I think it’s comfort. That can be if different things for different people and it can be many things at once.

• Spiritual comfort that your god loves you.

• Emotional comfort that you can do no wrong.

• Community comfort that you and the people like you are the chosen people.

• Life/death comfort for what happens after death.

• Intellectual comfort to know all the answers.

• Vindictive comfort to hate the people you want to.

It can just keep going.

Excellent! I like this idea so much. To show my support I will not vote! (/s)

And ducks?

I realized this is why they’re freaking out about Antifa. The right wing has militias (of several forms), so they project that Antifa is a militia. It’s always projection.

Melinda French Gates[2] (born Melinda Ann French; August 15, 1964)

Huh

Melinda French Gates[2] (born Melinda Ann French; August 15, 1964)

All sorts of things exist. It doesn’t really matter until someone makes it mainstream.

Reagan is the one that started defining the government as evil. He said "The scariest words you can hear is ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’ " From then on anything the government did was bad and evil by definition. He’s very much the start of this major problem of “drown the government in the bathtub” people. He launched the whole wave of them. You can’t negotiate with people that think that kind of thing because to them it’s all bad and evil. We haven’t even touched on his Reaganomics. Nixon was corrupt but at least he thought government had a role (he even started the EPA).

Yes we can blame Fox News too.

And what about Ukraine? Pretty obvious Trump wants Russia to win.

Never underestimate how uniformed people are.

“[He thought] it’s just going to go away because he so desperately wanted it to disappear the way flu disappears as you enter the end of the winter and the beginning of the spring,” Fauci said.

Who are you kidding you don’t know Morse code.

Probably NG pipeline going to a LNG terminal (plant).

Common law marriage!

Then people won’t even get into relationships.

Lol $100k US, but global is Canadian and they converted to $130k CAD.

I think in certain areas for your EV you want a gas powered heater for the battery and cabin. That’s how I think EV transit buses should do it too.

It advanced at a glacier pace because there was no massive driving force. It only kicked off a bit with cell phones and then in any substantial way with laptops. (Yes, batteries existed before that for different things, but there was no massive driving force.) Now imagine what would have happened if we funded it starting in the 1970s.

Fertilizer.

It’s incredible how certain people are conditioned to think the sound of a gas motor and shifting because your puny motor is out of optimal torque and rpm range are manly.

Long term we’ll get lighter batteries.