Carrolade

@Carrolade@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Russia suggests Trump is emboldening Ukraine, delaying peace⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Pumped up by huge state spending on soldiers and weapons, as well as by redirecting vital energy exports to the likes of China and India, Russia’s economy has so far defied Western hopes sanctions would push it into a deep recession.

  This line is annoying. You think people couldn’t predict that Putin would keep his war machine afloat with the huge backstock of cash they had saved up? Of course he would.

  The goal is to drain it over time, like any other reserve of resources. Nobody serious about the topic expected the sanctions to suddenly destroy the Russian economy. The goal was to make things more expensive, to apply pressure that would weaken them over time. This is why you haven’t seen many Western analysts predicting a swift Russian collapse, because that was not very likely when they had billions and billions saved up that could and would be deployed. The question is: how long can they keep up this demanding of a pace, when they’re dealing with finite resources and limited inflows? That second part on limiting inflows is what the sanctions are part of.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come nobody does anything about North Korea?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Modern war planners mostly know better than to count on everything going well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come nobody does anything about North Korea?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  To add to this, N Korea also has a huge conventional army, and is a very mountainous country. Lots of soldiers+mountains=very bloody to invade.

  This is also why Iran is fairly safe from ground invasion. It’s like a gigantic Switzerland, which if you’re familiar with WW2 history, even Hitler left Switzerland alone despite kinda wanting to occupy the place. The cost was just too high compared to the benefits, so, y’know, may as well skip it and invade the USSR instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you see magic eye pictures?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This works, but the quicker method for me was to hold the book over my head, out of my line of sight while I focused my eyes on something a little farther away (5’ away is fine). Then you can simply move the book downward into your field of vision while refusing to let your eyes refocus. It should be blurry, because you’re still focusing past it, despite it being right in front of your face. Then just relax and let your brain do the work.

  This method got by far the quickest and most reliable results for me, most pop suddenly into view in just a couple seconds.

  I think this method works best because you’re using established muscle memory to focus your eyes on an object at a measurable, consistent distance, and then just not letting them change. Removes several variables from the equation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not exactly a showerthought, maybe better off in a TIL, mildly interesting or history sub. This community is not for real information, though, showerthought communities are for more light-hearted and silly stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you think early humans survived without water bottles? Did they just live next to water sources all the time?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We found them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you think early humans survived without water bottles? Did they just live next to water sources all the time?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was just gonna say, a squash that I cut in half, hollow out and dry is pretty low-tech stuff. Could probably use a coconut if you were in a pinch… Lot of options.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is empathy based on a financial bell curve?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Then you should hopefully already understand the multiple reasons anecdotal evidence is a poor way of trying to understand large groups of people, which is why we use statistical studies.

  The people specifically in your community, engaging with welfare resources, are in no way an accurately representative sample of a larger social class in all areas. Your specific region likely has unique cultural factors at play. The subset of people engaging with welfare have unique economic factors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some good places/activities where a middle-aged man can new make friends?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you want to start an irl group, yeah. If you’re joining an existing group, no though. Fully online is obviously the easiest place to find groups looking for players, but you can also head down to your local gaming store. I’ve seen bulletin boards before with flyers looking for players, but can probably just ask the people working there if they know of any.

  Could also check online forums for your local community, maybe even make a post asking if any gaming groups have openings for irl players.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some good places/activities where a middle-aged man can new make friends?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Dungeons & Dragons is one, for the sufficiently geeky.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK chemtrails were real: the US military admitted in 1976 to dropping active biological and chemical agents onto US cities for decades from land, sea and air without notification or consent.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If that’s really true, you could easily have copy/pasted your evidence. The only reason you wouldn’t is if you can’t. Which is why you just keep saying the same things like that will somehow change something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK chemtrails were real: the US military admitted in 1976 to dropping active biological and chemical agents onto US cities for decades from land, sea and air without notification or consent.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Really? Then prove this:

  remember how you pretended the documented, verified US government sources weren’t real

  Unless you just made it up out of the blue, of course. You do that a lot. You just keep chanting how right you are, but never copy anything to actually prove it. Very weak, when anyone can chant anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK chemtrails were real: the US military admitted in 1976 to dropping active biological and chemical agents onto US cities for decades from land, sea and air without notification or consent.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You really do like making claims you can’t back up. If I was wrong and you could prove it, it’d be a win for you. Unless you actually just can’t, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK chemtrails were real: the US military admitted in 1976 to dropping active biological and chemical agents onto US cities for decades from land, sea and air without notification or consent.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, I do not remember denying any sources were real. Where in any of my (still unedited btw) comments did that happen? Or are you just making shit up again?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK chemtrails were real: the US military admitted in 1976 to dropping active biological and chemical agents onto US cities for decades from land, sea and air without notification or consent.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, it does not support everything you’ve been saying. This is why you’ve had to do ninja edits to change what you were saying. Remember that part?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK chemtrails were real: the US military admitted in 1976 to dropping active biological and chemical agents onto US cities for decades from land, sea and air without notification or consent.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Playing pretend in what way? I told you, as soon as you support your specific statements that you’ve made, or admit you were wrong, we’re cool. I don’t see what is being pretended.

  Specifically, you saying “using weapons” in this case. The bacteria were not weapons. They were studying weapons, by using other bacteria that behave similar to weapons. I don’t think you actually care, but I do I’m afraid. Where in the report does it say weapons were released? Not studied, released?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK chemtrails were real: the US military admitted in 1976 to dropping active biological and chemical agents onto US cities for decades from land, sea and air without notification or consent.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not fighting against the facts. I’m fighting against you. You thinking everything you say is a fact without having to prove it is a you problem. Doesn’t mean I have to go along with it. Nitpicking is about facts, you know. True/false.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK chemtrails were real: the US military admitted in 1976 to dropping active biological and chemical agents onto US cities for decades from land, sea and air without notification or consent.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have no issues with you sticking to the facts. If you just did that, we’d have no issues, remember? It’s when you add things, remember your ninja edit to delete “radiological”? Don’t blame me for calling you out on this stuff. Or, y’know, just let me know why you like to twist things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK chemtrails were real: the US military admitted in 1976 to dropping active biological and chemical agents onto US cities for decades from land, sea and air without notification or consent.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ahh, the “I know you are, but what am I?” defense. I see we’ve regressed back to grade school. And you call me juvenile? lol I guess Trump does that one too, so you could also be really elderly.

  Or, y’know, you could just admit you like adding things to your sources beyond what they actually say.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK chemtrails were real: the US military admitted in 1976 to dropping active biological and chemical agents onto US cities for decades from land, sea and air without notification or consent.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In what way can context change the meaning of “releasing weapons” into something else?

  I already told you several times, you take certain true things, mix them with lies, and then spin it together into your overall message. Then you do ninja edits when these are pointed out. Did you forget?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK chemtrails were real: the US military admitted in 1976 to dropping active biological and chemical agents onto US cities for decades from land, sea and air without notification or consent.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Kinda hard to call it misdirection when I’m directly quoting you from a different comment you made and asking you to either support it or admit you were twisting words around. Seems like a pretty straight direction to me, no? I mean, if you really read it, it’d be pretty easy to say where in it you got that from.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK chemtrails were real: the US military admitted in 1976 to dropping active biological and chemical agents onto US cities for decades from land, sea and air without notification or consent.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not asking you to distort anything. I’m asking you to tell me where in your sources it supports you when you said this:

  admitted to using chemtrails to disperse biological weapons

  Because what I read is another, much less dangerous bacteria was spread to study how spreading happened. And we can tell, too, because tons of people didn’t die, and weapons are for killing people. Make sense? Or you can just admit that you’ve been subtly twisting the truth to suit your ends.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK chemtrails were real: the US military admitted in 1976 to dropping active biological and chemical agents onto US cities for decades from land, sea and air without notification or consent.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It doesn’t really matter if you care. Just stop making up things to add and stick to the true parts and everything will be fine. Can you do that maybe?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK chemtrails were real: the US military admitted in 1976 to dropping active biological and chemical agents onto US cities for decades from land, sea and air without notification or consent.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Scaring me? More like offending me. I don’t like lies in my YSK subs. Like I said, if you had stuck to only the true parts of your posts, we wouldn’t be having this problem. Not that I expect you to really remember what I said anymore I suppose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK chemtrails were real: the US military admitted in 1976 to dropping active biological and chemical agents onto US cities for decades from land, sea and air without notification or consent.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can try personal insults all you want, but it’s your words and your sources I’ve been using. Anyone that reads them will see that I am right and you are not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK chemtrails were real: the US military admitted in 1976 to dropping active biological and chemical agents onto US cities for decades from land, sea and air without notification or consent.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, you’re not. You’re repeating some facts, and slipping in lies. I’m not going to let you get away with it.

  You said they released biological weapons. That is not true, they released other bacteria. Your sources said that. Can you admit it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK chemtrails were real: the US military admitted in 1976 to dropping active biological and chemical agents onto US cities for decades from land, sea and air without notification or consent.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, I will. Sure, you can keep just repeating yourself, but all I have to do is use your own words to point out your slipped-in falsehoods.

  Where in your sources does it call the released bacteria the actual dangerous weapons themselves? Or were they using a different, less dangerous bacteria, like your sources actually said?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK chemtrails were real: the US military admitted in 1976 to dropping active biological and chemical agents onto US cities for decades from land, sea and air without notification or consent.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was quoting you. You know what quotes are, right? What about when I said:

  Were those experiments performed by dispersing actual weapons? No, that is false.

  Did you even read my comment or are you just trolling me?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK chemtrails were real: the US military admitted in 1976 to dropping active biological and chemical agents onto US cities for decades from land, sea and air without notification or consent.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You said:

  US government admitted to using chemtrails to disperse biological weapons

  Now, were there experiments on the spread of weapons? Yes, this is true. Were those experiments performed by dispersing actual weapons? No, that is false. Other, less deadly agents were dispersed, not weapons.

  Btw, I’ve quoted you. So if you edit to change your comment, people can still see my quoted version, so a ninja edit will not help you. Can you perhaps admit you were simply wrong to say weapons were what specifically was dispersed? Are you strong enough for that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK chemtrails were real: the US military admitted in 1976 to dropping active biological and chemical agents onto US cities for decades from land, sea and air without notification or consent.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You being a liar and then covering it up is not minutia. Had you simply stuck to facts from the beginning, we’d not be having this problem.

  And no, again, not weapons, that’s you lying again. They were studying weapons, by using not-weapons. Experiments are often done with proxies like this. If they were using real weapons, a lot of people would have died. Instead, I think one did, if I remember right from your links? Correct me if I’m wrong on the death toll. You should go back to sticking to the truth, at any rate.