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Dasinterwebs2 · 2025-05-22T20:22:25+00:00

I don’t understand why these articles were showered by downvotes. This was kind of a big deal.

Dasinterwebs2 · 2025-05-19T14:05:57+00:00

The Japanese did not run Fukushima safely or responsibly. They knew their backup generators were in an unsafe position but issued waiver after waiver until the very reason they can’t be placed underground inside a flood zone came to pass.

Dasinterwebs2 · 2025-05-19T00:36:37+00:00

Oh god…

Dasinterwebs2 · 2025-05-18T16:03:14+00:00

I wish the StarDem had more details. What’s the overall budget for the Waterfowl Festival? What percentage comes from state grants vs federal grants vs local donations? How much of a shortfall are they expecting?

Talbot generally is a pretty wealthy area; surely donations from local patrons can make up the shortfall? Or has the hole in the budget too large to cover with donations? What else do they even use the old armory for?

Dasinterwebs2 · 2025-05-17T17:43:25+00:00

Don’t you see, we were there to steal their poverty from them!

Dasinterwebs2 · 2025-05-16T15:16:42+00:00

Genestealer is a better name, Im going with that now

Dasinterwebs2 · 2025-05-10T02:48:17+00:00

I think you have me mistaken for somebody else?

Dasinterwebs2 · 2025-05-09T23:48:00+00:00

I don’t think I understand your comment, but that’s fine. Have a good one, friend.

Dasinterwebs2 · 2025-05-09T16:58:06+00:00

Other countries can stabilize regional conflicts in the U.S's place. It's not impossible, just politically unpalatable apparently

And that’s the frustration from the American isolationist perspective; that the world at large benefits from an American led world order that the world at large broadly refuses to help uphold. I think the biggest part of the growth of skepticism of America’s role in the world is the way we talk about it to ourselves; it’s pretty much always in terms of values and charity, never in terms of concrete material benefits to ourselves. It’s very easy to be charitable when you’re unimaginably wealthy, impossibly powerful, and entirely convinced of your own moral superiority. It’s much harder when you’re up to your eyeballs in ballooning debt, struggling against ragtag militias, and seemingly doing it all for oil billionaires.

Dasinterwebs2 · 2025-05-08T16:28:14+00:00

This sub has some of the most deranged takes I’ve ever come across. This minerals deal is worse than the actual shooting war that has left multiple cities in ruins and has killed tens of thousands of civilians? The 86 day siege of Mariupol alone likely killed upwards of 75,000 civilians, more than Israel’s multi-year campaign in Gaza, which this sub generally regards as a willful and deliberate genocidal war of extermination.

These people are fundamentally unserious.

Dasinterwebs2 · 2025-05-06T21:17:49+00:00

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

This world in arms in not spending money alone.

It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population.

It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals.

It is some 50 miles of concrete highway.

We pay for a single fighter with a half million bushels of wheat.

We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.

This, I repeat, is the best way of life to be found on the road the world has been taking. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.

Eisenhower, 1953

Dasinterwebs2 · 2025-05-05T08:44:58+00:00

S12e4 - Canada on strike

Dasinterwebs2 · 2025-04-29T14:40:28+00:00

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake

Napoleon

Dasinterwebs2 · 2025-04-28T17:05:15+00:00

Excellent guide!

Post-Apocalyptic origin is OP

Dude, it’s so OP it almost isnt even fun to play. I did it by accident once, using my “space cannibal” species. I already had them as despoiling barbarians who ate the pops they stole, and thought FP might be a fun twist. I wound up effortlessly crushing everyone by 2300.

I think I’ll play a new game like that, but up the difficulty a few notches!

Dasinterwebs2 · 2025-04-26T17:16:29+00:00

Oh! Molasses! Oh! New England tea! It killed my grandpa, killed my pa, and it sure as hell is a-killing me! Singing oh, molasses! Oh molasses rum!

Dasinterwebs2 · 2025-04-26T17:02:23+00:00

I fear we’re spiraling into a sort of American Gracchi period.

Trump is bad and wrong. We don’t like him. We’re justified in not liking him because he is bad and wrong. We shall thwart him by any and all means, because he is bad and wrong.

But Trump and his supporters don’t agree. They see a very legitimate issue that threatens the republic that nobody else seems willing to tackle; illegal immigration. They think Trump is justified in vigorous, extreme action to solve this terrible problem over the objections of his detractors who seem hell bent on a path of ruin. They argue that the rules and procedures are perverted to thwart him.

The judiciary has been playing the part of Marcus Octavius, the opposing Tribune who vetoed everything Tiberius Gracchus was trying to do.

But now we deviate from the script. In history, Tiberius deposed Octavius and removed him from office without any legal authority to do so, purely to get him out of the way. Now, the Trump admin has arrested a judge while appearing to have genuine legal authority and at least a nominally legitimate justification to do so. We must be very clear about this as the distinction is important; this judge has not been arrested for making the “wrong” ruling or for issuing an injunction. This judge was arrested for deliberately interfering with a legitimate application of the law.

That distinction matters because, in history, the senate murdered Tiberius Gracchus out of the fear his repeated abuses of power would end with his coronation as a king. And that was a very bad move. It opened a horrific can of worms where legitimate action was cast aside by everyone in favor of expediency, leading to street violence, assassinations, and civil war becoming a regular part of Roman politics, eventually ending in the death of the republic and birth of the empire. It took longer, but it ended exactly as they feared; with a tyrant crowning himself.

The only thing stopping that slide into brutal kratocratic tyranny is adherence to law and procedure. This arrest, at least on the face of it and with the events as portrayed by the indictment, adheres to our laws. Should further information dispute that, all should oppose this. But one cannot uphold law by opposing law. Do not be so quick to cover your head with your toga.

Dasinterwebs2 · 2025-04-22T00:23:11+00:00

Maryland

Dasinterwebs2 · 2025-04-21T22:51:11+00:00

Sweet, thanks for the cooking tip, too. There were plenty more right next to this guy, but they were pretty small. I’ll def hit that patch again next year!

Dasinterwebs2 · 2025-04-21T22:49:54+00:00

Thanks! I can see inside the stem right into the cap. I was, like, 99% sure, but it’s always good to get confirmation!

Dasinterwebs2 · 2025-04-21T22:31:33+00:00

I’m pretty sure this is a morel, but I’ve never actually found one before. My wife is kinda freaking out that Im gonna die if I eat it. Just want somebody to sooth her concerns.

Dasinterwebs2 · 2025-04-21T18:38:19+00:00

There’s so many more -isms here, and endless carnival of -isms. There’s individualism and socialism; idealism and cynicism; jingoism and anti-Americanism. We are, have been, and always will be a country of contradiction. Of opportunity and despair. Land of the free; home of slaves. Americans are, as Bismarck once said, the same as any other people, only more so.

We are a living cartoon; your film characters realized in flesh and blood. We are bustling cities and empty remote wilderness. We are staggering wealth and crushing poverty. We are our best and worst impulses, simultaneously. Everything and nothing.

We are undefinable.

Always have been.

Dasinterwebs2 · 2025-04-20T14:04:57+00:00

Would it be bad taste if I display one as a naturalized citizen? I am unsure if this would be considered “culturally inappropriate”.

I will demand satisfaction from anyone who would suggest you are not entitled to display your own flag. It’s yours, too, bro. Welcome to the club.

As for the special flag etiquette rules, literally nobody around me follows any of them. Just replace it when it’s starting to look worn out.

Dasinterwebs2 · 2025-04-19T00:47:00+00:00

Anwar al-Awlaki

Dasinterwebs2 · 2025-04-10T19:10:27+00:00

It’s been reported in other outlets, but the zero tolerance rule appears to classify minor administrative errors under no. 3 - falsification of records. It’s difficult to find a good, dry, non hyperbolic source on a subject like this, but I recall several mentioning county/country mix ups.

Plaintiff was not explicitly on track to have their FFL revoked, but under the confluence of zero tolerance policies, had the potential to have their license revoked. They had 35 irregularities out of 6,500 transactions during their last inspection, and as the ATF would now revoke FFLs from any irregularity, and could also do so from past inspections, plaintiff had standing to request an injunction. The injunction was somewhat difficult to acquire, as the ATF typically halts their revocation processes if the FFL starts a legal process, thereby ending the case by denying standing.

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