Though e15 is much more common, e85 was an expensive and failed experiment with tax dollars to put more money in the corn producers pockets. Actually that part worked, the adoption and actually being worse for the environment generally didn’t.

Because of the implication.

Yep exactly. As soon as they announced they weren’t going to ramp capacity I thought the exact same thing. They’re taking advantage of the situation to pad their pockets as thoroughly as possible.

And if demand continues theywill ramp and say they “reevaluated the market”, and thus get the benefits of panic buying AND a larger sales volume.

And mark my words- prices will never fall back to where it was without enormous market distruption.

It was Texas. I’m sure everyone had a gun.

Extrusion width?

The P320 thing is extremely overblown.

With some shitty tolerances a given model can be made to discharge when the slide is manipulated in a specific way with significant force. That is proven fact and I’m not disputing it.

But a lot of the claims purport to have had this happen in controlled circumstances with no force or evidence of shitty tolerances, and is just as likely negligent people being stupid and seeing the P320 criticism as a likely skapegoat.

My friends two kids were followed home from elementary school. They ran in terror for several blocks until they were home.

The family sheltered in place, switching to home schooling and calling in to work for over a week until ICE moved on to other schools.

Their dad is Caucasian. Their mom is half Ojibwe half African American. Both sides have 4+ generations of citizenship. They were targeted due to their tan skin and dark hair.

What state is bluer, by your measurement?

Blue State has a generally accepted meaning of ‘votes blue in the presidential election’.

Doesn’t mean that 100% of our politics is democratic.

Are you arguing this for any particular reason?

Those are great numbers to bandy about, but they’re different from being here and participating in the local politics.

Like many other blue states and many other places worldwide we’re suffering from a resurgence of right wing authoritarianism and political disenfranchisement.

But we’re actively fighting it, and winning. And doing far better than most other blue states.

We have a free school lunch program, we have excellent social programs, we have sanctuary status firmly in place for reproductive and trans rights.

Walz stepping back from the Governor seat is local politics inside the DFL. He’s been a lightning rod of hatred for our red/purple voters since COVID, and after being party to an honestly embarrassing loss on the national stage seems a good time to transfer power, despite his fantastic successes.

We’ve been a solid blue state since the '70s. And we’ve only voted Republican 3 times since 1932.

Our GOP is already pathetic and impotent. Our local Democrats (DFL) are already significantly more progressive and effective than the DNC.

But this is adding fuel to the fire in a big way, no doubt.

I’m not shocked.

Minnesotans have the highest voter turnout, have the second hours per capita of volunteers, has a rich history of immigration, and in general neighborhoods, churches, and other ‘third places’ are both welcoming and tight knit.

Hell there was a massive “socialist” co-op movement here in the 70s and 80s that had a huge and lasting impression on our politics.

Even our conservatives in the past tended to be the ‘libertarian’ type of conservatives, though of course the national circus has been having an influence since around 2015.

But even to this day polls show that identity politics don’t play as well in Minnesota as they appear to on the national stage. People don’t care about what happens in your home (perhaps to a fault), but if you visibly contribute to the community even in a small way (shoveling snow for or with a neighbor is the very true trope), you become one of us.

The massive protests following George Floyd’s death proved that Minnesota is a place where normal people will take real political action when they are pushed.

All this in mind, I think ICE was always going to fail here. But the death of Renee Nicole Good has dumped gasoline onto the fire and is turning what would have been a quiet failure they would have just stopped talking about nationally into an explosive situation.

I don’t know where this ends. I don’t want Minnesota to bleed any more then it already has, but I know we will stand firm.

56%? So basically the popular vote when voters actually fucking vote.

It’s the same damn statistic every time. 60% people horrified, 30% cheering, 10% cheering while making a good show of wringing their hands.

First past the post, education politicization, political disenfranchisement, and gerrymandering have created millions of monsters. I only hope democracies abroad take this as their wakeup call to fix the broken systems creating the global authoritarian / auth-right movement.

https://github.com/th3jesta/ha-lcars

Bullies never expect their targets to resist.

Oh noooo. How many assassination attempts have been made against Zelensky? I remember at least 3.

This is the bully screaming for the teacher because the bullied dared to swing back.

Fonts like this are a common headache in the Cricut world. Lots of resources in that space.

https://sniptoit.com/stencil-fonts-for-cricut/

This UCMJ seems like woke propaganda!

Well you see, that was the WHO. But Trump withdrew the US from the WHO, so… Now they’re demanding the benefits of the WHO from countries anyway.

• Had brown skin
• Worked a blue collar job
• Dash of incompetence
• Racism