Probably worth a warm soap soak or maybe vinegar treatment to reduce any calcium build up in the head. Electrical-wise you could bypass the circuit to power the motor and see if it spins okay with either a variac or a variable dc power supply depending on what motor it is. If it still stalls then could check brushes/any gearing jammed up. If it doesn’t stall then I suspect a overcurrent or thermal protection circuit is triggering. Could be corrosion on the board, a heatsink coming loose, or simply a jam you can’t see. Lots of possibilities, but people who work specifically on these would know more about the most likely things.

NYT using neutral speak and missing important context, as always. Anything to cover for those in power.

On the bright side at least their health insurance extends during furloughs up to a year.

It’s important to be sympathetic but not capitulative imo.

Wormtongue Miller sure had an easy time with whatever’s left.

I look forward to the dam breaking on NC gerrymandering. They will never hold power again.

The point as I understand it is that they’re allowing other unions to set their contract expiration to the same date, which increases the potential for pain during their next negotiations and makes for a quasi general strike across all unions who participated. It’s a pretty good idea all in all.

Also, it’s complicated who Sean Fain aligns with. He’s pro-tariff and praised Trump for incentivizing cars to be made in the US, although it seems like that’s the extent of it, and I wonder how he feels about it now that it’s been fully unmasked to just be market manipulation by Trump’s circle of billionaires. Sean’s speech still hit most of the socialist talking points of pro labor even though it was to a bunch of Republican donors, leading to the funniest and most revealing awkward silences after sections about how the working class is who provides all of the value in an economy.

I’m dubious that a general strike is possible in the US. All of the other countries that have had massive strikes affecting large chunks of the market were driven by large unions. Our unions don’t have that sort of sway and they rarely help others to maximize their diminishing bargaining power with the ongoing degradation of workers rights. Importantly this also happens on the supply side, the consumer side will just buy it tomorrow instead usually. A day of no productivity has much bigger consequences.

That being said, I’ll definitely participate.

I don’t see her gaining prominence in the most misogynistic movement in America. She’s also such a bad actor she can’t even pretend to care about her husband’s death convincingly, “Don’t forget to buy the ‘my husband was murdered’ merch on the way out.”

Not just the poors, he’s a eugenicist, and I’m pretty sure he’d need a muzzle in the same room as Anthony Fauci… well more than he does normally.

Brian Thompson and Alex Jones are the only example of rich people falling from grace because of people in a different class that I can think of. Most examples like Elizabeth got clapped because they played class warfare tactics against their own team. Grifting is only allowed against the poor, otherwise it’s called securities fraud.

Third option, he manipulates the stock and crypto markets and nobody bats an eye, netting huge sums of wealth.

Isn’t it kinda hard for LLMs to be programmed to not just point them towards leftism in that case? Right wing ideology isn’t based in established truths, it’s based on whatever the individual thinks at a given time subject to radical change. Leftism having consistency that science and academia offer means it is the obvious citation for most political facts if the model was going to choose an angle. Exception perhaps being anticommunism since it’s highly established in history books as justification for the Korean and Vietnam wars.

DHS trying to repair their reputation with local police departments one dead dog at a time.

Idk about you, but if my neighbor had a bunch of guns and threatened to shoot me if I ever got guns, I’d definitely secretly obtain guns.

These people are not equivalent at all lol

Because both parties have either been pushing narratives to make these actions sound reasonable or capitulating and staying silent as the other party does. This is why politicians who stand in opposition to constituents when they’re propagandized into the wrong position are the only ones with any chance of getting us out of this.

This you?

Love how the party that celebrated cops not having to do their jobs even while on duty and observing a subway stabbing are now arguing cops have to act as private security for gestapo, otherwise the checks notes mayor and governor, will be held liable. Even the most maga judges on earth couldn’t spin the opinion to make this make sense.

“I wasn’t served well by the people that pick judges,” Trump vented Saturday.

If he was a Democrat Republicans would use this statement to invalidate all of his appointments as unconstitutionally appointed by shadowy figures instead of the president… Imagine Democrats taking the initiative on good messaging for once? I can’t.