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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • “The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, officially the Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics,[1][2] and also known as the Hitler–Stalin Pact[3][4] and the Nazi–Soviet Pact,[5] was a non-aggression pact between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, with a secret protocol establishing Soviet and German spheres of influence across Eastern Europe.[6] The pact was signed in Moscow on 24 August 1939 (backdated 23 August 1939[7][8]) by Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov and German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop.[9]” source


  • One of the most universal ideals of manliness is self reliance or independence. I’ve been shocked how the “manosphere” has convinced its followers that the best way to be manly is to depend on large petroleum companies for one of your most important consumables…instead of generating your own electricity.

    Preppers are out there setting up offgrid arrays with massive battery banks to “survive the coming fall of civilization”. I think there is a significant overlap between manosphere people and preppers, but I don’t know how the preppers reconcile this of self generation hypocrisy with the rest of the the manosphere.



  • How about sitting down for a casual meal/drink and coming up with an idea for something really cool, start making plans for it, purchase supplies, draw up designs, make some janky but actually working Proof of Concepts, test them and see that the idea is fully viable. However, the only thing needed to bring it to full fruition is to implement some rigor in the process, design mitigations for the edge cases, and write proper documentation. But instead of doing those final things you just stop because you’ve shown it can positively work and you can’t bring yourself to do the boring work now that the idea is proven valid and you’ve lost interest and are mentally already started on the next great idea?

    As friends, are you down for that?


  • Theres no way in hell the US will be anywhere close to first in developing stable fusion power.

    Looking at the projects underway I agree with you, however the US was the first to produce a nuclear fusion reaction with a net positive energy result at the NIF in 2022. source The subsequent 5 events have increase net positive yields significantly with the 2025 experiment yielding more than 200% net energy gain.

    To be able to create a energy net positive even on-demand has to be very helpful for research. I don’t know of any other country that is capable of doing that yet.



  • partial_accumen@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldgoodbye plex
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    Long ago I ran a Windows Media Center PC in the living room and used the hell out of it. When WMC finally went EOL, I look for alternatives and found Plex. I never got around to setting up a Plex box, and now I see it too is ready for the scrap heap. I think this is what getting old is. You plan on doing something and never get around to it. Time passes much faster up here in age.



  • I wonder how the typical conservative voter thinks this kind of thing is going to help them?

    Many are older without children in schools anymore and are happy they are not “paying to teach other people’s kids” even though they themselves were the recipients of older Americans paying for them to go through public schools. Others are rich paying to send their kids to private schools or rich enough to pay to send them to religious school so they too are happy to not fund public schools. The last group are poor conservatives that can’t afford private schools and have children in public schools. This group are “temporarily embarrassed millionaires” that aren’t bothered because they’ll be sending their kids to private schools “real soon now”. They are just happen to be invited to the meetings tearing down society and the safety nets that sustain them everyday.






  • “Sure socks are a social construct, but so are the things that let you eat ice cream, watch your favorite streaming service, or play your favorite video game. In fact the only non-social construct actions you involve yourself in are eating, sleeping, and expelling bio waste. Even those you seem to have no problem follow the social rules around. If you’d like to abandon society and escape into nature free of the bounds of social constructs, you’re welcome to do that when you’re 18 and can afford enough to buy a plane ticket to Fairbanks, Alaska. Until then, you have to put on your socks.”





  • But going against the fed in a way that is considered “illegal” could be seen as declaring civil war. And while the fed can’t live without it’s taxes it can bomb you to hell if provoked

    Not making a payment is seen as civil war? If its already at that point we’re already done.

    However, realistically not making a payment won’t earn you bombs. It might earn guns though. What would that look like if a state withheld payment? Would a fed law enforcer with a gun go into an office, up to some state employee sitting an a cube responsible for making money transfers as part of their work, and have the gun in their face or threatening arrest if they don’t make the payment to the fed? Would it instead be indictments of state government officials, and perhaps jailing them? Who would they jail? The Governor that signed the bill into law? The state legislature for putting the measure forward?

    When high level state officials or low level state office workers start getting arrested, that moves the game to a different level. That escalation may have knock on effects on the citizenry. This would be especially true if the reason the state would be withholding the payment from the fed would be for cutting of services from the fed.