PG&E says it won't change until next cycle? Because why? It's their fucking system. It's not like they don't have access to change things. It's not in their policy? They'd have to do a little extra work to figure it out?

Fuck PG&E

He still claims he won. If he won, why would he write a letter?

Narcissistic prick.

I'd also accept down a gun range for target practice.

I think he should be tried for treason. And if convicted suffer the full punishment for that. He is a clear and present threat to democracy. No one should be able to invite an insurrection and have it not be taken as seriously as it was.

The only times I'm worried about a fight is if I'm somewhere and someone with a mental illness might start something. Like the other day on the train someone was yelling very loudly to the car in general and being aggressive to people.

I wanted to do anything but fight, but I was mentally prepping in case I had to protect my step daughter. I was so relieved when he eventually went to a different car. I was even thinking of getting off and waiting for the next train.

Of course the co-ceo of Netflix is going to say to release on streaming. Why listen to someone who has a very vested monetary interest in not having theatrical releases?

I still remember what my mother said to me when I got a girlfriend. "Use a condom." That was it. No pretending it wasn't going to happen.

As for drugs, my family never liked them. They never told us kids, but my father had an issue with opiates that's cost him his job and medical license. My older brother also had an issue with opiates.

I used to do a lot of research on erowid on drugs. Between my brother and I it was a lot of don't be stupid, do your research on what's safe and what interacts with each other, and stay away from opiates.

For the most part, it wasn't talked about much in my family, other than my older brother my younger brother and I didn't gravitate to them too much or hang with people who did. I ended up getting really into weed for a short time, because that's where my ADHD hyper focus hobby was for a few months. Then I realized I didn't like not being sober that much.

There is always going to be "higher priority" to spend that money on. But they got it for this so let them just use it to make kids happy and not try and say that it's not the "useful things" to spend it on.

More propaganda to make people hate increasing minimum wage.

Even if minimum wage never increased, they'd still try and put these robots in. These two things are unrelated!

The fumes from lithium ion are much more harmful. They can affect people just in the vicinity. And not in some worst case scenario of gas somehow spreading to occupants of the vehicle.

Gas tanks are generally very well confined. And if one were to rupture. It is likely to spread to the ground, not spray some imaginary people.

Having lived in California, so much of their rain water actually just runs down the sewers. It's so hard for the water to absorb into their soil because it's become just baked into almost a crust. Having green space will probably make it easier for water to penetrate into the soil and be retained in the soil.

It was where a prominent member of my gaming community was killed.

RIP Sean Smith/Vile Rat.

Yep. Sometimes I can't even figure out what they pay me for.

PGE are crooks. Their entire board and execs should be in prison for the fires their failing equipment have caused and the subsequent deaths.

That said, I moved from southern California to Illinois recently. We went from 50-60 cents/kwh to something like 5 cents/kwh. I use a lot to power my servers, fans, and AC and don't fret if my bill hits $200 a month.

Maybe the company that makes the fire blankets used by fire agencies: https://bridgehill.com/news-insights/ev-fire-blanket-test/

A study: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214157X23011954

Or fire response specific resources: https://www.firerescue1.com/electric-vehicles/articles/developing-sops-for-electric-vehicles-incidents-CbHhgn5759QnLDv3/

https://www.firerescue1.com/electric-vehicles/articles/electric-vehicle-fires-where-the-waiting-game-wins-f934UedqIpVqc1k2/

Oh man, I am so happy I blocked that community months ago because I just have no interest in it or their diet.

Not who you responded to, but that's an interesting source. I'm intrigued by a textile company claiming to be experts in lithium ion fires.

It sounds more like options for preventing a fire to spread. It's also including CO2 extinguishers under "foam" which they very much aren't, making me doubt the rest of their blog post.

Extinguishing fires can work largely in two different ways. Either by smothering a fire or by cooling a fuel below it's flash point. Quite often they put out a fire by doing both. A fire that contains an oxidizer cannot be smothered, but smothering can help prevent other materials in a vehicle from being able to burn along with the batteries. Cooling down a large, vehicle sized lithium ion fires takes an incredible amount of water. However, the cells themselves contain so much energy that their failure produces more thermal energy than water is able to remove.

Is water the best to put out large EV fires? Nope.

Is water good at preventing fires from spreading? Yep.

Is water easily accessible and carried on every fire truck and engine and available through hydrants? Also yep.

A lot of agencies are including car sized fire blankets as well that help smother the fire some and make burnt/burning EVs safer for tow trucks to move to a safe locations where they can be left to burn out. Sometimes for over a month! You might see fire engines literally escorting tow trucks because even with the blanket and being doused with tens of thousands of gallons, it's still at risk of reigniting during transport.

The other big issue that agencies are facing with EV fires is that the water used to suppress these fires essentially becomes hazmat. So there are issues with letting it just run off into the storm system or the environment.

The concert? I dunno it's pretty close. But the company to go to the show with, that I'll fly across the country for.

When I was living in California, I had a friend text me he had an extra ticket to a Bad Religion concert in Chicago. So I booked a flight and went to see the show with him. Flight was a few hundred bucks, the "free" ticket was worth like $35.

Honestly, it was totally worth it. One of the best concerts I've been to, probably because of who I got to see it with.

Restrict the number of accounts that can join that family group. And/or remove the ability to share the library from the main account for repeated offenses.

Or require multiple family members accounts to have to cheat before the owner account is banned.

At some point, I started noticing the same thing in a lot of Fox programming. If you watch Hells kitchen or tons of other fox shows. It's the toughest challenge, for the first time, most dangerous.

It's gotten to the point that I can't ignore it, it's like the Wilhelm scream.

I don't get the hyperbolic responses to fucking everything by Trump. It's always got to be biggest, best, worst, loudest. He fucking has no middle ground in any of the bullshit he spews.

I was so entertained when he brought up the immigrants eating pets and how he got called out for it by the moderator. There were a few times they straight up called him out.

She's had 4 years as VP. He's had 4 years AS PRESIDENT. And he only has the concept of a plan. He's fucking been there and his remarks are all about her not doing things when she wasn't even in that role.

Jury Nullification!!!

Seriously people. Know it! Use it!

Yea. All the self emptying docks make them really tall, but I'd love it if the bin was on the side and pulled out forward.

Someone should make one specifically designed to be hidden underneath shit. It's not a decoration or talking piece.

I'm pretty sure I could get usb-c to HDMI and a Bluetooth controller and play phone games on my TV with just my phone.

Mine is alright, it doesn't mao the room but kind of finds the perimeter and start to just do lines back and forth. It's nice to vacuum when I leave the house.

It's loud, but at least it's doing something if only evidenced by how much I empty the damn thing. Every couple months I have to take it and the dock out to the garage to blow it all out with their air compressor.

I do think it makes me keep shit off the floor more. It wants to eat cords a lot. I want a second one with mapping so I can have it do specific rooms and this one can get sent to the basement where it doesn't need to be as fancy.

I really hate the space it takes up, I would love one that was shorter so it could be stored underneath the side tables, or the dock and empty bin were flatter so it could be under the couch or something.

Lifetime? Dozens. Hell, I get so many free ones as swag at places it's ridiculous.

I only really wear my one pair though. It's got prescription lenses, so I did kind of splurge on that pair for something nice and would go with everything.

I really like unique or kinda of wild styles though, things that make a statement. So I'd like to be able to wear, afford, and store more. Even as a man, I think accessories round out an outfit and make it look complete. Like a nice watch, the appropriate shoes, jacket, and hat.

Pretty sure that's a real stock photo.

Left hand is being held down from the right and she's holding the phone with just the thumb against the back of her left hand.

When a student goes to school, the school becomes in loco parentis and the student doesn't have protection from school officials. Children, on campus, general do not have protection for free speech, protection from unreasonable searches or seizures, or really any of their rights.

The school, acting as parents, can restrict their speech, search their bags, and confiscate contraband.

The school can even waive most of the child's rights even when dealing with law enforcement until parents arrive.

I used to get AOL demo CDs in the mail.

I grew up with an Amiga.

I had a gateway PC with the cow print box.

I always felt this game was begging for a VR remake.

I'm surprised that it didn't become one of the first.

One could require a receipt or proof of purchase for a safe or a lock when buying a gun.

That's why in CA they make you buy a lock. But I don't really know anyone that uses the one they had to buy.

That's intentional.

This means only rich or well to do people can own guns?

I was specifically addressing teenagers access to their parents guns, specifically to prevent school shootings.

I'm okay with storage laws in homes that are primary residences to minors. But I don't believe that any storage law on its own prevents it. There is no way to ensure it's being following once the gun is taken home. It's why I am much more in favor of trying to influence gun culture to make improper storage stigmatizing.

Like a car license. You may not be checked all the time, but every once in a while and it's a crime to not have it if you're driving.

Those with concealed carry licenses do get checked as they are to tell an officer when they are carrying. I wouldn't be against these laws being federal. As for just ownership, do you just check everyone if they have a license or only when the police see the gun? Or when they go shooting on public BLM land?

The analogy for driving breaks down because you can buy a car without a license. You just can't drive it on public roads. Though you can on private roads without a license.

I never said there was "no way to prevent this" I'm saying there is a fucking shitload we need to do to prevent this and gun control, in whatever form it takes is going to be only a piece of the puzzle.

And no shit, does getting rid of guns get rid of guns violence. You aren't spouting something revolutionary.

I'm not even against gun control. I'm against the knee jerk reactionary bullshit and narrow viewpoint of anti-gun individuals that don't want to engage in any serious discussion of HOW to enact gun control other than take away guns.

I'm not a gun nut, and that's just a rude thing to say. It's divisive, insulting, and worst of all, it means you've already made an opinion and written off anything that I may say.

Because I don't believe in using the justice system for punitive retribution and instead for reformative use.

That punishing people for this will do nothing but sate some perceived need for vengeance.

And, as for me, maybe because I'm empathetic I can only imagine how terrible they feel afterwards and I'd literally be suicidal if one of my firearms were used in a mass shooting or negligent discharge that killed someone. Doubly so if it were my child.

I don't consider myself the "ideal gun owner." I'm trying to have a discourse on, if we are bent on using legislation to address this issue, how we can do so in a manner that's going to have traction in the gun community, have impactful, measurable changes that improve safety, and lastly actually get followed by gun owners.

I personally, don't think punishing someone after the fact is going to prevent tragedies like this shooting. So instead of having some raging justice boner to fuck these parents we try and address what led to it.

Yea. I also think that other forms of "news" that the younger generation use is wholly unregulated. That there is no recourse for "influencers" that fabricate news on those platforms.

I'm not saying that it's not a part of what needs to happen. Well thought out, thorough gun control is something thats going to be a part of this.

But as shit as it may be to say, with current gun culture, the 2nd amendment, and the 4th amendment protection from unreasonable searches makes the sort of gun control adopted in other countries improbable here.

The suggested legislation that I hear typically revolves around storage, which leading up to a tragedy is unenforceable (4th amendment) and therefore can't prevent a mass shooting. The banning of firearms wholesale, which is unpopular in so large a part of the population it would be practically impossible. Restrictions based on features that are so ubiquitous it would be like banning smartphones; it's not that there aren't guns without them but it's most guns made within the last few decades.

My perspective is that gun control is the surface level way of dealing with a growing symptom in this country. One that taking away guns doesn't actually fix. It's the knee jerk reaction "quick fix." That doesn't really fix anything, just hides how deeply broken our society has gotten.

So personally, I'm not against gun control in principle. I'm against the "common sense" gun control proposals. Because many of them are formed with minimal understanding of firearms or from a narrow viewpoint on how people use guns.

(As an aside, I'm against the term "common sense" gun laws because it insults anyone that disagrees, puts them on the defensive, and makes having a good discourse on ways we can work together to solve the issue.)

To "solve" gun violence, yea. But to significantly reduce it, we only need to make progress.

Regarding the news cycle. Yes! Stop the 24 hour, constant fear being fed to the populace.

You are remarkably safe in your own home. Get rid of the fear mongering!

Stop making national news of local issues. The constant national attention to some random horrible things that doesn't affect 99.99% of the viewership doesn't need to be highlighted.

I'm not against gun laws, but I'm going to disagree with your minimums. Anything regarding storage is essentially unenforceable until after a tragedy has occurred. It can't be used to preempt a shooting but only to punish the owners afterwards. Those sort of things need to be community driven. The gun community should be talking about storage more and shaming those that don't follow it.

It also implies that everyone's situation at home allows them 1) to purchase two safes and 2) to have room for two safes and 3) limits their ownership of either guns or ammo to the size of that safe. It also doesn't make much sense to have two safes if the person doing the shooting is the one that is buying the ammo and guns in the first place. It also places undue burdens on those that do not have children and do not have children that come into their home.

As much as it is laughed at in California, but when you buy a gun you either need to bring a lock or buy a lock with it. They are the cheapest things, but it's at least a minimum safety that isn't onerous. Even if no one uses them once they get the gun home.

As for operating under a license, what would that do beyond the existing restrictions for procuring firearms? Do they expire and what would happen then?

We need comprehensive laws grounded in addressing specific issues, not something to create an idealistic and narrow view of what gun ownership is or should be.

I think we should have federal programs on gun information and educational programs. We can teach people and build a culture on gun safety and storage. Maybe programs to subsidize the purchasing of safes and reimburse or reward owners that make safe choices.

My opinion is that these shootings are a greater failure in this country than simply gun control. There is a LOT we need to work on to decrease mass shootings. While I admit, I am more on the personal responsibility side of the gun control debate, I am not against well thought through legislation. I don't think that most of the proposals for gun control are rational, detailed, and written with an even cursory understanding of firearms.

To start to address mass shootings, I believe that we need to expand our healthcare in this country. Both physical and mental healthcare. If people are physically well, and can get treatment that doesn't threaten to bankrupt them, then they will have more opportunities to develop better coping mechanisms. They will be able to seek healthcare options and not feel like they are left to fend for themselves. The isolation from a society that doesn't care or help them is detrimental, and while I have no studies to back it up, I would think that a society with a healthcare system thats prerogative is the patient instead of profit would help.

I think the aspect of mental healthcare speaks for itself. So people don't lash out and can seek other means of dealing with issues. I also believe that the stigma of seeking mental healthcare and it's ability to impact people's rights and job prospects is a hindrance. We should not make it so that if someone seems help, that they are punished for it.

I believe we have a big culture shift that needs to occur. Too much do we use rhetoric that reinforces that firearms and gun violence is the ultimate solution to a disagreement. "Fuck around and find out" when used in the context of firearms is terrible. Firearms should be considered the last resort to protect life. Not property and not your feelings.

Firearms are not conflict resolution! We need to work to give people better ways of solving and deescalating conflicts.

We need to work on our wealth disparity. We should be elevating our poorest so that they don't have to resort to violence or crime. As most firearm crimes are not mass shootings, we need to address the other parts of firearm use.

We need to work on our community involvement. Bring people together, break down the walls between us, and get past the cliques.

There is a lot we need to do, but gun control is only a small piece of solving gun violence.

Yea. If I remember my fires correctly, this one also has doors that opened into the theater so as mobs of people pushed to get out, the doors jammed and couldn't be opened. It directly led to the regulation for outward swinging egress doors and "crash" hardware. Which are those bars on exit doors so in an emergency people can just crash into them and they open.