Go to BlueSky for political news. Lemmy news and politics is compromised
And not just that, but safety and cheapness akd accessibility of the materials. Water is pretty cheap and common. If it spills, probably no big deal (flooding notwithstanding) unlike battery acid. Not as likely to explode (sometimes steam explodes stuff).
We have, pump storage hydropower: https://old.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/chm70g/askscience_ama_series_were_from_the_pacific/
Basically they store water up high to act as a battery. Some combine this with a solar lens and turbine (can be sourced from old tvs, it’sa Fresnel lens for a solar death ray) and boil the water with the sun/ray to get it to evaporate and then condensate in the elevated position.
Make a flow battery
It also happened previously in June in NY to a black man (tbh who I thought the meme was referencing), Earl Smith, 58, and was ruled a suicide, people didn’t believe it then either:
https://www.wbng.com/2025/06/28/binghamton-community-protests-light-recent-death-black-man-albany/
Personally, I’m with them, timing is extremely suspicious with police having a lot of their force dedicated to ICE efforts instead of investigation. They didn’t even catch CK’s shooter in Utah, with all those cameras etc - so NY and MS wouldn’t surprise me if they were also feeling the staff shortages.
Also since people have been talking about the most recent homeless mass shooting, there was actually one in June in North Portland, 3 separate events with no injuries and he was never caught. And there’s been a LOT of bodies showing up in Portland, especially in the water and highway guard rails.
https://www.kptv.com/2025/06/12/police-say-someone-is-shooting-homeless-people-north-portland/
I think conservatives jacking off to Purge night stuff is behind this. There’s some creepy weirdos who feel like they’ve been let off leash.
Lol thinking you can mind read again?
I accept that you have very weird, strange thoughts 100% that are your own. It doesn’t bother me, I hang with cooler crazy people than you. Know a guy who would put his feet in whipped cream pies sometimes, enjoyed the texture. Would sit there with his feet in the pie, toes wiggling. Loved that guy.
Coming from the person who called me insane and crazy like Qanon many times lol, including in your first response to me.
You are genuinely exhibiting signs of a mental health event and spammed this comment several times. It is a mental health event. Go to the ER. Your brain is doing weird shit.
I accept that you think that.
Mental
Health
Event
I never said the issue was projection in isolation.
Socially accepted - no. It’s about if the person responds with control and boundary violations.
I don’t really care if you like how she writes, her book was written in the early 90s back when marital rape was still legal and she had to explain in simple terms very complex topics to a lot of people needing help. Her books are absolutely amazing in how they convey these relationships and hold up to scrutiny by professionals (they are almost always one of the books on your therapist’s shelf, because they were and are so foundational in conveying these dynamics and therapists tend to loan them out).
It’s good to read and be openminded.
It isn’t about making my life easier. It is about identifying and understanding dynamics that I don’t want to be part of. Not all “self help” books are created equal FYI, and I wouldn’t call these self help anyway.
This book is educational.
It’s not about “facing power plays” and honestly not only does your last sentence not make sense to me, but your last paragraph in context is strange and I think I am missing your meaning.
I can see you’re having a worsening of your mental health event, I’m done talking to you. Have fun with your creative writing exercise!
I can see you’re having a worsening of your mental health event, I’m done talking to you. Have fun with your creative writing exercise!
No.
A strawman is taking someone’s genuine argument and then distorting or misrepresenting it to make it easier to attack. A strawman argument isn’t valid and it isn’t paraphrasing. Generally when people paraphrase in good faith, they will ask if they said the paraphrase correctly and will correct themselves if it is incorrect.
They cannot remove just anything, they have to have a legal basis to do so and can be sued, less government control than now.
I said propaganda warfare, meaning online propaganda warfare that started in 2016, a new type of warfare. Obviously.
Again, it is less control than what exists presently already via private companies that would still exist later anyway. We still can advocate for progress even within capitalism and fascism, that’s how we dig out of both.
Propaganda warfare in my comment is specifically referencing online warfare since 2016, and it is absolutely Putin’s baby.
You did slightly better on this comment in terms of nonsensical spewing, nice
No, you double posted this comment and so I double posted my response. Yikes
The actual quote:
Russia has engaged in MASSIVE MASSIVE online warfare, including on Lemmy (eg, you, maybe).
Including on Lemmy means they have a masive campaign and that includes some bots on Lemmy. Learn to read what is written. Stop strawmanning. Stop pretending you can mind read - that’s also a psychiatric symptom btw.
Asking if you are a bot because you are parroting pro-Russian talking points when faced with other evidence is not “substanceless” personal attacks lol.
Putin is an outright fascist.
BRICS, keep up. This was established numerous comments ago.
What claim? The claim YOU randomly invented because you strawman so much? You yourself did not disagree that there’s Russian propaganda on Lemmy.
See, you’ve developed as completely circular, unfalsifiable, reasoning: Russians are behind everything bad - therefore everything bad is Russian, proving that everything bad is from Russia. Once you’ve decided that everything you disagree with is “a Russian talking point” and everyone who disagrees with you is “a Russian puppet” by definition, then yes, everything bad is because of Russian.
No, this isn’t what I said. Strawman. You know I didn’t say it, because I didn’t use those words, I used other words because they specifically conveyed my actual meaning, which is not the above.
it’s literally saying that all of your country’s domestic problems are secretly the fault of foreign enemies.
No, this isn’t what I said. Strawman. You know I didn’t say it, because I didn’t use those words, I used other words because they specifically conveyed my actual meaning, which is not the above.
then the USA has been actively attacking the entire human race, including the Russian federation, for decades, and Russia is actually normal and brave for standing up to you. But it doesnt’ count as that, you’re just redefining words.
Yes, the USA has been and is fascist too, all capitalist governments are inherently fascist, this has already been explained to you. This includes Russia too, both countries are fascist. Neither are brave or good for being fascist warmongers and both used the other as a scapegoat to rid themselves of undesirables.
I’m not “redefining words,” projection on your part.
People are literally dying, a physical attack, from this propaganda. Measles outbreaks, people eating bad food, gun violence, etc etc. Their deaths are as valid as if they’d been shot directly.
not just claiming that every single domestic problem is actually part of a foreign conspiracy. By your reasoning here, Nazi Germany wouldn’t have been xenophobic for saying the Judeo-Boleshoviks were attacking them.
Strawman again.
Damn, now even trying to challenge the global dominance of the US dollar is warfare. Seems like you just consider anything opposed to the Glorious light of the Exceptional USA as ontologically evil. Just to be clear; this is the most insanely fascistic shit I have seen in a long time. Even Zionists don’t go this far
Yeah, okay, with this it is clear you’re having a bad mental health episode. I don’t care to be your punching bag for your delusions, mania, and/or psychosis which I’ve politely labeled strawmans and mindreading up to now. The “talking like Qanon” thing is clearly projection on your part. Much of what you said is nonsensical or just wrong, you’ve been informed of that and are unable to adjust or have a good faith argument at any level. You have failed in every comment to actually read the actual words I say and respond to the actual words I say. I may as well not be here lol, and any readers have the info they may want anyway.
I have no issue with reducing the global power of the USD and I am sympathetic to why other countries would do it. However, they do not care to do it gently, causing death, which needs to be addressed locally starting with acknowledging it.
The rest - yeah, I’m sure the evil boogeyman narrative your brain invented towards me is really insanely fascist and evil lol. You are a good creative writer and make very spooky characters with very spooky buzzwords. It isn’t me because I didn’t say anything you claim was said, but that other guy you’ve invented is a really scary guy for sure. You are doing great arguing against them and defeating them. They are just so evil.
Really recommend the books Controlling People by Patricia Evans and The Verbally Abusive Relationship (same author). It explains fascism at a personal level so well.
Basically, they get a sense of fulfillment when they project and violate boundaries. The control is just them violating boundaries. They will keep amplifying and they will never stop because the fulfillment feeling is so good to them when they project and violate/control and they believe they are entitled to it. The ultimate amplification and control being death, of course.
Normal people show love by respecting boundaries as a celebration of who that person is. You don’t like peanuts? Ok, no peanuts, you are a peanut hater and I know, love, and respect that about you. Whereas a controlling person will hear a boundary like that and it bothers them as a separation between them and their projection, so they will do things like sneak peanuts into food or force someone to try different peanut foods. This is often seen as a power struggle, but it is really just a way for the controlling person to feel satisfied over and over again.
Define “strawman” and define “paraphrasing.”
You did not paraphrase, you made up an entirely different thing that was never said by me.
Say something negative about Putin.
The government moderates it along with the laws we put into place that protect us. Again, they are already doing this without the laws or transparency via private businesses.
Propaganda WARFARE is new, mostly online, and hasn’t been used like this before ~2016. It is NOT democracy to hear a select few people’s opinion over and over again.
Capitalism is inherently fascist, see The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal World Order by Gerstle. It cannot be truly democratic due to its inherent fascism, and part of that is the relentless propaganda used during capitalism via commercials, media, etc to sway people from freely consenting and critically thinking. People don’t need “propaganda” to learn about policies, they can watch town halls, debates, talks, etc, discuss them with each other, and freely exchange ideas. (Doesn’t surprise me at all that you are in support of fascist control of info).
Propaganda warfare is literally fascism, made by fascists, to spread fascism.
Hey can you say something negative about Putin?
Lmfao it isn’t xenophobia to stand up to a nation or nations actively attacking you with huge military campaigns for millions of dollars. It isnt xenophobia to criticize a foreign government engaging in massive human rights abuses including slavery.
Where have I stated American exceptionalism even once?
Where have I stated anything McCarthyism related? Do you think modern Russia is communist? Do you think Putin is communist?
Can you say anything negative about Putin?
No shit, I don’t support the US doing this shit either.
BRICS literal stated purpose is western currency collapse, and they formed a coalition around this stated purpose.
Russia is a state run by a dictator who is having them do this, so that’s why they are grouped.
It isn’t “any” story, it is literally about their online warfare.
Please learn to read
Please learn a basic good faith argument
I didn’t say Russia was behind all global issues or all of America’s issues. I listed what Russia has specifically been doing because that was the info missing. I even mentioned Dubai and BRICS as you noted, so you contradict yourself here that I say only Russia is behind anything anyway. But the topic was Russia and Russia has all the blackmail so that is why they are the focus.
You can’t criticize Putin? Lol you ARE a bot. Not least because you haven’t been able to add to the discussion at all like a normal person.
You would just use the car wheels itself if you’re doing all that - how do you think it would store energy driving uphill?