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- Comment on Contributing to the local economy 1 day ago:
I looked that car up a few days ago - know why? It was Jesse’s car in Breaking Bad.
- Comment on Contributing to the local economy 1 day ago:
If you’re into cars for curiosity’s sake, it’s a fun deep dive to look into the cars used in Russia, including the USSR-era ones. Harsh winter conditions, huge backcountry. Some of the government issue ones, uh, GAZ-69, UAZ-469, GAZ-66. One of the crazier things is in the colder regions (e.g. Yakutia) engine cooling isn’t an issue, rather they have to insulate the engine so that it’ll be warm enough to start.
- Comment on Contributing to the local economy 1 day ago:
That is also a big help, the best thing you can do is increase what’s basically the coefficient of friction.
- Comment on Contributing to the local economy 1 day ago:
It won’t help you skidding out on the highway, but there are a few situations where you start slipping where they’ll actually catch it.
- Comment on Contributing to the local economy 2 days ago:
Technically it’s not the power of the engine but the AWD/4WD. Subarus are pretty cheap 4 cyl boxer engines known for great handling in snow with some clever differential systems they have (viscuous coupling diffs, active torque split, etc.)
- Comment on Trømp 6 days ago:
You know, Lincoln really pushed that whole “a house divided cannot stand” thing, but what is the actual reason that this particular geographic area has to be organized under one big government like this? Politically speaking, I don’t want anything to do with the vast majority of you. My state being ruled from Washington D.C., might as well be ruled from London like it was originally, there’s no political autonomy and rampant tyranny.
- Comment on POV: It's January 19th 6 days ago:
If he’s a professional security analyst, his findings would be compiled into a report. Demonstration of where code is in the binary, even network sniffing results - something. An article saying “this guy said so and he knows what he’s talking about” is literally crazy.
- Comment on Par for the course 1 week ago:
This is dystopia
- Comment on POV: It's January 19th 1 week ago:
Random anonymous reddit user who didn’t compile his findings into a report pointing to the places in the app binary where these things happen. OK.
- Comment on POV: It's January 19th 1 week ago:
They didn’t sell, though. Because they don’t operate for profit. They operate for gain as a hostile foreign military asset.
I’ll take “the conclusion doesn’t follow from the premises at all” for 500 Alex
- Comment on POV: It's January 19th 1 week ago:
Got proof?
- Comment on Par for the course 1 week ago:
It already is. It’s a wasteland of boomer MAGA bullshit.
- Comment on Skyrim teaches a Lemmy user about fascist propaganda 1 week ago:
The Forsworn thing is completely on the nose. I don’t know what “take” you’re saying it is.
You could go for the “they’re telling you all options are imperfect” theory, except they dramatize the fuck out of the whole thing to make it seem as “epic” as possible. The same way the rest of the game is. I don’t have prejudices about the game, it’s a text with content and that’s what the content is. I think real life is more black and white than the absolutely muddled amoral mess the Empire vs. Stormcloaks conflict is.
- Comment on Skyrim teaches a Lemmy user about fascist propaganda 1 week ago:
I’ve been saying that for a while. Nobody to root for in the game. Not the Empire, not the Nords, not even the Forsworn. And the Forsworn thing is a whole racist trope of its own, holy shit. You have basically this blackface take of Native Americans, who’ve been wrongfully dispossessed of The Reach, but they had to make them all black magic worshiping, centered around the witch/hag hierarchy, every weird colonialist slur you could even dig up from the “Manifest Destiny” days. Skyrim’s great as like a fidget spinner for the ambience and the like, but man does it have problems.
- Comment on Dr. RFK Jr 1 week ago:
Heroin is not especially dissimilar to other opioids and was used medically for a long time before falling out of favor for other opioids with marginally less addictive potential. Has to do with its ease of crossing the blood-brain barrier. Black-market heroin is markedly less safe due variability in purity and adulterants, as well as the absence of medical supervision compound with those factors to increase overdose risk.
- Comment on There was a time when everyone had common sense 2 weeks ago:
There’s owners manuals and there’s repair manuals.
- Comment on "Free" Speech Absolutist™ 2 weeks ago:
When your “not freedom of reach” miraculously turns into “0 reach”
- Comment on There was a time when everyone had common sense 2 weeks ago:
PDFs are designed to be printed, that’s why they’re formatted as pages instead of continuous text like HTML. “Portable Document Format”.
- Comment on Has the USA turned into an oligarchy? 2 weeks ago:
There are political cartoons from over a century ago where they’re talking about how much of an oligarchy it is.
- Comment on Where's the mayor? 4 weeks ago:
FOX is running with the xenophobia line because the accused guy is a migrant from Guatemala. Maybe Eric Adams will show up after all.
- Comment on Interesting analogy 5 weeks ago:
I suspect you have better answers to that question than I do. Though the more pertinent question would probably be the reparations they’re owned from the genocide perpetrated against them by the U.S.
- Comment on Interesting analogy 5 weeks ago:
Uh yeah, so the point of the meme isn’t to make the association of anyone with lizards, it’s to point out the ridiculousness of land claims based on ethnic/religious identity and ancient historical associations.
- Comment on Interesting analogy 5 weeks ago:
An appropriate response would be that Native Americans are still being oppressed, marginalized, having agreements violated, to this day, that they’re rightly due actual reparations and land back on that basis, but that the statute of limitations for these kind of claims, if you’re trying to devise some kind of universal ethical system to deal with them, may extend 100, 200, 300 years, for various types of claims, but not 2,000.
- Comment on Interesting analogy 5 weeks ago:
One of the more jarring facts is that the so-called “post-colonial” era was more of a move to outsourced administration of colonies than actual independence. The fact that “intervention” is still performed basically only when some area has valuable resources or some kind of strategical advantage really says it all.
- Comment on Interesting analogy 5 weeks ago:
Saw an excellent video from some Al Jazeera offshoot yesterday. The guy was explaining the concept that Europeans actually tended to put in minority populations in charge that were sympathetic to their interests - Alawites in Syria, the Hashemite monarchy in Jordan, European Zionists in Palestine - and that the borders were essentially designed for colonial administration instead of representing existing groups.
- Comment on Edward Said and Palestine (1988) 1 year ago:
Startling quote from the beginning of the documentary:
Aug 11, 1919 - Lord Balfour (author of the Balfour Declaration, the original British declaration of intent to create Israel) to his successor, George Curzon:
In Palestine we do not propose even to go through the form of consulting the wishes of the present inhabitants of the country, though the American Commission has been going through the form of asking what they are […]
The Four Great Powers are committed to Zionism. And Zionism, be it right or wrong, good or bad, is rooted in age-long traditions, in present needs, in future hopes, of far profounder import than the desires and prejudices of the 700,000 Arabs who now inhabit that ancient land.
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- Comment on Stop using Fandom 1 year ago:
I got special Stylish CSS blocking half the shit on Fandom. IDK about any politics about them but the site is borderline unusable.
- Comment on So wholsum 🙏🙏🙏 1 year ago:
Yeah, you have time for acting like a 10 year old and “I know you are but what am I” but reading 4 whopping paragraphs about how you’re wrongfully antagonizing other people is too much for you.
- Comment on So wholsum 🙏🙏🙏 1 year ago:
Not impressed.