AbsentBird

The distaff counterpart to Barney.

He gives you your crowbar, she gives you your gravity gun. Both are attractive people who crack jokes and act familiar with you.

RISC-V is promising though. Still too early to say for sure, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it made some huge gains over the next ten years.

Democrats should be the right wing party, and the other party should be Progressives. Republicans have proven themselves incapable of governing.

Frankly I’m not sure what the leadership would look like. It would start as the progressive caucus, but it would naturally evolve from there based on the voters.

I think the reason many current ‘progressive’ leaders abandon progressive policies has more to do with our current political paradigm than personal flaws of the leaders.

If there were a progressive party with a progressive base it would make progressive policies key to getting votes.

It seems to me like the two versions aren’t mutually exclusive. A better voting system that allows for more parties would undoubtedly lead to more parties winning votes, but such a reform would also run against the interests of the ruling class.

I mean, there’s many nations with more than two parties, including progressive parties, but I don’t see a reason why that’s more in line with the ruling class there than here.

It’s not so much about blame to my mind than it is about the way systems feed into each other.

However you slice it, whatever prior conditions you see as most important, replacing the republican party with one left of democrats would be a huge improvement.

It does matter, even if you don’t view it as significant in the broader context. Even from the perspective of starting a communist revolution, the more fascist and conservative the government, the more brutal the suppression.

My personal position is not for one system of government over the other as much as it is for better outcomes for society. I have enough trans friends and relatives that I want as few conservative reactionaries in power as possible.

Since it seems unlikely for capitalism to be toppled before the republican party crumbles, I still think it’s worth working towards, especially when it just takes a single piece of paperwork every couple years to help.

I’m not sure how other EVs do it, but the Nissan Leaf can be put into neutral, since it uses a single motor under the hood. I’m sure putting motors in the wheels complicates things, but I would think the coast idea would work.

I guess the other difference is that the Leaf is front wheel drive only, so as long as the truck lifts the front wheels there’s no risk to anything going wrong.

Personally I like it when EVs aren’t too different from regular cars, the leaf is basically a Nissan Rogue, but instead of a gas engine there’s an electric one, and instead of a gas tank there’s a battery pack.