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RedFrank24

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  • Actually Insane

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  • Kim Jong Un is batshit crazy, but he does know the extent of his power. His power doesn't reach much further than North Korea itself, and if he tries anything that might piss off China, he backs off. Trump has no such restrictions, he can do whatever the hell he wants, and does.

    The general principle in international relations for the past 100 years is that if you kill your own people, nobody really gives a shit. If you start killing other people, well then that's when other countries start taking notice.

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    Proposed instance policy update on Zionist accounts

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  • I'm a tiny bit worried that "zionist" might change over time to "not sufficiently anti-zionist", but... Maybe not, maybe I'm just paranoid.

  • Word.

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  • 99% of issues people have with Word are because they never bothered to learn how to use it. Remember those IT classes back in school where they taught you how to do a mail merge? Yeah I bet you can't remember how to do that now.

  • Math is not a democracy

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  • Technically it can be, since PEMDAS is not an immutable law, it's convention so we can communicate maths and come to the same answer.

  • Always wear protection, folks

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  • I'm always careful with loud noises, and yet... I've had tinnitus ever since I can remember. There's always been this high pitched whine whenever I'm in dead silence, and it's always been the case. I used to think I could hear the electricity running through the walls or something.

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    Lemmy be like

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  • The whole "Italians reacting to people doing food wrong" thing always seemed so performative.

  • bigot bucket rule~

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  • Remember that the Salvation Army behaves differently depending on the nation they're in. The US Salvation Army has different policies to the British one, which has different policies to the Australian one.

  • If Russia is fighting against Nazis in Ukraine

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  • To Russians, 'Nazi' is not a political ideology or a party, it's simply "Whoever is against Russia right now". Are you against Russia? You're a Nazi, it's as simple as that. If they had to contend with the idea that Nazism is a political ideology, they'd have to start calling themselves Nazis, which doesn't work in the Russian psyche.

    So, when Russians say that Ukrainians are Nazis, what they really mean is "Ukrainians are fighting back when we kill their children. That makes them enemies and therefore Nazis"

  • Shout out to my engineering homies.

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  • Yeah, and Israel can't pretend they aren't choosing to bomb hospitals. It's almost never "Oops we didn't intend to do that", it's "Well there was a Hamas bunker under that. They were using those playing children as sandbags, we simply had to blast through them!"

  • Shout out to my engineering homies.

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  • I'll be honest, I'd rather the best engineers be there to create weapons that are extremely precise. The weapons are gonna be made regardless, but I've seen photos of what happens to cities when bombers are dropping unguided munitions. Back during WW2, if you wanted to hit a factory in London, you didn't just drop 1-2 bombs, you dropped hundreds of bombs, you flattened absolutely everything in the area because that was the only way you were gonna hit your target.

    At least with precision munitions, if you're doing war 'nicely', you only hit what you intend to hit, not your target + everything else even remotely close to said target. With precision munitions, you can't 'accidentally' bomb a hospital, so when you inevitably do bomb a hospital, you don't get to go "Oh oops no it's not my fault it's the bombs' fault!". The sights are crystal clear, the plane/drone moves exactly where you want it to, there's nothing interfering with the guidance, the bomb locked onto the target you wanted to hit, and you dropped it, all thanks to engineers making those systems. You had everything going for you as a bomber to know exactly what that target was, and you dropped the bomb anyway.

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    We're not so different you know

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  • 9/10 times yeah you're only really borrowing money from a bank for mortgages and that's the only loan you NEED to have. Otherwise there's credit cards, small business loans, car loans etc. You can probably get-by without those though.

  • Venezuela calls Trump airspace closure warning 'colonialist threat'

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  • It's not even good oil though! It's hard to refine.

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    We're not so different you know

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  • It was systematically racist before credit scores as well. Before credit scores, whether you got a loan was dependent on the bank manager 'liking you', and by that I mean if you stepped into that room with skin any darker than the sheets the bank manager wore at the weekend, you weren't getting a loan.

  • Venezuela calls Trump airspace closure warning 'colonialist threat'

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  • I mean it's basically just declaring war. It's the US acting unilaterally to attack a foreign nation for no reason at all. Granted that's nothing new, but at least with Iraq and Afghanistan, Bush got permission from Congress through the Iraq Resolution (and the AUMF Against Terrorists Act in Afghanistan's case) before he actually invaded. I get the feeling Trump isn't even going to ask, he's just going to attack Venezuela, get dragged into a war, and die.

    Then again, Obama attacked Libya without congressional approval, and while Congress could have done something about it, they didn't.

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    We're not so different you know

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  • With or without credit scores, banks are going to be assessing you for whether you're likely to pay back the loans they provide. Even if you deleted all credit scores overnight so everyone had to do individual assessments, you're still getting assessed and a credit score in all but name will emerge. If you're a high risk, banks will just put a big mark on your name that says "Don't lend to this person, they don't pay their debts" like they do in Austria.

    The only real difference between the US Credit Score and the Chinese Social Credit is that the Chinese Social Credit takes other factors into account in whether you are considered worthy enough to have a loan, which isn't aaaall that different to how it's done in the UK, where registering to vote makes your credit score go up, but then again lenders in the UK don't tend to use credit scores for things like mortgages, they use their own checks.

  • Mandatory Retail

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  • Last time I went to Warhammer World in Nottingham, I left with £120 worth of Lord of the Rings Miniatures, all because the guy in the store told me all about Glorfindel and how cool he was. I didn't even buy Glorfindel! This was £120 worth in 2005, mind, so that's about £214 today.

  • Mandatory Retail

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  • The only retail workers I've seen that appear to be enjoying themselves are people working in Games Workshop. If you express even the slightest interest in Warhammer, they'll be talking to you for an hour gushing about lore, and it's a remarkably good sales tactic because I've only ever talked with a GW employee once without buying something.

  • The system is working exactly as intended

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  • Is there a third option where it's like "Nobody's really been planning anything for centuries and everything's just continuing and everyone knows there ought to be something different but nobody can agree on what that thing ought to be"?

  • eat the rich and go to the library

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  • Technically libraries don't give away books for free, they lend them out but they also pay for them. There's a reason publishers are more than happy to sell books to libraries, but hate Internet Archive, and that's because a library can only lend out however many copies of the book they have at a time, but Internet Archive lent out hundreds of generated copies.