aelwero @ aelwero @lemmy.world

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Detergents (primarily) work by binding to the foreign substance and making it easier to rinse away.

Vinegar is acetic acid.

They have two very different mechanisms. If you want stuff "pulled away" use detergent. If you want it dissolved, vinegar.

So dont put vinegar in the laundry. Don't expect vinegar to break up crusty pans. Dont expect it to dissolve grease...

Also, since it's dissolving things, it needs more time to react. It will do an amazing job removing the mineral deposits/soap scum on your shower walls, it just won't do it quickly. Get a spray bottle and soak paper towels on the surface and leave them for 10-15 minutes (or for the thick stuff on the shower head nozzles, hours..) and/or get 30% or 45% vinegar so it's not as dilute and will dissolve faster.

Had an old gas tank that was rusted inside and nasty. Vinegar took it to shiny clean metal with no scrubbing or anything whatsoever (couldn't get anything in there to scrub it with). It just took two months of sitting there to do it.

And they're gonna go away because some wingnut convinced a bunch of people that their fins cause boners.

Gonna see Chinese junk bonds hitting the shelves at Walmart... Lol

Desantis lacks the big boisterous spray tanned clown face. The politics of trump (increased, you say, and I agree) would be brought back to the table without the big cartoon quality of trump.

The net effect of which would be a normalization of those specific politics. Desantis' public persona is far more normal than trumps is. No oompa loompa, no toddler tantrums, that sorta thing... You see? That's not a good thing, therefore it's better if trump stays on the ballot and the weak polls get addressed by something a little less senile on the Dem side.

Or continue to claim Biden is perfectly fine, and watch the swing states' differing opinion return the presidency to chaos, I guess.

it's because he has an unassailably dull and shallow personality, not because he is more normal or reasonable than Trump.

(and desantis has as much [alt right] as trump does, he's just not in your face about it).

Did I not say the exact same thing there? I feel like I said the exact same thing... I certainly meant the exact same thing...

I'd rather see Dems win with a more coherent and less partisan option. Having trump drop and get replaced with desantis would continue the primary issues of trump with a less divisive and objectionable face...

Trump votes are mainly confrontational IMHO. People who vote trump have a lot of "stick it to the libs" going on. I feel like desantis would be voted on as being more of a normal type candidate, and might kinda normalize the alt-rightness that trump brought to the table (and desantis has as much as trump does, he's just not in your face about it).

Which is all to say that both trump and Biden are problematic, but the only problems that can pragmatically be addressed are the ones with biden, as he's just old and out of it. The trump crazyness will continue if you replace him.

I see Morgan Freeman...

There's a ballot... it's a list of options... You go in, you pick out which is the best option.

It's YOUR vote, it's your choice.

You can decide your voice has to pick the ones that are gonna win, like it's a keno card.

You can decide that your voice is going to pick the little letter next to the name that identifies each option as belongings to the stupid little tribes.

You can declare which is best for you. You can declare which is best for the collective. You can declare which is the best option to get good leadership...

I tend towards the collective. I don't give a fuck who's going to win, I don't give a fuck about their tribe. I usually go in knowing what I'm gonna see for options and the general philosophy of each (fucking Google man, it's so much easier these days... there was a time when that took some leg work.).

The simple reality is that the best choice for the overall good is very rarely a winner. That's a damned shame, but it is what it is. The best I can do with that is to declare it with my vote. I'm not enabling shit, I'm not voting defensively, I'm not screwing up my keno card... I'm declaring which option is the best on the list in my opinion.

It should be that simple. It IS that simple for me. It could be that simple for you. Your vote, your voice, you can use it to state your own opinion and not whatever bullshit you're told you're stuck with.

I'm not saying people should vote a tribe, or game the system, I'm saying your vote should be your own.

If you go to an "estate sale", you'll generally find that everything not nailed down is being sold.

What will remain, that can't be carted off or removed, is the "real" estate. The land itself, the permanent structures.

It's why a house sale includes a bunch of information about things like appliances, mineral rights, the things that are being included that arent "real" components of the property, because they could conceivably be removed prior to closing, because purchasing "real estate" doesn't automatically include those things inherently, and you want all the estate that isn't "real property" to be codified.

Estate sale vs "real estate" sale, is the basic difference.

The presence of mind to vote for the best option if it isn't a big two is a syndrome now?

Fuck it, man, call me a sick fucker then, because I'm betting the best option ain't gonna be red or blue this time either ... I'm voting for the most sensible and intelligent name on the ballot. Sure as fuck ain't gonna be trump, but biden has the fact that he isn't trump, and not much else...

Maybe someone should sue them for overly tight integration of their browser into their os...

Might work, I mean, it worked once before, lol

You didn't know unions pay employees during a strike because they almost never do...

Unions are funded by members. The money you'd get while striking would have to be money you yourself paid into union dues. In order for you to be paid while striking, you'd either have had to have been paying very steep dues, or had to have been paying in for a very long time into a very old and established union.

Further, said ancient union would have had to have been collecting dues for a considerable length of time and not been spending anything. Let's say I make 50k/year and I pay 2%, or $1k/yr. In order to go on strike for a month, I need 6 years of dues stored up. If there's 100 members, your talking about $100k/yr that goes completely untouched the entire time. What agency have you ever heard of that would sit on that amount of money? They would spend a large portion on something. Invariably.

It's not the reality of unions. Its a fairy tale. Ask Google if a union pays workers wages when they strike... Don't take people's word on shit like that (including mine) when you can Google.

A union works almost the same way an HOA works. A group of people get together and sign a contract agreeing to abide by certain rules.

Internally, there's generally a governing board, usually an elected one, but occasionally you get a dictatorship type deal. They may or may not implement rules, they might issue IDs of some sort, they almost invariably hold meetings, and almost always charge dues, which is a fee members pay to be a member, in principle to fund union activities.

The leverage a union holds it's in its membership. Generally the rules of a union are that as a member you agree to certain actions, and the obvious is to strike. The most common union rule is that if the union body calls a strike, you aren't allowed to come to work. That gives the union body the ability to force a company to meet certain demands or face the prospect of not having anyone show up.

The basic overall concept is that the union leadership negotiates with company leadership on behalf of the union members.

The downsides are also similar to an HOA, especially when a union gets very large. You can find yourself subject to rules governing your behavior, your appearance, your hours, etc. You might find yourself being more an employee of the union than the company.

Small unions are almost always beneficial, but can lack negotiating power. Large ones can and often do become self serving and overly political, but have a lot of power to affect pay, benefits, hours, etc. for their members

Indicted for saying things...

Call me not a fan of this trend. I think it's being commonly accepted because certain people think anyone in that party is a racist homophobic fascist Nazi, so it's ok to ignore the fact that speech isn't a crime, but at some point, this common acceptance is going to be abused by the ones it's currently being directed at, and they will direct it back, likely a hundred fold.

For a specific example of what I'm talking about, id point out the infamous "N word", and the banning of Samuel Clemens from school libraries. Not an unreasonable thing to do, but the fact that book bans were acquiesced to in the name of political correctness paved a road to the current hell that is going on with very broad concepts being put under the same crosshairs, which isn't reasonable at all, but bears enough similarity to be viable (and I'm not saying that as a matter of opinion, these bans are being implemented in reality)

Everyone who writes on a blackboard ends up dying

One day I was walking and I found a big log. I rolled the log over, and underneath was a tiny little stick.

And I thought "that log had a child"

I think python is actually the oldest on that list... ??

No... what we got has toys, it's just in a split clamshell kinda deal, with a toy in one half, and a Nutella like paste in the other half with a little malt ball in it. It's crap and I hate it :)

The split pack "freedom" version is called kinder joy, as opposed to kinder surprise.

Triggered...

That chocolate is awesome, it's stupid AF for it to be illegal in the US.

I may or may not have been busted by customs carrying several dozen of these, and may or may not have not been caught a few other times...

Little blind spider took the wheel