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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Russia dropped over 10,000 guided bombs on Ukraine in just three months⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
Yes, and how exactly does it know?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Russia dropped over 10,000 guided bombs on Ukraine in just three months⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
Yes, glide bombs are also vulnerable to electronic countermeasures. This is because of how they figure out where they are and where they need to glide to in order to get to their target.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Russia dropped over 10,000 guided bombs on Ukraine in just three months⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
I did hear that electronic countermeasures have gotten better, reducing the accuracy of the bombs recently.

But yeah, they’re making conversion kits for their old stockpile of big aerially dropped bombs, similar to our JDAMs. The kits are supposedly pretty easy to make.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Baldurs Gate 3's voice acting so great that it ruined other games for me?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Agreed. Great voice acting is one thing. Quality voicing a cast that gigantic is another. I first noticed with that frog in the hag’s area. You don’t even get it if you don’t cast speak with animals and talk to this random frog hopping around, but if you bother to, you get this short, amazingly acted dialogue.

The attention to detail is just off the charts.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You Need to Use Signal's Nickname Feature⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

or maybe “national security adviser,”

lol
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this possibly a jealousy thing?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Bullies get positive feelings for themselves by making others suffer. Who they target with this isn’t too different from how a predator selects prey–choose the vulnerable.

Your sister, for one reason or another, is vulnerable, meaning the bully is less likely to suffer any consequences for picking on her than if they picked on someone else. That “someone else” could have more friends willing to stick up for them and fight back, they could have a really sharp wit and be able to verbally humiliate the bully if they wanted, they could be huge and practice MMA, being able to physically knock all her teeth out with one swing, they could be a teacher’s favorite and able to go to an authority figure to get backup and inflict consequences that way. All sorts of possibilities.

But one way or another, your sister has been selected due to having fewer plausible defenses than any of the potential alternatives.

Best way to resolve that is to bolster her defenses in some way or another, so the bully picks a different, more vulnerable target. Making the bully actually stop bullying everyone isn’t very likely, though. As someone else pointed out, the bully is most likely suffering a lot themselves, and participating in bullying is how they themselves are surviving their own difficult circumstances. The easiest fix would probably be the “sharp wit” route, as verbally tearing into someone in a humorous way is a learnable skill. Otherwise a physical intimidation route, where your sister or another makes them afraid for their teeth remaining in their mouth if the bullying continues.

To answer your direct question, yes, jealously could be a part of it. There isn’t much use in wondering about it, though, there’s no real solutions to be found down this line of thinking, that I’m aware of.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would world politics be like if the top 100 countries (in terms of military strength) all had their own nuclear arsenals?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah, I think people need to recognize that this arms Kuwait, Tunisia, Lithuania, Oman, Netherlands, Chad, Yemen, Bulgaria, Tajikistan, Rwanda and Cameroon all with nuclear weapons. (Ranks 91-100 if we just go by number of military personnel, active and reserve, an imperfect but very convenient way to measure.)

If I’m not mistaken, two of those countries are currently involved in conflict. (Yemeni Civil War and Rwanda involved in Congo)
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Digital feudalism… I suppose that does make it easier to call up large armies of peasant levies when you need to wage an information war.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Also just fear of going out of business by alienating any potential customers. When your revenues have been steadily dropping for decades now and it’s starting to look like you’re going the way of Kodak, it becomes more tempting to pander to the middle and try to avoid pissing as many people off as possible. This in turn means you can’t speak the truth anymore.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As the U.S. halts military aid to Kyiv, how long can Ukraine continue to fight Russia?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
No, they cannot. They can still make a significant difference though.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As the U.S. halts military aid to Kyiv, how long can Ukraine continue to fight Russia?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Meh. If our government won’t send any of our tax dollars, we can at least still donate directly to military-focused fundraisers. Won’t be air defense or anything, but helping buy drones still contributes.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Europe and the rest of the worlds response it to make weapons of war, someone will eventually insure they are all used.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
A relatively small minority of people through history have wanted wars. But if we look at the past 4000 years, we nonetheless find many, many wars, the vast majority of which people have never even heard the name of. You cannot escape this by simply disarming yourself.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sun God⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
My fav is just that the sun is, all by itself, 99% of the total mass of our solar system. Most of the rest of that 1% is Jupiter.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to get people to use Mastodon?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Somebody needs to put this guy in charge of all the branding elements.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
For a conservative that’s amazing, I’d be kinda proud of him. I’d comply with his request, assuming he wants you to see a couple other doctors and not attend some conversion camp or something. I’d just frame that as getting a second/third opinion, basically, which is always a good idea anyway.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who's making older games so expensive?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Supply and demand, since they’re all collectors items now.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Same. Every time I see someone complaining about the all feed I wonder if they came from 4chan’s b board or something.

How many places on the internet expect you to regularly use some sort of all feed? 9gag maybe? Did people regularly use reddit’s all feed, despite it being crammed full of garbage and vote farming? I think I used it for like 5 seconds when I first started there before I gave up in disgust and started picking communities intentionally.

Do you set up your newsreader with all of everything? You want all the sports, all the pop culture, all the tech, etc etc?

I just don’t get it. All is always going to be garbage on every service just because the world is a big place, and that’s fine.

Now, rant aside, I did actually find his idea of an all feed where local instance voting is all that gets counted kinda neat. I don’t have any problems with that being an available option if someone wanted to work on it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BACK IT UP⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Don’t forget the FDA’s aggressive suppression of exercise.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Production quality often has in inverse relationship to information quality in youtube videos⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
“Why make a good product if you can put your effort into making it just seem like your product is good? This way you can pivot around more flexibly. Instead of having to possess a wide array of hard-earned skills you can make specific content about, you can simply learn the skills of marketing, branding and style, and now you can bullshit your way through anything you want.”

-many modern business practices
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨USA President term limits⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Assuming he abides by constitutional law, this will be his final term.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI tool that sounds like elderly grandmother created to waste scammers' time⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Was wondering how long it would take to roll something like this out. Bout time.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We should have elections with no candidates.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I actually sort of like this idea. People would still figure it out, of course, but it’d shift people’s default attention from the person to the platform.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Metal is plastic.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
No. In astronomy, everything heavier than hydrogen or helium is referred to as metals. So, a star’s metallicity would be including carbon, oxygen etc.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Metal is plastic.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Ices are metals.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Do People Gather? A Study on Factors Affecting Emotion and Participation in Group Chats.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

Positive emotions (γ = 0.128, p < 0.05) boost participation, while negative emotions (γ = −0.144, p < 0.01), particularly when linked to user behaviors, reduce it.

Well, it’s nice to have hard data on trolling, I suppose.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘We don’t want aid. We want dignity.’ Air-dropped aid kills 3-year-old Palestinian boy in southern Gaza, family says⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
That too. Unfortunately that also failed.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘We don’t want aid. We want dignity.’ Air-dropped aid kills 3-year-old Palestinian boy in southern Gaza, family says⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
What rescue operation required a multi-million dollar pier to be set up? Usually armored ground vehicles and/or helicopters work just fine for those.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘We don’t want aid. We want dignity.’ Air-dropped aid kills 3-year-old Palestinian boy in southern Gaza, family says⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
What do you think it was for? Oil exploration?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘We don’t want aid. We want dignity.’ Air-dropped aid kills 3-year-old Palestinian boy in southern Gaza, family says⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
That was the point of the temporary dock. Still didn’t do much when the IDF controls all entry points except the one overhead, though, and refugees aren’t living right next to the dock.

Perhaps a UN task force could be assembled to militarily escort aid trucks through IDF checkpoints by force, if necessary, since diplomacy doesn’t seem to be working.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy's gaining popularity, so I thought new people should see this.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
As the dev’s flagship instance, there is only so much that can be done. There is also only so much that should be done, since they should have the right to run their own instance however they see fit. They did put the work in to create the service, after all.

I think the most reasonable solution around this is to simply push mbin a little harder. Since .ml will always garner a certain degree of attention as the dev’s instance, simply pivoting more attention to a lemmy-related service may be the best option to make us more appealing to less politically-interested people overall.