[-] Vampire@hexbear.net 14 points 5 days ago

I saw one that's steam-powered. You put 10% of the wood in the furnace and that chips the other 90% of the wood. No electricity is generated.

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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/7525458

Also the show makes it clear restrictions on security agencies is a bad thing. Bureaucratic red tape is brought up quite often.

And not a single one of the DEA agents is corrupt.

And operation Condor was a mexican initiative.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cradle_of_civilization

Scholars generally acknowledge six cradles of civilization: Mesopotamia, Ancient Egypt, Ancient India and Ancient China, the Caral–Supe civilization of coastal Peru and the Olmec civilization of Mexico.


Six cradles of civilisation: one in the Middle East, one in Africa, two in Asia, two in America

Thank the gods we were ultimately able to uplift the savage Europeans and bring them the boons of civilisation!

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How realistic is it that Europe could do what Vietnam, Syria, the Taliban and the Houthis did?

https://militarnyi.com/en/news/us-army-poorly-prepared-for-arctic-operations-finnish-troops-forced-them-to-surrender-during-exercises-in-norway/

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Anastasia Romanov = great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria

King Edward VII was married to the Empress of Russia's sister

Prince Philip (husband of Elizabeth II)'s maternal grandmother (Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine) was a sister of Empress Alexandra of Russia.

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Wikipedia moment

[-] Vampire@hexbear.net 69 points 2 years ago

Twotter can do whatever they want coz they're a corporation

ancap-good

[-] Vampire@hexbear.net 73 points 2 years ago

Take some of that money you get fining surveillance-capitalists and use it to fund privacy-respecting libre alternatives

[-] Vampire@hexbear.net 75 points 2 years ago

Marxist theory can give you insights on how to play the capitalist game. If you read it like a psychopath.

[-] Vampire@hexbear.net 76 points 2 years ago

I love the way 9/11 now is purely comedy fodder.

[-] Vampire@hexbear.net 72 points 2 years ago

We need to praise the greatness of comrades in all nations.

Think of the great contributions to our immortal movement made by British and French socialists.

[-] Vampire@hexbear.net 253 points 2 years ago

You can find a list of the 34 rules he violated by searching for 'Donald Trump Rule 34'

[-] Vampire@hexbear.net 74 points 2 years ago

You must be new here

[-] Vampire@hexbear.net 66 points 2 years ago

So much of modern culture I don't understand and don't want to

[-] Vampire@hexbear.net 83 points 2 years ago

Even getting that excited about good wallpaper would be cringe

[-] Vampire@hexbear.net 66 points 2 years ago

Material conditions determine consciousness

[-] Vampire@hexbear.net 66 points 2 years ago

There are ecological problems. Killing birds and things. They've caused several species-extinctions in Australia iirc, where they are not native.

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