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Zorg , 24 days ago

What democracy? The will of US citizens have practically no factor in which laws pass, big money on the other hand…

That being said, congressmen & president are somewhat democratically elected - and voting is thrice as influential if you’re in a low population state!.
So you can influence if big money A’s laws get passed, or big money C’s (big money B gets their way regardless).

Zorg , 1 month ago

This 3 foot pipe is also considered a storm drain. Unclear in the article if he was sucked down a street drain with unnecessarily large opening, or a drain for a creek.

Zorg , 1 month ago

Where do you think illegally acquired firearms are sourced from?

PDF: ATF NFCTA vol2 part3, Crime Guns Recovered and Traced
ATF traced 70.2% (1 million firearms) of submitted ‘crime guns’ to having originally been purchased from a dealer. An additional 22.6% (⅓ million) were from pawnbrokes. [page 7]
In 12.2% of the cases [page 26] purchaser and possessor was the same.
One or more guns are stolen in 63% of household burglaries.

From conclusion page 41:

Traced crime guns typically originate from the legal supply chain of manufacture (or import), distribution, and retail sale. Crime guns may change hands a number of times after that first retail sale, and some of those transactions may be a theft or violate one or more regulations on firearm commerce.

Zorg , 1 month ago

Well that’s good, but even if we are generous and say half the ~80 million gun owners in the US, are as responsible with their weapons as you are; that leaves a fuckton of gun wielders who are not responsible.
I am not outright anti-gun, but it makes no sense to me it took two tests and several weeks of waiting, to get a driver’s license; and if I want to do e.g. more than basic electrical or plumbing changes in my home, I should get a permit and there will be an inspection. Yet I could waltz into a store, buy guns like I was a personal army, and at worst I would have to wait a couple days to pick them up. As far as I know, there are 0 requirements or inspections for if you have a gun safe; let alone any form of test or licensing of if you are just barely competent and safe weilding them.

Zorg , 1 month ago

There’s a lot of bullshit in zoning to begin with. Why exactly can’t we have mixed commercial and residential areas in suburbia? Slap some apartments on top of grocery stores, bakeries/restaurants, and shops; or is forbidden to have much of anything within walking distance of homes?

Zorg , 1 month ago

Now?

Zorg , 2 months ago

Just two 15A breakers is enough actually. Outlets are supposed to be able to sustain 80% power, so you should be able to pull 1.44kW from a singly puny Nema 5-15.

Zorg , 2 months ago

They unfortunately do, but at that age the brain is still partially goo:

According to the National Organization of Victims of Juvenile Murderers, cognitive function develops concrete to abstract between the ages of 12 and 15. This means that a person can genuinely understand that specific behavior brings specific consequences. However, research has shown that a teenager’s brain does not resemble an adult’s fully matured brain until they reach their early 20’s. Source: Google’s summary for "has a 12 year old brain developed enpugh to understand murder

Zorg , 2 months ago

I have always like GPS essentials for various other location tasks. While I have never used it, there’s a track mode under streams. Data can be exported in a handful of formats.

Zorg , 2 months ago

I’m the spirit of this comment, water is just cold steam.

Zorg , 2 months ago

Sounds like doctors, clinics, hospitals, and many pharmacies + some schools.
If you’re having difficulties, your state’s department of health is responsible for the VFC program CDC.gov/…/vfc

Zorg , 2 months ago

Even though I’m sure that’s what a Honeypot from RIAA/MPAA would say, then that’s awfully nice of you.
I’m fairly sure I have invites to one or both of tleech & tday. Will check later.

Zorg , 3 months ago

The explanation I’ve heard, is if you lose it (outside), you want it to decompress; not float around eternally for someone to fake your Identity with.

Zorg , 4 months ago

It’s all that warrior training bullshit. De-escalation is not prioritized, instead they are told anyone might be out to kill them, so they have to be ready to murder them first.

Zorg , 4 months ago

Meanwhile:

Sinclair, Inc., doing business as Sinclair Broadcast Group, is a publicly traded American telecommunications conglomerate that is controlled by the descendants of company founder Julian Sinclair Smith.
Headquartered in the Baltimore suburb of Cockeysville, Maryland,[3] the company is the second-largest television station operator in the United States by number of stations (after Nexstar Media Group), owning or operating a total of 193 stations across the country in over 100 markets (covering 40% of American households) and is the largest owner of stations affiliated with Fox, NBC, CBS, ABC, MyNetworkTV, and The CW.

A 2019 study in the American Political Science Review found that “stations bought by Sinclair reduce coverage of local politics, increase national coverage and move the ideological tone of coverage in a conservative direction relative to other stations operating in the same market.”[5][6]
The company has been criticized by journalists and media analysts for requiring its stations to broadcast packaged video segments and its news anchors to read prepared scripts that contain pro-Trump editorial content, including warnings about purported “fake news” in mainstream media, while Trump has tweeted support for watching Sinclair over CNN and NBC. Wikipedia

Zorg , 4 months ago

Typically that’s not what it is at all, but that is how the fashy media paints it.

The purpose of those kinds of meetings, is for shitty people to be placed faced to face with one or more LGBT persons (or in other situations a black person, or a Muslim or whatnot). And maybe, just maybe, the shitty person can learn, than e.g. someone gay or trans; while slightly different, largely they are just people.

Zorg , 4 months ago

They do? Practically all US showers I’ve come across, have this stupid shower single handle bullshit.Leave the shower on your preferred temperature between showers? Adjust the pressure of the water? Nah, that sounds stupid; why would anyone want that…

Zorg , 4 months ago

What exactly are indoor only cats doing to the planet & ecosystem?

Zorg , 4 months ago

Anker makes a decent one, which can be bought for $20 or a bit less. Should be said it is the only vertical mouse I’ve used, but it works as a mouse and I haven’t had shoulder tension/aches since I started using it.

Zorg , 4 months ago

Agreed. How what he did is illegal, but the prosperity gospel megachurch pastors, flying around in private jets and living in McEstates the size of castles; is perfectly fine and dandy. Is beyond me.

Zorg , 4 months ago

3rd party only works if it’s popular enough to replace one of the two ruling parties. FPTP does not allow for three large parties to coexist. There is no US 3rd party even remotely close to having a tiny chance at replacing anyone.

Zorg , 5 months ago

I used to be all about a latte macchiato with an extra shot, then I got hooked on café con leche. After I returned home I found out a flat white is as close as you can get, without being a jerk who explains their custom order to every barista.

Zorg , 4 months ago

Sounds quite a bit different, but certainly also like something worth trying when I come across it. Thanks!

Zorg , 5 months ago

Rebuild/refurbished is starting to become a thing for EV batteries. I hope it becomes commonplace in the coming years.

Zorg , 5 months ago

Gen Z right-wing? Wikipedia could be wrong, but:

Generation Z is generally alike to Millennials on political and social issues.[5] Generation Z has been reported to be “progressive and pro-government”,[6] though this narrative has occasionally been challenged, particularly in Europe. The generation is largely in favor of LGBT rights, gender equality, and access to abortion. Economically, Generation Z has a more favorable outlook on socialism than previous generations. Gen Z varies largely by country on whether to make it easier for legal migrants to live and work in their home countries. en.wikipedia.org/…/Political_views_of_Generation_….

Zorg , 5 months ago

Depending on the chair and how you position your butt cheeks, you can sometimes sneak out a fart silently.

Zorg , 6 months ago

Zero water claims to remove all PFAS, and you can get a pitcher for ~$30.

Zorg , 6 months ago

Lazy Chicken

1. Pour about a centimeter white rice in a baking dish. I prefer something a 20x30cm tempered glass one, but I’m sure you can use whatever.
2. Add frozen vegetables on top.
3. Dissolve a chicken broth cube hot or boiling water, pour into dish, add water to a bit above the rice.
4. Place frozen chicken legs on top, or whatever other frozen chicken pieces you’d like.
5. Generously season chicken.
6. Stick in oven for about an hour at 200°C.

You might need to add boiling water while it’s cooking, but after making it a couple times you’ll know about how much water is needed from the start.

Zorg , 6 months ago

Great intentions, but I’m a bit worried about how the non-contact breath detection will work, if you’re sober and giving your wasted friend(s) a ride home from the bar. BAC detection by touch might be better, if they can make it work that is.

Seeing how cars with Super-cruise have eye tracking, why not roll impaired & distracted driving into one safety package.

Eye tracking has become a reliable neuroscience tool for identifying the eye movements that are linked to impairments caused by alcohol use disorders. For example, a machine-learning model has been developed to detect alcohol intoxication based on a person’s eye gaze and eye closure. (From Google’s generated cliff notes)

Disabling a vehicle if the driver isn’t looking at the road for x seconds might be a bit drastic. I could imagine e.g. muting the volume if not at the very least glancing at the road every 2~3 seconds. Would piss off a lot of people, then not long thereafter teach them to pay attention to where they are going.

Zorg , 6 months ago

Neither side is ‘good’ or remotely acts like it in this conflict/war. The only good guys around are the medics & doctors trying to keep people from dying, volunteers trying to keep people from dying of lack of food/water/warmth; and of course all the innocent civilians who are caught up in this clusterfuck.

Zorg , 6 months ago

Well yeah, wouldn’t a fake medic ID be highly convenient for a terrorist? (To your comment above).

Statements from one or a couple of people proves nothing, sadly the world we live in is full of lies, deception & coercion.

Zorg , 6 months ago

In a lot of towns your only grocery option is Walmart, unless you wanna drive 1+ hours. In small towns/villages you might only have a dollar general within that distance. Large corporation slaughter small businesses when they move in.

Zorg , 6 months ago

Get some wool laundry balls and whatever scent she’d like in essential oil, add a couple of drops to one of them, or 1-2 drops to each ball if you want to be fancy. If that isn’t enough for her, pour white vinegar in the fabric softener compartment of your washer.

Zorg , 7 months ago

And that should be the only shit you needed to enter yourself.

Zorg , 7 months ago

The problem is you’d have to build not just schools, but entire neighborhoods so they are walkable + tunnels under any larger roads between them, or maybe guarded crossings would do here and there. While it could certainly be done, the majority of the US is built to be car centric from the ground up.

Zorg , 7 months ago

There is a voting system like that, and it works quite well: Mixed Member Proportional Representation; Wikipedia

In a nutshell, votes are first counted in a district; if I’ve candidate had enough votes to secure a seat they do so, but all the remaining votes and votes above the count needed to win the seat, are pooled into a larger region. A number of seats are then assigned in the larger region, depending on which exact system is used, ‘unused’ votes from the region might be pooled on a state or national level afterwards.

Zorg , 7 months ago

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Zorg , 7 months ago

For other parents: PBS Kids Video It has a bunch of stuff, can be cast to a TV for toddlers; or put on a tablet for older toddlers.

For paid streaming services, we have decided to limit ourselves to two at a time. Once we’re bored with one, we cancel it and do another for a while.

Zorg , 7 months ago

**Do not store your dirty underwear hermetically sealed!**Stick it in a mesh or paper bag, something it can release the pent up humidity through; or you’ll get some really nasty laundry.

For Pokemon trainers, I’m no expert, but wouldn’t they just stick their clean clothes in one poke’ball & dirty laundry in another?

Zorg , 7 months ago

Looks an awful lot like Cnlinko LP12 (PDF) 2 pin connector. Ø12 also looks about right from your pictures.

Zorg , 7 months ago

DEA Hartford Task force and state police detectives received a tip that suggested Soule was operating a clandestine psilocybin mushroom growing operation at a home on Lyon Road.

Fuck people who snitch on a grow-house, especially when it’s mushrooms which neither stink or bother anyone.

Soule admitted to investigators that the mushrooms were in fact psilocybin, which is labeled as a “schedule 1″ controlled substance. State police said a schedule 1 controlled substance is defined as drugs, substances and chemicals that are not currently accepted for medical use and have a high potential for abuse.

But more than anything, fuck the fucked up legacy of fucking Nixon. The only reason there isn’t accepted medical use, is because the government and DEA made it really hard for researchers to be allowed to use shrooms (& weed) in research. It’s ridiculous that especially shrooms are in the same ‘dangerous, addictive and no mental health benefits’ category as heroin.

Zorg , 8 months ago

Some fancy trades perhaps not, but I have yet to have a line item not have this on it: (basis reported to the IRS)

Zorg , 8 months ago

There is no ‘scratch’, you login and practically everything is filled out. If you want to change or add something, you can do so.

Zorg , 8 months ago

I blame all the managers who struggle to create remotely engaging virtual meetings, and who count the majority of their team’s productivity based on how many hours they can see them sitting at their desk🙄

Zorg , 8 months ago

You’re not outright wrong, but it’s really hard to have the rational discussion skills to cut through decades of propaganda. For the many deep in the right-ring bubble, brainwashing is a better term than mere propaganda.

Zorg , 8 months ago

Service guarantees citizenship…