ansiz

joined 2 years ago
[–] ansiz@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

I was in my local Lowes hardware and one of the Samsung fridges on display kept actively trying to connect to my Samsung phone. I must have gotten 5 or 6 notifications from the fridge letting me know I could connect.

[–] ansiz@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago (27 children)

My washing machine has the ability to connect to Wi-Fi but I never set it up. Of course it's a horrible idea just on the surface and it really serves no purpose.

[–] ansiz@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

I live in a 70%+ Trump part of the South too, it's everywhere. Flags, signs, billboards, you name it.

[–] ansiz@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

It will never happen, sure he's made some token changes and talks a lot about seed oil but is wrapped up getting rid of vaccines. At best he'll try to make raw milk legal and served in schools before wearing out his welcome. There's not much he can do working for the junk food President

[–] ansiz@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago (6 children)

My MAGA family members (all of them) absolutely love RFK Jr. To some serious second only to Trump levels. All of them think he is doing all this wonderful stuff with getting rid of vaccines and 'chemicals in food'.

[–] ansiz@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If you live somewhere that has electricity coming from the energy grid then by default should also have Internet coming to your house as well. By defining the internet as a utility and treating it like one you would get more funding to build out the network. Something similar happened with phone lines way back in the day if I'm not mistaken.

[–] ansiz@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

I agree, but that really is the point. Strain government services so they are shit, then use that as an excuse to privatize it as much as possible and funnel the funding to the oligarchs.

[–] ansiz@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I thought the idea was that Trump wasn't paying them? As in that's the point, the Federal government is forcing the states to foot the bill as a sign of fealty.

[–] ansiz@lemmy.world 29 points 2 months ago

No offense, but if I had a roach problem this bad I would find a way to afford $40 a month for an exterminator even if I had to cut back to bare utilities only. Maybe even no electricity and cold showers until they were gone.

[–] ansiz@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It's not my estimates, it's actually polling data that is showing that among Hispanic voters in Texas that voted for Trump, his approval rating is dropping noticably.

[–] ansiz@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (5 children)

From what I've seen if you account for voting trends even just back through 2016 or 2012, this redistricting isn't very helpful. The 2024 voting trends seem more like an anomaly, especially with Hispanic voters. Given Trump's crack down with ICE, his approval ratings among those voters have gone negative.

[–] ansiz@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Remember they are basing all of this redistricting in the data from only 1 election cycle, 2024. Even though it's obvious the trends related to Hispanic voters are likely moving back to historical levels favoring the Democrats. So in other words, this redistricting could easily blow up in their faces and increase the number of democratic seats.

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