shalafi

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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

Keep the big ones, I want a goth gf that's flat as a board.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

“While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.” - Eugene Debs

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

I figure she's about average IQ, but wily like a fox. She got ahead of the game on this one. And just look! The release the files vote was 427-1 in the House and the Senate immediately said, "Send it over, we're passing it."

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 7 points 6 hours ago

This is basically Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Oog.

"Can't be havin' with this barbarian nonsense!"

"I could be havin' with his nonsense..."

"Gytha!"

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Counter: Göbekli Tepe exists. :)

But no, it would be ridiculous to posit that vast cultures rose and fell and were utterly erased from history.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 14 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (5 children)

🎵Almost Heaven, West Virginia

Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River

Life is old there, older than the trees

Younger than the mountains, growin' like a breeze🎶

Crazy those lyrics are literal facts. Also, you win the thread.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 10 points 7 hours ago

Read it 3 times and that never clicked! Nice one.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago

Yeah, but it's my birth day! Can we not party a bit?!

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

Take an hour, even half an hour, and see what experts have to say about making the call on "illegal orders".

tl;dr: Make the call to disobey, you are fucked.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Not as easy to disobey as you make it out.

Short version

Good luck. There is plenty of law and precedent to examine if you want to put in the time.

tl;dr: Make the call on "lawful" orders at your personal peril, and you will almost certainly lose.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 17 points 19 hours ago

Love the way you think. We should be friends.

Yeah, I get the politics and genocide and all that. I get it. But the waste, the utter destruction of the ecosystem!

I could go on and on, too depressing. Since I was born 74% of the animals on the planet are gone. Just disappeared. Young people cannot grasp what they've been robbed of, the depth of the tragedy.

When I talk to other middle-aged guys, they're shocked. "Remember when...?" Hell, even younger people are blown out when I ask, "Remember 5-years ago when...?"

I've seen the ecosystem crash on my fucking front porch in 5-years. Am I'm fighting like hell to being it back!

Anyway, saw a green tree frog for the first time in 4 years! 🎉

 

My mechanic sold it to me through some cousin he barely knows. Guy was fixing it for his nephew after the last hurricane chunked some trees through it, gave up. For $3,500, PERFECT!

Ugly as hell*, no worries anyone will try the door handles for goodies. "Meh. This guy's poor." Mechanically? Solid as granite.

Pro tip: Went for new plugs and wires to Advanced Auto, $145. Nope. Amazon, $46. Rear pads? AutoZone: $48. Amazon: $18 for Bendix pads (which reviewers outside of Amazon like?)

Anyway, it's my own, personal YT-1300 light freighter. "Don't worry. She'll hold together… Hear me, baby? Hold together."

* Funny pic. That was the end of a record snowstorm, in NW Florida. My town got the all-time high score at 10"! See what happens when global warming beats the polar vortex into loops? Yeah.

 
 
 
 

Made olive oil soap 2-weeks ago, still soft enough to take a thumbprint. This is my 5th try, same recipe, doesn't seem any harder than the previous batches. Am I expecting too much from sodium lactate?

It's stashed on a BBG grill inside the house's HVAC intake. Usually a great place, but we're not running heat or air ATM. 🤷🏻

Should I try gently baking it? Scared to ruin it, can't really afford more olive oil. One reason I roll my own soap is to save money. We burn through a bar of Irish Spring every week. My previous olive oil bars lasted me (alone) a month or so.

 

I've said 1,000 times (probably literally), on here and reddit, for nearly a decade, that Trump is easily understood and predictable if one understands malignant narcissistic personality disorder. Trump's picture will be in the DSM-6 one day, right next to the definition. If you aren't familiar with the diagnosis, please have a look for yourself. Not some pop-sci shit, look at medical definitions, the traits required for such a diagnosis.

Think a guy like that is putting himself in a subservient sexual position? For any sort of personal gain?!

But let's say you have some angle you find plausible from Trump's POV. What in the hell makes you think Clinton would want an old white guy to blow him? He's the poster boy for hetero horndog.

"But what about the text of the email?!"

Who knows? We need the preceding context. Ever joked around about the kompromat the Russians must have on Trump? Maybe it was that sort of reference? Ever joked that so-and-so must be sucking dick to get favors you couldn't otherwise understand? Also, notice they dropped it, zero further discussion?

This is a picture perfect case of social media taking a thing at face value because it's just too juicy not to believe. Don't know what the take is on other social media, but I find you guys taking way too much at face value because you want to believe. Be better, think critically.

tl;dr: Trump wouldn't do it. Clinton wouldn't want it. Makes for great memes, but it's absurd on it's face.

 

Gun always had "issues". Stove piped, failure to eject, etc. This whole time the problem was my limp wrist.

What's stupid is that I knew about the term, what it meant, all that. I cannot fathom how I never put two and two together.

Anyway, if the term is new to anyone, here's a short video on the subject. She actually gets her Glock to malfunction by purposefully limp wristing it. Did not know that was possible with larger calibers.

I had thought my small pistols malfunctioned from lack of recoil. Turns out I was right... 🙄 My larger guns like the Colt .45 are heavy, require a proper grip. Guess what? They work fine.

Be glad to tell y'all about the pistol. It's utterly dreamy. Weighs 1.25lbs. fully loaded, 30-rounds of smokin' .22WMR, never fails (if held properly). 5" of barrel gives you an easy aim, more booty and accuracy behind that bullet. Contrasting front/rear fiber sights with lots of length to soak up light. HUGE red mark showing "not safe". Love that as I usually paint my safe marks with nail polish. Maybe the worst part is that it looks and feels like a toy, no bueno if a kid finds it. (Which won't happen. Right?!)

Very happy as this is my perfect hiking side arm!

 

Trying to research a lemmy comment.

"Yes, it's true! Except that it's not. It's complicated OK?!"

 
 

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