Then it goes completely uncontrolled into the ground and is very hard to remove. What you want to do is to seal the pipe so the back flow happens inside the facility (assuming they didn’t completely butcher the pipe installation, which… you know… isn’t safe to assume)

And we would want that because…? The USA unilaterally inhibiting their own ability to attack other countries is a big plus in my eyes.

While you correctly stated why I find acts such as these dangerous when not done very carefully, you are simplifying things a bit too much. Terry Pratchett correctly countered your argument in Going Postal:

Moist Von Lipwig: I’m just a con man!
Mr. Pump: You have killed 22.8 people.
Moist Von Lipwig: I’ve never so much as drawn a sword.
Mr. Pump: You have stolen, embezzled, and swindled. You have ruined businesses and destroyed lives. When banks fail, it’s not bankers who starve. In a thousand small ways, you have hastened the deaths of many. You did not know them. You did not see them bleed. But you snatched bread from their mouths. There will be no running.

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Congratulations on getting out! I do not envy you for having to make that decision. But not everybody has the means for emigration though. So hopefully they can stop that madness sooner than later.

Protests in the way they are currently done in the USA are meaningless, that’s why I added meaningful in front of it. If the protest is scheduled to end after 6 hours and happens every few weeks, why should the government care?

And don’t come with the “we are economically scared and don’t have enough funds for that” bullshit. Do you think the people protesting the socialist governments at the end of the 80s under fear of being taken prisoner had a big secure funding or did they protest because they were fed up with their situation and protested as long as necessary to bring down their dictators?

Do you think the people protesting the islamist governments in the Arab Spring under fear of being taken prisoner had a big secure funding or did they protest because they were fed up with their situation and protested as long as necessary to bring down their dictators?

That is one possibility, staging meaningful protests are another, less violent variant. At this point all USA citizen are complacent. After WW2 the only good Germans were those in the resistance.

Oh for sure! I just thought in their heads was a certain kind of business savvyness to reach their position. But it seems they just hear the echo of their own voice.

This is so dumb. I never believed the hype around CEOs, but I still thought they needed to have something, anything, to reach their position.

But the artificial dumbness time really reveals how many of them had simply dumb luck and no morals. And that was apparently enough for all of human history because their underlings protected them from acting too stupid. And now they think they don’t need those underlings anymore. Well, at least I can laugh myself to death before the climate wars.

Now I’m curious: is there any story about the non raptured people on earth building a paradise on earth after the crazies left?

I could also only increase the playback speed to 2x at maximum. Firefox and no YouTube specific add-ons are used.

Stupidity and disinformation by conservative media, so same as everywhere else with that problem.

The people saw that it is shit after 16 years of stagnancy (Merkel), the new government had a opposition party directly in the government (don’t ask how that makes sense, only good thing is that the FDP lost a lot of voters for this bullshit) and then voters immediately decided that conservative again is the right way to vote.

No it doesn’t make sense to me either

The world hasn’t really shown him the opposite, sadly.

Yes, what I meant is more that in case of an imminent terrorist attack, I would deem it okay to kill somebody if it saves the life’s of other people and no other less lethal method was sure to stop the attack.

It’s murder either way. Even if they were drug smugglers, that is not something worth killing.

Oh for sure. Either they were jealous or can’t admit they made a mistake (and were unnecessarily antagonistic).

If I’m sure I saw it somewhere else, I would also speak up, BUT I would provide evidence of that. And I would ask in a different way, because it might have been that the artist just uses a new account name.

Why? Because I fucking had it with those motherfucking attention whores on this motherfucking internet.

I’m not the artist, but why should I not bring attention to somebody just stealing stuff and posting it as their own? It’s great that artist post their art for free on the internet for us to enjoy, the least thing they should (and often sadly the only they do) get out of that is that their user name is attached to that.

Interesting, thanks for your perspective!

I would say if you only say Doch! as answer in German, it’s more kind of a stubborn, planting your feet in the ground, “come at me” response instead of ignoring.

Begriff + s + assoziativität + s + kombinatorik

Word/term + s + associativity + s + combinatoric

So it is the combinatoric of associativity between words.

The “s” in there are just for easier speaking, which itself has a compoundword name: Fugen-s, so literally translated: Joint-s

Doch, from German and its main use is expresseing a positive statement in opposition to a prior negative one. For pronunciation, use Wiktionary.

So if you say: “you can’t win the game by cheating” and I say “Doch!” I express “yes I can!”. But neatly in one single word with one syllable, which is why it’s often used by children as single counter to something their parents say.