hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
6hr ago
Wasn’t the 1979 bomb South African?
I’m going to call BS on the Ukrainian nuke- if they had one, they’d hit Moscow.
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
Nature is already going to do that for us - not only are the fossil fuels going to eventually run out, rational human beings prioritised the easiest-to-access and most efficient stores of fossil fuels. The energy return on energy invested of conventional fossil fuels is going down, and the EROEI of shale and fracking is even worse.
Isn’t there quite a bit of easy to access fossil fuels that are off limits for political reasons, eg Venezuela’s dictator not trusting anybody capable of drilling?
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
The unreasonable people don’t even want to do that, they want to try to bribe really poor communities to have storage facilities near them, then decide better of it and just hold onto it.
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
Reactors could well be designed to run off of colder water than was available. Naively it should have been fine- most of the energy in cooling is used to boil the water rather than heat it up- but euros like to engineer things to have really tight tolerances for some reason.
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
IDK, but when I’ve been speaking Spanish a bunch I get a ton of ads for soccer.
hydroacetylene
18hr ago
You really don’t have to look very hard to find examples of teachers getting fired over a past in sex work, some of it a lot tamer than that.
hydroacetylene
18hr ago
Texas’ new maps are pretty far from a maximal gerrymander. Indiana, on the other hand…
hydroacetylene
18hr ago
Why did they remaster friends? Serious question. It’s a sitcom. There are no special effects or panoramic vistas. ~no one watches it for the costuming. On a deep and fundamental level, who cares.
Unless it’s just copywrite extension.
hydroacetylene
18hr ago
Yes. Conspiracy oriented women love her.
hydroacetylene
18hr ago
Russia gate was, to be clear, mostly lies, but it wasn’t election denial.
hydroacetylene
23hr ago
The proles mostly understand that CEO’s earn more than them, but very few will defend how much more- which, TBH, is mostly an artifact of poor corporate governance.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The NBA orchestrated the Luka Doncic trade in exchange for fixing the draft lottery to get Flagg to the Mavs.
Interesting in the context of the preexisting small scale conspiracy theory that the giant casino company which owns the mavs deliberately traded him to reduce the team’s fortunes, because they think a losing team gives them more political influence.
Right wing twitter recently melted down when location was shown for accounts, and it turned out that 70% of users with a name like DefendTheWest turned out to be from India and Nigeria.
Also revealed a giant percentage of man hating feminists were from South Asia and sub Saharan Africa.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Uh, doesn’t the average OF girl have quite poor earnings?
hydroacetylene
1d ago
But the proles are not upset about celeb pay. They might be upset about CEO pay, but rarely entertainers. They’re the fans here(that’s what celebrity means).
hydroacetylene
1d ago
She’ll very probably never marry or if she does, it’ll be to a man who’s a laughingstock
I would expect her to wind up in multiple relationships with high status entertainer men- isn’t that what sex symbols usually do?
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I always wonder why the modern world has such an allergy to beauty.
In a week, I will attend the most beautiful service of the liturgical year- the rorate mass begins just before sunset, in candlelight. It progresses, the church lit entirely by light shining through the stained glass at its completion. Every year, I step out, go to breakfast in some bland diner, and wonder- 'where did we go wrong?' Our buildings look like a cubist painting of dog poop covered in white and grey paint- despite that nice straight lines with some mildly interesting decorations, fleur de lis or lone stars or stylized cow's heads looks much nicer and is cheaper. Our modern art is better termed 'where's the art', with the exercise of trying to figure out what's an art exhibit and what's just an empty spot in the museum being more interesting than appreciating the 'art'.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Depends on how you define 'mainstream'. The DNC old guard is very pro Israel. The black democrats and the old school establishment dems are generally pro Israel. It is true that anti-Israel stances are less fringe than in the GOP, however.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
We're never going to know, but she's related to some Republican bigwigs.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
She's related to some local republican Apparatchiks and it was taken up by the local TPUSA chapter immediately. It was a set up and the university chose to knuckle under.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Ah, the logic behind greyhound races.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
It'll be for film buffs to watch classics. Instead of pretentious people watching a movie they've already seen in a freezing muddy park, they'll do it in a nice climate controlled(and dry) theater.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
It's also wrong because substituting for oil is pretty easy. You can convert a diesel vehicle to running off of LNG in your garage(literally, if you're mechanically inclined), and we're never going to run out of natural gas. Nuclear/hydro/geothermal power are buildable. EVs get better every year. Etc, etc.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
It's been a while since I've done one of these- what's a small scale conspiracy theory you're willing to go to bat for?
Now, by 'small scale conspiracy theory' I do not mean grand unified theories of the jewlluminati or lizard people, or major government direction, or whatever. It's small-scale.
Some things I think are likely true-
The 'Marriage penalty' in US welfare law is- or was- an intentional experiment to prove that marriage was outmoded in late-industrial societies. It fits the zeitgeist of the time and we know there were other reckless experiments going on in first world countries(like German pedophiles). It was not based on the assumption that single mothers need the help more.
Coyote predation on small children is far more common in the USA than commonly acknowledged(note that a huge increase over a trivial base is still trivial), and those toddlers who just disappear and everyone assumes the parents killed them but they're never charged because nobody ever finds the body were mostly snatched by coyotes. Wildlife departments and law enforcement agencies prefer to cover this up to discourage reprisals by poisoning, which has substantial knock on effects. The only confirmed coyote kill of a child(there is also a case of a hippie musician who wandered near a den, but this probably wasn't a predatory attack) was interrupted during the attack rendering it undeniable.
Conventional health wisdom overstates effect sizes because it originated in attempts to explain the rise of chronic disease in the mid twentieth century. In reality, these diseases became common because people lived long enough to get them(largely due to reduced disease burden), with effects from rising waistlines, sedentary lifestyles, etc.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
The affected soccer hating is a joke. They don’t actually think you’re a homosexual communist for it. Maybe for other things, but red tribe normies find ‘caring about sports’ a point of commonality with Europeans, not something alien.
They think you’re gay commies for acceptance of nudism and high youth unemployment, though.
I mean to be fair Europe has both first world militaries(France) and first world economies(Netherlands, Denmark). Not in the same places, mind you. But still.
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