cogman

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[–] cogman@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Nah, he turned deeply unpopular right after the debate with trump. He was hemorrhaging in the polls. His backers abandoned him because they feared trump winning. Several polls about biden dropping out had something like 75% of democrats wanting him to drop.

Kamala has ran to the left of biden on a number of issues. If this were a "billionares fear taxes" situation she wouldn't have been the replacement. There are some rumors that establishment dems didn't want Kamala to be the pick because of her policies.

[–] cogman@lemmy.world 70 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

All while crying about it because you "died from the woke mind virus".

You know, his still living daughter who he'd still have a fucking relationship with if he didn't suck ass so much.

[–] cogman@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Were it not for Israel, I'd be telling you about how great Biden has been domestically (except the boarder). His administration has by and large been very progressive with the policies it's enacted. Biden's abhorrent sucking up to Israel during an active genocide is the huge dark spot on his presidency.

It is a bit dumb that "he's too old" is what got him out.

[–] cogman@lemmy.world 29 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

The supports also need to withstand being rammed by drunks in dodge rams.

[–] cogman@lemmy.world 32 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

It won't be hard. Kamala is going to be able to put a bullseye on Trump and republican politics like Biden simply wasn't ever able to do. She's going to be able to hyper focus on the deeply unpopular beliefs of the base and it will be hard for Trump or others to really deny it without losing their core supporters.

Further, because she's relatively unknown there's really not the same baggage as there was with Hillary. Most people don't know who she is and I think that really plays to her favor.

[–] cogman@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago

Yup. Kamala is also not a bad pick because republicans are almost certainly going to start with racism/sexism as their first attacks "Oh, she's DEI". Given trump has been trying to court the black/Latino vote, this will play against him.

Further, Kamala will be able to excellently push him on abortion. Biden really sucked at advocating for women's rights even though that's been a winner pretty much every time it's been the focus of a campaign (there's a reason Rs have backed away from mentioning it).

It'll still be close and there's still a lot of unknowns. However, I for one think this is the right move.

[–] cogman@lemmy.world 43 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Why so many? Its resolution is 16000 x 16000 which is a lot but also not that much. Is it doing more than just video output?

[–] cogman@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

bad in a clear way and define a simple test.

The reason for this is both terrible and simple. It's because they don't want to be caught in obvious contradictions when "If a republican does it, it's fine. If a democrat does it, it's wrong".

This is absolutely so that if a Democrat president decided to do exactly what trump did, they'll allow prosecution because "inciting a riot to steal an election is obviously not an official act." This leaves the door open for Ken Star style witch hunts against their political opponents.

We have a fascist supreme court.

[–] cogman@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

There are premium brands that do well, but there are also non premium brands that do pretty well. GE, for example, tends to make fairly reliable product (even today) for roughly the same price point of samsung/lg.

[–] cogman@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Or just a decent bus system. You could replace 50 cars on that highway with a single bus.

[–] cogman@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

An insulated box with a decent compressor does not cost 10k. Making a compressor that fails after 2 years is actually hard to do, something both LG and Samsung spent time and money to achieve.

Consider, for example, that nearly every car manufactured with an AC. Which is exactly the same tech as a fridge. Yet you rarely end up needing to replace the compressor on your car. You might need to recharge it or clean it, but not replace the compressor. 10k of your car price isn't the HVAC.

[–] cogman@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago (17 children)

There's some appliance breakdown vids (idk if Rossman is one of them) but the gist is Samsung and LG like to put cheap plastic parts in high wear locations which inevitably fail.

Fridges are dead simple appliances. A compressor and evaporator coils with a temperature sensor. There's absolutely no reason they shouldn't outlast you and everyone you love.

It's insane these "premium" brands are built to fall like they do.

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