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- Comment on PUT THE TRAINS IN THE BAG 4 days ago:
Chock Full-0-Sea ports
Is really the big reason. Less and less portage is going through the traditional East Coast hubs of NY and NJ, mostly going to places like Louisiana , Texas, and Florida instead.
Historically Florida has always been pretty big on trains as well. In fact you used to be able to take a train from Florida to Cuba…kinda. You could take a train across the overseas rail line to Key West where they would ferry the whole train car over to Cuba.
We used to be an actual country that did stuff, and that’s because we weren’t afraid to do cool stuff with trains.
- Comment on hyperbaric oxygen chamber 4 days ago:
I’m not sure if it’s purely spurned by capitalism, though I’m sure it doesn’t help. I think it’s more of an issue with narcissistic egos, considering even our global leaders are prone to fantastical thinking when it comes down to longevity. Not too long ago Xi and Putin were caught on a hot mic talking about immortality via organ donation. That’s not how any of this works…
- Comment on hyperbaric oxygen chamber 4 days ago:
he’s using pseudoscience to attempt to live longer
Yeap, for some reason tech billionaires are all complete idiots outside of their field of expertise. I don’t know what it is about computer science that makes people so confident they’re always the smartest person in the room, but it does lead to some interesting scams.
These aren’t even real hyperbaric chambers, they’re marketed as “wellness chambers”. Real hyperbaric chambers are illegal to own/operate in a living space because they are dangerous if not operated and maintained by an expert.
He’s not getting 100% o2 and they aren’t getting the appropriate amount of atmospheric pressure utilized in hyperbaric medicine. There’s no evidence to support any kind of benefit of hyperbaric medicine at these levels.
- Comment on 2 OP 1 week ago:
Not really that surprising, a lot of natural materials have really good insulating qualities. Considering that it’s mostly cellulose and water, I wouldn’t really really think it would be flammable unless dried out.
- Comment on Good evening. 1 week ago:
Needed to learn how to do a sick fade.
- Comment on asked and answered 3 weeks ago:
…so they could capture the Philippines unimpeded. That is not “hoping for peace”. That is hoping for an easier war.
Lol, they invaded the Philippines the same day they bombed pearl harbor… Like I said, they wanted to take the US out in one fatal blow and make it to where the US didn’t have the ability or the motivation for a pacific campaign.
This isn’t even up for debate, it’s well documented history. "Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto recognized Japan’s industrial inferiority to the U.S. and knew that a prolonged conflict would lead to defeat. The surprise attack was intended to deliver such a heavy blow that the U.S. would sue for peace, avoiding a war they couldn’t win. "
You could say that. It would be more accurate to say the venn diagram of the overlap is a circle. It’s weird that you oppose fighting one and not the other. What is the difference you’re concerned with? Do you just not like the word “fascism”, and are ok with governments that are fascist in all but name?
Idk…maybe it’s the fact that the modern political history of the Middle East and 1930s Europe are different? Maybe it’s that I disagree with how the second gulf war was conducted and justified. Maybe our history of supporting and arming both Iraq and Iran may add some nuance to the scenarios?
Do you just not like the word “fascism”, and are ok with governments that are fascist in all but name?
Fascism does not just mean authoritarianism.
More like pan Sunni supremacy. Are you forgetting he gassed an entire region trying to genocide an ethnic minority in his own country?
The majority of Iraq is Shia… He is Sunni and elevated the Sunni minority, however his attacks against Kurds were because Kurds, like Persians are not Arabic. Again, the history of the middle East is complicated and conflict can be raised from anything from tribalism, nationalism, ethnic conflict, economics, or secretarial violence.
Hussein was about as socialist as the National Socialists I guess.
It’s like you are allergic to nuance…
The Nazi party was not socialist, the only reason it has socialism in the name is because socialism was so popular in Germany in the 20s and 30s that you couldn’t get on the ballot without giving it the nod. The Nazi government only nationalized resources and existing businesses so they could then privatize it to someone with in the party as a favour.
The baathis party had a state planned economy. According to Phebe Marr, Saddam “provided widespread health, education, and social benefits that went well beyond those of any previous regime”.[4] Saddam implemented land reform, made hospitals and education free, doubled the number of students in schools and developed infrastructure such as roads, access to electricity and water, in addition to increasing life expectancy and decreasing child mortality.[4]
While he was literally crazy, and an authoritarian, he was still a socialist.
Chamberlain gave the UK time to arm so they didn’t get blitzkrieged into extinction.
Lol, this is the most ahistorical take on Chamberlain ever… It ignores his attitude towards appeasement that he held since the beginning of his tenure. “Chamberlain sought to conciliate Germany and make the Nazi state a partner in a stable Europe.[85] He believed Germany could be satisfied by the restoration of some of its colonies, and during the Rhineland crisis of March 1936 he had stated that “if we were in sight of an all-round settlement the British government ought to consider the question” of restoration of colonies.[86]”
Also, how exactly would Germany be “blitzkrieg” Britain while invading the rest of Europe?
All of your takes are historically inaccurate and based solely on generalizing to the point of indistinction.
- Comment on asked and answered 3 weeks ago:
Oh, ok. That must be why the Japanese attacked the US, right? Because they were hoping for peace.
Literally yes. The Japanese were trying to wipe the entire Pacific fleet out with one punch, making it too costly for the Americans to enter the war. They were hoping that America would cut their losses and settle for a negotiated peace that allowed the Japanese to keep their Pacific holdings.
Saddam Hussein was just as racist, nationalist, authoritarian, expansionist, and cruel as Benito Mussolini. So what exactly is the difference?
Saddam Hussein was just as racist, nationalist, authoritarian, expansionist, and cruel as Benito Mussolini. So what exactly is the difference?
The devil is in the details… Fascism may have some overlaps with the Baathis party, mostly with their authoritarianism. But it’s pretty distinct from it considering Baathism revolves around pan Arabic unity and socialism.
You sound like a republican, circa 2003
Lol, and you sound like Neville Chamberlain circa 1930’s.
- Comment on asked and answered 3 weeks ago:
Lend lease was in full swing, and they were sanctioning the imperial Japanese.
Not really… Sanctions against Japan and Lend and lease were approved the same year we entered the war.
there was a glimmer of hope at the time that the problem could be resolved with political pressure.
I mean, that’s what both the Japanese and the Nazi were hoping for. That the rest of the world would settle for peace and allow them to keep their spoils.
Putting boots on the ground without trying anything else first is Bush doctrine level bullshit.
And when has appeasing fascist with political discourse ever worked? There’s a difference between standing up to literal fascist invading allies, and Bush’s “war on terror”, trying to conflate the two is pathetic.
- Comment on asked and answered 3 weeks ago:
The hyper imperialism kinda kicked off before ww2, it was kinda the reason we got involved in the first place.
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 4 weeks ago:
I work in orthopedics and rehabilitation…for the most part the majority of chiropractors are harmless. If the patient believes a chiropractor is helping manage their pain, I don’t really care about the efficacy of the practice. Plus, most chiropractors are risk adverse enough to know not to work on areas where hardware has been installed.
If we’re sticking to the format of items or activities that are a reason for a lot of our appointments… Ladders, motorcycles, bad drivers, trampolines, and electric scooters and diabetes are probably the top contenders.
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 4 weeks ago:
We had a local shop owner killed when airing up a tire with fix-a-flat.
How? Was he working on an industrial tire or something?
- Comment on 🤡 We've all been played for fools. 🤡 5 weeks ago:
One of the reasons my friend is in the position he’s in now is because he built a really good relationship with a couple people from the university of Tokyo when he was a grad student in Hawaii.
- Comment on project paperclip be like 5 weeks ago:
I mean, the Soviets didn’t offer them any guarantees. But I think that’s more of a byproduct of how they held leverage over the specialist, and more of a difference in how the two cultures choose to motivate employees.
Despite this, the affected specialists and their families were doing well compared to citizens of the Soviet Union and the Soviet Zone, apart from the suffering of deportation and isolation. The specialists earned more than their Soviet counterparts. The scientists, technicians and skilled workers were assigned to individual projects and working groups, primarily in the areas of Aeronautics and rocket technology, nuclear research, Chemistry and Optics. The stay was given for about five years.
- Comment on 🤡 We've all been played for fools. 🤡 5 weeks ago:
Yep, my buddy is finally on a tenure track at a really nice school and it’s the accumulation of like 15 years of stressful work that might have never really paid off.
You have to be good at getting published, attending conferences, creating conferences, building relationships with different universities and that’s just to keep up with the competition. I think what seals the deal is not only getting funding for yourself, but showing universities how employing you would actually be a sound investment.
- Comment on project paperclip be like 5 weeks ago:
The US is all about realpolitik
Not to excuse the US’s history of foreign diplomacy, but I think it would be naive to believe that there exists any major power who doesn’t treat geopolitics with the same level of pragmatism.
The Soviets hated the Nazi even more than the US did and yet they still had their own version of paperclip. Operation Osoaviakhim brought almost double the number of Nazi scientists into the Soviet Union.
- Comment on advertisement 5 weeks ago:
Goodish news… You wouldn’t be eating the poop. It’d be thrown in a blender until it reached an enema appropriate viscosity.
- Comment on Debatable 1 month ago:
Yeah, give me the “I want to see your manager” in the front and “I am the fire starter” in the back. Thanks.
- Comment on Help. 1 month ago:
I think that it’s more that we’ve commoditized all aspects of community, and at the same time have stopped offering any sense of financial opportunities to young people.
Social groups are now built around expensive hobbies or membership subscriptions. There aren’t even really any free spaces for people to organize around. Even the alt right groups preying on lonely people are usually just trying to sell supplements or merch.
- Comment on Popup Ads in Your Pickup Truck? RAM Trucks Now Feature Scammy Ads on the Center Display 1 month ago:
we just have a vague sense of familiarity with the product. We instinctively buy the more familiar, as the “safer” option. It takes conscious effort to overcome this (which most people don’t have to spare).
Sounds like a perfect pitch to sell more ads. Like I said, I would hesitate to actually trust any statistical analysis of the effectiveness of advertising done by the same people wanting to sell more ads.
In a capitalist economy there’s just not a real motivation for researching advertising unless you are a marketing agency. So the vast majority of information is intrinsically biased.
- Comment on Popup Ads in Your Pickup Truck? RAM Trucks Now Feature Scammy Ads on the Center Display 1 month ago:
The field that marketing companies truly excel at the most is advertising their own services. Researching the effectiveness of advertising is difficult because most of the information is presented by the marketing companies themselves. However, most scientific studies agree that advertising through environmental means is ineffective and sometimes can even be harmful to brands.
Marketing usually aims to take advantage of impulsive purchasing behaviour by inundating the potential purchasers environment with advertisement. However, this isn’t very effective, most people automatically filter these kinds of ads, or worse are actively annoyed by them. Effective advertising activates the buyers impulsive behavior by engaging with them emotionally, which is why ad space for podcasts and other types of para social relationships are more effective.
I’d say the vast majority of data scraped from personal devices are utilized as tools to market the idea of advertisement to vendors more than they are used to actually market products. Imo marketing is useless for most types of businesses, and is mostly a field of self perpetuating scam artist.
- Comment on Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329 million verdict 1 month ago:
I feel like calling it AutoPilot is already risking liability, Full Self Driving is just audacious. There’s a reason other companies with similar technology have gone with things like driving assistance. This has probably had lawyers at Tesla sweating bullets for years.
- Comment on Next BioShock Game Suffers From More Development Hell After Failing an Executive Review 1 month ago:
Yeah, especially with today’s political climate. If the other BioShock games came out today they would be labeled anti-american and woke.
- Comment on Researchers quietly planned a test to dim sunlight. They wanted to ‘avoid scaring’ the public. 1 month ago:
Rachel Pritzker, the fund’s founder and president
Of fucking course it’s funded by princess of the neolibs. Heiress billionaire and founder of Thirdway, a political lobbying group that supports the destruction of progressive politics in the democratic party. Why can’t the children of billionaires just enjoy their lives on a private island somewhere and leave us the fuck alone?
Is it too hard to ask these trust fund kids to just live in lavish obscurity? Why do they yearn for the guillotine?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Yeah… No. I’ve posted on that sub not knowing the community rules and had a mod thank me for my insight and then politely inform me of the rules.
You know what I did…? I apologized for not reading the rules before posting and then took my leave. It’s perfectly fine if you’re not a whiny little dweeb about it. People deserve private spaces, especially considering I don’t own or contribute to the cost of that server space.
- Comment on Steam Users Rally Behind Anti-Censorship Petition 1 month ago:
Np
- Comment on Steam Users Rally Behind Anti-Censorship Petition 1 month ago:
Because crypto isn’t really a currency as much as it is a volatile asset. Businesses require stability to run coherently, and utilizing something like crypto currency which could massively increase or decrease in value following a breaking news report isn’t something that large organizations can really tolerate.
- Comment on Where are all the successful "red cities"? 2 months ago:
There’s jobs. They’re safe. They have stuff to do. Some kind of reason.
Nah, it’s just more affordable than most of the major cities up north. As someone who’s lived in Dallas/Fort Worth, it’s definitely not the safest place I’ve lived. It’s ranked moderate/high in violent crimes on a national scale.
As far as Texas goes, San Antonio and Austin have a lot more to do than Dallas and especially Fort Worth. I wouldn’t really even say there’s a really competitive job market outside of oil and grass. Most of the people who recently moved to the area did so after work from home became normalized.
It’s really just because it’s a larger city that people can still afford to purchase a home in, and that’s about it.
- Comment on Don't forget America is committing the genocide too. 2 months ago:
Kinda a tale as old as time. We have a hard enough time laying blame on the primary actors in genocide that the nations who help facilitate it barely get written into the history books. Just look at the Armenian genocide, something that took generations for America to even officially acknowledge was committed. Yet Germany, the country that facilitated the genocide is hardly ever associated with it.
- Comment on The next time you hear someone say they're just vibing in life without a job, just look at this image. 2 months ago:
It’s so weird seeing people making poor interpretations of another ethnicity’s culture their entire identity. I wonder if there are weirdos in India rocking lederhosen or milkmaid outfits at random music festivals and ranting to strangers about Calvinism?
- Comment on Twitter founder Jack Dorsey pumps $10 million into a nonprofit to build Nostr-based social media apps 2 months ago:
Nah, you still end up paying state and local taxes. Income/revenue is different than profit.
Plus, being a non profit allows for people like Jack to utilize donations as tax deductions.