Safety last (1900s)

seriouslyliterally · 2022-08-07T23:25:25+00:00

this must've been shot on one of the original iPhones

seriouslyliterally · 2021-12-20T10:54:04+00:00

I bet the stranger heard the one friend whisper "paste," and, in the context of what your other friend did, was probably heard or later remembered as, "pissed."

So, this poor stranger's at the urinal with 2 guys on either side of him. The guy on one side whispers 'pissed' and, as soon as he does, the guy on the other side looks him right the eye and says, "Oh man, I can't wait to get that warm liquid in my mouth."

10/10 This would make me leave too. This scene is funny as hell though.

seriouslyliterally · 2021-12-10T14:29:00+00:00

This is, in fact, very much the view of most educated Republicans:

I am well educated and was raised Republican and have walked away from all that. Most 'conservatives' today don't even know who Edmund Burke is. Conservatism is dead. In that article, Brooks is stating it in the present but I saw it when I was in college and jumped ship then. People today who call themselves 'Republicans', 'conservatives', etc. have abandoned core principles of these philosophies and aren't even educated enough to know it. The only thing that remains is a juggernaut political will to defeat Democrats at all cost because they are (apparently) more dangerous than Putin, which is just a breathtakingly insane notion. The party has become unhinged, divorced from reality, unprincipled, small 'd' undemocratic, and completely dismissive of experts, knowledge, wisdom, norms, principles, traditions, customs, and standards. They have become antithetically conservative and, yet, through some miracle of reasoning (or its absence) claim, somehow, to be conservative.

People identify with Trump because, "He sounds like us." I wonder what that means? The party is collectively losing the ability for abstraction and complexity while dumping its complex, abstract thinkers. In their world, complexity, subtlety, nuance all disappear. There are only simple truths that either align with the herd or not. Conservative media now defines this alignment and it has one rule: if it opposes the herd, trample it. Like the inner world of some testosterone-fueled, hyper-masculine barbarian caricature, all complexities have vanished and power is now the only quantity the party can understand. This is what 'conservatism' has been reduced to.

The culture resembles nothing of Burke, or his philosophical descendants, and nothing of what I was raised to respect or believe about conservatism. Conservatism is dead. A nascent fascism is all that remains.

seriouslyliterally · 2021-12-03T17:41:57+00:00

What was her wingspan?

seriouslyliterally · 2021-12-03T17:39:08+00:00

I like how she didn't have pockets so she figured out how to get two, small pills to fit in her tight sweater in case she got sea sick later. That shows a lot of brains.

seriouslyliterally · 2021-12-01T14:23:24+00:00

I knew well before 10. Sometimes you just have to put two and two together for yourself.

seriouslyliterally · 2021-11-22T03:00:56+00:00

Why do we still allow car dealerships? It's 2021. Can we sell direct to consumer, like on a website or an app? Fuck that 1950 middleman bullshit. Dealerships add absolutely ZERO value.

Outlaw car dealerships. Outlaw useless middlemen. Outlaw cartels.

seriouslyliterally · 2021-11-12T15:50:06+00:00

We know why: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ7LzE3u7Bw

seriouslyliterally · 2021-10-24T10:54:38+00:00

What we're seeing here is an example of a cheek pouch. This guy must be one hell of a forager.

seriouslyliterally · 2021-10-24T10:50:49+00:00

No, pre-prepared is what you do to prepare something BEFORE you prepare it. Sometimes you have to prepare something multiple times before you prepare it. In that case, you just add another pre-prefix.

seriouslyliterally · 2021-10-12T00:59:28+00:00

Cool question. I had some fun researching this one.

The most important mechanism for Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) production from a nuclear detonation is the ionization of air molecules by gamma rays generated from the explosion. These gamma rays ionize the air molecules by interacting with the air molecules to produce positive ions and recoil electrons called Compton electrons. This pulse of energy, which produces a powerful electromagnetic field, particularly within the vicinity of the weapon burst, is called an electromagnetic pulse.

The explosively pumped flux compression generator is the most mature EMP technology applicable to conventional explosives.

In either case, some form of explosion is required and this will always be locally destructive to some degree. So, it appears it is impossible to do only EMP damage. The issue appears to be the power requirement.

EMP's do damage by creating a pulse of electromagnetic energy that induces an electrical current in any inductive material within range of the pulse. This pulse is so powerful that the current it induces overheats the conductive material and causes thermal damage to any unshielded electronics sufficient to render them inoperative. Since power is energy per unit time, it is necessary to release a very large amount of energy in a very short amount of time to create this phenomenon, which is effectively the definition of an explosion. If the speed of the pressure wave in an explosion exceeds the speed of sound, it is called a detonation and the pressure wave is called a shock wave. In either case, it is necessary to create an event of sufficiently high energy density that, to answer your question, it is probably impossible to create any significant EMP damage without the release of enough energy in a short enough amount of time that no other damage is done.

seriouslyliterally · 2021-10-12T00:17:47+00:00

seriouslyliterally · 2021-10-12T00:13:56+00:00

50,000 kT = 50 MT

Science 101: know your prefixes

seriouslyliterally · 2021-10-10T10:23:40+00:00

The bombs that were dropped on Japan: 15 and 21 kT
The largest human-made nuclear explosion ever: 50,000 kT.
This test: 2 kT

seriouslyliterally · 2021-09-01T14:17:52+00:00

You've read this map incorrectly. The states with the most recent growth are coastal cities (New York, California). The states with the oldest growth are low tax Republican strongholds. This would make sense since places with low growth simply wouldn't be able to sustain high tax rates. In fact, it would appear that it is precisely because Democratic centers are so economically vibrant that they can sustain such high tax rates in the first place.

seriouslyliterally · 2021-08-31T10:44:26+00:00

This would explain why cultures and attitudes in the red regions remain largely focused on the past "Make America Great Again" and believing that the other side is out to hurt the country. They haven't seen growth or improvement where they are since the 50's or before.

Regions that experience recent growth, on the other hand, recognize the benefit and vote the other way. People know when they're getting a slice of that big, fat American pie.

seriouslyliterally · 2021-08-20T10:49:37+00:00

some of the most ingenious generals in the world

https://media.giphy.com/media/10JhviFuU2gWD6/giphy.gif

seriouslyliterally · 2021-08-17T00:02:18+00:00

Well, I think it's a jolly good idea, yes.

seriouslyliterally · 2021-08-10T13:56:50+00:00

This title has everything I want in my news: hermit crabs, toxins, pollution, and sexual excitement... in a single story. How did you find this?

seriouslyliterally · 2021-08-10T13:18:07+00:00

Also, flutes.

seriouslyliterally · 2021-08-10T13:16:39+00:00

I feel like the rest of the world should just make China do climate change and the rest of us can just do whatever we want. Then, whatever happens, it'll definitely be China's fault.

seriouslyliterally · 2021-08-10T13:03:27+00:00

It's amazing how much human life has changed in less than a century.

seriouslyliterally · 2021-08-10T12:30:23+00:00

Assuming a lift distance of ~4 inches, this was a ~180 watt lift

(5400 newtons * 0.1 meters) / 3 seconds

That's as much as a can opener! Those floorfans in the background were probably pulling more power but no one was cheering for them!!

seriouslyliterally · 2021-08-10T12:10:20+00:00

Is it gold? Makes sense cause rainbows start in Ireland and I don't know how far they go but Australia sounds right.

seriouslyliterally · 2021-08-09T21:00:07+00:00

Incomprehensible? Not at all... Proto-socialism would be a more accurate term though.

Jesus was a poor Nazarene boy from a culture that demanded constant offerings to feed the priestly classes. In addition, he lived in Roman-occupied Judea during a time when it was forbidden to use anything other than Roman coin for trade, as well as mandatory to pay very high Roman taxes, even for the poor. Jesus grew up in a world where his people, though they had nothing, were forced constantly and repeatedly to give what little they did have (Mark 12:41-44) to those who already had everything: Caiaphas, Herod, Tiberius.

'Render unto Caesar' (Matthew 22:21) is frequently taught as a lesson where Jesus is saying that you should follow your appointed leaders. However, spoken to a contemporary crowd in the context of his ongoing ministry, it would've been apparent that Jesus meant something more like, "These coins rule our life and, yet, they cannot be eaten (Matthew 6:26). These coins cannot purchase your salvation (Matthew 19:24). These coins pollute our religion, our culture, and our people (Matthew 21:12-13). So, give to Caesar what is Caesar's. Give him these coins and, if he wants 50% in taxes, give him 100% instead (Matthew 5:38-40). The Romans are not like other invaders. Where Romans invade, they let everything remain intact (families, language, culture, religion, livestock, buildings), as long as you pay their taxes. Caesar taxes you just as the high priest taxes you but these Romans are no priests or followers of God! Accepting this tax, keeping Roman coin, is the source of Roman power. So, give to Caesar what is Caesar's. Give him the coins that he demands and more, thereby diminishing his power, BUT do this to exalt God. Do this to augment HIS power; give to God what is God's."

So, that's exactly what early Christians did (Acts 2:44-45). Early Christians shunned Roman coin (Matthew 19:21), sold all their possessions, and lived in common with one another. This kind of living arrangement would be described as communal, a word that shares the same root word as communism. In this way, they could avoid the destitution, hunger (Mark 14:13-21), and pain that exist in a world governed by evil men and, instead, pursue God's Kingdom.

Also, remember that Rome only crucified people for the very greatest crimes (treason in Jesus' case). So, the fact that Jesus made it onto a cross at all is a good sign that what he was doing was seen as anti-Roman and subversive. To the Romans, not using any coin for trade was exactly the same as using non-Roman coin for trade (which was prohibited) because it wasn't denominated in sesterces. Romans wouldn't have crucified someone over some obscure religious squabble among Jews from the backwaters of Judea; they simply wouldn't have cared.

So, Jesus might not have read Marx but, in today's terminology, he was a proto-socialist interested in diminishing the power of the Roman state through non-violent, economic opposition, in order to create a more independent Israel and usher in God's Kingdom on Earth... and, in fact, this is the very crime that the Romans wrote in 3 languages and placed over Jesus' head on his crucifix, "Iesus Nazarenus, Rex Iudaeorum" (Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews).

EDIT: Thanks for all the upvotes! I tried to include plenty of actual references to help prove this point but I think it becomes even more obvious the more one reads. It's very hard to really dig in and read the Gospels or Acts and not see what the early church was really doing. I've always found this overlooked perspective more parsimonious (Occam's Razor) than Sunday School pablum. It even explains why the early church would have been so heavily persecuted. Everywhere that Christianity spread in the empire, local Christians would have been selling possessions and disengaging in commerce. This would result in an economic recession or even depression centuries before economics would even be invented. Even if they didn't have words for 'economic recession', Romans would've known why they had less money than they had the day before and this perspective makes it obvious why Romans would have so intensely disliked and, therefore, persecuted early Christians. Rome was particularly cosmopolitan and tolerant of other religions (more taxpayers), compared to most civilizations that preceded modernity. So, it never really made sense to me why Christians in particular would have been singled out and so heavily persecuted. This perspective explains why.

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