bitwaba

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[–] bitwaba 12 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Secede. That'll teach 'em.

[–] bitwaba 1 points 3 weeks ago

Salt and pepper fighting.

[–] bitwaba 2 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

A giraffe is a horse with a long neck.

A giraffe centaur is a centaur with a long neck.

QED

[–] bitwaba 7 points 4 weeks ago

You said it! Shifting right, right?!

[–] bitwaba 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

There are tons of tons, believe it or not.

There's the short ton (2000lbs), long ton (2240 lbs), and tonne (1000kgs) which are all measure weight. However there's also the shipping/freight/ocean ton which is a measure of volume (which is also different in the US and UK), and the register ton.

However I did make a mistake. The wikipedia page I was reading said the weight in t and long tons. I made the mistake of assuming they meant short tons - in reality when measuring displacement for a ship, tonnes are used (which is pretty sensible, considering you're displacing water and a liter of water to a kilogram of water have a pretty easy conversion formula formula...)

[–] bitwaba 17 points 1 month ago (6 children)

You think that's crazy? The ship that blocked the Suez Canal, the Ever Given, has a ship displacement (how much water is displaced when it sits in the ocean) of 265,000 Tons.

That's 240 million kilograms.

And that shit just floats on fucking water maaaaan...

[–] bitwaba 17 points 1 month ago

Electing Trump (Nov 2016) the first time was the American equivalent of Brexit (June 2016).

[–] bitwaba 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Trump's numbers didn't stay the same. Despite winning the popular vote, Donald trump had 2 million less voters than in 2020. That's a hefty chunk.

It just doesn't matter, because 15 million other voters also didn't show up.

[–] bitwaba 20 points 1 month ago

I think it’s that this L forces the Democratic Party to lean back left with their campaign promises, and whatever power they have left to affect policy.

Yeah, that's what everyone thought after 2016 as well.

[–] bitwaba 9 points 1 month ago

Didn't think I'd ever see Waleska on Lemmy... but, yeah. This is just the story all over North Georgia right? No one wanted to live in the mountains until all of the sudden you could work from anywhere. Now everyone earning city and suburb pay is happy to live an hour farther out than they were before.

[–] bitwaba 5 points 1 month ago

Would be nice if he put his money where his mouth is. He's 81 years old, but I bet he's still gonna show up Tuesday.

[–] bitwaba 48 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

Throughout his congressional campaign in 1974, Gingrich was having an affair with a young volunteer. An aide who worked with Gingrich throughout the 1970s stated that "it was common knowledge that Newt was involved with other women during his marriage to Jackie."
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In September 1980, according to friends who knew them both, Newt visited Jackie in the hospital the day after she had undergone surgery to treat her uterine cancer; once there, Newt began talking about the terms of their divorce, at which point Jackie threw him out of the room

In 1993, while still married to Marianne, Gingrich began an affair with House of Representatives staffer Callista Bisek, more than two decades his junior.[278] Gingrich was having this affair even as he led the impeachment of Bill Clinton for perjury related to Clinton's own extramarital affair.[279][128] Gingrich filed for divorce from Marianne in 1999, a few months after she had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.

Sauce: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich

My stepmother was doing her undergrad (and a few years later her law degree) from the University of West Georgia when he was a professor of history there and had started his first congressional campaign. She said literally every woman in school was aware of his affairs with students.

Moral decay in 2024? This is just yet another year of accusations fueled by projection from the right.

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