I bought one just for shits sometime in the 90s, it sure wasn’t the most reliable.

My buddy had a 93-94, we crammed like 12 people in it one night, including the trunk lol

If you’re wealthy enough, you can do whatever you want.

Freedom™

I’d argue that’s more of a problem with media consolidation and not having some form of truth requirement in broadcast media. When only a handful of organizations own the majority of media outlets and aren’t held to account for their content, this is what we end up with and why we can’t have nice things.

Considering the US government is one of the largest traffickers of firearms in the world, good luck with that one.

People: stop that
US Government:

Bronze age, they’re zombies and so are you.

Now listen here you little shit

Look up “potential difference” and that should make everything make a little more sense.

Basically, the voltage component of electricity wants to flow where the potential is less than itself. In a 120v circuit, the neutral is bonded to ground at the main for a reference of 0v, and you hot leg will find the path of least resistance to that 0v (through the devices we put in line of that circuit, be it lights, motors, etc). The current, or load, in amps, is the work being done by those devices in conjunction with the designed resistance.

Think of a simple incandescent light bulb. The filament has a certain level of resistance that’s designed to sustain a glow when power is applied to it. The 120v potential, trying to reach 0v ground, passes through that filament (the load), making it glow (the current draw is the amount of amps necessary to achieve its full brightness). A motor is similar; power passes through the windings, generating a magnetic field that react with magnets and spin the motor.

Basically, your voltage drives the power through its path to ground, and current is drawn by work being done. V multiplied by A is Watts (kW), or power consumed.

Perhaps it’s time we call the men in white coats

Huh, TIL, thanks!

One in the same in this regard

I’ve sure sworn at it when I’ve shown up to a call and something’s arcing, so yeah kinda.

Electrician here, I’ve certainly felt electricity, and it sure ain’t pleasant.

And those generation alternators must be very confused.

User-first stuff tends to incentivize bad behavior, I think. It becomes more about who’s saying it than what’s said.

I don’t necessarily think it inherently incentivizes bad behavior, it’s just a different media paradigm. Think of bands promoting albums and shows, celebrities doing celebrity things, charitable accounts, etc. I can see what you’re saying with extremist wackos spewing their bullshit though, but that becomes a bit of a blanket. Different people come online for different purposes, and your average rando typically just wants to see cat videos and family photos.

I guess I’m famous then.

That’s pretty much it. You have state, county, local/municipal taxes and it can get pretty convoluted real quick.

He’ll be fine as long as his colleagues can read.

Beat me to it. Most same Americans don’t want this, it’s the current administration and their moronic lap dogs, and the conglomerates that are paying into Cheeto’s personal accounts to “influence him” that want this. Id hope that most of us realize how insanely idiotic this is.

Also to, AI anti-regulation 2: electric boogaloo? Like they literally just tried to shoehorn this into the big bullshit bill only for it to get yanked, and that was what, two weeks ago?

Shit I haven’t seen the new Superman, is it any good?

I’m also giggling at the thought of spending that kind of money on a VR headset just to use for a console lol