RedClouds

Literally me haha

Jesus Christ.

Queue the parenting quote.

If China was doing this the west would call it genocide.

He was hiding in a bush presumably waiting for him to come by or something and Secret Service saw his gun pointing out of the bush and shot at him.

Pretty pathetic in my opinion.

They even admitted that there's a lot of dense cover around and he'd basically be invisible if he didn't stick his gun out.

I fell for it. But OMG that was hilarious.

Neat, but nanotubes have been around for a long time now. The problem has always been scaling up, which this article mentions is still an issue, sigh.

Although, the 86% connectivity of copper seems relatively low, I think with higher quality nanotubes, it would be higher than copper, right? I'm stretching my memory a bit. I feel like I haven't read about manotubes for a number of years. The high strength they mentioned later in the article, sounds the same as I've heard before. A well-formed nanotube braided properly should be basically the strongest rope we've ever made.

Good on ya SFSU

This is basically the last argument I made to my family before we stopped talking about politics

They were like hey, you seem to be going down these propaganda rabbit holes. But here's what I believe. And I'm like yeah, I know what you believe. I believed it for 35 fucking years too, I'm the one that did more research and changed my mind, You all don't even know the definition of socialism, let alone communism!

At that point, I decided that, yeah, I'm talking to brick walls. I'm not going to do this anymore. They'll have to research it themselves.

I'd laugh, but this was too real :-(

I rode my bike to my urban campus for three years and then to a couple of jobs outside in the nearby area for two more. I miss those days so much.

Even though while I was there, I always felt like it was a pain in the butt and a compromise. I was kind of a sweaty guy, so it's much easier if I have a shower to go to in the building that I arrive in, but many buildings around me did, so that wasn't a problem. I've also learned some people just ride slower and don't need to shower haha.

The weather in my area can be cold but not super cold and very rarely snow. But I would always obsessively look at the weather and make sure that I was prepping properly.

When I finally moved away and got a better car and started driving more, I thought I was living more privileged. But for whatever reason I always missed biking and I didn't understand why.

Once I learned about the no car movement I realized that when biking in an urban environment, everything else about my life besides my commute was so much easier, and my commute was only a little bit harder than driving. There are ways I could have made it even easier so honestly that wasn't even that bad.

It's one of those things that you have to experience it to understand but once you do you realize that micro mobility is way more convenient for getting around. Then, without massive parking lots, massive 6 lane straods, massive department stores, massive front yards, things aren't too far away from each other.

With the exception of the front yards, all of those things just exist to facilitate the car. Like, without the car, you don't need those things, and then every other form of travel becomes easier. But with those things, only cars become viable. It's kind of crazy.

allows states to enforce laws that replace faithless electors

Ah, yeah that's a whole 'nuther problem. Comes after the initial problem of actually getting those 270 in their seats and to vote in unison.

all for the FBI to assassinate the candidate

Damn, that's true. so many problems with that idea haha!

Yeah, it actually really confuses me that people say that your vote matters in the USA. Even if you're fully bought into the system, D's or R's, you can't fucking deny that the Electoral College is gonna do whatever it fucking wants. The electoral college mostly ignores what its people say ( Obviously, they mostly align, but some counties that flipped last election, they decided to ignore that, and some counties didn't flip, and they decided to ignore that too). There were electoral college members that voted third party in Trump vs Clinton. Like what? Talk about a protest vote haha.

Hell, if American Communists could get their act together and just get as many people secretly into the Electoral College as possible, we could totally fucking run a coup in this place ( Okay, okay. Once you become a part of the system, you tend to have a hard time fighting it. So, honestly, that probably wouldn't work).

This was really insightful, I liked the concrete examples, thank you!