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I’m normally critical of Biden but this is one of the few times I’ll say it. Biden staying in the race is the best thing he can do.

It doesn’t matter when he drops out at this point, the time to do that was 8 months ago. If he drops out now and there’s an open convention, democrats lose in November. If he drops out after the convention, and the DNC chooses a different candidate to replace him, Democrats lose in November.

The last time anything similar happened, there were riots outside the DNC in Chicago and Hubert Humphrey safely handed the office to Richard Nixon.

Fun fact, Hilary Clinton attended the protests.

That’s more than one a year. That can’t be right.

Looking at the Wikipedia for it, that number comes from a Washington Post country guide with absolutely no context or source to back it up. So I’m not confident that’s correct. The Wikipedia article itself details less than 30 coups. They have one every few years sure, but it’s not like every 9 months for 160 years someone was trying to overgrow the government.

What happens at the Y stays at the Y

You mean every opinion I don’t like isn’t automatically a tankie Russian bot???

Probably more so cheaper to mold the plastic case with weak threads than any other function.

Machinist guy here!

Threads fail. Threads are generally the most likely thing to fail in any given mechanism. Generally, when the threads are expected to do more work than just sit there and not move, as in fastening a hinge for example, we try to make sure the threads are all the same kind of material.

I would never expect plastic threads to hold up to repeated use with an iron bolt inside. Something is going to give up, and it’s going to be the soft plastic threads, every single time.

Think about cheap as fuck IKEA furniture, any time they have a bolt to screw in, you install an insert first. We do the same thing in plastic, aluminum, shit even steel sometimes if we want the bolt to fail first.

Closer to 10. Yes.

This is a pretty common thing in the American Midwest. You see it a lot around houses on the tops of hills, especially in new construction. It looks kinda silly for a few years but it’s the best you can do sometimes.

Pack it in guys this is the comment.

Hey now, the felons I work with are all cool dudes just trying to rebuild their lives.

The sons of car dealers are all working in the main office trying to fuck up our lives.

They may be preparing for a remodel, in which many of the shelves get torn out and replaced with new ones. They don’t want to shut down the store to do it and need a lot of storage space to hold shelving while they replace units one at a time over night. So already clearance stuff gets clearanced harder to get it out of the way.

This has been brought to you by your surly neighborhood shelving guy.

Is this maybe at a hobby lobby?

There was, back when I was active there. Around the time I migrated to Lemmy there was some drama and I believe that user was suspended. I don’t check it frequently enough anymore to know if there’s a current Picard maneuver surrogate.

I mean the anti vax campaign worked well for Russia, so why not sew doubt in preventive measures during a global health crisis?

They are always with you

Always with you

They are always with you

I can hear them.

With you.

Can you hear them?

I can hear them

With you.

I can hear them calling. Crying. Screaming. Scratching. I hear their voices as a crescendo. I hear them faintly as a soft breeze. They are with me.

Can you hear me?

I see a hot new name drop coming in.

That’s been a thing for a while.

When the military sees a problem that can only be solved by war crimes they literally just hire contractors to do them.

But you don’t have to be the US government to hire private companies to do war crimes for you. Any citizen* can hire private military contractors to go out and do war crimes for them.

*A citizen is anyone with a net worth of greater than 500 million dollars.

By jail do you mean getting fat bonuses?

I grew up in the 80s and 90s. I like new music.

This is the type of music Joe Montegna was bitching about in Airheads. It’s fine, there’s nothing wrong with it. It’s just so… Bland?

That’s exactly what it is. I’m not sure who’s jam it is, but it’s hard to like, hate it.