...are you really asking why they would take out a military vessel with no defenses, no civilians at risk, far away from support, against a country they are actively fighting against?
I mean... The war is extremely illegal and is being carried out at the direction of some of the most evil people alive. But I don't think "cowardly" fits here. If you are at war (ignoring the legality and morality of the war itself) and your enemy publicly reveals a location of one of their military assets, at a time and place where you know it will be defenseless and entirely devoid of civilians, is it really "cowardly" to attack it? If it's "cowardly" because it was an ambush attack, may I remind you that essentially all warfare over the last century has been composed almost entirely of ambush attacks?
Again, the war itself is disgusting. People should be publicly hanged for this. But I really don't see how the word "cowardly" fits into this particular attack.
Can someone set me straight on Pizzagate? Like, sure what it evolved into was BS, with people storming a pizza parlor looking for non-existent basements. But... I mean fuck, look at the emails in the Epstein files, compare them with the Podesta emails...
Are we really trying to say that "pizza" WASN'T being used as code between high-profile individuals in Washington? People still bring up Pizzagate as if it were all conspiracy nonsense, but I'm sitting here reading actual emails between grown adults high up in politics who are salivating over the thought of sharing fresh, young pizza and being VERY particular about the toppings. Not to mention the other foods that are talked about in a similar batshit crazy way (jerky, tuna/sushi, pink/black shrimp, etc.).
Normal people do not talk about food like this. And at its core, wasn't Pizzagate about high-profile individuals using pizza as a code to traffic children? While there is no smoking gun (yet) that proves pizza and other foods were 100% code for children... Come on. It's clear they AREN'T just talking about food. And it's all found smack dab in the middle of a global conspiracy that has a focus on trafficking minors!!
So, again, someone tell me WHY we're still treating Pizzagate as completely debunked nonsense? The specifics at the end were wrong and the whole movement was likely taken over by controlled opposition by the end of things. But the core conspiracy? Are we just pretending there's nothing there? Are people so disgusted by the idea that they are just preferring to call it debunked when it really hasn't been? Has the opposition been successful in proliferating the narrative that only conspiracy theorists believe Pizzagate, and nothing conspiracy theorists believe is real? Why the fuck aren't we talking about this more?!
I bring this up and people act like all they heard and saw was television static. How does this keep getting memory holed?!
Something always bothers me about these kinds of infiltrations. Wild Shape is a relatively low level spell. And while most NPC's are essentially level 0 with no magic, it should at least be common knowledge in their world that the spell exists and MANY people have access to it.
So why would the guards not be suspicious of an animal? For that matter, why do the guards not have someone constantly using detect magic? Wild Shape is far from the only magic that can be used for infiltration, seems like common sense to constantly scan for magic around an area you are trying to keep secure. I just feel like too often, DMs treat their NPCs, especially guards, as if they have zero knowledge of magic or the world they live in.
By the destruction of the Death Star alone, Luke has a higher kill count than Anakin did at 22, saved the Rebellion, and became a decorated war hero. And Luke did all that in less than a week of getting caught up in events.
Meanwhile Anakin had been building up to that point for years, and was only a General because all Jedi were Generals. Other than becoming a Jedi, it's not like he did anything specifically to earn that position.
19th century rural life consisted of you and your family living on barely more than subsistence farming and not seeing or interacting with anyone outside your family or immediate neighbors for months at a time.
In 1980, John Lennon was shot by a mentally ill man who was convinced to kill Lennon by reading Catcher in the Rye. If he had never read Catcher in the Rye, he most likely wouldn't have killed John Lennon.
But it is not the fault of Catcher in the Rye. We don't ban the book, or call the author irresponsible for writing it, because we recognize that the fault lies in the mental illness of the shooter, and that anything could have set him off.
The people who kill themselves because an AI Chatbot told them to are mentally ill. It is their mental illness that killed them, not the chatbot. You can make the claim that if it wasn't for the chatbot, they wouldn't have gone through with it, but again, you can say the same thing about Catcher in the Rye. Getting rid of the trigger does not remove the mental illness.
There is a lot to hate about AI. A lot of dangers and valid criticism. But AI chatbots convincing people to kill themselves isn't a problem with chatbots, it's a problem with the user.
I get it, grieving families will look for anything and anyone to blame for suicide except the victim, but ultimately, it is the victim who chose to kill themselves. If someone is convinced to kill themselves from something as stupid as an AI chatbot, they really weren't that far from the edge to begin with.
I've gotta wonder... How expensive are these little networked e-ink displays? Probably not super expensive, but they've gotta be more than a paper price tag. Definitely more of a hassle to replace when someone breaks them by running into them, accidentally snapping them off, etc...
I would rather be a correct asshole than a polite idiot. You aren't upset I'm an asshole, you're upset because I called out the idiocy of people like you falling for this post.
Stupidity is a BAD trait. It is BAD to be stupid. If you fall for obvious misinformation, it is because you have acted stupidly, that is a BAD thing. People deserve to call you out on it because you should feel BAD for being stupid. Our society used to do this regularly and idiots learned to shut their fucking mouths and be ashamed of their stupidity.
And I will politely ask you to fuck off the internet entirely until you can recognize fiction from reality. Your kind of stupidity is what's ruining everything.
"YSK that fruit is healthy. Gushers are not real fruit. It's trash."