Snot Flickerman

That’s how it’s supposed to work but rarely actually does.

It still does, but I do understand people’s displeasure with snaps.

Ubuntu in the corner, crying.

Linux users: “Stop hitting yourself, stop hitting yourself!”

I mean, considering the process for getting this fleet started in 2015, it would be 2035 before a new fleet would be rolling out… so yeah, they’ll just call to shut down USPS

True, making them rely on vehicles that are failing will reduce the ability for the USPS to effectively do its job and give them another reason to say we need to privatize it.

They literally spent the last 10 fucking years getting these replacements ready to replace the aging fleet.

Also, it’s not just a $1.5 billion dollar hit, there was and is a $6 billion dollar contract with Oshkosh Defense to build 165,000 of these, after going through a 6-year iteration process of bids and prototypes. This is throwing the baby out with the bathwater for no discernible reason and at an extremely high cost just to force USPS mail carrier to be locked into an ancient, aging fleet of vehicles. And I don’t think a defense giant like Oshkosh isn’t just going to sue the shit out of the government for damages for cancelling a contract if it hasn’t been fulfilled already.

It sounds like just one more way to try to kill the USPS because if all their vehicles keep breaking down, they won’t be able to do their jobs.

Fiscal conservatives, my ass. Most wasteful sonsabitches alive.

The USPS literally just got these, and they’re replacing the way-past-end-of-life former fleet of USPS vehicles. These things are so recent that I have a post about them in my post history and I’ve only been here since October 2023, not even two full years.

Getting rid of them is literally forcing USPS to use old, broken, difficult to maintain due to age vehicles. These replacements have been in the works for ten fucking years and there’s a $6 billion contract with Oshkosh Defense to build 165,000 of them.

Further, the old vehicles are missing a huge boon to mail carriers: air conditioning.

Like so many things, it seems like the cruelty is the point. It’s not just that they hate EVs, they hate mail carriers having modernized vehicles that are in working condition and climate controlled so they’re not sweating their asses off in the summer and freezing their asses off in the winter.

Thanks for reminding me I’ve always wanted to have bees. I’d never considered just calling up beekeepers.

Technically you can get unemployment in the offseason.

Mom: We have regime change at home.

Regime change at home:

Vranyo.

You know I’m lying, and I know that you know, and you know that I know that you know, but I go ahead with a straight face, and you nod seriously and take notes.

The bald faced lies are like the final insult. Even during the lead up to Iraq they made a show of trying to fake intelligence enough to suit their goals. Now it’s just, fuck it we ball, and say whatever, who cares, and who cares if they know we’re lying, they can’t do anything about it.

You think his cult members won’t eat this up and just follow their Daddy because he told them so, Associated Press? That’s rich, they’re already out there justifying it. Once they get their marching orders from FOX, it will be “war is a good thing and when we said wars in the middle east were bad we just meant only when they’re started by Democrats” conveniently ignoring how few of them have been started by Democrats instead of being spearheaded by Republicans like the faked intelligence leading to the Iraq War. Democrats didn’t push it, they just went along with it because public sentiment said the people wanted war. Democrats, being the wishy washy fucks they are, bent over and said “I’ll do whatever I need to keep idiots happy and voting me back in.”

I’d like to believe that, but some people I have met who are not struggling for resources and had kind and loving families are still somehow just some selfish motherfuckers. I don’t know where they got that trauma from that made them want to hurt others so badly.

Don’t worry, be happy. Climate change will kill us all.

Some days I really deeply contemplate just getting a canister of helium and an exit bag.

It seems like most humans honestly are not that interested at all in things like history, the value of community, involvement with others, social and emotional support, and are generally just selfish living-perpetually-in-the-moment idiots that willfully ignore the implications of anything they do and endlessly play the victim.

It’s honestly a drag to realize how many of our species continue to be backwards knuckle dragging slack-jawed yokels who get positively furious when anyone calls them out on how absolutely fucking stupid they are. How dare you call them stupid and hurt their feelings! It’s their right to be a an absolute fucking idiot and you’re the one out of line for calling attention to it! They couldn’t possibly try to not be a mendacious fucking moron! You’re the person who is wrong for noticing!

The most important aspect of this that I think most people are missing is that they are specifically trying to bias the public into thinking he definitely did it. There is no “allegedly” in how they’ve treated him, they are actually using the positive public sentiment about what he did to continue to build the idea that it was definitely him and we don’t need to go to court to prove it. The public loving Mangione and believing he definitely did it is actually in many ways beneficial to their case. It helps solidify the idea in the general public eye that “he did it” before any court case has looked at the facts.

Remember ol’ Khrushchev when he was ridin’ high with that Sputnik satellite
He told us yankee boys, he’s gunna fill the skies with them shiny new satellites
He said “Hey Mr. Eisenhower, watcha think of my Sputnik satellite?”
Well, Ike reeled his head back
Looked him in the eye, that’s a mighty fine satellite.

But I’mma gonna get me one better, just you wait and see
I’mma gonna get me one better, you can’t get the best of me
I’mma gonna get me one better, the baddest one around
I’mma gonna get me one better, ‘cause’ I got the biggest balls in town.

Gaslight Obstruct Project is just too on the nose for Republicans.

Because this isn’t just projection of their own violent tendencies it’s literally trying to gaslight the public into believing that reality must be different than what they’ve seen, and they’ll use the law to obstruct any investigation into proving that they are gaslighting the public.

Okay, well here are some facts that you can confirm with anyone else who has been involved in election administration that support my point:

I’m quoting OP to make a point here, and that point is they gave you an opportunity to validate the evidence they were presenting and not just take their word for it.

I have never worked in elections but have done enough research on elections to agree with the mod that these are indisputable facts. Elections are run at state and county levels and at each level you literally have security and cybersecurity teams that have to work with each other but were all hired by different groups: State, county, city. Due to this, processes will be different at each level and in each city/county/state. Similarly, each place will be sourcing their hardware from a different vendor, meaning it is highly implausible that somehow they all had the correct Tripp Lite devices in place in all the right districts and that the cybersecurity teams were either all grossly incompetent or somehow in on a grand conspiracy. Hell, I’ve had a government job for a short time, and even different agencies in the same government will be using different vendors than another agency. There is no overarching “you have to get your equipment from this specific vendor and no one else” more like “you can get your equipment from this large group of vendors who fit the specifications and requirements our city/county/state government has.”

These are things you can research and verify. The mod isn’t just asking you to their their word on it, they provide evidence and give you the opportunity to go verify that evidence for yourself. To go ask the people who run your local elections and find out. Not just trust the musings of some random asshat on the internet. Also the whole “elections are run at the state level” thing should be pretty common knowledge because that’s basic civics.