DagwoodIII
@DagwoodIII@piefed.social
- Comment on Oh how the turn tables 3 hours ago:
- Comment on Oh how the turn tables 3 hours ago:
I’ve seen plenty of tankies boasting that the Soviets were great space scientists.
- Comment on Does the USA have gifted schools or was Spider-Man Homecoming lying? 1 day ago:
One thing you need to understand it that under the American Federal system, each state is responsible for its schools and each local county runs its own Board of Education. So, you can have two high schools a few miles apart where one spends $5 million on a football stadium and the other spends $5 million on a science lab.
New York City has Bronx Science and Stuyversant High Schools that require special tests to get accepted. There’s also Music and Art, Art and Design, and other elite schools.
- Comment on Chef 2 days ago:
Got it.
The Egyptians and Greeks can’t be considered scientific because they didn’t use metric, never mind that they measured the size of the Earth using shadows.
Newton used ounces, obviously not scientific.
I don’t know where you live, but you sound like you were educated in a bad american school.
- Comment on Chef 2 days ago:
I never thought I’d have to give this advice, but if you don’t know what ‘a pinch,’ ‘a smidge,’ and ‘to taste mean’ you need to watch more porn.
[jk, you already watch too much porn]
jk
- Comment on Chef 2 days ago:
It’s a brownie, not a nuclear war head.
- Comment on Chef 2 days ago:
But the memory of it will burn itself into your brain.
- Comment on Chef 3 days ago:
- Comment on Chef 3 days ago:
Dash = less than ⅛ teaspoon 1 teaspoon = ⅓ tablespoon = 5 ml 1 tablespoon = ½ fluid ounce = 15 ml 1 fluid ounce = ⅛ cup = 30 ml ¼ cup = 2 fluid ounces = 4 tablespoons = 59 ml ⅓ cup = 2.7 fluid ounces = 5 tablespoons and 1 teaspoon = 79 ml ½ cup = 4 fluid ounces = 8 tablespoons =118 ml ⅔ cup = 5.3 fluid ounces = 10 tablespoons and 2 teaspoons = 158 ml ¾ cup = 6 fluid ounces = 12 tablespoons = 177 ml 1 cup = 8 fluid ounces = 16 tablespoons = ½ pint = 237 ml 2 cups = 16 fluid ounces = 32 tablespoons = 1 pint = 475 ml
Still confused?
- Comment on Are there any serial killers still active in the US today? With all the tech like dna, fingerprints, flock camera's etc. Would it be almost impossible to be one? 3 days ago:
Serial killers have access to the same internet as the police.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Quick search shows that ‘The Bodyguard’ made about $400 million and was one of the biggest pictures of that year.
‘Truth Or Dare’ made about $30 million.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Never knew Costner was in Truth or Dare.
Pretty sure he destroyed his career with The Postman and Waterworld, but I’ll take your word for it.
- Comment on just temporarily embarrassed billionaires, one good idea or lottery ticket from making it rich 4 days ago:
I was at work, talking to someone my own income.
I asked him to name some things that he’d buy with a billion dollars that he couldn’t get with $100 million.
He couldn’t actually name one thing, but kept insisting that billionaires ’needed’ the money.
- Comment on The woke liberals are making our wars gay 1 week ago:
“The Forever War” by Joe Haldeman.
The author was a Vietnam vet and physics professor. The novel was written in the 1970s. One of the ideas is that in the future all soldiers will be gay/lesbian and heterosexuals in the ranks will be looked down on.
Fun book
- Comment on The woke liberals are making our wars gay 1 week ago:
Apparently, actual techbros make sure their kids don’t see a screen until they’ve graduated college.
- Comment on Hopeposting 1 week ago:
My favorite scene in the MCU comes in Captain America - The Winter Soldier.
Hydra’s toughest badass is holding a gun on an unarmed technician, telling him to set off a weapon.
The pencil necked nerd boy stands up to the killer.
“Sorry, Captain’s orders.”
That’s the point of having heroes. They show us how we’re supposed to behave.
It doesn’t matter if you’re doing it because you were inspired by Superman, Harriet Tubman, or Toto the dog.
- Comment on Housing prices 1 week ago:
No /s needed. The MAGAs totally believe it.
- Comment on The woke liberals are making our wars gay 1 week ago:
If you want to scare yourself, talk to some current day grade school teachers.
- Comment on Housing prices 1 week ago:
Back in the day, Asimov named it US Robots because of US Steel.
Today, they are barely remembered.
- Comment on Painful to recover from 1 week ago:
Obligatory.
- Comment on Housing prices 1 week ago:
It’s a little ambiguous, because US Steel was actually the name of one of the biggest companies.
And yes, I could have written a lot more about Reaganomics, but I wanted to go with a very general outline.
- Comment on The woke liberals are making our wars gay 1 week ago:
Eight pages.
One of my all time favorite Asimov stories.
- Comment on Housing prices 1 week ago:
Thank you.
- Comment on Housing prices 1 week ago:
Here’s the history of US inflation in a nutshell.*
Lyndon Johnson wanted to have a Great Society and have a quick win in Vietnam. He thought that a big buildup could give the US a knockout blow, but it turned into an expensive quagmire. The US was dropping a dozen Hiroshimas worth of bombs on the jungle every week. This meant that US steel mills were working 24/7 and not getting updated. LBJ is printing money to pay for this, because he doesn’t want to raise taxes.
Nixon comes in in 1969, promising to end the war. Instead he triples down on the policy of printing money and overworking the factories. Then the Arab Oil Boycott hits. Prices of everything jumps. Many small manufacturing businesses either go broke or relocate to non-Union states. All those fancy Manhattan lofts you see today started as factory buildings.
And while the US steel mills were running day and night, Japan and Germany couldn’t get American steel, so they started building their own mills. Mills that needed a lot less power than the aging US mills. Suddenly Americans were willing to buy a tiny Japanese car instead of a Detroit model that got 6 mile to a gallon.
Jimmy Carter gets one term as President before the Iran Hostage Crisis ruins him. Carter hires Paul Volker to run the Fed and save the economy. Volker’s plan works, but it’s Ronald Reagan who gets the credit. Ronnie kept Volker in place.
Reagan has his own version of Nixon’s print and spend policy. Tax cuts for the rich and bank deregulation create an artificial boom in the 1980s that lead to a stock market ‘correction’ in 1987.
When Nixon came into office, ‘middle class’ was one Union job paying for a family of four and $1 million was considered a vast fortune that could buy a dozen houses.
By the time Bush Sr. was done, ‘middle class’ was two incomes to support the household, and $1 million was what a rich guy paid for a party.
*this is a very brief description, leaving out many details.
- Comment on Be a punk rocker 1 week ago:
In the comics, Klaw took on the Fantastic Four and the Panther.
- Comment on Be a punk rocker 1 week ago:
Well, now I just feel silly.
- Comment on The woke liberals are making our wars gay 1 week ago:
I just rewatched the pilot episode of Babylon 5. The space station has a daily newspaper.
It’s always fun to read old SF and see what they got right and what they missed.
Probably the king of misinformation is ‘The Man Who Sold The Moon.’ Gets every detail wrong, but it’s still a fun read. One of the businessman/hero’s greatest inventions is an automatic light switch you don’t have to touch to turn on lights when you enter a room. Best invention of 1954!
- Comment on The woke liberals are making our wars gay 1 week ago:
Did you notice that it was written in 1928?
- Comment on The woke liberals are making our wars gay 1 week ago:
[off topic?]
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/74098/74098-h/74098-h.htm
War No. 81-Q by Cordwainer Smith
The USA and Tibet go to war in the 22nd Century…
- Comment on Be a punk rocker 1 week ago:
Second message to you, the other is re your Black Panther comment.
The funny thing is that, iirc, Bucky was deemed unsuitable to be Captain america due to the whole Soviet / Hydra assassin thing.
However, in Thunderbolts, it’s okay for him to be a member of Congress???