I wonder if that person thinks hydrogen gas == hydrogen bomb

[-] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Imagine being a Republican and supporting this type of governance. I tried and didn't quite make it there. They, Republicans, show over and over that they can't even manage the most basic functions of Congress.

It's just Lemmy and the knee jerk reactions to the mention of Israel. It's rarely worth engaging on here on that subject.

It's not like Roof got off scot-free. He is awaiting the death penalty and was sentenced to 9 life sentences on top of that.

[-] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 239 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

When I was a union rep there would be people that would bitch about the $70 bucks a month or whatever the dues were. I would explain that without the union their pay would be far, far less (not even bringing up the benefits of work hours, vacation days and whatnot). Like the "all taxes are theft" morons, the words often fell on deaf and willfully ignorant ears.

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I can't seem to figure this out. I've been trying out different news aggregator sites to use as a home page. Right now I'm using skimfeed. I like it, but the links all have skimfeed baggage tacked on. Like this: https://skimfeed.com/r.php?q=1148&l=15649995&u=https%3A%2F%2Fxkcd.com%2F3006%2F

Well, the source looks like this:

<span class='boxtitles'><h2><a class='siteurls ts33' href='/news/xkcd.html'>XKCD</a> <a class='siteurls atat' href='http://xkcd.com' rel='nofollow' target='_blank'>+</a></h2></span>

<ul><li class='nl1 bd33'><a href='r.php?q=1148&l=15649995&u=https%3A%2F%2Fxkcd.com%2F3006%2F' target='_blank' rel='nofollow' title='Demons'>Demons</a> </li><li class='nl2 bd75'><a href='r.php?q=1148&l=15642742&u=https%3A%2F%2Fxkcd.com%2F3005%2F' target='_blank' rel='nofollow' </li></ul></div>

Which, to be honest, is Greek to me. I'd like to rewrite the links so that they just look like https://xkcd.com/3006/ I don't really care what the link looks like, per se, the encoded bits. I just don't like the extra skimfeed stuff. Aesthetically.

Is there an extension or something that will help me with this? The couple I've looked at are either too complicated for my caveman brain, or site specific (i.e., remove google tracking). If I'm just being a little too retentive, feel free to let me know that too.

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz to c/politics@beehaw.org
495

Report about the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post —

  • 26 Articles in the week following Smith's indictment of Trump for his attempted coup

  • 100 Articles — nearly 4 times as many — that mentioned Clinton’s server in the week after then-FBI Director James Comey’s notorious October 28, 2016, letter on new developments in that probe--

The US media has learned nothing and is doing a disservice to American voters.

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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

Any advice for a regular smart 27 year old youngster, who has chronically underachieved and is motivated to turn their life around. They have a couple years of JC completed, and has no idea what path to take, or really what paths exist.

EDIT: OK, I see I gave slim pickins here. It's not me, it's my neighbor's kid. I've known his parents since before he was born. He's a super smart kid, but like a lot of smart kids, he got kind of jaded about...well, everything. I was visiting the other day and he asked me for advice, and my retired ass has nothing. Any relevant personal experience I may have, became dated years ago.

He's good at just about all subjects. His longest lifelong hobby has been video games. He took a few programming classes and liked it, but the thought of doing it full time as a career would quickly become torture.

He's kind of half-assed things and just realized he needs to get his shit straight. He was thinking something like finance, just numbers. Something solid that's just a career direction. He is going back to school, well most likely he is, but he needs an idea of what path to take. Most of his friends are unemployed/underemployed with computer degrees.

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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz to c/worldnews@lemmy.world

Nobody seems to be talking about the continuing genocide of Rohingya in Myanmar nor India's heartless and illegal current actions.

“Refoulement is against international human rights law, regardless of if you’ve signed the refugee convention" - John Quinley III, director of international rights group

[-] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 147 points 9 months ago

Living with a handgun owner particularly increased the risk of being shot to death in a domestic violence incident, and it did not provide any protection against being killed at home by a stranger, the researchers found. - Guardian Article April 7, '22

The relationship of Americans and our guns is such a weird, religious-level issue. Just bizarre people. And some of them are friends of mine. The people, not the guns.

[-] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 181 points 10 months ago

What the fuck, Hugo? Why hold it in a country that has no human rights?

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My mom has a hole in the ground that she puts her clothes drying hanger in. Like this. The hole in the ground is a 2" or so pipe, set in concrete. The pipe has filled with gravel. Anyone have a tip on getting the rocks out? I can only get so many out using my fingers and then trying to use a set of chopsticks.

[-] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 148 points 1 year ago

Carter, correct as usual. I am surprised to hear this though, if only because the last I heard Carter was in hospice. And that was months ago. Dude just survives.

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This seems far more serious than the typical lobbing explosives at each other in which Hamas and Israel habitually partake.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

OK, this is dumb, but it's gone through my head a couple times. I've seen a few science fiction movies and shows where the people in the spaceship use a gravity assist and lean into the turns like they're driving NASCAR or riding a roller coaster.

I think they wouldn't feel the acceleration (vector change) because gravity is doing the acceleration on every molecule and there would be nothing to lean against. I'm often wrong though. Someone smarter than I am have some insight?

EDIT: For what it's worth, I guess I shouldn't have used the Expanse clip as it upset some people. I just used it for an example of what I was asking. The question is this: Under little or no thrusters, would you feel a gravity assist? Even a radical one that changes your direction 90 degrees and greatly increases your velocity?

[-] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 183 points 1 year ago

There really should be some DOJ investigation into why the SDNY dropped the case in the first place.

[-] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 219 points 1 year ago

The US doesn't deserve John Oliver. Thank you GB!

[-] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 144 points 1 year ago

I heard this a couple years ago: The single most important predictor of a successful coup, is a failed coup

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