TranscendentalEmpire
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- Comment on where are worker rights parades? why are we focusing on very limited issues? 1 week ago:
All I see out there are gay rights, trans rights, whatever parades.
And people actually show up. like wth. given that it’s 5% population max.Because the playbook to destroy democracies has already been written. You don’t destroy a democratic nation by attacking it, you destroy it by getting it to attack itself.
Fascist know that if they can just turn the majority against a specific minority, then they have a foot in the door. You can’t uninvite the vampire from your home, once you let them have their way with the minority, the rules have changed, and those rules will eventually be changed for everyone.
If you protect the neediest minority group that protection extends to everyone. If we ignore that need, then it’s only a matter of time before everyone needs that protection.
I’m not saying that we shouldn’t have workers rights parades. I’m saying that gay rights and trans rights are workers rights parades, because they are our fellow workers. I think a lot of modern leftist groups think of minority rights as vestigial or as a distraction. When in reality every trans rights parade should be protected by a sea of factory workers willing to stomp on some fascist for attacking the solidarity or the working class.
- Comment on Anon considers LASIK 1 week ago:
A little less so when the main consequence 1/20 people face is something like dry eyes.
- Comment on 'King of the Hill' Voice Actor Jonathan Joss Fatally Shot in Texas 2 weeks ago:
drunk indian was killed’ and the excuse was often just a brawl, accident, unfortunate event caused by alcohol abuse.
That’s still a big thing down here.
Indian sections’ in them where native people are booked to keep them relegated and controlled, even if you are a clean cut Native person with a family and children.
Ahh Canada, everyone’s friendly neighbor until you get talking about indigenous people.
- Comment on 'King of the Hill' Voice Actor Jonathan Joss Fatally Shot in Texas 2 weeks ago:
That’s what the parents suspected as well.
- Comment on 'King of the Hill' Voice Actor Jonathan Joss Fatally Shot in Texas 2 weeks ago:
I used to provide rural healthcare to the tribal nations here in Oklahoma. I was always blown away to hear just how many of my patients had lost loved ones to violence, and how many of the murders went unsolved.
I had a patient whose son was a tribal advocate who was protesting a case in Colorado and went missing. Their other son went up to get the police to do their jobs and ended up being murdered, both cases unsolved.
The endemic violence towards the native people of America has not stopped and has continued since before the founding of this country.
- Comment on Anon misses the classic design 2 weeks ago:
According to what other people posted, my argument seems to be correct. The benefits of extra rotation does not overcome the negative effects of adding additional weight and drag.
"According to the British War Office, the stielhandgranate had a throwing distance of up to 27m while standing, compared to the 35m distance of the more modern and still used M67. Which weighs 30% less and take up 75% less space lengthwise. Even the Mk2( classic pineapple design) reached 30m despite weghing the same as the German one, because it was denser and more aerodynamic.
EDIT: For anyone curious, the ideal shape among those used and weight for distance and accuray is apparently round and ~300g. Reaching a distance of (38.6±6.5 m) and an accuracy of of (6.9±3.9 m).
- Comment on Anon misses the classic design 2 weeks ago:
Eh, the extra momentum probably doesn’t overcome the extra weight and drag created by the handle. People are comparing it to an atlatl, but you’re throwing an aerodynamic object with the atlatl, not the atlatl along with the spear.
More than likely the biggest reason is just logistics, extra weight, extra space, additional steps in fabrication.
- Comment on Pope Joan 5 weeks ago:
The hilarious thing about all these fascist trying to claim that the new Pope is woke is that he’s more conservative than Francis.
Prevost opposes the ordination of women to the diaconate, arguing it “doesn’t necessarily solve a problem” and could create new issues.[106]
Prevost opposes euthanasia, abortion, and the death penalty.
Prevost opposed the inclusion of “gender ideology” in Peruvian school curricula, stating it promotes “genders that don’t exist”.[81][121] In 2012, he criticized popular culture’s sympathy for the “homosexual lifestyle” and same-sex families.[122] Prevost expressed reservations about “sympathy for beliefs and practices that contradict the gospel”
Just because he doesn’t hate brown people and doesn’t like trump they’re doing trans phrenology on him lol.
- Comment on Sony, which is making a Helldivers 2 movie, is also making a new Starship Troopers movie, but it's not based on the Starship Troopers movie we already have 2 months ago:
It definitely was, this was written by Heinlein over the course of like two weeks as an angry response to the US suspending nuclear weapon testing. Mind you this was still in the 50’s and right in the middle of the red scare.
Heinlein was a rampant libertarian, and as we’ve seen with the GOP libertarians are not too far removed from fascism. I think Heinlein kinda cooled his heels over time, and mellowed later in his career.
- Comment on Meow 3 months ago:
There’s a good chance that it’s just a mammalian trait that predates modern humans or house cats. Pretty much all mammals require some extra protection and care when they are young and vulnerable, so it being common among other mammals isn’t exactly surprising.
- Comment on Get ya every time 3 months ago:
Yeah, Giáp is undeniably one of the greatest minds in modern military history. Not only did he defeat some of the most powerful militaries in the world, he did so in strategically different positions.
I can’t think of another commander who excelled against an occupying force as an insurgent, was successful in counter insurgency, and defeated a better armed opponent in a head to head battle.
You’re totally right, if America had a general as successful everything in the US military would be named after them, we’d never hear the end of it.
- Comment on Get ya every time 3 months ago:
Feel like this is really belittling to the VC and PAVN, the Ho Chi Minh trail is rightfully known as one of the greatest achievements of military engineering in the 20th century.
The North Vietnamese military didn’t win because America was just that incompetent, they had arguably a couple of the best generals in modern history. I mean they defended against the armies of France, America, cambodia and China within a couple decades.
- Comment on Special Forces blocked 2,000 credible asylum claims from Afghan commandos, Ministry of Defence confirms. 3 months ago:
Man UK conservatives want to be American politicians soo bad.
- Comment on What keeps Americans from being mad about the state of their country? 3 months ago:
Lol, and what are you doing besides belittling other progressive people on the Internet?
What would you suggest we all do that were not already doing? Or are you just going to continue to only respond via virtue signaling?
- Comment on What keeps Americans from being mad about the state of their country? 3 months ago:
don’t scare me and you have failed in your attempt to discourage
At what point did I try to scare you? I’m just trying to make you realize that people are upset, they just don’t see a lot of options to do anything about it.
You complaining on the Internet is not doing anything more than any other american currently upset at the government. Trying to posture yourself as some warrior of justice from your computer chair doesn’t validate belittling other people’s feelings on the matter.
Once again I ask, what makes you think you are any more upset than anyone else? What actions have you committed that makes your anger more real than others?
- Comment on What keeps Americans from being mad about the state of their country? 3 months ago:
By doing? The government doesn’t care about protest, and anything more extreme than protest is met with extreme violence.
What actions are you doing that validates your superior sense of self worth?
- Comment on At this rate, why not. 3 months ago:
Thanks, that makes things make a bit more sense.
- Comment on At this rate, why not. 4 months ago:
There is no crazy difference. If water can get to the rocks, so can the dissolved CO2.
Oh, I was just pondering the efficiency. If Co2 is held in suspension and only the top layer of sediment is going to be exposed to the carbon in the water, and not to a degree of co2 more concentrated than normal.
- Comment on At this rate, why not. 4 months ago:
Do you know if Co2 that dissolves into water is less buoyant, or is it held in suspension? Or is this relying on the sediment being suspended in the ocean for a while before being deposited back on the ocean floor?
- Comment on At this rate, why not. 4 months ago:
And does ERW work if the pulverized rock is in a big pile on the sea floor? Or would we have to dig the highly radioactive area up and spread it around the surface?
Yeah… Doesn’t the carbon sequestering happen from rain absorbing carbon in the atmosphere and then attaching to the rock to mineralize it? Something tells me 6-7 km of ocean might impede that process.
And does the radioactive water truly stay at the site of the explosion? Or will it be spread through the entire ocean via currents?
Dilution is the solution…ocean big?
- Comment on No beans, only dogs 4 months ago:
What do they sell during Honkbal Hoofdklasse?
- Comment on It really is like this 4 months ago:
I mean yeah… Far right is kinda a big part of distinguishing authoritarian left vs authoritarian right. I think the only way you could possibly conflate the two is by ignoring economics.
- Comment on We appreciate your community service. 4 months ago:
When I bought my house it had been abandoned for years, so I had to remodel the whole thing. When I built the counters and cabinets I accidentally built everything based on my height, so everything in the house is a good 3-4 inches higher than most houses. Everything looks fine and works fine for me, but I have to get a lot of things down for the wife, and we have to have a couple different steps stools around.
- Comment on The basics should be affordable. Yes even eggs. 4 months ago:
Well you see…it’s because we as a people reverse financed happiness. The previous generations spent all their good times, so they leveraged the promise of future generation’s fun to subsidize their own fun.
Then later generations whos fun was used as leverage decided they also would like a little fun decided to once again to borrow against an already leveraged future generation’s happiness to supplement their own.
Unfortunately you can only borrow against the future fun for so long before you are only able to finance happiness with subprime fun loans. Climate change is affecting the speculative value of happiness futures which has caused the happiness bank to seize any fun collateral we had left.
- Comment on From during the Tiktok ban 4 months ago:
Yeah, also… Relying on social media of any type to get a realistic depiction of an entire country is really really dumb.
Imagine if you moved to America because of Instagram, thinking everyone here did nothing but travel and thirst post.
Social media app users are primarily middle/upper class millennials and younger. You know the people most isolated from the general public and not in charge of anything.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
My condolences, dealing with shitty parents is always hell. He sounds like a real piece of shit.
My partner’s father has a similar second family scenario going on still and he’s like in his late 70s. Never understood how these dudes found the energy to be that much of an asshole.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Ouch, would have imagined they had already separated. This screams divorced man energy.
- Comment on Disappointed. Immeasurably. 4 months ago:
Ain’t nobody got any time for that. Imo smokers are overrated for the amount of time and effort you have to deal with them.
If I want to do a fancy steak I’ll usually just do a sous vide.
- Comment on Disappointed. Immeasurably. 4 months ago:
Yeap, kinda the epiphany on my end. Had a steak I was wanting to reverse sear but already had the oven set for something else. Figured the air fryer was just a fancy oven and gave it a shot. Steak came out better than normal and have been doing it ever since.
I haven’t tried finishing it in the air fryer yet, been worried it might not sear correctly since it’s not getting direct heat.
- Comment on Disappointed. Immeasurably. 4 months ago:
It’s actually really good for a reverse sear. The air circulates at a more even temp than a regular oven and can be kept at a nice low consistent heat.
Just pop it in the air fryer at 250f and bring the steak 10 degrees from your desired cooking temp and then finish it off on some cast iron.