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Then add a layer of air a few feet wide between the armor and the crew compartment, duh.

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The tired, old trope of "Every accusation is a confession" tends to be true with conservatives.

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It's #walkaway all over again.

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I'd argue it's a result of the wider world figuring out how crazy they were and thus being subject to more scrutiny. Also, changing attitudes: there's not quite the "nuclear war is imminent and we're all going to die" mindset.

All that, combined with it being easier to get away with the "loud and crazy" things because information was easier to control before the internet.

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I'm not saying they stopped doing fucked up shit. I'm saying they stopped doing weird fucked up shit.

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That saying holds more truth if you're using the "non-political" definitions of conservative -- i.e. moderate, cautious, or resistant to change.

Moreso "set in your ways" as the world changes around you.

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In a hypothetical civil war peoole wouldn't shoot the helicopters and jets. They'd blend with the regular population in to hide from them. They'd shoot the pilot when the pilot is out buying groceries or filling their car with gas ... or kidnap their loved ones.

A civil war would be horrifying. There would be no uniforms, no front lines, and no rules of war. Both sides would go after the other's friends and family when they can't find or attack their enemy directly.

Tunak Tunak Tun (Mid 2000s) ( www.youtube.com )

Daler Mehndi's 1998 music video, in which the singer performs with 4 "clones" of himself. "Mehndi claims his music was often criticized for only being popular due to the abundance of beautiful, dancing women in his videos The singer responded by creating a video that featured nobody but himself." Apparently he wasn't wrong and...

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Back when blahaj.zone defederated from hexbear the tankies started brigading blahaj and spamming comments about how "transphobic" blahaj's mods/admin are. I pointed out how absurd this argument was given the admin and many of the mods are actual trans people.

This upset some moron and they posted a comment "calling me out" on c/dunktank.

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You sound just like the Donald Trump supporters I've met online: the style of "argument" and even the "insults" are identical.

What a coincidence.

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Remove their professed ideology and the people that choose to be dumb, arrogant, angry, tribalistic assholes are all indistinguishable. The way they act, speak, and think are identical.

My point was "this is the kind of person you're choosing to be."

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curved ... swords?

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Yeah, they did. Like "do everything you can to dissuade voters from voting for the only viable alternative to Trump."

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... Why the hell would Isreal want Biden over Trump? Netanyahu would love a Trump presidency.

Potassium depletion in soil threatens global crop yields ( www.ucl.ac.uk )

Potassium deficiency in agricultural soils is a largely unrecognised but potentially significant threat to global food security if left unaddressed, finds new research involving researchers at UCL, University of Edinburgh and the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology....

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No. It goes into the people/animals eating those plants, and from there to a million different places that aren't farm fields.

That's the problem: that potassium doesn't cycle back to the soil it came from. Farmers have to rely on adding mined potash to the soils to compensate for that loss. The entire point of the article is potassium is being removed from the soil faster than it's being added back in.

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We put nitrogen in fertiliser and for some reason you think it’s impossible to put potassium in? Really?

... Did you miss where I wrote

Farmers have to rely on adding mined potash to the soils to compensate for that loss.

Maybe read the actual article.

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I often go to nursing homes for medical calls, and asking for basic patient information is always a treat at the crappier ones.

Pro-tip: when the medic asks you things like "What are we here for?", "How long have they been having this issue?", or "What's their medical history?" you don't actually have to answer. Just give a blank stare and say "I don't know, I just started my shift" or "They're not my patient". All you have to do is give the ambulance crew the patient's name and birthday, and even that's optional.

Is the patient dead and you don't know when it happened? Say "I was talking to them a few minutes ago!" even if they're cold to the touch. Bonus points if the pt has a DNR and you don't give it to the medic.

If all that is too much work, say "I'll go check" and find somewhere to hide until they leave with the patient -- this situation is their problem now.

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I'm part of that 1% and I'll echo the "Tesla hate" for that very reason. I do the vast majority of maintenance and repair on my vehicles -- something I picked up as a broke young man that couldn't afford to do otherwise.

I'm not buying something that's designed to actively prevent me from working on it myself. And the other "99%" of people are absolutely right in being upset since independent repair shops are no longer an option. With no competition they're at the whim of Tesla when it comes to the cost and time-frame of repair work.

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Apparently I'm going off of old information. I just found out there are independent shops that are certified by Tesla to do work now, although it looks (and correct me if I'm wrong) like they're limited to "routine" maintenance and repairs. It also looks like many of the tools required for repair are locked behind said certification.

So the situation is better than it was 3+ years ago, but my new stance is there are still serious right-to-repair issues with Tesla that precludes me from buying one.

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The problem is there are crazy "leftists" on lemmy. Your instance defederated from the instances home to the worst of them, so you probably didn't get to experience it.

Imagine people the adhere to some of the worst parts of right-wing fascism, but with "leftist" branding.

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AZ always struck me as "the retirement state for new agers and hippies".

No doubt there's a lot of right-wing dirtbags, but I'm not surprised there's a lot of decent people there too.

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Mormons tend to be nice ... to your face. As soon as you leave they're likely to act like you'd expect followers of an extremely socially conservative, regressive, patriarchal religion would.

And I'm not saying all Mormons are like that -- there are good people that are mormons, but it's in spite of what the church teaches about gender, sexuality, and sin.

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Huh. I thought it was because I'm familiar with LDS teachings, culture, and the church's extensive, sordid, and recent history of sexism, abuse, and bigotry.

Which is extensively documented by people that have left the faith.

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And it's available on Archive.org

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I've seen a few open hardware projects for "dumb" MP3 players over the years. I found this article on the Tangara project and am tempted to build one.

Edit: Scrolled down and saw someone already posted this.

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"Country" isn't even a single genre: it covers a ton of different styles and has been around for over 100 years.

There's probably a song you like that you don't even realize is "Country" because it sounds nothing like the garbage on the radio.

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"Guys, these hexbear users and tankies people are talking about seem to be obnoxious, reactionary, tribalistic assholes that unironically support oppressive regimes. Clearly people hating them is The Red Scare 2.0"

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Dolly Parton

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I like to point to one of the most successful Socialist parties that ever existing in the USA: The Socialist Party of Milwaukee. They got 3 mayors elected and effected actual change.

Part of the Socialist Party's lasting success in Milwaukee can also be attributed to their pragmatism, Gousha says. Daniel Hoan made a point to exist within a capitalist free market system, they were fiscally conservative, and they worked with other parties to accomplish their goals.

Their pragmatism drew criticism from other socialists around the country, who called Milwaukeeans "sewer socialists" for not being revolutionary enough, according to Gousha.

"As Gene Zeidler said, 'The socialists of Milwaukee took that as a badge of honor. And they said, well you may think we need to be more revolutionary but you could not be elected dog catcher and we’re winning elections,' " Gousha notes.

Article in question.

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$5 say the "They should earn my vote" line is a favorite of right wing and Russian trolls a la 2018's #WalkAway movement.

Please, for the love of God, VOTE! ( pawb.social )

I don't like Biden either, but anyone with half a brain knows there are two choices in the 2020 election. If we had a sane voting system, voting third party might be worth it, but as it stands, no one but you knows your favorite candidate exists and unless you want to become their campaign manager that will still be true in...

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You're right: nobody is entitled to your vote.

That being said, everyone else has the right to judge and comment on your choice and justification of it.

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I mean ... they're still cats with cat brains -- you're not going to be having deep conversations with them.

The vast majority of their language is body language and you can figure out what they're "saying" by just looking at them. Also, they're cats: even if they know what you're trying to say if it's something they don't like they won't care.

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And the fucked up thing is that the "shower rape" prison is more humane than the "Control Unit" at ADX Florence.

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The great irony is it's frequently the "ductwork" that's the problem: plugged or badly installed exhaust pipes, which the manufacture has no control over. The rest are the appliance itself wearing out or failing with no warning.

I've repaired furnaces myself several times including replacing burners and exhaust fans -- it isn't rocket science. It's no different than working on any other "dangerous" thing like a car. If someone somehow manages to fuck up so badly it hurts or kills someone that's on them.

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Which is dumb, because there's nothing stopping anyone from replacing the seals/glue when they put it back together. And at least in the USA manufactures have been covered for damages/harm resulting from a flawed consumer-based repair since since 1975.

The House GOP just gave Biden’s campaign a huge gift: Roughly 80 percent of House Republicans just lined up behind a plan to cut Social Security and ban all abortions ( www.vox.com )

Donald Trump would be on track to win a historic landslide in November — if so many US voters didn’t find him personally repugnant....

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Accelerationists come in two flavors: bad actors and morons.

Teacher who resigned after her OnlyFans page was discovered says new employer fired her for violating social media policy ( www.kbtx.com )

Had to supplement her $42,000 per year teacher salary with OF and made nearly $1 million in six months (almost 50 times as her salary) before the school caught wind of it and forced her to resign. Got a new job out of education and was fired five days later when they discovered news articles about her....

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Then the problem is incompetent administration. "Kids attempting to bully teachers" is already a thing, and routes to deal with it exist.

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old.reddit.com still works ... for now. I deleted my account, but there's still a few writers on reddit I follow.

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Lemmy has a fair number of loud, toxic instances, communities, and users. On the other hand, it's easy to block all of them, and it's practically a requirement to enjoy lemmy.

So block with zero hesitation -- the only people that will give you crap about it are the people that are the problem in the first place.

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Combined with a working smoke detector outside the bedroom this will save your life. Twice in my career I've gone into a house filled with smoke and had to wake people up to inform them their house is on fire.

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https://midwest.social/pictrs/image/6359b006-0c63-48b0-88ec-645d1905447e.png

"Hey ... so your kitchen is on fire. You should probably grab a pair of pants."

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On the other hand life is full of those kinds of "bad questions": poorly framed questions, leading ones, arguments in bad faith, etc. You're going to encounter them on future tests and in real life, and often the stakes are higher.

That question might have been shit at teaching about probability but it was a far more important lesson in disguise.

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Being able to figure out what another person is trying to say is an important skill some people don't seem have. I'm not talking about pretending not to understand to "win an argument" either: some folks are legitimately incapable of it.

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It's not, unfortunately. Anything with more than 0.3% delta-9 by dry weight is still "marijuana".

Hilariously, the farm bill did open the doors for legal delta-8 and delta-10 products -- which was certainly not their intention. A lot of states quickly closed that "loophole" though.

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I get the impression she has very little "real world" experience, particularly with people.

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Or buy a Epipremnum aureum -- the houseplant that will laugh at your attempts to kill it.

The plant has a number of common names including golden pothos, Ceylon creeper,hunter's robe, ivy arum, silver vine, Solomon Islands ivy, and taro vine. It is also called devil's vine or devil's ivy because it is almost impossible to kill and it stays green even when kept in the dark.

Wikipedia

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They love it when you point out that the term "tankie" was coined by other card carrying communists to shit on tankies. Make sure to mark the "no true Scotsman" space on your bingo card when they respond.

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People that participate in our democracy not knowing the basics of how it works is getting exhausting. The DNC doesn't "pick" canidates: voters do. The DNC absolutely throws its support behind preferred candidates, but voters still make the final decision.

"Pick someone else" also smacks of "I want someone else to do the hard work and find a viable alternative candidate for me, because I can't be bothered to put actual effort in to the political process." Nobody is stopping you from campaigning for your preferred presidential candidate in the primary -- or even running yourself if you're eligible.

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