Reach for the Stars @antares@qoto.org

@Hypx Not my experience taking a Tesla Model 3 on a cross-country road trip. Chargers are at least as ubiquitous as gas stations were in the 70s. Not quite to ICE levels, but it will be there soon. Can a H2 car even make it from LA to Vegas and back yet?

@Yvromaco Ronald Reagan as the Ghost of GOP past, Dick Chaney as the Ghost of GOP present, and John McCain as the Ghost of GOP future. With Rush Limbaugh in the role of Jacob Marley.

@_9CL7T9k8cjnD_ Thank you for your insight, however I vote for people not parties.

@_9CL7T9k8cjnD_ Was my vote for John Kerry in 2004 also a vote for a fantasy president. I knew going in that there was not way George W. Bush was going to loose. Should I have voted for the only person with any chance in that election, or stayed home? Somehow, even though I knew that my vote would not change the election, it was important to me to vote for a president who hadn't sent my friends to die in the Oil Wars. Was I wrong then?

@claralistensprechen3rd Hum... Perhaps third party is the *only* moral vote them. I hadn't considered that.

Verdict - “Scientific consensus is overwhelming: on any…like-for-like comparison an #EV will be cleaner than its petrol…equivalent”

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/dec/23/do-electric-cars-really-produce-fewer-carbon-emissions-than-petrol-or-diesel-vehicles

#Democratic partisans are letting me know that I am not worthy of voting for their chosen candidate again this year because I am not an ideologically pure #democrat. Somehow "I don't support the killing of innocent children in Gaza" now means I must support a fascist wantabe dictator. The system is so, so badly broken.

@MattFerrel

If I do not get a chance to vote against Biden in the primaries than I will take the opportunity to vote for a third party in the general. If the GOP comes to there senses or the courts hold DJT accountable for his actions I could end up voting for the GOP candidate, but you suppose that we will once again be tied to our system of never holding anyone to account either in the courts or at the ballot box. This dynamic is what enticed so many people to vote for the iconoclastic populist in 2016.

@thejacenallen @LindaCollins11

@MattFerrel @thejacenallen @LindaCollins11 No point in debating that until we know who won the primaries. We've got to fight for a good candidates in the primaries right now so we can support good candidates in the general. #primariesMatter

@garyackerman This is one of the important differences between an 18 month trade school program where the Job market will be similar to when one started and a 4 year college where the economy may well have moved on by the time an entering freshman graduates. It is why I have been advising for quite some time for High school students who want to work in a specific industry to start with a focused program and "go back" for a 4-year or MA degree once they have some time in the industry.

Unfortunately, too many jobs still require overly broad 4-year degrees to even get ones foot in the door.

@MattFerrel @thejacenallen @LindaCollins11 I plan to vote for Dean Phillips on Super Tuesday (assuming he has not dropped out like all the good candidates always do before I get to vote) #disenfranchised #primaries

@wnknisely So many people love this prayer. Why has no one written a musical setting for it?

WORD!!! #9LC

John Rutter! (let the hateres hate, I like Rutter) #9LC

The Vice-Provost has been taking voice lessons from Monty Python. #9lc