you didn’t know how to wipe your own bum until I taught you. I think I have a handle on 9/11, liberal vs. conservative politics

I agree completely with the one exception being the current aging generation that is so completely brainwashed by Murdock et al, that think the working class are the badies, among other misconceptions…

over 30. I personally prefer more serious discussion because I’m a dork. I’m not into most sports, jokes, video games or other whimsical stuff. I like some of that stuff IRL, but I consider the internet primarily of use for deeper discussion of topics that most people might not necessarily have an interest in. Like NASAs nuclear powered project Orion spacecraft in the 1960s.

Peoples eyes normally glaze over when I talk about that stuff offline, but there are billions online, and usually someone else finds that niche stuff as interesting as me.

It would be nice if you could select which topics interest you rather than having to block every community that does not.

I mean US spent trillions in Iraq, more spending doesn’t mean more effective.

What the heck is sicko mode and making hay?

until Israel bombs them back and starts a new war

Interior view of cockpit

Try searching org.breezyweather in fdroid. For some reason I had to type it exactly like that.

https://github.com/breezy-weather/breezy-weather/blob/main/INSTALL.md

It is highly likely that exactly zero Russias nukes work. Nuclear maintenance is extremely expensive, and there is a zero percent chance that corruption that we witnessed in tank maintenance and other areas of their military did not spread to their nuclear program. It has also been 34 years since they successful a launched a nuke.

Russia as a country has never launched a nuke (USSR did) so it’s seriously debatable if they even have the capability.

And I’m not advocating for war, but Russia needs to have consequences for their actions, and the world needs to respond resolutely and immediately before this gets any worse.

Zombies live a long time

You joke but Lemmy is at the same point as Reddit was when they first started. Reddit just IPO’d at 34/share, up to 68 now. 12 billion USD valuation.

I think Lemmy has a lot more potential than most people think it does… The idea is laughable, but so was $12 billion reddit in 2008 . Not in monetary terms, but in how information could be communicated throughout the world in 20 years.

It’s by design. Almost all blankets have polyester or some synthetics. It’s basically like sleeping under plastic bottles. Excellent for heat retention. Absolutely shit for heat regulation.

Pure cotton is better, but not as ideal as wool. Your life will change under a wool blanket. Wool blankets are insanely expensive, but you can find utility wool blankets for pretty cheap (very scratchy), you just have to sandwich them between some thin layers so you don’t feel the scratchiness. You can layer them multiple times and it is very difficult to have too many as they breathe very well.

That’s all well and good, but I just don’t understand. Can you rephrase that in how it relates to an Olympic size swimming pool?

All of those problems are because of political corruption, not raw money in/out. The US spends 3.5% of GDP on military, a lot, but not the most. Ranked #10 globally for military spending per GDP. Russia spends more than the US.

US is not Rome, at least not yet, or anytime in the immediate future.

ok like 90% of Lemmy uses Linux. We know we all use linux, so when someone comes along and says something like “Windoze sucks, you should install Linux and free the penguin”, 90% of your downvotes are coming from those Linux users who are facepalming at the futility.

It’s like walking into a bar and yelling at the top of your lungs that everyone there should try alcohol, that it’s way better than water.

It’s no covert secret that Russia benefits from chaos in Israel/Gaza. Russia is 100% amplifying the coverage of the conflict to their benefit.

I never said the bill was perfect. It is a good first step. Ideally all social media should be held accountable, but they are the ones who make political donations, so the chances of major overhaul are not all that great.

They want to ban Chinese ownership of the company because it’s politically popular, but it does also have merit. China can and will exert it’s influence to it’s advantage.

Tiktok might be a good service right now (…debatable) but it’s threat comes from being able to push China’s authoritarian agenda.

And insults have no place in reasonable discussion. Who’s mind are you going to change by calling them insane?

The ban is a good thing because China is an autocracy. Freedom of thought is not acceptable there, otherwise you wouldn’t know what I mean when I say the great firewall of China. Their influence is already vast.

The US isn’t a beacon of democracy, but the distance between a flawed democracy and an authoritarian regime is massive. The US Congress is largely ineffective, but this is one thing they’ve gotten right.

TikTok, the popular Chinese-owned social network, instructs its moderators to censor videos that mention Tiananmen Square, Tibetan independence, or the banned religious group Falun Gong, according to leaked documents detailing the site’s moderation guidelines.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/25/revealed-how-tiktok-censors-videos-that-do-not-please-beijing

Guess we’ll need lots of cushions! ;)

Interview with the lead physicist behind the project, Freeman Dyson - https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/command-and-control-freeman-dyson-and-project-orion/

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