• Kyrgizion@lemmy.world
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      I suppose we could wire up their corpses to a turbine for free energy, since they’ll be spinning in their graves at around 15000 rpm.

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        That’s way too fast, you need a speed of 3600 RPM to generate at 60Hz (3000 RPM for 50Hz).

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          Well depending on the torque we could use some transmission or produce at a bit above 400Hz and use large frequency changers.

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          Woah we went some torque too, ≈15k happens to be a nice multiple of 3 so just gear reduce it down to 3k.

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        I haven’t been feeling my best last two days, but this actually gave me enough energy to laugh aloud. Thanks!

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      We didn’t willingly give it away. The conservatives have been committing voter fraud and voting fraud my entire life. They’ve been illegally removing registers voters from the roles, and gerrymandering to hell and gone, for over 50 years.

      I’ve personally seen my family fight tooth and nail to try to slow down the right wing authoritarian brain rot for over 40 years, and I’m unable to say that we were very successful.

      We are fighting the richest, most powerful people on the planet. I’m afraid it may take multiple people successfully assassinating authoritarian billionaire media moguls before the ultra-rich even bother to take notice of the rest of us.

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      The Battle of Blair Mountain was the largest labor uprising in United States history

      And I had never heard of it. Although I’m not American.

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        It’s crazy, basically the 2nd American civil war. Miners storming Pinkerton machine gun nests is how the US got down to a 40 hour work week.

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          Its crazy they dont even talk about this in American schools. They attribute it to Henry Ford.

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            Lived in a liberal state, but when I was in high school, they attributed it to the Wobblies and left it at that.

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                I mean, the Wobblies were a big part of the labor movement which achieved the 40-hour workweek. It’s just a mixture of “Glossing over” and “Complex background reduced to the most prominent actor regardless of whether it’s the right one”

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                  I think they mean that the “Wobblies” and the “Pinkertons” just sound like a bunch of cartoon characters or something.

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      If they thought they could get away with it now, they would. And if they had the opportunity to shift the balance of power so that they could murder strikers like the ‘good old days’, they wouldn’t hesitate a moment. Vigilance and a revival of labor organization in this country is all that will prevent another Gilded Age.