Mostly correct. IIRC, it was from some influencers’ photoshoot, and originally it doesn’t look anywhere near as spicy as the memes may imply. Someone did some research a while back, and it’s pretty tame.

I’m just here to say that “Y.M.A.” makes for a much less catchy chorus, so there’s that…

Now I wonder what caused someone to downvote this…

Yes, in any statement “can lead to” does a lot of heavy lifting. There’s a big leap between “I added a grain of fructose to my tea last month” to “I added a grain of rice to my HFCS brother this meal too”

Yes. The manager was fired because all the useful people were suddenly no longer with the company.

To quote Jimmy Hoffa, (who will certainly show up alive and well any day now): “If you have it, a truck brought it”

…and trucks need fuel.

In other words, anything have, that was not made from scratch by you or your neighbor, had oil as an input somewhere in the supply chain.

Now, imagine that people are no l9nger able to get what they need/want. That’s how regicide was invented.

No. Possibly because I have never really tried to, after realizing that:

1. People entering said debates are mostly just there to win an argument.
2. I am under no obligation to convince them that their beliefs are utterly stupid

Those who hold stupid positions aren’t really the ones with a mind open enough to the position that they might in fact be in the wrong. Plus, I don’t have the capacity for bullshit that such an endeavor requires.

I have long since concluded that people will not only hold stupid beliefs, but desperately cling to them and consider me not having the fortitude to put up with all the fallacies that follows as a sign that they’re right.

I don’t really have an audience, and I therefore don’t feel like entering a debate, because debates to me seem mostly performative in an effort to gather soundbites and/or screenshots.

I’m sure you (yes, you reading this) have plenty of positions I find utterly idiotic, but I frankly don’t think I’m the one who will be able to convince you. I can’t educate the world, the world needs to converge on that on its own.

The hard R

Chuds noticing things getting worse, and their leader offering solutions and someone to blame. It’s always been like that. Happened in Germany in the 1920s, happened in the US in the 2010s.

Now that it’s accelerating, it’s gonna be interesting to see which conclusions are drawn after their chosen ones have been in charge almost the entire time.

Well, it would’ve collapsed either way, as you can see on the pictures during the fire that the metal is starting to buckle uniformly around the entire floor with the fire. But patches without insulation probably meant that it collapsed sooner than it could’ve.

Didn’t help anyone trapped, so the net result is the same in that I fail to see how 30 minutes extra before it crumbled would’ve made any difference

I should call her…

🎶 With a freezeray I could…

STOP

…the pain 🎶

IIRC, the materials were fine, but the spray-on fireproofing left large patches uncovered. While not a direct cause, it certainly didn’t help.

WTYP has a pretty good episode on the entire thing

I’ve heard about this guy named Tony who still skates at the age of 58. He’s pretty good at it too. I wonder if he ever considered a career in it.

That made me curious: what’s your current field? And has your college degree been useful in another way than originally intended?

At 21 years old, I would never have thought I’d be living in [REDACTED] with 4 kids, a GF and awell paying job I actually like.

Alternatively, 21 year old me would probably have had his mind blown if I’d shown him all the places in the world I’ve had the pleasure of visiting.

In order of appearance:

1. Dream Theater - Learning to Live
2. Icy Lust - Downtown Maglev
3. Oasis - Acquiesce
4. Fear Factory - Linchpin
5. Olivia - Alone in Our Castle

And the average person should also know that steel doesn’t need to melt to lose a lot of it’s load bearing capacity. At 500-600 Celsius, only 50% of steel strength remains.

Canned food or not, to project power by riding horses requires that there are actual horses nearby to steal/buy/domesticate. I live in the sticks, and horses are rare even here. You can be as powerful as you want, but you would still not be able to will abhorse into existence.

I don’t think horses are common enough to be a common post-apocalyptic beast of burden. Besides, the apocalypse itself would probably cause food scarcity, and feeding the horse would most likely instead turn into eating the horse.

But yes, some elite factions m8ght use them for riding, but I suspect it would be very rare. I think The Postman, despite being an awful movie, has elements of realism, in that Holnists (or whatever the anti-Kevin faction was called) would usetheir power to gain access to horses. Or maybe their founder owned a horse ranch during the apocalypse and that’s why they’re powerful.

Incorrect. I am the vegetarian authority.