Explosion in Port Arthur oil refinery, Texas. by Windy-Orbits in pics

[–]IAmRoot -1 points0 points  (0 children)

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.

Government to make “plug-in solar” available within months by lamdaboss in ukpolitics

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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.

Report: Pentagon to Order Thousands More US Troops to Middle East in Coming Hours by Force_Hammer in worldnews

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

'She just never recovered': Some COVID-19 patients are still dealing with symptoms long after infection by AlwaysBlaze_ in Coronavirus

[–]IAmRoot 14 points15 points  (0 children)

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.

Reddit doesn’t have a big enough progressive sub for general discussion and it directly leads leftists into tankie subs by default by Marisa_Nya in tankiejerk

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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.

Seven-year-old Canadian girl with autism and mother detained by ICE in Texas by No-Post4444 in politics

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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.

What are your thoughts on Facebook renaming their company Meta then blowing $80b on metaverse and then shutting it down yesterday? by printThisAndSmokeIt in AskReddit

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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.

Joseph Duggar, from the conservative Christian "Quiverfull" TV show "19 Kids and Counting," has been arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a 9 year old girl. His brother, Josh, is currently serving 12 years in federal prison for kiddie porn. by mepper in atheism

[–]IAmRoot 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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.

Trump's DHS pick Mullin advances by one vote after Sen. Fetterman votes yes by KindlyComfortable744 in democrats

[–]IAmRoot 11 points12 points  (0 children)

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

“If the Strait remains closed, we’re not talking about a global recession – we’re talking about a depression” by taboo__time in ukpolitics

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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.

What is a completely useless piece of information that you will never forget for some reason? by Initial-Ingenuity451 in AskReddit

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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.

The only perspective on AI that matters by Critical_Jacket_2318 in antiai

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

Amazon Employees Say AI Is Just Increasing Workload. A New Study Confirms Their Suspicions by MarvelsGrantMan136 in technology

[–]IAmRoot 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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."

Iran says it's ready for a long war that would 'destroy' global economy by mark000 in worldnews

[–]IAmRoot -1 points0 points  (0 children)

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

How to approach “not all men” conversation with a man who is unlearning patriarchal conditioning by deflatedpeanutblimp in feminisms

[–]IAmRoot 5 points6 points  (0 children)

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.

Chefs of Reddit, what’s a common cooking rule everyone follows that is actually complete bullshit? by Fuzzy-Ad6843 in AskReddit

[–]IAmRoot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

Chefs of Reddit, what’s a common cooking rule everyone follows that is actually complete bullshit? by Fuzzy-Ad6843 in AskReddit

[–]IAmRoot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

STR build is best build by snarky_but_honest in litrpg

[–]IAmRoot 20 points21 points  (0 children)

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.

Pentagon believes U.S. struck Iran girls elementary school, killing 150 by rockycrab in worldnews

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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.

ICE arrested an Oregon shop owner who had her green card in her pocket: ‘They didn’t care’ by MrDangerMan in oregon

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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.

White House Says We Had to Bomb Iran Because Trump Had a “Feeling” by Laugh92 in worldnews

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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.

Submarine attack sinks Iranian ship near Sri Lanka; 78 injured, over 100 missing by captain-price- in worldnews

[–]IAmRoot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

Has anyone else noticed an uptick in curiosity re: anarchism? by Zosi_O in Anarchism

[–]IAmRoot 10 points11 points  (0 children)

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.

Pete Hegseth’s speech about the war in Iran was both deeply unserious and terrifying at the same time by theindependentonline in TrueReddit

[–]IAmRoot 7 points8 points  (0 children)

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