I mean, everyone is entitled to their vote, and my guess is that they’re probably going to take an economic hit, so I have a hard time dogpiling on top of that, but I don’t think that it was a move that was in their interests.

Six months back:

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/09/18/teamsters-favor-trump-harris-endorsement-00179879

Teamsters members heavily favor Trump over Harris ahead of union endorsement decision

Now:

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-05-03/trumps-tariffs-hit-truckers-and-port-workers

Tariffs bring shipping slowdown, threatening trucking jobs at L.A. ports

A 2023 report found that the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach contributed $21.8 billion in direct revenue to local service providers, generating $2.7 billion in state and local taxes and creating 165,462 jobs, directly and indirectly.

A decline of just 1% in cargo to the ports would wipe away 2,769 jobs and endanger as many as 4,000 others, the study found.

Last week, Port of Los Angeles Executive Director Gene Seroka said arrivals could drop by 35% over the next 14 days.

This threat looms large for members of ILWU Local 13, a union representing longshoremen who unload cargo and support port operations.

“They’re just wondering what’s going to happen,” ILWU Local 13 President Gary Herrera said of his members. “Some of the workforce will not be getting their full 40 hours a week based on the loss of cargo. Job loss is definitely a concern.”

According to Herrera and port officials, there will be more than 30 “blank sailings” in May at the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles, which occur when cargo ships cancel planned trips. That will mean 400,000 fewer containers will be shipped through the ports, officials said.

The impending downturn at the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles comes not long after the twin facilities reported booming activity, tied to a labor dispute that shut down major ports on the East and Gulf coasts. Nearly one-third of all cargo containers delivered to the U.S. travel through Los Angeles and Long Beach.

Navdeep Gill, who owns the Northern California trucking company Ocean Rail Logistics, said his business is already moving 60% to 70% less cargo as a result of the tariffs.

Gill’s truckers, who haul goods from the Port of Oakland, typically move 50 containers a week. Recently, they have been moving 10 to 15, Gill said.

“When we are not doing anything and the trucks are not working, then we lose money,” he said. His company hauls industrial goods, paper and food products.

“We have fixed expenses like insurance that we cannot bypass, so we’re losing money,” Gill said.

Over the three-day period ending Sunday, 10 container ships are expected at the Port of Los Angeles. That’s a decline from the 17 container ships that typically arrive every three days at this time of year, according to a memo from a trade group that represents shippers.

“That is going to have an effect on the work opportunities for not just us, but for truck drivers, warehouse workers and logistics teams,” said Herrera, the union president. “This is the ripple effect of not having work at the waterfront.”

Search for “longplay <game-name>” on YouTube and you’ll find video of someone playing just about any game.

That’s not very much information.

Are you talking about a commercial service? A free one (well, aside from mining your data)? Software that you run on local hardware?

You have the NSFW flag set on this post, but the post itself contains no NSFW content. Are you wanting something that can generate NSFW content?

The article says it is paid…

Well, yes and no. I mean, they get a paycheck if they use paid time off, but they’d need to use some of their supply of that, which is going to compete with things like time off for being sick, going on vacation, etc.

I’d think that they already have that due to the TSA.

Tesla told Austin workers on its Model Y and Cybertruck lines to stay home for the week of Memorial Day, three workers told Business Insider.

Setting aside the Musk/Trump shennanigans and their impact on the Tesla brand as a whole, though…they’re also talking about the Cybertruck.

I can believe that maybe they keep demand for the Model Y at a sustained long-term level, but I have a hard time believing that the Cybertruck is going to take off. I mean, if there’s enough commonality across lines, then maybe they can use the Cybertruck workers elsewhere, but I just don’t think that the Cybertruck is going to become a big success.

Like, at some point, they gotta cut their losses on that thing.

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/tesla-cybertruck-sales-musk-b2746688.html

Tesla Cybertruck sales underperformed in Q1, dropping more than 50 percent compared to sales in Q4 of 2024, reflecting a larger theme for the electric vehicle maker, which has faced market volatility and decreasing sales as its CEO has taken a role in the Trump administration.

In the last quarter, Tesla sold roughly 6,400 Cybertrucks – more than double the number from the same time last year but significantly fewer than the 12,900 sold in the final quarter of 2024, according to research firm Cox Automotive.

It’s the second consecutive quarter Tesla has seen a dip in Cybertruck sales. Sales peaked during Q3 of 2024 with roughly 16,600 sold.

The Cybertruck was introduced to the electric vehicle market in 2023, and at the time, Musk touted that more than one million people had paid a $100 refundable deposit to reserve one.

It also dropped production targets for several Cybertruck lines over the last few months, workers familiar with the matter told Business Insider. Production lines have reportedly also been thinned out; now, some are said to be working at a fraction of their previous capacity.

There could be only one Rusty Shackleford.

They don’t have a replica of your brain, if that’s what you are asking.

Okay. In that case, I think that I’d probably use that, since there will definitely be information that I could show other people that only I know. Passwords, past private memories with people I know, that sort of thing. Maybe if one is optimistic, my doppleganger could guess or somehow obtain one or two, but if we do a number of these, I should be able to pass many more of these than my doppleganger.

Roughly 40% of U.S. households — and more than 70% of California households — use a natural gas cooking appliance, according to a 2023 estimate from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Growing concern over health and environmental impacts has prompted action in several states. In California, lawmakers passed AB2513 last year, which would have required warning labels on gas stoves sold in stores starting in 2026. Gov. Gavin Newsom, however, vetoed the bill.

California’s electricity rates are about twice those of most other US states.

I think that California would have more luck getting people to use electricity instead of natural gas if they’d work on getting California electricity prices down to something comparable to most of the other 48 states.

Probably also have more luck getting people to use electric vehicles instead of ICE vehicles.

Hmm. I’m not entirely clear here…are you saying the answer to both of the two questions is “no”? I mean, you didn’t explicitly say that the doppleganger has the same knowledge or the same possessions, but you also didn’t explicitly say that they didn’t.

• Does my doppelganger have the same knowledge I have, or just the same outward physical characteristics?

• Does my doppelganger possess the same physical objects I do, like an identical copy of a cell phone, say?

I think what @Renohren@lemmy.world’s referring to is that India and Pakistan have, in the past, conducted nonviolent ceremonies at the border involving soldiers from each side.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LixwXJpggME

I believe that the painting that you’re talking about was from an American Civil War battle that was close enough to a city (Washington DC?) that spectators decided to show up to watch. A bunch of people (including, IIRC, spectators) did die. That wasn’t being done with the intent of ceremony.

kagis

The First Battle of Bull Run.

https://www.history.com/articles/worst-picnic-in-history-was-interrupted-by-war

On July 21, 1861, Washingtonians trekked to the countryside near Manassas, Virginia, to watch Union and Confederate forces clash in the first major battle of the American Civil War. Known in the North as the First Battle of Bull Run and in the South as the Battle of First Manassas, the military engagement also earned the nickname the “picnic battle” because spectators showed up with sandwiches and opera glasses. These onlookers, who included a number of U.S. congressmen, expected a victory for the Union and a swift end to the war that had begun three months before.

Instead, the battle that day resulted in a bloody defeat for the Union and sent the picnickers scrambling to safety.

Just to confirm, Tineye finds one match corresponding to your image, called “CivalWar_PicnicAtManassas.jpg”, so I suspect that’s from that battle.

I don’t think that I’d call that very representative of even American Civil War battles, though, much less of all prior battles in history.

The War Zone doesn’t have much up yet as of this writing, but I’d consider them a stronger publication on military matters than Newsweek.

https://www.twz.com/air/the-air-to-air-missiles-that-equip-india-and-pakistans-fighters

Meanwhile, another senior Pakistani security source has described to CNN a large-scale air battle involving 125 jets, fighting for over an hour, in which time the aircraft remained in their respective airspaces and lobbed AAMs at each other from long distances.

As well as crewed fighters, Pakistan has also made extensive claims on the destruction of Indian drones. Earlier today, Pakistan said it had downed 25 Israeli-made Harop loitering munitions. One of these drones was able to “partially” engage a target near the city of Lahore, injuring four army personnel, according to Pakistan Army spokesman Lt. Gen. Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry.

So far, India’s government has neither confirmed nor denied any of these losses. The use of Chinese-made AAMs by the Pakistan Air Force has also been capitalized on by Beijing, leading to the Indian embassy in China accusing Chinese state media of “disinformation.”

Overall, a significant degree of confusion is very much typical when dealing with engagements that have been happening in the heat of combat. A flood of official and unofficial claims and counterclaims, some of them outlandish, is also to be expected, especially when dealing with social media. So, we should keep an open mind about the results of these aerial confrontations and consider that accidents, as well as friendly fire incidents, are also very possible. At the same time, Indian and Pakistani ground-based air defense systems have very likely also played a significant role, and any aircraft losses could also be the result of surface-to-air missile engagements.

On the off chance that you’re not joking, what @Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works is pointing out:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogfight

A dogfight, or dog fight, is an aerial battle between fighter aircraft that is conducted at close range.

A “dogfight” isn’t just a synonym for an air-to-air engagement, but specifically refers to a close-range one.

The pole is just an ordinary pole. In 1977, after measuring land subsidence over time, they put the signs up on it to illustrate how far the land had sunk. They could have put the signs on anything tall enough to provide enough space.

“Because of our long time history and allegiance together, it is a great honor to have the United Kingdom as our FIRST announcement. Many other deals, which are in serious stages of negotiation, to follow!”

“Allegiance” and “alliance” aren’t synonyms. Neither of us has held allegiance to the other since we were part of the British Empire in the colonial era. How do you manage to dick this up? Literally all you have to do is have someone write things on paper and open your mouth and say them without improvising.

You have to have a speechwriter on-staff.

kagis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_Director_of_Speechwriting

Ross Worthington.

kagis

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/01/14/congress/trump-worthington-00198301

Ross Worthington worked on many of Trump’s policy speeches, but the president-elect often veered off-script.

Trump praised his speechwriters but frequently went off script and had a habit of freelancing large portions of his speeches before returning to the teleprompter.

Yeah, no kidding.

The nation’s fastest-sinking city is Houston, with more than 40% of its area dropping more than 5 millimeters (about 1/5 inch) per year, and 12% sinking at twice that rate.

kagis

https://texaslivingwaters.org/groundwater/subsidence-houston-galveston-region/

Understanding subsidence in the Houston-Galveston region

Since 1836, groundwater withdrawals have caused about 3,200 square miles of the Houston-Galveston area to subside (or sink) more than a foot, with some areas subsiding as much as 12 to 13 feet.

Noob-tier numbers, Texas. Here’s a photo from 1977 in California showing land subsidence on a telephone pole from 1925 to 1977.

https://water.usgs.gov/ogw/pubs/fs00165/Images/fig2.jpg

https://enews.hamariweb.com/pakistan/heavy-rain-and-storms-expected-across-pakistan-stay-safe-till-may-5/

The Pakistan Meteorological Department has issued a countrywide weather alert, forecasting widespread rain, hailstorms, and thunderstorms from today through May 5, 2025. In response, the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has urged provincial and local authorities to take preemptive measures to deal with potential emergencies such as urban flooding, flash floods, and landslides.

Well, sounds like they’ve got water for a bit.