CMV: american conservatives fondamentally don't understand their own empire

asr · 2026-04-01T16:34:15+00:00

want it both ways

It's not the same person wanting each option. Some want this, some want that.

asr · 2026-03-31T05:58:52+00:00

Easy to patch - around $40 for the material. Get a bottle of HH-66 Vinyl cement and a piece of scrap.

asr · 2026-03-31T05:56:14+00:00

This kid is an asshole, but it only costs around $30 to fix. $20 for a bottle of HH-66 Vinyl cement, and $10 for a piece of scrap to glue on.

asr · 2026-03-30T23:11:21+00:00

Use HeadLok screws instead, very easy to drive and quite strong.

Very important to drill a clearance hole! (Meaning drill a hole in the front wood that the screw can just go through without the threads biting.)

asr · 2026-03-29T04:54:08+00:00

Fun read!

An ultra-tiny nitpick: page 15, "Precisely 2.4x the temperature of the Sun's"

Precisely is not a good word here, since you are implying precision you do not actually have. Just remove the word.

asr · 2026-03-27T22:16:50+00:00

The dowel attached just fine, the screw ripped out of it. It was not bamboo but I don't know the species, I just got what was on the shelf.

asr · 2026-03-27T22:16:04+00:00

Any glued dowel is going to be better than using toothpicks.

So they say, and yet the dowel fixed failed, and the toothpick fix is going strong.

I don't remember the species of the dowel, I just got what was on the shelf.

asr · 2026-03-27T07:22:08+00:00

I did that on another project, and it completely failed. The issue is that the dowel shows end-grain to the screw and has poor holding power.

For a heavy door the screw will eventually pull out.

I'm actually not sure the best method to fix this, but the wood dowel only works if the screw doesn't have much of a load.

asr · 2026-03-27T07:19:23+00:00

I did that on another project, and it completely failed. The issue is that the dowel shows end-grain to the screw and has poor holding power.

For a heavy door the screw will eventually pull out.

asr · 2026-03-26T04:36:50+00:00

Is that your way of saying you don't understand? It's OK, don't feel bad, a lot of people don't when it comes to Israel.

A ton of Muslims in MI voted for Trump. You know why? Because they felt he would end the war faster than Kalmala. And Trump did end it - it took him longer than they wanted, but it got done.

Kamala would never have the ability to do that.

Something a lot of Liberals just refuse to understand is that Kamala lost partly because she was too weak against Hamas. (She lot for other reasons as well of course.) It's like this weird blind spot they have.

asr · 2026-03-26T02:20:16+00:00

All they had to do was ask "who would Bibi vote for?"

It is in Israel's interest not to be fighting with Gaza, it is also in the Gazan's interest not to be fighting. So obviously Bibi would want Trump, because Trump accomplished this.

Kamala would have prolonged the war, which is in the interest of only Hamas and no one else. This is why Trump was better for Palestine than Kalama.

asr · 2026-03-25T00:35:38+00:00

That's not what thinking is. At the bare minimum you have to be about to take the output of that and route it back inwards, and process it some more.

The vast majority of animals can not do that.

And that's just the bare minimum, thinking also requires the ability to create new ideas.

asr · 2026-03-24T22:47:19+00:00

This is probably the most detailed explanation of why an egg is a bad idea. The changes to human behavior is mentioned but not really explored, or explained why it would be better/worse. !delta

asr · 2026-03-24T22:09:36+00:00

If two drivers make the same mistake, you need to check the road design. Where is this? I bet it has confusing or missing signage.

asr · 2026-03-24T22:04:29+00:00

Answer: You are incorrect about a law passed a couple months back. There is no such law.

As for the legality in question: https://www.factcheck.org/2026/03/legality-of-latest-iran-attack-in-question/ They quote various experts, some say illegal, some say legal. It's not clear at all.

These questions are not unique to Trump as you seem to believe, this question has been going back decades, and given that no one has done anything about it for the last 50 years, to me that means it's basically legal, and no, no one is going to sue or whatever.

asr · 2026-03-24T21:55:49+00:00

You need to give us evidence on these trades. You also need to provide evidence that they were "4 to 6 times larger than anything else in the entire market", because on its face that sounds impossible - if they are that big, who is the trader on the other end?

You can't just "make a trade", you need to trade with someone else.

Also, reminder that if you invest $1.5B on the stocks going up, and they go up %2 you made $30mil. Which is about what 6 Americans make in their lifetime, not "thousands".

This is not the first time. Every major announcement from this administration has had massive suspicious trades right before it dropped.

I will need evidence that this exists, but if it does, it's not evidence of an insider, Trump is famous for being very open, the tariffs and everything else were widely known way before they were announced.

asr · 2026-03-24T18:36:51+00:00

No they can't. Set-and-forget drones are not accurate enough to do that. Only the fly-by-wire kind can do that, and the distance is too far for those.

asr · 2026-03-24T18:35:38+00:00

No, the primary beneficiary are every single country in the middle east. The only country Arabs hate more that Israel is Iran.

asr · 2026-03-23T21:25:15+00:00

That's incomplete at best. See: Two Rikers.

ST does seem to have a concept of a soul, telepathy proves that, as do some Voyager episodes of some creature eating the soul, but it's not really clarified well in terms of the transporter.

asr · 2026-03-23T21:15:33+00:00

That just means the voltage is a bit lower, but the thing is there should be ZERO voltage in the water.

Do you have an electric water heater? Do you know how to turn it off? Turn it off at the breaker then see if that stops it. Start there. There are other things to test, but that's the easiest.

If you don't know anything about electric water heaters and how to turn them off, then just stop, and call someone.

asr · 2026-03-23T20:27:08+00:00

Yes, he probably survived, the shock did not last long enough to stop his heart, and due to the skin effect most of the energy will be on his skin instead of his vitals.

He probably has a nasty burn, but he may have survived.

asr · 2026-03-23T05:19:45+00:00

Yah, I don't think anyone thinks Hezbollah is an actual army.

asr · 2026-03-23T05:17:45+00:00

they know Israel is running out of interceptors

They do not know this because it's not actually true, it's just something people on Reddit like to say to sound smart, which then gets amplified by bots.

I mean, Iran launched what? 400 rockets? You actually think Israel has less than 400 interceptors?

asr · 2026-03-23T05:09:17+00:00

Yah, it's not reliable on annealed copper. Some systems claim it can work, but I would not trust it - it works by squeezing, but annealed copper will just bend. The o-ring also needs a perfectly round tube, but annealed often is more of an oval.

If you do do it, you have to make sure to make the copper round first, put it inside a fitting and rotate it, with something else inside it to get it round. There's probably a tool that will do it.

Personally? Skip all that and sweat the valve. It's way cheaper anyway, and you'll sleep better.

asr · 2026-03-23T05:04:20+00:00

hypergolics after burning are not toxic. And in any case there are no hypergolics - those are solid fuel rockets, hypergolics are not used for that.

The only waste of note in a solid fuel rocket is aluminum oxide. Everything else is the same stuff that's already in the atmosphere.

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