If I’m not mistaken, I’ve heard stories about it being prohibitively difficult to vote (long lines, inadequate staffing & # of locations, banning vote-by-car, a COVID response) in urban areas. Can’t imagine a lot of those barriers exist in more rural areas.

On the topic of American welfare programs, season 3 of The Uncertain Hour has some really good history and current coverage of issues with the system

Best Scooby Doo adaptation is the Venture Bros episode with the gang, and I will die on that hill

Hell of a write up Stamets!

Naturally

Truly, a time to be alive.

My wife and I constantly lament how we were born a few decades too late. For everything

CNC stuff??

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The power drill my dad got me a decade ago still works, and locked me in… I have done some med-duty ranch work with it and it still drills

I’m scared to mention Kobalt in here

If I had a nickel for every utility I worked with that handles billing of capital projects on a spreadsheet, I’d have 2… Which isn’t a lot, but still odd that the backbone of their billing is excel

Yeah, I recall someone from the BBC saying something similar when it came to covering Brexit. It would take their producers days to find a credible, coherent voice that was pro-Brexit, while the anti-Brexit folks were basically lined up to voice their reasoning. That dichotomy was never revealed to listeners and caused some strife amongst the news team as it seemed disingenuous to present both sides as equal

Do yourself a favor and go pirate it now

They’re mostly in rural parts of the states where private (read: investor owned) utilities determined the region wouldn’t turn a large enough profit to expand there and the state’s public utility commission didn’t mandate their expansion

Coming from West Coast VM and travelling on the east coast, it’s a nightmare everywhere. But everything is so moist they don’t face the same issues we do. At least that’s what I tell myself