Would be cool have actually see the image they posted

I’d rather get neither. It will help me focus and grind that much harder.

/S

What are you, hydrophobic?

Hellbender salamander?

A Violet for the modern world

Girl, I’m not here to downplay the contributions of the USSR nor did I. I’m also not OOP. I know basic history. You already said that you object to calling it a group effort. What was the point of this comment?

It also goes to show how the USSR needed the help and without it being a group effort the citizens of the USSR would have suffered even more.

Ya the guys in Lemmy.ml tend to be pretty weird like that. They aren’t a monolith but in general they tend to think that Russia, China, and North Korea have never done anything bad and that all the evil in the world comes from capitalism in europe and America and that the whole world will be fixed when The Revolution comes. It is all sort of like evangelical Christianity with the numbers filed off, the president of the United States is like an appointed satan (appointed, not elected, they don’t believe elections work/are real in the west) who rules over hell which is the west (sometimes stylized as “Amerikkka”, often accompanied by an American flag emoji with a fire emoji on top of it or a jpeg of a Chinese emperor shooting a fireball), Karl Marx is sort of like Jesus and mao, lenin, Stalin, etc. are the disciples, and The Revolution is the rapture. It is a pretty interesting belief system and I think the .ml guys all mean well, but they can be really difficult to talk to sometimes, as you’ve seen.

The taco guy on the corner and the halal truck down the street. I trust them with my life.

Bnuuy

The problem, as ever, isn’t the concept of an electric vehicle, it is the companies

Yes but other cars can be repaired at any mechanic rather than just at a dealer, which is the issue we were talking about above.

I am well aware of the computerization of cars, how carburetors have not been a thing for more like 30 years, and how generally electric vehicles are better than combustion ones but both are worse than public transit.

I’d be worried about some of the electronics, modern cars, electric or not, tend to be overcomplicated with tablets and server connections and what have you. I might also worry about getting into an accident.

I agree. The solution isn’t to wish that everyone would suddenly change their behavior out of nowhere, the only real hope we have is government regulations.

This really isn’t an appropriate response to this meme. You come across like a creep

I’m so lost. Can you explain what this is about?

Idk about this, dog. Elastic always seems to be the first thing to wear out on my clothes so I’m not excited to try it on a belt. My leather belts seem to be immortal, are you using good leather belts or cheap ones?

You probably want something a little more baggy, jeans can be snug around the thighs and that wears out the material fast. If you have the crotch fail then that is your problem.

There is also the material used, elastane and tencel/rayon have low tensile strength and wear out fast while polyester and especially nylon are very strong. Recycled materials are also weaker than they otherwise would be because the recycling process cuts them up. In general 100% cotton is good and I would give blends a close look. Wool and linen and ramie are all pretty uncommon in jeans and jeans adjacent things but despite their many other positive qualities they aren’t super strong; wool has a low tensile strength and linen and ramie tend to fail when bent a lot.

Also consider the weight and the weave, thinner material is going to wear through faster while thicker stuff is going to be tougher. Also a reverse sateen weave should last a little longer, it is like the twill leave in denim but oriented sideways so everything is smooth while going forward (and not smooth up/down but what can you do) so it catches and snags and stuff less.

So you will probably have a better time with some baggy or at least roomy reverse sateen cotton-poly or 100% cotton military fatigues. Or other pants with those qualities, just fatigues are common to see like that

Good luck

I watched Tom Stanton’s vid and it was pretty cool. He almost made it look easy. Crazy that he built a gravity powered device that basically shoots like a gun

“I’ve been down voted, therefore democracy is the same thing as slavery” can’t possibly be what you mean but it is genuinely the only take away I’ve got from this comment.