WoodScientist

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[–] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Future generations of students will study the political philosophy of Locke, Marx, and Oda.

[–] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So your defense of Israel is that "well aktually the laws of war don't technically apply to them!"

Fuck off with this genocide apologia. If you need to split hairs on the technical definition of the laws of war, you're obviously doing something indefensible. Only Nazi trash feels the need to equivocate on something as unforgivable as genocide and war crimes.

Seriously, you need a therapist or a priest. Your soul is clearly broken.

[–] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

It's not a war because Israel doesn't acknowledge it as a war. If it were a war, they would be treating Hamas as an actual military and be following the Geneva convention. Israel does not treat the thousands of Gazan hostages it's abducted, who it nominally labels as "Hamas," anything like what is required by the Geneva convention.

It's not a war because Israel has chosen not to treat it like a war.

[–] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Coordinated for all the centrists except Biden to drop out at the same time, while Warren and Sanders split the vote of the progressive wing. When it looked like Sanders had a decent shot at actually getting the nomination, all the centrists except Biden dropped out simultaneously and endorsed him. Biden won the nomination due to a giant DNC-coordinated rat-fucking.

[–] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Current building codes allow the construction of wood frame buildings up to 18 stories tall. You need to expand your knowledge of wood construction beyond what you learned reading The Three Little Pigs.

[–] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago (5 children)

I agree. Wood is clearly the superior material.

[–] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

The key difference between all previous civilizational collapses and the one we potentially face is that most people in the past were farmers. Even in the grandest empires like Rome, less than 10% of the population actually lived in cities. Most people lived in the countryside working the land. The city of Rome lost something like 95% of its population. But those people didn't just crawl in a hole and die. They abandoned the city and joined the vast majority of the population that was living in the countryside. Many in the countryside actually saw their quality of life improve substantially. Many who had been slaves found the old legal system enforcing their slavery no longer existed. Rome collapsing just meant the end of the grand cities; political and economic systems could fragment, and people would just live more locally.

But today? Less than 5% of the population actually works on a farm. The vast majority of the population lives in cities. If the political and economic system collapses, the countryside can't just absorb all those extra people. Hell, the farms can't even operate without the equipment, fuels, and chemicals produced by the larger economic system.

Historically, when civilizations collapsed, the common folk just left the cities, abandoned the corrupt elites to their madness, and returned to small villages and rural life. But now there is simply nowhere for people to retreat to.

[–] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's not even about needing to exceed the speed of light. Once you cross the event horizon, spacetime around you is so warped that "out" doesn't exist anymore. Point your ship in any direction and fire up your FTL engine; it doesn't matter. No matter which way you try and fly your ship, you'll be getting closer to the center. Once you cross the event horizon, there is literally no way out.

[–] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

These devices exist as aftermarket ad-ons and are frequently added by used car dealerships.

[–] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

You might find some inspiration in this desk I built.

[–] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

That's what it comes down to. It's not that I'm particularly pro-death penalty. Generally I'm not. But if you're going to have the death penalty for anything, flagrantly violating someone's civil rights should be right up there with murder in the list of eligible offenses.

[–] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ah, lemmy.ml.

"Speak the Devil's name and he shall appear." :D

 

Banks will often have dye packs that can be mixed in with bills that are given to bank robbers. They're explosively rigged, so that when triggered, they will contaminate an entire large container full of bills. So the robber is just left with a bunch of weirdly dyed bills that scream "robbery money."

So, just for entertainment purposes, would it be possible to purchase just the dye used in those cartridges, or a similar dye?

And then imagine you took your own completely legal and taxed currency. You withdraw money right from your account at the ATM. So no actual theft is involved. You withdraw however much you want to dye, dye it, and now you have a large collection of purple money that screams "robbery money!" And then you just spend it as normal, casually handing what appears to be criminal evidence to random services, restaurants, and stores.

Would this be legal? Is there anything preventing you from dying currency, if there is no intention or act of counterfeiting? Can I just dye legal cash purple if I want?

If one actually did this, the obvious risk would be having the cops raid your house thinking you're a bank robber. But if you were willing to take that risk, maybe didn't have any weapons or anything illegal in your home? Maybe not so great a concern for some.

But in terms of actual criminal liability, would this be legal? Is there anything legally stopping you from making your town think you're a gangster who robbed a bank and somehow got away with it?

 

Need a new gig? Looking for a job with good pay and benefits that's easy to get? Don't need employment for more than a few months? Well ICE is hiring! And they're so desperate for people that their standards have been lowered all the way to the seventh circle of Hell.

So throw in an application and sign up for ICE. Then proceed to be the most incompetent agent in ICE's history. Show up late. Show up high. Arrive to raids late and out of uniform. Brag about your upcoming raids on social media. Just generally be the most unproductive, unhelpful, and incompetent ICE employee in history. Write elaborate equipment check lists and spend hours triple checking your load out before any raid. Be a net drain on the system. Have your incompetence be so great that your very presence actually zeros out the work of at least two other people. Become a black hole of unproductivity that drains the effectiveness and morale of everyone around you. Be the Colin Robinson of ICE!

They're so desperate for people right now, that they'll be extremely reluctant to fire you as long as you don't go full direct insubordination. If you refuse to follow orders, you'll get fired. If you're just colossally incompetent at carrying those orders out, you should get at least a few months of employment before they finally let you go.

"Oops, sorry boss, I was going to the bathroom during that last raid, didn't see anything. Shouldn't have had that burrito last night."

"Oops, I'm so clumsy. I left the door to the van open, and all the migrants we caught got away. Again!"

"What do you mean I can't refer to my coworkers by name when we're all masked up. That's just impolite!"

"Look, I thought I had the right address. How was I to know that address was actually the local Republican Party campaign office?"

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