If you actually read this thread it would make more sense right? Are you able to read? Do you know how conversations in a thread work?

OP says they got 30w, they don’t actually say it “should be plenty” and you just made that up and in fact plainly says “it isn’t much but it is a start”

The person who replied to them says “Yeah 30 watts isn’t enough. The rule of thumb for off grid is it needs to be able to boil water (12A power station)”

to which the next person says “If we’re boiling water why not skip the middle man and get a solar kettle?” please note this one because this is where the context for my comment comes from

then the next person says “Why not wood stove?”

If you were able to understand how threaded conversations work you’d understand I was agreeing with 9point6@lemmy.world who said why don’t you skip the middle man and get a solar kettle and giving a reason to thatGuyWithGlasses who said why not a wood stove. In some places, like in my specific use case, a solar kettle makes more sense than a wood stove.

Then you wrote to me your non sequitur post about whatever it is you wrote that doesn’t accurately reflect OP and doesn’t accurately reflect the thread.

I live in Sonora Mexico, sun is abundant, wood isn’t

They didn’t see the “TV” in the pic lol

Saying Hamas and Hezbollah are heroes is garbage. You can support Palestinian rights, oppose Israeli abuses, and still recognize that murdering civilians, taking hostages, repressing opponents, and serving authoritarian religious movements isn’t heroic.

They are the only ones resisting. You are doing nothing. They are heroes.

The China claim is also garbage. Criticizing Western imperialism doesn’t mean pretending China has no imperial ambitions or would somehow be a gentle, democratic world leader. That’s just swapping one form of empire worship for another.

Chinese imperial ambitions are different and not hell bent on global domination. Unlike Europe, China has been a global hegemon for thousands of years. Will they be perfect? No, will they be better and more willing to operate in a multipolar world than the west? I believe that

The claim that all white Americans are class enemies is racist nonsense wearing Marxist vocabulary. A white cashier or warehouse worker doesn’t own capital because they’re white. Racial privilege and economic exploitation can both exist at the same time.

Sorry the truth hurts, white devil. The white cashier in the US supports its empire and imperial systems. The white nurse is part of the settler class that seized native lands and refuses to return or even pay the people you stole it from the money you are legally required to in the treaties you signed. The US is a settler colonial disease and its citizens - white americans - are complicit in its crimes.

“There is no difference between a white American and an Israeli” is also nonsense. Neither group is politically, racially, or morally uniform. An American nurse in Ohio isn’t the same as an armed West Bank settler, and an Israeli peace activist isn’t the same as Netanyahu.

Netanyahu is literally a fucking American. There are no Israeli “peace” activists. If they were a peace activist they would leave Israel. Israel, like the US, has no right to exist. Like Rhodesia, they must be dismantled.

The last claim is mostly conspiracy theory. The US did meddle in post-Soviet Russia and supported disastrous economic policies under Yeltsin. But it didn’t install Putin as a mercenary and then decide to break Russia apart for profit. Putin has his own ideology, power base, ambitions, and responsibility for his actions.

Using the language of the CIA to discount historical facts then misrepresented what I said. I never said the US installed Putin I said they installed Yeltsin, and in another comment I said he came up through the FSB and leveraged his connections in Russia to come to power. He is a mercenary that works for the highest bidder.

The garbage parts are the terrorist hero worship, China worship, racial essentialism, and the claim that every world event is secretly controlled by Washington.

You are a propagandized imperial stooge of the empire you live for. You are the enemy of the free people of the world. It is not racial essentialism to state that White USAmericans are part of a specific petite bourgeois class of settlers. I didn’t claim all white people around the entire world are the same, it is specific to the white USAmericans. I also never made the claim that every world event is secretly controlled by Washington you just made that up because you are discussing in bad faith and from a position of perceived authority granted by your settler colony. I said a handful of specific events were orchestrated by the Empire administrated from Washington.

The US conducted the cold war to force the SU into a spending spiral that collapsed their economy. They then spent billions of dollars to install Yeltsin into power. Putin came up through the FSB and and the connections to leverage the oligarchy and institute mafia control of the country. They then worked with the Americans for decades to sell them space launches, military assistance, natural resources and purchase financial services. When the whims of American empire changed they started to poke at Russian sovereignty over and over with an aim to collapse the nation for profit.

1. Instead of disbanding NATO when the SU fell, they expanded it into former Soviet states and entered them into mutual military purchasing agreements with the US.
2. Funding separatist and terrorist groups throughout the Russian periphery to increase military pressure on Russia (Georgia, Chechnya, Iraq, Afghanistan)
3. Used the CIA and other NGO groups in Ukraine to overthrow their government to one that is friendly to the US/EU and hostile Russia causing a civil war where Russian speaking people live in Ukraine and a decade of fighting.
4. Russia didn’t invade out of nowhere, they were responding to ongoing fighting in Russian majority areas. Do I personally think the “SMO” was a good move? No, but do I understand it and think that Russia poses a structural threat to US/EU interests? Also no.
5. They conducted a massive military build up in countries surrounding Russia.
6. The US took all of the Russian money in US/EU banking institutions and kept it. If you are holding a huge percentage of someones capital/money hostage and they have no recourse to unfreeze their assets under your management, who controls who? Don’t you think that if the Russians had full control over the US government thru illicit means or “kompromat” on Donald Trump that the first course of action would be to unfreeze their assets? People in the US believe Putin was the puppeteer on his meetings with Trump but in reality this person (Putin) was going to their boss and asking for their money back and being told no. The Russian response was to state plainly that Donald Trump is not in control of the US and isn’t worth speaking to and that Americans are “agreement incapable” are these the words and actions of the person with an upper hand?
7. The Anglo empire have wanted to break apart the Russian empire since the 19th century. It is a long term historic objective of US/UK imperial interests going back to the Crimean war and before. It was only interrupted by the challenge of an Imperial Germany. The US/UK empires want Russia to pay for the October Revolution in particular with full collapse and balkanization.
8. The Anglo empire wants to split up Russia into its constituent republics and states and pit every one against each other for their profit. They want to sell weapons to the Tartars, they want to extract the natural resources at a discount.

Off the top of my head?

1. USA and Europe are the authoritarian masters of a internationalist capitalist empire that are bad actors and the actual “axis of evil”
2. NATO is part of a global order that promotes and projects western imperial military interests and exists to reinforce US/EU weapons manufacturer sales and use.
3. Hamas are heroes.
4. Hezbollah are heroes.
5. China would be a better steward of a global economic order than the US/EU capitalist empires of the past 500 years and we do not believe the Chinese have the same imperial ambitions.
6. The USA is not a democracy, it is an oligarchy with a fixed political structure that has nothing to do with what the people there want or vote for.
7. White people in the USA are settler petite bourgeois and not part of the global proletariat. They are not allies, they are enemies.
8. There is no difference between a white American and an Israeli
9. Donald Trump isn’t an aberration of US politics and is par for the course. He is not a foreign asset or brought to power by Russia and is in fact the most American thing ever.
10. It was in fact the US who over threw the Russian government and installed a president there. Putin and the Russian capitalist oligarchs are mercenaries who typically work for the US but have fallen from favor and are being attacked now to balkanize the region for profit.

The Irony of a German who lives in the one of the most evil and authoritarian place on earth, that pats themselves on the back for being so progressive and free while taking part in a global economic system of world wide extraction by violence where they are part of the authority calling people authoritarian is actually funny. Nazi scum are still nazi scum when you are in between your regular periods of local genocides.

1. Locate your avatar in the top right of the screen and select “Settings”

2. Select “Delete Account”

3. Enter your password and select “Delete”

ok but I think you’re delusional

People where I live have opinions about things that when you write on Lemmy and Reddit get accused you of being a Russian bot or trying to influence never ending USAmerican elections as if they (USAmericans) live in a democracy and meme posts to a niche international community of open source software with around 40k active users matters.

Death to the USA

You are a fucking idiot

You fucking Americans think everything is about you. It doesn’t matter if they are all the same or if one of your politicians rapes kids. You live under a dictatorship of capital and you can’t ever change anything by voting.

Spoiler alert though, all the rich and powerful people in the US and most of its politicians rape kids. The puppeteer rapes kids. Keep believing in the fictions they weave that maintain their power over you and that you can just show up and vote for not raping kids. You live in a child raping and killing country that bombs children around the world and destroys entire buildings filled with kids. There is nothing redeemable about any of you.

No one ever said to give up, but voting won’t fix it. When you play their game the house always wins. Whatever wins that happen by voting are able to be taken back. People have to rise up and demand an end to the economic system that is built on inequality and injustice and strip the power away from capital.

We all still live under a dictatorship of capital and the capital owning class are more powerful than any politician.

Also this comic is from Chile and not just about US politics. In Chile the Mamdani types gained a mass movement that was stalled by the structure of the government itself which left people frustrated then in 2026 they lost power to fascists.

Yeah, another reason I like stick, I will break it and leave it behind. I don’t have any sticks at home. Rock might be too tempting

It is true this is a particularly good stick and particularly drab rock. I might be biased TEAM STICK FOR LIFE

you are probably a bummer to be around. lighten up