Cianalas

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[–] Cianalas 2 points 1 year ago

They reach maturity fast, are basically always fertile, short gestational periods, and have large litters. It's like trying to eradicate mice/rats by shooting them.

[–] Cianalas 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They're not able to keep up with the breeding in Texas, and there's even helicopter tours where you can try and wipe out whole herds at a time.

[–] Cianalas 39 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Hamas launched a bunch of rockets from Gaza in a surprise attack on a holy day and then put ground fores in. This attack killed at least 100 Israeli civilians (Israel is also claiming near 1000 more injured) and has captured more.

Israel is of course going to retaliate and try and destroy the sites (surrounded by civilians since Hamas is known to try and use sensitive civilian locations as shields) and probably occupy Gaza in an effort to keep these rocket attacks from happening. Which will cause more Palestinian casualties, thus the cycle continues.

[–] Cianalas 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Not a conservative, and I've heard people in person argue that racism requires you to hold power, ergo you can't be racist against white people, since they've got all the power.

Is it everyone on the left that believes it, obviously not. But there is a very loud segment that does.

[–] Cianalas 11 points 1 year ago

I think he means that they're only 'active' because they're in detention, but they're not 'active' in the sense that we normally think of it as in actively serving in a role.

Sort of like saying that residents of a town are gang affiliated when they're only there because that's where the prison is located.

[–] Cianalas 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's because EPA under Obama changed emissions regulations from average across vehicles sold to tables by wheelbase (in order to try and tighten mpg on larger vehicles instead of sedans just getting better to average it out). So now, as MPG requirements go up, they just build bigger cars to bump into the next size instead of hitting MPG targets for the current size. This is also partly why there's few sedan models and everyone has just moved to crossovers.

Every potential regulation/deregulation has unintended consequences that should be explored to figure out if the consequences may be worse than current. Instead everyone just does it by throwing darts and assuming everyone will just go along with the intent. When that doesn't work, they go about blaming the other side for loopholes before repeating the process to try and close those loopholes up.

[–] Cianalas 1 points 1 year ago

Except a tip isn't a contractual transaction, so there's nothing illegal happening. They just left a clickbaity political flyer. There's no difference between leaving this and leaving Chick Tracts, other than this one makes you double take before throwing it out.

If they tried to pay for the meal with it, there'd be a legal problem since they're trying to pass it off as money.

[–] Cianalas 1 points 1 year ago

If they knowingly pass a counterfeit bill, yes.

But this is a tip, not a payment so there's no agreed upon amount that is supposed to be left.

Also, this isn't a counterfeit bill, since it's easily distinguishable from legal currency.

Is leaving a clickbaity political flyer in place of a tip a scummy thing to do? Absolutely. But it's not illegal.

[–] Cianalas 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It depends on who you ask. 10 years ago, it was mostly classical liberals that defected from the Republicans after the GOP started focusing their messaging on rallying evangelicals. Within the last couple election cycles, which IIRC is right around when they got close to having good enough poll numbers to get in a debate, the loudest group in it became ANCAPs who fight with each other about who's actually extreme enough to earn the libertarian title.

[–] Cianalas 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For the "bill" itself, we can't see the other side, but there's enough differences that you wouldn't mistake it for real currency at more than a glance. Fake bills for movie/tv sets look far closer to real bills (basically with obviously fake serial numbers and "for movie use only" stamped on it.

For leaving it as a tip, it's not being used to satisfy a payment. While tipping is expected, it's not required and there's not an agreed upon amount between the parties. So they're just leaving a scummy flyer behind. Not any different than the people that 'tip' with Chick Tracts. If they were to use it to try and pay the bill, it'd be illegal.

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

Maybe, but also only if it's trying to be used as cash. Trying to pay for groceries, meal, depositing it at a bank, etc. would be an issue. Leaving it as a tip, while a scummy thing to do, isn't on the same ballpark since it's not an agreed upon transaction (i.e. no price for a tip is agreed upon by the parties), and you'd have to prove intent to pass it off as cash and not just a flyer/pamphlet.

[–] Cianalas 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Those are two different ways of looking at the same thing, since either way lets other countries know how to do things undetected.

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