alcoholicorn
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- Comment on But yes. 2 days ago:
The energy for hydro and wind still comes from the sun.
- Comment on How do I get over fear of cooking? 3 days ago:
I just have a fear I might mess up somehow and start a fire or something
It takes some effort to start a fire. Most oils flash points are >600 F, which you might get a pan to to sear a steak, but to heat a pan of oil for deepfrying or something to >600 F, which would be a dangerous situation, requires you to continue heating it after it started billowing smoke between ~350F and ~525.
Minor burns aren’t uncommon when you’re learning, but that’s just a very quick way to learn “wrap the handle of the cast iron you just took out of the oven with a towel so you don’t grab it like a moron” or “use tongs to place things on hot oil so it doesn’t splatter on your hand”
- Comment on So there's something... 6 days ago:
That’s a damn lie. Oysters being hollow give them a perfect crunch, crackers you crush just instantly turn to cardboard
- Comment on How else are ypu supposed to check for a beam on your accelerator? 6 days ago:
How strong were particle accelerators back then?
The only case I know of a dude sticking their head in a particle accelerator was in 1978. His head became quite swollen and he had radiation burns. He’s still alive at 82.
There’s also the Therac-25, that was pretty noticible.
- Comment on Anon doesn't tip 1 week ago:
I love that scene, you have a table of vicious killers and sociopaths, and even they’re disgusted at the idea of someone not tipping.
- Comment on US Elections question: Bernie Sanders said that the Democrats abandoned the working class, and the working class abandoned them. How is this true? 1 week ago:
From the things I saw about the US election, the Dems were the side with plans for the economy - minimum wage adjustments, unions, taxing the rich, etc
The dems are in power now, they didn’t do those things, so nobody believed they’d actually do it if they were elected again.
Additionally, parading around endorsements from Dick and Liz Cheney, and promising to build a border wall, tax breaks for small businesses, and other republican policies from 2016 didn’t help the perception that the dems weren’t going to help people.
- Comment on Realistically... How fucked is the US? 1 week ago:
Ukraine
You’re not understanding, the arms and money we send Ukraine enables them to continue the war. Last year, Russia offered a peace deal, giving up a portion of the territory they occupied at the time. Ukraine declined and says they won’t settle for less than all their territory, including Crimea. Without the weapons, they’d be forced to agree to a deal. Given that Russia probably knows they can’t deal with the insurgency outside of Russian-speaking Ukraine, they’ll probably agree to borders similar to what exists now.
China would have wanted Taiwan regardless
I mean the Republic of China is a part of China, it’s eventual reunification is inevitable, but they obviously see that reunification by invasion would be very expensive, both in cost of the invasion, cost of the insurgency, and resulting sanctions from their third-biggest trading partner. The only case where they’d waste billions of dollars and hundreds of thousand of lives is if the US made that option better than the alternative.
The same calculation happened with Russia; after the maidan coup, the civil war on their border caused them to strategic infrastructure and terrorist attacks. They erroneously calculated the cost of having a hostile, NATO-backed state on the border would be greater than a quick invasion and replacing the US puppet with another Russian one.
You need to look closer to understand what pressures cause countries to do things, these places aren’t cartoons who just decide to self-destruct their economies and send an entire generation into a meat grinder because aUTHoriTariaNism.
- Comment on Realistically... How fucked is the US? 1 week ago:
We’ve already sent troops to help Israel in Palestine, remember that aid pier that Israel used to do warcrimes, and now there’s troops operating aircraft and a missile defense system to prevent anyone from interfering with Israel’s genocide.
help out Russia in Ukraine
Just not sending weapons and money should be enough to get Ukraine back to the peace table and stop the bloodshed.
help out China in Taiwan
Ironically if we didn’t try to use Taiwan for geopolitical goals, China would have no reason to invade, since a peaceful reintegration over time is far more advantageous than the destruction and insurgency that comes with a military option.
- Comment on Realistically... How fucked is the US? 1 week ago:
the USA is now going to join WW3 on the side of the bad guys
What do you mean “join”?
The evil empire that militarily supports dictators across the global south to prevent economic development and keep cheap labor and resources flowing out are the bad guys, this hasn’t and will not change short of a revolution or the empire’s control collapsing.
- Comment on Feral Science 1 week ago:
I mean that is a type of light.
- Comment on AI Elections 1 week ago:
If there can be Kansas and Arkansas, why can’t there be Arizona and Aarizona?
- Comment on Feral Science 1 week ago:
Why? Is the light pole not providing the correct type of light or something?
- Comment on Colours of Blood 2 weeks ago:
Did you go with purple?
- Comment on The EchoChamberinator 9000! 2 weeks ago:
Except for the bourgeoisie, most fascists are tricked or indoctrinated into supporting fascism though. Grandma doesn’t support fascism because she will benefit, but because she’s been told the most marginalized people in society are exploiting her and the fascists promise to stop that.
- Comment on Eat lead 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Star Citizen Expose Paints a Fairly Bleak Picture: 'There's No Actual Focus on Getting the Game Done' 4 weeks ago:
Because Crysis looked good, Chris Roberts mandated that Star Citizen would use Cryengine 3.
To make astronomically large spaces fit in cryengine, they made everything infinitesimally small.
So now the inaccuracy inherent in floating point calculations, instead of nudging things a few millimeters, teleports people hundreds of feet out of their ships into space if they bump into a physics object, ladder, elevator, etc.
This is what happens when an ideas guy with no technical knowledge is making technical decisions.
- Comment on He's just lucky I guess 5 weeks ago:
How did it get there?
- Comment on Why are peole hating on .world? 5 weeks ago:
Yeah no, you’re not wrong, cow milk is just another type of milk, there is no one “real” milk, animal or plant based.
It might be less weird in other contexts, but the in the context of our current farming practices, the fact that it needs to be pasteurized due to the likely presence of dangerous pathogens and has bio-available hormones, is weird as fuck.
- Comment on Why are peole hating on .world? 5 weeks ago:
I think practicality is the only important thing here, if something looks and tastes like milk, and can be used as milk in 98% of cases, it’s fine to call it a type of milk.
- Comment on Absolutely nothing happened June 1989 5 weeks ago:
The westerners ARE wrong though, like it’s directly contradicted by the evidence.
- Comment on Absolutely nothing happened June 1989 5 weeks ago:
The British government’s public releases about China are not credible, even less so when they conflict with evidence.
- Comment on Absolutely nothing happened June 1989 5 weeks ago:
He wanted the Soviet Union to be easier to rule, and right or wrong he thought making it less ethnically diverse would help with that goal.
That logic might work for recognized ethnicities that didn’t have their own SSR within the USSR after the 1924 constitution changed the right of self-determination from applying to recognized ethnicities to SSRs, but Ukraine had it’s own SSR and the right to secede under all their constitutions. If Stalin wanted to reduce the number of ethnicities, he’d target ones that couldn’t unilaterally secede.
- Comment on Absolutely nothing happened June 1989 5 weeks ago:
Stalin decided to make sure it disproportionately hurt non-Russians, especially Ukrainians
You know Stalin was a Georgian right?
I hope we can agree that whether it crosses that threshold or not what happened was not okay.
Yes, of course. But there’s not much to learn if you think it was intentionally targeting Ukrainians because Stalin just hated Ukrainians and loved Russians so much.
If you want unambiguous cases of famine being used as a tool for genocide, Churchill’s Bengali famine is right there. Late Victorian Holocausts is an excellent read that covers equally severe, but lesser known ones from the 1800s and early 1900s.
If you want to talk about Stalin’s failures, the Japanese internment and and ethnic transportations during WWII are right there, as are the actions that lead to the sino-soviet conflict (not that China’s foreign policy in the aftermath was at all reasonable), insufficient support for Korea, etc don’t require making shit up.
- Comment on Absolutely nothing happened June 1989 5 weeks ago:
A handful of protesters killing cops and soldiers does not justify indiscriminate murder, particularly when you consider it the government’s responsibility to make sure protesters never get to the point that they feel the need to lynch and burn cops to achieve their aims. I didn’t think I needed to spell that out.
- Comment on Absolutely nothing happened June 1989 5 weeks ago:
There’s a huge difference between “the famine never happened” and “The widespread crop failures caused famines in some regions due to ineffective policies, bad estimates grain production, and local conflict”.
The former is just as wildly ahistorical as the “Stalin did holodomer because he was evil” that’s taught in schools.
- Comment on Absolutely nothing happened June 1989 5 weeks ago:
My take doesn’t begin and end with “china bad”.
As with any historical event, the context and events proceeding and following it are vital to be able to actually understand it.
No AES state is or was a utopia, and we learn from their mistakes if we don’t understand how and why they made them, and how they responded to them.
- Comment on Absolutely nothing happened June 1989 5 weeks ago:
it’s only 300 people so it’s not a massacre argument
That’s not what I’m saying at all.
Combined with the above photos, this seems closer to the truth than the official 300 Chinese story.
The photo of students filling the square is from days before the massacre, the square had been evacuated peacefully, as evidenced by the Tank Man video showing the tanks leaving the empty square, with no piles of burning bodies and “tank pie” as the UK alleges.
300 people getting killed by cops due to the government’s failure to compromise and meet their demands is a tragedy, you don’t need to make up shit about tanks murdering 10x more people and then liquefying their corpses.
- Comment on Absolutely nothing happened June 1989 5 weeks ago:
I hope you didn’t read “cops responding with indiscriminate murder” to imply anything else.
- Comment on Absolutely nothing happened June 1989 5 weeks ago:
The bootlicker is the person repeating the propaganda of the government actually oppressing them, even when the video disproving it is right there in front of them.
- Comment on Absolutely nothing happened June 1989 5 weeks ago:
Every communist state to my knowledge has instant recall; if an elected official isn’t doing what you want, you can get signatures to force a recall vote.