JustZ
@JustZ@lemmy.world
- Comment on Hey, do americans just want to take a break from normal politics for a bit and focus all our efforts solely on the wild boar problem? 4 days ago:
Those are ones in captivity, for food.
- Comment on Cathy, do the math. 1 week ago:
This doesn’t even make sense.
- Comment on Cathy, do the math. 1 week ago:
Well, also, a lot of the union jobs simply don’t exist anymore. Not very many boilermakers, steamfitters, carmens, or glazers around anymore. So obviously union membership is going to be down.
- Comment on Cathy, do the math. 1 week ago:
Unions are meant to bargain against capital.
Capital is already on the side of police.
This is not nearly at complicated as your making it.
- Comment on Cathy, do the math. 1 week ago:
Look for the union bug.
- Comment on Cathy, do the math. 1 week ago:
The fact that Cathy has a blue check mark proved Twitter is fucking stupid.
- Comment on What would happen if the Supreme Court sent a US Marshall to arrest a member of the executive branch? 1 week ago:
28 USC Sec. 566
(a)It is the primary role and mission of the United States Marshals Service to provide for the security and to obey, execute, and enforce all orders of the United States District Courts, the United States Courts of Appeals, the Court of International Trade, and the United States Tax Court, as provided by law.
(b) The United States marshal of each district is the marshal of the district court and of the court of appeals when sitting in that district, and of the Court of International Trade holding sessions in that district, and may, in the discretion of the respective courts, be required to attend any session of court.
©Except as otherwise provided by law or Rule of Procedure, the United States Marshals Service shall execute all lawful writs, process, and orders issued under the authority of the United States, and shall command all necessary assistance to execute its duties.
This codified the common law in the US.
The Court’s order to its district marshal is superior to any DoJ order. If the marshal won’t act, the Court can conpel them into court and hold them in contempt.
Courts (and marshals) can also deputize people to execute their orders. They can also hold others in contempt who contribute to orders not being followed…they can start seizing and freezing assets of Trump’s helpers; they can award money damages as sanctions, they can disbar attorneys. There’s a lot they can do. I hope the courts start playing hard ball with these lawless fucks.
- Comment on Anti-acknowlegements 1 week ago:
Holy shit. Get em.
- Comment on I'm looking to buy something like a reverse wheelbarrow, what do I call that? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah no doubt but OP said this in reference to “scaling up with more weight” and in reference to moving things around, so there are practical size limitations on how long the wheelbarrow/lever can be and how much a person’s arms can lift. You wouldn’t use a wheelbarrow to move a pallet of stone without custom building some freakishly large pallet moving wheelbarrow to act as a massive lever, but you could certainly move a little bit of stone at a time with a store bought wheelbarrow. Assuming normal size implements, for the pallet, a person isn’t strong enough to not need four wheels. You might make a very long lever with the right balance and be able to lift the stone pallet and move it a few feet at a time, before resetting the fulcrum and moving the load again, a few more feet, and you could move the load with just one finger, easily, as you suppose, but in no way would it be more practical than using a four-wheel pallet jack of normal size. I’m not a physics guy so I’m sure I’m not explaining this as clearly as someone more versed might and I agree there are times when it’s easier to pull, such as pulling a dolly up a flight of stairs or over curb; I guess I’m assuming we’re talking about moving a load along the average ground where you can get the proper angle.
For OP, check the Worx Aerocart, 8 in 1.
- Comment on I'm looking to buy something like a reverse wheelbarrow, what do I call that? 2 weeks ago:
When you tow something the pulling force has to be down low, aligned with the load, to make it efficient. With the human body, given the height of your hands, it will always be easier to push a load than to try and tow it. The angular force when pushing a wheelbarrow, along with the weight of your body, helps the wheelbarrow along. If you turn around and try to pull it, your body takes that angular force instead of the front wheel. Like, instead of the lever and wheel doing the work, you have to not just move the load along, but lift it too. In short, there’s a reason why you can’t find something like this. It’s the same reason that why you look at wagons or pull carts, the handle is connected as low to the load as possible, and may likely have an angle built into it, also the same reason why flatbed type push carts say right in them “push, don’t pull.” Same with wheelbarrows. In short, you’re going to hurt yourself.
Your post doesn’t make sense. “A four wheel cart doesn’t scale well when compared to the rickshaw design”? Given that a four wheel design spreads the weight to four wheels instead of just two, four wheels can obviously move more weight more easily than two.
As above, especially in uneven surfaces, pushing is easier than pulling given that angular force is reversed (pushing the wheel over a bump and using the angular force to help rotate the wheel versus lifting the load up over the bump using your body whilst pulling). No question.
- Comment on How do you feel about someone taking the coins people tossed into a fountain or other public waterworks display for "wishes?" 2 weeks ago:
I feel great about it, nice way to cool off on a hot day.
- Comment on Does it make sense to buy a lifetime supply of honey? 3 weeks ago:
Lifetime supply of honey for me is one fairly small jar, except that one time I had a weird craving for honey in the comb, so I ordered a square of it and ate it like a sandwich. I guess I saw bears doing it and thought it looked tasty.
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 3 weeks ago:
When we spend money in other countries, we are spending it on Americans. When free people thrive, America wins. When people around the world have stable governments that at least try to look out for their own people, America wins. Even if 49% of it is wasted to fraud and abuse, we’re still coming out ahead: the only Americans who have lived through a draft are in their 60s, and a nuclear attack in their 80s.
This hedgemony has staved of world war three and nuclear war for 75 years, and kept the world a relatively stable and safe place for virtually everyone.
Even if you completely disagree with me, and feel like voting for conservatives is the better alternative, two facts completely undermine that decision. First, the times America has failed to live up to its ideals or faltered in its highest pursuits have been exclusively presided over by conservatives. Second, the number of times conservatives have cut spending and passed the savings on to the 99% is exactly zero, but their track record of increasing spending while only significantly cutting taxes for the 1%…is 100%. And, as a bonus fact, this the wealthiest nation ever to exist in the history of the world. The diea that we can’t afford to help Americans and keep up our global spending is meritless, for example, we could eat like three billionaires and end global hunger, provide healthcare and education to every American.
- Comment on What would happen if Punxsutawney Phil comes out, and immediately dies? 3 weeks ago:
It would be just his catastrophic as the last time this happened, when [REDACTED].
- Comment on What would happen if Punxsutawney Phil comes out, and immediately dies? 3 weeks ago:
I like this joke.
- Comment on What would happen if Punxsutawney Phil comes out, and immediately dies? 3 weeks ago:
Whoosh.
- Comment on How would a stateless society handle serious threats such as mass murder and terrorism? 4 weeks ago:
By sponsoring it.
- Comment on Jon Stewart lacerates hand on air, for the second time. 4 weeks ago:
I think you have to be very careful with that. My dog got a bad laceration one time, and luckily we were able to provide pressure and bring them straight to the vet which was close by, and while I was there I mentioned that I had thought about using super glue to close it, and they were mortified. Mortified. They said it would have made him extremely sick.
Apparently the glue they used to close wounds, which acts like super glue is very different than actual super glue.
- Comment on Jon Stewart lacerates hand on air, for the second time. 4 weeks ago:
There is no liberal media.
It’s all been consolidated by the right, or rather, they’re rich benefactors.
- Comment on Jon Stewart lacerates hand on air, for the second time. 4 weeks ago:
Homes that’s not a one-time thing. He’s been fighting for that for years and still does.
He has said he has no interest or qualification for politics, that his role is as a comedian.
I think he’s wrong. He is very qualified, as is Al Franken.
- Comment on Are conservatives mad about trans people or they just mad they get walk around out of the closet while they have to leave the white sheets at home? 4 weeks ago:
An important thing to note here is that the things your grandparents here are confirming what they already feel to some extent.
You know, they see men dressing as women for drag shows and they feel that there is something weird and unnatural about it. It’s not difficult at all for a demagogue to take that feeling and turn it into bigotry.
- Comment on Sooo, where did the blatant Nazism suddenly come from? 4 weeks ago:
Reminds me of McGregor the Goat Fucker.
Nobody called him McGregor the bridge builder, despite a long and successful career as a bridge engineer. But he fucked one goat…
- Comment on Sooo, where did the blatant Nazism suddenly come from? 4 weeks ago:
Thank you.
- Comment on Sooo, where did the blatant Nazism suddenly come from? 4 weeks ago:
Cognitive dissonance is a lot of it.
Maybe don’t actually realize they are Nazis. I like to talk to these types and describe the events of the Boston Massacre (kid got shot after throwing snowballs and possibly rocks at the police, then a riot broke out and some rioters got shot) the Boston Tea Party (government raised taxes in an obvious money grab, so a bunch of protesters broke into a warehouse and destroyed a bunch of private property). Get them to take the side of the British, then tell them which events I’m talking about. They know from school, hopefully, at least as to those two events, how they felt about them when they learned about them, and you can see the dissonance contorting their faces.
Others are Nazi sympathizers. I knew a dude who felt that the coolest thing he owned was a Nazi dagger from WW2. It was his “everyday carry” knife. Only visible as a Nazi knife if you looked at the hilt. He thought the Holocaust was a ln exaggeration and that the Nazis had a lot of good ideas that would translate well to today’s problems; he thought Jews controlled the media, that blacks and browns were taking jobs from better qualified white people (hated “DEI”). He was delusional, living in a world that wasnt real. Brainwashed. Maybe not his fault, but he’s responsible for his behaviors. If an alt right style cleansing or war breaks out, he’ll be the first non-open Nazi to get excited to kill minorities.
Then there are actual Nazis. Two types. Dumb, racist poor people who feel comforted by Nazi rhetoric. And intelligent, wealthy people, who want to steal all wealth from minorities and send them to ghettos (or worse), so their companies and investments have no competition and their personal wealth may go unhindered. These are people who want to use racism to bring about oligarchy and a new age of imperialism, and they recognize the oath of least resistance is a friendly dictator, brought to power based on Nazi rhetoric. This is Musk and Bannon. The people who now feel emboldened to do Nazi salute in public, as a homage to the group above, who might get caught up doing them in private.
My hot take, anyway.
- Comment on Sooo, where did the blatant Nazism suddenly come from? 4 weeks ago:
Me too, I’d love to watch it again, but I can’t remember where I saw it.
The girl may have been a blogger or journalist at the start of it. It had something to do with Charlottesville. If anyone has any luck finding it, please ping me.
- Comment on Sooo, where did the blatant Nazism suddenly come from? 4 weeks ago:
They e been doing Zeig Heils for years.
I wish I could find the documentary, about a woman who dated some alt right weirdo and he started taking her to like Turning Point USA meetings and other groups meetings and she describes how the first time she did Zeig Heils, and they just did this shit like it was normal. She describes going to a book burning, thinking it was a joke, and then it was like an actual book burning.
It’s all nudge nudge wink wink. They’re doing Nazi salute because they are Nazis.
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 1 month ago:
I’m pretty sure there is a federal statute that says ONLY the SSA may collect or use SSNs, as to federal agencies. I argued it once when a federal agency court tried to tell me that it couldn’t process part of my client’s case without it. I didn’t care but my client was crotchety and would only even give me the last four.
- Comment on Is there any way I can realistically send a message to Donald Trump and have him read it? 1 month ago:
I had a dream that he was at one of those low budget fundraisers where they serve ziti and chicken marsala, and he was seated across from me, and I got to yell at him. It was so satisfying.
- Comment on Why do some people assume all immigrants are illegal and should "go back to where they came from"? Shouldn't that logic apply to all non-Native Americans? 1 month ago:
It’s their fee fees, stoked by conservative media.
- Comment on Not promoting violence or anything. But stupid quest since Iran has an 80 million bounty on Trumps head. If someone would follow thru do they just go to Iran and be like pay up? Why or why not? 2 months ago:
That’s how these things go.
Deranged idiots changing the course of history, not time travel, time travel is not possible now or ever. You can go forward real slow if you time it right, but can’t go back, not even a little.