Most will not. Look at history.

Does she have a legal defense fund?

L’un de nous!

So is his treasury secretary Scott Bessent

I think a piece of it is discoverability. Mastodon makes it hard to find stuff, or suggests the same five accounts for me to follow for months. Blue sky is easier to find stuff on. I wish something like Mastodon would win, but the numbers aren’t trending that way. Blue sky has more momentum.

If the energy star rating is not there, manufacturers have no incentive to try to qualify. Likely it is cheaper to cut corners that make appliances less efficient. So, they’ll do that and consumers won’t have a way to easily know that they did. We may see the 1985-tier fridge energy use again.

As much as it’s fun to say fuck you I told you so, you catch more flies with honey. We need to make it easy to leave the cult and not make people double down just because they feel ashamed or feel like they have to defend something. The goal, while enticing, is not to rub people’s nose in the shit they admittedly helped create. The goal should be to get rid of this motherfucker and reverse everything he’s done.