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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I had the exact same thought.

Every time I suggest a solution that would work, I'm attacked by "leftists" that condemn anything except a moderate approach. I want change now. Some of the people convicted of these bogus crimes will die of old age in prison. Change has to happen now. A progressive approach would solve it, but the people here don't want to hear it. They want small, safe changes, changes in spending, nondisruptive changes in legislation, don't rock the boat nonsense. I want complete abolition.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 days ago

It's not, really. Have a day.👋

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I do it out of courtesy when the follow-up comment is not strictly related, so that it can be folded away by readers

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

What does doomer mean? Is it a bad thing? How do you qualify it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm terrified of censorship from Internet service providers. Have been since the battle for the Internet.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (7 children)

What is that file? Do you know what language the software is written in? Or can you tell us where you typically get them

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Companies building plants of this size are likely to have law enforcement or private security protecting the build operation. It would be illegal and dangerous to go anywhere near that site with white sugar while concrete trucks are turning.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (3 children)

From https://steemit.com/chemistry/@pinkspectre/sugar-sabotage

When you add water to dry concrete mix, it reacts with chemical components of the cement - calcium, silicon and aluminum oxides - to form a paste which thickens around the aggregate, binding it together as the mixture hardens. Without this hydration reaction, the concrete can't properly bind and remains soupy. Sugar molecules interfere with this process, possibly by preventing the particles in the cement from clumping. However, there may be a more chemistry-based explanation. Aluminum and calcium can react with sugar to form insoluble chemical complexes, meaning they cannot be readily dissolved in water

Apparently, refined white sugar works best, while lactose has only minor effects. Setting can be increasingly delayed by adding more sugar, up to 1% of the cement volume. After this, the concrete will not harden at all! I learned about this from a facebook-circulating antifa post, with the intent of getting activists to use sugar to sabotage a border wall

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

You were so, so much more polite than I would have been

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Can you explain the last sentence

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