rottingleaf

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Benefits - ape gets a grenade. Risks - ape doesn't care about risks, because it throws the grenade far enough.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago

Oh no! We can't live without overengineered pieces of silicon made via processes more complex than anything in history, with enormous computing power being used to display our porn and cat pics. We need more performance! And we need even more complex CPUs.

Everyone is different. I could live with things from year 2005. Except they were expensive and not everyone had them. I would want people to have necessities and simple, sturdy, cheap, weak tech to fulfill their needs and nothing more. Not lack some things and have far too powerful tools for other things.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 22 hours ago

The shepherd and the dog might be in agreement.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Cockroaches using the government to make oppressive laws. I think I'm still ancap.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago

You are actually correct. Many things are hard to do only because you need to iron out the bugs first. So yes, if your government makes something resembling a concentration camp, you should start worrying, even if it is for 10 000 volunteers for a WWII-themed reality show (dunno who would make such a thing, but a free business idea if anyone wants it). Because once a solution is ready, it can be scaled up very fast.

Same with many governments in the world considered evil, but incompetent by their populations. They may become competent terrifyingly fast once they direct some resources to that end. There are too many examples around.

So, about Greenland. Technically Denmark is in EU and EU has a mutual defense clause just like NATO, Denmark is also in NATO. So in theory now would be a good time for all EU countries to reintroduce conscript service and start preparing for rapidly scaling their militaries up. By "rapidly" I mean "general mobilization". All that talk about "small efficient modern professional armies" negating the need for reserve and mobilization capacity is not new, it was a popular view even in Frederick the Great's time, and sometimes it's correct, and sometimes it's not. Now it's not. Ukrainian war shows this.

I'm not talking about them resisting USA demanding from them something, they can't resist USA, but I think most of what Trump says is bullshit. I'm talking about them eventually needing that capacity with the general tendency of everything becoming year 1600 again.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

You can't blame 2nd amendment types for being illogical and not delivering on their talk. After all, one can't force the government to do anything with what militia are allowed to legally possess. If they were more like National Guard in access to armaments - then there would probably be some pressure. But of what I've heard, in USA militia movement is mostly right-wing, racist, Confederate flag types.

I really dislike our time in this crystallization of despotism everywhere. For example, it's pretty clear that after this war (or after it stabilizes enough) the current Russian regime will not be overthrown. They may find a few scapegoats, their dear leader first of all, and remove them. But the general mechanic will not change.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You think wrong.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 day ago

No, just pointing out that there's difference between Russia's mischief level (similar to Saddam's level or frankly even US level in Iraq 2004) and the Nazi level (countries doing that are not being called mischievous by westerners, because their free uncensored media somehow magically by itself freely aligns with geopolitical policies of western governments).

And since the person I was answering is likely from a country allied with some of the latter, seems shameless for them to bring up Nuremberg.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

offtopic: It's interesting, when comparing century-old and today's German formal language, how sentences are now structured more similar to English. I don't know German (only a bit), just interested in languages. Due to sentence and text structure this picture is much more understandable than something, well, old enough.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 day ago

It’s YOUR country and we are talking about YOUR country and no one else. Don’t look at others. Do not normalize that.

I don't care what you are talking about. It's pretty normal that you think you have the moral high ground. It's also pretty normal that in fact you don't.

The rest of your comment is your imagination, having nothing to do with what I said.

I said that if, say, WWII didn't happen (something like Man in the High Castle, but moderate version), but some kind of Nuremberg trials did happen, with, say, Dolfuss and Mussolini and their crowd, but not Nazis as the accused, - that would be the correct analogy to Russia being accused in such a tribunal and half the US allies not.

That's truth whether you like it or not. And you are not on the side of any freedom or rules-based order too, you are on the side that bombed Gaza for a year, and the genocidal (for real and not like Russia) Turkish state, and Saudi Arabia, and Gulf Arab monarchies.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I'm not a native speaker and autistic in addition to that, but Google says yes.

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