Bluewing
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- Comment on The infantry will advance 3 days ago:
Armed revolution has less to do with tactics and more to do with a willingness to die for something you believe in. In 2025, very, very, very few are willing to die period. After all, you just got that new Playstation/Gaming PC/3D printer for Christmas. Let alone “Pledge their honor, fortunes, and lives” for the greater good.
In 1775, that child piccolo player might not have had a fortune, but they had honor and a life to pledge. And he quite possibly did give his life.
- Comment on Choose your Nope Rope 4 days ago:
As an old and now retired medic, once again EMS gets left out. Our caudecus is twin snakes with a pair of wings attached to the rod.
Some say the snakes tell you we are real, honest to god, professionally trained medical personnel. And not just an overpriced taxi service.
The wings indicate we will fly to your medical emergency as fast as we can. Because the louder you scream, the faster we come.
And the rod is the gear shift lever that tells how fast we can shift from ‘This ain’t nothin’ to ‘Oh shit we gotta go. We gotta go NOW’ And ‘Inject ALL the diesel’ modes.
And finally our motto: “I’m always willing to bet your life I can keep you alive long enough so you can die on some doctor and not me”
- Comment on bumper sticker 1 week ago:
Light speed? No! Engage Ludicrous speed!
- Comment on Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason 1 week ago:
There is no life without The Trinity! (onion, garlic, peppers)
But there are people that just can’t eat some foods without digestive repercussions. And food tolerances can even change as we age. I used to love eating peanuts and other tree nuts. But as I have aged, my digestive tract can no longer tolerate eating them except in small amounts. But I now pile on the herbs and spices when I cook. I want strong bold flavors in my food as I have aged.
Life, it seems is weird and changing.
- Comment on Everyone is so close to grasping your unique vision! 1 week ago:
Yes I do. Learn to write better if you wish to be understood.
- Comment on Everyone is so close to grasping your unique vision! 1 week ago:
So, get off your ass and get elected to public office and start making those changes. They will not happen otherwise.
- Comment on Everyone is so close to grasping your unique vision! 1 week ago:
Every non-violent revolution succeeded because of the violent revolution behind it. The peaceful leaders like Gandhi or MLK make the history books because they make for better propaganda. MLK was seen as easier for government and society to deal with rather than the gun toten’ Black Panthers. And Gandhi had bunches of armed and violent small revolutionary groups in the background.
History shows that unless enough people are actually willing to fight and die for social and political change, peaceful marches don’t change much.
- Comment on Make me feel like a man 3 weeks ago:
“Heros” seldom are.
And real heros are getting very scarce.
- Comment on same shit every day, on god 4 weeks ago:
Reading the comments, it would seem most everyone here thinks that the usefulness of the steam is done when it gets used to turn a turbine at high pressure.
The steam can be used for much more than once. In the 1800’s and early 1900s when steam ran trains and ships, they built double and triple expansion engines that took the energy of the steam two and three times before it was done. It doesn’t need to be one and done. And when the energy is done being harvested for power generation, it can used for other things. Engineers today aren’t dumber than the ones in the 1800s.
I can remember a small rural Minnesota town that had their own coal fired electric plant. (Built back before the REA was a thing). They took the left over steam from power generation and then piped it to around 200 homes in the town and heated them with the leftover steam. While a bit costly to install, it was dirt cheap to run. Those homes lost all that when the power plant was shut down and they had to switch to either natural gas, fuel oil, LP, or electricity.
So don’t get hung up on just the power generation. Think what could be beyond that point.
- Comment on *confused flatfish noises* 4 weeks ago:
They want your sweater back…
- Comment on Shitposting as public pedagogy 5 weeks ago:
Shitposting is the new Standup Philosopher from the Greek and Roman times.
(Huzzahs! for Mel Brooks!)
- Comment on Feeling that groove 5 weeks ago:
No, it’s better to count 1,2,3,4 - 1,2,3 to keep the beat. (I’ve preformed Take 5 with a Jazz band).
- Comment on Feeling that groove 5 weeks ago:
It’s 4:30am and thanks to this thread I’m listening to Dave Brubeck on vinyl…
- Comment on Why isn't it considered vegan to harvest animals who die naturally? 5 weeks ago:
You probably don’t want to eat horse meat these days due to the drugs that are often given to horses, (mostly wormers). They tend to not flush out of the horses system no matter how long you wait.
- Comment on be a friend to the animals 1 month ago:
They are public property and designed and built by the municipalities in many places. The cities and towns just prefer to offload the cleaning part to who every lives in front of a section of sidewalk.
Let’s call it “Civic Duty” and your chance to do something nice and beneficial for your neighborhood.
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 1 month ago:
It ain’t like pharma ain’t been trying to make male birth control pills. Lord knows they’d love the extra money.
But it turns out to be damn difficult to get right.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 2 months ago:
Why is it that the Dutch press operators that Caxton hired to run his printing presses, seldom catch any blame for the spelling changes they made to English? The one I always remember is Ghost. Those Dutch press operators decided that Gost should look more like the the Dutch word Gheest. So Ghost got it’s “h”. As did ghoul because you wouldn’t that to be too different…And other words got the same treatments. Thankfully many of the changes didn’t stick but enough have.
If only the printing press hadn’t been introduced to English until after the Great Vowel Shift was over, spelling and spoken would be much closer aligned.
- Comment on Fight me 2 months ago:
Pfftt. Splitting wood is peak heat thermodynamics. And I can attest it keeps you warm down to -40F.
- Comment on Just answer the question you fuckin' nerd 2 months ago:
So starfish are closer to a doughnut than humans.
- Comment on Just answer the question you fuckin' nerd 2 months ago:
Shape has little to do with mass. Unless you want it to be so.
- Comment on Honestly Bizarre 2 months ago:
I also add: Does it taste good?
I do this because of cranberries. I do not eat anything that you can make candles or soap from…
- Comment on I'm down with that 2 months ago:
Now I’m really confused and my whole world view and philosophy of life is crumbling! Sigh, yet another existential crisis and it’s only false dawn outside…
I think I’m just going to make another cup of tea.
- Comment on I'm down with that 2 months ago:
I thought everyone agreed that blue meant raspberry? If doesn’t, what color am I supposed to paint my red raspberries now?
- Comment on i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too 2 months ago:
There is one thing that people miss about that whole “10 acres to feed one cow” statement. Yep, it can take that much land. But what doesn’t get said is that one cow can take advantage of land that is unsuitable to grow crops on like tomatoes, peppers, and onions.
In the US, California produces more fresh produce every year than any other state can. But it comes at a high cost of farming land that really isn’t naturally suitable for growing those vegetables. Farmers need to pump millions of gallons of water on those acres to get those crops to grow. This in turn puts pressure on the supply of water to everyone else in the state. And much of this farmland had all it could do to grow grass in some years originally.
Aquifers are going starting to go dry because of this. The vast Ogilala aquifer that supplies water to almost all of the US west is starting to go dry. Because we now are farming land that probably be best left to growing grasses for cattle, sheep, or goats rather than tomatoes or soybeans.
- Comment on i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too 2 months ago:
You would harvest the leaves when they are small and young. And they would be one of the first fresh greens available in the spring. But their season quickly passes as the plants grow pretty fast.
- Comment on Poor salmon 2 months ago:
The 2 Angry Beavers did it first. I think it was Dagget that always pronounced the L in salmon. They lived in fear of the salmon spawn run. The salmon would tear their dam/home apart.
And who could ever forget their #1 hit single, Beaver Fever, so smoky and sexy.
- Comment on I'm gonna die on this hill or die trying 2 months ago:
Well, while em dashes can be very useful-- I like to substitute them for parentheses sometimes-- they can be over used and abused-- see AI abuses.
- Comment on 1919 (correctly) 2 months ago:
This is why you actually answer the phone to prevent 300 voicemails. That’s on you if that happens. And I have repeatedly found that a one or two line text message NEVER conveys the whole message because people do not know how to create a cognizant thought. So I can either spend hours texting back and forth to get the whole picture or you can call me directly, answer my pointed questions, and be done in 60 seconds or less.
- Comment on 1919 (correctly) 2 months ago:
I absolutely hate text messages. I refuse to spend hours of my time sending text messages back and forth to solve a problem that a 60 second phone call could have disposed of.
- Comment on 1919 (correctly) 2 months ago:
It’s better to just leave the phone at home…