Matrix Ken

There's been debate about changing the size of the supreme court for a long time. The problem is that if one party does it, the next one can do the same to stack in their favor. That said, just 9 members that are permanent installed with no oversight makes them arguably the most powerful body in the nation. Just one crooked member can be devastating.

I don't have a perfect solution, but I'd start with something more like 21 members, strict oversight into their finances, a third party that mandates recusal, and a shelf life.

The damage of these 6-3 decisions could last decades or worse. They certainly don't represent the people that are much closer to 50/50 conservative/liberal than 2/3 extremely conservative.

I would say Trump...if he were an actual billionaire

Did not know that. That's fantastic. If only we could always put a timer on that idiot's rambling.

As much as Hillary screwed us, she's right. The moderators and the system were an absolute disgrace. At a minimum they need to mute anyone when it isn't their turn. Otherwise there is no point.

It doesn't matter. It will be too late. She's just trying to delay.

Ah yes. Louisiana, the beacon of education, progress, and economic success. Let us follow their lead to prosperity and health.

I was trying to find active users since he took over. But the only numbers I can find are numbers provided by Musk, who is a well known liar.

I know Lemmy and Mastodon are niche communities, and that people put up with a lot of garbage from Big Tech, but I have to believe that a lot of users have left Twitter, or least that usage is down. I also assume bots are way up, because Musk wants his numbers to be up regardless of the source (save for people with an opposing opinion).

Hopefully Musk's shitty little empire crumbles...soon.

350,000 people in the U.S. died of COVID in 2020. For reference, 25,000 died of the flu in 2019. Out of nowhere, Covid became the third leading cause of death.

Any respectable news source tends to report on things like that.

Those saying that Covid was "just the flu," or "not a big deal," is delusional.

It's been raining more than average here... So yeah. Same difference?

It's not necessarily even consumer demand. Truck size and the EPA standards are linked for some reason. Essentially bigger trucks are allowed to have worse mileage.

This story talks about it. There are probably but better sources, but the point remains.

I would actually argue that many truck drivers don't want a bigger vehicle. Mid size trucks came back on the market after a long hiatus. There are even a number of compact trucks available now, like the Maverick, Santa Cruz, etc.

Sonos sucks.

I bought their products because at the time there wasn't much else in the Wi-Fi speaker market. It worked well enough. Then their app (the only way to connect to them) got worse and worse. Some days the speakers just wouldn't work. Others the app couldn't find them. I've had to reset the entire system many times, which for some insane reason takes like an hour and doesn't always work.

Want to change which network the speakers are on? Good luck. You would think you just select the network and type in a password like every other app in the world, but no, it's a nightmare. After hours of factory resets and physically connecting the speakers to my router, my speakers are sometimes on one of my two networks, sometimes on the other, and sometimes unable to be found.

If you're considering buying Sonos, look at their play store reviews.

Fuck Sonos.

We subsidize many major corporations and/or their infrastructure. Airports, stadiums, agriculture, telecoms, oil, ... the list goes on.

I'm of the opinion that if anyone in the industry is making millions from it, they don't deserve subsidies.

Blame Reagan. Turns out that getting rid of that pesky government oversight did allow corporations to thrive... At the cost of consumers. It's been a long slide, but the pandemic showed companies just how much they can get away with.

There's like 3 major airlines, 3 cell providers, and 10 companies that make most of your groceries. Profits are up, and so are prices. Competition is all but dead. To quote Highlander, "There can be only one."

$56 billion is an unfathomably large amount of money. Tesla sold 1.8 million vehicles last year. Doing math (poorly), that's $31,000 per vehicle! If statista is accurate, only 5 states take in more tax revenue than $56 billion.

But sure. The world's richest man deserves that money for- checks notes... tanking sales and the smashingly successful cyber truck.

For so many reasons this payout is incredibly stupid.

Randy Savage "Macho Man"

Gee, it's almost like we shouldn't let our telecoms slowly merge into one greedy entity with no competition.

So, this guy had a gun on him, and saw someone else with a gun... And thought person with a gun, danger!?

What an asshole.

I don't know if this site is reputable, but it lists Tesla's cash on hand as just under $27 billion. Burning through that and adding a mountain of debt, while sales are way down seems like it could send Tesla into a tailspin. They have 47,000 unsold cars. Not to mention Musk seems to keep screwing Tesla over to help Twitter.

Watching Musk drive Twitter into the ground should have set off alarm bells for investors.

Glad you got a video. Someone is in for a surprise.