Varyk
@Varyk@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on what sources can I use to compare the armed forces of the world? Focus on America, Europe, Russia, Turkey, Japan, both Koreas 2 days ago:
regardless of any amount of resources given to Ukraine, The length of time Russia has been militarily unable to successfully campaign against one of the weakest European countries was astonishing and extremely enlightening as to the state of their military readiness.
before Russia exposed itself, this sort of matchup very much seemed like if the US decided to invade El Salvador, made very little progress for 3 years, and then lost territory to El Salvador(assuming we bordered el Salvador).
it would seem absurd until all of the weaknesses and false pretenses of Russian military power were exposed.
now it turns out Europe had a paper tiger for 40 years that world leaders were wrongly extolling the military virtues and dangers of.
it’s not to say that Russia is harmless, because they’re willing to sacrifice millions of soldiers, but they simply do not pose the legacy world-power conquering danger that everybody assumed they did for over a generation.
and to belabor the point, they are failing against a single, relatively and especially at the time, unprepared and militarily weak country the Russia had literally signed a treaty not to invade.
- Comment on what sources can I use to compare the armed forces of the world? Focus on America, Europe, Russia, Turkey, Japan, both Koreas 2 days ago:
Europe is already ramping up spending, and several countries have had it explicitly clear that they will be taking up the burden trump is running away from.
it’s nice for then that Russia has more bodies, but it hasn’t helped them so far in any capacity that has been bandied about for the past three years.
i was making this same point three years ago, that on paper everyone was terrified of the Russian military until Russia showed themselves militarily incapable of planning for or executing a campaign against a happy smaller country with badly inferior numbers and equipment.
same point 2 years ago, then 1, same conclusion today.
the however many years it takes Russia to “win”(by this point they’ve lost no matter what in practical terms), the EU will be fully ready to defend itself.
the 1 week it was supposed to take Russia to conquer ukraine has turned into what, 160 weeks and counting?
without making significant progress?
in those three years, multiple EU powers have already changed their policies and now spend record numbers on defense and military equipment production, specifically to deal with Russia if they ever become a threat to the larger European continent.
Russia has used up 20% of their active military personnel and a lot of their equipment fighting one of the weakest European countries to barely a stalemate, even losing sovereign ground to Ukraine.
so it doesn’t really matter how long ukraine can resist Russia; Russia far overplayed its hand and doesn’t seem to have much of a chance of “conquering” any further by letting everyone know how weak Russia is militarily and giving everyone else years to prepare for any more bullshit Russia tries to pull
- Comment on Infinite power! 5 days ago:
I’ve done a beer fast for several days before, pretty good stuff.
- Comment on Sooo, where did the blatant Nazism suddenly come from? 1 week ago:
it’s that first thing you said.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 1 week ago:
“China is catching up, but still behind in defense and aerospace technology”
this is a fiction, according to US defense officials, but if we pretended it was true, it doesn’t change the original point, that the US is falling behind in most technological fields.
you’ll notice that I didn’t mention aerospace in my original top of the dome list.
it looks like you’re agreeing with all my other points though, so I don’t have much else to say except that the important fiction to point out is this:
“other countries are catching up steadily overall and are ahead in some areas, especially China.”
10 years ago? you could argue that other countries were playing catch up in most technological Fields.
now?
The US is behind in nearly every technological field and especially now is uninterested in catching up to the rest of the world.
The US population cannot afford to live and is critically undereducated, and are about to have four more years of withheld R&D funding.
That’s the reality on the ground now.
any “we’re not doing so bad” mentality simply is not correct anymore, and it’s important to recognize the reason behind and the rate at which the US is failing to advance in critical fields.
You’re not going to be able to swerve back onto the road by pretending the guardrails you’re grinding against aren’t there.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 1 week ago:
you first claimed that the US is still leading in most technological fields.
this is false, as I pointed out in my previous comment.
your new tack is the US “is still doing very good, though”
this is also incorrect.
“aerospace”:
a private company innovated aerospace technology despite the US government’s reluctance to invest in aerospace technology.
China has been investing in space, and are planning to build space stations and moon bases, and have been having regular launches.
“defense”: We are not ahead of the game anymore. US dod officials have been very clearly saying for Over a decade that the US might already be behind China in key areas of defense, AI weapons systems among those, despite spending 4 to 10 times as much on their defense budget.
“All the biggest and leading companies in that area are still based in the US.”
biggest? okay.
leading? in what world is Microsoft a leading technological innovator?
they cannot even compete with a free operating system despite decades of a head start and hundreds of billions more capital.
Apple? they haven’t been innovative in 15 years, depend on slave labor, and their newest phones aren’t even playing catch up with East Asian phones anymore, hardware or software.
“You’re also missing biotechnology…”
I wasn’t listing literally every field the US was failing in, I was refuting your false notion that the US was still leading in most technological fields.
“The possibly most disruptive technology AI is also firmly in the hands of the USA.”
not according to AI researchers, AI CEOs, computer scientists, and the US DOD.
and again, any prowess US companies had in AI was due to the mass exploitation of workers abroad.
“The amount of money spent on R&D is still huge in the USA”
it sure isn’t now, grants and federal funding have been cut by more than half since dumps took office.
“it attracts top minds from across the globe.”
this was true 20 years ago.
My point is that it is not true today, any more than it is true for any other country.
The US is not leading in most, if any, technological fields, it’s not leading in manufacturing, it’s not leading in most sciences, and it has one of the most awful education systems in the world, not to mention the living affordability crisis going on.
If people can’t afford groceries or a simple apartment to live in, let alone education, none of which they can afford in the US anymore, and have not been able to for the last generation, innovation falls by the wayside.
as it has been for a long time.
and now, US “dominance” will continue to freefall for at least the next 4 years.
you can’t do science without funding and support, and dumps has taken that funding away, and importantly does not believe in science or the benefits of research and development.
The US population has not been invested in, and your industries are suffering for that.
meanwhile, other countries are investing record amounts and setting technological records in innovative technologies like solar that the US has no hope of catching up to in the near future.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 1 week ago:
The US does not have a dominant position in:
microchips.
batteries.
solar.
material science.
fusion.
energy.
automotive.
displays.
The list goes on.
If you still think the USA is leading in tech, you are sorely misinformed about the state of the technological world(to be fair, it Is startling how rapidly the US has fallen out of grace in many of these technological fields).
The US is either barely clinging to previous legacies of prowess in tech fields to match other countries or falling behind rapidly, and without innovative latitude, federal grants or funding for research, they’re falling behind even further.
the US does not have the technological edge it once did; scientists, the department of defense, everybody in the know agrees and have been making public statements about how quickly the US is falling behind in critical scientific and technological fields.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 1 week ago:
The silver lining here is that with now 8 years of abolishing civil/workers rights, technology and social development being suppressed and Americans falling so objectively behind in most measurable fields, hopefully Americans can get over their blatantly false sense of exceptionalism and become comfortable just being another part of the world.
- Comment on I feel my life is empty. Is there any way to stop this? 2 weeks ago:
China and Saudi Arabia still pay 3 to 6K US a month, and it’s even easier to get a teaching job in those countries than japan.
I agree, he should get out there.
- Comment on How do you express romantic interest in someone? 2 weeks ago:
hey, the commenter Snowstorm Is the only comment I see here that is accurate. following those steps is the best way to show romantic interest in someone.
- Comment on I feel my life is empty. Is there any way to stop this? 2 weeks ago:
traveling to Asia is like 300 bucks, and hostels are $4 a day. food is a dollar a dish, and you can hang out in parks at the beach or at home and watch movies all day.
living abroad is much cheaper than what you’re paying now.
you said you save most of your paycheck.
If you have a few thousand saved, you can easily live abroad for a year and figure out something you like to do more than a job that sucks around a bunch of people that you don’t like in a situation that’s making you depressed.
- Comment on YSK that scientifically and zoologically, there's no such thing as alpha males, and a human "alpha male" personality is a transgender identity/gender performance 2 weeks ago:
fingers twirled.
- Comment on YSK that scientifically and zoologically, there's no such thing as alpha males, and a human "alpha male" personality is a transgender identity/gender performance 2 weeks ago:
haha, yeah that pretty much covers it.
- Comment on YSK that scientifically and zoologically, there's no such thing as alpha males, and a human "alpha male" personality is a transgender identity/gender performance 2 weeks ago:
nope, that’s incorrect.
you asked if Andrew Tate is a “transright activist”
I explained exactly how he is not a trans rights activist, since he seeks to abolish rights for the trans community rather than establish and expand trans community rights.
you are now asking if Andrew Tate is an activist for specifically alpha males, his chosen gender identity.
that is correct, he is an alpha male zealot.
- Comment on YSK that scientifically and zoologically, there's no such thing as alpha males, and a human "alpha male" personality is a transgender identity/gender performance 2 weeks ago:
2,000 meters, yea. why?
- Comment on YSK that scientifically and zoologically, there's no such thing as alpha males, and a human "alpha male" personality is a transgender identity/gender performance 2 weeks ago:
I know that.
those cis men are declaring their new gender identity.
as is their right.
- Comment on YSK that scientifically and zoologically, there's no such thing as alpha males, and a human "alpha male" personality is a transgender identity/gender performance 2 weeks ago:
no, your correlation is free association rather than logic, but in the way that Mengela was by definition a progressive scientist, I can see how you came to that idea.
Tate isn’t a trans activist because trans rights activists work to expand the rights of the trans community, while Andrew Tate is focused on consolidating power and removing rights from the trans community.
- Comment on YSK that scientifically and zoologically, there's no such thing as alpha males, and a human "alpha male" personality is a transgender identity/gender performance 2 weeks ago:
some humans declare a new gender identity for themselves: “alpha”, and perform their new gender identity.
“alpha males” are transgender.
- Comment on YSK that scientifically and zoologically, there's no such thing as alpha males, and a human "alpha male" personality is a transgender identity/gender performance 2 weeks ago:
tomato tomato
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- Comment on Why was there a pro-Hitler, Holocaust-denying ad on X? 2 weeks ago:
I read the article.
and I get that we were all taught to ask questions for the titles on our high school essays, but asking why pro-hitler content is promoted by a company whose CEO literally publicly performed a Nazi salute is dumb.
- Comment on Onboarding experience needs to be simpler for mass adoption 2 weeks ago:
eh.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
They aren’t!
Two things:
1: Americans are not actually very litigious relative to other countries, what you’re referring to is a culture projected by corporate interests violating the rights of individual Americans, interests invested in telling American citizens that they are too litigious, resulting in citizens who will therefore abstain from legally defending their rights when those rights are violated.
2: legal advertising became legal less than 50 years ago in the United States, because it’s obviously unethical and societally harmful. at this point, legal advertising is basically unregulated in the US.
Because The US allows legal commercials and advertisements on billboards and very importantly, American culture is the salient exported culture globally, lawsuits seem wider spread in the US and US culture than they actually are.
- Comment on this year has been pretty fun so far 3 weeks ago:
those are real? Kanye explicitly said he’s a Nazi and he turned down make a wish kids?
I’ve never used Twitter and don’t know enough to tell the real tweet from a not real tweet.
- Comment on US claims free passage through Panama Canal 3 weeks ago:
“eggs are also now free as you can simply walk out the store without paying, saving you dozens of dollars per week!”
- Comment on Tough question 3 weeks ago:
100% an astrology daughter. like a third of everybody believe in astrology anyway, so she’ll receive plenty of support from her peers.
nft son is just going to… I mean, that doesn’t end well.
- Comment on Admin assistance needed 3 weeks ago:
thanks, op mistyped the name and when I clicked it the user couldn’t be found, my bad.
- Comment on Admin assistance needed 3 weeks ago:
thanks, op mistyped the name and when I clicked it the user couldn’t be found, my bad.
- Comment on How can a US citizen invest outside the reach of the federal government? 3 weeks ago:
oh yeah, that’ll do it.
it’s funny, there’s actually a built-in option in the form for filing the fbar late because you didn’t know about it, I assume because late filings happen so often.
- Comment on How can a US citizen invest outside the reach of the federal government? 3 weeks ago:
sure, i can clarify those for you up here as well.
the max excluded income is variable, so this year it’ll be $126,500. the cap is regulated by the irs and goes up each year.
the FEIE(foreign earned income exclusion) form is form 2555, which you fill out with your regular taxes. it’s a very simple couple of pages that you fill in the blanks with the dates you were out of the country and your total earned income for the year, usually takes me fifteen minutes.
the declaration of foreign investment you mentioned is called the FBAR, an online form that takes less than a minute to fill out If you have more than 10,000 invested overseas.
If you have more than 10,000 USD invested overseas, you have to annually declare how much and which financial institutions your savings are in via the FBAR.
as long as you take the 10 to 15 minutes to fill out the FEIE, you won’t have any problems with the IRS excluding earned income.