Machinist @ Machinist @lemmy.world

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I've always heard this. Helped with pit on a friend's dad's drag car when I was a kid. It makes sense, but I've never looked into how large of an effect it actually is.

The English Offical Table of Drops for hanging. Helps prevent the head from popping off or doing the air run.

This right here.

I've recently been seeing a lot more of what I've heard called Blue Anon. I am seeing it get argued against. Shit could get real ugly if it takes hold.

I'm having to repeatedly remind my family to check sources, think critically, and not jump to conclusions.

It's imperative we remain skeptical and analytical.

This is actually wisdom. I use a 4x fudge factor.

beat me to it.

I've always heard:

Respect is given, not earned.

Trust is earned and easy to lose.

Don't confuse politeness with respect.

Alcove in blue. It didn't extend into her intestines or anything, it was just a small pocket in the back wall.

It was in the back wall of the vagina, a little bit before her cervix.

I actually dated a girl who had a chambered pussy. She was born with mild spina bifida, and there was a scar on her tailbone.

Anyhow, she loved doggy style. I'd get going good and then pop the head of my dick into the alcove, she'd cum her brains out.

Fun times.

Your logic is sound and I'm not heavily disagreeing with you. My gut says the claim is hinky. (Obviously, my gut and hinkiness are the gold standard for truth and reason.)

I'm skeptical but you might be right. It's real fucked up that we have to even consider bullshit like this.

I'm waiting to pass judgment on the flyover. He's totally that petty, but, I don't think he'd plan that far ahead. He's way more reactive than proactive, especially when it comes to stupid stunts.

While it's possible the flyover's purpose was to intimidate the victims, it feels like disinfo or convenient rumor.

Correct, specific to his fiction. I don't know if I've read a non-fiction book of his. However, I've never read a bad article or essay by him. He has great insight.

There really is no one in control. Not really. There are people and groups with spheres of influence and power. I wish there was an evil illuminati out there in control of things, at least it would be organized.

Best I can figure, most everyone is faking it. I've spent time with CEOs, military officers, rich people, big time evangelists. They're mostly faking it, some even feel imposter syndrome like normal people do.

This isn't to say that they don't perpetrate great evil, but they're also not superhuman or super intelligent. Many of them are of average intelligence at best. They're just lucky or lack morals as we know them, reframing their moral system to excuse their actions. Everyone is the hero of their own story even when they are corrupt to the core. Hitler was a dog lover and vegetarian.

All this to say, there is no silver bullet for cancer. There is no magic carburator invented in the '70s that gets 100mpg. There is no over unity generator that will provide free power. Somebody would steal those secrets and sell them for millions.

I half expect that the insurance companies will run the numbers on end of life costs and maintenance costs of disability and still cover the standard schedule of vaccines. Deaths/crippling get expensive enough and they may even require vaccinations to keep insurance.

The wingnuts in question here likely believe the antivaxx shit, or see enough politcal advantage in parroting it that it has resulted in this. In some sense, the GOP has been too successful, now they are married to the lunatic fringe and have members from that fringe. They're stuck on this ride as well. Hope they choke on it.

His ideas are fantastic. Execution and characterization are spotty. Been a while since I read anything of his, but IIRC, he has a tendency to dip into surrealism or absurdity that feels cringey instead of his artistic target.

In some ways, it's similar to a lot of Golden Era SF. You read it for the ideas, not the story.

I do have a favorable opinion of him and his work. I'd really enjoy Doctorow being paired with a traditional fiction author and both being rode herd by a hardass SF editor.

A conspiracy like that would require a level of organization that isn't present.

It's willful ignorance and cultic tribalism gone real bad.

They really believe there is a vaccine conspiracy that causes autism and is being used for mind control or whatever.

Jesus fucking a goat.

If this goes on for long there will be so many dead or crippled children. So many dead people. It won't stay constrained to Florida. This will put immunocompromised people at risk all over the country. Herd immunity is fucked.

Also, if it lasts long, expect other willfully ignorant states to do the same.

Fuck, I'm tired.

Reminds me of an emachine.

Here's a ET1161-07 from 2009:

Again, intellectually, I get it. I'd read about Nazi Blood Libel, Mao and the Great Leap Forward, the Khemr Rouge, Rwanada, and so on. It's just difficult to comprehend when you see it happen all around you.

As for myself falling for transparent propaganda, it's possible but unlikely. I think it's likely that I'm somewhat immune to it at this point. Religion, politics, hatred of outgroups are the main levers used and I've pretty much had that burnt out of me. I have a finely honed bullshit detector. I can certainly be tricked, at least for a time. However, I believe in so little, at this point, that I think it would be pretty difficult to uncouple my reality from the real world.

That was a forgiveable mistake the first time around. Howver, the insanity and utter bullshit I saw during COVID was not so forgiveable. And then, electing him a second time? I don't think there's any way back.

It's such transparent propaganda, it will probably always astound me that people were so easily fooled. Pepple I thought were intelligent, wise, and that I respected. The Qanon stuff, the COVID conspiracy stuff, antivax, climate change. They have ended up in a false reality that most will never escape, and it was so obviously a lie. I'm still in a mild state of shock from time to time, I still grieve it.

Intellectually I know how it happened, but my gut cannot make sense of how they fell for it.

Not who you were replying to. I have sort of similar roots, angst, and anger. My grandparents grew up sharecroppers, entire extended family are fundamentalists.

There's nothing inherently wrong with being ignorant. It's just a matter of education. Willfull ignorance, on the other hand, is the greatest sin.

The part I still can't wrap my head around is falling for a New York, city slicker, orange ass, conman. My people used to dislike cops, hate the government, guns were just a fun tool for farm and hunting, and were suspicious of military jingoism and flag waving.

I wasn't able to get a single friend or family member to see how they were being manipulated, how they were changing. I changed some, especially when I lost the religion, but I feel like I'm closer to our roots than they are. It's profoundly alienating. I hate my own people a lot of the time. I'm so angry at them for fucking falling for such transparent bullshit. Fuck the evil bastards that lied them into it.