TropicalDingdong
@TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
- Comment on JEANS 6 hours ago:
Thats how.
- Comment on With the ICE raids coming up at a very faster rate, do we need more self-defense (or community defense organizing) classes? 2 days ago:
Okay, well, I’m trying to elaborate for you, like you asked. Does that mean making sure they have food? Does that mean physically defending them from har?
- Comment on With the ICE raids coming up at a very faster rate, do we need more self-defense (or community defense organizing) classes? 2 days ago:
Well it would be helpful to understand what you mean by self-defense. Some people hear that and think barricades and molotovs. Others think community gardens. The fact is there are many ways to resist authoritarianism.
What does community defense mean to you?
- Comment on F.B.I. Inquiry Into ICE Shooting Is Examining Victim’s Possible Ties to Activist Groups 3 days ago:
Just make sure to also carry a roofing hammer. You know. Just in case you gotta raise the roof (or something idk, I can’t be arsed to come up with something more clever).
- Comment on F.B.I. Inquiry Into ICE Shooting Is Examining Victim’s Possible Ties to Activist Groups 3 days ago:
Plastic cap roofing nails, the shorter the better. They come in bulk. No need to be fucking around bending nails when you can buy ones ready made for the task. The shorter the shank, the wider the cap, the more likely they are to and up cap side down if just spilled into a space.
- Comment on With the ICE raids coming up at a very faster rate, do we need more self-defense (or community defense organizing) classes? 3 days ago:
physically resisting isn’t going to do you any good.
Well at a certain point that may be the only option and human history is mostly examples of us failing to appeal to our better nature. Longer we wait do do things that physically stop these thugs from doing what they are doing, the longer this goes on for.
- Comment on F.B.I. Inquiry Into ICE Shooting Is Examining Victim’s Possible Ties to Activist Groups 3 days ago:
Where do I find this?
- Comment on With the ICE raids coming up at a very faster rate, do we need more self-defense (or community defense organizing) classes? 3 days ago:
If you aren’t already on it… Its never too late to start but its also very late to be starting. Community defense starts at building community. How many of your neighbors do you know? 1? 10? 100? Do your neighbors identify each other as people or just people that park next to one another every night. Do you share food, like potlucks or beers on the lanai or at the beach?
These are small examples, but the very, very first step is to begin seeing people as humans. Not seeing each other as humans; being trained to not see each other as humans: its what got us here in the first place. 100 people stepping out there front porch to confront ICE immeasurably more effective than one person with a gun showing up.
As far as actual training, take a gun safety course before doing anything else firearms related. You can sign up for one this weekend probably. Guns aren’t something to be feared, they are something to be understood. Even if its not your gun, knowing when a gun’s safety is or isn’t set; its very important. At that point you can decide if its the right way for you to defend yourself.
- Comment on "My process" by kissingparty 3 days ago:
I’m in this meme and I don’t like it.
- Comment on If you're a parent, how do you prevent your kid from watching AI slop? 3 days ago:
Raise them in the woods with no access to the outside world until the age of forty.
- Comment on I focus on the pain, the only thing that's real 6 days ago:
No turning back
- Comment on I watched several videos on a Combine Harvester's inner workings 1 week ago:
Of course, yes, there was. But it was extremely brief in the grand scheme of things.
farm-equipment.com/…/4269-timeline-of-ag-equipmen…
1830’s the first mechanical (horse drawn) harvester comes out, and by the 1860’s steam powered tractors were being introduced.
- Comment on I watched several videos on a Combine Harvester's inner workings 1 week ago:
We did two things first:
First we made a (simple) machine that cuts wheat stalks at ground level (scythe).
Second we made a (complex) machine that is self-propelling.
- Comment on I’m the Mayor of Minneapolis. Trump Is Lying to You. 1 week ago:
It’s a choice to continue to support the fascist NYT.
We don’t have to use them as a news source.
- Comment on I’m the Mayor of Minneapolis. Trump Is Lying to You. 1 week ago:
People need to stop reposting the NYT and stop sending them traffic.
- Comment on The forbidden fourth leche 1 week ago:
im five american cheeses
- Comment on Capital i and lowercase L look the same in pretty much any sans-serif computer font 1 week ago:
REAIIY?
- Comment on The forbidden fourth leche 1 week ago:
- Comment on tyranny 1 week ago:
How original
Daring today aren’t we?
- Comment on Anon thinks about wheat 1 week ago:
I mean I grow it hand have taken it to the nib stage and it came out quite tasty. Really not too bad in terms of process. It’s a few day/ week of fermentation followed by drying and roasting. I process it a few times a year, when I’ve got enough to actually process (I only have a handful of cacao trees).
Compared to most of what I grow, which is Vanilla, cacao is a walk in the park. Vanilla requires manual pollination, care monitoring of conditions, and a fermentation and curing process that has many steps, some daily , for months.
- Comment on Anon thinks about wheat 1 week ago:
Cacao isn’t too bad. Eat the fruit, spit out the seeds into a pile, ferment a few days, roast, peal, grind and you got it. There are some details to the ferment but it’s not more complicated than any other ferment d food.
- Comment on Anon thinks about wheat 1 week ago:
Because if you let it sprout a bit, then roast it, then boil it, then let it sit…
Well you get beer.
- Comment on I WON THE LOTTERY! 1 week ago:
Even the pulltabs?
😢
- Comment on I WON THE LOTTERY! 1 week ago:
I thought a quickpick was always a dollar. Obviously most people do more than 1 quickpick.
Then of course dollar scratchers and pull tabs.
- Comment on I WON THE LOTTERY! 1 week ago:
Sound like enough money for 11 more lotto tickets.
- Comment on For my older Millennials 1 week ago:
The profen the profen
The profen the profen
Robocop couldn’t stop me pukin’ and flushin’
No balls to be bustin’, no fightin’, no cussin’
Just love for a drug called I boo profen
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 1 week ago:
Can we do better than the rightwing rag, The Washington Examiner?
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 1 week ago:
General strike.
- Comment on Wikipeter was the founder of the site in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library 1 week ago:
I agree that in general meta analysis stands apart, but I brought it up because it’s so often coupled with a deep review of material like a review article would hold. It’s also totally valid to cite a review article as a primary source, but I tend not to prefer this in my writing. My reasons for this are two fold, first, one of my memories was a curmudgeon who insisted on going all the way back through any chain if claims and citations to find, originally source, and reevaluate each claim. And, in doing so, regularly found irregularities and misattributed statements or just straight up mysteries of where the hell someone got something from. Its a pita, but it pays to be detail oriented when evaluating claims a domain has just accepted as table stakes.
This litterally happened to me recently where I was trying to figure out how this, fairly well known author had determined the functional form they were fitting to a curve. And like, three or four citations deep and a coffee with a colleague of theirs later, it turns out “they just made that shit up”.
- Comment on Wikipeter was the founder of the site in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library 2 weeks ago:
“And we shall call this land upon which the lord hath bestow us, South Beach. Or maybe the Mission. Idk, depends on the mood we’re in”
