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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • The thing I almost hate most about all this is how asymmetric the tactics are. I mean, us non-fascists could do the same thing, but it wouldn’t help us, and would only hurt us and help them instead. And this is just one of a dozen different things they’ve been doing that selectively play only to their advantage (obstructing Congress, spreading FUD about election integrity, using bad-faith rhetorical tactics, etc.). It’s like they have a structural advantage that I, at least, don’t know how to negate or overcome.





  • grue@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEngineering rule
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    1 day ago

    Hi, civil engineer* here. Nah, fam: a lot of the time we don’t even use formulas; we just look shit up in tables or interpolate on a graph!

    (* To be fair, (a) I specialized in traffic, and (b) I didn’t do all that much professional work as a civil engineer before switching to software “engineering” instead. That’s even less mathematically rigorous most of the time, LOL.)


  • From the article, it sounds like the first couple mentioned in the article already weren’t able to get insurance this time.

    Hiers and her husband Clint were still finishing the electrical work in the home they painstakingly rebuilt themselves, wiping out Clint’s savings to do so. They never will finish that wiring job.

    Hurricane Helene blew their newly renovated home off its four foot-high pilings, sending it floating into the neighbor’s yard next door.

    The Hiers, like many others here, can’t afford homeowner’s insurance on their flood-prone houses, even if it was available. Residents who have watched their life savings get washed away multiple times are left with few choices…