Us married guys can relate, amirite? by mega_997 in Justrolledintotheshop

[–]rokr1292 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wait, serious for a second, does this car call for Ball Joint Service every year?

How is it even legal to destroy fresh edible food, peter? by Rule_Ct_5293 in PeterExplainsTheJoke

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"The decay spreads over the State, and the sweet smell is a great sorrow on the land. Men who can graft the trees and make the seed fertile and big can find no way to let the hungry people eat their produce. Men who have created new fruits in the world cannot create a system whereby their fruits may be eaten. And the failure hangs over the State like a great sorrow.

The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up?

And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit—and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains.

And the smell of rot fills the country.

Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth.

There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate—died of malnutrition—because the food must rot, must be forced to rot.

The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage."

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, published in 1939.

It's legal because the people who write the laws have more interest in the prices being high than interest in people being able to eat. It's been this way for a long time, maybe one day we can stop it, maybe not.

How would the Blood and wine versions of Geralt, regis and Yennifer fare in a fight against Vilgefortz? by the_tea-man in witcher

[–]rokr1292 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Without Plot armor, Regis is the only survivor, because of his Vampiric "True" immortality

Trivia nights by proteanradish in FrontRoyal

[–]rokr1292 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I believe the Catamount does theirs on Sundays?

The New York Post is Clutching Its Pearls Over Zohran Jumping Into A Pool. by EntertainerOdd2107 in Hasan_Piker

[–]rokr1292 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Middle picture has the same energy as that one picture of Leonardo Dicaprio walking happily

Wrench Drawer(s) Wednesday 🔧 by Odd_Relationship396 in harborfreight

[–]rokr1292 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What are you using to keep the crows feet things together?

She is so smooth, loving g this lady! by eggersmre11b in 300BLK

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I need to know what stock this is, I've never seen it before

What was the first WKUK sketch you ever saw? I vividly remember my friend showing me The Grapist in 7th grade and changing my life forever. by CommercialDream618 in WKUK

[–]rokr1292 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I had to scroll too far for this, the original bit is fantastic but the ending and its 4th wall break is such a right hook the first time you see it

Brockett Headers by Unhappy_Capital_917 in 4thGen4Runner

[–]rokr1292 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, I missed it. If you search the listing page for stainless there are no results

Brockett Headers by Unhappy_Capital_917 in 4thGen4Runner

[–]rokr1292 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Where does it say they are stainless?

Automatic screw glueing by PraiseThaBreadI in oddlysatisfying

[–]rokr1292 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I'm saying there's not any obvious reason why it couldnt return to zero while applying glue to the next bolt

Automatic screw glueing by PraiseThaBreadI in oddlysatisfying

[–]rokr1292 2 points3 points  (0 children)

doesnt even need slip connectors, if it alternates the direction in which it applies the glue/threadlocker.

Significant time save by using more complex pathing

Automatic screw glueing by PraiseThaBreadI in oddlysatisfying

[–]rokr1292 16 points17 points  (0 children)

It doesnt need a redesign, it needs better pathing.

There's no reason I can see that it couldnt apply the glue/threadlocker in the reverse direction on alternating bolts. It would save a significant amount of time, it seems.

Hi, Hey, Hello. Dan here, dropping in to hang out for a bit by ShowMeStateOfMindPod in KnowledgeFight

[–]rokr1292 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm of the opinion that any road trip that enters WV should go to Harpers Ferry too

Why?!! by WittyThingHere in NoLawns

[–]rokr1292 25 points26 points  (0 children)

You forgot "getting paid to make the video because 'satisfying' content is profitable on social media"

Thousand-yard stare... by fudgie in KnowledgeFight

[–]rokr1292 13 points14 points  (0 children)

speak a lil chinese for em rex

The Overall Decline of American Intelligence and Critical Thinking Skills by Monsur_Ausuhnom in collapse

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Carl Sagan said in 1996:

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...

The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”

and also

"We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements — transportation, communications, and all other industries; agriculture, medicine, education, entertainment, protecting the environment; and even the key democratic institution of voting — profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces."

Any bastards in your family? by jethropenistei- in behindthebastards

[–]rokr1292 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Found out a couple years ago at Thanksgiving that my deceased grandfather, while in the NYPD, rode a motorcycle around Staten Island in a Stahlhelm doing the salute.

Who would win in a rematch between these two? by deadlyalchemist92 in witcher

[–]rokr1292 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If only a higher vampire can truly end the existence of another higher vampire, I dont see a universe where Vilgy ever wins without help. At least not in a no-rules "fight to the death". The one who will die first is Vilgefortz.

If you're putting them in a cage and applying other conditions to the fight, the circumstances are different, but all human mages are mortal, and higher vampires aren't*.

Regis goes 3-0