It did start back up though. And we don’t know if further research could bring the costs down. I’m not proposing it as a magic bullet, just as one potential way to get nighttime coverage.

There’s some promising research in using heliostats (mirrors to direct sunlight) towards a central tower to create molten salt, allowing solar energy to be stored and released at night.

We’re very grateful for that, but we’re also going to have to bring you in for reeducation and Clockwork Orange you with cooking shows until you can only make pancakes through mundane processes. I’ll talk to my superiors though and see if they can throw in like a $20 gift card for the whole wizard murdering thing.

Sharing my bit

I try not to be but sometimes I can’t help myself.

I’m not talking about changes over time, talking about things I’ve seen recently on here regarding Russia’s current status, in response to news stories and comments discussing the danger of escalation going nuclear.

Shroedinger’s Russian nuclear arsenal. When there’s a story about risking escalation, libs tell me it’s fine because Russia doesn’t have the money to maintain its nukes, so it’d only be a “limited” nuclear exchange. When this story comes out, the libs tell me that Russia has a much larger and better maintained nuclear stockpile, so it’s only necessary for the US to spend more on it to catch up. It’s sort of the same way that Russia simultaneously is on the verge of defeat, yet also has the intention and capability to conquer all of Europe, like Hitler, if we don’t stop him here.

The enemy is both strong and weak, and you never know which one it’s gonna be.

YES

My understanding is that a tankie is defined as someone who seeks to promote global peace, understanding, and equality, with nuanced views that incorporate marginalized and international perspectives, grounded in historical evidence.

That’s how I see it used anyway.

I agree with the article except for this part:

Joe Biden’s success in 2020 was due in no small part to his deliberate rejection of Clinton’s failed strategy. “Scranton Joe” courted both Sanders voters and blue-collar whites. He promised expanded infrastructure spending and tougher trade deals. Progressive young people might not have given Biden their votes in the primaries, but he campaigned as a candidate who saw them as part of his coalition and duly won their votes on Election Day.

I think the main reason Biden won in 2020 is because of COVID. That and correctly recognizing that people despise both him and Trump and realizing that if he simply stays out of the limelight people won’t pay as much attention to how bad he is. Neither of these factors are working for him now, it’s much harder to stay out of the limelight when you’re the one in charge.

I suppose there may have been less open hostility towards the left compared to Clinton, but only because that’s such a low bar.

China has official death estimates so I don’t believe that they deny that anything at all happened.

Now, it’s considered patriotic to protest poor government decisions.

Is it now? Would you say the student protests over Gaza are considered “patriotic” in mainstream American culture?

Comparing an incident where 11 million people were killed to one where hundreds of people were killed is a form of Holocaust denialism.

What’s the historical significance of Tiananmen Square? People sure seem to like talking about it, but personally I don’t really see why it warrants so much attention, in the grand scheme of things.

Humor really takes them off-script. If you say, “I’m not a Russian agent,” well, that sounds like what a Russian agent would say. If you try to say, “There are legitimate reasons for an ordinary person to believe what I’m saying,” well, sounds like you’re using that as an excuse to spread more Russian propaganda. It’s a solid conspiracy theory with a response for every angle, but they just don’t know what to make of it when you start doing a bit like that.

That was also the thinking behind my Phoenix Wright theming, that, and that I could get away with being like, “Do you have any evidence to support that claim?” I kinda dropped it because it got old fast but it’s nice to have in my back pocket when they get ridiculous.

It’s very funny to me that liberals will say all this shit and never have the receipts. This isn’t the first time I’ve seen them accuse people of liking Pol Pot, that seems to be one of their go-tos.

They’re constantly spewing these conspiracy theories about Russian agents or conservatives in disguise, while adamantly refusing to understand how anyone could not subscribe to “vote blue no matter who” and lesser-evilism. I keep making fun of them but they just keep doing it and I only have so many clever bits in me. Though I was quite proud of my most recent one.

“made up languages”

I think they’re referring to terminology.

I recently saw one of the top minds of .world claim that using “liberal” correctly was, “intentionally confusing. It’s a Russian psyop tactic that tankies have picked up.”

Was zero science conducted before the ~1600s then?

I mean, yes. The framework of studying things that we understand as science did not always exist.

Remember that time managers at a Tyson meat processing plant ran a betting pool on how many of their workers would get covid?

Noncredibledefense is from Reddit and has a very particular set of bizarre brainworms that generally boil down to bootlicking NATO. As far as communities federated with .ml, it’s the worst by far. Be glad they banned you, block it and pretend it doesn’t exist, everyone on there is way too deep into whatever it is they’re into to ever listen to reason and there is no value in understanding them.

Fuck off. The only reason I didn’t block you was to give you a chance to realize you said something incredibly fucked up and apologize. Your attitude is a perfect example of why I’m opposed to this garbage and has only served to validate my position, which I now am more convinced of than ever. Blocked.

You moved the goalpost by going from “we should ban assisted suicide” to “we should make suicide harder (instead of actually doing something against the root causes)”.

My position from the start has been that assisted suicide, if it is to be allowed at all, should only be allowed for people with incurable physical pain. You can find multiple different comments of me saying that in this thread.

I’m glad that you “went trough the same and turned out fine”, but most people that bring up that argument have not turned out fine.

Wow. Thank you so much for telling me you think that suicide is the only answer to my problems. That’s a very reasonable and normal thing to say to someone you’ve never met.

Showing your real colors. You people just want people with mental illness to kill themselves so we’ll be out of your hair. Go fuck yourself, asshole.

Completely writing off whatever progress I’ve made while knowing precisely jack shit about my journey. What the fuck is wrong with you to think that’s ok?