Candelestine

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[–] Candelestine 34 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Oh, they are more than welcome to take credit for Ukraine funding. No worries there. I'm sure their voters will looooove that. Israel, yep, they can have that one too. Taiwan, sure, why not? Aid for the Gazans? Yep, sure. Totally fine.

I see no issues here. lol

[–] Candelestine 33 points 11 months ago

I have not seen this argument you claim. If a liberal wants to own a gun, they can own a gun. Genuine leftists, particularly of the seize-the-means-of-production sort, are also not exactly unfamiliar with violence.

Perhaps you are hanging out with ... trolls?

Or perhaps actually calling for violence, which would get your comments removed, on here at least?

[–] Candelestine 11 points 11 months ago

Ah, interesting. Values handed down through cultures and families are a thing though, given Nazi shooting is a behavior and set of values, that was how I interpreted it.

Incidentally, your font size does not exactly have the impact you might think, we're not all a bunch of teens here.

[–] Candelestine 16 points 11 months ago (3 children)

You think white supremacists shot Nazis...? I mean, yeah, I guess the most famous Nazi ended up shooting himself, that might count. Kinda.

Or do you think only white supremacists care about history? Really curious about this line of reasoning.

As a side note, falling into despair is exactly what the fascists want of you. It keeps you out of their way, which helps them.

[–] Candelestine 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure I agree, as that would turn it into an exclusively science news community. A more general science discussion forum is admittedly much more demanding to moderate, but also opens things up for more activity.

Like, what if someone finds a funny clip from some flat earther or something, and wants to post it here for general amusement value, knowing it'd probably not do any actual harm here?

[–] Candelestine 13 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I agree, but it's this or nothing, as of the past couple years. Halting emissions in a world where major petroleum producers are engaged in warfighting, alongside the rise of fascism, is untenable.

Fascists see not just hydrocarbons, but humans as a resource, to be used. You better believe they give no fucks about climate. Pain and suffering are considered good things. And besides, would global warming really hurt Russia's long term prospects?

If that's madness, I'd point out that sanity by our standards is not the direction of very recent times.

[–] Candelestine 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Has he already assigned it to committee? A discharge petition is used to extract a bill from being stuck in committee. One of the Speaker's duties, however, is to assign bills to committees in the first place. The easiest way for him to block the bill is to simply never do this. It enters the House, and then it just sits there, going nowhere, forever. Unable to move to step 1.

Mike Johnson would then be what needs to be discharged.

[–] Candelestine 11 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Peppercorns?

Whole and spherical, not particularly tasty. Changing their shape via grinding, however, unlocks fought-wars-over-the-stuff levels of tastiness.

Please explain.

[–] Candelestine 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The crust has a few tectonically stable regions that have never slid into the mantle. This is where we've found rocks that date all the way back to 2-3 billion-ish years. We call them geologic shields.

Our current activities would leave chemical markers in these regions that would be detectable for a very, very long time, and could come from no known natural process.

Otherwise you're right, everything else eventually slides into the mantle and gets turned back into magma over a long enough timeframe.

[–] Candelestine 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry, but you can't make it true. History is full of examples where a much smaller army was able to eventually overcome and defeat a much stronger opponent.

[–] Candelestine 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You think memes being used for low-effort propaganda is new?

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