I’m no historical expert and I am just kind of spitballing here but I could see a few situations where that would make sense. Like you have something that is too hot to handle for the time being, maybe you just stole from Spain and now you have to pass through a Spanish blockade? Or maybe people can easily show up to a port with a normal amount of gold/currency but then over a certain amount it either risks being confiscated or drawing attention.
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Someone else I know got a printer and got bored printing with it after a bit and said I can print on it whenever if I toss them a roll of material every now and then.
I ended up finding all kinds of useful things to print. I made a connection piece for a sink that had a garbage disposal removed when I couldn’t find the fitting anywhere and after 3 years it’s holding up fine. I made a set of cams for a washer that randomly stopped spinning one day and those have been working nicely. Just a bunch of times it ended up coming in handy.
Qwazpoi@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•How do you effectively counter serious cognitive dissonance in loved ones?2·30 days agoWhen confronted with any questions that make people evaluate their dissonance people will often fall back on “I don’t know” and refuse to engage information that contradicts their beliefs. If they do engage at all it may come in the form of circular logic, “Things are this way because they just are”.
It can basically become a parent getting exasperated trying to explain why the sky is blue to a kid when they don’t really know themselves.
The disconnect is often that their worldview is they are “right” and they just know that they are, and trying to prove otherwise kinda circles back on the sky argument. Saying that they are wrong is like telling them the sky is neon yellow, they know you’re wrong in their mind.
So yeah I’m not sure how to get through to that other than people being social and usually abandoning ideas if they conflict with everyone around them and offer no options for people to engage with them, but that can be undone fast with an echo chamber of false information or really anything that reinforces their beliefs.
Go to your attorney general’s website and fill out a form for a complaint. Check the box says you don’t mind getting the news involved and detail everything you’ve done so far that hasn’t worked.
Qwazpoi@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•U.S. plans to combat spread of "man-eater" screwworms with $8.5M facility of flies in Texas20·2 months agoThe one in Panama actually makes sense because it is near the rainforest and acting as a buffer against them. These facilities only work if they are near the flies, you can’t use sterilized flies unless there is a population of flies to use them on.
When you put that together this almost looks like they are signaling plans to abandon support for the Panama facility and allow them to spread through all of South America up into Mexico.
Qwazpoi@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What game from your childhood is most nostalgic for you?2·3 months agoI got a few.
N64 command and conquer I can still hear the commando blowing up logo and saying that was left handed.
Ocarina of Time
Skies of Arcadia
And kotor, but for some reason I remember the pazak mini game more than anything else.
The backend on YouTube is pretty much designed to encourage skub (ragebait/“engagement”). Having comments that are incendiary is good for the video’s performance.
Does that make it the perfect breeding ground for astroturfing and pushing misinformation? Probably. Bad actors can basically use it as a cheap form of advertising and pushing ideas that benefit them. Even the creator of the video if it was a video that has a completely opposite viewpoint of those comments still stands to benefit from having them because that increases engagement and their revenue.
So I guess my point is is that YouTube has a lot of problems and there is a multitude of reasons why comments like that have a home there and motives for them.
Them:" I saw someone once who spoke a different language than me once. What is that if not GLOBALISM?"
Depends on which pope you are talking about. One of them got allied planes in his sights to get shot down.
Qwazpoi@lemmy.worldto Funny@sh.itjust.works•You may never see the soda fountain the same again71·4 months agoI have selected premium several times and then the tank stopped filling 30¢ early and my receipt said regular despite selecting premium when filling up my moped. I think the machines try to account for the gas type difference sometimes or maybe the pumps I was using were a bit dodgy.
Qwazpoi@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Trump ‘eroding’ US brand, has made the country 20% poorer, Citadel chief says1·4 months agoIf the US gets poor enough can a fast food combo cost less than an hour of working an assembly line?
Qwazpoi@lemmy.worldtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.world•Our Tariffs Will Be . . . One Million Percent!7·4 months agoOr if China sells a product at half the cost or less of getting it elsewhere
Qwazpoi@lemmy.worldto Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE2·4 months agoI think that should count the same
I always thought it was a major fuck you to veterans that the big state funded fireworks display where I live is launched like 10 feet from the veterans hospital where they have people living there and being treated for PTSD.
Also I worked second shift so driving home through low visibility “fog” a few hours after everyone stops shooting them off feels eerie when you live in a city that doesn’t get fog. That’s probably not good for breathing, but I don’t really know about just kind of being anecdotal
Qwazpoi@lemmy.worldto Public Health@mander.xyz•Smartphone bans alone fail to equip children for healthy use of technology, say experts4·5 months agoSo the premise is supposed to be “don’t use phone” is supposed to magically turn into “healthy relationship with technology”? Yeah that doesn’t make sense on a fundamental level.
Try applying that logic elsewhere. Having an rocky relationship with your spouse? Just stop talking to them and it will be fixed. Genius solutions, or perhaps it’s not anything more than an excuse to control teens painted as something else
You can tell it’s gay because it’s not his aunt’s house it’s his aunts house meaning his aunt and her wife which also makes that his other aunt.
Qwazpoi@lemmy.worldto Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Creating new wage slaves is child abuse1·5 months agoMaybe whales know something we don’t. They have land ancestry, so they started as something in the ocean came out for a bit and decided to go back
https://petapixel.com/2019/04/17/actress-pranks-lewd-insta-perverts-with-fake-cleavage-photo/