macaroni1556

joined 2 years ago
[–] macaroni1556@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

What is your mother's maiden name and/or first pet?

[–] macaroni1556@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

Yup where it's going is "the doctor will see you in six weeks but for $300 he can see you now".

[–] macaroni1556@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

Problem is the low downforce won't put enough energy to the tires so they'll still struggle with getting temperature. It will peak under cornering and maybe just grain up as the surface grinds away.

[–] macaroni1556@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

Just because I'm a car history guy, I think you have some broken information about Opel.

The company predated Nazi Germany by a long shot as a general equipment manufacturer in the 1800s and was one of the biggest auto producers in the 1920s holding over 25% of the market. They were actually bought by General Motors (not Ford) in 1929.

Where you did get it right is the famous Brandenburg factory was funded partly by the Nazi government and to specifically make the Opel Blitz trucks. Which were at the time just a general work truck in high demand. But soon after GM lost control and the plant was used to exclusively make military trucks for the war. But this is the same for any factory at the time.

A lot of this can be explained by the US political attitude to Germany where they kept up positive diplomatic relationships up until the attacks in the Pacific. The large companies like GM didn't have a direct reason to divest from their ties to Nazi regime, as they weren't really denounced themselves and still an important trading partner. Their investors would have had protests on a change of course. For GM, Opel was a huge success at the time.

Of course cutting ties and divesting would have been the moral thing to do, but capitalism has no morals... Apple doesn't mind making products in China today but sanctions on tech are already changing the course for companies like Nvidia, not without lots of protest by their leaders.

Also yes Henry Ford was idolized by Hitler and Ford didn't mind that one bit.

[–] macaroni1556@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

There are the mandated penalties for late arrivals. Diverting could result in a 24h delay for ~250 passengers which could mean a 250k fine

Except despite all the BS reasons AC says flights are outside of their control, this one is definitely outside their control.

So that doesn't hold.I wonder what their decision was based on.

[–] macaroni1556@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

My point here is burning paper on a mass scale instead of using wires or an IC is not a solution, not even a little bit like biodegradable food containers.

Its solving a problem that isn't really a problem!

I'm not sure how much of this is the actual project, or the author of the article, as there are all kinds of odd claims in there.

[–] macaroni1556@lemmy.ca 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)

So it's proposing we burn traces on single-use paper to solve climate change.

RFID tags as a security device are important and they can last as long as keys.

As a business card we can just stop doing it. Solved!

[–] macaroni1556@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

I don't think so. There even was an operating one in Saskatchewan Canada, but all it did was send the CO2 through a pipe across the US border for more oil extraction.

So... worse than doing nothing. 👌

Its not currently operating because even that was too expensive to justify.

[–] macaroni1556@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

I'm not saying its a contest! It's a shitty contest if it is. And it's not a exact mirror of course. It's just all part of the patriarchy and how it controls us.

[–] macaroni1556@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Same for women based on having children.

This may be a controversial take but some people suffer from overwhelming shame from not being able to have children or from having a miscarriage and are afraid to talk about it openly.

It can be traumatic and they deserve support but the whole concept is based on women's value as only for having children and they're a failure without it. We need to move past this as a society.

[–] macaroni1556@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

Thanka for sharing this. As a non American I honestly assumed the park was there from the beginning, not created (stolen?) so recently.

[–] macaroni1556@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

Mmm rectangle pixels

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