Had a gun on him. Probably ILLEGAL HARD CORE drugs too.
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Seriously, just give him the medal, keep the cash. People will still list your stupid ass on the wiki page. Doubt someone like Trump even knows theres cash involved.
My dad (conservative) would talk about how unfair the health system is (we got royalled screwed by it as a family like 5 unique times, besides the usual amount of shit it piles on a typical family). Then he'd rant about how Bernie was a commie when XY news showed a clip of Bernie talking about the 1% or single payer or whatever. Atleast he wanted (then and now) something to change and clearly understood at some level something was wrong. He wouldn't support that change without it going through some republican worm, but he knows this shit sucks at least.
Lots of liberals either are or pretend to be on the "good" side of the system (IE: can afford the bills, can travel if they want to skip a line, etc). So they pretend like nothing is wrong, Joe Blow is "just" mad at minorities (while also hating minorities aswell), and that this system is the best thing that ever could be created.
Feels a lot of the time that conservatives are failed communists (because they get funnelled into it), while liberals are wannabe communists (because they funnel themselves away). Conservatives (seemingly, or pretendingly) don't even know what the reality of political theory entails. (IE: Couldn't tell you what Liberal meant in 1850 vs 2000.) Liberals know enough politcal theory to be able to say something slightly more intelligent (IE: could answer the above). But also know they can't even nominally support any policy left of Hitler because then they wouldn't be "liberal"s anymore.
Is it "fedposting" to say "defund the VA". And also make them all pay back whatever they got for "education". (In quotes because my experience is every single one of them was about as capable at learning as a snow shovel is at digging a hole.)
One thing that struck me was the actual numbers of WWII.
People glaze the German war machine for being peak efficiency, but if you look at the numbers, they were never ahead of their enemies. They were producing tanks (per year) on the order of ~1k. England and France had similar numbers. America had similar numbers, until it joined and the numbers went to ~10k. (Can't recall where the USSR was, I think 1-2k early up to 5k around the end?)
Germany was dead in the water as soon as they lashed out against materially more powerful states. They could not sustain an existential war, which they needed to because at the point they were, no one was going to accept a conditional surrender.
My point being: During the time the Nazis looked more lively, they were a material zombie. Their entire existence could be described as death throes. A nation-state lashing out hoping it somehow undies enough to exist beyond a decade.
Since unification in the late 1800s, Germany knew this was happening too. They had "lost" the colonial game by being late. Austria and the Ottomans were decaying corpses of empires. Russia was looked at as a slow old fashioned monster likely to collapse itself (ironically they didn't expect them to fight as well as they did during WWI, reminding me of now). If they didn't try to defeat France at minimum, they (Germany) were at risk of becoming another colony, or maybe "just" a second rate nation. They had to break out of the material deficit they were in if they wanted to be a world player.
America has done the unthinkable in the past 40ish years and given up their incredible lead and now is panicking that others are catching up (and that its costing them at home). If America doesn't fix the problem of everything being made in China/Taiwan/India/etc/etc/etc, then yes, we're a dying. The difference is that Germany WAS a second rate nation. It didn't have the most advanced airforce or nukes or an effective navy. So its lashing out was dangerous, but was contained to Europe. America could do a lot more damage on its way down.
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said: (paraphrasing) They (private capital) is gladly willing to spend $2b of our money to make $1b in profit.Poker is much better then chess. Atleast each hand you COULD win. In chess, one wrong move and woops you lose. The opening memorization shit, castling and in passing (I WILL NOT SPEAK FRENCH), the fact everyone knows white has a severe advantage...
Go is the real "simple" thinking man's game.
They were targetting tylenol for some reason.
Awful Tylenol destroys livers, is made in a LAB, and gives kids super autism. Beautiful Aspirin thins the blood, comes from big beautiful willow trees, and was won from those evil Germans as reparations.
(Kinda funny that only one of those statements is false.)
I was losing it over seeing an electric car that had its charge port door behind a motorized door. Car "engineers" and "designers" are jokers. Why have a simple latch and spring system, when you can have a slow and easily breakable motor without even an obvious button to open it that you can charge $2000 to repair?
So cool that we bailed these freaks out in 08.
Concentrated products would solve a lot of problems. Dry laundry/dish powder for example is usually accepted as the most eco-friendly option. You get more loads/lb because it isn't 90% water. You can have unique formulas because you can physically seperate components. You can store it in a cardboard box without plastic because it isn't liquid. Can be cleaned up dry. Etc,etc.
But of course its less convenient, sometimes requires more care (some require you to dilute them or not dump it all in at once or whatever), or is otherwise less "cool". Like I associated laundry powder with my granddad. But its being promoted again because you can have a bucket of it that is equal to 10 jugs of liquid.
Or like drinks, whats "better", buying premade tea or buy a box of tea packets? Its nice to grab a bottle of tea once and awhile, but a single box makes many gallons of tea. And you can control how it tastes, what you put in it, etc. I like some yerba mate (overly sweet American style, haven't had "real" stuff yet), but its all premade here. Gimme some of the leaves and I'd buy it just like coffee beans.
Its very weird that a lot of people think there is some conspiracy about environmentalism.
Like brother, I wish I could mindlessly buy/use whatever I want. Instead I'm over hear digging for a jacket and boots that are both vegan (or at least doesn't have leather) and will biodegrade within the next 500 years.
I'd fucking love to be able to fly around a bunch without the environmental nightmare haunting me. I'd love to visit sites/places like New Caledonia and the European cave art caves. But I know just going degrades those sites.
I'd love to have an ICE. Really like the hybrid I got right now, but no denying ICE has some advantages (right now, in this society at least).
I'd love to go to the book store and pick up a book about nature and it NOT have a 70% chance to be incredibly upsetting and depressing. Picked up one about extinct species (can't recall the name atm and its upstairs). Reading about the dodo last night nearly made me cry at work twice today. Got into the car and realized that even if that damn bird survived past the 100 year mark, it'd almost certainly be gone by now. Mauritius sounds like a disaster zone (in terms of ecology, at minimum).
I wish I/we were wrong about the environment, because it'd be a better world, and easier world to process and live in. But all reason points to no, this isn't normal, it isn't good, and its a danger to every single person alive.
This isn't to be doomer, I legitimately believe we could stop the worst effects. And pretty easily too. Fuck, one book I read quoted an ECONOMIST DOUBTER (ie: an economist that was downplaying the environmental effects of the current economy) that the economic "damage" from switching to fossil fuels would be ~$200 billion (in 2004 ish). Guess what America spends/spent 2x more on in 2004? (Hint: its so fucking obvious that it seems like a cliche at this point.)
Give me like $1m and I could make significant progress on restoring 300 acres (about the size of a semi-protected park near me) within 2 years. And I'm a fucking no body comp sci nerd. I could organize it, make plans, present you a doc saying what we're doing and why. If I could do it, imagine what 200,000x that could do. Literally just paying dudes to pull weeds would improve the park's status SIGNIFICANTLY.
HODL your Ubicoins! The feds MUST buy them for whatever price WE decide! We WILL OWN THE WORLD!!!
(This post totally not inspired by listening to This is Financial Advice from Folding Ideas for the 5th time because I needed background noise.)
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To be fair, they also killed the big bad (Snoke lmao) in movie 2 of 3. Without any plan or reason. So they needed a big bad ultimate evil, because Palpatine was behind it all in both previous trilogies. Having him be the big bad in the prequels made SOME sense, but it was slop the third time. I enjoyed it for being a giant embarassment as wells as "old man has way too much fun being goofy evil".
Like they could have had Kylo Ren become the actual big bad, but then people might be upset that their bad boy becomes Space Hitler (despite already being Space Hitler Youth).
They toyed with the girl... That I literally can't recall the name of now. Rei? Ray? whatever. They toyed with her becoming evil, but resolved it so loosely I don't even recall there being a "no this isn't me, this is bad, I'm good" scene.
They could have even had some banality of evil shit, where the rank and file Hitlerites become the villians for a movie. But nah, completely jumping the shark.
Further evidence to me that that series exists to spread anti-communist brain worms.
Sad because I'd like a good series about Chernobyl. One that points out that for the "biggest nuclear disaster ever", only 60 deaths occured. Something like 5-10 thousand future diseases. Sounds bad, but don't google how many deaths occur because of oil though. Or how many thousands of acres are uninhabitable because of coal. Or that the Soviets actually moved people instead of saying "oops, my bad" and leaving people to do it themselves.
Compare that to America. Lived in an area near a superfund site growing up. They buried radioactive waste in the ground (sandy area with no seal btw) and now the aquifer is/was polluted. Even had a kindergarten over the site for a few years until the radium (? I think I was like 7 when it was news) leaked out into the building. Site STILL is a massive white collar office space last I heard.
Granddad help point them to where the barrels were before he retired and died like 6 months later to cancer. He worked there like 40 years. This site wasn't making power either, it was to nuke people. He said they made nuclear triggers but I know Beryllium was involved somehow.
To top it off, the government was like "yeah that was messed up, we'll pay you $500k if you prove you got cancer and another $500k if you prove you absorbed so much of X or Y (I think Beryllium and some dose of generic radiation). People who were lifelong smokers got paid, granddad died while they dragged their asses, then the gov was like "oh get a doctor to agree it was likely a factor". Except all the doctors who worked with him didn't want to say anything because it was years prior at that point. Granddad and Grandma basically told the inspectors that they'd be happy if they'd pay medical bills (and hospice, etc) and admit they were wrong. But nope nothing.
Meanwhile those poor oppressed soviet peasants were evac'ed, rehomed, and the area marked as no go for the next 200 years (or however long it is). I'd bet there are suburbs in America with a higher radiation dose/hour then Pripyat at this point.
And thats all before looking at the content of the screenshot. If the gov is willing to screw over white middle class workers who are rabidly loyal, why the fuck wouldn't they be willing to do it to anyone else?
In short, only people living the absolute most insulated lives, or who remain willfully ignorant could believe American lies.
I hold that the conflict between China and the USSR was sad, unneeded, and bad.
I also hold that China is part of the hope for a restoration of socialist movement in the current era.
Every nation gets 1 nuke. It gets put under the equivilant of their white house. Everyone else gets a button for every other nuke.
Peace in our time.
Only partly related:
I get the feeling that unity is gonna become the next flash. Shitty, overbloated, closed source, and full of security holes. Games in 10 years will be playable only through a 2nd party "unity emulator" that safely executes them so your pc doesn't immediately begin mining doge coin.
At least I've seen a lot more godot games recently. Even if they insist that is isn't "go dot" and is Fr*nch. Also godot games are a lot easier to reverse engineer. Makes translation/modding a LOT easier if a dummy like me can do it.
Coworkers put more effort into making print out (on paper) saying one of our animals was out for the day then they did making this sign.
We have 7 employees and most of us are college students or newer grads.
Name close to the mafia, can't make this shit up.