I am not familiar with this bronze colored nut that is holding my current Grohë Ladylux kitchen faucet to the counter. Does anyone know the best way to remove this? Thanks very much in advance!...
It’s kinda hard to describe. I recon it’s a parable about American colonization and the genocide of the native people. Like a map of how a project like that gets done and who benefits from it.
It’s like a melodrama in that it’s light on plot, and character motivation, but without the extreme circumstances unless you count the pervasive, persistent, and senseless violence. (that the characters themselves barely seem to notice) Not exactly a supernatural tale, but filled with dream logic, oh and the literal Christian Devil is one of the main characters.
This is the only book Ive ever read twice, back to back. I got to the end and was like WTF, turned to the first page and started again.
Satan plays the fiddle. This is not just the country song, but folklore going back to Medieval Europe. The early Catholic Church frowned on dancing which the violin was associated with.
In the 19th Century, Nicolo Paganini was rumored to have gotten his talent on that instrument through a pact with the devil, which may have inspired 20th century folklore about Robert Johnson and the crossroads.
Edging plutonium into criticality with a screwdriver is like lighting a match to get a better look at a stick of dynamite. It’s embarrassing that it got two people this way.
The problem is that too many people think they are thinking critically. Pushback, fact-checking, and ridicule are all seen as evidence that one is correct because the crackpots all think they’re fucking Galileo.
Israel is setting up a complex system of checkpoints that will prevent men of “military age” from fleeing Rafah in preparation for its offensive on the southern Gaza border city, a senior western official familiar with Israel’s plans has told Middle East Eye on condition of anonymity....
Currently it seems that there is a negative correlation in some places between intellectual achievement and fertility
It’s ironic because the more people who accept the plot of ‘Idiocracy’ (2006) as plausible or scientific is evidence that humanity is getting stupider.
Had a friend with problem neighbors kids cutting through his yard to get to the store. He was friendly with the parents and didn’t want to stir shit. The neighbors were super all-natural, hippie, no chemical types, so he told them he switched to a new fertilizer packed with micro-plastics and forever chemicals made by Monsanto that he had to sneak in from Mexico because it wasn’t allowed in the US. That fertilizer sure worked because the trail the kids were carving filled right in that summer.
Waland is the British half of the mega corp Waland-Yutani. Sometimes called Wa-Yu, or simply “the company”
Founded by Charles Bishop Wayland, the totally not evil billionaire industrialist, Wayland LLC was known for energy production, computer technology, and planetary terraforming before it was acquired in a hostile takeover by the Japanese Yutani corp in 2099.
Articles like this are madding to me. The author painstakingly catalogues why policing doesn’t work now, and never worked in the past. What’s the problem: Incompetence laziness. (personal moral failings) What’s the solution: reform. (of course)
Implied is the idea that policing is necessary. That society will just fall apart if we don’t pay salaries to armed, unaccountable, and violent street thugs. What could undermine this childish faith more than the fact that pigs, in fact, don’t do the core service we “require” them for?
The answer is that pigs do a great job, it’s just that protecting the public isn’t part of it. They’re job is to uphold the social order and protect the property of the ownership class.
“I think part of the problem is young people aren’t having enough sex so they go on the hunt for fake threats and the most popular threat through history is [antisemitism].”...
“It’s easy to poke fun at these kids, but history has a way of repeating itself, and this is how it starts. In ’30s Germany, a progressive community, a thriving gay community, excellent academic institutions. And how it started, was it was fashionable to wear a brown shirt and mock students at the University of Vienna,’ Galloway said.
This is the most selfawarewolf shit I’ve ever seen. Galloway mocks progressive students, then comments how mocking progressive students is just like the Brown Shirts.
Sometimes when a defense contractor and military branch love each other very much, they do a special hug, called an engineering and manufacturing development contract.
Parents of kids who commit crimes in Tennessee will face fines up to $1,000 for each offense after the first one, under a bill that’s headed to Gov. Bill Lee’s Bill Lee...
The physicist and the philosopher are both claiming that time is the order in which we observe things happening, the actual dispute is over the most fundamental force in science: nomenclature.
Faucet removal assistance - *SOLVED (sh.itjust.works)
I am not familiar with this bronze colored nut that is holding my current Grohë Ladylux kitchen faucet to the counter. Does anyone know the best way to remove this? Thanks very much in advance!...
Was music really better "back in the days"?
Tell me all the trash music/artists you know from around the 50s to 70s.
Can't get fooled again (lemmy.world)
Arguing politics in 2024 (lemmy.world)
Which are the most fucked up books you've read?
3 May 2024 (sh.itjust.works)
Why do whistleblowers always do this? (lemmy.world)
2 months earlier: lemmy.world/post/13041885
I cast Demoncore (lemmy.world)
What game are you playing? (lemmy.world)
Tucker Carlson Posts Deranged Interview With ‘Putin’s Brain’ (www.thedailybeast.com)
How do you counter misinformation? Critical thinking is step one (www.npr.org)
Exclusive: Israel planning ring of checkpoints to prevent men from fleeing Rafah (www.middleeasteye.net)
Israel is setting up a complex system of checkpoints that will prevent men of “military age” from fleeing Rafah in preparation for its offensive on the southern Gaza border city, a senior western official familiar with Israel’s plans has told Middle East Eye on condition of anonymity....
‘Eugenics on steroids’: the toxic and contested legacy of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute (www.theguardian.com)
How do I tell my neighbors that they need to stay off my property and not let their kids trespass. Joke answers only.
People and their kids like to come over unannounced, and without permission, to look at my ducks like it’s the fuckin zoo or some shit....
What book(s) are you currently listening to or reading - April 29
Hi all, I’m taking over the weekly c/Books post this week to talk about what’s happening on the First of May....
I don't know who Wayland is (i.imgflip.com)
If anyone wants to give an ELI5 or a link to a video that ELI5 I’d be incredibly thankful...
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A Doctor at Cigna Said Her Bosses Pressured Her to Review Patients’ Cases Too Quickly. Cigna Threatened to Fire Her. (www.propublica.org)
College students aren’t having enough sex — so they’re turning to anti-Israel protests: NYU professor (nypost.com)
“I think part of the problem is young people aren’t having enough sex so they go on the hunt for fake threats and the most popular threat through history is [antisemitism].”...
is Texas really that cold and cruel as depicted in movies of the Coen brothers, the novels of Cormac Mccarthy and the movie Hell or High Water?
cross-posted from: linux.community/post/844237...
High Wire Act (lemmy.world)
Skywalker Saga Marathon Coming to Theaters on May the 4th (www.starwars.com)
Bill that would fine parents for kids’ crimes passes Tennessee legislature [Ashley Paul and David Royer | 04/25/24 | TheHill] (thehill.com)
Parents of kids who commit crimes in Tennessee will face fines up to $1,000 for each offense after the first one, under a bill that’s headed to Gov. Bill Lee’s Bill Lee...
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