Any electricity used for electrolysis came from gasoline. If you turn on a bunch of electronics in your car, your alternator gets harder to spin and your engine consumes more fuel to do it. Then you’re putting energy into breaking bonds which is energy you will partially (but not fully) recover by burning them. It’s impossible for this system to result in a more efficient engine.

Pitching them as cowards implies that they are afraid to do what they want. I think they actually don’t have any sense of morals at all and are happy to signal that they are on board with American fascism.

During the talk, I think they said it was about 85% men.

I see it as a gateway. A lot of people will go to the protest, talk to other people, and maybe get involved with something more meaningful.

I’m from the US southeast so I’ve seen plenty of these people. IMO, they should be avoided. There are plenty of devout Christians that are quiet about it and they’re fine. They’re often good people actually. The ones that are extremely forward about it are performing for their in-group. The in-group is all that matters. Since you aren’t in it, you don’t matter to them. At best, they’ll hang out in order to proselytize to you. I find them condescending and intentionally disconnected from the outside world. Effectively, they’re in a cult.

No US losses, not a single soldier?

7 soldiers were injured by shrapnel or gunshot wounds. There hasn’t been any announcement of US deaths.

Not a wall of bodyguards around Maduro?

The Cuban government provided elite guards for Maduro. They announced that 32 of them were killed in the raid.

yet they didn’t have any radars set up to detect air infiltration?

They certainly did. Detecting aircraft doesn’t mean you can do anything about it. This was a big operation with explosions all over the city. Many of those were knocking out air defenses and targeting air bases. Some of the aircraft used were stealthy and might have evaded detection before striking air defenses. 150 aircraft from the Navy, Air Force, and Marines were used.

All of the equipment shipped in from Russia and China leading up to this moment, no missiles that could’ve taken out those low flying helicopters?

I’m not familiar with China’s military aid. But IIRC, Russia flew one transport plane with “air defenses” which is more of a symbolic gesture than a solution. Let’s not forget that using advanced aircraft to strike deep within contested airspace is kind of the US military’s whole thing. By the time the helicopters showed up, any air defenses that could have brought them down were already dealt with.

They capture Maduro AND his wife? Why his wife, it just seems an unnecessary liability to add to the equation.

Yeah idk. That is weird.

but what they haven’t taken over Venezuela?

…yet. My guess is that they learned from Iraq. In Iraq, they did the same kind of thing to Saddam and then took over and tried to run the country. That turned out to be a huge political problem for the US for decades. They want Venezuela to essentially be a vassal of the US, which they can do without directly running the country. Likely they are using the threat of doing this again to push Venezuelan politics toward giving concessions to the US.

Feels like a psychological operation to make us believe the US hegemony is alive and just as invincible as it’s always been

At this point you are purely reaching for conspiracy to fit things within your preferred narrative. The rest of your post is very conspiratorial. A lot of parties are kind of shocked at the moment and waiting for some of the dust to settle before taking concrete action.

I am morbidly curious

I mostly don’t. Maybe this isn’t the kind of answer you were interested in. I think memorable experiences are transient and are more beautiful the more fleeting they are. The more I try to immortalize some moment, the less I feel I’m able to enjoy it in the moment. There are some exceptions. I keep recipes in Google keep. Most of them I just know how to make but I might need my memory jogged for a measurement or temp setting. I also have a small notebook I use as a gym journal. “Journalling” seems like a stretch for the chicken-scratch numbers, though. It’s mostly so I know how much weight to use next time I go.

A lot of cool projects on here. I’m not actually a programmer so everything I’ve done is little more than a script. In high school, I taught myself python by solving project euler problems. Many of them involved prime numbers so I got increasingly good at making prime number generators. I was really proud of getting it down to just a couple lines of elegant simplicity.

It doesn’t matter. Nobody is going to be convinced by anything you say. The protesters won’t be especially hurt by a really good burn. You could yell gibberish into the megaphone. The important thing is that you are there, loudly showing your support for the drag queens.

Is this trolling? I’ve never heard any of these fake quotes.

I’ve never been a big fragrance guy. When I found out about people like you, I decided to just go fragrance free. If it’s not a big deal to me and it gives a few people headaches to be near me, might as well just not do it. There are some tangential benefits. My deodorant irritates my armpits less now. My hair oil used to irritate my skin if it got on my forehead. Now it doesn’t.

Man I wish we had better terminology for this type of game. Roguelike and roguelite give the same energy as “Doom-clone” for every fps in the 90s. Later we called them FPS games. That genre has since been refined into tactical shooters, arcade shooters, milsim, etc. Meanwhile, we’re still stuck calling all games that have randomized runs “rogue-likes”. Being pedantic about the definition doesn’t make this situation better.

the words don’t gotta make sense in music, they’re not the whole thing. that’s part of the beauty of it.

Thanks for pointing this out. People act like lyrics have to be fit for dissection in English class to be good. If they were, none of the meaning would get to you while you actually listen to the song. The lyrics and the rest of the song need to work together to make you feel something. Extremely simple or even nonsense lyrics can bring you to feel something more strongly than if they were deep and brooding with big vocabulary and metaphors. If Tyler’s music doesn’t make you feel something? Then don’t listen.

I don’t think I’d call him a lyrical genius but this song is basically an interlude off of quite an old album. Flower Boy represented a big shift for his music tonally and maturity-wise. Maybe check his music after that to get a better idea of why is current fans feel the way they do.

One of the main themes of this album was summer camp. Some of the album literally feels campy and other parts feel angsty or edgy. It’s meant to put you in the mind of a teenage boy. IFHY or Answer would be a better representation of lyricism off this album.

I don’t drink at home. I’ll let loose when I’m out with friends but at home I don’t drink. I had a period of my life where I was very close to becoming an alcoholic. It wasn’t until a recovering alcoholic (using extremely broken English) suddenly seemed very concerned with me and told me I could talk to him any time that I realized where I was heading. A couple years later I messaged him to tell him how important that moment was to me. I don’t even know if he could read English well enough to get the point but I hope he understood.

Suburban unc take

I agree with this sentiment. In general, I think that leftist political ideas are quite popular when you swap out the leftist terminology. “The real culture war is between the shareholders and the workers” doesn’t raise a person’s guard like “The bourgeoisie are oppressing the proletariat”. It also forces you to explain a little about your meaning to somebody who maybe doesn’t already know what these terms mean. Whenever I’m trying to talk politics with someone who is open-minded but not explicitly leftist, I try to use this tactic so I don’t immediately run into a wall of conditioned responses.

Dropout is pretty good. I don’t think they’ve really been around enough to enshitify yet though. They’re on big up-swing. During that time they’ve been cheap, audience-focused, and fair to their cast and crew. They’ve already raised the price at least once. If they get some loans/investors involved or have a bad year, I could easily see them becoming more like other streaming services. I hope I’m wrong.

North Korea is the only one that could fall under that category. It just seems like a ton of resources to throw behind a tiny fraction of the nuclear threat to the US. Couldn’t we station boost-phase interceptors in South Korea and/or Japan for a whole lot cheaper? An anti-satellite capability is much easier to get than a nuclear ICBM. If they can make a nuke, they can take out a satellite.

Ultimately, Golden Dome is a wunderwaffe. The Trump administration is excited about it for the same reasons the Nazis were excited about their military vanity projects. It’s hard to discuss it purely in it’s own merits without also considering the reason it is being pursued. It isn’t being pushed by top people in the military or Pentagon. It’s pushed because some high up fascists saw the Israeli Iron Dome and were like “we gotta have one of those, but BIGGER, and make it GOLD”. It’s an aesthetic marketing halo project for MAGA fascism.