I planted buffalo grass in my front yard so I wouldn't have to mow anymore. The city has rules for the length of grass and weeds, but not flowering plants. Buffalo grass is great because you don't have to water it and it flowers most of spring and summer!
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And Coup's album cover depicted the twin towers exploding a few months before the attacks.
Are we suggesting the band and this show were somehow connected with the government....or the government planned their attack in a few months/weeks after witnessing these works?
The fact is that since they were built the towers were signals of the American empire and were obvious targets for terrorist organizations, especially after the first attempt to bomb them.
Meh, I don't think there's a need for conspiracy for 9/11 to be a legitimate terrorist attack. It gives too much credit to Bush and his ilk and down plays the political blowback of the US's interventional history in the Middle East.
The term "never let a good crisis go to waste" has been around for a while.
Yeah, I double up on ear pro. It's not comfortable, but I already have some hearing damage from my job.
If I ever ran a suppressor I'd rebuild my upper receiver for .300 black out, but I can't see myself shelling out the money for the rebuild, tax stamp, suppressor.....and paying a buck a round.
In my medical textbooks it says that maintaining neuroplasticity is a good thing. Check mate liberals!
You shouldn't collect any money otherwise people will use the black market and you won't get any money!
How dare the state fund programs for children from the funds I was supposed to use to pay for my kids meals, this is tyranny!
I feel like Trump is kinda the type of guy who would say shit just to stir the pot. Plus, fascist love for the public to think they are more competent than they really are, especially if it makes them seem like they are the underdog pulling one over on the establishment. Same thing works for musk.
Right now, the market for them is distorted by the tax stamp. Only a few people bother with the paperwork and fee (even though it's been highly streamlined in recent years). That means companies producing them have to make up their costs with high prices rather than volume. It's almost a stealth tax on top of the stated tax.
Oh I agree, I'm not saying that the system we have is great. I just don't think the majority of people are buying suppressors because of the added hearing protection.
Personally I just don't see the point of suppressors. Maybe if I had a bunch of land or something and got to shoot by myself all the time. But me having a suppressor isn't going to help much if the guy in the lane next to me is shooting with a muzzle brake.
The cost of subsonic ammo alone is enough that I wouldn't run a suppressor even if they were cheaper.
at least some of the concerns are about the young men being declared the "villains" and the other side declaring them to be the victims of injustice and they will gravitate toward the more workable messag
That's because people are framing this as a false dichotomy. All the masculinity warriors all try to frame the world as men are warriors under attack, and if you don't think so you're a man hating feminist.
In reality the majority of young dudes are just spending too much time being manipulated online and are blaming hardships created by our form of economics on wokeness.
Sure a lot of guys are terrible, but the generalizations can make it feel like you can't win.
Only if you are weak of mind. I'm a dude, when someone says all men are bad....which never really happens. I don't really take them literally, and even if I someday do run into someone who means it literally. Who cares, people are allowed to have opinions.
generalizations can make it feel like you can't win.
Says the person who based their rebuttal by believing in a fabricated false dichotomy.
when we say that Lemmy has a misogyny problem.
Yeah, it's really disheartening that young men have decided to blame women for all their woes. I'm in my late thirties and it really seems like a reversal to me, instead of blaming late stage capitalism for disenfranchising their demographic they are somehow are blaming women.
Even if we hypothetically accept that "there is an attack on masculinity" who's doing it? The vast majority of politicians are men, the vast majority of CEO are men, the vast majority of judges, lawyers, prosecutors...... The list goes on and on. In nearly any hierarchical system of power in the world, men are in charge. So from whom is our masculinity really being attacked?
Gonna catch the down votes for this, but imo because our economic system has already exploited all other demographics, young white men are being systemically disenfranchised for the first time and are not dealing with it very well. Welcome to the club fellas, POC and especially women have been here the whole time!
There is no way anyone is pulling 350°F+ items out of an oven with their bare hands.
I used to be able to do that when I was working in a kitchen. If you burn your hands often enough you kinda build up a tolerance/calluses. We used to call it having asbestos hands.
I'm not sure if you are making a statement or asking questions?
Are you saying I'm assuming bush or Americans were behind 9/11? Because I don't agree with that statement.
Am I supposedly assuming there has or hasn't been blowback? I'm not sure what you mean by staged military conflicts?
Imo American has a long history of experiencing blowback from our interventions since WW2.
I think you are giving the US foreign intelligence agency a lot more credit than they deserve. Yes there were warnings of an impending attack, but that's not really super uncommon, nor is the failure to take those warnings seriously, or are failures in communication between intelligence agencies.
I mean, you are attempting to connect over 20 years of history back to a singular event. 9/11 for sure influenced those events in some ways, but I wouldn't believe that intelligence agencies had the ability to plan an event specifically with the goal of making those things happen.
It kinda ignores a grand series of policy failures of us leaders, and also takes away any sense of self autonomy from the people of those countries.
I don't really know what you are saying here or how it connects to your previous claims?
I'm sorry are you saying that it was done by a non US foreign intelligence agency? Or are you not counting the NSA or CIA as American? Are you claiming the mossad is behind 9/11? You are being very vague.
I think you would have to ignore an awful lot of factual history and policy taken by several different administrations to make the claim that some shadow organization has been maliciously running US policy for over 2 decades.
I think you have to be a little more clear about what you are trying to say here? Are you claiming the US took over Europe after WW2 and everyone was too afraid to do anything because of nukes, despite nthe fact that several people in Europe have nukes themselves?
I mean, China and Russia were both allies during and for a short time after WW2 before the rise of red scare. India and Pakistan are probably a little more preoccupied with each other than the US. Saudi Arabia was and still is a close ally of the US.....
I think you are forgetting about the whole Cold war thing that never really ended?
I think America's support of Israel is pretty well documented... I don't think they need to really manipulate the US with a 9/11 to get us to support their Zionism.
I think you're conflating a false flag (which rarely pan out well) with a false flag attack against your only real ally. False flag attacks have a pretty well established history of blowing up in people's faces, and I don't really think you'd risk doing a 9/11 against your longest established ally, when they are already supporting your every whim.
This also ignores the fact that al-queda had already tried to blow up the towers once before.
I mean, one of them didn't make it, and planes aren't really that hard to fly. You can literally buy a simulator pilots utilize to practice and do fairly well after a couple hours. We don't have fighter jets constantly flying around just waiting to shoot down any airliners that don't check in on time. People used to regularly highjack aircraft all the time in the 70s.
Would kinda make sense considering there was intelligence that people were planning on highjacking planes.
Yeah, the towers were externally supported by cladding that pins to the top of the tower. In those buildings if the top falls into itself they have a cascading failure effect. They weren't really massive steel buildings, they had a concrete and steel medial support column, but actually a lot less steel than nearly any other type of sky scraper. That's why they were nearly see through in the right light. The aluminum cladding actually did the majority of the support in the superstructure.
I don't see how that really has much to do with anything? Material upgrades like that would probably take years to plan, fund, and implement.
Well first you say nothing has been released, then you say the video we have isn't good enough? It was the early 00's. Cameras weren't as ubiquitous as they are now. If it wasn't a plane, what happened to the planes and all the people in them? Why use planes for the towers and a missile for the Pentagon? If it I was the mossad who did 9/11 like you allude, how did they get a missile?
The NSA has a black budget of billions of dollars...that doesn't mean we're doing a hundred f 9/11s a year?
Youd have to specify what quick actions you find suspicious, but I would think it to be abnormal if there wasn't a swarm of activity after you kicked a hornets nest.
There was an investigation....the 9/11 commission came out with tons of data.
Your take only makes sense if you ignore the massive amounts of history and evidence that doesn't fit your pet theory.
Lol, so you don't understand us foreign policy......gotcha.
What are you smoking? America didn't win WW2..... That ignores the fact that the Soviets did the majority of the fighting.....where was their gratitude?
Your world view doesn't make any sense and is fantastically ahistorical.