Posts by JohnYoungE@poa.st
(DIR) Post #B1MCGBb6MessouYjEu by JohnYoungE@poa.st
2025-12-18T01:05:35.601760Z
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@bigmattoidchimpin @freepatriot @ShowMeYourLibrary I've certainly heard of many miscarriages of justice of this sort. Definitely happens where "Justice" is injustice, and creates victims where none were before.Many gun laws fall in that category as well.
(DIR) Post #B1QidRqs4Uop3euXgm by JohnYoungE@poa.st
2025-12-20T04:54:47.609390Z
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@judgedread @Shadowman311 I've never wanted an electric car, and Musk doing Maga didn't change my opinion on the matter.
(DIR) Post #B1TVtDDzm24orfY3u4 by JohnYoungE@poa.st
2025-12-21T13:46:29.189905Z
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@judgedread What we need is to increase electricity production by 50%+ using thorium reactors. We need electric cost to drop by 90%. I understand that for ordinary people that would only mean 40% bc of delivery charges, customer fees etc. But for industrial stuff, and we could certainly count recharging electric cars as such, it would lower prices considerably.But electricity is a major component in the costs of raw materials such as iron, copper, etc. As a result, just our raw material from the US from which something is made can cost more than a finished product made from that material from China.Right now our electricity supply chain is crappy and overpriced due to a mix of various special interests. Basically it is a for-profit system with state granted monopolies combined with regulations that protect incumbents or industries that paid for regulatory protection. It's not a serious system for a serious country that plans to do serious work. That has to be fixed too. Along with the fact we don't even make many of the transformers for our grid here in the US -- we import them from China. Addressing this stuff would help not only electric cars, but our entire industrial base.
(DIR) Post #B1WJ0UGy4XvLppxPSS by JohnYoungE@poa.st
2025-12-22T22:07:37.467850Z
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@judgedread Although the ADL would certainly consider me to be an anti-Semite, I get annoyed with a lot of online antisemitism because it basically assumes White people are a bunch of idiots with zero agency and Jews are some sort of super-race. Well, shit, that's not even actual anti-Semitism -- it's Jewish Supremacism in drag.
(DIR) Post #B1blyBY4aOMVe40oc4 by JohnYoungE@poa.st
2025-12-25T13:23:58.675535Z
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@Scarlett Thank you! And a very Merry Christmas to you and all you love!
(DIR) Post #B1fCcfztyfyfwjsQpU by JohnYoungE@poa.st
2025-12-27T04:02:55.690231Z
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@EscapeVelo I got some of that expensive magnalite professional stainless steel stuff 30 years ago and I'm still using it for my daily cooking. Damn was that ever a good investment.
(DIR) Post #B1kyHgPl00TEkTpF9U by JohnYoungE@poa.st
2025-12-29T23:48:27.155796Z
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@agaperealm Electrical Engineering for me. There was only one woman in my classes and she was gone by the end of sophomore year.
(DIR) Post #B1pPAxjxesBBqr8SW0 by JohnYoungE@poa.st
2026-01-01T03:14:51.236794Z
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@Scarlett @Dagnar I'll admit I prefer #3, and then #1 ...
(DIR) Post #B2LLXujZUvHJTzfwOW by JohnYoungE@poa.st
2026-01-16T13:07:04.410273Z
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@thefinn @Kalogerosstilitis2RevengeoftheJunta I used to make my own (single sided) boards by etching them. Of course I did troubleshooting and repair to the component level. But this was long ago. It used to be that consumer goods -- even stuff like radios -- actually came with schematics, and that was so that repair personnel could fix them.But it is true ... America has a high cost of living and costs for renting a shopfront to repair things are insane. If I were to do that now, I'd have to charge $150+/hr for repairs. At that rate, it doesn't take much time for it to be cheaper to replace than it is to repair.Its sad because we fill landfills with stuff that could be fixed.
(DIR) Post #B2WzvEABHZs92ju2KG by JohnYoungE@poa.st
2026-01-22T04:01:41.434869Z
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@ShowMeYourLibrary Sometimes I'm secretive because some things SHOULD be secret.
(DIR) Post #B2X1s2pd9jSGwGtto0 by JohnYoungE@poa.st
2026-01-22T04:11:10.700324Z
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@ShowMeYourLibrary @Oven_Operators_LU_88 Cards are unsecured. At least in theory, the huge interest rates pay for the fact that many don't pay. But that's sort of chicken and egg because if the rates were lower, fewer people would default in the first place.My first hint that credit scores were not normal was back in the late 90's. I had a girlfriend from Switzerland, and I was explaining that the reason I did certain strange things was to boost my credit score. And she was confused -- basically WTF is a credit score.
(DIR) Post #B2lBhcxJwXqsrV9arI by JohnYoungE@poa.st
2026-01-29T00:19:18.241011Z
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@judgedread @thefinn I think also that aristocrats had many hundreds of years of wealthy equating to land and peasants, and they had a hard time adapting to first mercantilism generating wealth and then industrialism. Suddenly, someone who had very little inheritance could find a king in his debt.
(DIR) Post #B2nEWh1RAl3WT0Tccy by JohnYoungE@poa.st
2026-01-29T23:56:43.799341Z
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@judgedread Quite frankly, a lot of us have pretty decent lives and something to lose. Revolutions are for people with little to lose and no stake in the future.
(DIR) Post #B2naIMCNzjPYp0AQka by JohnYoungE@poa.st
2026-01-30T04:04:00.316432Z
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@judgedread Perhaps. I try not to hold it against people if they are dealing with circumstances (such as proscriptions against hiring White men, the toxicity of dating apps etc) outside their control. We can't choose, at least not completely, our circumstances. But what we CAN control -- and I think this may be more relevant to your block list than whether or not someone is broke -- is how we react to such things and the attitude we assume toward them. Defeatist negative nellyism is disempowering.
(DIR) Post #B2oM8LVmUSjvauWzx2 by JohnYoungE@poa.st
2026-01-30T12:58:28.226820Z
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@judgedread Not only that -- but most people were completely unaware of the facts at all. People forget that Internet wasn't even a thing for most people until the late 90's -- and then on dialup. I grew up so remote I never saw a Jew until I went to college, and when I met one, I was shocked because I thought they had all died in the Holocaust. And I'm not even a boomer -- just remote.
(DIR) Post #B2v6MN5bBOQLNifbZQ by JohnYoungE@poa.st
2025-11-14T02:57:02.458843Z
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@Escoffier @stoner713 Only downside is you have to keep them oiled.
(DIR) Post #B2vlExenRAnGb9icUK by JohnYoungE@poa.st
2026-02-03T02:44:36.894659Z
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@judgedread We may never recover from technology that allowed idiots to post pics of themselves to the whole planet instantly with zero knowledge.
(DIR) Post #B2zw3S0adphXNvSxhQ by JohnYoungE@poa.st
2026-02-05T03:03:58.793989Z
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@SuperLutheran @mackya No doubt God sees us as being about that dangerous to him ... but does he think we are that adorably cute?
(DIR) Post #B2zyv58A7IURyai0zQ by JohnYoungE@poa.st
2026-02-05T03:08:15.335561Z
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@s2208 Not sure but I might have a novel you wrote a while back ...
(DIR) Post #B30p1d9dj0rUqxqO4O by JohnYoungE@poa.st
2026-02-05T03:05:04.870272Z
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@fatepony Absolutely! Leave the working code alone! ls and cp are fine!