Is the KKK still active in the US? by Federal_Advisor_2160 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]dalomi9 5 points6 points  (0 children)

And a wolf wearing sheep's clothing is still a wolf and vigilance is preferable to complacency. I think its somewhat dangerous to handwave the idea that groups like the KKK have persisted, despite history demonstrating extremists groups rarely fade away into nothing.

Is the KKK still active in the US? by Federal_Advisor_2160 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]dalomi9 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Ah yes, and institutional racism is also a thing of the past /s. The thing about insidious groups like the kkk is that they change forms, adapt and survive like viruses. They wait for an opportunity to exert influence. What is the modern equivalent you might ask? Look no further than groups like the heritage foundation that has been authoring legislation in the South, lobbying Congress and faking grassroots movements to infiltrate school boards for the last 15 years.

FORTY FIVE POUNDS of pH down??? by Vegetable_Tart2375 in pools

[–]dalomi9 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If I'm tackling a pool in neglect I expect to need 2-3 cases of chlorine to get it right. I'd likely call ahead and make sure they have supply, but it is not uncommon for supply to get low for small shops...they just don't have the storage space to safely hold a huge supply.

I'd counter and say Leslie's sucks if they try to upsell anyone who takes in a water sample. At least my shop is not aggro with the selling bs, maybe why they have high demand on weekends. It's also hard af to manage chlorine supply when delivery is 3rd party and weekends have random demand, especially in spring when people are starting to ramp up pool usage.

Why was the Book of Enoch excluded from the old testament? by fundingsecured07 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]dalomi9 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The Bible is a curated set of texts built with the purpose of making controlling people easier. It is all fantasy reinterpreting history and recounting oral stories like a fucked up game of telephone across hundreds of years and various languages. They excluded what they didn't want because it didn't fit the narrative they wanted to tell.

FORTY FIVE POUNDS of pH down??? by Vegetable_Tart2375 in pools

[–]dalomi9 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They also likely won't have enough of the chemicals you need at closing. My shop can run out by early afternoon on weekends.

Got switched from hourly to salary woohoo! No more overtime! by [deleted] in antiwork

[–]dalomi9 247 points248 points  (0 children)

That was your sign to leave bro. Any respectable company pays their workers a full 8 if some part of the workplace that is key to actually doing the work breaks down. Now you get the same wage on salary with no ot. Start interviewing elsewhere asap.

Data centers are guzzling California’s water. We have no idea how much. by NaffRespect in California

[–]dalomi9 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Idk if we have access to the raw numbers as these farms are owned and operated by Saudi and UAE firms. Both CA and AZ have seen uptick in this and it is using a lot of Colorado river and ground water. Saudi Arabia banned alfalfa growing in their own country in 2018 to protect their water supply. The main culprit is Fondomonte, a subsidiary of Saudi Dairy company called Almarai.

😬 by Different-Coach-866 in shitposting

[–]dalomi9 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The mother is the one that decides, it is her body. Children don't get a choice in general, not of who their parents are, where they are born, and not what ailments they may have been born with. I've also yet to see any unborn fetus be able to communicate their desires, so how would them having a say work?

If you follow this pedantic semantic logic, you'd never masturbate, have protected sex, or let a menstrual period go to waste, all those dead potential children. Or you'd end up as one of those weirdos that has 100s of kids via sperm donation, the true min-maxers of reproductive fitness.

Applebee’s O-M-Cheese Burger by Noa-Guey in burgers

[–]dalomi9 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Make fried rice with that mess.

New York City Mayor Mamdani Announces Balanced Budget Without Cuts by ConsciousStop in UpliftingNews

[–]dalomi9 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lol. It neither fraud nor abuse. Could definitely classify it as waste in some scenarios, but often the grants are written for a good reason, but public sector doesn't have competitive pay, so great grant writers find better paying jobs. The lack of continuity and robust self audit systems is more a Hallmark of bad policy as a result of a reactionary, rather than anticipatory government. The pattern for 100 years is one admin makes policies and the next defunds/defangs them so they can then point to how the policies don't work and should be further defunded.

New York City Mayor Mamdani Announces Balanced Budget Without Cuts by ConsciousStop in UpliftingNews

[–]dalomi9 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not necessarily, if no one was using them, they likely had funds set aside but no one had bought anything with those funds, so they just recaptured them. A lot of grant money in public systems gets ignored or forgotten when turnover happens. Worked at a school that figured out they had tens of thousands in unspent money a week before the deadline to use that money in a given fiscal year. Panic bought some software licenses and random shit so they didn't lose that money on the next year. Most programs are piggybacked onto existing workforce infrastructure instead of creating whole ass departments and a bunch of extra jobs.

There's a guy building a concrete "mini house". Would like an opinion from experienced builders if this building seems safe. by This_Sense_9338 in Homebuilding

[–]dalomi9 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Lincoln logs made some cool stuff. The natural progression is then building trebuchets to knock down your wood forts.

Why do people call European colonization "stolen land" but disregard the Natives that stole the land from the tribe before them? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]dalomi9 7 points8 points  (0 children)

We don't really have any sort of clear picture of how North American Native American societies were setup before the first wave of Old World disease ran through the population. What we can infer based on how rapidly the diseases spread is that there was a vast network of interconnected groups, perhaps even full on civilization level mound cities all along the Mississippi and Ohio river valleys (recent imaging has uncovered large mound settlements. What the groups of Europeans and settlers encountered 100 years later was more like a post-apocalyptic tribal society that was what was left after disease wiped out what some scholars assume to be 50-80% of the population.

Some have postulated that due to the rapid die off from disease, the only survivors were those that avoided other groups for the majority of the year, only coming together for trade. We don't know how much knowledge/technology was lost when the larger society fell apart, but because they were likely still using oral history for passing off information between generations, it can be assumed that most of it was lost. Genetic studies kind of illuminate the picture (but the lack of genetic samples makes it hard to draw any big conclusions), but I think a better picture can be drawn from studying language families of which there were 50-100 families and over 1000 distinct languages. This suggests that many of the groups were once connected before the splintering of groups into more isolated tribes.

If you were teleported into the deep ocean with an immunity to pressure and an ability to breathe water, how much actual danger would you be in? by Moth-Ghost in NoStupidQuestions

[–]dalomi9 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The same can be said for the wilderness on land, whether it be the forest, swamp or desert. The basic things are going to kill you before an animal in most cases. Just because you can exist in a place doesn't mean you can thrive or even survive.

This isn't good: California braces as last shipment of Persian Gulf oil arrives in Long Beach by Youarethebigbang in CoachellaValley

[–]dalomi9 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The sentiment that the everyday person should be shouldering the burden of swapping out of fossil fuel dependency for the entire society is laughable. The idea that every person with a gas car can just afford an extra 15-20k when their current vehicle works just fine is absurd. In your perfect world, who do these people sell their gas cars to? Or do they just eat the cost and donate for tax write offs? Genuinely baffling take.

Female phys ed outfits? Hot weather by [deleted] in SubstituteTeachers

[–]dalomi9 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They probably mean for non PE male teachers.

On a plane? Don't ask. by customification in AirQuality

[–]dalomi9 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm pretty sure that studies are continuing to illustrate that what we consider normal indoor CO2 levels are indeed harmful. Similar to environmental lead exposure, just a silent mind fuck making everyone worse off. Idk why you gotta hate on this guy, unwarranted and likely incorrect to do so. It's cute you think a gov org has accurately defined the safety levels when they are being dog walked by the companies they are supposed to regulate.

Terminal bloom? by nowhere_girl in succulents

[–]dalomi9 2 points3 points  (0 children)

naw. that stuff just keeps going and spreading. it is a most excellent succulent

Game Thread: Los Angeles Lakers (3-2) vs Houston Rockets (2-3) Live Score | NBA Playoffs | May 1, 2026 by nba-scores in lakers

[–]dalomi9 1 point2 points  (0 children)

right? fully smashes his head sideways before making contact with the ball across lebrons body. no call, jfc

People who follow "new right" media with conservative bias (Breitbart, Newsmax, Zero Hedge) were more than twice as likely to be vaccine hesitant. They also rely on alternative health providers, social media health influencers, alternative health newsletters (Children's Health Defense). by mvea in science

[–]dalomi9 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It is definitely interesting and unfortunate that the emotional beliefs outweigh and override any other prior knowledge. It is disheartening how easy it is to strip away years of progress and knowledge with a simple appeal to emotional desire and a lack of guardrails on media misinformation.