

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  • You seem to misunderstand density. In my town in Germany I can walk to anywhere I need to go in 30 minutes, and in 50 I can walk from one end of town to the next. I'll pass dozens of bus stops and 3 train connections.

    If I walked that same distance where I grew up in the US I'd be at a gas station, a church, or the woods. None of these offer adequate pay for me to live. I'll pass 0 bus stops, nearest train station would be about 20 miles away still.

    This is why Americans freak out about gas prices. There are no other options in many places. Some people will read that and say "just move", but that fails to acknowledge the ongoing housing crisis.

    So anyway back to the point on average Americans have to drive further and more frequently just to live. In Germany driving is generally more of a choice, at least in my experience, and due to the general density of cities you don't even have to drive far. Which helps with the gas costs.

  • While wondering how much of this is going straight into Trump's pocket

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  • I did carpool with a friend often for the first few semesters, however that eventually didn't work out due to different work and school schedules. I often left class and drove straight to work. The days I didn't work I'd stay in the university library till 11pm doing work. I did have some off days of course, but still long days were common.

    It also took just under 2 hours as it was mostly a rural stretch of interstate. Which helped a lot with gas efficiency at least. My car was also small and gas efficient so it was about 2.5 gallons per day.

    If we round up to 3, that would be about $384 a month at the $8 per gallon price. Which was significantly cheaper than a room in an apartment. Those averaged around $450 to $500, but due to a lack of transit in the city I would still be driving to school. Plus you have to account for semester breaks where I wouldn't be driving at all. Of course gas was ranged from $3 to $3.50 per gallon then.

    But then again I knew a guy who did this commute in a pickup truck. He complained about gas daily.

    Also many of these people were just people I knew, not friends per se.

  • While wondering how much of this is going straight into Trump's pocket

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  • Also Germany is smaller. Most people aren't driving 60km a day for a work commute. That's a fairly reasonable commute in the US.

    Hell I used to commute 130km a day for university. No one would consider that in Germany, but I knew several people from high school making the same commute as me

  • Supreme Court restores access to abortion pill mifepristone through telehealth, mail and pharmacies

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  • With such a short turn around I don't think the court would restart it just to immediately restrict it.

  • 2/10 people on Lemmy, is that you?

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  • Fair enough.

    This does not support my hypothesis

  • New plaque in the White House - this is real

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  • Let's not forget that Trump began the pullout from Afghanistan and negotiated the agreement setting the date by which all troops had to leave.

  • Blue no matter who, right?

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  • Either you're right and he hasn't changed and is lying for votes.

    Or he has changed and actually is going to implement his platform.

    Either way getting Collins out of office is the better outcome. If he actually follows his platform that's even better.

    I'm leaning towards he intends to actually follow his platform based on how poorly the DNC is reacting to his primary win.

  • 2/10 people on Lemmy, is that you?

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  • Allegedly the guy who shot Charlie Kirk was a right extremist who's take was Kirk was too moderate.

    So far I think it's a net gain for democracy though.

    It's an interesting hypothesis

  • Blue no matter who, right?

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  • Now do Collins voting record

  • Blue no matter who, right?

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  • Yeah I know a ton of people that joined in 2001 after 9/11 to "protect" the US. Their subsequent military experience radicalized them against the military complex and American exceptionalism.

  • Blue no matter who, right?

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  • Context matters a lot. He got the tattoo with military buddies in the early 2000s, in Romania.

    It's not very hard to imagine a group of drunk 20 year old men picking a skull tattoo because it "looks badass". There was almost certainly a language barrier with the tattoo artist and back then we didn't all have computers in our pockets to access all the world's information.

    Really not that hard to belive they saw a skull as a skull. It's a relatively obscure symbol even in the modern day.

  • Your Truck is Stupid Big

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  • For my field pickup trucks are the way to go, but we often have to go off road to reach a site.

    That said this truck is still too large. While we may need the extended bed for additionally equipment storage, the front and basically porfile/height could still be reduced significantly. It's a huge issue with modern truck design

  • Fancy pants

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  • Usually I don't care if you steal from a corporation, but I wouldn't do it if my family or kids are involved.

  • politics @lemmy.world
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    Trump says US military ‘always an option’ for acquiring Greenland

    www.theguardian.com /us-news/2026/jan/06/trump-greenland-control-us-military
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    Trump says US military ‘always an option’ for acquiring Greenland

    www.theguardian.com /us-news/2026/jan/06/trump-greenland-control-us-military
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    Truck hauling ‘aggressive’ monkeys carrying herpes and COVID overturns in Mississippi

    www.wtoc.com /2025/10/28/truck-hauling-aggressive-monkeys-carrying-herpes-covid-overturns-mississippi/
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    At somepoint in human history there was likely a day where not a single human died.

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    Trump describes meeting with Putin as ‘extremely productive’

    www.cnn.com /politics/live-news/trump-putin-meeting-news-08-15-25