Then don’t take the dollar, take the fucking hand.

Odds are when asked for the second dollar, it will be a lot more forthcoming.

Then we can shoot the fucker down and take them all out in one fell swoop. What a beautiful sunrise that would make.

Dear USA,

Womp womp.

Sincerely,

Everywhere Else.

You’re completely correct here, and that makes the whole burning shitbin even worse.

It’s relevant in that the inquest into the Government of the time’s handling of the covid-19 pandemic has just concluded. Their findings come as no great surprise to anyone. Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson -to refer to the self serving sack of festering syphilitic fucks by it’s full name- is responsible for the government mishandling of the whole affair.

What stupid games, exactly?

You’re a teacher, right? If not… Jebus, you’re in the wrong job friend 💛

2 does not preclude the observable universe being but a fraction of the entire universe, in which there is a centre about which everything else rotates, or at least, a hitherto unimagined mass on a truly universal scale that chunks of universe the size of our “observable” orbit.

Yes. Finally, some love for Steg 😁

Take a look at the UK’s current attempts to do similar.

Old bigots completely divorced from reality making the rules everyone (else) has to follow.

I didn’t say socialist, I said communist. You and I are both aware that you know the difference.

I’ve better things to do than argue with someone relying on such basic bullshit as shifting the goalposts so obviously.

No, you’re “challenging” against over a hundred years of observations and research done by people with far more medical knowledge and understanding than both of us combined.

In the same way as Mr. Brainworm, I might add.

Uh huh.

If it were true that communism was even resistant to the corruption of human greed, it wouldn’t end in dictatorship or oligarchy as it does.

Don’t misunderstand my position, I deeply wish we weren’t such a young species and that we’d developed enough psychologically that we could get past our basic instincts, to see past the immediate short term as a whole, to work collectively for everyone’s benefit, including those that will inherit this earth when we become raw materials once again.

However, this is not the case. Look at how easy we are as a species to manipulate, to make think and do what a small subset want us to, for their benefit.

That’s because we’re still very instinct driven, simple creatures for the most part. Yes, in some cases an individual stands above this definition, but they are categorically not the norm. Until they are, we’re led around by our collective basic drives, and that includes making sure us and ours have “enough” , which means taking it, by hook or by crook.

To discount basic human nature when mulling political systems is pure folly.

For communism to work, we need each and every person to not be a greedy bastard under it all. It only takes one greedy bastard to ruin it all, as history has repeatedly shown.

We are but monkeys in trousers. Our survival instincts still rule our behaviours, and until that changes, communism will not work, simple as that.

IMO, you missed the best bit off:

A shock wave from the accident shattered all four windows in the room. The shock wave also destroyed the control system for an incubator and shook an interior wall causing shelving on the wall to collapse.

It’s the voltage.

An “Alkaline” AA cell is 1.5v at new and it slowly tapers off as it discharges.

A “rechargeable” AA is 1.2v fully charged, and stays there until about 30% charge (IIRC, it’s been decades since I used them) then the voltage falls off a cliff.

From that you can see that a device that uses two AAs is designed to run at 3v, but when you use rechargeables, they only kick out 2.4v.

(They’ll do that 2.4v for a lot more AmpHours than the alkaline can do their 3v, and can be stuffed full of electrons to do it over and over again though)

Like everything in engineering it’s about the right tool for the job. 💛

Urgh, no. I have ADHD, I get prescribed methylphenidate hydrochloride. I take it because it makes my brain work a little better.

At a recreational dose though? No. Urgh, fuck no. The comedown was fucking awful. Zero appetite, can’t sleep, can’t think properly, just why? 💛

He’s a bell end. He’s always been a bell end. I had the dubious pleasure of meeting him when I was working as a games press outfit’s tech monkey over a decade ago at Gamescom in Cologne.

Every other word out of his mouth was a business buzzword, he’s smarmy and smug, my skin crawled the whole time he was present.

It looks like he’s as high on his own farts now as he was back then.

Common sense takes are always buried 6 replies deep, I find.