I don’t think he’d pardon someone just because Trump asked, barring Trump making a significant threat to force the issue.

Would trump have to use force? His minions are in control of the Treasury. It doesn’t matter that it would be illegal for trump to mess with state funding from the federal government. He’s already shown he is defying court orders which take week to arrive at anyway.

How bad would your state be if trump cut off all federal funding overnight?

Here I thought the portrait would be some grotesque caricature of trump. Imagine my surprise when its just a tasteful painting of an old man in a business suit. Is it possible trump doesn’t actually know he’s an 80 year old man, and looks like one?

Thats good info. Thank you for sharing your experience.

For NTSA software recalls, Tesla will eventually force the OTA update down via 4G if Wifi never becomes available. I don’t know how many weeks/months they wait to do that though.

OTA updates default to wifi first. If you don’t have wifi configured to a site, you’ll still get notified of an OTA update via the 4G. If enough time goes by they will force the OTA update to download over the 4G then nag you whenever the car is put in drive to apply the update.

So yes, leaving wifi unconfigured (avoiding superchargers with free wifi) and disabling the 4G will prevent any future updates and the car still functions.

when she asserted that her son needed the equipment, and produced the proper paperwork.

We don’t know the paperwork United provided was proper. I believe Sotomayor did everything properly, however. This could have been part of United’s first screw up. If the United booking agent didn’t indicate the equipment was needed full time for life, it may have been put in the same category as a CPAP machine, as in not needed in use on the flight.

I fly a lot and know that many planes these days are full, but they absolutely could have reseated them without getting confrontational with the woman.

The article talked about the United staff talking about re-seating her. Did she refuse it? Was that not in the video?

Joe didn’t really do much to make egg prices go up [or down] and Trump clearly isn’t trying on that front either.

To the best of my knowledge Joe never made claims either way on egg prices. trump campaigned on lowering egg prices.

Speaking next to a table of packaged goods during an August press conference, Trump promised, should he be re-elected, to lower grocery prices on “day one.”

“Grocery prices have skyrocketed. Cereals are up 26 percent, bread is up 24 percent, butter is up 37 percent, baby formula is up 30 percent, flour is up 38 percent, and eggs are up 46 percent,” he said. “When I win, I will immediately bring prices down, starting on day one.”

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So egg prices continue to rise and what is trump’s response to the American people after getting elected? “Shut up about egg prices”.

"The new numbers come days after Trump posted a link to an article with the headline “Shut Up About Egg Prices ― Trump Is Saving Consumers Millions,” written by right-wing activist Charlie Kirk, on Truth Social. "

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With the boycott for Teslas seemingly going strong I was wondering if anyone has successfully removed the proprietary software off any of the models

This will be a herculean effort.

or removed it from the Tesla network?

This one should be fairly straight forward. There are a number of radios in the car. Some could be disabled or neutered fairly easily. Others would require workarounds to preserve require functionality.

As far as I know there are four radios:

• Mobile phone network - (AT&T in the USA I think). This is not required for the car to function. Antennas could be disconnected and shorted at the board connector
• Wifi - this is pretty easy. Simply remove any configured Wifi connections configured in the car. The one exception to this is I’ve heard some Superchargers have “free wifi” which means if you’re in range of one of these, your car could attach to it as these may be preconfigred
• NFC - this one isn’t really a risk as its such low range, and as far as I know, its only used for key access to get in the car or put it in drive when Bluetooth auth isn’t detected. No modification needed to this, and no risk to keeping it in place as is. bluetooth LE
• Bluetooth - this one may be the most difficult because its used by most users as the keys to unlock the car. These radios are also capable of high speed data transfer at decent range up to 100 meters. While I don’t have any knowledge this is used currently for data transfer outside of the car to the Tesla mothership, it certainly has the possibility of doing so with software changes in the future. The antennas for these are in the rear view mirrors, so they could be disconnected/shorted to neuter it.

I haven’t had the need to use pre-boarding before, but usually I see flight attendants pretty busy with tasks as passengers are boarding.

I think we both agree the original screw up is the United Reservation folks that approved these passengers for seats they couldn’t be eligible for because of the needed equipment. Its also possible that United Reservation folks may not have marked the paperwork that the equipment was required for the kid to live. So the flight crew may have thought the mom was trying to leverage the situation to get behavior she didn’t need. I still maintain the mom did all the prep work properly and this was a fault on United.

It could have been a bulkhead seat, too. That’s the only other place where there are stricter regulations.

I didn’t know that about bulkhead seats. I think you’re right then, the article mentions something about that:

" the representative said the flight attendants reported it was a “bulk head seating problem,” "

So it does sound like this isn’t the flight crew being assholes, but rather the booking approver put then in a place the FAA won’t allow them to fly. If Sotomayor her first flight in a bulkhead as well, this is lose-lose for United. They either flouted the FAA rules on the first flight or created a combative situation on the second flight by trying to follow the FAA rules.

Come back to me if this person gets pardoned. Until then: lol.

ok

he went in and told employees he “stands with Tesla” and then left.

“Oh fantastic sir! Can we interest you in a new Cybertruck to replace your Nissan?”

“Ew, gross. no! What I mean by ‘I stand with you’ is that ‘your CEO is hurting people I want hurt’. No way am I driving an EV.”

She was then approached by another flight attendant who told her that their seats might have to be moved if she didn’t comply, Sotomayor said.

This stuck out to me.

There’s only one place in the passenger compartment of a plane I know has specific rules for sitting there: the wing exit row

Having sat in the exit row before, I know the flight crew is very unforgiving for items that may block transit of passengers should the need to get off the plane present itself. This may be backed up with another statement in the article:

Sotomayor said that before their flight, she obtained documentation so her son could fly to their destination. They did not encounter problems on the first leg — the trip to Tampa.

Were they not in an exit row on that flight, and therefor it wasn’t an issue?

It sounds like Sotomayor did everything correctly with her prep before flying. Assuming all the statements in the article are factual and my exit row theory is correct, someone at United screwed up approving an exit row seat for her and her son’s return flight, and that dropped the problem in the laps of the United flight crew that has to comply with FAA regulations.

You’re still working under the “technically correct” definition. Yes, a state crime is pardonable only by the head of that state, the governor. What you do not appear to be conceding is the trump may have the indirect power to replace the governor. trump is now targeting the governor of Maine (for an unrelated trump tantrum). If trump and Musk bring the power of the federal government to strip funding away from Maine, and Musk funds GOP friendly rivals for governor, that new governor would issue the pardon. The end result being trump wanting a pardon (yes at the state level), and getting it.

unambiguously lacks any power

Ten years ago, I would agree. Now we’re seeing the trump administration openly oppose federal judicial rulings and even telling the court they are “not showing respect” to the Executive. We’re seeing Musk say he will back a primary challenger for any elected official that doesn’t follow trump’s orders, with the most recent being musk offering to openly buy votes for $100 in support of his candidate. Any one of these ten year ago would have been unambiguously in violation of law and tradition and dealt with.

There is no “unambiguously lacks any power” anymore.

That asshole would probably put them in as Secretary of Labor.

The ACA was a victory. Do we need better? Absolutley! However, I’m not sure if you remember healthcare before it. Remember “pre-existing conditions” or being charged for wellness checkup? Also, women paid significantly more for healthcare than men did. Balancing that back to equal was important.

Dad gave a me a toy so it is ok that he gets drunk and gives me the belt bulk. No wonder peasants can’t seem to see the picture

If you’re “all or nothing” you’ll get nothing. We could have had real change on Climate Change too if “cap and trade” was adopted, but someone just like you said it didn’t go far enough, and we got nothing instead.

So just everything that used to be under the Soviet sphere of influence then? Maybe the Sudetenland, as a treat.

There has also been very little action towards anti-competitive practices for a very long time.

Obama establishing the CFPB was a pretty big win for Americans.

Specifically in the context of job searching, there are SO MANY JOBS that don’t have a specific study path. Rather they are niche needed for the specific industry or even geographic locality that there’s no curriculum that would be worth building to train someone off the street to do it. Most of them are behind the scenes and not generally in public view. Not because they’re secret, but they are taken for granted. Go somewhere where people go, sit down, and start watching. Look at all the things that are the result of humans direct action. Now understand how many jobs occurred for the person that finally “did the thing” you’re looking at.

Say you’re sitting in a park on a bench. The most obvious is the landscaping; the manicured grass and flower beds. Sure its easy to understand the hands that did that work, and likely even the tools they did that work with. Now, start extrapolating:

• who decided what flowers to put there in those beds? What kind of skills does that person have that makes them qualified for their work? Did they go to school for design to know which flowers in what density in what layout would be appealing? Perhaps they came from the agricultural side? Perhaps they have business knowledge to know how to get low priced flowers that will last the season, so perhaps they have logistics background?
• So we’ve thought about the landscaper and the person choosing the flowers. Where did the flowers come from? Its unlikely the landscaper grew them from seed, so they likely came from a greenhouse. Think about all the jobs in the greenhouse business. Laborers for moving lots of soil to and fro, truck drivers for moving raw materials and finished goods, marketing people for signage/branding/promotion, HR for keeping all the humans paid and managing their benefits.
• Don’t forget. You’re sitting on a park bench. Who put it there? How was it decided to put it RIGHT THERE? Who made the bench? What are the origins if the materials of the bench? Where do those materials come from? How are those materials found in nature? Who thought to use THAT MATERIAL this purpose?

These are simple examples that most everyone can connect with. Now try with one you likely don’t. What jobs are needed in a civil water treatment facility? There. You have no firsthand or secondhand knowledge of it. You likely not even the scale or scope of the work. You need to explore. Contact your local water treatment facility. Find out where the water you depend on everyday for drinking and cleaning comes from. They likely offer tours. Thats a great place to start.

I can give you one shortcut I’ve learned in my many years is that many of the best jobs are an intersection between two (or more) skill sets. Example: A computer programmer is a moderately difficult skill set, however there are literally millions of them in the world. Knowledge of healthcare regulation in the USA (HIPAA/FDA) is also a difficult skill set, but there are still hundreds of thousands of people with this knowledge. However, what is the intersection of Computer Programmers with HIPAA/FDA regulation knowledge? Now you’ve got a MUCH shorter list maybe 10,000 or 20,000 people? So there are employers that want programming done that takes into account HIPAA/FDA regulation, you’ve only got this small set of folks which can be lucrative for those programmers. Yet I doubt there is a college degree program for Computer Programming for USA Healthcare.

These intersectional jobs are ALL OVER the place. Logistics/marketing, hospitality/design, engineering/art. Yet you’ll only find them if you start looking under the hood about how society works. So get out there, keep you eyes open, and so importantly be curious. Ask questions. Volunteer to do work others don’t want so you can experience it. It leads to interesting places.