Aoife

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[–] Aoife@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 months ago

Not in any reasonable quantities. Aside from everything you've mentioned, water is constantly undergoing a chemical reaction as the H2O splits into H+ and OH- ions, and then those ions recombine to make H2O.

[–] Aoife@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 3 months ago (3 children)

The thing about the common move of "israel and hamas are both bad" is that imo you should always add the qualifier of "But also Hamas is used as a cover and justification for Israeli atrocities, and also likely would be either significantly weakened or not exist at all if it were not for the ongoing genocide of palestinians."

[–] Aoife@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I mean you're presupposing that it's important to convince immigrants to learn the language. Maybe multiculturualism is okay actually

[–] Aoife@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 5 months ago

they're a lemmy.ml user, so the answer is usually 'very'

[–] Aoife@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Nah it's gonna get looted and pillaged and generally go to shit but will be saved by the aheer economic power of being one of the few places left on earth with enough farmland to feed billions when the other breadbaskets start getting decimated by ecological collapse

[–] Aoife@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 8 months ago

It's a tu-144 i think, not a concorde

[–] Aoife@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 9 months ago

Whoa whoa whoa mad max 1 is the best of the three. Sure, the sequels have crazier worldbuilding and fancier visuals but the first is tight, well shot, and tells a good story well.

[–] Aoife@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Also leaded gas

[–] Aoife@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] Aoife@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 10 months ago

Okay, but please explain to me how you intend for students to magically become more willing to learn, or citizens more willing to vote. You fight the battles you can, you don't just blame the world or people for being the way that they are. Sure, as an individual, you can do better. Maybe eben influence those around you. Now what about the millions of others who have to change their behavior in order to enact change on the country-wide scale? To fight at that scale you have to be in a position of power, and the only people who are in those positions of power in the US who aren't republicans are democrats. The responsibility lies with the democrats to do whatever it takes to improve voter turnout or fix problems because nobody else has the means and isn't a republican (and good luck trying to convince them to be less shit). Blaming the people just makes them pissed at you and gets you nowhere.

[–] Aoife@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 10 months ago

Look blaming the democrats is done not because the republicans aren't to blame, but because blaming them is sort of pointless. It's like blaming terrorists for the shit they do. Yes, it's their fault. Yes, they're morally reprehensible. So what? Are you going to spend time trying to come up with detailed arguments for what they could've done better? No, you look to the material conditions, people, and organizations responsible for fighting them, and for making sure people aren't desperate enough to join them, because their job at least in theory is to do better. I blame the democrats because I believe they could have done better. I do not have even that small grain of hope when it comes to the republicans.

[–] Aoife@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I mean iunno about subs but for instances hexbear is largely known as the tankie instance. For the other kind of extreme leftists, the anarchists seem much more spread out even than they were back on reddit

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