Yes, but we never needed to tell cats what to do, we just needed them to stick around and do what they do naturally : catch mice

They’re more efficient than old school ac-dc linear supplies (of which an ac transformer is just a part of). However if you just want to step up or down ac voltage, transformers are quite efficient.

« Authorities have confiscated crew members’ passports to restrict travel, the sources said. They are allowed to move freely around Baltimore, but require the FBI’s permission to travel to other states.

“I’ve never seen this [detainment] before,” said a source. “It’s very unusual. But nobody wants to get into a shouting match with the FBI »

FBI can do whatever the fuck they want apparently because you know… it’s not appropriate to tell them not to

Awesome, thanks!!

Have you no shame, flexing all that knowledge in front of us ignorant peons?

I had to google Hawking bits and then fell into a black h…

Fascism is stupid.

I mean, all of what one might construe as benefits of fascism would be better served otherwise: strengthening your country, a sense of belonging, public order…

You’ll experience a much stronger sense of belonging if you don’t push your neighbors to hate you because you’ve arbitrarily decided to hate them and support doing bad things to them.

Letting armed thugs arbitrarily arrest people is not public order, quite the opposite.

Countries which have fully embraced fascism never stayed strong for very long and lost quite a lot in the process. This is when they were ever strong in the first place.

And I’m not even going to talk about the even more blatant lies (family values, moral righteousness, upholding traditions…)