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Gorilladrums

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  • Supercarrier USS Gerald R. Ford Has Crossed Into The Mediterranean

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  • There's a very big difference between a regime change war like Iraq and Afghanistan and a "destroy them until they surrender" like what happened with Japan in WWII. The US burnt Japan to the ground and nuked it not once, but twice, for attacking a single naval port. That's a very different kind of war than bombing a country as a pastime hobby. If the Ford carrier gets attacked and sunk, we'll have a new Japan on our hands and Iran will be destroyed so thoroughly it won't be recognizable.

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  • It actually doesn't matter which administration it is. American policy has been extremely consistent since the founding of the country that if US is ever attacked, the response has to be so ferocious that it guarantees that such an attack will never come again from that country.

    When the Mexican American war happened, the US won decisively and annexed half of Mexico. When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, they literally burnt the country to the ground and nuked it twice for good measure. When Germany did something similar in WWI and WWII, they got bombed into the stone ages. When Al Qaeda did 9/11, the US bombed like a quarter of the globe to make sure this group is incapacitated.

    Why wouldn't the US have a similar response here? The Ford carrier is the peak of American naval power, which is the basis for American hard power. A country attacking this ship is directly attacking the US military and threatening to undermine American power, and that's not something that's going to slide. If something like this happens, we might see an official declaration of war from congress, and whichever country attacked the ship is going to be made an example of.

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  • People like are terminally online. Your hatred for the US won't go the way you like it. If a country gets tries to attack this ship, then they're getting glasses, like actually. The US literally flattened Japan and nuked them twice because they attacked a naval port and partially damaged it. If some country tried to destroy the Ford Carrier, they're going to face a worse fate.

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  • Impossible. The USS Liberty was a tiny spy ship, this is a supercarrier. Nothing will touch this thing.

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  • It's borderline impossible to sink it. Nothing can even get close to it, let alone sink it. If, as you say, magic was involved and it was sank, then the US would glass whichever country did it. This ship represents the peak of American naval power, which is the basis of America's hard power. A country that sinks the ship is getting an official declaration of war from congress, and the US will unleash its entire arsenal to make an example out of them.

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  • This is the type of delusion that keeps me coming back to Lemmy

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  • pseudoscience

    What pseudoscience?

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  • The sheer amount of defense system its equipped with insane. It's so big, so heavily armored, and so loaded with defense weapons I honestly cannot imagine anything sinking it. When you see it in real life it's like a mountain floating in the sea, it's really freaky.

  • More unpopular than Xi, Trump is dragging down America’s reputation in Australia

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  • Trump was already a pedophile, narcissist, and idiot before he turned senile, but now that he is, he's well and truly is a global threat.

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  • Kind of off topic, but I've seen the the Ford carrier in Virginia before and it is HUGE. It's crazy how big this ship is. It's like the Empire State Building tilted sideways. When you see it irl, it really puts in perspective just how powerful one ship can get.

  • What are some depressing realizations or positive benefits about life you've learned growing up?

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  • One thing I learned over the years is that toxic people don't change. The signs are always there from the very beginning, and ignoring them is always a choice.

    It took me 3 years of dating a toxic woman to realize this. At the beginning I was so happy at the thought of having a relationship that I intentionally ignored red flags that were always there. I ignored her passive aggressiveness, her emotional unavailability, her manipulative tendencies, her narcissism, all of it. I was miserable, but I tried to naively convince myself that I could try to change her or that she would see things my way eventually, but that's a stupid mentality to have.

    People can only ever change themselves. Change requires dissatisfaction with oneself, and that comes from personal growth. Toxic people like this, they're always satisfied with themselves, which is why they're unaware of their toxicity. These people can't ever change. This is why it is vitally important to not ignore the signs in the beginning, it's never worth it. You'll be in a bad relationship from day one, and it'll only get worse with time. If you're smelling something sketch about the person you're dating, then trust your gut and dip. Your hunches will be right more often than not.

  • Why is the herd mentality so common on Lemmy?

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  • It should be noted that a very huge chunk of the userbase here are chronically online far left types who were banned from Reddit for being too extreme and toxic. Those same people came over here and brought the same problems that got them banned on other platforms here. Lemmy's is basically a cesspool of the Internets worst leftists.

    That being said, I would say something like 40% of Lemmy's userbase is here for tech, privacy, and memes. If you filter out most of the politics, this site still has a big enough userbase to have an active and enjoyable experience.

  • Why is the herd mentality so common on Lemmy?

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  • Basically filter out the tankies, and this place becomes pleasant. I can't say you're wrong.

  • Why is the herd mentality so common on Lemmy?

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  • Because it's an echo chamber. You have communities that are modded by a small group of people who can control narratives through censorship, the community is very hostile to any differing views from their own, and the existing communities are so devoid of internal criticism that they start to purity test each other, which leads to more extreme views and develops a herd mentality.

  • Our duty

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  • The childless circles have this preconceived stereotype that life stops the moment you have kids for the next 20 years. What they don't understand is that life doesn't stop when you have kids, having kids is a part of life. Creating your own children, raising them, and watching them is in of itself a joy even if it is hard work. Parenting isn't misery and having kids doesn't mean you don't have time to enjoy what you like.

  • Our duty

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  • Unfortunately a lot of times it's not a joke. These people genuinely think they're superior to parents, and a lot of them genuinely hate kids and those who chose to have them. It's a rotten mindset to it's core that built on hatred of preconceived stereotypes. It's something that's irrational in both logic and the emotions that it evokes. It's literally a new form of bigotry.

    People like you should be the default. You made your choice and you respect other people who made theirs. You understand other people have their own reasons that are different than yours. That's normal, that's healthy. It means you're secure enough in the decisions you've made to not go around trying to justify it to yourself by pretending you're better than other people. As much as I would like to believe that people like you are the silent majority, I'm finding that more and more difficult to believe with just how prevalent these smug childless people are becoming in society.

  • WTF

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  • These virtual assistants are entirely a sham to artifically drive up stock value. This is how it works:

    • Company A is big tech that invested billions of dollars building up a LLM model that nobody asked for to increase it's stock value
    • Company A incorporates its AI model into all of its products even if nobody wants them to, once again, artificially increase the stock price
    • When company A runs out of places in its own products to shove the AI, it moves over to company B where it does everything in its power to convince them get the AI and incorporate it into everything
    • Company B sees company A's sham and wants in, and so it buys the AI and smears its feces on all its products to artificially inflate its own stock price.
    • When Company B is exhausted, company A moves on to company C, D, E, and so on and so forth.

    In the end all the companies, or more specifically, all the executives, win in the short term by making billions upon billions by artificially increasing stock prices and thus creating a bubble. They're the only winners. Regular employees at these companies still get treated like shit, consumers are getting much worse products, and the economy is doomed to another recession due to their actions... but that won't stop them because they know the people won't do shit, the government is in their pockets and won't stop them, and if a recession does really happen, they're confident they'll get bailed out.

  • acab

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  • That's not actual policy. The article cites two specific Democratic lawmakers who are known for being provocative proposing legislation and policy. In reality, their proposals will never pass because they're not popular with the public and they wouldn't get past the courts.

    I'm telling you, people in the real world see ICE very differently. Most people are wary of ICE, but they largely don't care. I think you're underestimating the ignorance and apathy of your average person.

  • A “QuitGPT” campaign is urging people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions— Backlash against ICE is fueling a broader movement against AI companies’ ties to President Trump.

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  • I don't necessarily disagree with you here, I also think that no generative LLM is worth paying for, let alone a subscription with such a ridiculous price. However, I can still at least understand the appeal for a certain niche subset of people who constantly do the few stuff that a generative LLM like chatgpt excels at.