Needs euthanization

that was a thousand years? dang, reich-years make dog-years look like an eternity!

Didn’t germany also experience severe brain drain around, oh, the late 1930s or so?

Something about … people with the common sense and sufficient means to survive elsewhere fleeing in droves because they saw the writing on the wall and knew shit was about to get ugly?

Thank you kindly! :D

I fully expect to come back to lemmy in 48 hours to find a fascinatingly detailed and viciously incisive rebuttal that calls me at least three slurs in the first paragraph, sprinkles additional passive aggressive repudiations of my character throughout, and finishes with a tactical f-bomb too :D

Consider the amount of air its wings must displace in order to stay aloft. An equal quantity of mass at least. It’s passing through that air and, partly pushing it down, but also partially scraping it thin over the bowed top surface of the wing (the Bernoulli principle) which creates a pressure differential that lifts the wing, pulling it upward through suction, and thus the plane. That’s why the plane must go fast to fly, and why it “stalls” and falls if it isn’t moving through enough air. It’s also how turbulence affects a plane. Differences in air pressure mean that in pockets of low pressure there isn’t as much mass being displaced by the wings, not enough lift so it falls.

Now, it’s quite likely that my layman’s comprehension of this is flawed. But I’m sure it’s entirely possible that someone will correct me soon :3

hey cheer up chum, you may never have to experience an election ever again.

As a polock… e x c u s e m e w h a t t h e f u c k

When it comes to leadership who view an ongoing genocide overseas with blase tacit complicity, we are indeed damned if we do AND damned if we don’t.

If we are to be damned no matter what we do, though, it then becomes a question of what qualities our inevitable damnation should possess.

Shall we be damned with bog standard milquetoast business as usual liberalism that doesn’t do enough to actually help anything get better and continues to naively play nice with the predators, parasites, and scavengers of the big business elite class?

OR

Shall we be damned with concentration camps on American soil rounding up anyone the republican party deems to be “undesirable” and “making them go away” (any american who uses their free speech “the wrong way” being labeled a domestic terrorist ‘enemy alien’, nevermind the economy tanking, women being held hostage by their uteri and dying frequent preventable maternal deaths because a stillborn fetus is valued more highly than her life, prices soaring due to tariffs making imported goods nonviable, etc) ON TOP OF all the shit that’s wrong with liberalism with regard to big business pandering (except only the businesses owned by republican-party-approved individuals)?

the idea that people can’t tell the difference makes my fucking blood boil

He wasted a perfectly ideal opportunity to say fuck that noise, or more diplomatically: “i don’t care about something that concerns America so little when we have such serious issues to deal with right here at home. it’s like a plane that has lost cabin pressure; we need to secure our own oxygen mask before we can help anyone else.”

predictably, nobody talks about Aleppo or the things that happened there now.

i probably wasn’t going to vote for him no matter what but his failure to leverage that opportunity still disappointed me and what IS still happening to this day is my disdain for people who still identify with his organization. they did not eat; they got cooked. they need to read the goddamn room and go home.

I for one was not surprised at all when Hillary lost in 2016.

she engaged her pied piper strategy, held that rotten rat bastard plutocrat irredeemable orange scumbag to America’s head like a gun, said “vote for me or else,” and smugly thought to herself “well now they have no choice but to vote for me.”

from where i stood, i fully expected that America very well could have been petty enough that it would cut off its own nose to spite its face. or in this case, reach up and pull the trigger on that gun itself.

America said “else,” and proceeded to pay dearly for responding to an act of out-of-touch party aristocrat hubris with careless lackadaisical contempt.

my father is dead because America didn’t have appropriate healthcare or effective pandemic response frameworks in place. it has robbed me of a significant chunk of my humanity and empathy. a good man died because of this comedy of errors, and anyone less of a worthwhile person than my father had been who yet lives will never again be seen as a human being in these eyes of mine.

I’d like to believe this country has learnt its very painful lesson.

but if it hasn’t, it can drown in the bed it will have shat. i shall squander no loyalty or kindness upon anyone who “left on the table” the most accessible possible measure within their grasp to ensure trump never defiles public office again. for those Innocents who may yet be caught in the crossfire of “protest voter” manic delusions of self-righteousness, I’m ready to assist in helping people escape this shithole nation with all the resources a working class household with four walls and a roof can spare. it would sure be nice if it didn’t come to that, though.

Yep. The kind of humanoid that would choose to do this has some sort of fundamental fault. Unit is defective, recall to warehouse, keep in observation to further refine diagnostic models. Or just return to manufacturer.

When you wanna make the funeral home’s crematorium really WORK for it.

I just wish the CDP (the biggest player on the left in Japan) weren’t against nuclear energy. But other than that I too am pleased to see it. Maybe if they can buck their traditionalist conservative authoritarian streak, their country may finally make a dent in its persistent stagnation.

Someone’s got to do something about these fucking chicken shit publishers. I think it’s time for the industry to move on without them. Everything can be self published now. We have the technology.

I somehow managed to condition myself into thinking of gay as a complement term. People I hung out with in high school used to call things “straight” derogatively. Something was straight if it was boring, bland, predictable, superficially performative in a conformist manner, etc.

We’re all at least a little gay 💜

if poop has touched a surface, turns out i don’t care how much you wash it, ACTUALLY. no matter how thorougly sterilized a sewage pipe is, it’d still be insane and disgusting to use it as a drinking straw (for those who enjoy ‘eating ass’ for instance).

Guilty as charged! I’m deathly afraid of having to deal with fecal matter any more than I absolutely have to.

Yeah man if I were in charge of the post office I’d definitely push for that AND the return of postal banking. Every post office in the United States would be your one stop service for this email so if there are authentication issues or anything you can actually go there and talk to a PERSON, IN-PERSON.

You would use this system specifically for official government correspondence, and also it’d be better for job seeking too - any situation where you need to be communicating as YOURSELF, fully verified.

I’d even throw in social media features. Forums, microblogging, live chat groups… however, everyone’s identity is clear and certain. No anonymity here. There is privacy insofar as what’s between you and the government stays between you and the government, but if you want anonymity and to express opinions without someone knowing who you are, that’s to be done elsewhere.

Instead of a social media website that lies to you and pretends dishonestly to give you privacy, this would have to be up front about the fact that it’s public property. A town square where you’re wearing a name tag. If you don’t want your neighbors knowing your rhetorical positions, post them elsewhere. Those other places, private services, and important and need to exist as counterbalance.

I’m sure many criminals would be stupid enough to use it for human trafficking and contraband smuggling shit though so that’ll help uncover and discipline rogue elements.