HelixDab2

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[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So, um, 400M rockets.

Yeah, that ain't happenin'.

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

Democrats aren’t attacking Jill Stein because they think she is taking votes from Kamala Harris.

This is an incredibly dumb take.

This election is about triage. If you want elections to not be triage, you need to fix the conditions that make it triage before the elections ever happen.

What triage means:

Lets say you see a massive car accident at an intersection that's known to be dangerous, and you have a medical kit in your car. (You have a medical kit in your car, right?) You have some basic trauma first aid experience. You have two tourniquets, two chest seals, a few packs of QuikClot z-fold gauze, and a combat bandage, along with EMS shears and a rescue hook. There are four people that have serious injuries. The first is conscious, has had both legs severed above the knees, and is blood is spurting from the severed limbs. The second is also conscious, and has a massive laceration on their left arm; a fractured bone is protruding from the laceration, and they are bleeding profusely. The third is not conscious; they have lost an arm and blood is spurting from the severed limb, have a penetrating chest wound, have a massive and profusely bleeding laceration on a leg, and significant head trauma. They are breathing in short, erratic breaths. The fourth person is conscious, and has a clearly broken lower leg with a laceration; they're holding on to the laceration, and blood is seeping out between their fingers.

What do you do? Who do you help, in what order?

The person with the severed legs gets the tourniquets; they will bleed to death in less than two minutes without them. The person with the compound fracture gets the z-fold gauze and the combat bandage; unless the brachial artery is severed, they don't need a tourniquet. You ignore the person with the head injury; you can't treat the head injury, and the erratic breathing is likely agonal breathing from the head trauma. Using a tourniquet on them means that you won't be able to use a tourniquet on the first person, which--in turn--means the first person dies from blood loss. Regardless of anything you do or don't do, the third person will likely die. The fourth person does not need immediate care; their blood loss is not significant enough to kill them before paramedics arrive.

Triage is recognizing that you can't help the third person--even though they will very likely die before paramedics arrive--and that the fourth person can wait until you've helped the first and second people.

The best you can do is help two people while a third dies. If you walk away, three people die. If you treat the person with the head wound, three people die. If you worry about the broken leg first, then three people die while you're trying to help the one person that didn't need emergency trauma care. Maybe you've been advocating for years to fix the intersection, while the city council has ignored you; that does nothing to address the immediate needs of the people in front of you.

This is where we are. There is no vote you can cast that is going to save everyone. No matter who you vote for, the genocide in Gaza isn't going to stop. Stein won't win, so she can't stop it. Trump will accelerate it. Harris appears to mostly take the side of Israel. But by focusing on that, you fail to act in a way that can prevent other harms.

Most people don't like how we've gotten to where we are now. But this is where we are, and railing against the system now doesn't do anything to help the people that need help.

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 4 points 2 weeks ago

If magic (or magick, whatever) worked, then it wouldn't be magic.

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 11 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I think you wildly underestimate the amount of trash we're be talking about here. This wouldn't be a rocket, this would be thousands, or hundreds of thousands of rockets. And that's just the start.

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 46 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

how could you ever have a normal relationship with your pro-Trump neighbor/father-in-law/Uncle/Barber or what ever again?

...Why would I want to? Seriously, why would I want to have a relationship with people that have shown me that the things they value are antithetical to the things I value? I don't give a fuck if people are nice to me; I want people to be kind across the board.

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 15 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Going with your 5' x 5' x 5' size, that should weigh about 132,624 pounds, or about 66.3 tons. The price, as of 2018, was about $30,000/ton. That works out to be about $2M.

Still a pretty heft prize.

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 4 points 2 weeks ago

I think of garlic as being more herb-like than spice. Same with caramelized onions.

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago

Depending on the exact part of life that I want to spice up, clarified butter is nice.

Mmmmm, butter.

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 6 points 2 weeks ago

They say the short range of 100 miles, lack of charging infrastructure, and lack of an engine rumble make the E-bikes

If the range estimates were accurate, this would not be a significant problem; my motorcycle gets about 140 miles out of 3.5 gallon tank. However, that range estimate assumes that you're going at city speeds. Once you get to highway speeds, your range drops sharply, because of wind resistance. (This is a problem with cars also, but less of a problem; the rider is the least aerodynamic part of a motorcycle, meaning cars can be much more efficient with wind resistance.) At 80mph, which is roughly normal interstate speeds near me, you'd get more like 50 miles; that would be enough for me to go to work and get home, assuming that I took the most direct route. If you want to ride for pleasure in the mountains, then you not only have the reduced range to contend with, but also the total lack of charging.

And, unfortunately, adding batteries to increase the range also increases weight. That increased weight may not be as apparent in a car, but you will feel every pound of it on a motorcycle, and not in a good way. A sport bike that has the weight of a Honda Goldwing is not desirable.

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 4 points 2 weeks ago

I hit my finger on a spinning piece on a lathe; it sliced my finger right down to the bone, and cut through the tendon. Thankfully it cut the tendon along the length rather than across; I needed 3-4 stitches to close it up, but no surgery.

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago

Hmmm. Three-way tie, TBH. I've been on the internet since before Netscape, so take this for what it's worth.

A child (maybe six?) being raped was definitely one of the worst; she was screaming and crying in the brief clip I watched. Apparently it was her father that was raping her; AFAIK he's in prison for life now. Hopefully his life in prison is very short. I'm not even sure how many years ago this was now.

Crush videos involving kittens on an .onion site about a decade ago. I clicked on a thumbnail just long enough to verify that yeah, it was what I thought it was, and then left the site. I've owned cats my whole life; if I knew someone personally that did that, I would absolutely kill them. Yes, I had a stronger visceral reaction to that than I did a child rape video, and no, that doesn't make any sense.

A video from Mexico showing a purported child rapist; he was restrained, and dogs were chewing his genitals off. He had those high, breathy screams of someone in agony that was unable to catch their breath. It ended after the dogs tore his entire lower abdomen to shreds and one of the cartel (?) members cut his throat. Maybe 15 years ago? I'm pretty sure that this was a hi-def video.

I didn't watch the video of the Russian officer cutting the head off a Ukrainian POW. I'm past the point of having any desire to watch videos that further decrease my opinion of humanity.

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 33 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Usually salt, black pepper, red pepper, cumin, cardamom, dried hot chilies, cinnamon, coriander, and mace.

Often herbs as well.

Usually you want to dry roast them together first.

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