I worked on the Lincoln back in… 2014? 2015? when it was getting its overhaul and refueling. Always neat to hear how America’s synthol-might proves its impotence, even better when I’ve got so few degrees-of-Kevin-Bacon separation

Oooooh that’s a very interesting statistic I’ve never heard popular media talk about. I think I assumed LFPR was something beyond our ability to accurately measure…

I should have gotten high and let her ride my hips

I heard about that story so many times while studying Mechanical Engineering I forgot it wasn’t mythical…

It makes no difference in your ability to access some amount of content, basically.

The “Fediverse” is like a collection of cities, most of them pretty small. “Federation” refers to the roads between them. When an instance federates with another, the users of each instance are allowed to view and comment on each other’s posts.

There are a few toxic circle-jerk communities no one federates with, like Truth Social, and there are a few gooey growths of bot-filled cancer, like Meta’s Threads, and there are nice instances like lemmy.ml or hexbear where it’s possible to have educational conversations.

(my vague grasp of federation, semantics may be wrong)

It’s the trans autism for me. Can’t get anything quite like it on reddit…

“Although quick action by rescue workers headed off the worst, the incident became a horrible indicator that some on the crew were working too hard,”

The child didn’t die, jesus, you can’t post only the “headline” on a story like that!

I suppose I can agree the way the system should work, with rehabilitation being the purpose, 20 years is a reasonable maximum and I’d be glad the decision for how long to hold a criminal wasn’t mine. I haven’t studied the subject, I’d trust the people who have.

The maximum sentence for a plot to start a race war is twenty years?

Wait, would you mind expanding on that about the Hungarian uprising? Isn’t that where the term “tankies” originates from, something something Soviet tanks rolling over innocent civilians to get them back to work, I don’t know what the original “tankies” argued about the situation but I’m curious if this proof actually establishes that, no, the original “tankies” weren’t actually being unreasonable at all

I know I’m not getting the metaphor here because to me, this looks like Republicans and Democrats working together to impale fascism using the power societies gain when wielding the “stake” of communism??

The Luigi Legacy…

I’m gonna talk out my ass for a minute, I haven’t actually done any focused reading on most of the tidbits I’m about to discuss. Just putting together a lot of disconnected thoughts and anecdotes I’ve collected over the years

I’m remembering that the phrase “white pride” only exists in imitation of the phrase “black pride” and the accompanying explanation for why one is absolutely not at all problematic while the other is unabashedly supremacist. That explanation being that “black” references the culture common to that group of people which, in the case of American black people, can’t really be narrowed down to any one country. While it can be narrowed down (mostly) to one continent, that still represents a fifth of the Earth’s land-area and therefore includes a lot of cultures that don’t have anything in common.

So, “black culture” then is a sort of (the word I’m about to use may be problematic, I don’t know, it makes sense in my head but I’m white and have no idea how it might feel to have someone else describe me this way) “prosthetic” culture. I’m thinking, because they did lose a real part of themselves but, because there are so many others with the same culture-esque background in America, the phrase “black culture” refers to a real thing that exists.

Now, the other direction. “White culture” is problematic because, what culture is it that “white” people share? People who are “white” have a cultural history already, they don’t need a prosthetic. I know I come from something vaguely Scots-Irish. If I could be bothered to look into that more, I could surely find clubs, celebrations, or whatever kind of pageantry I wanted to validate that identity. But what cultural history do I have in common with this other random “white” person who it turns out is actually Romanian?

And that brings me to the best bit! Take all the people who are considered “white” today, put them in a room and have them discuss with each other, looking for the single attribute that their culture shares with the most other cultures in that room. I would guess (totally out my ass here, I have no idea) that the one thing most cultures have in common today even the ones currently considered “white” is that they used to be persecuted for their non-whiteness.

I don’t have any numbers for that. I’m just thinking about how, for example, Italians didn’t used to be “white”, Irish people didn’t used to be “white”, or Romanian people are still kind of struggling to be considered “white”. Or we could take it another way, Jews aren’t “white” regardless of their skin color (though of course the state of Israel is likely to sterilize anyone whose skin is too dark…) and I remember a stereotype about Catholics that sure seemed to fit in the category of non-“white”.

So, now I don’t remember what the subject of the post I’m writing this in was…

That looks promising! Thanks!!

Wondered what “apron” meant in this context…

The airport apron, apron, flight line, or ramp is the area of an airport where aircraft are parked, unloaded or loaded, refueled, boarded, or maintained.

I had thought about seeing that last time it toured my city, didn’t know about it’s reputation

While your argument is sound, a server can’t feed their children or care for disabled parents with sound arguments and principled stances.

I usually aim for the nearest dollar around 30%.

I’m a defense contractor and none of the “work” I have ever done in my life has done any human any good. I think it’s important to use my nonsense salary to pay the people who actually add value to society.

I don’t get it…

I don’t speak Canadian

Oh, and apparently thepiratebay.org is back?