quarrk [he/him]

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Cake day: May 30th, 2022

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  • Huh. Until right now, I thought rabbit and hare were synonyms.

    When I saw my first European Hare, I noted how not-cute and cuddly it looked… and thought to call them “hares” to denote to myself that they were not the cute rabbits I was familiar with. But now I feel dumb because that’s literally what it is.

















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    Capitalism replaces direct, personal exploitation with indirect, impersonal exploitation. It transfers all wrongs into an abstract structural logic. It is at once the most obfuscated and difficult to understand, yet the most efficient at supporting a non working minority class at the expense of everyone else.

    The only way out of this is to organize a society upon non-exploitative relations of production. A non-vile system of government can only result from that real basis, not the other way around.



  • gas tank behind the rear bumper, so getting rear-ended badly enough could cause a fireball

    The 1993-2004 Jeep Grand Cherokee had the same issue, with higher fatality rate per fire crash

    On October 2, 2009, the Center for Auto Safety filed a safety defect petition for the recall of all 1993–04 Jeep Grand Cherokees with the fuel tank located behind the rear axle. At the time of the petition, CAS had identified 172 fatal fire crashes with 254 fatalities in the FARS file from calendar year 1992 through 2008. CAS identified 44 fire crashes with 64 deaths where fire was the most harmful event. In comparison, NHTSA reported a total of 38 fire crashes with 26 fatalities when it recalled the Ford Pinto.

    I believe the recall fix was to install a trailer hitch that would deform the tank in such a way that it was less likely to cause a fire.