Buelldozer 11 months ago • 83%
Benjamin...get the Musket.
Buelldozer 11 months ago • 100%
Give Commander a Medal!
Buelldozer 1 year ago • 100%
China is also saber rattling with Vietnam. Taiwan is China’s current priority, but Vietnam see themselves as on the list .
Exactly. Vietnam is sitting in the same position with China as Poland is with Russia. They both have a very large and powerful neighbor suddenly showing a real appetite for expansionism.
Buelldozer 1 year ago • 30%
You are highly regarded.
Unlikely. The upside of being socially inept though is that I have more time and headspace for important things...like knowing the difference between a Country and a Continent.
Buelldozer 1 year ago • 100%
I remember stuff that I was to young to viable be able to remember.
Same! My earliest memory is a man, who wasn't my Father, coming to the house and giving my Mother a letter. After reading she hid it inside a flower pot underneath a fake plant. It happened in 1973 when I was just about 12 months old. I know the year because I talked to my Mom about it a few years ago and after she got over her shock she told me when it happened.
Yes my Mom was a serial cheater and yes my first memory of life is her getting a love letter from one of her lovers. 👌
Buelldozer 1 year ago • 100%
and now here we are, with idiots in our own country emboldened by the GOP and Trump.
The American Bund existed during WWII. This shit isn't new.
Buelldozer 1 year ago • 100%
The nest is either never completed or it is done in half the usual time with perfect symmetry and sub-millimeter accuracy.
There is no in between.
Buelldozer 1 year ago • 100%
Short Term and Working Memory of a damn goldfish. Long Term memory is so freakishly good that people think I'm making it up.
I can struggle to tell you what I had for a meal 10 minutes after I finish eating but I can tell you the exact page and location on the page of phrases that I read in a book 20 years ago.
Why did I just go to the kitchen? Who the fuck knows. Ask me what I was doing last Thursday afternoon at 3:30 though and I can write you a detailed description of the entire days events.
Welcome to ADHD.
Buelldozer 1 year ago • 100%
Fucking fascinating. But I’d have to publish it as fiction because nobody would believe it.
Same, particularly before my mid 30s.
Buelldozer 1 year ago • 18%
Did you seriously just compare the landmass of the United States with the entire fucking CONTINENT of Europe?
Yes...yes you did.
If that's the comparison you want then the Area of North America is 24,474,000 sq km.
The better comparison would be the US and the European Union. The EU is 4,422,773 km2.
Now sit down short stack. You aren't tall enough for this ride.
Buelldozer 1 year ago • 75%
Impossible to answer as laws vary by country so what may be legal in the US may be illegal in Finland where LW is. Aside from the multi-national difficulties involved there's also the fact that there's been near zero court cases on it anywhere in the world (that I know of). Legal Lightening is going to strike some instance somewhere in the world eventually but no instance owner wants it to be them.
Buelldozer 1 year ago • 72%
in case something goes bad it is going to be against them not this instance.
Ah, since you're an expert in Finnish law (where LW is hosted) perhaps you could take a few minutes and give us a breakdown?
Buelldozer 1 year ago • 100%
Okay done. I'll give the instance a try and see how it goes. :)
Buelldozer 1 year ago • 77%
This show suffers from the same illogical plots, very questionable dialogue, and blatant canon failures
So it's basically the same as TOS? Excellent!
Buelldozer 1 year ago • 100%
It's a reference to Buell Motorcycles and their tractor like engines.
Buelldozer 1 year ago • 36%
I hope they don't. Counter narrative comments are healthy, even Communist ones.
Buelldozer 1 year ago • 100%
I know. That wasn't the point of my comment.
Buelldozer 1 year ago • 50%
Unfortunate but not surprising at all. For whatever reason(s) they just couldn't get it together like they needed too.
Buelldozer 1 year ago • 70%
The AR-15 is fairly weak as rifles go so I guess it doesn't count?
Buelldozer 1 year ago • 75%
Excellent! Should have been longer though.
Buelldozer 1 year ago • 100%
Neat machine. I wish Noel had done more exploring of it in the video.
Buelldozer 1 year ago • 100%
Are you honestly saying I can steal the better part of a billion dollars and hop across the border to Mexico without worry?
In other longer articles you find out that it's nowhere nearly a billion. The Solar Farms used to underpin the investments do exist and are productive. They have value in the hundreds of millions of pounds, but its apparently not quite enough to satisfy all of the bonds when they come do in 2025 and 2026.
Buelldozer 1 year ago • 100%
This article points the finger almost exclusively at Liam Kavanagh and almost ignores Sean Clark, Thurrock’s Finance Director.
A bit of digging turned up this much longer article published a year ago and while Liam Kavanagh and his companies feature in it there's also quite a bit more about Sean Clark's role in all this.
Buelldozer 1 year ago • 100%
There’s a part of me that believes he only ran again because, aside from his ego, he believed it would make him immune to indictments.
He should have listened when Liz Cheney, and more importantly her father, said he wouldn't be allowed near the Presidency again.
Buelldozer 1 year ago • 50%
The fediverse has a very high percentage of users who are FOSS zealots. These people would rather drink rancid gnu piss from Richard Stallman's sweaty jock strap than deal with commercialized software. After you've been around them long enough (1996 in my case) you learn to tune them out.
Buelldozer 1 year ago • 100%
Yes.
Buelldozer 1 year ago • 98%
As long as both groups of people are following their choice then it’s all good.
Buelldozer 1 year ago • 20%
The "Blue Wins" District Map is objectively worse than the "Red Wins" Distract Map as it has no politically opposed Districts, effectively silencing 40% of the Precincts. The "Red Wins" Distract Map is certainly skewed but is superior because it doesn't silence its opposition.
In short what that picture is calling "Good" represents the same dissent silencing behavior that people are rightly mad at Conservatives about. "Fair Representation", as presented in the article, looks a lot more like "Red Wins" and almost nothing like "Blue Wins".
Buelldozer 1 year ago • 25%
For one, Hexbear made it perfectly clear they expect their users to abide by the rules of the instances they visit and not cause trouble.
The users at Hexbear made it perfectly clear in the discussions about federation that they weren't going to respect that request and were openly encouraging each other to brigade other instances. They seem to have quite a number of participants who were really looking forward to being able to "bully the libs" and a quick scan showed several comments about sending offensive DMs to users of other instances. I was also able to find multiple HB users who openly admitted to already being banned multiple times from beehaw for trollish community breaking behavior.
The idea that BH users would have been well behaved is wishful thinking as they've already shown the Fediverse how they behave. Their instance Admins and Users are also not shy with how they are approaching Federation. They very specifically want the freedom to participate in other instances without those instances being able to engage them. Put together they want the freedom to "own the libs" all across the Fediverse without having those same libs show up in their carefully crafted safe space. They want to eat their cake and have it too.
To be clear I don't agree with how Lemmy.World handled the blocking of Hexbear. I would strongly have preferred community engagement on the issue prior to the block but looking at the Troll Army being formed at HB I can't necessarily fault the admins of LW either. Dealing with ideologically motivated extremists is a lot of work that no one wants to do.
Buelldozer 1 year ago • 33%
Or California or New York or Pennsylvania or or or.
Buelldozer 1 year ago • 100%
Prescribing, manufacturing, sale, and use. The Government is watching and analyzing literally every link in the chain from the drug precursors to the patient.
Buelldozer 1 year ago • 100%
Maybe, but my doctor and pharmacy both blame the DEA meddling for all the difficulties.
Sure, because that's what they can see and what is relevant to them. They have no insight into the manufacturers allotment of production, what that production schedule is, or how much of their production allotment they've already used. What you're seeing in this article is "behind the scenes" look at just how deeply the US Government is involved in Healthcare.
Buelldozer 1 year ago • 100%
Quite a large number of Republicans, including Trump himself, spend decades trying to ram Yucca mountain through. It faced heavy resistance from both the Clinton and Obama Administrations, the State of Nevada, and myriad of environmental organizations. Trying to blame it on "Conservatives" is pretty ridiculous.
https://www.ktnv.com/news/history-of-yucca-mountain-1982-2018
Yucca Mountain was killed by decades of persistent interference by opponents of nuclear power.
Buelldozer 1 year ago • 100%
As for what France does, as I mentioned, the US has not developed or built that tech because there is ultimately no profit in it and the US is unwilling to spend tax money on it.
First Ford, then Carter stopped commercial re-processing in the United States. Reagan brought it back. G. H. W. Bush then put the brakes on it but stopped short of an outright ban. Clinton stepped on the brakes even harder but again stopped shy of a full ban and when Bush Jr came into office he started a slow process of bringing it back. That's as far as this CRS Report goes although there may be an updated one somewhere out there.
Still, the US has spent money on it and was doing so at least as recently as 2008. It appears the biggest worry we have is proliferation of nuclear material, not profit or cost.
Buelldozer 1 year ago • 33%
Ah, sorry that misunderstood. Carry on!
Buelldozer 1 year ago • 55%
Which is the rule of lemmy.world that protects NATO as a bastion of Western European freedom?
There isn't one and there's plenty of anti-NATO / anti-western / anti-capitalist sentiment here on lemmy.world.
Are political discussions beyond centrism banned on lemmy.world?
Obviously not, we're still federated with lemmygrad and lemmy.ml.
Feel free to do what you feel is best for yourself but I think this situation with hexbear is being blown way out of proportion, mostly by people who seem to have a vested interest in that instance being able to participate here but not the other way around.
Buelldozer 1 year ago • 25%
The block user button is right there, feel free to use it. I won't block you though because I don't melt when I meet someone with a different opinion.
Buelldozer 1 year ago • 33%
why should people be prevented from questioning it?
They aren't and they aren't even being prevented from doing it on this very instance. There's pleny of anti-western and anti-capitalist sentiment in here, particularly from lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml. My take away on this is that the Admins are defederating from hexbear due to their stated plan to propagandize the shit out of every instance in the fediverse. Who wants to deal with a coordinated army of tankies coming from another instance?
Buelldozer 1 year ago • 66%
I’m very skeptical of their actual agenda.
You should be, it's an instance dedicated to Tankies.
Buelldozer 1 year ago • 55%
Lemmy dot world’s decision is disappointing because they seemed open and neutral politically.
Bah. There's plenty of users in here from Lemmy.ml, lemmygrad.ml, and other leftists instances. It's quite clear that the lemmy.world is pretty darn open ideologically. Hexbear is getting ban hammered because they've made it very clear that they aim to misbehave.
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Officials have been warning visitors not to get close to the animals.
Family members have identified Amie Adamson, 47, of Derby, Kansas, as the victim of a fatal grizzly bear mauling Saturday.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is suing the city of Cody Planning, Zoning and Adjustment Board on a voting technicality and asked the Park County District Court to determine whether the board had already approved the site plan for the proposed Cody temple during its June 15 meeting.
For instance I want HA to announce that the garage door is opening. I already have the door monitored and can control it via HA. I have HA integrated with Alexa via Nabu Casa but it appears to be a one way thing where she can ask HA to do something via NC but HA can't ask her to do something...like announce "The Garage Door is Opening."
I've had RiF since before the name change, since before Golden Platinum even. It's been on every single phone I've owned for over a decade! I'm sad that today's the last day, that this is it. Feels like I'm saying goodbye to a friend. Thanks for the app. I'm going to miss it and Reddit is going to miss my mobile traffic because I absolutely refuse to use the Official App...and they can't make me!
About 36 hours after a large tornado ripped through part of the North Antelope Rochelle coal mine 60 miles south of Gillette, nobody remains hospitalized and operations at the mine are expected to resume by Tuesday, says mine owner Peabody Energy.
With hundreds of youth soccer teams in town competing for a spot at nationals, Visit Boise expects the tournament to have up to $8 million in economic impact.
Children love the sport, but can we make it safer?
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Jack Clawson of Sedalia, Missouri went missing in 1981 while traveling through Wyoming on his way home from a trip to Fremont, California. His family lost contact with him during the trip. They reported him missing when he failed to show up for a hunting trip with friends, a Wednesday release states.
Guy Fieri just can’t stay away from Wyoming. He was spotted most recently at the TA Ranch in Buffalo, Wyoming, with Nashville’s Wayland The Band, a crossover country-rock group.
A Federal Reserve database of master accounts reveals “stunning” information in Wyoming-based Custodia Bank’s precedent-setting lawsuit against the Fed for denying its master account.
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