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You didn’t state this explicitly, but it’s a fact that the U.S.’ political system only supports two parties. It’s easy to think U.S. voters can simply choose something else, especially for folks in countries with functional democracies, but in the U.S. voters are hostages. To a system that’s been honed for over two centuries to only support the hegemony of the ‘big 2.’
They get two viable options with this system. No more, and sometimes less.

Not voting is a thing that a plurality of citizens do, but those people aren’t working with the system. And beyond that, it’s revolution, which is also not working with the system. And I hate to say it but things aren’t quite bad enough for enough people for that to happen. Besides the incredible crackdown on people who wield their right to protest (felony trial charges?!?), the control over media and the internet keeps movements fractured and siloed. A felony conviction will more or less ensure your only job prospects for the rest of your life are unskilled jobs like manual labor and politician.

I watched the video yesterday and it looks like he’s using wires that are no more than 18 gauge.

18 gauge wire can handle about a maximum of 14 amps, but I don’t think he was coming close to that. He was generating 35kV (I think - he had a few prototypes he gave stats for) off a battery pack.
I don’t really know the math, but it’s an inverse relationship if your power level is fixed. The battery pack can only deliver so much constant power, so it’s either high amps and low volts, or high volts and low amps. (Unless you put capacitors into the mix, but then it’s not constant power.)

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Kluwe has also written a few books. The Prime book was a great read by paperback sci-fi standards.

On the one hand, a tragedy his career was cut short. On the other, I’m glad he got got spared from that meat grinder, and has a bit of a platform to speak out.

Hate to be a conspiracy theorist, but this seems more like the work of Lyle Lanley than Hamas.

Edit: For those downvoting me - fair.
I was wrong. It wasn’t the monorail salesman from from the Simpson’s. It was Israeli citizens.

Oh, man. Those buses were one day from retirement, too.

Well as a red-blooded, corn-fed American who grew up loving the 4th of July almost as much as Christmas, I want you to know that I came into this comment section to say that the U.S. should get fucked.

I don’t know what you silly foreigners with your mostly competent leadership, thriving social safety nets, successful education systems, and consumer protection laws are doing, but once again you’ve proven amurican exceptionalism, because I have already reached the point at which I think our government and meddlesome oligarchs should fuck off.

We’re number 1, baby! Yeehaw!
(In preventable deaths, incarceration rates, and maternal mortality rates, and pretty close on poverty and murder rates amongst OECD nations.)

Doing good*. And well.

* The charitable foundation may not help as many as we’d like, but it’s fulfilling work.

I could buy 4 eggs with that!

If conservatives become convinced that they can not win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy.

This is known.

Point being, people always think it’s about the sex, and not like, that the person is interesting, kind, charming, or rich.

She was just shy of 6’3” (189 cm). She didn’t have a ton of options but to date shorter guys.