MrVilliam

@MrVilliam@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aged like milk⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t find video since everything is flooded with news people talking about it and won’t show the actual footage. Got a link?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Quick correction: Tim Kaine was absolutely not a Republican. He was Democratic governor of VA 2006-2010 and chair of the DNC 2009-2011. Pretty milquetoast, standard, old white guy Democrat, not a Republican.

  In general, I agree with the other stuff you said though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A conundrum⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And so now you’ve learned that you need to regularly flush the water heater and change out the anode rod every few years, right? I just bought my first house. Hot water wasn’t working right. Heating element was dead. Why? There was so much scale that the lower element was covered in it. Replaced the element, flushed as much out as I could reasonably remove, and then flushed again six months later while replacing the anode rod. This keeps the corrosion at bay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chirp in Fahrenheit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Fahrenheit used the temperature of the human body to create his system, which makes a lot more sense than other systems.

  What is 0°F in terms of the human body? I’m guessing that 100°F is supposed to be a normal human body temperature, but in reality that will vary from person to person and everybody I’ve met is usually 97-99 unless they have a fever.
  In Celsius/Centigrade, 0° is the freezing point of water at 1 atmosphere of pressure, and 100° is the boiling point.
  In Kelvin, 0 is absolute zero, and it scales with Celsius/Centigrade because anchoring it to water just makes sense.

  Fahrenheit is fucking silly and people only defend it because it’s what they were familiar with growing up, so they teach the next generation the same thing, thus perpetuating the cycle of tradition for the sake of tradition.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Informative review ⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No? Like I said, Italian immigrants brought pizza to America. They didn’t come to America and then invent pizza. Trade routes brought chili peppers to those areas and they did new and interesting things with them to incorporate them into their cuisine in fundamental ways. I’m just saying that those dishes are recent, not completely coopted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Informative review ⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not OP, but maybe they’re alluding to the fact that tomatoes were exclusively native to the Americas, so pizza in Italy never even had tomatoes before 500 years ago. A quick Google search shows that the first modern pizzas came from Naples about 300 years ago. So no, not American, but not possible without moving tomatoes from the Americas.

  Italian immigrants brought pizza to America and it caught on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨don't get too streptococci⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And your system is right. If there’s one thing that American public school made sure that I knew about science, it’s that the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I know the lyrics I promise"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ALL AROUND THE WORLD, STATUES CRUMBLE FOR ME

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Replace PBS with indoctrination⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well yeah. Duh. The far right fiercely demonizes the concept of empathy, therefore exhibiting and teaching empathy must be far left.

  Their whole platform is to move money from the poor to the wealthy. They trick some of the poor into supporting this by being vehemently opposed to whatever the adults in the room want to do. Psychologically and mentally speaking, conservative voters are edgy, rebellious teenagers fighting against the tyranny of their dad without understanding that dad set the rules because they’re incapable of succeeding without rules being set for them, so they vote for their older brother to punch dad in the mouth and remove all the rules, and then the older brother just says fuck you, cook your own dinner, and btw that xbox belongs to me now since I’m the man of the house. But at least there’s no bedtime now, so that’s cool I guess? And their little sister now just goes to school, does chores, and isn’t allowed to go out anymore, but that’s fine because that’s her place, and if she wanted a better deal, she’d work hard to earn it, so she must just be lazier than them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California slave labor: Jailed pre-trial detainees work for private firm—for nothing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but also these are pretrial detainees, as in not yet convicted of any crime. Article 1 of the 13th amendment says “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” (emphasis my own)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I feel like it was on purpose⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  We can’t lay all of the blame on trump.

  The problem is conservatism in general. Every Republican president of the past 50 years has caused economic turmoil. When Republicans get power in the legislature, the only notable thing they work towards is tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy, and gutting things that help people in order to pay for it.

  Trump isn’t singularly the problem here, but he is so fucking stupid that he’s speedrunning the economic crisis. A Republican with a halfway functional brain would know to move slowly enough that the economy falls apart as they’re heading out the door, not within the first 20% of their term.

  Start selling trump “I did that!” stickers of him pointing up at the eclipse. You’ll start seeing them everywhere soon. Gas pumps, grocery store shelves, car dealerships, etc.