FlyingSquid

FlyingSquid OP , 18 days ago

I don’t know, but if they didn’t get them, we wouldn’t have this community to enjoy their crazy.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

This story keeps getting reported every few days and I’m really starting to question it. Even if it’s generally true, the fact that it keeps popping up as a story is really suspicious.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

Correct.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

Sorry, it’s not about you. The story just keeps popping up from different outlets. I apologize, I didn’t mean to suggest you personally had an ulterior motive, just that this is starting to sound like propaganda the media is falling for.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

Soldiers have also put up mezuzahs all over Gaza. During several mezuzah installments they used the blessing, “He who establishes the boundary of the widow,” which is customarily recited during the renewal of a Jewish settlement in Israel.

What a disgusting perversion of a tradition that goes back centuries. I’m not even religious and I have one on my door because it’s a traditional way to announce “Jews live here” and I’m proud of my heritage. But this is, like I said, perverse.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

Jeez Carol, the man just wanted a Diet Coke.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

Oddly, at least according to Wikipedia, the group that named it only lost one person there. They just expected to die.

A group of European-American pioneers got lost here in the winter of 1849-1850, while looking for a shortcut to the gold fields of California, giving Death Valley its grim name. Although only one of the group members died here, they all assumed that the valley would be their grave.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Valley#History

I’m still not surprised people are dying there, but the people who named it didn’t experience a ton of death.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

This is true. I suppose Occasional Death Valley would also have less of an impact.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

I mean if they named it Death Valley, you would expect it would be because a bunch of people died there. But apparently it was a more after the fact thing.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

“Yes, I do think hiking the Grand Canyon in June or July is a good idea.” – No one with any sense

A lot of times they don’t bring anywhere near enough water either. They think they’ll be fine with a 32 ounce bottle for the whole way.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago (edited 18 days ago)

There was snow on the North[?] rim while it was really hot on the other rim. Such a surprise when we got to the other side of the canyon!

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

I’m sure planting trees all over a city is expensive, but I’m guessing dealing with all of the effects of excess heat might be worth the cost…

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

There are a lot of places in cities, even cities with a fair amount of trees like Chicago, where there could easily be far more trees. It would just mean taking up more sidewalk space, cleaning up leaves in the fall, petals in the spring, etc. Businesses start complaining about it.

And sometimes it could be trees but they think other things are prettier.

Here’s a bit of the Magnificent Mile in Chicago. Could those flowers be replaced with trees? I don’t see why not.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/96404ff8-9a6a-42e5-8923-6f3b0dc78e25.png

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

There have to be tree species that will do all right with less water. They might be invasive though, so that would be a different problem.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

You might not be the best ambassador for reading if you write like you’re only semi-literate.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

Not like that!

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

I guess at least they’re only thinking a year younger rather than ten? I’m trying to find something not terrible about this and it’s hard.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

You would think the word ‘moonshine’ would be enough of a red flag not to take advice from that entity unless the advice was, “drink me to get incredibly drunk incredibly quickly.”

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

Wow. It’s literally a company that makes moonshine stills.

Definitely who I would be taking such legal advice from.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

Holy shit, did you see this part? The SovCit stuff sounds sane by comparison- coppermoonshinestills.com/babylon-the-great-colum…

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

So basically he’s about as much of a Colonel as Colonel Sanders.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

I will enjoy hearing about how the rich will just move away from their fancy mansions on the Riviera and their suites in Paris to avoid paying this tax and then seeing it not happen.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

That was my point- they won’t leave. They like living there too much. That’s just always the excuse when such taxes are proposed for not doing them. “The rich will all just leave.”

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

No doubt. The rich can afford to pay people to find every loophole and take advantage of everything they can take advantage of. But I’m still glad this is happening.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

It wasn’t done nationally, but the U.S. state of Massachusetts did it recently and it was quite successful.

Once again, the rich people with their Boston penthouses and Cape Cod beach homes didn’t want to leave.

cbsnews.com/…/massachusetts-millionaires-tax-free…

They raised $1 billion off of the relatively small number of rich people living in that state when the U.S. as a whole is taken into account.

There’s just no question to me that such taxes work. And the more places you implement them, the harder it will be to escape them.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

the Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine

In other words, this is bullshit. Complete and utter bullshit, It will not help addicts at all and it might hurt them.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

La pauvres! Ayez ce Riker avec un trombone.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/429e7b76-9e99-4d4a-8768-69518e3f6993.png

En français : « Jouer une note aigre ».

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

That was not my claim. So yes you are.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

So many things you could not imagine.

This isn’t conceptual. A book was written by a man who tried to make a toaster from the very base components. It was in no way easy.

www.amazon.com/…/B00ANYWFP6

Also, I am not going to talk to you in two different comment chains, so pick one.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

you can buy prepared metal, wires, microchips, buttons and other needed materials easily, down to plastic beads you can put in a mold (or more likely, just 3d print these days),

Do you think those appear out of thin air? Because that was my whole damn point. Those prepared items come from other parts of the world. You can’t manufacture all of them in Europe and if you tried, it would take a hell of a lot more than five years and drive prices up ridiculously.

I’m not sure why you think I’m talking about final assembly when I’ve made it clear multiple times that I’m talking about all the steps before final assembly, many of which require global shipping.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

So your point essentially is that you don’t care if things get hugely more expensive because you’ll be fine. Got it.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

Does it make sense for those five years you were talking about where everything is super expensive? Because that sounds like quite the position of privilege.

It also sounds like a very privileged position blaming the lack of fair wages on the workers not asking for them.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

You blamed workers not asking for raises for their pay being low. That’s privilege in a nutshell.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

Your words:

And people don’t ask for fair wages, because people I talk to haven’t had a raise in 10-20 years, even though inflation went crazy over the past 10 years.

You said nothing about unions at all.

And people shouldn’t have to join a union or ask to get paid fairly. Again, a privileged idea that takes corporations off the hook.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

Wow. You’re still making it their job to ask and not up to the company to pay the fair wage and you don’t even realize how pro-corporate that is.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

It’s a Russian court. They’d convict someone for breathing in an extremist manner.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

Do you know who claimed they had explosive belts? I don’t because the Wikipedia article doesn’t source it.

And if you read the citation for the claim just after that, you will see that supposedly many terrorists- the ones supposedly wearing explosive belts- escaped rather than blew themselves up.

That sort of cognitive dissonance couldn’t possibly be put out by the otherwise totally honest Russian media which is definitely not a political mouthpiece for their dictator, a man who gassed a theater full of innocent hostages but definitely did not blow up a school full of innocent hostages.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

Or is it different troll accounts that keep getting banned?

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

You must be a joy on Earth Day.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

I’m aware.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

Sure. I was hoping a day later you would come by and harass me as usual. Now stop harassing me all the time.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

Stop harassing me.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

I will be flagging any replies you make to me on Lemmy as harassment from now on and will be keeping a log. Goodbye.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

Good luck trying to get any without yamok sauce.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

I don’t disagree with you, but I find the concept of an open source shoe to be amusing.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

Oh poor China! How dare I bash such a paradise (non-Han Chinese excepted)!