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26 year old woman ... I totally didn't see that. I don't think the article mentioned her party affiliation but I think we can all guess.
A 26 year old black female, the exact opposite of who i had figured.
"The name of the woman was released early Friday morning. Atlanta Police identified her as 26-year-old Laneisha Shantrice Henderson." (From the article)
I don't know her party affiliation. Sometimes people have reasons the rest of us cannot understand, it's not always political.
I use Boost for Lemmy in Swipe-mode (android). Linked articles are embedded so you don't have to open and accept cookies and whatnot to read what the post is about.
That's very cool! Do you (or anyone else that wants to answer) know if Sync has a similar feature?
Dude I didn't know Boost existed for lemmy! Boost getting canned is the reason I quit reddit. Thanks for the plug!
"Democrats are the party of slavery and Jim Crow! Anyway I'm gonna go burn down MLKs childhood home."
Why? Just because they're young and have a vagina doesn't mean they're immune from bigotry
It doesn't, I'm just pointing out my own bias.
Eh, statistics aren't infallible
Fortunately gasoline is harder to light than movies suggest it is.
Speaking from first hand experience, I want to point this out so people understand the danger involved. Gasoline is very easy to ignite with an open flame (lighter or match) but hard to light with a smoldering ember (like a lit cigarette). if you pour it on something porous like a pile of brush or gravel, then the vapors that get retained in the pile add an explosive element. But even a puddle of gasoline in a metal can outside on a windy day is extremely easy to ignite. You can pour it over wet soil and it will ignite immediately if you throw a match at it. If its wet with straight gas, it will light, and possibly explode with a big whoomph if vapors are retained. Take it seriously and respect it.
Kerosene, diesel fuel, and oil mixed gasoline are surprisingly hard to ignite unless they are poured over a wicking element like cardboard, fabric, or a fiberglass wick. Lighting a puddle of it requires a blow torch for a period of time to get the fluid up to the flash point.
If you are trying to start a bonfire with boyscout juice, never use straight gasoline. Mix it atleast 10:1 with oil or 5:1 with diesel to take the bite out of it, then it will light much more safely.
The fluid itself doesn't ignite, the vapors ignite.
Exactly, dousing something and then tossing your zippo at it when waking away doesn't work
With gasoline it would definitely work, as long as the flame on the zippo didn’t get blown out by throwing it. Gasoline is very volatile and it doesn’t take much time for the vapors to exist.
With the other fuels and mixtures like in that previous reply, yeah results will vary.
True, an open flame or an electrical spark will ignite the vapors.
Maybe she doesnt smoke. Chicks who never smoked seen to struggle with lighters a lot.
lol. bit late isn't he
Glad the burning stopped.
Doesn't fox news support racists and promote racism
Fox News Channel ≠ local Fox affiliates.
What's the difference? Brit here so no idea.
They're local news stations that carry the Fox brand and play Fox TV (Sitcoms, dramas, etc) the rest of the time on the channel. They don't have to show outwardly reactionary opinions of Fox news or show Tucker Carlson, for example.
Unfortunately a lot of them are owned by Sinclair, so you still get the reactionary opinions, just in smaller doses from a different company.
Tucker Carlson isn't on Fox News anymore. But yes, local Fox stations do not have to show Fox News programming, but Fox News does offer local stations news packages that are generally opinion-free to use in their programming (I used to shoot and edit news for a local Fox station). They're also not owned by Fox. The one I worked for was owned by NexStar and the same company also owned the local ABC station. They had the same newscasters and shared the same building, but the ABC station used ABC News packages instead.
It was a black woman so..... maybe?
This man has an incurable case of malignant stupidity. The dealership where Malcolm X bought his first car was next on his arson targets list.
Her…. It was a woman.
You know, I almost looked first before making my throwaway comment. I thought to myself no way this isn't a fool of a white boy. It's not only a woman, it's a black woman. I did not see that coming. I solemnly swear to be better in the future, because the world is unpredictable.
Good on you man. It’s not seen often that someone so graciously changes their perspective like you did. Well done man.