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re: How To Start Preparing For The Socialism/Communism Takeover
Posted by Penrod on 11/11/26 at 12:36 pm to OffGridPreparedness1
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My thought process is, once my mom is gone, as I am not married and have no children, I plan to completely go off-grid into the mountains to live the rest of my days.
What are you going to do when your teeth rot out?
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Mine is identical: zero last summer and zero this summer. :nana:
My EV is actually much more expensive to operate, because it cost so much more than an ICE vehicle, but the big benefit to me is the convenience of never having to stop at a gasoline station again.
My EV is actually much more expensive to operate, because it cost so much more than an ICE vehicle, but the big benefit to me is the convenience of never having to stop at a gasoline station again.
re: World War I ended 108 years ago today
Posted by Penrod on 11/11/26 at 12:30 pm to Darth_Vader
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Not really, even when the communists took over in Russia and held elections, they didn’t even come close to getting a majority. So, they simply threw out the election results.
Well, Communists in general don’t get on too well with elections. Like Fidel said, “Election? We had an election in 1959.”
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Wage growth not keeping up with inflation
Is basically a myth. Between 2000 and 2019 wage growth outpaced inflation by about 4.5%. From 2021 to today wage growth has lagged by about 1% or 2%. Recently it’s been about the same. I left out 2020 because there are too many discontinuities due to the ridiculous covid response.
re: World War I ended 108 years ago today
Posted by Penrod on 11/11/26 at 12:14 pm to Darth_Vader
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As someone who’s studied this for years, I can say I’m 100% convinced without WWI, there would have never been a communist takeover of Czarist Russia.
At that moment? Perhaps not. But Communism was coming. Virtually everyone believed in it. It was the great shining future of mankind.
The idea that Russia would likely have evolved into a constitutional monarchy is misguided in my opinion. The Russian people were extremely different from the British people. The former were apathetic serfs; the latter were fiercely independent. There was no tradition in Russia similar to Magna Carta and the Reformation. The British people had been clawing for independence for a thousand years while the Russian people were stoical beasts of burden.
The character of the people mattered, and that’s what led de Maistre to say, “Every nation gets the government it deserves.”
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The treaty of Versailles started WW2
It certainly helped make it inevitable. There were a lot of other factors, too - Communists agitating, socialists building the state institutions, intricate treaties and a Great Depression.
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Imagine the world where the Brit’s stay out.
No Nazi germany. No communism. No Middle East quagmire.
Stay out? Stay out of what? International commerce? Protection of their trade routes? That’s like imagining a present day world in which the United States “stays out”.
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Then, after Trump won and he pushed hard for H1B's and said we were all inferior kids going to sleepovers and watching the Breakfast Club or whatever, he became what I expected.
I visited LSU’s Engineering School recently. We met with the Dean and mostly with the fellow who runs the computer sciences cybersecurity group. He introduced us to about 12 of the students who were the leaders in the field. These were the ones who happened to be in the lab when we visited. There was not a white student among them.
re: Post something about your field that would be surprising to those outside of it
Posted by Penrod on 11/11/26 at 9:24 am to LemmyLives
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Garbage in, garbage out. If I get an unexpected result from a program (AI, Excel, or anything,) the first and only place I go looking for blame is the instruction, data, and constraints I fed it.
Usually. A lot of the software we used in my consulting career were self-developed, often spreadsheets. So it was not uncommon to have an error in the software.
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Was this your general experience as well?
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Engineers don’t use much more than basic math. All the 3D calculus, algebra, trigonometry, etc. I had to take y on get my degree I never use.
Yes. Until 2007 I was a detail design engineer in the process industries, especially oil and gas. So I was on the technical side of the business. And I rarely had to use more than Algebra and simple Trigonometry. All of the complex math was done by the software we bought.
re: The White House Keeps Saying That Thing
Posted by Penrod on 11/11/26 at 8:08 am to SquatchDawg
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You realize that having armed groups of law enforcement on the news while they stormed into neighborhoods is one of the reasons we’re where we are now?
Trump would be impeached and convicted if he tried this.
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It’s been absolutely wild, to see the man who’s “the toughest on the Chinese and Communism”, give more power and strength to the Chinese, than any other US president.
His Canada handling was horrible, but your statement is way off base. Trump has led a bipartisan turnaround on China which has stranded China and put the brakes on its development. Did you notice that Trump’s first term tariffs on China were criticized but kept in place by Biden? The ones from this term will be too.
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Nimrod
And there you have peak Strannix posting. :lol:
re: Carney says partnership with CCP is much less of a security risk than with the U.S.
Posted by Penrod on 11/11/26 at 8:00 am to SlowFlowPro
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Pushing away one of our closest allies and most important trading partners to ultimately strengthen the CCP would be such a historic political failure.
Exactly! Trump made it political wisdom for a Canadian politician to be combative with the USA. He also threw the Canadian election to the leftists when the conservatives were poised to win. An historic blunder.
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When the tariffs tripled on our products from China, we opened a new plant in Thailand and shipped from there. This was still much cheaper than opening a plant in the US.
Much of the reason we tariffed China was to drive that manufacturing elsewhere. The idea was to hurt China.
You’re right that much of the manufacturing isn’t coming back, but it’s important to not be reliant on China such that they can handicap us in a conflict. Note that Thailand can be reached from the Bay of Bengal, which would be American controlled in a war with China.
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I guess the problem is when computers glitch?
I’m a retired Electrical Engineer. In all of my years I never heard of an engineering mistake being assigned to the computer giving an incorrect answer. The software could be wrong, the inputs could be wrong, and I’m sure it is possible that the computer could be - I’ve just never heard of that.
I think Dems have been cheating, mostly in black areas, all of my 64 year life. But ICE has spent the last two years in a massive manhunt of Latinos. They have been methodically racially profiling Latinos, and stopping them, and checking their IDs and harassing them. THIS is the main problem. So now, when the dem’s NGOs go door to door to get them to vote against ICE, they enthusiastically do so, rather than saying, “No, thanks” and going back to their family. WTF did you expect to happen?
Was there cheating? I expect so. But the cheating was there in those red years too. What is different now is that the Latino community that admired Trump’s machismo, fricking hates him now.
Was there cheating? I expect so. But the cheating was there in those red years too. What is different now is that the Latino community that admired Trump’s machismo, fricking hates him now.
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I guess the 58K Americans who died in Vietnam were just unlucky tourists.
You people are so infuriating.
That’s the “actually” crowd. No one takes the seriously. Of course we are at war with Iran.
And BTW, the constitution does not prevent the President from committing the USA to war; it only gives the congress sole authority to declare war. That is a different thing than going to war. Declaring war gives the President additional powers. From ChatGPT:
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When Congress formally declares war, the President gains access to a number of extraordinary legal powers that are not ordinarily available in peacetime. Some arise directly from the declaration, while others come from statutes that Congress has enacted over the years.
So we are at war with Iran, and the Constitution does not address that.
re: Question for Iran war supporters
Posted by Penrod on 11/11/26 at 7:30 am to SlidellCajun
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True but they are a serious threat to their neighbors and engage in a lot of cyber terrorism. They’re not the threat to an Israel and they’re not a petroleum factor.
They’re a really dangerous country with nuclear weapons though. Their nukes actually work btw. And they are believed to be able to reach the US homeland… so that’s kinda “close”
That “not a petroleum factor” is a gigantic difference. If Iran was not a threat to the energy sector, and engaged on a program that would allow it to dominate the energy sector, would we gamble a war on Iran? Surely there would be pressure from Israel, and non-proliferation would be a factor, but the American voters’ reaction in the mid-terms would be very justified without the energy ramifications.
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$40M is a drop in the bucket compared to the overall wasteful spending of our FedGov.
That is a terrible point.
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That $40M is recovered by local communities from airshow/event spending. It’s a profitable use of our tax dollars and it’s fricking awesome.
That is a solid point. Stick with that one, or the one about the marketing value for recruiting.
re: Nurse offered sex to patient claiming it was the drug to good health
Posted by Penrod on 11/10/26 at 8:23 pm to Major Dutch Schaefer
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A patient in British Columbia, Canada, has filed a complaint against a nurse they accused of offering to have sex with them.
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The patient had arrived at the house belonging to nurse practitioner Lori Chern to have his blood pressure taken.
Was this written by a schizophrenic tranny?
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