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That is 1) Extremely rude. Why should *I* leave my home state just so you can be comfortable in UT ? 2) A hypocritical "solution" to the issue. I might as well rudely inform people on the opposite side to leave Texas instead. Which would be ridiculous. I participate in our democracy at every...

I am also comfortable with the beginning, "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State,..." but that got thrown out with the SCOTUS ruling District of Columbia vs. Heller (2008), so that original intent is conveniently ignored now. Note that Justice Scalia wrote the...

You've raised two very important points: "Vile vitriol" while it can be rude and offensive, is just talk. In the public sphere we're allowed a pretty wide range of freedom of speech, with a few legal exceptions (libel, slander, the old "shouting 'fire!' in a crowded theater"). It's worlds...

For me, the real difference between the sides here vs. the std. "bothsider-ism" stance in the media is that for the extreme MAGA right, "cramming a bunch of things down their throats that they don't want" is just their coded language for "people I don't like who just want to exist in the world."...

As a lifelong U.S. citizen, you hit the nail on the head! "John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires." --- Ronald Wright, A Short History of Progress (2004)

LOL, I was just gonna say! There seems to be a lot of "projecting" and speculating going on in some of these responses. "Women prefer High-T men" etc... Many arguments of this sort I've read in the past start from a person who wants to "prove" a certain opinion and then constructs arguments that...

Democracy is fragile. It only takes good people doing nothing (i.e. not voting) for people with bad/selfish intentions to get their way. After that, it's Hell getting it turned around again. At the risk of being smacked by the Moderators, remember that in the early 1930s Germany was a Republic...

I'm on Visible and they removed the 5 mbps throttle a long while ago. I think it's only in place if you use your phone as a hotspot - but that's unlimited as well for one connected device. On Visible Basic you get full LTE speed on your phone as long as you have good connectivity (lots of bars)...

Here's a fact-check article from Reuters on the topic from back in 2021 (and yeah, I was here - power was off in my N. Texas suburb for almost 2 days and it got down to the low single-digits): Fact check: The causes for Texas’ blackout go well beyond wind turbines For me, the biggest things...

I think there are factors that would alleviate some of this: Centralized power plants are better suited to carbon-capture technologies since it can all happen at once, on-site. Natural gas lends itself to centralized power generation and is lower-carbon emitting than some other fuels. Also...

Living in the D/FW area we have LOTS of great Indian restaurants and grocery stores avail, and I'm a huge fan. Favorites are butter chicken, malai kofta, palak paneer, different kinds of biryani, naan & roti flatbread, and a nice rice kheer with almonds & pistachios for dessert.

Welcome, Britney! and yeah, what others have said... A/C is very "expensive" WRT electricity in the van-dwelling world. I've seen some vans / Class B RVs that can run A/C off of batteries. But these folks have very large battery systems (expensive) coupled with very efficient 12V DC RV air...

Really, all energy is simply converted from one form to another. "Matter and energy can neither be created nor destroyed" as the law of the conservation of matter and energy says. Hydrogen is simply one way of storing potential energy to be used later. And that energy came from whatever was...

Found a helpful comparison for the two best VPN services avail right now: NordVPN and ExpressVPN. See https://lifehacker.com/tech/nordvpn-vs-expressvpn Oh, and if you really want an anti-malware app for your Mac, I'm pretty happy with TrendMicro.

This shouldn't be a problem, as when any process uses the hydrogen to produce power (e.g. in a fuel cell to generate electricity) it ends up combining with O2 in the atmosphere and producing H2O as exhaust anyway. So there shouldn't be any net increase in atmospheric O2 levels.

You got it right, IMH (and professional) opinion. Off the top of my head, here's what I suggest for most normal people, in no particular order: If you run MS Windows, use a decent anti-virus/anti-malware app. MS Defender, which comes with Windows, is good enough. Mac, Linux, and ChromeOS users...

Cybersecurity person here, who does that for a living. Happy is right. Unless you have the knowledge and time to commit to it, going fully "stealth / gray man" in the digital world is a fool's errand. You'll also have to give up a lot of conveniences and functionality to do this. For Android...

This was the "Cheap RV Living Forum" for quite awhile. Bob Wells founded this and only turned it over to the new proprietors a few years ago (some forum moderators can probably point to a post explaining the details).

"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." ---H.L. Mencken

But, but...Hunter's laptop!!?! There must be something there 🤔 😆