miguel

(cue cut scene of Twenty-nine Palms) :D I think you're right

I'm assuming the comment "declaring martial law" would require nat guard (natives) and stationed troops (federal) to attempt to impose order. Not sure what that has to do with local infra, but the last time they tried that (LA Riots) it didn't go great. Doing it for a strictly political reason would likely result in some very hard decisions for a lot of nat guard and some federal career military. The Nat Guard and federales couldn't even restore order in South Central when most of the state was in their corner, it'd be madness to think they could handle the whole state when it was over a pissing match.

California gets roughly $162.9 billion from the fed. California pays roughly $692 billion to the fed in taxes.

It'd be pretty easy to see them choosing to just withhold whatever Trump decided to deny them and say "fine, then we'll just make up the offset, suck it", and then things would get interesting indeed.

I mean, good luck? CA is also obscenely well defended, since most of its modern wealth came from it being considered a battleground vs Japan and Russia, so there's loads of bases.

Most likely, this will just yet again be a defeat in court. That dude is just throwing shit against the wall and hoping some of it will stick.

Well, this inspired me to swing my monthly wikipedia donation over to a world book sub instead. It's bad enough that wikipedia was a very dubious source of info, but now this is just too much.

You mean the bubble of people who don't want a factually incorrect, environmentally damaging shortcut to provide a summary that's largely already being done by someone? You're right.

The HU, now opening for Iron Maiden and with special guest What...

"We're off to see Iron Maiden!" "Who's opening?" "Yes" "What?" "No, What is going on second"

That's awesome!

There's also a method that was used briefly in billboards to check what radios were tuned to as cars drove by. https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/High-tech-billboards-tune-in-to-drivers-tastes-2744204.php

My understanding was it mostly picked up people listening to their aux to radio adapters though.

Learn from my mistake and make sure that the wall and footing is reinforced before you build a full wall bookshelf for something as heavy as vinyl.

XMPP, Matrix, heck, so many things.

Interested, but not on discord, which is like the opposite of solarpunk. Bookwyrm would be cool, though, or lemmy/kbin/etc

I buy physical media frequently, but the quality of it in the video sector has really dropped. Musicians are over here constantly stepping up their game, but hollywood has so over-consolidated and accomplished so much regulatory capture of their remaining competition that they just serve slop.

Great example is a recent It DVD that I bought, which was so perfunctory and so poorly made, it's hard to believe it even exists.