Majorllama

You have to tamper with the pressure release safety valves and provide a secondary flame unless you are using some bougie incendiary ammo (and even those aren’t a guarantee to ignite something like propane on its own).

We used to blow up the normal sized ones like for your the backyard grill. We would fill the pressure release with valve with JB weld and then toss it into a bonfire and shoot it from like 500 feet away lol.

Based.

I have also read that exact same study lol. If it turns out it’s deadly I guess I’ll see you in the afterlife soon haha

I can fold my ears in on themselves and they will stay that way until I smile.

Basically my ears are just super soft because I was always playing with them as a kid so the cartridge never really hardened up like it did for most other people.

As I have gotten older and played with my ears less they don’t stay folded as long but I can still do it.

I can do this as well. Every single girlfriend I have had in my life absolutely hated it. I don’t even notice myself doing it sometimes.

Dude who are you arguing with? I never said anything about those incredibly specific situations you’re talking about.

I already gave two things that a smaller population size might effect when it comes to elections. I am sure there are many other things that having a smaller population affects that I haven’t even considered.

I should have been more clear. I never said the words “egalitarianism” or “authoritarianism”.

That would be those “either” of the things I was referring to me having not said.

Smaller population simply means each person’s vote counts for more. Easier for small groups to have an effect when they only need to reach a smaller number of potential voters.

EDIT: spelling

…I never said either of those things?

I’m a bit more optimistic. This is just the pendulum swinging back as it always does. Don’t worry it’ll probably swing the other way in 4 years most likely.

Doesn’t sound like the worst way to spend an afternoon all things considered.

Well that’s… Good to hear? Certainly sounds better than whatever shit show the US currently has kicking off.

I’m not gonna pretend I know the exact details of how much of a slide and to what severity each countries election is going. I was nearly saying that it seems global we are in the middle of a shift right is all.

I never said the politics were the same as my country.

And many countries are currently in the middle of or already have elected right wing leaders. Not really propaganda when it’s verifiably a fact.

Oh absolutely not. It’s a much smaller population and being an island it’s got a figurative and literal buffer to the rest of the world.

I have always loved New Zealand. It’s like the cooler uncle of Australia minus all the spiders the size of my head.

And it’s just a beautiful place. Makes me wanna go frolicking in the mountains with an elf, dwarf and old white guy lol

Isn’t New Zealand currently going through their own slide to the right? The Māori only represent like ~17% of the population over there. New Zealand just elected a conservative coalition.

Seems like you’re just moving from one place you (presumably) don’t agree with to a new place that also just signed up for shit you probably aren’t going to agree with.

I mean it looks beautiful but if your travel is for political reasons I fear you’re just heading to a different slice of the same.

Have a safe flight.

Oh I am very aware. We once had like an inch of hail build up on the streets around here. This is a city that hasn’t seen snow or ice on the roads since like 1897 mind you. Anyway when that small sheet of slushy ice plopped down it basically gridlocked the city with accidents because nobody slowed down or anything. People really don’t take changing conditions into account very often.

Rare restraint from the Floridians. I’m surprised nobody is out with a lifted truck, rope and sled. We usually see that every time is snows below the typical elevations around here.

Snow>beach

That being said you live in Florida and you’re being robbed of your sun which ain’t cool.

How are the drivers handling it? I know when snow goes places it typically doesn’t go lots of drivers don’t change any behaviors which leads to many many cars in ditches and piled up.

You shouldn’t view things like they have “sides”. People are complicated. Situations involving one or many people are even more complex. People who have done arguably great things for humanity have also done terrible things in their personal lives. It’s not an all or nothing type of thing. Some people will tell you it is, but those people are either stupid or pushing an agenda.

Picking “sides” removes any nuance from the conversation and is often short sighted.

You can generally agree with a “side” but find individual statements that you disagree with. There are basically no “sides” or people that I universally agree with across every single little thing.

I’ll give one of my favorite examples of this: The Wright brothers. Without them we wouldn’t have modern flight which has not only saved countless lives but it also enabled great expansion with their new technology. Most people would argue that the Wright brothers were very important and a good thing that happened… however the Wright brothers were incredibly litigious and because of that they probably held back the technological growth of aviation for several years because of that behavior. At that time technology was moving incredibly quick so who knows how much it delayed things in the grand scheme of things.

It doesn’t mean that them figuring out how to fly and making the first air plane is now bad, but it does change their perception that they were these giving “father’s of flight”. They were greedy little shits who wanted all the money who happened to figure out how to fly.

A more common example would Winston Churchill. Arguably one of the most important players during WW2. Many argue that without his leadership the war would have gone quite different. He also happened to be super racist.

Don’t discredit everything good someone has done because of one bad thing they did. But also don’t ignore the bad things people have done because they have done some good. Take them as the whole. Flawed but human.

Well if you’re able to converse with them in their native tongue then I don’t understand the problem. You should be able to talk to them just fine.