Agreed. The the enemy of my enemy is my, uh, enemy? They both suck lol

What

Haha, I understand now!

Honestly agreed. Been ashamed if the American flag for a while now, because it doesn’t represent what I thought it did as a child.

You don’t even need a car. You can just walk. You also don’t really need a grocery store, you can just grow your own food.

Modern society hasn’t been about what we “need” for hundreds or thousands of years.

How long will it take them to come across the revelation that they’re on the wrong side of history? Brainwashed, weak minded, violent mindset, afraid, just doing as they’re ordered… literally the worst of humanity. Theres always a foot soldier for the most detestable of agendas. Gross

“Not wanting to go out” anymore is the most pessimistic way to view it. There’s just better, more fulfilling things to do other than the things other people have suggested that we should be doing with our time and money.

Right? Just take the win and move on!

Larry, don’t leave him hanging

These are the Americans the Republicans cosplay as

Mood

I should feel surprised

The US government sent astronauts to the literal moon 60+ years ago. This is the true failure of capitalism–the difference between people working on a project for the passion and the challenge of it… and a bunch of people working on a project because they want to scrounge up a paycheck to survive and benefit themselves. I’m sure the Space-X engineers are passionate, but the type of people you need to truly design next-gen tech will only be found at an institution like NASA where they will truly believe in the mission.

People can lie and put up whatever fascia they want, but I don’t think it’s possible to truly give 100% when you know your efforts are going primarily toward support some jackass billionaire instead of a nation of your beloved peers.

Minimizing America’s lead in the international sciences to own the libs. Letting other countries make and patent new technologies to own the libs.

Got 'em!

I’m cool with this. Let’s devalue the trades by having an over-abundance of blue collar workers while simultaneously increasing demand for white collar jobs by reducing the supply of educated workers.

I get my toilet unclogged for even cheaper, and I get more money ten years from now when demand has risen.

I’d prefer to just have educated workers instead of glorifying back-breaking manual labor that the employees hate, but ill take a win where I can lol

Not sure how anyone can look at this and believe these two things concurrently:

1.) This is acceptable, and… 2.) I’m not the bad guy

There is really no acceptable justification for any of this, tbh. If there are still “bad people” and “terrorists” in Gaza, why doesn’t Israel just man up and go get them instead of starving this random person to death?

Chemtrails lol

Imagine hitting a house with your ship lol

Engineer here. I’m guessing the Y-shaped log acts as a support to hold the lever-log while the olive sack stack is removed for refilling. I’d guess two or three guys lift the log while someone pulls the stack out, and then they rest it on the Y so that they don’t have to lift it from ground level each time.

And to answer some other questions from the thread: it may be useful to have the pulley attached to the boulder instead of the groubd so that they only ever apply a known force to the olives during the squishing phase. Otherwise, they could compress the olives until the skins squeeze through or the sacks burst. Once the rock begins to lift, the press is complete.

Shouldn’t that be the whole point? Get people to slow down and behave? Or is punishment the entire purpose?