CarbonIceDragon

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago

I'm sure some of them will still blame Obama too out of habit

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

Oh I mean you can replace them, but when nothing of the original system remains you're not so much optimizing the idea as throwing it out to use trains instead

[–] [email protected] 8 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

What about those giant quadcopter type things they keep wanting to build to fly from building rooftops in cities for some reason?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Because these same people I know act pretty normal, even reasonable, whenever Trump isn't the matter at hand. It's like Trump comes up and suddenly a switch comes on in their brain and they're cheering for him like a football team. It's bizarre and surreal and infuriating to see them act that way about a man that makes me fear for my life and that of people I care about.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

"Not slaughtering the Jews" does not require letting Isreal slaughter the Palestinians instead.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Because having a revolver or a rifle or something is going to really do anything if the government comes after you personally.

Any actual resistance movement capable of achieving much is going to find a way to arm itself regardless of if the country theyre from allowed guns during peacetime or not, they seem to in other countries that such things have formed in after all. Could be through illicit purchases from elsewhere, or homemade weapons, or theft, or whatever else, it always seems to happen.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Not to mention, these are people that have proven that they'll try to attack the government if made angry enough. Now, it was Trump that got them angry on his behalf last time, sure, and few if any are likely to eventually change their minds and turn on him, but if you're about to be the government and dont need these people anymore, is having such people publicly pardoned really the precedent you're going to want so set?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (4 children)

hypothetically, if they do stop water fluoridation, is it possible/practical to add the proper amount to one's own water? or would getting the dose right and the required ingredients be dangerous? Or would just using a bit more toothpaste give enough of the effect to make such a thing not worth it anyway?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Morality is easy in some sense, it just requires thinking to figure it out, and in practice being the moral choice when the other side is this bad requires doing basically nothing at all. Retooling the economy to increase the wealth of average people, directly against the forces of the already wealthy seeking to suck up all the available wealth for themselves, is both much harder and requires being given an amount of power that's rarely won these days.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago (6 children)

I dont know that that is even what his supporters want. Like half my co-workers vocally support him, and they seem to legitimately believe that he will just wave his magic wand or whatever and make gas and electricity and groceries cheaper, and make crime go away, and that then all the democrats will admit he wasnt so bad after all. Im not even sure what is worse, disillusioned anger being directed in completely counterproductive places, or whatever sheer delusion believing every promise in his word salad is

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

assuming they dont get rid of the filibuster, and then put it back on their way out if they manage to lose power again

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

to be fair, he had more checks on his power then, had less motive for revenge against the justice and electoral systems, and is now even more crazy. Im hoping it will be just some incompetence and international embarrassment, but Im worried that it might be more.

 

Specifically the type of printer that prints using spools of plastic filament, but that seems like the most common type anyway

 

Like, I just was thinking about how lots of pet species will just eat as much food as you give them to the point of making themselves sick, and keeping them at a healthy weight requires not giving them access to too much food. Obviously some humans have problems with this, but imagine how bad things would be if everyone were basically psychologically incapable of not eating food when we had access to it even when we'd had enough, given our dramatically higher access to food due to agriculture.

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