Having interacted with a number of Trump supporters over the years, they legitimately talk nonsense like this daily. This is nothing new. If anything, it makes them like him more because he’s like them, and they want to be him.
What’s actually rare is when he insults someone and they are surprised or don’t like that he said that. But no, most supporters latch onto the phrase and repeat it themselves
Macho hyper masculinity and nationalism supplanting education will do that :(
Kinda similar, letting perfect be the enemy of progress.
Why does it not surprise me that Betsy DeVoss, sister to Black Water’s Erik Price, is a multi-billionaire who singlehandedly undid more for education in this country. Awesome.
The only times it’s OK are when it’s planned for specific softwares. For example, I can’t run Rocksmith 2014 on native Deck but it works fine in Windows. Similarly, software that’s OS limited would be another use.
But if your main thing is gaming, and you aren’t dual booting… Yeah, I’m judging you. (And I mainly use Windows on PC. But why, why, why would you need to only run Windows on a Steam Deck without a specific purpose
Came here to say, why is OP dealing with all these bloatware companies? Samsung is the Apple of Androids - decent hardware decent OS for those who like it, but ridiculously bogged down with prevention features.
I also have the Sony Xperia 1 IV and it’s been stellar. Lineage support if I don’t want the main Android, otherwise I’m pretty much free to do whatever I want on the phone. Plus I actually have a headphone jack still and an SD card slot.
Oh no at all! As I said I was merely responding :)
Second half of this speech posted on The White House website: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2023/07/14/remarks-by-vice-president-harris-on-combatting-climate-change-and-building-a-clean-energy-economy/
She has also been very vocal about her proposals of banning fracking.
And we have seen, around our country, where communities have been choked by drought, have been washed out by floods, and decimated by hurricanes. Here in Baltimore, you have seen your skies darkened by wildfire smoke. And you have seen the waters of the Chesapeake Bay rise, threatening homes and businesses that have stood for generations.
It is clear that the clock is not only ticking, it is banging. And we must act.
As Vice President, as I said, I’ve traveled across our nation to speak with thousands of Americans about this crisis. I have met with students and entrepreneurs, small-business owners, community leaders, nonprofit leaders, labor leaders — folks with new approaches to reduce our emissions and accelerate our clean energy transition, but folks who often do not have access to the funds they need to make their ideas a reality. And that is a problem.
For years, one of the missing pieces in our strategy to fight the climate crisis is that we have not invested at scale in community climate action. For years, the people of the community — folks who know what their neighborhood needs and how to provide it — have not been given adequate resources to implement climate solutions that match the magnitude of the crisis we face.
And that’s why we’re here today. And that’s why we’re here today.
Today, I am proud to announce the largest investment in financing for community-based climate projects in our nation’s history. (Applause.) It’s a good day.
And one of the reasons that it is so significant is because we also — frankly, we’ve got to make up for lost time. So, by dramatically accelerating our work, we know we can lower emissions.
And we will do that by providing $20 billion to a national network of nonprofits, community lenders, and other financial institutions to fund tens of thousands of climate and clean energy projects across America. (Applause.)
So, here is what that will mean: Okay, so imagine, for example, the construction companies that build affordable housing here in Baltimore that, because of this investment, will now have the capital they need to install energy-efficient appliances in new units, to lower energy use, and to help tenants save on their electric bills.
Imagine, for example, the small-business owner who will now be able to receive zero-interest loans to electrify their fleet of delivery vehicles so we can reduce pollution and save on gas.
Imagine, for example — (applause) — right? Imagine, for example, the house of worship that will now be able to have access to loan guarantees so they can install solar panels on the roof of their building — (applause) — to generate affordable clean electricity for the entire neighborhood. Imagine.
You know, when President Biden and I took office, we set an ambitious goal. Yes, people said, “That can’t be done.” We said, “Well, you know what? We believe in dreaming with ambition and then seeing it thorough.”
And so, we set an ambitious goal to cut our greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030 and to reach net-zero emissions by 2050. The investment we are announcing today will help us to achieve these goals, and it will do so much more, because think also about the impact on not only the local economy, not only on an investment in the entrepreneurs and innovators from and in the community. Think about the impact on something like public health.
When we invest in clean energy and electric vehicles and reduce population [pollution], more of our children can breathe clean air and drink clean water. (Applause.)
Think of the impact on family budgets. When we help folks upgrade their heating and cooling systems, we lower the cost of electricity, which means lower energy bills for working parents so they have more money for groceries and home repairs and school supplies.
And think of all the jobs that these investments will create, including many good-paying union jobs. (Applause.) Jobs, for example, for the workers of IBEW who will install energy-efficient lighting. (Applause.) Jobs for the sheet metal workers who will replace gas furnaces with electric heat pumps. (Applause.) Jobs for the laborers who will build net-zero housing. (Applause.) Right.
So, understand, when the President and I invest in climate, we intend to invest in jobs, invest in families, and invest in America.
And this investment is also about a partnership with the private sector. You know, my whole career, I have believed in the power of public-private partnerships. I have seen how much more we can accomplish when we combine the experience and expertise of the private sector with the reach and the scale that only the government can provide.
And as the business leaders here today can confirm, this investment is an incentive — this public investment is an inventive by design for billions more dollars from the private sector.
And in all this work, we have put a special focus on communities that have been historically left out and left behind. The climate crisis impacts everybody, but it does not impact all communities equally.
Poor communities, rural communities, Native communities, and communities of color are often the hardest hit and the least able to recover.
So let’s be clear about that: The least, in terms of where investments have been made in mitigation and adaption; the hardest hit and the least able to recover.
So to address this inequity, nearly $12 billion of this funding we’re announcing today will be invested in overlooked communities. (Applause.) Yes. Yes. It’s time. It’s time. It’s time.
So, including in this vision of how we think of the best way and the fastest and most effective way to get the resources to the community, we are working specifically and intentionally with community banks. Why? Well, because as everyone here probably knows: Community banks, by their nature, are run by people who live and work in the community; people who know firsthand the incredible potential in the place they themselves call home. They not only know the needs of the community. They know the capacity of the community. They know the dreams of the community. They know the ambitions of the community. And that’s the kind of vehicle we need to actually think about how we will get these billions of dollars to the folks who know what to do with it.
Not really a reason to be upset about this. Of all the kids content, Skibidi actually has themes. Just because it’s chaotic doesn’t mean it’s bad.
How are they a billionaire’s president but Trump wasn’t? His cabinet singlehandedly undid more regulations and taxes on corporations than maybe any other.
Who are the billionaires? Cause it seems that Kamala is heavily against fracking, so I’m guessing not the oil billionaires?
Not trying to be dismissive, genuinely curious
Just remember that the non-violent drug users were likely part of the Back on Track program, in which they would accept the felony in the promise that it would be expunged after completing the program.
Indeed, this was announced at the end of last month/beginning of this month, it’s been circling around for a few weeks now.
I mean, there’s the entirety of the Multiverse, it’s not like Tony Stark is dead in all of them. That doesn’t really make his sacrifice any less.
Only if they just bring in a random Tony Stark from 231356812 and goes back to the status quo would that be the cas.e
I remembered they had port forwarding on regular plans but I didn’t want to give any wrong info, and couldn’t look it up to confirm at the time.
That’s good to hear, the nice thing about that is their free plans (free 10gb, free 50gb) should be able to utilize that as well which is pretty nice.
I’m on T-Mobile Home Internet which is inherently double natted, no way around it. For most gaming it doesn’t matter, but it’s a pain in the ass for anything related to personal servers, or homebrew projects like Slippi (Smash Bros Melee online). So, with a free plan one could potentially get away with not even having to pay for a monthly fee, there’s a lot of uses for port forwarding that use next to no data
So, funny story. Phone numbers are public record, especially if you included it on your voter information. If you place your name on the National Do Not Call list, the political agencies and charities are pretty much exempt from them, though each, usually, has its own internal Do Not Call list.
There’s no way to get off a political polling/informational call list, because your phone number is public record and the sole goal is to get you informed about their specific goal, usually regarding a candidate or proposition.
I get it’s frustrating, but it’s worth hearing out at least the ones that are about local policy. I understand not caring about wider election candidates, but the others can be genuinely informative. That aside, hearing them out doesn’t get them to put you on a “call me again” list either, these aren’t scam callers trying to get information or repeat callbacks. For the most part they just want to get a pledge of support for a local proposition, for internal polling numbers during the campaign. Basically, “we called 5,000 people, of the 2,000 that answered, 1,000 said they would vote for Prop 38” and we all cheer.
There’s also polling call centers, which get company and government contracts to conduct these polls, which again use the public information and are exempt from the National Do Not Call list.
You’d be surprised how much people don’t know about stuff. Every time I canvas, whether it’s for a prop or a candidate, people just aren’t aware. Not that I blame them either, life is hectic.
So, cold calling or doing door to door to inform people is one of the only really effective ways to actually get results. Which means paying people to do that, or relying on volunteers which just isn’t realistic.
In line with this, when I stream shows/movies and to my friend on Discord (and vice versa) is that illegal?
There was one video I saw that sounds like this, where there was an overlay of noise (static in rainbow). They scaled up the noise, overlayed it on the drawing, then lowered the opacity and blended it.
They claimed it prevented AI from being able to use it for training, but it just isn’t true. All it did was add texture to the art, it wouldn’t prevent AI from anything, except maybe solid colors if it was only trained on these sorts of images.