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grue,

honestly, if nobody interacted with R2O, do you really think he’d continue spamming?

Your question is unanswerable because it relies on a false assumption.

grue,

I propose a hypothetical- that we all ignore a guy.

My point is that your hypothetical is bullshit because it literally never happens. It’s the same reason boycotts are bullshit: the amount of cooperation and participation they require is fundamentally contrary to human nature.

Because of that, there’s no point in indulging in the rest of your thought experiment.

grue, (edited )

Cite one that’s actually worked.

Edit: to be clear, I’m not saying a person shouldn’t engage in a boycott on moral grounds (in contrast to my stance on the use of the block button, as explained in another comment – this is an aspect where those two actions differ). What I’m saying is that we shouldn’t have any illusions about boycotts’ actual effectiveness or delude ourselves into thinking that boycotting is somehow a replacement for proper government regulation, because it’s not.

grue,

That’s an insult to people who own nail guns and therefore do actual work for a living.

grue,

Yeah, it’s time to moove on.

grue,

Today is a good day to die… by snu-snu!

Judge Cannon expands hearing on Trump’s request to declare special counsel’s appointment invalid | CNN Politics (www.cnn.com)

“The issue, now before Cannon in the Southern District of Florida federal court, is likely to remain in the political debate at least until Cannon holds a hearing on the legal power of the special counsel to prosecute a defendant, on June 21.”

grue,

She’s got to be removed, one way or another. This blatant corruption is unacceptable.

grue,

“Decimate” means “to reduce by one tenth,” so according to that fact check Biden was vastly understating it.

grue,

*reckless

What Israel is doing to Gaza right now is, in fact, extremely wreck-full!

grue,

General-purpose lanes don’t deserve to be fixed unless sidewalks and bike lanes have been added first (or at least concurrently).

grue,

Then resign, mother fucker. Put up or shut up!

grue,

The article perpetuates another myth:

And of course, you have dedicated software stores in many Linux distributions.

Repositories are not “stores!” Repositories maximize convenience of discovering and installing Free Software, while “stores” exist to extract money from chumps for enshittified, proprietary crap. There’s a huge fucking difference.

grue,

Yeah, and that’s a terrible, misguided thing to do.

grue,

Slavery didn’t really end until 1963 – or hasn’t even ended yet, if you count prison slavery.

So what’s your point?

grue,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/e49ec3b4-3afe-4853-8638-425b6d3aa3a7.jpeg

grue,

Minnesota, vote this traitorous motherfucker out!

How easy is it to switch back to windows?

I’m considering switching to linux but I’m not a computer savvy person, so I wanted to have the option to switch back to windows if unforeseen complications (I only have 1 pc). Is it just a download on usb and install? And what ways can I get the product key or “cleaner” debloated versions.

grue,

Just run Linux straight off the installation media in what’s usually called something similar to a “live environment” until you’re sure it works.

Otherwise, installing Windows is somewhat more difficult than installing an “easy” Linux distro (e.g. Mint) because you’ll have to deal with “activation” bullshit and updated/manufacturer-provided drivers. Unless your computer comes with a computer-specific recovery disk or recovery partition (that you didn’t delete when installing Linux), in which case it’s easier.

grue,

!noncredibledefense is leaking.

Also, left-wing e-bike technicals > right-wing mobility scooter technicals

grue,

To avoid making her even angrier

Stop doing that; she doesn’t deserve it. Moreover, excessive tolerance is how we got into this mess.

grue,

I mean, it’s risky, but if you do it right maybe you could trigger her enough to blow up and get fired without getting in trouble yourself? Fascist fucks deserve that, too.

grue,

Compare a '90s F-150 to a 2024 Ranger. Then compare a '90s Ranger to a 2024 Maverick. Arguably, what Ford really did was that it added a third, bigger-than-full-size, truck and shifted the names one notch up.

grue,

That’s a good point.

grue,

I mean, it’s easy enough to cook the steak for a while before adding the eggs to the pan, and no reason to expect that isn’t exactly what was done here. (Note how the eggs are almost completely raw but the steak is already partially cooked.)

grue,

I want to see it.

grue,

If you hate genocide so much, why are you Hell-bent on ensuring it by helping “finish the job” Trump get elected?

grue,

Bullshit. You’re a concern-trolling Trump supporter in effect, whether you realize it or not. That’s factual reality; you don’t get to dispute it.

grue,

and stoners

Read: racial minorities and leftists

The AfD’s obsession with the Third Reich is driving a realignment of Europe’s far right | Mariam Lau (www.theguardian.com)

Massive change is afoot within Europe’s far right. Just as voters across 27 countries prepare to go to the polls in EU elections, a split over the German far right’s allegiance to the Third Reich is driving a realignment....

grue,

Nah, even what you wrote is overly-charitable.

The SS knew exactly what they were doing. Krah knows the SS knew exactly what they were doing. Krah is simply blatantly lying.

grue,

And of course, they’ll all be treated by the FBI with kid gloves, while leftists pointing out the impending need for self defense from their treasonous aggression will be persecuted as terrorists.

grue,

You think the audience isn’t receptive, so you try to prove it by joining them with your worthless previous comment?

grue,

And so you try to fix that by calling me one? What the fuck is wrong with you?

grue,

Yes, I now understand that you were intending to lament it. I’m glad you’ve finally realized that the accusation implied by your tone accidentally reinforced it instead.

(By the way, now that we’re done bickering: I’d say that people who are privileged enough not to need to understand the value of self-defense are very likely to be liberals, not leftists.)

grue,

“Wait a minute, this felon’s made in New York City!”

grue,

Thanks, I hate it.

grue,

The difference is that the Delhi temperature is likely with significantly more humidity than the Death Valley one, even despite the fact that it’s the drier part of the year in Delhi.

SUVs made up 20% of global emissions growth and 55% of car sales globally in 2023 (slrpnk.net)

This is just insane. Not only are cars themself mostly unnecessary, if the right infrastructure is provided, but SUVs also use more resources to run and be produced then small cars, without any advantage over them. So an obvious waste, which could easily be cut to reduce emissions....

grue,

On the contrary: ships are the third-best one when you consider greenhouse gas emissions per ton-kilometer of cargo moved, which is the metric that matters. They only pollute a lot as a category because there is so much fucking shipping going on. (Reducing that is also an issue, but one for a different thread.)

The only things better are bicycles and sailboats (because they use no fossil fuels at all). Even trains are less efficient, although in the long run they have the advantage of being possible to electrify and run on renewables.

Granted, the other pollution (not greenhouse gas) from ships is terrible because they use the cheapest, nastiest fuel. But as bad as that is, it’s still a much, much lower-priority concern than climate change.

(TBH, what we really need are nuclear cargo ships.)

grue,

The biggest problem with your traditional square-rigged ships is that the masts get in the way of modern cargo-handling methods.

Also, according to Wikipedia, the largest sailing ship ever made (SS Great Eastern) had a gross register tonnage of 18,915, while the largest container ship (MSC Irina) has a gross tonnage^1^ of 233,328. In other words, the sails would have to be an order of magnitude larger than any that have ever been made before.

There are some newer sail technologies, such as rotor sails and kite sails, but those are apparently designed to shave 5-10% off the fuel consumption of a primarily engine-powered ship, not act as the primary means of propulsion.

And the other big problem with any of those technologies is that even if they could propel the ship by themselves, they still can’t fully replace engines because logistics companies won’t tolerate getting becalmed anymore. And even if that weren’t an issue, you’ve still got to have an engine for maneuvering in tight channels and ports anyway.

In order to completely eliminate having to burn fuel, nuclear really is the only option.

(^1^ GRT and GT aren’t quite the same thing, but there’s no simple conversion between the two. That said, they should “not differ too greatly” according to Wikipedia.)

grue,

If you could eliminate 80% of fuel costs you could make smaller vessels much more cost effective

Ships don’t work that way. There are a couple of reasons other than fuel economy why they keep building them as big as they can:

  • Hull speed is proportional to waterline length. In other words, bigger ships can go faster.
  • Bigger ships have better economies of scale for the crew.

Also, winds aren’t reliable enough for any ship to sail 95% of the time, unless you count being becalmed as “sailing.”

grue,

That is getting dangerously close to unsurvivable wet-bulb temperatures.

grue,

Behringer: the Kurn/Rodek of synthesizers, or the Nicolai Rozhenko of synthesizers?

grue,

There’s no denying they’re good at getting money from the wealthy, they just have zero idea how to run a political party or campaign…

They are running the political party and campaign exactly the way those wealthy donors want them to.

📄 rule (sh.itjust.works)

alt-textIt blows our hivemind that the United States doesn’t use the ISO 216 paper size standard (A4, A5 and the gang). Like, we consider ourselves worldly people and are aware of America’s little idiosyncrasies like mass incarceration, the widespread availability of assault weapons and not being able to transfer money via...

grue,

As a European, haven’t you heard about the existence of the B and C series of paper sizes? It may not be exactly what you have in mind, but B4 paper is 250 x 353 mm (9.8 x 13.9 in) and C4 paper is 229 x 324 mm (9 x 12.8 in). There’s also elongated A which is really long.

I hope you appreciate the irony of an American telling you about them.

grue,

Implying that the strawberry and peach flavors aren’t delicious? 🤔

Me at age six, at Star Trek: The Experience (startrek.website)

Here is me at Star Trek: The Experience in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Hilton. This was 1997 (spring or summer). I got to go on The Klingon Encounter (which may have been the only ride-type attraction at the time). The line to enter was lined with status of Borg (First Contact had just come out the previous November)....

grue,

I wish I had a chance to go to that before it shut down.

grue,

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fh2-9immbJI

grue,

They are: haven’t you noticed how much of a hard-on they’ve got for shooting and/or imprisoning border-crossers?

grue,

Sounds like a skill issue on Spain’s part to me, since the rest of Europe is apparently doing way better.

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