Lizzardspawn
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Lizzardspawn
1d ago
Isn't it easier just to subtly modify your dna to start creating cancer antibodies. Mind over matter.
I was trying to do some DIY projects lately so I needed 2 pieces of 250mm 2020 aluminum extrusions. Cheapest I could find in Europe was 11 euro with cutting and shipping. From temu with delivery - four costed 10 eur. PCB - from jclpcb 5 boards came at a lower cost than in EU they will charge you for answering your email. let alone production. Same with bearings, flanges, housings, transistors, resistors, capacitors and so on.
How do we unfuck ourselves from the situation where China can produce so much, at such a low cost, witch such a degree of automation that they don't even bother with paying low wages or producing low quality anymore. And they seem to accelerate in automation.
On a side note - the only EU company that produced cheap-ish PCB - only 3 times the price of jcl - had such a long lead times, that I am fairly sure they just group the orders and send them to jcl.
Lizzardspawn
4d ago
My TikTok is suddenly filled with Trump, Clinton, Epstein and Trump giving Clinton a blowjob. Does anyone know WTF this thing started?
Lizzardspawn
4d ago
What else are they supposed to do ?
Cut a deal in 2022 that gives Russia veto over their international military cooperation. The one that according to the rumor mill was offered by Russia, Ukraine was close to accepting, the body count was still low enough for the thing to be swept under the rug and the UK pressured them to refuse.
Lizzardspawn
4d ago
Let's just say that if you cremate all of the honest government officials and big company CEOs in eastern Europe, you will be able to cram their remains in a matchbox.
Lizzardspawn
4d ago
Let's start with the fabled danger zone for food. That you can only hold food at room temperature for 4 hours. Observation shows that even 24+ hours is totally safe. If you have been in a frat house - probably have figured out that even week old is ok-ish The other is about extension cords - especially in the context of using 240V appliance when the only outlet of 240V is not in the kitchen.
Lizzardspawn
4d ago
Trust me - the amounts stolen in Ukraine since the first year of the war are probably $100,000,000 per day. Just Eastern European things. I think that also the reason so many Russian nouveau riche decided to commit suicide by jumping from tall buildings - Putin was sending a message that right now is not business as usual and the rules about state money have changed for the duration of the war.
The whole operation was just a shot over the bow towards Zelensky from EU.
Lizzardspawn
5d ago
I am fairly sure regulation and license boards and code and inspectors is why I rarely bother to discuss anything related to food or electricity safety with a subset of US people. Especially the "licensed, up to code" ones. The part of their brain with which they can grasp that electrical safety comes from the laws of physics and not regulation seems to be atrophied. Ditto with the "danger zone" food experts.
Lizzardspawn
8d ago
Patriotism is great thing when combined with air superiority, artillery, logistics and outnumbering and outgunning the opponent 3 to 1. Otherwise it is good way to convert empty bodybags to full.
Lizzardspawn
8d ago
I am not sure that Pakistan even has money for saber rattling at the moment let alone full scale war. There is no rolling of the dice - this is Russian roulette with glock 17
Lizzardspawn
13d ago
If Satan is the only one that can remove migrants and asylum seekers from Europe, I would moderate my opinion on the Unholy Legion.
Ice are doing something that large parts of the red tribe think of as necessary.
Lizzardspawn
15d ago
Thank you for your awesome response. Just one question (if you decide to continue the sabatical, I will understand). Which will be the next Stalingrad in this war that already had 5 or 6 of those?
Lizzardspawn
15d ago
I am pretty happy about Mamdani. I have a somewhat radical opinion about democracy that is rarely held in the intelligentsia circles - that if voters want something, let them have it. The other thing that said circles never learn is - don't talk down to the voters. They have no choice but to vote Cuomo - guess what they did have a choice. And it was not voting for Cuomo.
The squeals of the anti Mamdani factions are a balm on the soul. And the ADL worst nightmare seems to be coming true - antisemitic as a label is sliding into indifference. Which is kinda amusing when right now for the first time in probably 60 years in the West there is proper 14 karat antisemitism showing its head.
I do hope that he will be able to hurt NY City enough to push things toward R in 2026 and 2028, but I doubt it - the mayor just doesn't have that many powers to ruin something that fast.
Lizzardspawn
15d ago
I have a suspicion Nybbler was thinking of the US army ...
And which outcome do you think is most likely to happen?
I know nothing of military, tactics and so on - but my impression is that the things are way more orderly on the Russian side than the Ukrainian in the last couple of months.
Lizzardspawn
16d ago
A sanity check through claude and grok both come up with Russia having about 10-12% the economy size of the EU. If you insist on PPP then at best 20%.
EU is best described as a person living paycheck to paycheck that uses payday loans. It is not about the size of the economy, but what the countries have spare. And it is not much. This is why funding for Ukraine has been sluggish. EU is big, but a lot of it's resources are tied in welfare, EU projects, the countries do have steadily increased debt to gdp ratio, growth is anemic at best and so on. France is in fiscal trouble, Germany's export oriented economy is not doing terribly well. We are also in a trade war with USA, with China while bearing the bulk of the negatives from sanctions on Russia.
Lizzardspawn
17d ago
What are the Ukrainian people afraid of, being conquered by Russia? I mean I understand the process of being conquered is violent and deadly, but post surrender, what are they afraid of?
4 years ago they probably didn't had too much to be afraid of. Right now ...
Compare the state of the Russian POW that Ukrainians return with the Ukrainian that Russia returns. A full blown conquest has a good chance to devolve Ukraine into the biggest concentration camp on earth.
Thankfully Putin doesn't seem too keen on that. Mostly because oppression is expensive. And economic sanctions on Russia do hurt. So Europe can actually negotiate a peace that is not terrible.
I am not sure if you can comprehend how cruel and ruthless us eastern europeans can be.
Lizzardspawn
18d ago
Do you think that the USA would have been in a better shape today if Hilary Clinton had won the Democratic primary in 2008? Whether she wins of loses the election itself is up to you.
I think that probably the social cohesion now would be higher and divisions somewhat lower.
Lizzardspawn
18d ago
Order of the Stick
A bit sideline
The best quote from the whole thing is "Evan's spiked tentacles of forced intrusion"
I kinda lost interest in the comic when he bent the knee to the wokish crowd about it being rapey. Of course it is was rapey. That was what made it funny.
Lizzardspawn
20d ago
Someone seen any good analysis what happens after the fall of Pokrovsk? Right now the situation there is quite grim for the defenders. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyprrp1d50o
Lizzardspawn
22d ago
- It turns out that You Can Just Do Things™.
Once again Trump is a dwarf standing on the shoulders of giants. This has been done from every administration I can think of in the recent decades. Trump just is his vulgar self again and bragging about it. It is not that Gitmo and Anwar Nasser Abdulla al-Awlaki hadn't happened.
Lizzardspawn
23d ago
That is a long way to state "USA main governance problem is congress refusing to congress". The whole mess is caused by the fact that the Congress has refused to do its job for decades. And power just routes around it. Congress writes vague laws and creates massive bureaucracies that no one seems to be able to reign in to execute them. Congress doesn't pass budgets. And activists decided to create the whole legislation from the bench thing because Congress refused to congress.
There is no coup. Leave power on the ground - someone will pick it up.
Lizzardspawn
23d ago
Is your argument that Trump is tricking the Democrats? Maybe everything is going according to how Darth Trump has foreseen.
I am old enough to remember the times when MAGA were claiming that Trump is playing 5D chess and Democrats were saying he is gullible moron.
Lizzardspawn
24d ago
The only people terrified of socialism in US are a couple of million Eastern Bloc and China immigrants older than 35. Probably some latinos too. And they are staunchly anti Zohran.
Epsom salt. 20-40 km of walking also helps.
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