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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • Scott, your logic is thwarted by the fact that efforts by states citizens working to get abortion rights put to a vote as ballot initiatives are being blocked by every measure possible by the GOP. Ohio is a perfect example:

    • State GOP lawmakers with the GOP Governor’s support and approval passed overly restrictive reproductive rights limitations over women’s bodies through the state congress against public opinion.
    • Citizens started efforts for a ballot measure supporting reproductive rights (including the right to a legal abortion).
    • State GOP lawmakers broke their own rule to run a pre-election to try to make passing ballot measures near impossible. Voters voted that down. The GOP effort failed.
    • The GOP Attorney General interceded in the abortion rights ballot measure language to make it more inflammatory. Voters, in the overwhelmingly red state, STILL voted the abortion rights measure into the State Constitution.
    • The GOP Governor came out claiming that the citizen lead ballot language was too permissive, and that citizens should have been willing to negotiate with the GOP government even though voters were voicing their desire for legal abortion from the start and being ignored by state legislature and the Governor.

    …so you’re wrong, Scott. The GOP just plays dirty tricks at every level ignoring the will of the people, even its own voters on this issue.






  • It’s ugly af. Was that a project requirement or something? It looks like it has a fucking underbite lol.

    It is, but its pure function over form. If you want the whole story on this here’s a well done 13 minute youtube video: USPS Oshkosh NGDV Postal Van - Ugly by Design

    Short version for the ugly:

    • drivers need to stand up at full height inside for ease of use
    • drivers, when seated, need to see very close to the ground what is in front of them
    • drivers are not all the same torso height. Men are usually taller than women so you need a really tall windshield for very tall seated drivers, and very sharp and short hood for very short drivers.

    Its ugly, but is a very VERY functional design. I’d rather mail carriers are comfortable in their ride than feeling stylish.


  • The rate isn’t too bad actually, but when your household is a larger consumer anyway and you’re charging 2 EVs consumption gets up there. We have also switched to an induction stove, heat pump water heater, added a heat pump dryer, and just recently had our gas furnace ripped out and a cold climate heat pump put in for the HVAC.

    With all of that the electricity usage the bill goes up, but we can wipe it out with solar and now we don’t have natural gas bills or gasoline costs for transportation. The up front costs can be high with this approach, but the monthly bills are nearly non-existent.