SoylentBlake

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[–] SoylentBlake@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Politics is nothing but coordinated violence, in that it is nothing but coercion of people against their own interests. If you're an interested party, than youre adding to the coercion of others. If you stay out of it, then it's not political to you is it?

Politics:violence

Politics:economics

Economics:violence

Try telling people whose rent has doubled or tripled within a decade that economics isn't violence. You'll experience some carnal violence in return, I'm sure.

Politics = violence; it's the NC-17 version, violence all grown up and sophisticated. Sanitized for TV, in it for the sound bites. In fact, I'd say at least half of it is theatre alone. It's even been packaged up for the people to play along from home. The evolution of violence, fun for the whole family. I mean, what else would we talk about come holidays? HELPING each other?!?

[–] SoylentBlake@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

The most common place to find .1" is on micrometers. And that's just fine until you need to switch it back to imperial or metric for the next processing...which the rest of your tooling is in.

.1" is roughly 2.54mm

.1", fractionally is ~7/64

7/64 is roughly 2.77mm

See how this is recipe for disaster?

[–] SoylentBlake@lemm.ee 15 points 6 months ago (3 children)

You do you boo but Metrics fucking awesome. It's simple, conversions are super easy, etc. it's just basic numbers. You can thoughtlessly multiply or divide (assuming you could thoughtlessly do that before).

You want a real shite headache? Try translating tenths of inches. I'd just burn the blueprints and tell them to try again.

[–] SoylentBlake@lemm.ee 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Except that's not what's written.

It's 0.25/0.5

Raising it exponentially would be

2.5/5, or

25/50=50

1/2≠50. Does not compute.

[–] SoylentBlake@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

Dude, I just ate. Don't make me ..🤢

[–] SoylentBlake@lemm.ee 21 points 8 months ago (3 children)

It FLABBERGASTS me that people get on internet forums knowing anyone could be from anywhere and have ulterior motives and not run everything thru the very basic filter of "qui bono", which is latin for Who benefits? The double tap is "Follow the money."

If the opinions put across lead to a conclusion that politically oppositional countries would find beneficial...guess what...you're talking to someone on their payroll. Or worse, you're talking to useful idiot doing the job for free.

I've called out hundreds of shills over the past few years. Hundreds. The only rational way to look at opinions online is askance.

There's a new word for you, it's personally my favorite, so remember it, use it, love it, spread it, and apply it to the internet. And tell others to do so as well.

[–] SoylentBlake@lemm.ee 6 points 8 months ago

I'm with ya man, if cost weren't a deterrent I'd hold multiple doctorates right now.

[–] SoylentBlake@lemm.ee 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Personally, I think education should be free to all, rich or poor, as its the summation of the human experience thus far.

Or in other words, it's our birthright

No one should have the right or ability to paygate it, and that includes the state. The labs necessary should be publically funded because society would suffer more for having less physicists and chemists than an abundance of them, for reasons I hope are obvious.

[–] SoylentBlake@lemm.ee 43 points 8 months ago (14 children)

In my mind, if a company wants to set a generalized education requirement, above high school, that company should be required to pay off its employees student loans. Otherwise it's using the education system as a subsidized training program.

Note I said generalized. Engineers, doctors, etc who desire to ever be employed can't stop at a bachelor's anyways. Even still, their employees should have to pick up their training tab.

Business has gotten a free pass for 40 years and look at the society they've created with it. Maybe civilization needs more than a love of money to sustain it. Crazy huh.

[–] SoylentBlake@lemm.ee 32 points 9 months ago

He was too good for this world, and we are all lesser for his absence.

[–] SoylentBlake@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If it's handmade hardwood Japanese joinery furniture than it's worth every penny, it'll outlast you and you'll hand that down to your kin.

[–] SoylentBlake@lemm.ee 9 points 9 months ago

Cozied on up with Nimbys.

Nimbys are truly Karen's in their final form.

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