This hand-crafted, gold necklace with diamond, ruby sapphire, and emeralds adorning the intricately carved centerpiece?

5 gold pieces.

That moldy slice of bread you picked up accidentally from a barrel in the bottom of a 1500 year old shipwreck?

… I’ll give you 3 gold.

Well, it’ll be taught, just not as official curriculum.

I learned about a man from Nantucket at school.

Because their only experience with anything involving trans people is in porn, and there is a huge amount of trans-fem content when compared to trans-masc.

So they literally don’t think about FtM trans people at all.

It’s also why many of them view trans people simply existing as inherently sexual.

Knowing nothing about these specific setups, but knowing how charging lithium ion and LiFePO4 batteries work and my own experience with charging at different rates, yes.

It definitely reduces the battery life to jam that much current in and out of it, the higher rate you charge, the less accurately you’ll get to 100% charge, and you don’t want to overcharge or repeatedly undercharge it. This will more rapidly degrade the battery.

That said, with battery prices plummeting, and presumably only doing this when you absolutely NEED the charge ASAP, it might be worth it to have the ability to charge that fast.

Plus it would make for some sick EV racing, when you have set battery sizes and 10-30 second pit stops for more power being part of the race.

That was my breaking point.

I used to love jack black as a musician and an actor, he wasn’t the best ever at either but he was fun.

Then he started becoming more of a caricature of himself and it started getting annoying.

After his display of bending the knee, he can eat shit. He could easily have carried on as if he didnt care one way or another and nobody would have batted an eye, but he just had to panic and preemptively lick boot.

Department of War

I’ll be dead long before I call it that. Or “gulf of america”

Tiocfaidh ár lá

If posting memes and commenting on memes isn’t therapy then I’m in some trouble…

And the United States government, whose nuclear launch systems for decades had a default “0000000” password on systems so old they figured nobody would know how to hack them in person anymore, and they’re incompatible with the internet.

It’s disturbing to me that my high school hobby of fixing and operating old computers meant I could have launched nukes.

North Korea really hates the ocean.

What did the ocean ever do to north Korea?

The misfits in question: you wanna take on “The Man” but your mom says you have to be back inside by 5:30 so you can go get a pair of JNCO jeans at the mall.

Look, you have been made illegal to exist as a person in public, so you can either die quietly like a good little slave or we will be forced to execute you in the street.

Oh, you don’t agree with that and are fighting back? VIOLENCE! WHY DOES THE LEFT ALWAYS TURN TO VIOLENCE!

Checkmate, libs.

-Someone somewhere, thinking they have a point, yet in dire need of a brick to the face

It’s less that we “send each other videos we know the other doesn’t like” and more “when we’re relaxing and watching videos, we will show each other a funny video or two but eventually neither of us really cares about the videos as much as the other but neither of us dislikes them enough to stop it because it’s not about the videos it’s about spending time with each other”

Last year most of the fields around me turned to slop as it was too wet for many weeks, and most fields couldn’t get equipment through the mud

As someone who has access to about 3kw of solar panels, and wants to cut down on my electricity bill, where did you manage to get batteries so cheap? I’ve been burned on 18650s from supposedly reliable retailers before…

While jailed and unable to pay bills, Lipps lost her home, her car and her dog, she said

Fuck suing, I’m going to prison for murder. I can live without the stuff, but if someone touches my dog they must not like living.

I’ve been managing to drag some of them further left, I think, through conversation about things.

A few are 100% on board with a union as long as I keep calling it “collective bargaining” and don’t use the scary U word.

A few are on board with most social safety nets, especially when they find out Healthcare would cost less than it currently costs them in taxes alone, let alone not having to pay for insurance anymore, but the second you call it socialism or use any sort of word like “welfare” then they panic.

Individually I think I’m breaking some of them, but collectively they’re fucking idiots.

There’s a pretty simple test, IMO

Ask a person “is bombing a school filled with children okay as long as the end goal brings about the end of the world?”

If they answer “yes” then just immediately drop them into a meat grinder and use the remains for fertilizer.

Maybe it’s my cynical side, but I genuinely don’t think people like that can be fixed, so while it might be considered “cruel” it’s better to just put them out of everyone’s (including their own) misery, a “nuthouse” just gives them a place to congregate and keep trying to spread their hate.

I honestly think it would just be the US once again attacking itself in order to justify something terrible.