The largest class of excavators, walking draglines(too big for wheels)are almost 100% electric. It's impractical to move around enough diesel to power them. I think most bucket wheel excavators are electric too, but they're more in Europe so I'm less familiar.

The dirty secret is that lots of this shit has been electric for decades. It just makes sense at that scale.

I worked at a coal min in Wyoming where the main diggers were electric, and the cable management was enough of a job that 3 guys per shift just did that.

I demand more representations of MY vision of masculinity—where you’re strong when you care for others and weak when you try to dominate. The one where you pass on to your children—whether they’re your own or adopted—love, knowledge, and the tools they need to succeed in life.
Less guilt, more love.

You know I think the pro-Apartheid reformed churches in South Africa would go gang busters with US evangelicals if they wanted to.

Very disappointed the only punny food name at this Communist restaurant is "Red and Black Chilli". And tbh I'm not sure that it isn't referencing the color of the beans.

Economists are sociologists who insist they're physicists.

Counterpoint

Did kiddo 1 talk me into pink armor for my Banished? Yes. Yes she did.

I just need to figure out how to make the speed paint actually come out more pink than purple.

Spongebob to me was a stronger college kid show. It was always weird when people only a little bit younger talked about it as a kids show.

Be honest. You watch it with the kids when they're home sick.

Minivan is better. Love me a sliding door.

Minivans are superior to SUVs in every way. The far cooler vehicle.

Yeah. Like I get why some well meaning people, like who I QT'd, balk at it. It is for lots of people a performative weapon in some cases. But like get over it. Language evolves and changes constantly.

I thought this way until I lived in Australia. There partner is the default for everyone. Gay, straight, married, dating, engaged. Everyone. It works very well in my experience.

Now getting the wholesale culture change for that to happen in the US? Yeah real annoying and unrealistic. So I get it.

Regressive taxation must be fought at every opportunity. Except one very specific case. The Dad Tax. Kiddo 2 pays a much higher rate, especially on Pez, than kiddo 1 does. It's a common sense policy for our times.

Yeah I knew the broad strokes were there, but I don't know enough to say confidently what exactly happened.

There's a story, that I'm sure is based on truth but the details are probably wrong, of a large church funded archeology expedition to Mexico/central America in the 60's or so to prove the BoM true. All of the expedition members who were Mormon left the church as a direct result.

For me it was the false history. Specifically horses in the Book of Mormon. A frankly minor and silly detail, but it all came down from there.

In ex-Mormon circles it's called your shelf breaking. You out all the issues, lies, and contradictions on a shelf in your brain. Eventually, and it's hard to predict when and why, it breaks. And then you can see and deal with all the issues.

An amazing thing happened today. The conservative in the group chat came in with an opinion that the rest of the chat basically rejected and he was like "yah know what, y'all might be right".

Now that opinion was about the symbolism in Zootopia 2. But hey I'll take the W.

Yup. I have solved so many issues with my HVAC by just changing the filter.

Yeah the images of newly minted marines throwing down on ice gestapo are gonna be great.

But I guess when you've already terrorized school kids, going after marines next is the way to win hearts and minds of the American public.

It really is so much easier to parent small children outside. One of those old wives tales that is absolutely true.

Yeah it's a great read. The music that goes along with it is solid too.

There's like 5 or 6 of them in my neighborhood. There's only like 50 houses back here. It's fuckign crazy.

It's also nonsense, but far too common, to shame individual decisions for systemic failures. The fact that to meet basic transportation people have to hold a large depreciating asset, for lots of people their largest asset, is insanity. A functional society would see transport as a public good

I have paid much more than this for a car. I'm a very privileged individual. And even then EV's really aren't practical for me to afford. When we got the van in the fall an EV would've been tens of thousands of dollars more than the hybrid we got. They're a premium product.

My family of 4 fills up 2 of the like 50 gal round bins every week. And we overflow often enough I have a backup bin in the garage.

Hold up. Regular trash every other week? Bruh. I couldn't live like that.

That might be enough to get my vote let's be real.....