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Philosoraptor [he/him, comrade/them]

@ Philosoraptor @hexbear.net

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  • In the US at least, large corporations are also at least theoretically beholden to the small number of (admittedly anemic) labor and safety regulations we have. Small businesses are often just straight up exempt, and so can get away with being dangerous hellholes for employees to work in without really any meaningful recourse. If you work on a large corporate farm, for instance, there are a huge number of safety regulations surrounding how you interact with grain silos. Output chutes are required to have lockouts for when people enter the silo, it's mandatory to have safety equipment on-site, the silos have to be designed with escape mechanisms, and so on. If you're just a kulak smol bean family farmer, though, you can send your 12 year old kid in to "walk down the grain" without even closing the output chute, and it's totally legal. Guess where the vast majority of grain entrapment injuries and deaths happen.

  • Regression-to-the-mean machine regresses to the mean

  • Some of us are just dorks.

  • Those are the more "respectable" ones. A lot of the CHUD base still thinks it's a Chinese hoax.

  • Harry Potter race science.

  • She has a jawline. That's almost certainly what they're mad about.

  • He said "infrastructure damage," which is extremely plausible. Even a regular ice storm does WAY more damage to power lines and trees than you'd think it would. The magnitude of this combined with the fact that the power grid in a lot of these places is perpetually hanging on by a thread anyway (and nobody owns any serious winter gear or knows how to prep for a big winter storm) is a recipe for pretty serious damage. It's not gonna take the roof off of houses (though trees might do damage to some homes), but power down for weeks and roads impassable for days isn't at all out of the question.

  • We have one hairless cat with two regular cats, and I tell him all the time that he's a diversity hire.

  • hotmessinaz.bsky.social‬ @hotmessinaz.bsky.social‬

    Just signed up for a concealed carry permit class and we’ll be purchasing my gist firearm this weekend. We all need to get ready for what’s coming.

    pardonall-joe24.bsky.social‬ @pardonall-joe24.bsky.social‬

    NRA is loving this...

    Another win for a Trump mate.

    If you resist or even prepare to resist, you're just giving the Nazis what they want!!!

  • What is she even referring to here? This one was so funny because I'm just baffled as to what she's even talking about.

  • Absolutely. This should prove--prove--that the American electorate is not voting based on policy. American elections, especially at the national level, are purely vibes based. The Democrats' sweaty triangulation and technocratic wonk proposals will never win them elections, because their vibes are rancidly bad and that is all that matters. Nobody is paying attention to your policies. Most people don't know what your policies are or even have policy preferences themselves.

  • Confusing Nazi Germany and Joss Whedon TV shows.

  • Yeah, I had to transcribe the parts I quoted.

  • I've been saying since last year that all the publicly stated reasons for the Greenland stuff were smokescreens for climate change related reasons. They can't talk about it out loud because they have to keep claiming climate change is a seeseepee hoax (and Trump himself may not even be aware that this is a consideration), but the people who are really making the decisions here know the score.

  • If you want to be anti-China fine (I guess), but you definitely shouldn't be pro-Falun Gong. They are unhinged far right cultists.

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  • To be fair, the Democrats did use the DOJ against Trump for inciting an insurrection in 2020.

    Did they though?