alcoholicorn
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- Comment on Stop making up states 3 days ago:
New Jersey isn’t real, it’s just a suburb of NYC and Philly.
- Comment on Stop making up states 3 days ago:
NY, Florida, Texas, California are the only states, the rest is Ohio
- Comment on Anon gets plastered 3 days ago:
That’s sad.
- Comment on Interesting analogy 4 days ago:
No, I’m saying you should be careful in cases where it could be taken as an antisemitic dogwhistle.
- Comment on Interesting analogy 4 days ago:
That’s not the case at all, you can look at my post history if you want to know the things I think.
It’s just you generally want to avoid antisemitic tropes when you’re talking about Zionists because antisemites say Zionist when they mean Jew.
- Comment on Interesting analogy 4 days ago:
Depicting Zionists as lizards isn’t great.
- Comment on Good morning I choose durability. 4 days ago:
Is europe gonna actually get snow though? Or is it going to continue to be drier?
- Comment on Looking for answers 5 days ago:
I couldn’t get past the 4th example of “non-violence” without laughing at how wildly revisionist they are. While each of these had non-violent components, none of them would have succeeded without violence. The housing rights act wasn’t passed until literally every city was on fire.
Here’s a great book detailing the experiences that lead civil rights leaders to understand as much..
The British gave up their occupation of India after a decades-long nonviolent struggle by the Indian population led by Mohandas Gandhi. The Danes, Norwegians and other peoples in Europe used civil resistance against Nazi invasion during World War II, raising the costs to Germany of its occupation of these nations, helping to strengthen the spirit and cohesion of their people, and saving the lives of thousands of Jews in Berlin to Copenhagen to Paris and elsewhere. Labor movements around the world have consistently used tactics of civil resistance to win concessions for workers throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. African Americans used civil resistance in their struggle to dissolve segregation in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s.
- Comment on Looking for answers 5 days ago:
non-violent resistance is more often effective
It’s only ever effective when a credible violent alternative is present.
No oppressed person in history has ever gotten their rights by appealing to the better nature of their oppressor.
Civil rights weren’t won when black people asked politely and just moved everyone’s heats at how unjustly they were being treated, when MLK died, he had a 75% disapproval rating, but through repeated demonstrations of power and showing what would happen if their demands weren’t met.
- Comment on 🗣 📢 W A T E R 1 week ago:
Do his other limbs say “fire, earth, air”?
- Comment on Germ Blaster 2 weeks ago:
But I thought all the piss sterilizes them.
- Comment on Why do Americans always presume that everyone speaks English 2 weeks ago:
Because calling anyone else an American is insulting.
- Comment on Standoff 2 weeks ago:
Piquing a demigods’s curiosity, returning to your home city and finding it’s been turned to metal and everyone is fused into the walls/floors.
- Comment on Scientists suck at naming and abbreviating stuff 2 weeks ago:
Or they can just be boring and do “Huh, we have an array of telescopes, it’s really big.” OK, what do we call the small one?
We’ve increase the frequency for radio, lets call it High Frequency. We’ve increased it further, what do we call it? Even further. Surely it can’t get faster than this. God dammit. Fuck it, just use numbers.
- Comment on Intruder 2 weeks ago:
There is a difference between not jumping into a burning building and not shooting someone running away from you. Once they’re fleeing, shooting them not self-defense just because you’re afraid they might come back in the future.
If you don’t believe that, when does it stop being self-defense? Maybe they’ll come back a decade from now, surely it’s self-defense to break into their home and kill them in their sleep to protect yourself.
- Comment on Hustle? In this gig economy? 2 weeks ago:
There is, nobody can be comfortable not knowing whether they’ll be able to afford rent next month.
- Comment on Intruder 2 weeks ago:
It isn’t like this kid just assaulted a random guy, there was a genuine threat here.
And that threat was running away when the child shot him in the back.
- Comment on Intruder 2 weeks ago:
Wait the kid shot the man as he was trying to hop a fence and run away? Again, this is the behavior of actual psychopaths.
- Comment on Intruder 2 weeks ago:
Mocking someone who is bleeding out in front of you is literal psychopath behavior.
- Comment on Intruder 2 weeks ago:
What a psychopath. Anyone wanna bet he becomes a cop?
- Comment on Is there any proof behind the idea that "reddit is filled with bots"? 3 weeks ago:
old.reddit.com/…/reddit_has_removed_their_blog_po…
A pretty obvious example of bot behavior is that they’ll repost old comments from reposted threads to generate a fake history.
- Comment on why is my whisky evaporating? 3 weeks ago:
Alcohol condenses too
- Comment on it's just a suggestion 3 weeks ago:
That doesn’t always happen, look at the massacres in South Korea before the end of the dictatorship.
The numbers on wikipedia are lower than actual numbers as questioning them could literally get you executed, the official number for the Gwangju uprising for instance is 165, but the city recorded an extra 2300 deaths above historical averages for May. That doesn’t include thousands who were arrested, many of whom sentenced to death.
- Comment on But yes. 5 weeks ago:
The energy for hydro and wind still comes from the sun.
- Comment on How do I get over fear of cooking? 5 weeks 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... 5 weeks 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? 5 weeks 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 month 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 month 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 month 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.