@LaurelGreen Possibly useful frames:

- voting is harm-reduction.
- voting is a matter of choosing your opponent. When you're going to e.g., demonstrate, or even just call/e-mail to try and influence a politician, who would you rather go up against?

@QueenOfEverything I did. We have ppl coming door-to-door lately & those companies I wonder about. But these guys (https://powertripenergy.com/) have great reviews.

@sjvn yeah, unfortunately those would really up the cost of the job.

One thing I will do tho is look into the possibility of converting our EV into bi-directional charging. That way we could make use of it as a kind of portable battery.

But even without that--we are using a ton of juice since converting from gas heat to electric & so I expect it to pay itself off in < 10 years 🤞

Just met w/a solar installer--really liked him. I think we're gonna do this.

My main concerns are:
- our roof is 8 years old, and
- if the power goes out, the panels get shut down, so no resilience benefit.

I was ~12 years old when the first Star Wars movie came out & I remember the scene where they go into the cantina in Mos Eisley & the bartender refusies to admit the droids. "We don't serve their kind here!".

I remember thinking what a weird prejudice that is to have--they're just robots.

As things like chatgpt come to prominence, I'm starting to understand that prejudice though.

@stueytheround it came in handy for me just now when I had to send an encrypted zip file--gmail refused to handle that. I just uploaded to counterSHARE & e-mailed the link--easy!

I <3 CounterSHARE.

this seems bad

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/02/att-outage-leaves-more-than-70000-phones-without-service/

Fucking glorious.

John Oliver on SCOTUS ethics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE-VJrdHMug

#scotus #corruption

@ps9714 so... he wants it to be him?

Couldn't sleep last night & so I started reading Newitz' _Terraformers_--what a grabber. Really digging it.

These are hilarious!

https://albionmercantile.com/collections/subpar-parks-posters

Who tf are these weirdos?

Huh--Heritage foundation reportedly aims to eliminate "recreational sex"

Not going on to #xitter to (dis)confirm...

https://elk.zone/hachyderm.io/@GottaLa[email protected]/111971591334346131

@BenA what a luxury to have your own mediasphere that your base is locked into.

Truth has been optional for the GOP for a while now

What did Comer & Jordan know, and when did they know it?

Republicans Delete Reference To FBI Informant From Impeachment Interview Request Letter

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/republican-impeachment-alexander-smirnov_n_65d566cde4b0cc1f2f7a01b3?a5i

#uspol

Nice to see this being discussed openly now.

MAGA is a ‘Russian intel op’: Experts respond to allegation GOP using Kremlin propaganda

https://www.rawstory.com/maga-is-a-russian-intel-op-experts-respond-to-allegation-gop-using-kremlin-propaganda/

#trump #uspol #traitors

@Cosmichomicide that's the hedge fund manager that waged a jihad against Claudine Gay?

A+ headline here. No notes.

Rapist Who Wanted Vice President Dead Compares Self to Navalny

https://newrepublic.com/post/179167/trump-compares-navalny

Ron DeSantis ally Chris Rufo has close ties with ‘dissident right’ magazine

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/21/chris-rufo-im-1776-far-right-desantis

You know you're dealing with #TheBestPeople when authors are not willing to use their real names.

#uspol