Buelldozer

Buelldozer, 1 year ago

The captalists are still on rddit

Not all of us.

Buelldozer, 1 year ago

I was born in Nebraska and lived there until my early 20s when I moved to Wyoming and I’ve been here for 30 years. I’m very familiar with both areas. The “Great Plains” stops somewhere in the western panhandle of Nebraska. The pine forests up around Chadron (NW corner) have nearly nothing in common with the Cottonwood infested prairie down around Lincoln (SE corner). If you want to stick along I-80, which makes the discussion easier, there’s a solid argument that the “Great Plains” ends somewhere West of North Platte and East of Sidney.

Let’s start with water, the average annual precipitation in Lincoln is right at 30" but as you go West it keeps decreasing and by the time you reach Sydney it’s down to 15", a reduction of 50!

The drastic reduction in precipitation is mirrored by a change in the soil as somewhere around there the soil changes from the rich dark farmland of the East to the tan sand hills of the West. Following the water and soil change the plant life itself becomes notably different; its not only less dense it also has far less of the native prairie grasses in it. The change in plant life also makes the animal life different; for example there are no Antelope on the Eastern side but as you go West they start appearing. Deer and Elk are also different with White Tails disappearing as you move West but Mule Deer and Elk starting to appear. Nebraska has not Native Moose population that I’m aware of but by they can be found even in South Eastern Wyoming.

I’ve stomped around Colorado and Montana a fair bit too over the last 30 years and it’s no different there. The Border Area of Colorado and Kansas is vastly different than the area around Lawrence, Kansas or Manhattan on the East Side. It’s the same with the Eastern Border of Montana up against the Dakota’s; there’s notable and large differences between that area and everything East of North Platte, Nebraska.

The Great Plains as embodied by Iowa, Eastern Nebraska, and Eastern Kansas are separate and distinct from the High Plains of Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana.

Buelldozer, 1 year ago

Wyoming, Colorado, and Montana are Rocky Mountain West, not the MidWest. Good grief.

Buelldozer, 1 year ago

Southwest Colorado would be Durango / Montrose which is on west side of the Rockies! You think that’s part of the Great Plains area?

Even SE Colorado such as Pueblo and Lamar are very distinct from towns and cities east of North Platte, Nebraska.

Culturally Eastern Nebraska is heavily Germanic / Western European Immigrant. Hell up into the 2000s there were still lots of little churches with at least one weekly service conducted in German. You won’t find that in Pueblo.

I’m struggling to understand all of these cultural similarities that some of you see. Yes they’re all Americans but everything from the type of soil they live on to their ancestry and immigration patterns is WILDLY different between Lincoln and Pueblo.

Buelldozer, 1 year ago

Alias 2 and I still have it packed away in a box.

Buelldozer, 1 year ago

I used to moderate several subs with over 2M subscribers and while being a Digital Janitor can take a lot of time and effort at the end of the day its just volunteer labor and with Reddit in particular it’s volunteer labor to help a commercial entity.

Society would be better off if these kinds of mods would use the time to volunteer at a soup kitchen or something.

Buelldozer, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

it’s the consequences of the unhomed’s poor choices and absolutely nothing else.

Classical Liberal / Libertarian here and this is wrong. Life can be massively unfair / unkind and it’s not unusual for people, even ones who make solid choices, to end up in bad situations.

What so many of my Libertarian fellows seem to miss is that we’re allowed to have empathy. Do I want the Government taking my money to redistribute it? Absolutely not but that does not excuse us from acting on our own. In fact I’d argue we have MORE of an obligation for individual action to help those less fortunate.

Come at me.

Buelldozer, 1 year ago

I’ve heard it said that guns have more rights than women.

Only by people so amazingly ignorant that it causes the premature death of brain cells in people standing within earshot of them.

Buelldozer, 1 year ago

Hamas has guns, how is that helping them against Isreal’s bombs?

Which has exactly what to do with an American Civil War? You know, where an American in America could make sure the pilot flying the bomber never got to work? Or make sure that the convoy with the fuel never reached that air base? Start making bombing runs on American Cities and you’ll find out real quick how impactful a regular citizen with an AR-15 can be.

Buelldozer, 1 year ago

2nd the Reolink. I have one, works well with HA.

Buelldozer, 1 year ago

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.

Buelldozer, 1 year ago

Ground News

Buelldozer, 1 year ago

The Teen Titans nor The Incredibles were targeted at children. TT was mid to late teens and TI was absolutely for adults.

Buelldozer, 1 year ago

They said they’d prefer the horrible people concentrate in their own instances so we can block them easily

Then they need to stop stonewalling and add user controllable instance blocking. I know that some clients have it but they’ve been rejecting calls to add it to the main lemmy codebase for a long time.