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rm_dash_r_star, to upliftingnews in Giant kites could pull ships across the ocean – and slash their carbon emissions
@rm_dash_r_star@lemm.ee avatar

Big difference is a modern sailboat like a ketch or sloop can maintain a straight course as much as 45 degrees into the wind. A Victorian era square rigger is greatly more limited with a range about 60 degrees off either side of downwind. A kite would be even more limited, probably within 45 degrees so it would only be useful when going mostly downwind. Still if it’s cheap and easy to deploy it’s free energy when it can be used. An interesting parallel is the spinnaker sail used on a typical sailboat flies much like a kite and can only be used within a similar downwind range. It’s a very powerful sail when it can be deployed.

gargantuanprism, to upliftingnews in Supreme Court blocks $6 billion opioid settlement that would have given the Sackler family immunity | CNN Politics
redchlorophyll,

This goes really hard

TheMightyCanuck,
@TheMightyCanuck@sh.itjust.works avatar

Where can I get one!!

gargantuanprism,

The seller of this shirt got a cease and desist from the sackler family lawyer and went on to make another shirt with that email exchange wherein he asked the lawyer to relay the “kill yourselves” message to his clients 🔥

So unfortunately they are unavailable forever but it looks like there are plenty of copycat sites that will print it, but probably not long sleeve or with the back graphic

Draces,

They deserve it but don’t advocate violence here please. I don’t want to see this become where that heads

FlyingSquid, to mildlyinteresting in Gay Water, a vodka soda that's a response to the Bud Light transphobia
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Schmooze booze.

I’m fine with marketing to gay people, but this feels like pandering.

CeruleanRuin,
@CeruleanRuin@lemmy.world avatar

All marketing is pandering. This company just saw a huge niche that hadn’t yet been filled and jumped in. You’re not wrong that it’s somewhat exploitative, but all products are to some extent.

I_AnoN_I, to mildlyinteresting in Gay Water, a vodka soda that's a response to the Bud Light transphobia

Grift water

Ryan213, to upliftingnews in Chinese people are living two years longer thanks to 'war on pollution'
@Ryan213@lemmy.world avatar

I hope we can trust that data.

Bipta,

It can be confirmed via satellite, so probably yes.

And if anyone read the article:

The annual Air Quality Life Index report, produced by the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago

Steak,

Just like the healthy crops that were observed from satelite? That turned out to be just rebar with rocks on top driven into the ground? Or the dirt hills that spray painted green for the same reason.

wahming,

Would like to read more about that, got a source?

Steak,

m.youtube.com/watch?v=AynNsPs9i80This guys channel is pretty good if you’re into the crazy shit China is up too.

That video specifically shows the rebar and rock fake crops and some green painting of barren land and hills. They even use rolls of fake plastic plants to make hillsides look alive. When really nothing grows there.

hark,
@hark@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah, serpentza is an amazing channel if you just want to rage at China, regardless of reality.

Bipta,

Good luck faking an atmosphere...

correcthorsedickbatterystaple,

especially at this scale...and they have to do that 9 more times just for the cities bigger than London...

also fuck the CCP

Fiivemacs, to upliftingnews in Supreme Court blocks $6 billion opioid settlement that would have given the Sackler family immunity | CNN Politics

Guess they should have been richer

evujumenuk,

“come back with more money”

julianh,

Didn’t know morshu was on the supreme court.

NumbersCanBeFun, to mildlyinteresting in Gay Water, a vodka soda that's a response to the Bud Light transphobia
@NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social avatar

I don't even like to drink this kind of stuff but I'll buy it now and again to support the brand. Still better than bud light I am sure.

CeruleanRuin,
@CeruleanRuin@lemmy.world avatar

Most things are better than Bud Light.

problematicPanther,
@problematicPanther@lemmy.world avatar

I’d rather drink goat piss than bud right.

NumbersCanBeFun,
@NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social avatar

I'd drink fermented beaver piss over bud light. At least that tang will take you places. No where good but it will take you.

Ertebolle,

Yeah, I kind of hate that somehow refusing to buy shitty dishwater beer is now a conservative political statement.

Daisyifyoudo,

The"statement"is a dumb as they are

Unaware7013, to news in ‘Children were carrying other injured children.’ Witness describes aftermath of Israeli strike on Gaza refugee camp | CNN

An Israeli strike targeting a Hamas commander in the densely populated Jabalya refugee camp in northern Gaza has left catastrophic damage and killed a large number of people, according to eyewitnesses and medics in the enclave.

Israel is a terrorist state, and they're so blood thirsty for Hamas commanders that they're bombing fucking refuge camps.

And they wonder what drives support for Hamas? Jk, no they don't. Israel knowsthey support Hamas because of Israel's actions, and Israel leans into it to give them excuses to marginalize and remove Palestinians from their land one way or another.

I don't support Hamas, but supporting Israel is unconcionable, and has been for years. But with so many things these days, the authorizations are going full mask off...

ihavenopeopleskills,
@ihavenopeopleskills@kbin.social avatar

Despite the fact that Hamas hides amongst innocent civilians?

Unaware7013,

Absolutely. Punishing the civilians they're hiding amongst us a literal war crime (collective punishment), and I refuse to support a state that's trying to ethnicly cleanse a neighboring state so they can steal land.

Also, a commander being there is a fucking weak excuse to bomb a fucking refugee camp. No matter what you think of the war, it should be unconscionable to target a camp of people who's lives you've already destroyed, but considering the end goal of Israel, I'm not surprised they'd stoop that low.

OsrsNeedsF2P, to upliftingnews in Delta passenger's dog who went missing at Atlanta airport found safe after 3 weeks

Orphan crushing machine vibes

AllonzeeLV,

Hey now, if we don’t keep ruining real people’s lives by brutally enforcing imaginary lines on this Earth we all share, the terrorists win… or something.

Because if we can’t feel superior to people accross that line over there, and they can’t cope by feeling superior to other people accross a different line, how will we console our fragile human egos?!

risottinopazzesco,

Or more likely, how will they keep us divided without literally keeping us divided? The rich live in a border-free world anyway.

AllonzeeLV,

Excellent point.

Poggervania, to lemmyshitpost in You go to this link and give me one good reason why civilization isn't long past its peak.
@Poggervania@kbin.social avatar

I think Disco Elysium said it best:

One may dye their hair green and wear their grandma's coat all they want. Capital has the ability to subsume all critiques into itself. Even those who would critique capital end up reinforcing it instead…

So you’ve effectively done what they wanted OP - and I wouldn’t be surprised if this turned out to be some lowkey marketing effort or something tbh.

Jubei_K_08, to lemmyshitpost in You go to this link and give me one good reason why civilization isn't long past its peak.

The spirit’s flavor “opens with umami and tangy aromas of nacho cheese, moving to the deeper, corn-forward flavors of the chip to finish on a soft salty note,” the company said.

💀💀💀💀💀

idunnololz, to mildlyinteresting in Gay Water, a vodka soda that's a response to the Bud Light transphobia
@idunnololz@lemmy.world avatar

Pro tip: always have at least two on hand. That way you drink one to turn gay and then you can drink another to become gay gay. It then cancels out to straight again.

Ertebolle,

I thought the antidote to gay drinks would be flavorless torture protein shit like Soylent or whatever

NuPNuA,

I’m sure gay people hate terrible tasting protein rich liquids…

CapitalismsRefugee, to upliftingnews in Supreme Court blocks $6 billion opioid settlement that would have given the Sackler family immunity | CNN Politics

What the fuck? The Supreme Court made a decision that protects American citizens? Did they misunderstand the question?

Buelldozer,
@Buelldozer@lemmy.today avatar

Why is everyone so surprised? SCOTUS makes the “correct” decision quite often.

Independent Legislature Theory? Shot down.

VRA? Upheld.

Racially Biased Admission Criteria? Junked.

Indian Child Welfare Act? Upheld.

YaaAsantewaa, (edited )

AA was not racially biased, it was necessary and it still is

“After California banned race-conscious admissions in 1996, the proportions of Black and Latino students at UCLA, one of the most elite school’s in the state’s system, fell drastically. By 2006, a decade later, only 96 Black students enrolled in a freshman class of nearly 5,000. They became known as the Infamous 96.”

npr.org/…/supreme-court-affirmative-action-harvar…

Defending that is seriously messed up. Everyone agrees that AA wasn’t perfect, but it was the most effective way of diversifying student bodies. Racist Republicans got what they wanted, it’s as simple as that.

NuPNuA, to mildlyinteresting in Gay Water, a vodka soda that's a response to the Bud Light transphobia

Fair play to them, as a real ale drinking Brit, I wouldn’t touch this or bud light with a bargepole, but if it a corp outwardly supporting LGBT rights then I hope it does well.

Obi,
@Obi@sopuli.xyz avatar

Your ales taste great but I can’t get used to the low carbonation.

NuPNuA,

The low carbonation is what I love about them, I do like some lagers but drinking them all day is too much gas, lol.

Obi,
@Obi@sopuli.xyz avatar

I don’t drink much lager, usually either Belgians or IPAs :)

eestileib,

Of the stuff I had on draft in the UK, Fuller’s was by far my favorite; what we get with that name in the US is presumably a forgery.

But I also share the Yank problem of not liking the hand-pump level of fermentation. I’ve tried it a bunch, just not for me.

rustyricotta, to mildlyinteresting in Gay Water, a vodka soda that's a response to the Bud Light transphobia

At first I read it as “Gray Water” and thought it was a terrible idea.

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