At that time, a cross would have carried about the same meaning as a noose.

Hostility from judges needs to fucking start.

The judiciary has the power to deputize individuals to enforce its orders. It needs to fucking start.

It was absolutely a meltdown

There is a generic “Make the site safe from both ends” risk mitigation though,

There is, indeed. One of the “sides” they have to consider is the possibility of a live line coming into contact with the disconnected line that they are currently working on. Lines crisscross frequently, and in the aftermath of a storm, a downed wire on one line could bring it into contact with and inadvertently energize another line.

The steps they take to mitigate the risk of an entire neighborhood worth of power being dumped onto the line they are working is more than adequate to mitigate the risk of backfed solar: They deliberately bond all phases together on the dead line, so any fault is shunted through the short and away from the workers.

I’m saying that the “risks” of backfed solar are far less than the risks that they already mitigate, and certainly do not justify keeping plugin solar off the grid.

(I am not saying that backfeed inverters don’t need to mitigate the risk as well; I am saying that mitigation at the device level is one of several redundant safety measures.)

prevents lots of dead powerline workers.

That’s a persistent myth, and it drives me nuts every time I read it. If power line workers are working on something that is supposed to be dead, they treat it as live and work it with hot sticks until they have bonded all the phases together and to ground. This is done both at the point of disconnect and where the work is actually being done.

Even if they didn’t do this, your little inverter is trying to backfeed the entire grid. The load it sees is indistinguishable from a dead short. Your inverter would overload and trip offline, even if it wasn’t watching the grid voltage and frequency.

There just isn’t a special risk to power line workers.

After about the third “You’re Fired”, I never wanted to hear anything from that asshole ever again.

Americans distrust government. We are indoctrinated with the idea that “Universal Healthcare” means that the government will be rationing healthcare. We are told that hard-working Americans will be expected to wait in line for care behind lazy, unemployed people. Propaganda tells us that the private sector can provide better healthcare to hard workers, and that only lazy undesirable people who can’t hold down a job are the ones who want universal healthcare.

Employers use health insurance coverage as a means of extorting workers to tolerate inhospitable working conditions. If you decide you want to quit your job, you are going to lose employer-sponsored coverage immediately, and won’t be eligible for replacement coverage from your next employer for at least 90 days. Employers are motivated to keep that “benefit” as leverage against workers.

Basically, when our political representatives try to address it, a whole bunch of misinformation and corruption combines to fuck us all over.

It’s going to be fun watching these idiotic laws open up government and business for lawsuits under the ADA.

It turns out we have a whole shitload of laws requiring businesses to make these facilities accessible to everyone, not just the particular classes and categories of people they want to provide for. Banning someone from every restroom you have is a surefire way to lose that ADA case. If your business has only a men’s room and a women’s room, you are going to have to remodel to add a third.

Sure, the federal government might not currently be interested in enforcing ADA compliance. But, the person you ban from your restrooms today will have up to 4 years to file their federal suit.

Yes. And I am being serious.

When JD Vance has a Congress that will back him (which he will have in 10 months), he, and a majority of the Cabinet, can invoke Section 4 of the 25th amendment. He can declare the President incapable of performing his duties, and step up to the plate. Congress then has the opportunity to decide whether to support his coup, or reinstate Trump to the presidency.

To be successful, he will have to immediately blame Trump for attempting to block the midterm elections, and appoint a special prosecutor to look into the full scope of Trump’s numerous, unadjudicated crimes.

For (most) of the next 10 months, JD Vance will have to continue to appear to support Trump’s presidency, and Trump will have to continue his own Trumpiness.

But once we get approval to for thermonuclear detonations in the middle east, we can modify the plan. We don’t need to dig a new canal if we just blow up any Iranian sites capable of attacking ships in the strait.