Fordiman

joined 1 year ago
[–] Fordiman -3 points 1 year ago

Largely? The lack of convincing emotional range.

[–] Fordiman 3 points 1 year ago

Incidentally, should I want it, I can take a paid month off at any time at my job.

I don't see why this is a problem, except that the GOP don't know how to run a business or a government.

[–] Fordiman 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd love to hear what argument these fuck-knuckles have that would make, "I voted against family leave" - or even, "I voted against summer break for adults" - not make them unelectable...

[–] Fordiman 5 points 1 year ago

Context might also help. Bitcoin in 2014. What do you think the odds are he was recruited to help launder by the same folks propping Trump up?

[–] Fordiman 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The fun part about that: you can burn hydrogen with fluorine because fluorine is the best oxidizer; it's then deadly (and caustic) because hydrogen is not the best reducer - it's both an oxidizer and a reducer and, as a result, it's basically middle-of-the-road for both properties. Specifically, most metals are better. So the HF will happily drop its hydrogen for many metals to oxidize (fluoridate) them instead. Lead, iron, zinc, aluminum, magnesium, and lithium will each make a way more stable fluoride than does hydrogen.

In solution (say, if you inhale HF, it'll dissolve into the moisture in your lungs), it breaks apart into H⁺ and F⁻ ions - both of which are just straight-up electrochemically promiscuous. The pair'll run through your lungs breaking up organic bonds like couples at an orgy.

Even so, HF doesn't hold a candle in terms of danger (and oxidation potential) compared to fluorine peroxide / dioxygen difluoride / FOOF.

[–] Fordiman 6 points 1 year ago

Yes.

Not only will metal fires break apart the water into oxygen and hydrogen, but they will consume the oxygen, as the metal oxide is a more stable energy state than is water. So you end up with a billow of hydrogen coming off the fire that mixes with the oxygen just above (because lighter gases rise) the oxygen-depleted zone of the fire, and it combusts there.

[–] Fordiman 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Next time it snows, remember: you're being gently coated in stellar ash.

[–] Fordiman 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For those wondering, that's a -6 from a range of -8...7 Harsh.

[–] Fordiman 1 points 1 year ago

Cannon won't be presiding over the J6 charges. She's Florida circuit; J6 will be filed in D.C.

[–] Fordiman 1 points 1 year ago

Really? Then why say, out loud, that during the time you were in charge of the government, that the government staged a riot?

I mean, that's a confession, right? Does he realize it's a confession?

[–] Fordiman 5 points 1 year ago

The axon and dendrite of the one cell don't speak to one another anymore, so we have to treat them as two.

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