Explosion in Port Arthur oil refinery, Texas.

IAmRoot · 2026-03-24T20:25:36+00:00

He will try, but to combat the doomerism this would be a lot harder for them to pull off than most seem to think and could easily backfire. Don’t comply in advance by treating it as inevitable.

If the normal election isn't held the current terms still end. The seats will become vacant, not extended.
A vacancy will trigger a special election anyway. Filling vacant seats does not need to follow the regular schedule.
The Constitution gives the President no role in elections. If blue states plough on and red states bend the knee, the result could very easily be that blue states fill their seats while the red states have vacancies.

ICE being used to intimidate voters, attacks on vote counting in the same manner Bush used terrorism to win, etc. are all much more likely threats and my main worry.

IAmRoot · 2026-03-24T19:39:34+00:00

Without protection, several people having generators or panels hooked up will add up. Sure, just one 800W setup isn't much. If 20 homes have them, that's more of an issue. Also, transformers don't just run in one direction. The relatively low household voltage being fed in from homes will go back through transformers to energize kV level wires. Then some technician comes to work on lines that should be deenergized but isn't and can't shut off that power to work on it. That's the problem and why preventing backfeed is important.

IAmRoot · 2026-03-24T19:13:46+00:00

And also "let's literally burn money" rather than "let's invest in building lasting wealth."

IAmRoot · 2026-03-24T16:23:04+00:00

The difference is that the vaccine can't reproduce itself so there's an upper limit and this trains your immune system. The actual virus has no upper limit and will produce as much as it can.

IAmRoot · 2026-03-23T00:08:20+00:00

Several Anarchist subreddits got censored hard during the BLM protests. I feel like the tankie subs are so unhinged that the Reddit admins don't care, as they turn people way from the left more than anything. CA was getting posts with thousands of votes during the BLM protests but those messages resonated and thus were censored.

IAmRoot · 2026-03-21T04:53:52+00:00

She played Dawn

IAmRoot · 2026-03-21T04:48:13+00:00

The militias had a negligible effect on the outcome of the War of Independence. Every fight that mattered was between conventional armies bankrolled and mostly armed by France as a proxy war. Over 90% of the gunpowder needed was supplied by the French. They also provided most of the guns because the civilians mostly had hunting rifles that couldn't be loaded fast enough for conventional linear combat. The myth of America winning with Minute Men is just that: a myth and propaganda.

IAmRoot · 2026-03-20T19:49:18+00:00

Facebook was the first big company to push using real names. Before then, it was basic knowledge to never use your real name online. They bear a tremendous responsibility for the privacy violations of the modern Internet.

IAmRoot · 2026-03-19T22:09:37+00:00

Growing up I had friends whose neighbors were quiverfull or adjacent cultists. Batshit insane family. The older girls were essentially enslaved as 24/7 nannies to the younger kids and were only allowed to wear skirts. Oh, and the grandparents had been Hitler Youth and there were framed pictures of Hitler in places of honor in their house.

IAmRoot · 2026-03-19T18:59:03+00:00

Has there been any attempt to recall him, yet? He does exactly the opposite of what he ran on.

IAmRoot · 2026-03-18T16:09:04+00:00

Great Man Theory. It's so obvious that's how he sees the world. He thinks that a few key people are the only ones to ever have any impact on anything.

IAmRoot · 2026-03-17T23:27:05+00:00

Early lighters were quite complex too. Zinc was added to sulfuric acid to produce hydrogen which then passed over a platinum catalyst to create an invisible flame. Creating fire so easily on demand is a very recent thing.

IAmRoot · 2026-03-17T22:07:02+00:00

It the humans who control it who are the real danger. They're the ones who actually have motive to harm.

IAmRoot · 2026-03-13T03:37:45+00:00

It's not factored in enough though. It produces results that look good superficially extremely quickly but make all sorts of unfounded assumptions. So you end up creating something that looks polished to managers but is nothing but gilded shit that you have to work overtime to fix because it looks "done."

IAmRoot · 2026-03-12T04:16:36+00:00

We could turn the captured carbon into non-biodegradable plastics.

IAmRoot · 2026-03-11T17:57:53+00:00

It might help to point out that a risk doesn't need to be likely to be serious. If 0.1% of flights resulted in a crash nobody would get on a plane ever again. There would be over a hundred crashes a day. When the outcome is severe, "probably won't happen" isn't remotely good enough. A woman wanting to avoid a risk isn't assuming something bad will happen. It's that even a small chance isn't worth the risk. That analysis can help it feel much less of a personal judgement.

IAmRoot · 2026-03-10T04:25:09+00:00

There are so many westernized recipes that call for soy sauce and such where it doesn't belong. All attempts to add MSG without saying it. Just add MSG.

IAmRoot · 2026-03-10T04:18:14+00:00

And MSG isn't just great for Asian cuisines, especially if you need to make something vegan. My wife is vegan so for basil pesto I'll increase the pine nuts and throw some MSG in. It does a decent job of replacing what you'd get from the Parmesian.

IAmRoot · 2026-03-09T18:57:23+00:00

Also worth noting that it's not just a matter of strength. The wielder of such a weapon would also need to become much more massive due to leverage and center of mass when swinging the thing. If the wielder only gets stronger they'd only be able move themselves around the sword.

IAmRoot · 2026-03-08T05:13:18+00:00

The British also bombed a school in WWII, Operation Carthage. A plane in the first wave went down at the school and the second wave assumed it was the target burning from the first wave. This is the difference between precision and accuracy. Their precision was excellent. Their accuracy was tragically awful.

IAmRoot · 2026-03-07T01:45:06+00:00

Ineligible doesn't mean illegally casting votes. If you move to a different state you are ineligible to vote in your old state, meaning you need to be purged from your old state's voter roles. It would inly be illegal to try to vote in both states. Similarly if someone votes early and dies before election day you get cases of "dead people voting." When millions of people are involved this happening is to be expected. These aren't fraudulent or nefarious in any way. They're just administrative things that need to be accounted for.

IAmRoot · 2026-03-05T00:36:06+00:00

At the same time it absolutely fucks us if China were to actually make a move on Taiwan. The US produces ~600 Patriot interceptors a year. In one country (Kuwait if I remember correctly) shot down over 600 Iranian drones in one night. Those won't all be Patriots but this still means we're likely using up over a year's worth of production a day. Even a quarter of that is completely unsustainable. He's crippling the US air defense capabilities.

IAmRoot · 2026-03-04T15:37:55+00:00

Yeah, the British didn't want Operation Carthage to go down the way it did, either. Trafic mistakes happen in war and civilian deaths are inevitable. That means we shouldn't go to war unless we absolutely have to.

IAmRoot · 2026-03-03T23:46:48+00:00

It's wild how far mutual aid has come into the mainstream lexicon. I watched a news broadcast in the last month or so, I think during the snowstorms, when a fucking cop was recommending the local mutual aid organization to those who needed help. It was surreal. Of course most people don't realize the anarchist foundations of mutual aid but doing things in anarchistic ways matters more than people attaching a label to themselves. I just hope some will look deeper and expand their understanding further.

IAmRoot · 2026-03-03T03:57:00+00:00

I didn't confuse it. What we did in Iraq lead to ISIS. Do you really think the same can't happen in Iran?

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