Tarquinn2049 @ Tarquinn2049 @lemmy.world

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Ukraine themselves reports it at 105ktons of munitions destroyed. And honestly, I trust their remote intel better than russias direct intel on how much it was. Hehe.

The whole plan is written out step by step... project 2025... it's a long read, but there isn't any need to look anywhere else, they literally released the plan they are following.

Man, where are their pretend enemies going to secretely hide next? Any schools left standing?

Real life shouldn't mimic any part of cartoons really, but especially not the scene where the chef is obsessively chasing one escaped ingredient/pest and ends up destroying the entire dining area in the process.

Even if one or more of their real enemies are in the building when they explode it, which rarely seems to even be the case, that is not a good excuse to blow up any of these buildings. It would be cheaper and easier to only kill the intended target(s) no matter how good they were hiding.

Like their excuse is usually that the enemies are using human shields, you'd think by now they would have been able to prove it at least once, I mean, it's been proven a few times that they themselves are, so we know it's possible to prove it... but like, isn't the whole point of human shields that they are actually effective, because the goal is to not kill those people? Not to just use it as an excuse to kill everyone instead of just the bad guys.

I know, I know, the cruelty is the point and the justification is a lie... but like, how does the lie keep working, it feels like their main hurdle in destroying the cities is just how long they have to wait between killing women and children before attention dies down enough that they can afford to "accidentally" do it again.

Because, in this context, they are using security to mean the opposite of insecurity. They want to cure national insecurity, and the only way to do that is to "prove you have the bigger dick". And since they already know from practice that they probably don't, they have to find some other way to prove it.

Yeah, Alberta used to have a much more varied economy. But every boom, things move more into oil and gas, and every bust, they barely move away. People are quick to follow the easy money and so reluctant to do anything else when it goes away, knowing it'll be temporary, even if temporary means years. As it wanes, the booms will be shorter and less pronounced, and the busts will be longer and more pronounced. Eventually, there will be a tipping point, even at the current reluctant pace people have for turning away from it. But it would be so nice if more people saw the writing on the wall sooner.

Ok, sorry, 2 hours. But either way, one hour would have sufficed for it to no longer be legitimate confusion anymore. And I can for sure go away, just stop posting things you are trying to get responses to. Although I think at this point, this is my last response even if you keep doing so.

Well, not at first, but after an hour of everyone explaining the sentence, and how it was a proper well-written sentence, at some point maintaining that you were correct that it didn't make sense had to start being a character you were playing.

Whether unintentionally manifested through ODD, or intentional, same difference.

That's fair. Though it was more in response to how consistently negative you were being to everyone else. Like you were trying to prove to everyone else the sentence was as hard to read as you thought it was. I was more attacking the character you were playing with ad hominem, to show you how your position was coming across.

While it may be difficult to start reading books at the point you are at, it seems like it might be worth the effort to overcome the initial difficulties.

I don't know where the line is from, but gonna guess from context it's "fuck a stranger in the ass".

Hehe, I just left my starter pokemon at the front of my line up for the whole game. He ended up hitting max level, and none of the pokemon behind him ever really got to fight. He was one-shotting with "not very effective" moves. I also didn't keep any of the buffs or debuffs, just attack moves. Since I was basically only using one Pokémon, he had to have a bunch of attacks cuz they would run out of uses. I wasn't as young as you would hope for a "tactic" like that to be my solution to the game. But to be fair, it kept working... so was it really wrong?

I assume it was pokemon blue, mainly cuz I picked blastoise. My level of creativity as a kid means I very likely wouldn't have picked blastoise if I was playing pokemon red.

Cybertruck bulletproof window all over again. He really needs to stop demonstrating stuff live.

Not only was he "using" starlink, he was specifically doing it as a promotion to show that it is good for gaming. And even with that being the whole premise, it was still his kneejerk reaction to blame the connection, even though everyone watching knows that can't be what happened. His ego couldn't let him blame himself instead of the service he was purposefully trying to promote.

Heh, that is even better. His ego wouldn't let him blame himself instead of the service he was purposely trying to promote... leading to him doing the opposite.

Hehe, yeah. Fair. There is a very good chance that even with everything burnt to the ground, people would vote to take longer to try to go back to what is familiar rather than going for the quick fix that seems better on paper but has never been tested at full scale. And as you say, even if it got so far as to be emergency implemented to stop the hemorrhaging, there is very little chance it would last long enough to prove better before it starts to get dismantled out of fear that it's not... or fear that it is.

I just would hope that at the point where there is a prominent uprising, it would come with a pretty widespread distaste for how it got there. That has historically been the case, a big pendulum swing the other way for a bit.

Trust what man? The one I say is bulldozing the entire government?

When smart people move out to the boonies, it's to get away from all people. When dumb people move out to the boonies, it's to get away from smart people and their annoying rules. They still want to hang out with other people and do dumb people stuff with them. So you don't really see smart people out in the boonies, but they are there, just inside.

I'm guessing my wording wasn't great in the first one. Was intended as a follow-up in the same vein. I can rephrase with more detail if my point came across wrong.

It sure seems like his plan is to basically get rid of every financial support. Once they are all gone, there will pretty much be an immediate revolution since so many people will have nothing to lose then, and then from the rubble left over, the only possible solution that could be implemented quickly enough to restore functionality is a universal mincome.

Since there are currently like 100 different ways someone could qualify for financial support that basically add up to the same thing in effect, just with an insane amount of overhead. Restoring that in any kind of reasonable timeframe would be difficult, especially if the plan is to "accidentally" mess up while rewriting the database and "accidentally" delete all current data. I don't really know what other outcome to expect with them promising to completely rewrite it from the ground up in such a short time frame.

I do expect them to at least try to get rid of as many social programs as possible, especially the ones directly doling out money. And if they do them one by one, they won't get very far before people rightfully assume "theirs" might be next, so doing them all at once as a surprise just seems like the only possible way to get rid of them all. And making it seem like an accident is the only chance, slim as it may be, that they have of even possibly getting away with it.

One-third of the population of the United States receives some form of financial aid. 100 million+ people. I think that will 100% be an actual tipping point, even though so many things already should have been the tipping point. And once it tips, there's gonna need to be an "after". A universal basic mincome that you automatically qualify for without needing to jump through any hoops, just X amount of money until your income is at least Y amount, then reduced by a percentage/ratio until hitting 0 when your income is Z amount. (Indexed to inflation)

All the tests of a universal mincome have proven that it not only works, but it works better than all current systems. But there are hurdles to implementing it from such a complicated current system, especially in all the cases so far where it was intended to only be temporary as a test. So, basically, one of the only silver linings that might come from what the US is going through right now, is a possible wide-scale implementation of a mincome, and once it is proven stable on a wide scale, more countries might have reason to implement it without bulldozing their whole world first.

Anyone I know that had success with apps, it was eHarmony. Mostly because it costs money and takes work to make a profile, already filtering out so much just from those two steps alone. But the work that it takes to make a profile also helps to actually find who you want to find, and for them to find you.

You have to actually know what you are looking for though, and ideally why.

He's bulldozing the way for someone to pave the way to universal mincome being accepted. The main hurdle it needed to overcome was how much beurocracy it would take to consolidate all other programs under one roof. If there are no other programs in the way, it all of a sudden becomes the easiest way to re-establish it as quickly as possible.

Edit: I'm not one for changing posts once they have been read or reacted to, but it seems like my wording is not getting the intended point accross. Trump is doing a horrible thing, that once he is deposed may hopefully at least have a silver lining, if there even is an "after".