D61

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[–] D61@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well... if its mucus that's causing the resistance then the sperm need more power to overcome the resistance. So if a group clump together in a way that focuses the forces of their movement on a small section of mucus then they'll work like a group snowplow.

[–] D61@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I don't think its that complex. Group A gave permission for Group C to move into Group B's place. Group C decided to get a bunch of Group N's support to start the liquidation of Group B.

Decades of Group B, playing to the "Rules Based Order" crowd resulting in no end to the violence Group C was doing to Group B resulted in Group B being more and more okay with countering violence with armed resistance.

Here we are.

[–] D61@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

Fuck... new political compass just made its way into the wild...

[–] D61@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago

I mean, my home is filled with ancient laptops that we use until they explode, its a pretty common occurrence when trying to watch something streaming the ads would load just fine but the actual show wouldn't actually load. So... shrug

[–] D61@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago

capitalist-laugh "Capitalism breeds innovation!"

porky-scared-flipped "NO NOT LIKE THAT!"

[–] D61@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago

bu..bu...but the planes dropped the bombs/fired the missiles while in Israeli airspace so TeChNiCaLlY... pepe-silvia

[–] D61@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago

My ability to do math and predict my monthly budget costs is bad enough that it finally worked out in my favor... I'm still curious how that's happening, but I'm not inclined to look to deeply else I tip the balance of the universe out of my favor sooner that is bound to happen.

[–] D61@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago

Things that I've had to come to grips with when I figure out that it was okay to be an atheist.

Human beings are not logical or rational. We can do logic and rationalizations but we are not fundamentally logical or rational creatures.

Its okay to think things and not have some ironclad sentential logically correct argument as to why you think a thing. When a kid is asked by somebody "Why did you do that?" and the kid answers "I don't know" and the person keeps pushing for the kid to have some cause/effect conforming answer, its the person who's wrong not the kid.

I mean, my eyes are shit and getting worse by the year. My brain has had issues remembering certain things and processing human speech into meaning for as long as I've been an adult. I've been in enough situations where I suddenly realize that I have no actual active memory of how I got here and yet the world still functioned. It just became something that I no longer felt any pressure or need to justify. Things can just be (maybe I'm wrong, maybe I'm right, maybe I'm in some inbetween state) and I still exist.

[–] D61@hexbear.net 35 points 2 years ago (14 children)

I think ... maybe...

Civilians injured in Ukraine gets the US Ambassador to say, "Hey, support Ukraine!"

Civilians injured in the Palestinian territories but there are no US Ambassador's tweeting, 'Hey support Palestine!"

[–] D61@hexbear.net 22 points 2 years ago

So yeah, the USA isn't the world but if the place you live in is falling apart its understandable to shrink your worldview down to the that which affects you most or that you witness the most often.

  1. Don't feel like you have to stare into the abyss all the time. This is just self harm. Its like habitually looking at entries on the old rotten.com website. Nothing good will come of it.

  2. Do something, anything, that you can do alone. Plant some flowers, pick up trash in the neighborhood, read a manual about combat first aid or small engine repair, pick a country at random as far away from the USA as you can point to on a map and start learning about its history and culture.

  3. Find somewhere to do something, anything, with other people. Internet book club, see if any local groups/orgs need help feeding the hungry or helping the unhoused, probably some groups not too far away that exist to support one minority group or another that could use some help in research or outreach.

Also, the world is a complicated place with lots of different actors. China is doing some pretty cool and good things. There's a lot of scary situations that probably will lead to positive change in Africa and South America right now.

[–] D61@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago

Guess we're just gonna have sharpen fan blades then.

 

So I got around to getting a new digitizer (screen) and replacement battery for an ancient iPhone and got them installed.

Question for those who've replaced digitizers...

Any ideas as to why the screen will behave as if its being touched in a bunch of places without actually being touched?

Its not all the time, maybe 2 or 3 times in a day. All I have to do is turn off the screen and wait a few seconds.

This is the second digitizer I've replaced but the first time I've had this issue. Mostly just curious if there someone more technically inclined/experienced with an answer other than guessing.

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