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  • Oscar Wilde was gay, are you trying to suggest Victorian Britain wasn’t homophobic and repressive

    Victorian England was phenomenally gay. The English practically invented "cruising in the park", because so many homosexual men were looking to hook up with one another in the major metro areas. It was the persistent open and free expression of queerness that prompted a reactionary parliament to try and criminalize it.

    You're staring at a five alarm fire and concluding nothing is hot because so many state bureaucrats are spraying water everywhere.

    Oscar Wilde's huge and lasting popularity was clear evidence of queer English culture persevering over the purdish Protestant ethos.

  • Kissing as a sign of friendship/goodwill is not a sign of homosexuality or of acceptance of homosexuality.

    You are in some deep seated denial if you don't think homosexuals express affection through kissing.

    Your claim about the “prelevance” of gay culture in USSR is based on a link to a lengthy and wordy PDF

    Yeah, I'm sorry if the size and depth of the document scared you off.

    If you’re arguing against the idea that USSR was the most henious country against LGBT in history

    I'm arguing the homosexual urge is strong and universal. Russia is no exception. And that, when the political moment allows for it, the expressions of queer love flourish.

    What we saw in the USSR, early in the revolution, was an instance of that flourishing. One that reactionary strains in future state governments failed to suppress, time and time again.

    Liberals want to deny that this golden age of free love and open queer expression occurred, because it flies in the face of their orthodoxy. But it happened repeatedly over the history of the USSR. Soviet peoples openly expressed their queer love and accepted the queer love of their neighbors. Soviet governments bent in the face of it, even as the reactionaries fought against it. And even now, in an outright fascist post-Soviet nation, queer love endures.

    You don't need perfect liberal conditions to enjoy a queer society. Hell, quite a bit of modern western history suggests liberalism is as much a threat to queer expression as any socialist government. What you need are queer people united in purpose and committed to one another's liberation. Russia and the surrounding states are filled with these people and will continue to be filled with these people, whether you choose to acknowledge them or not.

  • Apologies if I've touched a nerve.

  • Not for long

  • Again, not clear how the US plans to neutralize long range missile capability of Iran.

    Target the depots and destroy them with artillery.

    You quite literally have no clue regarding the subject you’re opining on here.

    This was established decades ago in excersises the US has been running since the Cold War Era.

  • The goal isn't to defeat Iran in a quick war, but to neutralize the nation's long range artillery and turn it into a free fire zone for American and Israel armies.

    Ukraine isn't Iran. It has a firm rear guard of support from the NATO block, supply lines that can re-arm and re-staff depleted arsenals and positions along the eastern front, and allied agencies ready to pick at Russia's flanks - by seizing cargo shipping, assassinating ranking political leadership, and blowing up critical domestic infrastructure.

    What the Iranians lack, at the end of the day, is friends. Nobody in the Russian, Pakistani, or Chinese government is going to send saboteurs into Israel on their behalf. Nobody is going to help them keep the Straight of Hormuz shuttered. Nobody is going to blow up Saudi desalination plants or bomb peripheral American military bases.

    Once Iran military can no longer produce and deploy new ballistic missiles, the country just becomes target practice for its enemies. We (probably) won't see a Rumsfeld-style blitz into Tehran, like they managed in Baghdad. But we will see Iranian airspace closed, critical infrastructure destroyed, and population centers targeted to effectively break up the political face of Iran into its component parts.

    What becomes of a nation without a central bureaucracy, an intercity municipal system, or a functional electrical grid? This was a country already in a water crisis months ago. It is a nation functionally under siege by the most sadistic and savage militaries in history. People are going to die by the millions before this is over, simply due to disease, drought, and famine. It's going to be a country the size of Germany experiencing what Israel has done to Gaza.

    Quite literally bombed into the Stone Age.

  • But eVeRyThInG i WrOtE wAs PrAcTiCaLlY wRoNg.

    How do you explain the continued prevalence of gay culture in a country that has so militantly sought to oppress it?

  • Wild to see the bodies stacking up all over Iran, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE, Kuwait, Lebanon, Iraq and Jordan, while the fucking USA Today keeps crying about future potential American dead.

    100 girls murdered at an elementary school by US and Israeli munitions and American journalists seem to have straight up not noticed.

  • 1917–1927: Don’t ask, don’t tell.

    After the October Revolution of 1917, homosexuality was decriminalised in Soviet Russia with the repeal of the legal code of the Russian Empire

    Don't ask, don't tell

    "Don't ask, don't tell" (DADT) was the official United States policy on military service of homosexual people for a period of over 17 years, starting in the mid-1990s.

    The policy prohibited military personnel from discriminating against or harassing closeted homosexual or bisexual service members or applicants, while barring openly gay, lesbian, or bisexual persons from military service.

    One of these things is not like the other.

    And of course, this is just the tip of the iceberg. Practically everything else you wrote is also wrong.

  • I can explain in basic terms what is happening there. Does that help anybody?

    Really depends on where the bug lives.

    I would argue that it doesn’t because almost everyone writes code in higher level languages.

    Most people write mediocre code. A lot of people right shit code. One reason why a particular application or function runs faster than another is due to the compilation of the high level language into assembly. Understanding how higher level languages translate down into lower level logic helps to reveal points in the code that are inefficient.

    Just from a Big-O notation level, knowing when you've moved yourself from an O(n log n) to a O(n2) complexity is critical to writing efficiently. Knowing when you're running into caching issues and butting up against processing limits informs how you delegate system resources. This doesn't even have to go all the way to programming, either. A classic problem in old Excel and Notepad was excess text impacting whether you could even open the files properly. Understanding the underlying limits of your system is fundamental to using it properly.

    Similarly, I could explain to you how long division works but the next time you need to divide two numbers you’re still going to reach for a calculator instead of a pencil and paper.

    Knowing how to do long division is useful in validating the results of a calculator. People mistype values all the time. And whether they take the result at face value or double-check their work hinges on their ability to intuit whether the result matches their expectations. When I thought I typed 4/5 into a calculator and get back 1.2, I know I made a mistake without having to know the true correct answer.

    One of the cruelest tricks in the math exam playbook is to include mistyped solutions into the multiple choice options.

    What then is the point of lamenting the loss of knowledge that no one uses directly?

    It's not lamenting the loss of knowledge, but the inability to independently validate truth.

    Without an underlying understanding of a system, what you have isn't a technology but a religion.

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  • Breaking the nuclear taboo on a country that's exhausted its ability to fight back seems like it would be buried somewhere in the Project 2025 fine print.

  • I think the plan is to have Iran's arsenal of ballistic missiles demolished before then.

  • You're better for it.

  • homophobia was always the norm.

    LGBTQ history in the Soviet Union

    A history of LGBTQ rights in modern Russia: From progress to despair

    Seems like it varied wildly.

    The early Soviet period made Russia one of the most progressive countries on earth, only for the Stalin era to radically reverse the gains decades later. Then Glasnost reversed the reversal in a period of general liberalization, only for the late-Yeltsin and subsequent Putin governments to snap back the reforms as a means of purging the state of liberal institutions.

    Nonetheless, Eastern Europe and Russia has always been super gay. The prevalence of gay culture in the Eastern Bloc has endured in the hard times and flourished in the good times.

    the wiki even shows it was used in Imperial Russia and is an Orthodox Christian thing

    Cause it was gay back then, too.

    In the same way that you can point to the Stonewall Riots in the US and say "They're not gay, look at what the cops did to the gay community!" you can squeeze your eyes shut and proclaim "Russians weren't gay, because Stalin and Putin both turned on his gay peers".

    What you reject in the positive is revealed in the negative. This is a culture steeped in gayness. The modern state is chronically at war with its gay population because - despite a generation of homophobic media and state violence and denial at every institutional level - they keep on fighting.

  • If it's an hour that ends in "o'clock" it's time to speculate on the President's health.

    I hear he's got terminal cooties, pass it on.

  • The majority of posters are indistinguishable from bots

  • You're not missing anything. Reddit is the embodiment of Empty Internet Theory. If you're a human posting on that site, you're a statistical anomaly. And not for long, because everyone's getting booted.

  • Well, like with the Netflix question, you can keep going deeper until you hit the unknown. At some point, the person asking the question doesn't know the questions to ask to get to that next level, though.

  • They and Russia are currently the only states in the world with extensive battlefield experience

    Angry Houthi noises

    Nevermind the Americans, who have been exploiting drone technology since the Iraq War. Afghanistan was thick with them by the time we pulled out. Syria and Libya, as well. And the Sudanese War, the border skirmishes between Congo and Rwanda, Pakistan/India skirmishes, and the Gaza genocide (October 7th was only possible with makeshift drones, and the Israelis paid them back 1000x using far more advanced units) all made extensive use of remote and semi-autonomous weapons.

    Ukraine (and Russia) have been the primary markets for new tech. But the tech has been coming from outside the house. Ukraine's national debt is soaring in large part due to their reliance on foreign technology and mercenaries. They are, at best, going to operate as middle-men and resellers, not originators or patent owners.

  • Stupid cephalopods. Learn to breed without dying, idiots!

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world

    Breaking Ephebophile

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  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world

    CAH Gives You Your Fucking Money Back

  • World News @lemmy.world

    Israeli influence over German defense grows

    www.aa.com.tr /en/world/israeli-influence-over-german-defense-grows/3841230
  • Technology @lemmy.world

    Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’

    www.theverge.com /ai-artificial-intelligence/884911/burger-king-ai-assistant-patty
  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world

    We All Know This Guy

  • Technology @lemmy.world

    Floating turbine towers above — the S1500 hovers to harvest wind at 131 feet

    www.ecoticias.com /en/floating-turbine-china-s1500-hovers/21848/
  • News @lemmy.world

    Kristi Noem Repeatedly Claimed ICE Deported a Cannibal. It Was “Completely Made Up.”

    theintercept.com /2026/02/23/kristi-noem-ice-cannibal/
  • World News @lemmy.world

    Amid Trump crackdown on Chinese students, one US university appears to block them altogether

    www.theguardian.com /us-news/2026/feb/20/chinese-university-student-trump-crackdown
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    Journalists Arrested in Cameroon While Reporting on Trump’s Secretive Deportation Program

    www.nytimes.com /2026/02/18/world/africa/cameroon-journalists-arrested-deportees.html
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    Grizzlies owner Robert Pera's tech company linked to Russia war effort, per report

    www.commercialappeal.com /story/sports/nba/grizzlies/2026/01/27/grizzlies-robert-pera-ubiquiti-russia-war-ukraine-hunterbrook-pablo-torres/88377135007/
  • A Boring Dystopia @lemmy.world

    Texas Republican Primary having a normal one

  • Technology @lemmy.world

    Texas becomes leading test ground for small nuclear reactors

    www.texastribune.org /2026/02/17/texas-small-modular-nuclear-reactors-grid-energy/
  • Technology @lemmy.world

    Free Tool Says it Can Bypass Discord's Age Verification Check With a 3D Model

    www.404media.co /free-tool-says-it-can-bypass-discords-age-verification-check-with-a-3d-model/
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    Laughing ICE Goons Seize Dad Who Fled Ukraine War at Walmart

    www.thedailybeast.com /laughing-ice-goons-seize-dad-who-fled-ukraine-war-at-walmart/
  • World News @lemmy.world

    Digital fragments unveil online campaign to flip Iranian nuclear scientists

    jackpoulson.substack.com /p/mossad-iran-nuclear-blue-message-desi-banks
  • Technology @lemmy.world

    Drone use at center of El Paso airspace shutdown

    www.texastribune.org /2026/02/11/el-paso-air-space-closed-faa/
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    China's emissions policies are helping climate change but also creating a new problem

    phys.org /news/2026-02-china-emissions-policies-climate-problem.html
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    MOBJECTS

  • News @lemmy.world

    Federal Agents Left Behind “Death Cards” After Capturing Immigrants

    theintercept.com /2026/02/03/ice-death-cards-ace-of-spades-colorado/
  • Texas @lemmy.world

    TEA warns of state takeovers for “encouraging” student protests

    www.texastribune.org /2026/02/03/texas-education-agency-student-walkouts-guidance/