There's no way that wasn't scripted, which makes it so much worse.

They will be literally unmaintainable and the glue and tape holding them together cause them to fall apart.

Aside from a Tesla superfan who's into history I can't see them being collector's items. But I guess time will tell

Most of the problem 'legislation' being passed at present are executive orders from the president & bullshit decisions from the supreme court. Nothing to do with the senate.

Trump isn't passing anything through the senate that hasn't had heavy concessions to the Democrats and independents.

What's got you confused?

I don't like Obama much - his drone strikes and war-hawkish policy nor bailing out the banks when he had them over a barrel, but i'm tired of this bullshit narrative.

House control: yes, no question.

Senate control: barely.

Obama would not have even been able to pass his bank ~~robbery~~ 'stimulus' without three Republicans crossing the aisle to vote for it in early 2009. Yes, very much a man with 'total control' of the government..

Obama had just 4 months with senate control, and that whole time it was on a knife edge. 60 (of 100) votes are needed to bring legislation to the floor to even be voted on without filibuster. So for 'total control' a party needs 60 seats/votes in the senate. The dems had 57 in Jan 2009 at the start of Obama's congress, with 2 independents (Bernie and Joe Liebermann) who caucused with them, taking them to 59. Republicans had 41.

That 59 included Ted Kennedy whom had a seizure during an Inauguration lunch of Obama's (he was privately dying of brain cancer) and he never returned to vote in the senate - dropping the number to 58. Also, Al Franken was not seated until july due to a very close election in his seat and multiple recounts - until then the number was 57.

Long story short by September 24th they finally had 60 seats.. But democrats are not a monolith. Just as there are Manchins and Sinemas and other 'Democrats' in recent memory that are barely left of Ted Cruz, there were several of similar ilk back then like Max Baucus, Kent Conrad, Ben Nelson - and their independent caucus member Joe Lieberman, mentioned earlier - who all fought against much of Obama's legislation, for example with respect to Obamacare they quashed any chance of a public option and single payer.

So did he have control: technically, briefly. Could Obama just run through any legislation he wanted during that time? Absolutely fucking not.

Fraunhofer IIS and Fraunhofer ISE are part of the same organization.

They are different institutes in the same Fraunhofer Society.

Yep staggering manufacturing dates is a good suggestion. I do it but it does make purchasing during sales periods to get good prices harder. Better than losing multiple drives at once, but RAID needs a backup anyway and nobody should skip that step.

Shameful as an Australian.

The legal argument was essentially, "bro our emissions are so minor on the worldwide scale that even if we'd met our targeted emissions reductiond it wouldn't have made a measurable difference to today". "- can't hold the Aussie govt accountable for the rest of the world".

So - whataboutism pointed at China and other nations.

Who the fuck digs up the coal and gas and iron ore and sends it to China and other industrial-centre nations knowing it will be burned / refined at great carbon cost? Oh that's right, us.

We had a carbon tax for a hot minute that tried to capture these externalities into businesses so they couldn't hide behind this rhetoric.. and they lobbied and brainwashed the populace into voting out that govt the very next election, nearly 20 years ago.

I don't think the New York Times has many fans on Lemmy. They have been an untrustworthy and willing tool of the US conservative government since at least 2002 when they published fake intelligence about WMDs in order to sell papers and drum up support for the Iraq war not once but dozens of times, then in 2004 were like 'ohh... My bad'. In 2003 they intentionally withheld publishing information about the illegal and damning NSA domestic spying program initiated by Bush and Cheney - because they asked them to hold off publishing until after the election.

Motherfucker you have no 'journalistic integrity' left after that, and that was over 20 years ago.

It says in the article that many died during transport. Dead spiders smell. Large dead spiders packed in a box with dozens of other large dead spiders would stink.

However, it's my understanding that most international mail gets x-rayed as standard when passing through customs. This is the case in Australia where I live. So even before the smell, this package would have been on the radar for inspection.

Cunts illegally importing exotic species with no shits given for their welfare, for the pet trade.

I would absolutely not use refurbs personally. As part of the refurb process they wipe the SMART data which means you have zero power-on hours listed, zero errors, rewrite-count, etc - absolutely no idea what their previous life was.

Hey it's those guys that invented MP3s.