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  • Forget your "dying clean" baloney. Stop fetishizing a civil war.

    I've got things I want to do in the coming years that don't involve dying to some right wing death squad or dysentery.

  • What song should I play for my bathroom neighbors?
  • 1a. Trust me, my shits are violent aggressive.

    1b. I'll take your advice and whisper my complaints through the door crack. Maintaining eye contact the whole time. We'll even have a firm handshake afterwards.

    1. I'm trying to raise my elo in LiChess. I'm not breaking 1100 while also translating my neighboring stall's latin ballad.
  • What song should I play for my bathroom neighbors?

    The work bathroom is currently a warzone, on their phone speakers people like to play music, play games at full blast, and one guy likes to chill to ambient rainforest. What song can I play to passive aggressively make it known that I don't want to listen to their tik tok feeds while I work out my demons?

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  • Their entire Luddite mindset is intended to keep their members tied to the church.

    They can use gas and kerosene to power engines other than ones that allow them to travel at reasonable speeds. They can use any electric device unless it's attached to the grid.

    Their entire cult is devoted to maintaining their bishop's creepy control over their members lives.

  • Rational Self Interest
  • Lol, Mr. Duncan does provide a very entertaining pop-history podcast don't get me wrong, but please don't go quoting him as a reference.

    I think you and I are arguing two different things, your source lumps together all the deaths during the Revolution, including Reactionary military actions while I am arguing specifically that very few people of the 3rd estate were killed extra judicially as a method of "terror" by the guillotine.

    Best of luck in your slow road to fascism. I hope you succeed in improving your lot with non-violent means. Maybe if the revolutionaries asked nicely Louis would've just enacted the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen voluntarily.

  • Rational Self Interest
  • Do you have a source for that claim? As far as I know most of the people guillotined were emigres or members of the upper class who went against the prevailing political party at the time.

    Many commoners did die in the Revolution, but they mostly died in the infernal columns or similar military actions in the Vendee region and other reactionary uprisings.

  • California Bill Would Require Landlords to Accept Pets
  • I can see that this is super funny to you, but some people with chronic allergies can't enjoy their vacations or go about their lives because inconsiderate people demand to bring their pets to public areas such as hotels or stores.

  • ‘I wasn’t allowed to get the healthcare I needed’: the women suing Tennessee for being denied abortions
  • At no time under Obama did Democrats have 60 seats in the senate. They had 57 seats and 2 independents who caucused with them.

    This is not enough seats to overcome a filibuster which would be required to legalize abortion in all the states. They would have required 1 Republican to vote with the Democrats on this topic and I think even in the kinder political times that Republican would have been strung up on a light pole when they returned back to their home district.

  • What are the odds that extreme weather will lead to a global food shock? The insurance giant Lloyd’s evaluated the risks in a recent study.
  • If you and your wife have never tried venison before I would recommend you find a source for a few pounds of wild venison to try before you make the time/money investment into hunting. It would suck to spend $1000 on gun, tag, time, and butcher fees just to learn that you don't like the taste. And it definitely has a taste, I wouldn't call it bad, but it is different.

    My family only accepts my venison ground in recipes with plenty of seasoning e.g. pasta and tacos.

    1 deer will definitely supplement your meat diet, but it won't allow you to maintain the standard American 1 meat item per lunch/supper diet. I killed 2 deer this year and I ended up with about 130lbs of meat total after butchering and jerky. That was on private land. Expect less success on public land.

  • Electric vehicles fail at a lower rate than gas cars in extreme cold | Electrek
  • Idk how engine heaters in Scandinavia work, but in North America they only heat the oil pan. So your oil won't be too thick when you start your engine, but it wont heat your cabin.

    For that we would need to buy a shore power coolant pump/heater. Which exists but the extra 1000 dollar price doesn't lend itself to popularity.

  • Can marine mammals live in freshwater?

    Can dolphins or whales live in fresh water?

    They don't need to breathe in water so assuming they have enough prey I don't see why the water's saltinity affects them.

    But then why don't we have dolphins playing in the Mississippi river?

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    62% of Americans are still living paycheck to paycheck, making it ‘the main financial lifestyle,’ report finds
  • Oh I have quite a vested interest in the US not falling into a Civil War. I really don't want to leave my family/businesses to hide out in Canada until it blows over.

    But I also have a pretty hefty knowledge about early 19th century Napoleonic history and the overwhelming amount of British propaganda that gets repeated in the Anglosphere irks me.

  • 62% of Americans are still living paycheck to paycheck, making it ‘the main financial lifestyle,’ report finds
  • Your opinion is tainted by British and reactionary voices writing the history of the French Revolution.

    Overthrowing the Ancien régime left the average French person with much more political voice in the 1870's than the average member of the 3rd estate could have hoped for at any point in the 18th century.

    -Wanton Murder

    Yeah there was violence political and non-political due to the anarchy that came from the revolution. This is unavoidable when the political elites do not respect the voices of the majority of their citizens.

    -Gave rise to an emperor

    Yeah because the entirety of Europe declared war on France several times in order to save their cousin king Louis, to save the estates of their rich noble exile buddies, then to avenge King Louis, and finally to protect British and exile monetary interests.

    -was mob rule led by a small group, not democracy

    It was eventually figured out, and it was always better than the pre 1789 status quo. **

    -did not materially change the lives of the majority of the French moving forward

    Lol, except for the entire political upheaval of the French Society.

    -was literally called the Reign of Terror

    It was called the Reign of Terror by British papers, the average Parisan had nothing to fear from the revolution other than reactionary mobs. Which was much safer than offending the wrong noble, or walking in front of the horse of some member of the gentry.

    I am basing the French Revolution from the Estates General of 1789 to the start of the 2nd French Republic.

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  • Yeah and it didn't have an affect on slavery as a market force at all.

    The Caribbean slave colonies were still the biggest profit producing colonies that the European powers had because of their cane sugar production.

    Little people like us sure can help, but what we really need is government policy to force change. There are always going to be too many people driven by cost rather than the ethics of an issue.

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