Porksnort enjoys laying in the sunshine. Porksnort will not refuse any offer of a snack. Porksnort thinks ‘Christian’ means you have thought a lot about how to live according to the words Jesus apparently actually said.
Yes! Those boards have a great deal of power here to de-legitimize these evil quacks. At the very least, keep these monsters in the fringes where they belong. God help us when the NatC’s get enough power to require health insurers to pay for conversion torture.
A web TV would suffice for this, given the current state of what remains of the ‘Web’.
There used to be a thing called ‘mutual insurance’ as in ‘Mutual of Omaha’. (They did a nature show called Wild Kingdom back in the before-time)
It’s basically an insurance run like a co-op, not as an arm of some other money-laundering corporate giant.
Some mutual insurances would balance their books periodically and refund a portion of premiums if the claims paid was less than what premiums brought in.
I still remember the jingle.
“Mutual of Omaha …. is people …. you can count on when the going is rough!!”
Yeah, what’s this meme about? I use Docker on a pi 4 with 8gb of ram to run Home Assistant and Paperless-ngx, plus some simple out-of-container home network monitoring scripts. The little guy rarely uses all the cores.
Unequivocally yes, but not always. You need a coordinated media campaign, a potent symbol, a dedicated core of supporters and the right combo of circumstances.
The Indian Independence movement depended in large part on boycotts. Ghandi’s followers wove their own cloth and wore traditional dhoti, both as a boycott of British cloth and as a public symbol of solidarity.
My favorite was the Salt March, wherein Ghandi used the general unfocused bitchiness around new salt taxes to make a media spectacle and demonstrate that Indians didn’t need British salt. Or anything British at all.
He marched down to the beach over a period of days gathering followers and media attention. Then he stood in the water and made salt in his bare hands using seawater and the bright hot sunshine.
18 years later they won their independence in a relatively bloodless way.
As an example Salt March
Vegans who are into bondage are hard core. Without silk and leather, they have to use hemp rope. That stuff is scratchy! (This is assuming said vegan is also concerned about using petroleum derived products)
People frequently conflate capitalism with enterprise, not seeing the distinctions.
A prohibition on charging interest. It’s not the only way to do things
‘Squids’ is a good daily-driver descriptor. I prefer to go straight to ‘organ donors’ usually.
They are not bad if they never forget it is about family.
Naw, jk, they are terrible. Those douchebags hucked bottles at us when we walked up to just watch. Buncha wankers.
I just realized that asking a video generative ‘AI’ to deepfake Stephen Miller onto live action footage of Colonel Klink would be such a gift to the ‘AI’. It’s not much work and it could take the afternoon off and do wtevs.
Once the shock value of a simple ‘cunt’ has worn off, ‘thundercunt’ is my next escalation.
Right, Mormons do this all the time. They are so desperate to be the center of every universe.
The church rumor mill gave Ezra Taft Benson sole credit for the agricultural revolution that was actually started by Henry A Wallace (politically as Sec of Ag) and directed by Norman Borlaug. He did some good things as Ag secretary, but leave it to TBMs (true believer Mormons) to turn yeomans work into ‘hanging the moon’.
By the way, did you hear that Lionel Richie is hearing the missionary discussions and will be baptized soon? /s
Yes. I grew up during the fight for ERA (equal rights amendment). I clearly remember asking my mom what the fuss was about and she said it would make separate mens and womens bathrooms illegal. About 1977ish I think this was
How is dirt different from a building in terms of thermal mass? It’s the same setup. Panels can shade buildings just as well as dirt. It’s actually a super complex situation that depends on a huge number of variables.
I’m pushing back because this common trope (solar panels cause heat islands) was part of a whirlwind of anti-solar FUD about a decade ago.
The moronosphere turned some wonky studies that showed some local heating effect (in some situations, not all) into a panic about it causing mega-storms and causing dogs and cats to want to live together.
Since then, actual experts have been working hard to understand the costs and benefits of large installations.
An example:
So you ignored the fact that it’s not the earth that is getting heated, it’s the panels. So when the sun goes down the thin panels and the air around them cool down quickly, much more quickly than a large mass of hot rocks and dirt.
‘Thermal mass’ is a huge factor here. You ignored the basic finding that buildings with panels on the roof are cheaper to cool just because of the shading effect of the panels.
How do solar panels create a heat island? They shade the ground beneath them. There have been installations where panels installed on buildings saved money on cooling costs before the panels were even connected, due to the shading from the panels.
Am I missing something?
That LLM is dangerously close to passing the Turing test. Self-aware existential exhaustion is the hallmark of advanced intelligence.