Get a water balloon and fill it with skunk musk … basically skunk feces or the anal glands of a dead skunk

let it sit in the sun for an afternoon before you use it.

throw it anywhere near the parade route

the stink will last for days

Wait another 30 years and all the ‘educated’ people who are running the country now will start dying off leaving behind the generation that had little, limited or no education.

Sure you’re always going to have your best and brightest running the country … but they’re going to be severely outnumbered by an entire nation full of people who are dumb as bricks who raised children and grandchildren who are dumb as bricks.

One-eyed Fingerless Joe agrees … and would give a thumbs up but he lost that one too.

You’d think the people living in this ‘walkable’ neighbourhood would end up starving and being underweight … when in fact they all just end up overweight with diabetes and heart disease

"… Science is constantly proved all the time. You see, if we take something like any fiction, any holy book… and destroyed it, in a thousand years’ time, that wouldn’t come back just as it was. Whereas if we took every science book, and every fact, and destroyed them all, in a thousand years they’d all be back, because all the same tests would [produce] the same result.”

― Ricky Gervais

Maybe L. Ron Hubbard was a time traveller that had already started everything 3,000 years ago and decided to restart it all again 70 years ago.

Same here … and they’re all cults as far as I’m concerned

The only difference between a cult and a religion is time

The funny part that is … which book are you talking about? … Christian bible? Jewish Tanakh? Islamic Koran? … and if its Christian - is it just the Old Testament? New Testament? … which version of the Christian bible? - King James? New Standard? English Standard? Anglican? Baptist? Lutheran? Methodist? Presbyterian? Roman Catholic? Mormon? Protestant?

Religious Texts: … that text was written by some half literate guy living in a desert who heard tenth hand folk stories from his community from people who had died about a hundred years before his time … but it’s all true because it came from God, believe it or you will burn in hell forever.

That is one quality Shitpost … 9/10

I thought whenever military are sent to an area to control … they are ‘OCCUPYING’ it and controlling it for themselves through force

… like what they’ve been doing for years in foreign countries.

I always respect and look forward to your opinion. You are a great contributor to Lemmy and I always learn something new from everything you share here.

Nuke and atomic technology was one thing … and the Americans basically had that in their pocket regardless if they had Nazi scientists or not

The big leap that the Americans made with Nazi scientists was to pair atomic technology with ballistic missile technology.

When you just have a bomb and you need a big slow moving aircraft to deliver the bomb, then it is almost useless as there are plenty of ways to take down a jet in mid flight before it even reaches a target.

The unholy match that humanity came up with was to pair nuclear weapons with missile technology … which created a weapon that is nearly unstoppable and completely dangerous for all of humanity.

The fascist government is running scared and confused? … then it means the protests are working.

Keep it up America, we’re all cheering for you. USA!

Agreed … but in order for the US to push through their rocket program, they needed scientists and researchers to develop, test, build, test, retest, and test some more all of the applied science that had been developed. The country needed to build an entire community of thousands of professionally trained technicians, scientists, engineers, professionals … and with them had to come teams of administrators, academics, trainers, bureaucrats, office workers … and with all of them had to come entire groups of trained builders, workers, electricians, plumbers, draftsmen, planners and all the people that came with … and all that had to be supported by an industry that needed to build and develop all the things that had to be needed to get this monolith moving, which meant that all these corporations and businesses needed their own teams of professionally trained people.

It was a massive investment in education in order to get the ball rolling in industry to build the rocket program. It wasn’t just building rockets … it was building an entire industry upon industry upon industry to get to the point of building a single rocket that could launch anything into orbit.

The reason why any of it happened was that the government heavily invested in educating and training an entire population to make it all possible.

I never downvote people on Lemmy but I did for this one … I just spent the past month going through some invoicing and paper receipts and it is absolutely infuriating to still see some businesses using MM-DD-YY while others insist on DD-MM-YY and some businesses have invoicing and receipt printers that use one or the other but not the same. It’s not a big deal if you are dealing with documents that are a month or two old because you can guess from what time period they come from … but it is absolutely confusing if documents get older than that.

Anyone that gives me a document or receipt or invoice with a date formatted DD-MM-YYYY should have a tire iron swung at their thighs

At this rate, in about a decade, tabloids will be formatted like comics with more pictures than words to make it easier for people

There was already a precedent for all this. After the Second World War, American jumped right into the Cold War with the Russians and wanted to take the lead in science, technology, rocketry, space and engineering. They quickly realized that their country at the time was ill equiped and not well trained or educated for all this … so they took the shortcut of using former Nazis to head their science and technology fields for a few years. Then to take up the slack, the government heavily invested in education and training to pump out the scientists, engineers and professionals they needed to gear up their technological war with the Soviets.

So the 50s, 60s, and 70s got filled with a lot of bright well trained, well educated and informed young people. They were able to power the American war machine but a side effect to all that was all these insightful young people became the backbone of a counter culture that fought against war, capitalism, inequality, conservatism and racism and supported black rights, Native rights, women’s rights, minority rights, animal rights and environmentalism.

Then they had to bring in people like Reagan and Thatcher to reign in these counter culture movements and swing the pendulum back again. Once they defeated the Soviets in the Cold War, conservative American had all the incentive to break everything down again and dumb down the population again until it was a just a compliant pulp that could elect a clown.

That’s good news! … it means they’re improving! USA! USA! USA!