Welcome to the low IQ morons in charge!

Shhh. Nothing is in Colorado. It is a boring place.

Larping around apartment buildings taping over cameras as they go was already a violation of laws. Abducting people without a warrant was already a violation of laws. Disappearing people to other countries and destroying the paper trail was already a violation of laws.

Don’t worry. ThEyRE DrAINiNg ThE SWaMP!

We’ll all have so much money back in our wallets soon that we’ll be able to afford eggs again!

When 22% of America votes to destroy the country…

…FAFO MAGA.

You should 100% do that. Efficiency gains are less and less, they love baking in “eco” features that are to work around deficiencies in design, and modern home appliances suffer from poor cold solder joints failing causing the whole machine to die frequently. Easy to fix if you have a soldering iron, but should be unacceptable.

Only reason I ended up replacing my old old dishwasher, for example, was that a leak developed in the bottom of the wash pan and it started leaking on the floor, and at that point, 20+ years old, it was likely going to have cascading failures of other parts, and mold mitigation and replacing the subfloor were not worth the risk. Otherwise I’d have kept swapping parts as they failed.

Ended up going with the Bosch 500 due to friends’ personal reviews, as well as Consumer Reports and the like backing up that it does its job. Didn’t buy it for cloud, didn’t buy it for apps, bought it to wash dishes.

The extra price was annoying versus a cheaper model, but better build quality and less noise is what that extra price is paying for. The app/cloud stuff is just silly bonuses that don’t matter.

Definitely keep the old stuff though, it’s generally simpler to repair and maintain and more reliable, unless you hit a critical failure that increases risk too much. (There’s some statistical analysis rule about that, with each new operating mode, each new feature, that adds a multiplicative factor to chance of failure.) Sometimes you get a pleasant surprise too, replaced the main controller in a 20+ year old stove and the modern flavor of the controller cycles the heating coils differently, it actually produces more consistent heat than the old controller board. It was like a free cooking upgrade.

You could also just pour that into the rinse aid dispenser…

On the 500 series, it needs a rinse aid refill about once a month using it once a day to once every other day.

That dishwasher runs perfectly fine without connecting to an app. Been using it that way for half a year.

People are so obsessed for nonsense features. Just set normal mode, auto air, start. Done. You know when it finished because the red light shining on the floor turns off, it beeps at you, and auto air opens the door so it can dry faster.

Guess what? You just had a machine wash dishes for you and you didn’t even hear it running the whole time.

Check the trash filter occasionally, which is a physical part you can pull out from the bottom and wash in the sink. Clean the gaskets occasionally to keep a clean seal like any dishwasher.

I will probably open it up at some point and see if I can damage/remove the radio so it can’t ever connect to anything.

It’s a dishwasher, it doesn’t have to massage your plates’ backs. Nothingburger rant.

This is exactly what Mango Mussolini and his ilk want. They will then declare martial law across the entire country and accelerate Fascism. The USA is slightly smaller than all of the EU in square miles or kilometers. The entire EU. Not just some tiny nation like Germany that is smaller than some US states. Couple that with how the US economy is rigged so people lose their health insurance, medications, and die if they aren’t working, it makes it extremely difficult for people to up and stop working to travel 3000 miles to destroy buildings.

Much better to rally every American citizen to just collectively get on the same page and play a long-game. This will take some time as MAGA comes to realize how wrong they were on their gambit to hire a felon with no business acumen, and they need to be welcomed back into the fold. They’ve been fed a stream of information poison for decades, so it isn’t surprising how they were led astray, really.

Getting 300+million people scattered across the vast lands all on the same page makes it much simpler. Once a critical mass is hit, just stop doing anything. Employers can’t hire scabs if nobody is working. The entire US economy crashes to a halt. Those billionaire losers can whine and complain on deaf ears as their profits evaporate. Once they realize the President really never had any power, and shouldn’t, those pearl-clutching oligarchs that care about their profits will start understanding who they should have been respecting and listening to this whole time.

Many are already stocking up on supplies, medications, food, due to supply chain disruptions to come from “tariffs,” arbitrary bans on classes of people, and other wacko illegal crap being pulled. The country will be organically ready to stop playing their games in under a few months.

America has literally no rulebook for this scenario. Big change will have to happen to fix it unless the US states grow a collective spine. Arbitrary violence likely will not effectively accomplish that goal.

As for the “Don’t Tread On Me” larpers, they’re just loud larpers - they are a tiny subset of the US population. Maybe they’ll grow a spine, maybe not, either way they’ll be welcome if they want to wake up and actually defend that 2A they purportedly respect.

Don’t feel like you have to race. It took about a year to shift e-mail addresses last time I did it. Keep the old one as a harvesting point until you move over what you want. Then just leave the old one around to use up space on Google’s servers if you really want to softly be a dick. (They eventually close them after some period of inactivity.)

Basic steps for a slightly more thorough method that also preserves old e-mail:

• Do a GDPR/Google data dump of your gmail to mbox file(s).
• Install Mozilla Thunderbird on a computer and use ImportExportTools NG to import the mbox file(s) into Thunderbird so you can access all your old e-mail.
• Delete all e-mail from Gmail.
• Turn off all mail rules on Gmail so everything just comes to the inbox.
• You can forward to your new address if you want to, or, just let email collect in the old account and switch addresses from time to time as you use various services.
• After a time, delete the account if you so choose, or leave it dormant until Google deletes it.

Your assumption is incorrect in that this is already happening. You need to think bigger.

Let them die, they are getting everything they wished for. Would have been so nice if they’d only had the brains to recognize what they were wishing for but alas, here we are.

Here’s the problem with that, the anti-vax adults were likely vaccinated as children, so they’ll live, while their children die, never connecting the dots as to why they survived.

Media/social media are owned and controlled by the oligarchs in the US. Getting a message through that firewall in today’s America is exceedingly challenging, albeit not impossible. They all pander to their special interests rather than report news. The more fringe ones like The Intercept tend to be a bit too fringe, which damages credibility on a wide scale.

It would have to be a new movement with a new media broadcast platform, hosted somewhere secure and hardened. Probably not in the US, with routing contingency to get around the US government attempting to block them. Not new tech, just something that isn’t owned by oligarchs or have a tainted reputation.

Would have to be organic/word of mouth at first. Really hard to get traction that way these days. Again, not impossible. Just challenging.

Colorado has a 5.9 million person population spread across 104,185 square miles (269,837km^2) of mountains and plains.

Probably around 3GB. I have some cheaper Motorolas with that, usable, but a lot of app reload. Also, stick to older, slower phones to avoid the AI on-device. Otherwise rooting, GrapheneOS, etc.

At this point, you gotta use AI that can search the web to shovel through the crap. Weird time to be alive from every angle.

LOL, Dems, how about you prove you can do anything useful first, and then ask for money. You’re a disgrace.

You’re not prepaid cell phone service.

That’s what all the money in the Social Security Administration is for.

Normal cars do whatever is in their power to cease movement while facing upright. In a wreck, the safest state for a car is to cease moving.