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- Comment on "Oh wow a kryptonite radiation machine, I volunteer Superman to go inside! Doesn't feel so good does it?" 2 days ago:
The current gold market is valued at 34.243 trillion dollars.
I don’t know the scope of the damage here but lets assume it costs 50 billion to repair. That would be about 353 tons (US) of gold using current prices. The coat of this represents approximately 0.14% of the current global gold market.
- Comment on Too late 2 days ago:
If time travel is ever invented I’d love to give a plaeolithic hunter gatherer a crunch wrap
- Comment on Student Parking 2 days ago:
My university was kind enough to offer a free lot on the far side of campus. They even had the bus go there.
They would also regularly send parking enforcement to find cars “hiding” off main campus that had delinquent fines. They would then boot the students car removing their access to transportation.
Pretty cruel since this was deep in the south and there was no functioning transit off-campus
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 4 days ago:
Which is why I’ve dropped it myself. Not worth the price.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
If anything this post is more so upset that now its wealthy nations that have to deal with violated international law.
Poor nations have basically constantly had offense committed against them by wealthy nations regardless of international law
- Comment on Yummy yummy, in my tummy 6 days ago:
I had the same thought but he gets so very excited when we pull out the tube.
- Comment on Yummy yummy, in my tummy 6 days ago:
To be clear this is not just straight petroleum jelly it’s formatted for cats, but the tube days 98% petroleum jelly with maple flavor
- Comment on Yummy yummy, in my tummy 6 days ago:
We feed out cat a little petroleum jelly to get his insides lubricated. This was prescribed by a vet after he was very constipated. That was an expensive vet visit
- Comment on Tips 1 week ago:
Legitimately, keep having to set the heat lower and lower
- Comment on Tips 1 week ago:
Yes this is true, but in a world where people.are struggling more and more to buy basic necessities like groceries and pay their bills it’s a bit tone deaf.
Yes some people overspend frivolously, but many are just broke after inflation and tariffs
- Comment on The consequences of not building enough housing 1 week ago:
Oh yeah we certainly have that many homes ready to be occupied tomorrow
- Comment on The consequences of not building enough housing 1 week ago:
You know I see this figure a lot, but I wonder how many of these are actually liveable.
My grandfather’s old home is unoccupied, that’s because the roof entirely collapsed. The county refuses to remove it from the property taxes. Based on all available records it’s an unoccupied home, but it’s a total loss in reality.
- Comment on The Minnesota National Guard is attempting to recruit high school kids by insinuating their parents might be deported if they don't sign up 1 week ago:
I once had a recruiter try to recruiter me while I was in the job as a cashier. Just checking out his stuff and he just says “do you like working here”.
I said “yeah it’s fine”. Then he began questioning me on if i thought this was a good career path or where I wanted to go in life etc. I told him I was in college. Then this man’s eyes just lit up and he thought he had me. He said “and who’s paying for that?”
He was so very disappointed when I told him the government was paying for it. I explained I recieved a decent Pell grant that covered all my school costs. He looked immediately defeated. The second he knew I want struggling for money or deep in debt he knew he didn’t have a chance and gave up.
Pretty disturbing how excited he got when he thought I was in crippling debt. I guess they’re trained to exploit desperation. I’m also still annoyed he did this to me on the job where I couldn’t tell him to leave me the hell alone
- Comment on Danish Forces Are Mandated to Fire Back if U.S. Attacks Greenland 1 week ago:
This would be a much better argument if Russia only occupied eastern areas that expressed wanting to join Russia. Although even then there is some strong evidence that Russia planted that movement, but I’m willing to ignore that for now.
That as an argument falls apart pretty quickly when you remember they made a blitz attack for Kiev on the first day into areas not expressing a desire to separate.
Your analogy of the American revolution fits well with this. 13 British colonies had decided to succeed from Britain. France did not attack London nor did it send troops to the other British colonies in the Americas. It sent support to the ones that asked for it and nothing more.
But let’s not pretend the French did it for the American colonies. They did it to weaken Britain. Not for the people of those areas, but specifically for their own geopolitical goals.
But also let’s get back on topic. This argument agrees with me anyway. I said the USA did not start this war, and you are saying it was started by local separatists. Which back to the Revolutionary war comparison that’s spot on again
- Comment on Danish Forces Are Mandated to Fire Back if U.S. Attacks Greenland 1 week ago:
Doubling down is even less productive.
At this point I’m just going to assume you are struggling with forming a defensible position that doesn’t make you pro-war. So you’ve decided to throw the board entirely
- Comment on Danish Forces Are Mandated to Fire Back if U.S. Attacks Greenland 1 week ago:
Wow so productive
- Comment on Danish Forces Are Mandated to Fire Back if U.S. Attacks Greenland 1 week ago:
If we are going back to the main point then, being involved is not starting the war. Russia started the war when it crossed the border. All these “geopolitical games” amount to is Russia believing that Ukraine should not be an autonomous state. It disliked the country’s move to the west and invaded.
Of course there are always influences and pulls between nations. Those factors may influence the decision to start a war, but the war is started when the aggressor attacks.
- Comment on Danish Forces Are Mandated to Fire Back if U.S. Attacks Greenland 1 week ago:
Yeah that didn’t clear anything up, but let’s just keep hurling insults around.
- Comment on Danish Forces Are Mandated to Fire Back if U.S. Attacks Greenland 1 week ago:
Taiwan invading mainland China is a fantasy, and something that the majority of the population doesn’t want.
Personally I prefer where countries don’t invade each other. Let Tawain have their country as it is and let China have their country as is.
As of today only one of those two countries currently has the policy goal to annex the other.
- Comment on ‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid 1 week ago:
If you did and held for say 30-40 years you would have an amazing return on investment.
Funny how a government can fail, but the corporations keep going
- Comment on groceries 1 week ago:
1 healthy grocery please
- Comment on Danish Forces Are Mandated to Fire Back if U.S. Attacks Greenland 1 week ago:
Not a single word was put in your mouth. Your arguement was taken to its conclusion
You fail to link “us meddling” to justification for a war. Or more accurately an invasion of a sovereign nation.
- Comment on Danish Forces Are Mandated to Fire Back if U.S. Attacks Greenland 1 week ago:
Your argument is Russia must invade Ukraine because Ukraine would join an organization to protect them from Russia. This is the fault of the US.
That’s a nonsensical take so you get a nonsensical response
- Comment on Danish Forces Are Mandated to Fire Back if U.S. Attacks Greenland 1 week ago:
Shit if we’re going to make that much of a stretch I blame the Summerians for starting this whole city thing.
- Comment on Danish Forces Are Mandated to Fire Back if U.S. Attacks Greenland 1 week ago:
Yes and the comment you replied to was talking about starting a conflict.
- Comment on Danish Forces Are Mandated to Fire Back if U.S. Attacks Greenland 1 week ago:
I’d say it’s unfair to say the US started the conflict in Ukraine.
Israel however…
- Comment on Danish Forces Are Mandated to Fire Back if U.S. Attacks Greenland 1 week ago:
China has been eyeing Tawain for a while too
- Comment on Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public 1 week ago:
If they are advertising on Digg may work.
I’d like to see this place just a bit better
- Comment on What a great idea 1 week ago:
Gas pumps no, grabbing a bag of chips from the gas station yes.
Sit down restaurants no, fast food restaurant yes*
*unless he only does drive thru
- Comment on What a great idea 1 week ago:
Depends on the region. I only know a handful of stores in my town that offer it. It’s not uncommon for the lanes to be closed.
Reliably the largest grocery stores on the edge of town have them and they are always open. In town, near the train station, or in the surrounding villages not so much