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so do those college hunk movers only operate during 3 months a year, + the weeks of winter and spring? lol again just like how fastfood or mall jobs are "suppose to be for teens" this means the you have a bunch of biz that only run for school breaks.
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the_steve posted:The willful ignorance is the most infuriating thing. Did conservatives always think beliefs that are convenient for them to have and the truth are the exact same thing, did Trump make it okay for them to show it a lot more outwardly, or am I just noticing this poo poo more in a post-Trump reality? Seems like before with the Abu Ghraib torture and poo poo like that their side at least acknowledged that their scandals actually loving happened The Islamic Shock fucked around with this message at 06:21 on Mar 25, 2024 |
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The Islamic Shock posted:Hey, if the very concept of mathematics itself has to be wrong in order for your uncle to not have to believe something that would be inconvenient for him, well Modern conservatives by and large are guided by the conclusions they want to be true and work their way backwards from there... assuming they care about logical consistency, evidence, and reason at all. See the interviews with Trumpers who, shown quotes from Trump attributed to Biden, without missing a beat will switch from "that's a horrible sign of dementia" to "I believe in him wholeheartedly" This is the culmination of decades of twisting themselves in knots so they could reach the conclusions they wanted and general anti-intellectual stances when this is pointed out to them. They also cultivated a demographic through Fox News and other RWM that was easily manipulated by fear and rage, which was useful in the short term but has resulted in what you see today. What they feel to be true is more important than objective reality.
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DarkHorse posted:What they feel to be true is more important than objective reality. poo poo, this has been the case since well before Trump. Like, Stephen Colbert coined 'truthiness' and it ended up getting added to the dictionary to mean the whole "it feels true and that's what matters" thing.
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"Reality-based community" was a derisive comment toward people who cared about the idea of truth and consistency, made by an unnamed Dubya White House staffer. I feel like Nixon's "When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal," is part of the same strain of thought. Just total disregard for anything but getting your way. And this is just talking about within-living-memory American politics, here.
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disposablewords posted:"Reality-based community" was a derisive comment toward people who cared about the idea of truth and consistency, made by an unnamed Dubya White House staffer. I feel like Nixon's "When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal," is part of the same strain of thought. Just total disregard for anything but getting your way. And this is just talking about within-living-memory American politics, here. It is multiple generations of gently caress You Got Mine with each subsequent generation the You expanding and the Mine decreasing in numbers.
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disposablewords posted:"Reality-based community" was a derisive comment toward people who cared about the idea of truth and consistency, made by an unnamed Dubya White House staffer. I feel like Nixon's "When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal," is part of the same strain of thought. Just total disregard for anything but getting your way. And this is just talking about within-living-memory American politics, here. What they want to be true is that they are always right, and if they have the power to do what they want then it is self-evidently just and right that they do so Anyone who fights against this or points out logical inconsistencies with this is evil and a traitor and must be destroyed
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So the new Satanic Panic basically? Socialism: even worse than covid! 
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I'm always a fan of quotes placed over pictures of people who, if I saw their face in my mirror, I'd slam my head against it until the image shattered into blood-soaked shards embedded in my eyes.
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Panfilo posted:So the new Satanic Panic basically? poo poo, we don't need a "new" Satanic Panic, they're still trying to drum up the old one.
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Panfilo posted:So the new Satanic Panic basically? Panfilo posted:Socialism: even worse than covid! 
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Guavanaut posted:They're claiming that the things that doctors did to intersex kids for 70 years out of fear that having 'genital abnormality' would cause homosexuality and out of a need to force infants into one of two arbitrary boxes on a birth certificate originally intended to enforce the draft and stop women from voting or inheriting property are actually recent things being done by the 'trans cult', who are in fact one of the main drivers to get sex off of birth certificates and let intersex children decide their own gender when they are older because the unnecessary surgery often doesn't work. It really is telling that every transition care ban that gets proposed has explicit carve outs for intersex newborns "no gender affirming surgeries for minors unless you find the stock equipment on a newborn to be lacking" is a hell of a position to sell with a straight face
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raising the minimum wage is totally socialist though
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The obvious response is that you don't go to a gun when you're sick, but given healthcare costs in the US I guess some people do.
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Steering a ship requires propulsion. Without propulsion, your steering is almost entirely useless. Lose your engines, and you're going to go wherever the current decides you're going to go. And, I don't know for sure how it is on large cargo ships like that, but the riverboats that I pilot, the steering pumps are connected to the generators. Lose the gens, you lose your steering. The only emergency backup is switching to the second generator and hoping it isn't hosed up too.
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As you'd expect, the steering gear on container ships is massive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IibP5EBKloI Those two huge three phase induction motors, drive a pair of hydraulic pumps, and the pumps drive the rams that moves the rudder. Lose power and you might be able to use the residual pressure in the hydraulic cylinders to move it half a degree, but actual steering isn't going to happen, and like you say there isn't a magic power source that comes into play that could run a pair of what look like 20kW motors, plus the contactor cabinet and the pump controllers for any amount of time. Super special emergency backup power will probably be some marine lead acid batteries that can run the "steering's hosed" light and alarm.
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Guavanaut posted:As you'd expect, the steering gear on container ships is massive. A lot of times there's a human-powered backup, but it requires some poor shmuck down in the steering gear room to turn a wheel 100,000 times because there's a massive gear reduction involved. It's a middle-of-the-ocean solution.
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"I would simply have not run into the bridge" I smugly post on my internet-connected device, having done no research whatsoever
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DarkHorse posted:"I would simply have not run into the bridge" I smugly post on my internet-connected device, having done no research whatsoever
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BRIDGE VAXXED?!?!?!?!??!
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This Branco is funny because I know so many incidents of dog owners letting their pets loose in public parks where there are also sheep pastures to maintain the ecosystem, and the doggies then beeline to shred the sheep. We also have wolves here and they are more of a nuisance to sheep owners, but this wolf among the sheep seems to be alright because it hasn't attacked anyone yet.
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Two-for-one shitbaggery, yet still the one joke.
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The Engineer (not valid in states where that's a registered profession) has spoken.
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Guavanaut posted:The Engineer (not valid in states where that's a registered profession) has spoken. so smart. so wise
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I know my software engineer friends get really annoyed when mechanical/electrical engineers say that software is not 'real' engineering. But then you get this loving poo poo. As David Gerard would call it: the fallacy of transferable expertise. "Oh yeah I totally understand this thing I've never loving read about. It's so simple. Why didn't anyone thing about this before?"
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Guavanaut posted:The Engineer (not valid in states where that's a registered profession) has spoken. Yes, let's use the steel that got mangled and submerged in salt water.
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It's just like they always say: fast, cheap, safe - you can have all three
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In that scene Peter notices his magic spider powers have fixed his nearsightedness and he sees more clearly without the glasses, so they can't even do the one joke right
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I feel like if you need to use cgi to make your point, whatever you're talking about is not real
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tbf to Musk, his hair plugs """""""""""work"""""""""""", why cant they reuse steel?
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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:Yes, let's use the steel that got mangled and submerged in salt water. To say nothing of its state prior to collapse. American bridge infrastructure hasn't got the greatest of reputations.
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Guavanaut posted:The Engineer (not valid in states where that's a registered profession) has spoken. Speaking as a mechanical engineer this is infuriating. It's like that tweet that said something to the effect of "Because I was not a rocket scientist I believed Musk when he talked about rockets. Because I was not an electrical engineer I believed him when he talked about electric cars. But now he's talking about software, something I *do* know about, and I realize he's a moron"
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DarkHorse posted:Speaking as a mechanical engineer this is infuriating. https://mastodon.social/@rodhilton/109572674700288958 quote:He talked about electric cars. I don't know anything about cars, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius.
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DarkHorse posted:Speaking as a mechanical engineer this is infuriating.
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