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.

Only problem is accepting dates in anything except YYYYMMDD, or unix time stamps if you need more precision.

That’s a cop-out. Why else would the companies agree to a fine for every bulb that exceeded a certain lifespan?

A company tried that in 1999/2000, just before the dot com bust.

You got a $500 PC for free, but were locked into a contract with an ISP and had to spend 10 hours a week on the PC, and 1/3 of the screen was ads at all times.

We’re moving in that direction, but nothing is free.

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.

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skeuomorphism

The only time the chunkiness of grafting visual clutter and UI elements from a machine that was designed with mechanical constraints and older use cases/capabilities makes sense is if users will not have time to learn the UI and already learned another UI.

Using knobs you have to turn with the mouse with a wooden background instead of volume slider+number field because that’s what was on some piece of audio equipment from the 1900s just makes the software awful to use. It has no place in specialist audio software the user is expected to spend hours using.

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.

I always liked the Nostromo’s design.

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.

I don’t think it has a meaningful effect. Libs call themselves socialists all the time. For every case you’re able to argue for socialism and not have people’s brains shut down, you get 10 “those tankies aren’t real socialists! Socialism is when you for food stamps and means-tested college subsidies”

Well yeah, of course I’d trust the experts in genocide over countries that have no experience.

And then it unlocks itself when the kia kids come by!

See, that’s because your car was still too nice.

Once your engine has sheered off 90% of the flywheel’s teeth and it takes an average of 7 tries to start, anyone’s gonna assume it doesn’t start.

How much do you think hotels pay for mattresses? Probably a lot less than you.

A dam wrecking a valley is a best case scenario. Worst case is thousands dead.

The worst case scenario for a nuclear station is a few dozen dead.

coal ruins the planet.

Also runs the air and water, coal residue is dumped in rivers.

Tidal and hydroelectric aren’t great for nature.