Alcoholicorn
@Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz
- Comment on I'm doing my part 24 minutes ago:
It hasn’t been wax in decades, its polyurethane.
- Comment on I hear you girl 1 day ago:
Given ops history, thats probably not accurate.
- Comment on Shit solutions for shitty problems 3 days ago:
Fending off a horde of zombies while standing on your partner’s overpacked bag, as they try to squish all the loot together so the zipper closes.
- Comment on 🙄🙄🙄 6 days ago:
My first motorcycle accident was swerving around someone who decided to go on red.
- Comment on Why are American men leaving the workforce at historic rates? 1 week ago:
Thanks, that page loads, but I’m not going to listen to an entire podcast.
- Comment on Why are American men leaving the workforce at historic rates? 1 week ago:
I will never know, apparently they blocked vietnam.
- Comment on Local news did an entire segment featuring a guy who's mad about having to drive more carefully. 2 weeks ago:
The traffic engineer explained it was a skill issue.
- Comment on Local news did an entire segment featuring a guy who's mad about having to drive more carefully. 2 weeks ago:
The traffic engineer interviewed knows the wheelbase of common vehicles. Most people don’t need to drive into traffic, they’re just not turning the wheel enough, early enough.
But the people driving cars with the wheelbase of a semi can still take the turn, you just look for oncoming traffic before you use part of the lane.
- Comment on Local news did an entire segment featuring a guy who's mad about having to drive more carefully. 2 weeks ago:
We should be discouraging unnecessarily large vehicles anyway, ideally through urban design like this. Another element I like is sequential speed bumps with uneven gaps, smaller vehicles already going reasonable speeds can just weave through the gaps, larger vehicles going fast are required to slow.
- Comment on Local news did an entire segment featuring a guy who's mad about having to drive more carefully. 2 weeks ago:
Just go slowly and stop if there is a car coming.
- Comment on Bee Brushie 2 weeks ago:
CW trypophobia
spoiler
- Comment on Bee Brushie 2 weeks ago:
Well yeah, but every other city would be horrified by plagues of rat-sized wasps killing and laying eggs in the wildlife.
For Australia thats not even notable.
- Comment on Bee Brushie 2 weeks ago:
Australia could use them to help with the rat problem.
- Comment on Is it ideal to renounce citizenship if moving abroad permanently? 2 weeks ago:
If you’re staying out of the US and paying taxes in a country the US has an agreement with, the Foriegn Earned Income Exclusion applies to the first 132K.
- Comment on Why have we as a society just accepted the increasingly blinding bright lights of cars? 2 weeks ago:
I have much less problem with yellow headlights, and most people mentioning color temp in this thread are expressing as much.
My bike has a yellow headlight and white high beam, which makes it very obvious if I’m flashing someone as opposed to the changes in intensity some headlights have when the reflector is angular.
- Comment on Why have we as a society just accepted the increasingly blinding bright lights of cars? 3 weeks ago:
This is the plot of Mortal Engines.
- Comment on Why have we as a society just accepted the increasingly blinding bright lights of cars? 3 weeks ago:
Here in vietnam, probably half of cars and bikes have yellow headlights that don’t mess with your night vision, then white brights.
- Comment on Anon is an introvert 3 weeks ago:
A community isn’t just a bunch of people with good feelings towards eachother, look for mutually beneficial relationships. Clearly he has no use for socializing in and of itself, is he mechanically inclined? Ask him for help or just advice with a car problem, bake extra bread and give him some, do you both have kids? Theres common interest in discussing whatever is going on with them.
- Comment on Anon is an introvert 3 weeks ago:
I am self aware enough to know when to just let it go and avoid thing becoming uncomfortable
They simply don’t yet know they want to be your friend. Abduct them and bring them on an adventure, use that time to learn how your lives can mesh together.
You can’t go wrong with motorcycle journey and/or hiking up a mountain.
- Comment on Praise Helix 3 weeks ago:
Now you will spend the rest of your lifetime imagine what type of wingtip would be most suitable for a bird.
- Comment on Starmer bans Labour councillors from doing deals with Polanski’s Green Party 4 weeks ago:
Not British so I can’t make very close observations, but can’t both times be attributed to his own party?
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 4 weeks ago:
Well that’s simply incorrect, here’s a screenshot of my desktop on wifi in Nanning, loading apnews.com. Image
they allow everything.
Hahah no they block so much, youtube, google, probably 80% of western media, just not apnews, despite AP news historically just being a state department mouthpiece peddling whichever lies for whatever war.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 4 weeks ago:
AP isn’t blocked here. But while in China, I can access anything that is blocked via VPN, like any chinese person. Its common enough a cop or security guy in Tianjin airport helped me install a hk-based esim via alipay that gets around the Great Firewall when I arrived the first time and couldn’t pull up my gmail.
That said it is still a nuisance.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 4 weeks ago:
China doesn’t have free healthcare, but they build hospitals and train doctors to keep healthcare cheap. There’s also state run insurance. I got a ortho consult for 1.5USD, and a retainer reattached for 15 USD, as a walk-in.
Cuba is a better model given that they’ve done so much with so little.
- Comment on Starmer bans Labour councillors from doing deals with Polanski’s Green Party 4 weeks ago:
This is just what happens when reactionaries cry about a non-existent communist purge, and then take power and sideline anyone left if Thatcher. The only way to avoid this was for Corbyn to purge the Blairites.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 4 weeks ago:
Nobody needs to be comfortable around people who take offense to being alerted they’re carrying water for antisemites
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 4 weeks ago:
Yall are using 2 different definitions of liberalism. The cable news definition means like socially permissible and supporting social welfare. The academic definition refers to the philosophy of capitalism. Here’s a book going over every major liberal philosopher and how they dealt with the conflicts inherent to liberalism (hint: In the end, it’s the freedom of the dominant group to exploit the working class). Here’s Huey P Newton talking about his experience with liberals.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 4 weeks ago:
Don’t be wrong and people won’t correct you lmao.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 4 weeks ago:
“Democrats are really like the center right in Europe.”
But they are lol.
The Arabs as semites thing is weird, while yes if you use a definition of semitism from a century ago and make technical arguments sure you can logic yourself there, but that’s not how language works. When someone says antisemitism, they’re specifically referring to bigotry against jews. It’s like all the debates about whether hotdogs are sandwiches, if sushi is a type of taco, etc. If you say “antisemitism” or sandwich or taco, nobody is going to understand you’re talking about racism against arabs or hotdogs or sushi.
As far as “I like the ideas of communism, but the average person isn’t ready for it”, maybe just accept that you haven’t ready any works by any communists, and don’t know how AES states work, like 99% of westerners instead of opining on a subject your understanding of comes entirely from adversarial sources. It’s not even wrong, it’s just indicating that you’re unfamiliar with the subject.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 4 weeks ago:
What were you saying that got angry attacks lol.
