I can't see it because it can't see me.

Crappy situation all around. Best I can tell, there arent many, if any large pieces equipment offered in electric. Probably not a popular European brand, but last I read, John Deere wasn't looking to have anything for the mid-tier until 2026 and had no plans for the large fleet.

It's also not like farmers do a lot of equipment swapping; most I know use them and repair them until you simple can't anymore. So, even if there were options coming onto the market, the percentage of those in the field would be very low to start and remain low for a LONG time.

Helping farmers make a switch is a shortcut, but the equipment has to exist for someone to buy.

I've been working from home for 10 years. The COVID break my daughter had was the first time I can remember NOT getting a Cold since literally ever. I'm masking more when I travel for work and I look forward to when more of us realize the benefits.

I'm not sure Texas is thinking this through. We'd build a wall and make them pay for it...

Not OP, but I think we'd be friends. I want left (no pun intended) alone to live my own life, but I don't think people should be left to die because of the machine we're in. I believe your rights extend to the point they interact with mine and vice versa. You're rights can't prevent mine and vice versa.

Did nobody tell these assholes the absolutely #1 rule? You DO NOT fuck with American ships... Keep this shit up, and things are going to get real "proportional" around here...

We're on the same page re: mental healthcare. I was trying to convey I'm glad the stigma around it less and less with each generation, but we still have a ways to go.

You're right, and you're going to get downvoted for it. We have an inequality problem masking as a gun problem. We have a mental health crisis masking as gun problem.

Possible solutions to these situations aren't fast and they don't stir up emotions enough to get people to vote for you. Riling people up and telling them you can fix their problems fast gets votes; saying we have work to do doesn't.

The stigma against mental healthcare won't be gone in my child's generation, but I am happy to see it is being accepted more than it was for mine. Of course, not thinking poorly of people for taking care of themselves doesn't matter if people can't afford to...

My initial reaction is "fucking gross", but that's only because Google Maps has taught me what map colors should be. I'm old enought to have used a book-based atlas even before Yahoo Maps was popular, but young enough I don't remember what that coloring was.

While I do find it harder to understand what is going on with the map, esp while driving, I'd be interested in reading more into why they made the change. So fucking help me God if this is just some graphic artists idea of what looks better...

They've been dodging the open airwaves for years. During more than one mass response incident I've heard radio traffic something along the lines of

Sgt Copguy, Other Copperson. Third Copson has info you requested. Copperson, Copguy. Have Copson call my cell. Copguy, Copperson. Roger, expect a call in minutes.

If we know the call might have happened, we can still ask for those records even if we can't get full records of what took place on the call. Without the base evidence, we're on the fucked-foot.

Operation failed successfully.

The numbers being low on business travel shocked me; I work for a remote-first company and we augment that by getting together every quarter. I hardly travelled pre-pandemic. I figured other companies that are staying remote were doing something similar.

Neat if it happens, but it won't change any opinions. Those already anti-Trump will point to it as another example of how corrupt Trump is and those already pro-Trump will point to it as an example of how the government is out to get him.

Fair point.

Shepard's Pie... You've made a variation on Shepherd's Pie.

I fell asleep during it in the theater. It was so insanely boring.

My answer won't be as popular, but it'll definitely get the attention of the right people on the customer's side: charge HANDSOMELY for issues caused due to customers using the systems outside of agreemed to or published best practices.

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Absolutely horrible, but this isn't Delaware. We only have 3 counties, and Stafford isn't one of them. I'm not 100%, but I suspect this might be England.

Is this before or after the war started?

Without teens and boomers, social media would be dead.

The length of the 2nd Amendment is insanely short and likely thought to be quite obvious to the authors. Ironically, it has likely been more debated than any other Amendment. There have even been court cases that focus on how the placement of commas impacts the meaning.

To your comment on "well regulated," the debate there has to do with how the phase has changed meaning over time; well regulated meant "well maintained" or "taken care of." A well regulated clock, for instance, would have its gears cleaned and oiled at regular intervals.

Even in the groups that still hold that interpretation debate on whether the phrase then mean well-drilled/disciplined or well-stocked with arms.

With regard to at-home kits, the general rule/understanding was you could build your own with your own tools and any materials that were only 80% or less manufactured/machined to being a completed firearm.

The debate kinda went like this: "Is a block of metal a gun?"
"Well, no..."
"So... How much work am I allowed to do to this block of metal before I get in trouble for selling it to somebody else?"
"Ionno... A lot, I guess? 80% sound good?"

So, people started selling 80% kits within the bounds of the law. They were blocks of material mostly milled with instructions, and sometimes tools, to finish the job.

The article doesn't explain why these kits in question are getting blocked. I'm suspecting too many things were sold at once as part of the kit, though. 80% kits normally don't have barrels, for instance.

Oh boy, let me tell you about the Presidential power that I'm most scared of: the President has 90 days to get Congressional approval for war. The idea being it used to take a long time to get people together to vote on things and even longer to mobilize. These days, though, you can conquer a country in under 90 days...

Subjectively.

Like most things, it is about preference and/or what the measure of success is. Some people prefer the tighter, mixed-use concepts and some don't. I know people that would love a concept like this and I know people that would be overwhelmed and depressed.

Taxes from the middle class. Ftfy.

Provoked Gamer is pretty baller. Are you asking for a friend?

Urbanist?

Up-state NY is more rural and conservative. Towns in the mountains can be fairly small and isolated; those areas vote extremely red.

The amount of goods that can be shipped and how much it costs to ship them is a massive part of this.

Vehicles have weight restrictions in a lot of regions. Everything you have to put into creating locomotion takes away from the transportation capacity. If the transportation capacity is too low, the investment into non-fossil fuel transportation of goods won't be made as rapidly by companies.

Although the exact load on the day was not shared, the event organisers have previously stated that the average loads during the trial have been around 31.8 tonnes (70,000 lbs).

Without the load size, this is all pretty meaningless. If you're going to talk avg load size, then you need to talk avg distances per charge/day.

IIRC, the price cap on labor was to reduce workers from getting drawn to other companies that were paying higher wages. The idea was to make production predictable by keeping the limited labor force in place rather than having them be mobile. It led to the rise of benefits, like health insurance, being offered as part of total compensation packages since the extras weren't capped. Effectively this was the start of insurance being tied to employment.

Law of unintended consequences hit us in a big way with this one.

Countries with the raw materials needed to make modern batteries are about to need some freedom. This is actually scary, because a lot of those minerals are in Africa, and China has a pretty large investment in Africa, already.

American here.

I'm all for minorities and other groups struggling for equality arming themselves. It is a lot harder for the government to stomp on your rights when they have to worry about you fighting back.

It wasn't that long ago the government used airplanes to bomb its own citizens...

Until America addresses it's police problem, which I propose stems from an ongoing inequality problem, the American public needs a way to defend itself.

Why are the Nordic countries so high?

Prefacing this question with the fact I'm an Android user and have never owned an iPhone. Saying this in the hopes people won't think I'm an Apple fanboi trying to make a point...

I haven't been that interested in the EU legislation around this until now; I'm curious what happens when something comes out that is better than USB-C? Are companies stuck until new legislation is passed or is there some sort of auto update to the standard written in?

Which includes the Steam client. It's a CEF-based application.

Shit. I 100% missed the company's Twitter post in OP's post. Thanks for pointing it out. I'm not even sure how; it's like one of the first things there...

Youre right; going by their statement, they agreed to help open a safe for a property that had a search warrant. However, they were not under a court order to open the safe. That's the part I disagree with.

For me, this is like if the FBI has a search warrant for your phone and the phone manufacturer agrees to help unlock your phone. In the US, the 5th protects you from being compelled to unlock your phone. If the manufacturer unlocked the phone without a court order compelling then to, I'd be upset with that company. (I'd rather not get in the weeds about what is going on with Customs and Boarder Guards. It's a whole overreaching shit show...)

Similarly, if a the police had a warrant to collect a blood sample and a medical facility proactively helped collect that sample without a court order compelling them to, that facility is assaulting a patient.

I have issues with a locksmith helping gain access to a property, safe, car, whatever, too, if they're not compelled to.

The warrant doesn't force people/companies to help the police with their search of the named people/locations. That'd come from a court order.

People/Companies are free to set their own policies for how they'll respond to law enforcement's request for help, and people are free to agree or disagree with that policy. If they disagree with the policy, they're free to spend their money elsewhere.

The safe being subject to a search warrant isn't what concerns me.

How/Why the manufacturer of the safe got involved is what concerns me and is the context here we're missing. If they volunteered to open the safe, I have ideological difference from the company and wouldn't trust them with my belongings. If they were issued a warrant/court order to open the safe and complied, now we're in a gray area for me. If it isn't publish they'll comply with warrants and cooperate with court orders, then people didn't get what they thought they were buying.

Without knowing the details of their involvement, we're just speculating and tossing out hypotheticals as to how we feel about it.

There are a couple of issues here.

• Unless there was a warrant issued to the company, they've overstepped. If I buy a product to keep unauthorized people out, I have a reasonable expectation that means everyone.
• In some states, you are liable for the crimes committed with your stolen firearms between the time of being stolen and when they are reported stolen. This is meant to cut down on the false claim something was stolen as well as encouraging people to secure their firearms. If a safe has a backdoor, it becomes a liability in this situation.
• Unless the company had disclosed they had backdoors and would comply with warrants, then they sold a false sense of security.