bluGill

Go to the political party of your choice's monthly meeting. Each party/state has slightly differen't rules, but the major parties have a local chapter in every state. Speak up when the chance is offered / on topic (it won't be everytime). This is where you learn who is planning on running before they announce - in enough detail to have an informed opinion on if they are good. that is where you go to find out how to help those who are running win.

everything else is noise that won't change much. Get good people elected. Knocking on every door will turn out enough votes toechange election results in your area.

don't fall for one party good. all are badin different ways. Find one that mostly you can support and reform it. Small issue voteres who get involved change how the party acts (in part by ensuring people who agree are on the ballot, in part because those who do the work get long conversations with the people they support - thus changing how congress thinks).

Innocent until proven guilty doesn't mean you stand by the likely guilty and defend their actions. Either you wait for proof - demanding due process - or you stay silent.

That if assumes something wrong. Some degrees will make you worth a lot more - doctors and ingineers skew the averages. Pick a degree in history or teaching and odds compare to someone who became a plumber without college and things can be different. History can still be better - but only because who you know matters and you can meet the right person - but odds are you won't

i know the party schools near me, but if you go to one half way across the country I've never heard of it and so I can't judge you.

That is the problem when any forum/community gets "large" - to make it possible to find anything in the noise they have to be extremely strict about a narrow topic and killing anything not in that narrow topic. This in turn makes the mods look like jerks. Don't read the above as saying the mods are not jerks, or defending them. Often they are jerks even when they don't have to be.

What we need is a way to select everyone into smaller groups of random people who know something but don't overlap. I sometimes want a couple doctors to discuss some deep issue near me, but 1000 would be too many. I sometimes want to talk fishing with a few people. There are millions of other topics someone can get in depth in and my life is better when I hear a few of those conversations - but all million is overwhelming. I don't know how to do this though - there are too many "anti-vaxer" types in the world that sound like they know something about a topic when you don't know anything about it: but they are worse than nothing.

Blackboards were often real slate. Chalkboards (note the different name!) were wood painted green. I don't know why the name was different, but that is what I always saw.

The evidence seems to be Russia advances a lot of troops in bad weather when drones don't work well - but a single clear day allows the drones to clear them out. Ukraine also seems to be giving up territory when Russia masses lots of troops - but Russia then overextends and Ukraine comes back over the next months and clears them all out.

Back in 2024 is was predicted that 2025 would be a hard year for Ukraine as Russia still had plenty of old equipment to work with, while Europe was still gearing up industry - then 2026 would be much better as Russia runs out of old equipment while Europe completes gearing up industry and starts producing. It is still early, but we seem to be seeing the start of that play out: Ukraine isn't winning yet, but they are acting like they have more equipment, while Russia is conserving what they have left.

What part of his agenda?

I'll accept higher costs to deal with China - they are following a path that greatly concerns me and I suspect there will be war in the future. I don't see much real action here.

I don't want Greenland even if it would mean lower costs. I want to help Ukraine even if it means higher costs short term (I believe helping Ukraine is a good long term investment). Both of these Trump is on the wrong side.

I guess I'm keeping my f350 running for another 27 years... give me something I can afford that meets my needs. I hate driving the truck without the trailer but I can't afford a 50k suv that won't even do the job of my truck. Besides I miss the way my last sedan handled and want another, but again I can't justify 40k, but maybe 20k

edit - and just a few hours latter the fuel tank fell off and there isn't enough unrusted metal to reattach it. I don't have time for that much body work so it is gone. :(

I don't need to compensate. I like small cars - they are so much more agile on the road. I don't need more power - it doesn't take much skill to make up for low horsepower, and again I don't need to prove anything with my car.

I had the first G1 android, overall better than the flip it replaced. Replacing that got me something better. Every other one the specs were better on paper but in reality I couldn't tell the difference. Which is why I replace when it breaks.

I would by from system76 or framework - dedicated linux companies that will ensure things work.