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DoubleDongle

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  • What is the optimal handle to chain length for a flail?

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  • Far as I know, flails as depicted weren't really used in war. They may have showed up in tournament fighting, but not war. The flails that did get used in real battlefields were pole weapons. Long shaft like five feet or so, very short chain that's essentially just a hinge, then a sort of long head something like 18" that may have had spikes or bumps.

    Talhoffer wrote a manual for them, calling it a peasant flail. It has a lot of wonky binds that I would conjecture probably didn't get a huge amount of use outside duels. In war, it was probably mostly overhead bonk attacks. Fighting against these things in a duel is a real bitch though. A skilled user can shower you in weird bullshit that's hard to predict or handle and can't really be done with anything else. There's a ready stance where you hold it head-down and lean on it.

  • Question for the Americans. If Canada, Venezuela, Mexico, or Greenland dropped a nuke on Washington DC, would you be angry at the bomb dropper, or would you think we had that coming?

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  • While at this point I'd feel safer if Washington vanished in a blast of nuclear hellfire than I do in its current state, the fact that it comes from another country in this scenario would create a whole new set of problems.

  • Russia is now attacking on horseback

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  • They've been doing their best to scare the horses into bucking their riders first, then blow up the riders.

  • Can socialism or communism have incentives (even without markets)?

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  • People like doing things. Most of them do, at least.

    I think the big thing here is that money and markets only stop properly existing in the most extreme ideas of communism. I think the most communist system that's still viable would just be one where it looks like capitalism on the surface but unions are strong enough to openly challenge the government and there's a soft cap on income and wealth. And markets and incentives don't go away there, so it's a moot point.

  • How do you fight doomerism/pessimism in these trying times?

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  • The "no elections" thing is a psyop designed to make you fearful and hopeless. Fraud is possible, but at the rate it's going, it will probably be super obvious if they try it, which carries risks.

    The assholes are fucking stupid, they're bad at this, and I think the Kremlin is intentionally giving them shit advice because they want us to collapse more than they want the regime change. We will prevail if we work towards it, and I see a labor revival in our longer future.

  • Hero's journey

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  • How would anarchism work?

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  • It's more of a philosophy than a system of governance. A government that follows anarchist ideals would not incarcerate people much, but would do a lot to make sure private individuals can't attain much power over each other. It would be focused on preventing a tiered class system from forming and making sure people aren't critically dependent on a single employer.

  • Solar is the new oil

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  • Not really. While the expertise in their manufacture is pretty concentrated, you can build a factory almost anywhere in theory. They don't have a lot of exotic materials and the amount they need will probably drop in the future, so there won't be a real solar equivalent to the petro-state. Maybe some places with a handy combination of sun and mineral resources could be desirable industrial regions, but it wouldn't encourage war in the same way.

  • Oh dear

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  • I have never felt so attacked in my life.

  • Should I switch to Qobuz or Tidal for music streaming?

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  • Is there anything wrong with Pandora?

  • context in body

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  • It'll be all up in the pipes and absorbed into the liner by the time you find it if the perp isn't a colossal fuckup. I'm not sure if the film on top of the water will be thick enough to sustain flame anyway. It only takes like one five gallon tank, and diesel doesn't make volatile fumes like gasoline.

  • context in body

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  • It will turn the washing machine into a dirtying machine.

    You can also dump diesel fuel in someone's pool. I know a guy who knows a guy who had to fill in and bury his pool because he couldn't ever get the smell out. I'm also pretty sure you can ruin tar shingles and sometimes fuck up someone's driveway with diesel. It dissolves everything gasoline can but never evaporates. There are a million ways to ruin someone's week or even year with diesel fuel before you even get into lighting it on fire.

  • context in body

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  • Diesel fuel and roofing tar will leave irremovable stains and smells on anything it touches, and then if you're stupid enough to try and wash it off it'll ruin your washing machine too. The fact that it could be lit on fire is just for the fear factor, which is actually more useful for the movement if it's never actually followed through on.

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    California Gov. Gavin Newsom hosts Ben Shapiro on his podcast

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  • I like to think that the political machine we're building to combat the Trump administration will flatten the DNC old guard pretty handily. Time will tell, but they barely had a handle on Bernie when there was no organization or understanding of the scale of the fight. I'm hopeful.

  • In the phrase “a long-winded response”, “winded” can be pronounced as in “wind” or as in “wind”, and both make etymological sense.

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  • Wind as in the weather phenomenon.

  • Sodium-ion batteries A cheaper, safer, and more abundant alternative to lithium is finally making its way into cars—and the grid.

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  • Does anyone know if the new silicon anode tech on the horizon is usable in sodium ion batteries?

  • Do you think all monopolies should be split into different companies, and then given to the workers who would collectivize them?

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  • No, some of them should just be socialized. Some markets are naturally uncompetitive and don't serve the public well when guided strictly by profit motive.

  • Given the way GPT operates, I bet it would be more accurate if we trained it to speak like Yoda.

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  • It would definitely be funnier to train it to do that.

  • Bernie Sanders forgets something

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  • We can lift sanctions after they stop being shitty to themselves and supporting Russia. Not before.