wewbull
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- Comment on Government 'quietly drops' fight for tougher anti-protest laws used to arrest climate activist Greta Thunberg 13 hours ago:
Such apathy. This government really knows how to say what it stands for!
- Comment on No Kings Protest, USA, 2025 2 days ago:
Only if it’s a springboard for more.
If they all go home and do nothing more the country is sunk.
- Comment on No Kings Protest, USA, 2025 2 days ago:
Americans don’t understand what a King is, or how monarchy fits into a modern democracy. What they mean is “No Dictators”.
- Comment on No Kings Protest, USA, 2025 2 days ago:
… we must still uphold it.
Your supreme court is corrupt, making decisions by good judges lower in the system able to be overturned. The judiciary is broken.
So how do you propose the law is upheld?
I agree is must be, but I want you to be prepared that means taking action in some way.
- Comment on No Kings Protest, USA, 2025 2 days ago:
It’s a good first step.
- Comment on No Kings Protest, USA, 2025 2 days ago:
Good, now you know how big the support is it’s time to turn it into action. I don’t mean violence, but turning up on a summer’s day to go for a walk and hear some people speak is not enough.
I’m not going to tell you what to do next (it’s not my country) but one day is easily ignored. I know from other fights around the world that these things need persistence and sacrifice.
- Comment on There's no wrong way to stroke it 3 days ago:
smithsonianmag.com/…/shark-skin-inspired-material…
Few people have gotten close enough to a shark to pet it. If you could run your hand from a shark’s head to its tail—not that you should—it would feel smooth, almost like suede. Reverse direction and it’s rough like sandpaper. Viewed under a microscope, shark skin is composed of ribbed, dragonesque scales layered over each other like shingles on a roof. These structures, called dermal denticles, are more like teeth than skin
- Comment on There's no wrong way to stroke it 3 days ago:
Quite the opposite:
- Sharks don’t have fur
- Shark skin is rough is one direction and smooth in the other. This allows them to get friction with the water to drive themselves forward, but the glide through the water for efficient travel.
The idea was copied into competitive swim suits.
- Comment on PLASTICMAXXING 1 week ago:
I’m confused.
Is the issue here you’re using the term “micro-plastic” in a different way to me. My understanding of it is “small particles of solid plastic often reduced in size through mechanical processes to microscopic sizes which we find throughout the environment, often distributed by water”. You seem to be talking more generally about chemical water pollution.
- Comment on PLASTICMAXXING 1 week ago:
That’s very different though. Nobody claims that the chemicals used in plastic manufacturing are biologically inert, just that the final result is.
Dupont wasn’t dumping Lego bricks into the pond. They were leaking liquid chemicals.
- Comment on Looking for the perfect 5 year anniversary gift? 1 week ago:
I guess “knives” hits a safety restriction that’s been added after the main training, and it just breaks at that point.
- Comment on Delicious 2 weeks ago:
Dramatic actor? Yes, agreed. I just never liked his film comedy.
- Comment on Reform UK to accept donations via bitcoin, Nigel Farage says 2 weeks ago:
Really? There’s a register of bitcoin wallet IDs to names and addresses?
- Comment on Delicious 2 weeks ago:
I assume you only know his film work then.
- Comment on Delicious 2 weeks ago:
…in America
- Comment on Reform UK to accept donations via bitcoin, Nigel Farage says 2 weeks ago:
Reform open the doorway for anonymous unregulated donations
- Comment on Jobcentres will no longer force people into ‘any job’ available, minister says 2 weeks ago:
You regret not taking it?
- Comment on Diagrams 2 weeks ago:
The Serpinski triangle of Venn diagrams.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 3 weeks ago:
As someone who can command the end of other people’s lives on a whim, you also qualify. Snapping your fingers ends your life too.
- Comment on South Western first rail firm renationalised by Labour 3 weeks ago:
They’re nationalise the train operating companies, right? Not the company that owns the lines, which seems the wrong way round to me. The tracks and stations are the vital resources.
- Comment on Warner Bros. misses the days when we bought DVDs and Blu-Rays, and says streaming is just not the same 3 weeks ago:
So reverse the trend. Stop licensing your catalog for streaming and sell physical media.
- Comment on A “victim blaming” row has broken out on social media, after a cyclist uploaded footage of what he described as the “closest pass I’ve ever seen” 3 weeks ago:
Well looking at that still image, it appears that that cycle lane is of a decent size and has double yellows. Looks like the safest place for a cyclist to be in that case as it allows people to pass safely. If I saw someone cycling out of the cycle lane in that situation I’d think they’re being foolish. Taking a greater risk than necessary and causing an obstruction.
Is someone not being in the cycle lane an excuse for road rage? Of course not. There’s no excuse for road rage.
- Comment on ‘Andor’ Season 2 Emmy Submissions Revealed in 23 Categories Including Directing, Writing and Four Guest Stars 3 weeks ago:
Being submitted doesn’t really mean much.
- Comment on Speak American 3 weeks ago:
🏴 English (Dragon tongue)
- Comment on Speak American 3 weeks ago:
Or in American …
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- Comment on Some people have it worse 3 weeks ago:
I’ve been to Egypt several times, and sometimes I’ve stayed with people who have moved there.
The impression I get is that there very few ways for people born there to raise themselves up above what I call “The Hustle”. There’s a state of being where the key to survival is extracting money out of everyone you meet. By fair means or foul, you must make money.
It can be making sure every person that walks into your shop buys something. It can be being a kerb crawling tuk tuk driver pestering walkers by. It can be thieving. It can be taking bribes in local government. Everybody is on the hustle. You can’t afford to trust people because they’ll take any advantage they can. It’s a permanent state of stress and fear.
…and then there are the immigrant whales that move there, buy a big house on the coast and exploit the locals by flashing the cash.
All of that said, when people do manage to find something stable, they’re a great people, but there are so few decent ways to make enough money.
- Comment on Some people have it worse 3 weeks ago:
Good point. There can’t be anyone left alive by now.
- Comment on Low River Levels in UK Raise Concerns of Drought 4 weeks ago:
We seem to either be getting annual floods or annual droughts. That suggests to me that we’ve fucked up our water usage in the country. The window for having enough rainfall without some community having to get flooded out seems to have vanished.
- Comment on I mean... I don't see the problem? 4 weeks ago:
Grrr…yes. You’re right. Isometrically.
- Comment on I mean... I don't see the problem? 4 weeks ago:
That wouldn’t project onto a 2D surface as a square though.