We’re backwards and repressive in so many ways! USA! USA!
We’re backwards and repressive in so many ways! USA! USA!
My grandmother made it all the time. My parents seldom made it. I have never made it. I associate it with hospitals and crappy school cafeterias.
The Democrats and Republicans mostly despise each other, but the establishment from each naturally have a few things in common. I am not a centrist “both sides” guy. However, with rare exceptions, members of both major parties are pro-capitalism, just for starters.
They are not secretly working together, but they do have somewhat overlapping goals. And some of those goals do screw over working people. Private health insurance tied to your employer is something both parties praise and support. That’s one easy example.
And some of them cross the aisle and openly work together on bipartisan issues.
Finally, the “left” in the United States is really not left. Both parties pull rightward. The Republicans pull rightward much harder than the Democrats. A few progressives and democratic socialists try to pull us left.
They seem very backwards when there are drone displays and other forms of entertainment. Humans cling on to things way too long.
This might be your client app, maybe…? On Jerboa, tapping a post takes me to the lemmy comments first. Opening the link is a second deliberate tap.
We joke / complain about this all the time at work. Boss puts in some drop-everything emergency ticket.
Windows Update: Imma let you finish, but first I gotta do some work 'round here.
You can vote for more than one candidate, but you rank them by order of preference. This way, third party and independent candidates actually have a chance.
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Kyle uses “son” a lot. Makes me chuckle.
Cool guys use dialup BBS.
Skyscrapers typically take 2-5 years to build. I’m going to hazard a guess that a pyramid like the Great Pyramid of Giza would take more like 5-10 years.
There’s a lot of variables to this, especially the location and the source (quarry) and transportation of the high-quality limestone that you would need. You would also want to use some granite and other stone materials if you’re trying to match what the ancient Egyptians did. (If you’re allowed to use modern concrete and steel, it could change things dramatically.)
The Great Pyramid is about 147m tall and 230m wide along each side. Assuming it’s mostly solid stone, You would need roughly 2.5 million cubic meters of material.
Preparing and grading the site would go much faster with bulldozers and graders and the like, but is still a time-consuming process. Quarrying the limestone would also go much faster than the ancients because we have explosives, hydraulics, etc. But there’s still a lot of precision cutting and fitting to be done. Cranes would make placing the stones go faster but again, still time-consuming.
CAD software would also make the whole project faster and easier (and would further highlight how ingenious the ancient people were with this accomplishment). Experts already know a lot about the pyramids, but I bet if they built one they’d learn even more.
My wild guess is: if you marshaled enough resources and put a highly competent person in charge of it, you could get it done in 5 years.
Niche <> bad.
Lemmy is missing:
You know you’re right, we’re nothing like reddit!!
FINALLY! I can open the vault…
Godammitnothingfits.
LOL, someone accused me of being “hostile” when I politely disagreed with them. There are some wonderful folks on lemmy…but like any place on the internet, quite a few weirdos.
Jackalope: Am I a joke to you? I hope so. It’s kind of my thing.
When I run into this I ask myself why the fuck was I going to reddit again?
Second!
There must be some point to this stuff because they’ve been selling it for decades. But I don’t understand who uses it or for what.
Just a wild guess on my part: it might be that there are more nerve endings on your arms than on your legs, so your arms are more sensitive to the sensations that you need to re-apply sunscreen. Nerve density varies greatly between body parts and even people.