scarabic
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- Comment on What happens when you just refuse to pay and go ... ? 23 hours ago:
It’s a complete illusion that the US can control this strait. It could destabilize it further if it wishes, but there is no getting a ship through without Iran’s cooperation.
Because Iran has a ton of land along the straight from which they can launch missles, drones, rockets, or even artillery at passing ships. There’s a huge region where they can attack the strait, and the US can’t put hundreds of thousands of troops on that land to hold it all. Therefore Trump cannot declare the strait open, though he can declare the strait closed (this just hurts him most of all).
All his bullshit about floating ships at one end to “gate” the passage, and escorting ships, and shooting down rockets…. It’s complete bluster. Even with the entire US military he cannot guarantee safe passage. And that’s just one of the things he has to do if this war continues. He also has to try to defend our allies in the Gulf and elsewhere.
- Comment on What happens when you just refuse to pay and go ... ? 1 day ago:
Setting aside the many other things wrong with this, 20% the value of the cargo is just stupid. Most of it doesn’t have that much profit margin in the first place. I know it’s a number straight out of his ass, but damn, the stupid…
- Comment on How come not all people are organ donors? It's not like they will need them where ever they go. 1 day ago:
If driving is the reason to make it opt out, I don’t see why that couldn’t be changed for state ID.
- Comment on How come not all people are organ donors? It's not like they will need them where ever they go. 1 day ago:
Opt out is fair at a minimum. Driving is the most dangerous thing we do, and if you’re going to do it, there’s an argument to be made that throwing your organ donor chip into the pot is the least you could do, because you could very well cause an accident someday that costs someone their life.
- Comment on How come not all people are organ donors? It's not like they will need them where ever they go. 1 day ago:
If you sit down and give the topic all due fair consideration, yes, there’s only one rational conclusion. However about of people just don’t want to think about dying, period, and will switch off on anything that makes them do so. I’m sure there are also misinformed people who think their organs can be freely stolen even if they’re not dead yet if they check that box.
I’m not justifying these people, mind you. I’m just describing how it happens. There is no good reason, but there are reasons.
- Comment on people who take zoom calls in coffee shops are insufferable 4 days ago:
Only a long list of very particular choices would leave you in a situation where it’s “unavoidable.” I don’t accept this excuse. Get your shit together.
- Comment on people who take zoom calls in coffee shops are insufferable 4 days ago:
I don’t care what kind of call it is, frankly. I don’t want to hear you talk in your phone, or hear your phone make any sound whatsoever. Sitting there watching videos with the speaker on, at a restaurant? Damn.
- Comment on Would it be better to just have a lot of society be underground? 1 week ago:
Both of your scenarios seem to start with an empty landscape. When I heard “move the ground level up” I took that to mean that we are starting with an existing cityscape that has a ground level, and everything must be elevated.
It were just talking purely theoreticals built on a tabula rasa, okay then. Like you said, everything can be hand waved away.
- Comment on Would it be better to just have a lot of society be underground? 1 week ago:
I’ve actually been there. Like I said, it’s a gallery with little depth and does not answer how this would be applied to modern architecture n any kind of scale.
- Comment on Would it be better to just have a lot of society be underground? 1 week ago:
effectively raising ground level
I can’t say I follow what this means. Moving everything we have at ground level up? I understand that this kind of thing has happened historically but only in periods where we barely built a couple of stories high.
I’m looking out over the Tokyo skyline right now and there’s every level of building. How do you get everyone to agree on the one right height?
- Comment on Would it be better to just have a lot of society be underground? 1 week ago:
Do you want to suggest a measurement scheme in which underground building is cheaper? As is I don’t understand your point.
- Comment on US Energy Secretary Chris Wright: “I'm thrilled to report that after 35 years, on July 4th, we will end the subsidies for wind and solar projects” 1 week ago:
California was 67% powered by alternative sources in 2024: 22.8% Solar 13.8% Wind 12.5% Hydroelectric 11.1% Nuclear 5.0% Geothermal 1.9% Biomass
Source: California Department of Energy
We have also been adding an enormous amount of battery storage to the grid. Cheap (but large and heavy) sodium batteries don’t work well for cars but they’re great for stacking up next to solar farms.
Meanwhile Republicants whine about how it can’t be done. Fucking losers. The sad fact is that the US is diverse and a place like California is essentially a modern country but we also have petrostates like Alaska and Louisiana that fall apart without oil.
- Comment on So, has age verification really become the new normal? 1 month ago:
Hello Nebula
- Comment on Your Truck is Stupid Big 2 months ago:
Just because you can think of ways out of enforcement doesn’t mean all enforcement is impossible. If there’s a plumbing truck parked at the movie theater, management is going to damn well know if plumbing work is occurring. I know it makes us feel smart to think of loopholes but we don’t need airtight enforcement in order for a law to make sense. There are tons of laws on the books that aren’t actively and exhaustively enforced, and the exist to give authority to those who would take action.
- Comment on Your Truck is Stupid Big 2 months ago:
It’s a myth that you can write anything off as a business expense and the IRS can’t do anything about it.
- Comment on Your Truck is Stupid Big 2 months ago:
That’s not a loophole. If the truck wasn’t driven to this movie theater for work purposes, then it wasn’t driven for work purposes.
- Comment on What would the next pres of USA have to do to gain back trust for America? Hold a televised event saying the last person was just a fuck up? 2 months ago:
I’m actually with you - I don’t believe any one president can just wave a magic wand and do away with regulatory capture forever. I’m not sure what I said specifically that made you think I put that all on the president.
However it is still a very relevant question, which no one seems to want to answer: what CAN the next president DO to restore trust? Not necessarily restore it ALL but begin to heal the situation?
- Comment on What would the next pres of USA have to do to gain back trust for America? Hold a televised event saying the last person was just a fuck up? 2 months ago:
That’s a list of problems. I guess I just have to keep bringing you back to “what should the next president do?” You know, about them.
But if I ask you that are you going to compare me to a bully harming someone? That’s my WTF here.
- Comment on What would the next pres of USA have to do to gain back trust for America? Hold a televised event saying the last person was just a fuck up? 2 months ago:
What? I’m literally asking what the.l next leader should do to start improving the situation, not asking anyone’s forgiveness. If you can’t name one actual concrete thing, just admit it.
- Comment on What would the next pres of USA have to do to gain back trust for America? Hold a televised event saying the last person was just a fuck up? 2 months ago:
It’ll take decades to make up for completely but what can the next president do to regain some trust?
- Comment on Window alignment 2 months ago:
Could be. I struggle to imagine what would need to be bolted to the wall, only in that place, only on that one floor.
- Comment on Window alignment 2 months ago:
That looks like where Cotton Eyed Joe kept The Subtle Knife.
- Comment on Even if we found a feasible way through physics to travel through time, wouldn't it still be impossible due to the evolution of bacteria and our immune systems? 2 months ago:
This makes sense. What never makes sense to me is when people worry about viruses from ice cores that are a billion years old. Because it works both ways: viruses have to be pretty well adapted to you in order to harm you. There are no such viruses long before humans even existed. I’m sure there are exception, as with viruses that manage to jump species, but I wouldn’t worry much about viruses from before the time of mammals, yet some people freak out MORE the older the ice core is. They’ve seen too many movies about ancient evil escaping old crypts.
- Comment on Is it weird that I’m a tattoo artist but I still get nervous before my own sessions? 2 months ago:
The more you know, the more there is for you to possibly worry about. Ignorance is bliss! Here’s a fun anecdote to calm your jitters.
Once upon a time I was trying to reassure my coworker who had an upcoming appointment. “I’m scared! I want to do it but I’m scared of the pain! It’s going to hurt!” she groaned.
I asked “where on your body are you getting the work?”
“On my stomach,” she said.
“Oh,” I said, “that’s a good place. It won’t hurt that much. You have a lot of fat on your stomach.”
She just frowned at me. One of the other cooks walked in and she shouted “He just called me fat!”
“The rhetorical ‘you!’” I tried to explain, to no avail. I never heard the end of that one from her.
- Comment on What are some drugs you think will make a comeback like qualewds or thai sticks or window pane? Does history always repeats itself apply to drugs? 2 months ago:
This is a good example of how the past doesn’t go anywhere. Those drugs are still around as much as they ever were, or in even greater numbers. But we all know what they are now and what they do. There’s nothing to talk about so their names drop off the cultural airwaves. They’ve settled into the culture. You don’t hear about them, but that doesn’t mean they’re not around. The past doesn’t go anywhere. The future is just laid on top of it.
- Comment on Not to get into a debate. If God is so omnipotent and above humans why does he or she have emotions? Like smiting or being upset or wrath? 2 months ago:
Well, that’s what a rhetorical question is. You’re making a statement, not a query, but the best way to couch your statement happens to be with a question mark at the end of it. I’m not sure this is the best example of one, but at least they made an attempt to label it as such.
- Comment on Not to get into a debate. If God is so omnipotent and above humans why does he or she have emotions? Like smiting or being upset or wrath? 2 months ago:
Aren’t we as humans proving every year that goes by, that no matter how much power and knowledge you amass, you can still be an evil, childish, asshole? God is just a little further along that dotted line. He’s got all the power and knowledge. This doesn’t make him mature or good.
- Comment on I am against rape or rapists or any such type of action or person. But my mom who has a daughter. Keeps questioning why these women wait so long before coming out with it? 2 months ago:
Cutting to the chase, just ask your mom if any man has ever touched her inappropriate or gotten her to have sex when she would rather not have.
Then ask her why she hasn’t ever told you this before.
- Comment on The person who mounted a spice rack into the fucking studs so a fridge won't fit there 2 months ago:
But it’s in the studs /s
- Comment on The person who mounted a spice rack into the fucking studs so a fridge won't fit there 2 months ago:
This post is mildly infuriating. Unscrewing it is not even an “easy fix” it’s just plain and simple what you do.