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- Comment on Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts? 6 days ago:
It’s not important that you believe in ghosts. It’s only important that they believe in themselves.
- Comment on The United States Is Dangerously Misreading Iran 1 week ago:
No. For gawd sakes. They ain’t talking to God, y’all.
They are looking at what Putin and the Russian oligarchs have, and looking at what the Saudis and the Oil Oligarchs have, and saying “I want that!”
- Comment on The United States Is Dangerously Misreading Iran 1 week ago:
Oh please. I wouldn’t believe this administration cumulatively attended 10 regular Sunday church services in the past 20 years.
- Comment on The United States Is Dangerously Misreading Iran 1 week ago:
Oh, I’m sure we bombed the snot out of not-iran during the exercise. But the lesson is that technology advantage doesn’t win wars. (Didn’t win Vietnam, Iraq or Afghanistan either. Also didn’t help Russia win Ukraine or Afghanistan.)
- Comment on The United States Is Dangerously Misreading Iran 1 week ago:
In the 2000s, the American military held a massive joint exercise on the invasion of a mountainous middle eastern nation. (It was obviously Iran without saying Iran.) The exercise was supposed to be a demonstration of America’s military to show Iran that America really would wipe them out if a war ever happened, which looked inevitable at the time.
A very talented US General was chosen to lead the not-Iran side. He was given the resources that Iran was believed to have at the time. And through a series of very expertly timed and choreographed attacks he won. He crushed the US Navy. The whole exercise was a massive embarrassment for the military. The big media announcements were obviously all cancelled.
Granted, the General that was put in charge of not-Iran was extremely brilliant and had very detailed knowledge and experience of US capabilities and how to exploit vulnerabilities. But it’s still studied in the military schools as a case study in not underestimating your enemy.
- Comment on The Spread of Homo sapiens 1 week ago:
I personally think your third possibility is the least likely. I just find it unimaginable that there would not have been any cultural exchange at all of the two peoples knew about each other.
I can imagine human beings, even extremely capable ones, just missing things. In fact that happened a lot. There were many European cultures that had the technical capability to sail to the Americans for thousands of years before they did it. And there were clothes in the Americas that had the capability to go the other way, but they didn’t.
As someone else pointed out, there is a similar story for Madagascar. There were plenty of cultures that could have discovered it for centuries that just didn’t. Similar stories with countless other islands.
Honestly, I think it’s more surprising that the indigenous Australian peoples discovered the continent when they did. They were the only animals to make the jump across the straight.
- Comment on The Spread of Homo sapiens 1 week ago:
I don’t know. There is linguistic, archeological and genetic evidence that the Polynesians traded with the South Americans, but I don’t think there is nearly as robust evidence for Australia.
Current evidence as I understand it is really just as that map depicts it. That they went straight from Indonesia to New Zealand, and just missed Australia.
- Comment on The Spread of Homo sapiens 1 week ago:
I think it’s such a funny quark of history that the Polynesians, despite their incredible sea exploration abilities, just apparently completely missed Australia.
- Comment on If the next pres. is a Democrat and wants to roll back all of Trumps bullshit. How can they do that quickly and efficiently? 2 weeks ago:
One executive order. It could literally be one sentence long.
With the exception of the spending bill, everything that’s been done by this administration has been done by executive order. The real problem is that the administration ran off all the skilled and knowledgeable workers.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
That… Is some fucked up shit.
- Comment on This past week, Lemmy has gotten really good 2 weeks ago:
They were so… Innocent.
Like, everyone trusted everyone. Like, sure perfect stranger online, I don’t mind telling you my real name, home address, and age. What’s the harm?
- Comment on This past week, Lemmy has gotten really good 2 weeks ago:
I jump between social networks every few years. My social network path has gone from AOL chat groups, to Yahoo News groups, to Facebook for a few years, to Twitter, to Mastodon, to Reddit.
Last week I decided to test Lemmy out. Best thing I can say about it is that it’s not any worse than all the others. Which is a pretty good compliment really, considering the resources and network advantages that all the others have.
- Comment on Dutch Defence Secretary Boldly Claims F-35 Software Could Be 'Jailbroken' 2 weeks ago:
NATO is one of those instances where I generally agree with Trump on the issue at hand, and then strongly disagree with him on the solutions to the issue.
Like going back to his first administration, I actually agreed with Trump that NATO is a bad deal for America, and also even a bag deal for the other NATO nations. But the solution back then should have been a slow 10-15 year dissolution of NATO. Give Europe time to reorganize themselves, and then end the cold war era alliance. If we has started that process in 2016, Europe would be ten years further along in their own self reliance.
(Where Trump got everything wrong was that instead of actually developing a realistic plan for the dissolution of NATO, he just used the threat of America immediately pulling out to extort our friends.)
- Comment on Dutch Defence Secretary Boldly Claims F-35 Software Could Be 'Jailbroken' 2 weeks ago:
Europe would be better off just developing their own weapons systems rather than trying to hack a 35.
- Comment on Dutch Defence Secretary Boldly Claims F-35 Software Could Be 'Jailbroken' 2 weeks ago:
Any computer can be jailbroken if you have complete access to it.
The question is more, “do you really want to fly a hacked jet”?
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- Comment on Ruining my life 2 weeks ago:
Things that didn’t happen.
- Comment on Do you ever feel guilty for trying to sign up for government assistance programs? 2 weeks ago:
Do you feel guilty when you are paid for your work?
No. You are an employee and you work and you are entitled to payment for your work.
Same guess for government assistance. You are a citizen and you are entitled to that assistance. It’s literally no different. Our democracy set that assistance aside for you. It’s yours, and until Congress changes the rules, you are entitled to it.
- Comment on What's going on with Olympic skiers and penises? 3 weeks ago:
Aerodynamics are obviously very important in the sport, but I doubt it’s that extreme.
- Comment on What's going on with Olympic skiers and penises? 3 weeks ago:
What’s going on is that in the Olympics the difference between Gold and nothing can literally be centimeters.
If there is something an athlete in the Olympics can do to give themselves another 3 centimeters they will do it.
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