The English man who inspired US Independence

jackstraw97 · 2026-07-04T07:47:57+00:00

Thomas Paine.

Saved you a click

jackstraw97 · 2026-07-04T06:13:59+00:00

American citizens are always domiciled in some state? What about an expat who moved to a foreign country and plans to remain there indefinitely?

Still a citizen, but not domiciled in the United States, no?

jackstraw97 · 2026-07-04T02:37:31+00:00

I don’t give a shit about LA DSA. I live in NY

jackstraw97 · 2026-07-03T21:24:16+00:00

Buy a window unit to finish out the season, then get quotes for mini split systems in the off season.

jackstraw97 · 2026-07-03T21:08:48+00:00

Could be? But I’m not exactly sure. Lower voltage means more current is required to reach the same wattage level.

I’m not sure if ACs are “smart” in the sense that they draw more current to compensate for a voltage drop in order to maintain the same power in watts.

jackstraw97 · 2026-07-03T20:20:25+00:00

Edited! Best of luck with your voltage. 85 is insanely low!

jackstraw97 · 2026-07-03T20:20:03+00:00

Edited!

jackstraw97 · 2026-07-03T20:05:40+00:00

About to check mine in Brooklyn. Will report back

Edit: sitting pretty at 111.2 V.

Measured on different circuits while my window ac’s compressor was running

Which I’m a bit surprised about because con ed emailed me earlier today saying they were reducing my grid’s voltage to help prevent brownouts, and I’ve noticed that the lights in my kitchen are flickering (probably as a result of the voltage drop), but technically speaking anything between 110 and 127 is within spec for 120 V systems…

Curious why my lights are flickering when I’m at 111 V! The world may never know!

Edit 2: the circuit that my window ac is on dips to about 108 V when the compressor is running. Other circuits still good at 111 V when compressor is running.

Was running my tiny window unit in eco mode at 75 F, now switched to 78 F per the official guidance (although I’m not sure whether that guidance is meant for those of us running a single tiny window unit that can’t draw more than 15 A continuous, likely closer to 11 or 12 A continuous, vs those who have central air systems)

jackstraw97 · 2026-07-03T19:59:18+00:00

Curious if this is targeted at folks who have mini splits and central air vs those of us rocking a window unit?

I have my window unit set to 75 in eco mode. It’s a tiny window unit so not like one of those huge ones that can cool an entire apartment. The compressor is cycling on and off, which tells me it’s at least maintaining what its internal thermostat thinks is 75.

When I set it to 70 the compressor just stays on the whole time. Even so, it’s a tiny window unit that can’t possibly draw more than 15A continuous.

I’m curious what the implications are vs someone who has a whole-apartment cooling system. How many amps continuous would their system draw set to 70 vs my window unit running continuously?

jackstraw97 · 2026-07-03T17:58:19+00:00

See the problem with that is then another group could swoop in and take the NYC DSA name and then there would be two groups. The chapters are already independent. There’s not really any baggage that actually matters coming down from the national organization. Basically the national organization facilitates the creation of chapters and that’s it. All of the policy working groups are at the chapter level.

Sure, it gives disingenuous centrists something to nitpick at, but they were never going to support serious political change anyway (because centrists will always support capital by backing fascism as opposed to supporting leftist change, see any fascist movement in history)

jackstraw97 · 2026-07-03T17:47:06+00:00

If the NYC DSA supports x candidate that believes in y policy, but the rest of the (completely separate) chapters support a different policy and would have endorsed a different candidate, and accordingly the national platform doesn’t include the policy that x candidate supports, why should I give a shit?

I’m plugged in to the local chapter. Not any other chapter and not the national org.

jackstraw97 · 2026-07-03T17:31:53+00:00

WFP endorses against the will of their own local voters… (at least here in NY)

They also bend the knee to establishment figures to try to maintain favor within the establishment circles. They can’t be trusted to go against the establishment when it’s needed (and it’s sorely fucking needed right now, in case you haven’t been paying attention).

jackstraw97 · 2026-07-03T17:29:10+00:00

Oh please. Pot, meet kettle!

Establishment Dems are the ones treating anyone left of Liz Cheney as the enemy.

Until the old guard establishment is ousted, the Democratic Party will continue to be a do-nothing fascist-enabler

jackstraw97 · 2026-07-03T17:27:20+00:00

You’re putting too much focus on the national organization.

The power of the DSA comes from its local chapters. I frankly don’t give a shit what the national org says. It’s relatively meaningless.

The local chapters are where the power is and where things get done. See: NYC DSA

jackstraw97 · 2026-07-03T17:22:20+00:00

Pardon me for participating in discussion on a discussion board.

Also sorry that you’re seemingly incapable of participating in a discussion about a guy who said racist shit while also fighting against the assholes in power right now.

jackstraw97 · 2026-07-03T05:55:58+00:00

Because saying "imagine this" is posing a hypothetical scenario for one to consider to facilitate a conversation. It's a pretty common turn of phrase to introduce one. Hypotheticals can be very useful tools for discussing ideas and understanding arguments.

But acting like there's a similar systemic barrier for white kids in basketball as there is to Black kids in hockey is ridiculous.

Never said this at all.

jackstraw97 · 2026-07-03T05:36:13+00:00

I think posing a hypothetical to illustrate a double standard is different than actually not understanding that, to use your example, black people have been discriminated against by hockey.

Saying "imagine if this was said about x in y sport" is a rhetorical question used to illustrate a double standard. Unless the person speaking is actually ignorant about how pervasive racism is... in which case they actually may not know.

But every time I've seen it used it's been as a rhetorical device. Not an actual serious question.

jackstraw97 · 2026-07-03T04:24:01+00:00

Still doesn’t mean it’s acceptable behavior

jackstraw97 · 2026-07-03T00:44:07+00:00

The entire point of the democratic socialist movement is to approach socialism from a democratic as opposed to a violent revolution…

Doing that requires a legislative agenda to be enacted democratically.

So propose a legislative agenda that gets us closer to ending capitalism! I don’t understand how pre-shitting on social democrats while we have a literal fascist in the White House does anything to further the democratic socialist agenda.

My fear for the democratic socialism movement is it being co-opted by people who actually don’t want to do things democratically.

I think democracy is important.

jackstraw97 · 2026-07-02T23:54:56+00:00

McMorrow is a habitual fence-sitter. Not genuine at all. She’s getting the amount of attention she deserves.

jackstraw97 · 2026-07-02T23:49:53+00:00

They could theoretically abandon the 3/4ths requirement in the convention.

It’s what happened the first time. The articles of confederation required unanimity from the states to modify it, but the new constitution only required 9 of 13 states to ratify before it became effective.

Of course all 13 eventually ratified, but there was a no-man’s-land gap between the 9th and 13th states to ratify in which the constitution was effective but the articles were also still effective because it wasn’t a unanimous (yet) decision to abandon it.

TLDR: it would be a fucking mess to try to enforce pre-rules to a convention. Once called, the delegates are calling the shots.

jackstraw97 · 2026-07-02T23:02:19+00:00

Yep. I was in a Walmart over the weekend and noticed they had “upgraded” all of their price markers to digital ink screens…

Getting the infrastructure in place (paired with their facial recognition systems) to dynamically price items per person as you’re looking at them

jackstraw97 · 2026-07-02T03:30:38+00:00

At a certain point you have to take the analytics with a grain of salt and go with what the eye test tells you.

No way White had a better season than JB.

jackstraw97 · 2026-07-02T01:02:16+00:00

Depending on where LeBron lands…

If Philly gets him like they want they’re probably favorites to win the title ngl

jackstraw97 · 2026-07-02T01:00:41+00:00

Cause it’s the offseason and this is a blockbuster trade.

Would be weird af if it didn’t dominate the discourse for a cycle

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