DoubleDongle
@DoubleDongle@lemmy.world
- Comment on Those moutains are so quaint 20 hours ago:
Wikipedia says they date back 480 million years, during the Ordovician period. I think the atmosphere would have been pretty breathable, but plants wouldn’t conquer the land in a serious way for at least another 60 million years or so, with bugs following them. Nothing saw those mountains. If you time-traveled to the Pangean mountains, you would be the only being to ever observe them in their formative years. Eons would pass before the first plant set root at their feet. The sterile and desolate emptiness would be beyond human experience.
- Comment on Would a disk shaped planet have uniform gravity like earth or would it vary depending on whether you're near the center or edges? 1 day ago:
The further you are from the center, the more skewed the gravity would be towards the center. I think that as the diameter approaches infinity while the thickness stays the same, that evens out a lot, but it will never become perfect near the edges.
- Comment on In Open Carry states, is it also allowed to openly carry bladed weapons like Swords? Bow and arrow? 1 week ago:
It’ll certainly get the point across
- Comment on The Obama wing of the Democratic Party is declaring “war” on progressives. Why don’t they ever bring this energy against Trump? Why do they hate working class people even more? 1 week ago:
Honestly I’m not sure if they’re doing any better against us than they are against the people they’re supposed to be fighting. Worse, IMO
- Comment on On so many occasions 1 week ago:
*led
- Comment on Republicans are starting to realize they've been giving socialism a ton of free advertising. Now they're going to start advertising communism. 2 weeks ago:
They jumped the shark when they called Biden a radical
- Comment on Planned Armageddon Incoming 2 weeks ago:
It’s gonna surprise the absolute fuck out of me if China does anything more than sell large volumes of mildly shitty gear to the Iranians or Russia has any spare military power for Iran either. China’s looking at Taiwan and neighboring countries once the USA is weak, not the Middle East.
I believe this was the plan once for reasons I don’t want to get into, but nobody’s grand plan is working right now. How about you tell your masters we actually have plenty of resources for our current population if we stop being such cocks about it. Let them know their heads are so far up their asses they can’t tell a fart from a sunny breeze, and that the foundation is crumbling under their bullshit too. Because they’re fucking degenerates and they’re actually stupid, and their control is not as complete as they think. They won’t see it til their towers are going down with them, but it’ll be funnier if they were warned.
- Comment on The list 2 weeks ago:
Oh, I thought this was about Epstein
- Comment on Is there ever going to be the equivalent of the Reichstag fire for Trump? Or have we already passed the false flag event? 2 weeks ago:
It’ll be in late September to mid October if it happens, but I think it might be too late. His people are already questioning the Butler PA event and the trust needed to pass bullshit over them seems to be eroding. Fascists do not do well when people even wonder whether they’re telling the truth or not.
We need to be prepared for a variety of scenarios like election fraud, refusal to leave, or refusal to seat the new congress. But I think the propaganda game is more or less lost for the assholes.
- Comment on SBA #192 isp 2 weeks ago:
The situation could be good though
- Comment on I come from down your way 2 weeks ago:
This sub is for shitposts, not shit posts.
- Comment on What did shrek do? 3 weeks ago:
Just like the years, he started coming and didn’t stop coming
- Comment on No Vaccines. No Weakness. Only Testosterone 3 weeks ago:
AI does get trained on a lot of porn. At least the weirdly horny figures are adult here.
- Comment on Where do I go for unbiased news in the world without it having an ulterior motive or kissing ass to the establishment of said country? 3 weeks ago:
I follow NYTimes to learn what the big money wants to talk about and ProPublica to learn what the big money doesn’t want to talk about. Between the two of them, I think I stay decently well informed. In theory, I could know all things if I read them enough.
No such thing as unbiased news. Even Associated Press and Reuters make decisions about what to report on. Those are two solid choices too, by the way. Pretty flat and even-handed.
- Comment on No Vaccines. No Weakness. Only Testosterone 3 weeks ago:
This is here to be laughed at, right?
- Comment on Interesting 3 weeks ago:
The problem is that proper communism is functionally impossible, and every crackpot despot in the last hundred years has wanted to get a little street credit with the working class by slapping socialism or communism on their brand.
- Comment on Why the water to make the medication work? 4 weeks ago:
I’ve found caffeine, and especially whatever they put in energy drinks, only interacts with my body in a helpful way when I’m not dehydrated. A Monster on a sweaty day does not get my ditches dug unless I’m chugging water too. Sorry I have no insight why, but maybe your med is a little like that.
Or perhaps it will cause the buildup of something toxic in your system if you aren’t drinking enough water to flush it or its metabolic byproducts out.
- Comment on Context is for people that read US news 5 weeks ago:
The rape allegation is pretty credible. Unless they’ve fabricated old texts and emails and gotten multiple people to lie about hearing her talk about it, it’s legit. I have been a staunch Platner supporter and fought through a lot of bullshit and bad-faith Astroturfing against him, but this one isn’t setting off my bullshit alarms. And it will kill his campaign.
However, if he drops, there are three solid options. First is Troy Jackson, an older guy who will vote exactly the same but looks like he golfs instead of like he kills people. Or Janet Mills, which would be a little frustrating but honestly pretty good as old-guard Dems go. Forgot the name of the third, but she’s a young woman with progressive stances and would also be great. Odds are Platner will drop out and one of them will get the nomination by some emergency means, likely not a proper election.
I hope it’s Troy Jackson. He did decently in the primary and is the best drop-in replacement for Platner.
- Comment on Context is for people that read US news 5 weeks ago:
It was a skull and crossbones and he got it converted into a celtic knot with dogs on it, very quickly. Then eight billion bots tried to tell me he was a homophobe because he said “All officers are gay, and not in the fun dick-sucking way” on Reddit in like 2012. I really didn’t buy that, and it primed me to get pretty dismissive of the noise pretty quickly.
- Comment on Would it be better to just have a lot of society be underground? 5 weeks ago:
The tradeoff for resilience in emergencies is that the if the ventilation fails hard enough, everyone who can’t get out suffocates. Flooding, as you guessed, is also a serious probelm. Everything that can flood a basement now floods a living space.
Heat and AC are normally going to cost less, but the cost of construction, maintenance, and modification of the structure are way higher and generally kinda dangerous. Not worth it.
- Comment on Take that Aussies, USA #1! 5 weeks ago:
The US was actually founded through a proxy war funded by the French.
- Comment on How come Dems never hit back at the Maga movement by calling them maggots? 1 month ago:
Might have been a mistake to stop tbh
- Comment on This has gotten out of hand and I demand satisfaction. 1 month ago:
If I play my cards right, I can get the big burrito AND get let off with a warning. I just can’t wear cute shorts while committing acts of mischief, and washing up before hitting the taco shack may be advised.
- Comment on This has gotten out of hand and I demand satisfaction. 1 month ago:
As a queer liberal millennial and a professional carpenter who may present very clearly either way depending on context, I would like to point out that the cops also do this but the other way around. You win some, you lose some.
- Comment on What games meet this criteria? 1 month ago:
You are asking for Borderlands 2, friend. You’re in for a grand adventure.
- Comment on What game is this? 1 month ago:
Yeah, sure, but furries are not animals and people who want to fuck actual animals are not well-liked in furry communities.
- Comment on Reality dawns 1 month ago:
It’s the best position, which you only get if you’ve been a very good boy
- Comment on Great come back 1 month ago:
I’m not into clown girls. Tried it once but found that clussy feels funny
- Comment on How do I get the damn cat to understand I can feed myself? 1 month ago:
Cats are anarcho-communist and just share food with their colony. Proving you don’t need it will not stop the cat from letting you have some. They bring home extra not just for the young, but also for pregnant mothers, the sick, the elderly, and whoever might have had a bad hunt that day. They typically eat their fill in the field first before taking one to go, too.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Thought this might be real for a moment tbh, the actual scene is a bit like this already