alcoholicorn [comrade/them, doe/deer]

Would you evaluate the contents of the wikileaks leaks if they had released an equal amount of dirt on Trump?

We tried no zoning except parking minimums. The result was Houston.

Meanwhile, Dev of company C driving off a bridge, getting laid off after modernizing the 90s era codebase.

Who is that?

Lemmy.world ‘preemptively defederated Hexbear as a last resort’.

They weren’t wrong about jellied eels being the only protein the working class could afford, hence why they stopped eating that crap as soon as they could afford anything else.

Beans on toast with ketchup on the other hand is as indefensible as percolated coffee; there’s easier ways to use those same ingredients to make something that isn’t awful.

We can infer that at least some portion of it is from your comment quietly getting downvoted to hell while nobody bothers to refute it.

Do they still teach that?

Nobody talks like that and they(singular) has been common since the 1300s.

We mostly don’t, neither do you.

Caliber is decimalized inches

Gauge is 1.67 over the cube root of the diameter in inches. Technically it’s derived from lbs since the number refers to the number of lead balls the width of the barrel you’d need to equal 1 lb. Eg, a 12 gauge is the width of a 1/12th lb ball of lead.

Supposedly the temperature salt freezes at, but it’s off by quite a bit. I’m not sure if it has any implications for staying warm in cold weather.

It’s based on how humans react to the heat, you need active cooling such as sweat, moving air isn’t enough above 100 degrees. 100% hot out is just a silly way of putting it.

Percent of how close it is to 100% hot out.

But in seriousness, 100 was supposed to be based on the human body temperature. When it’s above 100, it’s harder to cool yourself off.

It has never been literally boiling outside (except for when you’re in the middle of a forest fire or next to a lava flow).

Besides, Fahrenheit is more scientific because it translates 1:1 to Rankine, where 0 is absolute zero.

If it’s 0 F, it’s 0% hot out. If it’s 50 F, it’s 50% hot out, if it’s 100F, it’s 100% hot out.

It’s a more human measurement. Who the hell knows how long a kilometer or meter is? Everyone knows what a football field looks like and a yard is 1/100th of it.

Europeans acting smug like knowing how close to boiling the temperature is is more important than knowing how close to 100% hot out the temperature is.

We’re gonna trans all the cis and cis all the trans people!

Have Waller herself be the antagonist, getting frustrated trying to get it through his head that he’s upholding a system totally opposed to his overly idealistic vision, but Clark just can’t grasp it.

Even better, have 90% of clark’s shit get assuaged by “oh actually it’s OK because it’s legal”.

Clark catches an off duty cop shooting a black 17 year old for stealing apples and running away (Clark uses xray vision to tell the kid has a recipt on him)

Clark’s article focuses on how the kid didn’t steal the apples and the cop should have made sure.

Lois: Uhhh shouldn’t you mention that cops shouldn’t be summarily executing children for being black under the pretense of stealing? Maybe that the justice system shouldn’t create situations where kids need to run from cops?

Clark: Whoa whoa whoa the internal investigation determined that the cop was not racist and had to defend himself incase the kid had a gun. The kid should have worked with the system, not against it. Both people are wrong here.

The idea that something that affects society can be nonpolitical is just your bias towards the status quo.

Everything was always political, and the status quo has always depended on hordes of lumpen trained to identify with their own oppressors over their own interests.

Before there were networks of right-wing radio and websites distributing right-wing talking points, they just used TV, newspapers, mailing lists, posters, etc. The effect was still 100 million Americans cheering when the national guard shot students protesting against the state sending their friends to die while participating in atrocities in Vietnam.

Even gardening is political; the notion that you should only plant grass and ornamental plants, mow your lawn once a week, and any deviation was a flaw was popularized and enforced by William Levitt to keep people from having too much time to read and become communists.

Similar sentiments spring up after the civil war regarding edible gardening and use of fruiting trees in urban planning, for fear that black people will live off foraging instead of working.

The US created south korea out of thin air at the end of WWII, literally just drawing a line on a map.

Then they both held elections. The south’s election was rigged by the US, who used their sway at the UN (the USSR was boycotting at the time and PRC still hadn’t been accepted) to get South Korea’s puppet state recognized as the gov’t of all Korea, including the parts that didn’t even have the US’s sham elections. As preparation to invade the north, the US purged any non-compliant elements from the gov’t (going so far as to put compradors who’d worked for Japan during occupation in high ranking positions) and carried out massacres of elements likely to side with communists (such as rural villages that lead communal lifestyles).

The north saw America was coming for them and the longer they waited, the worse position they’d be in.

1. That was over half a century ago. The state and media apparatus are different now. A local jail isn’t going to run out of capacity, now they just call in buses from nearby prisons. The msm ignores, distorts, or outright lies about you when they don’t like your objective.

2. The civil disobedience was a tiny part of the whole action. Same with Rosa Parks, the organizers looked into these people’s backgrounds so the media would have difficulty portraying it negatively and communicated with aligned newspapers beforehand to ensure enough favorable coverage so they’d have the first word.

3. These actions weren’t done in isolation. The point of peaceful protest is to create a credible threat and offer a more peaceful alternative. The civil rights act wasn’t passed because the oppressor just had a change of heart, it was passed after every city burned for a week after MLK’s assassination when politicians saw people who looked just like them getting beaten to death in the streets.

Civil disobedience is rarely a productive tool. Unless you already know how the media will cover you (if they will at all), you’re just getting yourself and potential comrades fucked over by the legal system.

Don’t do the pigs job for them.