ToastedRavioli
@ToastedRavioli@midwest.social
Born to Squint, Forced to See ⚜️
- Comment on Chat, is this accurate? 2 weeks ago:
Can I lick it? (Yes, you can)
- Comment on Anon invents a time machine 2 weeks ago:
Forced is kind of a strong word. The US was the first to a strong independent standardization system, even though other countries had some individual standards. The US system was effectively the inspiration for ISO in the first place, as Hoover started the US system in the 30s.
The catalyst was that American manufacturing was removed from the conflict, so the US was in the best position to become a world supplier of anything it could manufacture. Especially arms and planes etc. Everyone knew what a pain in the ass sharing arms and vehicles during WWI had been because of the lack of standardized parts, so the allies were already primed to pick a standard either way. The reason the US became the standard is because situationally it became the largest supplier of goods, and also because it had already spent thousands of hours more time on committees to decide why its standards should be what they were. Other countries hadnt done much of that legwork
- Comment on Anon invents a time machine 2 weeks ago:
If WWII never happened, the US never would have built up bases all over the world nor would they have been able to get the head start on pushing American manufacturing standards as ISO standards (due to being physically removed from the conflict in Europe). In that case, the US never sees the boom that it did from those situations, and never would have nearly as much economic, military, or social power as it did from being involved in the war.
How they would manage to take over all of north and south America in that situation is beyond me. Clearly written by someone who believes in American exceptionalism
- Comment on Anon joins a shitposting group 2 weeks ago:
We are but a spinning plate in the great cosmic microwave oven of the universe
- Comment on Day 107, suspicions are high and a fear I must soon leaf 2 weeks ago:
In the DR, especially in Santo Domingo, there are a lot of Norfolk Island Pine trees / Araucaria. They are the only conifers that can exist there at sea level, so they look super out of place surrounded mostly by palm trees and other tropical plants
They look exactly like the fake cell phone tower trees, but they are actually real. Really threw me for a loop seeing them when I was there
- Comment on Thanks, little buddies. 3 weeks ago:
Its important to remember that human bodies are effectively an environment unto themselves, and that there really isnt a distinct “you” and then other things like this.
For example, there are trillions upon trillions more cells of bacteria on/in you than there are human cells. Every person’s overall existence is composed primarily of stuff that isnt technically “you”, although it is inseparable from you. While people’s bodily ecology can be modified, you couldnt possibly remove every quasi-foreign substance from yourself and still survive.
Its part of why seemingly horrific stuff like fecal transplants can be very helpful. If youve cultivated a very mean ecology for one reason or another then resetting that to a healthier state is essential. Its like the gut version of you being a country suffering from unrest. But even though we think of negative or positive bacteria as being totally distinct from us, we are strongly defined by those bacteria. It affects your brain and emotions far more than most people realize. Scientists are still just beginning to understand the complexities of these systems, too.
These little dudes I would assume are a similar situation. They probably have some form of essential symbiosis with us that we may not even understand yet. Killing them off would likely be bad. And even if you did, you would be creating a vacuum that could be filled by something worse. Our bodies are fertile ground for such tiny individuals. Better to have benign ones or helpful ones than it is to have bad ones
- Comment on How do students who are always involved in mathematics and physics get to know about sex? 4 weeks ago:
Fun fact: Will I. Fuck is actually the maternal grandfather of Black Eyed Peas member Will I. Am, by way of his mother, Anita Good Fuck
- Comment on Yard Sale 1 month ago:
Mfs moved west and decided street names werent useful, I guess. Youll never see a city in the eastern half/third of the US with a “226th Street” but most major cities west of the Mississippi have a ridiculous lack of street names. Just mundane shit instead
- Comment on Andrew Mountbatten Windsor's Daughters Are Still Receiving Rent-Free Royal Accommodation 1 month ago:
Tbf they did choose. They dont have to work there and are free to leave. A lot of people pay 1/3rd of their income in rent, so 1/6th is honestly a pretty good deal IMO
- Comment on Well now I want to 1 month ago:
Jesse, we really have to stop cooking
- Comment on Europemaxxing 3 months ago:
Work for like one half hour, two half hour
Then for lunch, maybe something cool like a cigarette
- Comment on Anon runs into his boss 3 months ago:
Im not going to dispute the reality that doing whatever you want on your own property, assuming its large enough that youre basically alone, is kind of de facto legal in the sense that you most likely wont get in trouble for doing it.
But, that doesnt make it actually legal. The way that most state laws on DUIs are written you can get a DUI doing a lot of things that are nothing like driving a car on a public roadway.
One example: a Zamboni DUI in Fargo, ND where the defense contested that you cant get a DUI on a zam under state law
Defense attorney Lindsey Haugen said during the bench trial Tuesday that the law is not clear whether a Zamboni is considered a vehicle, or whether it is illegal to drive the machine on the ice while drunk. He also said witnesses are hazy on whether Anderson drove the Zamboni on a road behind the arena to dump ice or whether that road was accessible to other vehicles.
But Municipal Court Judge Stephen Dawson said state law is written to include vehicles “such as” a Zamboni.
Afterward, Haugen said his research of DUI law found specific vehicles such as tractors, snowmobiles, recreational vehicles and boats, but he found no references to a Zamboni.
Looking at this, you can clearly see that the law in ND outlines a ton of stuff that tends to happen on private (or otherwise closed) property and not on a roadway using a car. Boating is an obvious example since its in the water, but recreational vehicles definitely refers to ATVs and side by sides or whatever they call them. Tractors are driven on roadways sometimes but obviously most of their use is on private land. Snowmobiling also doesnt occur on open roadways, and at most occasionally crosses them.
If a snowmobiler is drunk and hits a snowshoer or crashes on a privately owned mountain, they still will get a DUI. If a guy operates a zamboni drunk in a private non-profit ice rink they still get a DUI. If you got drunk and went go-karting you could get a DUI.
If you get wasted and do donuts on your own private field, whether in a snowmobile, a truck, or a zamboni, legally you could definitely get a DUI. But you wouldn’t probably get one. There is a worthwhile distinction to be made there. If you and a friend get wasted and take the ‘boni out to whip shitties in your private field, but he flies off and dies, you’re definitely getting a DUI in the investigation of that death
It’s all very “if a tree drives drunk in the middle of a forest, but no one is around to see it, is it a DUI?” The answer is still yes, or at least it would be in a world where trees drive cars
- Comment on Anon runs into his boss 3 months ago:
You 100% can. People have gotten DUIs for operating a Zamboni while drunk, which is a vehicle that drives entirely in a closed environment not on the roadway.
You can get a DUI for driving anything while intoxicated that requires a drivers license to operate, regardless of where you are operating it. That said, people who get blasted and drive around their own privately owned fields are not likely to get caught. That doesnt mean that just because they dont get caught that its not illegal to do
- Comment on Manned spaceflight is back baybee. 3 months ago:
Its amazing that since then we haven’t had much or any success in even landing anything unmanned on the moon, let alone manned. The fact that they weren’t ripped to shreds like pretty much everything else we ever tried to land, using that era’s technology, is absolutely fucking bonkers
- Comment on "Trippy" Reality 3 months ago:
Im a big fan of doing small amounts, but sometimes it definitely gets you feeling like
- Comment on Normies 3 months ago:
Do ya like Huey Lewis and the News? Do ya like Jazz??
- Comment on Don't do him like that 3 months ago:
- Comment on Anon is a youtuber 3 months ago:
Id prefer to see a nice pair of boobies
- Comment on No but seriously 4 months ago:
The business end or the oopsie poopsie side of it?
- Comment on DOES ANYONE 4 months ago:
Im more of a konane man myself
- Comment on I hate how true this is. 4 months ago:
Maybe Im weird, but when sleep sleeping I find it absolutely impossible to sleep in that position (or on my back at all for that matter). But every time I ever nap I sleep laying exactly like the guy is in the meme
- Comment on Maybe, maybe not 4 months ago:
Probably Sandii
“Hi, this id Sandii….
- Comment on Couldn't have said it better 4 months ago:
Its antidisestablishmentarianism
- Comment on Cows are magnetic and it's about time we accepted that 5 months ago:
They do know why, its that cows have some directional sense based in electromagnetism like an actual compass. Cows that are near high voltage power lines dont align the same way as cows normally do. Their sense gets messed up by the strength of the electrical fields that surround high voltage lines
- Comment on Cows are magnetic and it's about time we accepted that 5 months ago:
Were gonna need a bigger magnet
- Comment on Like a longterm relationship finally meeting 5 months ago:
Thats what good mac n cheese sounds like
- Comment on smoooooth 5 months ago:
And thus began the epoch of the tardigrades
- Comment on 5 months ago:
Millin
- Comment on So Deep 5 months ago:
With wings that is called “trashed”. Fry them half way, then sauce them, then finish frying them
Its literally the best way to have wings, but a pain in the ass to find a restaurant that will do it. Let alone one that offers trashed wings as a menu item
- Comment on Naughty birds 5 months ago:
I heard yo mama is too large to be collected and put somewhere safe
