ChickenOverlord
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ChickenOverlord
3mo ago
Eh, the only other places that allow for open discussion of topics like these are places like the chans and Kiwi Farms. And as much as I enjoy wallowing in the mud with other anonson 4chan, and as much as I sometimes get annoyed by the overly intellectual approach of rationalists and others on here (that often can't see the forest for the trees), there's really nowhere else to go on the internet for interesting discussions like this.
ChickenOverlord
3mo ago
Presumably to bleed Russia of manpower and materiel. Ukraine definitely isn't winning the war right now, but Russia's eventual victory (barring some sort of black swan event like an internal coup or civil war etc.) will definitely be a Phyrric one. Russia will likely become a client state of the Chinese (see China already bending Russia over on petroleum deals), the embarrassing performance of a lot of their systems (like the S-400) will cause tons of nation states to turn to other suppliers for arms. The widespread incompetence seen in the Russian military is unlikely to lead to significant or lasting reforms.
In the end Russia will likely secure a peace deal that gives them Crimea officially (along with a land bridge connecting it, basically the territory that Russia currently controls). But at tremendous cost to their capabilities and their place in the world order.
For me any ideas I had of Russia being able to go head to head against NATO were obviously wrong after the failed Kiev offensive at the start of the invasion. Russia clearly can't into logistics when they don't have uncontested railways within 50 km of where they're operating. Logistics is what wins wars, and has ever since the advent of modern weapons/air power/etc. have made armies unable to support themselves solely on raping and pillaging the countryside. See America's barge dedicated to making ice cream for troops in the Pacific vs. Japan not even having enough fuel for their remaining fleet by the end of WW2 (and the US also had several more ice cream barges serving the European theater).
ChickenOverlord
3mo ago
If you actually care about printing (and comfort!) I'd recommend the Sig P365. Best balance between size and ammo capacity. I appendix carry and the only time it gets uncomfortable is when I bend down.
ChickenOverlord
3mo ago
More brute force, fewer mind games
ChickenOverlord
3mo ago
I thought only ~.5% of the world was estimated to be descendants of Genghis? Which is still a massive amount, but nowhere close to high enough for your argument.
ChickenOverlord
3mo ago
Hey since you're a mod, can we get a rule banning "I asked ChatGPT about this" type posts? I don't guve a damn what some Chinese Room statistical regression engine "thinks" and I could ask it myself if I did.
ChickenOverlord
3mo ago
But she's definitely bottom-of-the-barrel for SCOTUS, maybe even for the Circuits.
Eh she seems to at least be marginally smarter than Sotomayor. Sotomayor consistently has the most braindead opinions of the entire court.
ChickenOverlord
3mo ago
Even if Islamic states are eventually established in Europe, they will still allow LGBTQ for non-Muslims so long as they pay the Jizya.
Muslim states only allow Dhimmitude for Christians and Jews, and the LGBTQ crowd are definitely not (practicing) either.
ChickenOverlord
3mo ago
Though to be fair a good chunk of those fled to Hong Kong, Taiwan, immigrated to the US, etc. Anecdotally I have a friend of Chinese descent whose grandfather was a banker (and a personal friend of Chiang Kai-shek). He supposedly escaped on a fishing boat to Hong Kong under a pile of dead fish.
ChickenOverlord
3mo ago
And with the exception of a few institutions like Notre Dame, I can't imagine a scenario where a person applies to various institutions and the least expensive or most prestigious option, or even the option with the best cost-to-benefit ratio, is a religious college.
BYU is both highly ranked and quite affordable
ChickenOverlord
3mo ago
Dodging hard questions was my biggest issue with Hlynka so I'd like to see some sort of expectation in that regard.
ChickenOverlord
3mo ago
Hence it being a coup complete problem
ChickenOverlord
3mo ago
"Not all forms of being attracted to minors are pedophilia. If you like preteens it's called hebephilia. If you like teens it's called ephebephilia. The reason you don't hear people make this sort of distinction very often is because it kinda makes you sound like a pedophile." - Some comedian paraphrased.
Personally I'm in the "why do you call your pedophile chipper a wood chipper?" camp on the matter (at least for a case involving a 12-year-old), but even for an older teen (and even one actively sneaking out to hook up with older men) I think we need to bring back shotgun weddings. Unfortunately that's a bit of a coup complete problem and requires some major societal shifts back to enforcing social norms by both shame and force.
ChickenOverlord
3mo ago
Truthfully that is what radicalized her
I think that's going to happen for a lot of people. For every video of a cop being a corrupt and/or murderous asshole there are hundreds of common criminals being the absolute scum of the earth that absolutely deserved to be shot on sight. Near universal bodycam adoption by American police will basically only increase sympathy for cops.
ChickenOverlord
3mo ago
Thanks for the recommendations!
I watch a shit-ton of bodycam videos.
I have to say, the flood of bodycam footage is one of the only things we can thank the Martyrdom of Saint Floyd for. I just wish videos from places other than FL, WI, and WA were more common, I'm guessing it has to do with public records laws in each state.
ChickenOverlord
3mo ago
We mostly watch Donut Operator, Code Blue Cam, Midwest Safety, and some guy called MrBroken. Got any other channel recommendations?
ChickenOverlord
3mo ago
My wife and I watch police bodycam videos for entertainment pretty regularly, and one thing we've noticed is the use of the word "weird" as an insult. I've seen it 5 or 6 times in bodycam videos within the last two months, and in pretty much every instance it's being said by a black woman towards the white cops that are arresting her. In some cases the implication has been something along the lines of "It's so weird that you would care about [obvious illegal shit I was doing] enough to arrest me" but generally it's just used as an insult, and usually accompanied by a reference to the cop being white as well.
ChickenOverlord
3mo ago
My default assumption is if the means and motive to abuse something exist, someone (government or otherwise) will attempt to abuse it (and usually succeed).
ChickenOverlord
3mo ago
"Safe, legal, and rare" has been an intellectually dishonest (or at least lazy) opinion to hold for several decades now. There are over a million abortions every year in the US, vs. ~3.5 childbirths annually, it's anything but "rare."
ChickenOverlord
3mo ago
Same number of syllables
Uhhh, how do you pronounce 100?
ChickenOverlord
3mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Games
Looks like it
ChickenOverlord
3mo ago
While breathing via a SCUBA apparatus
ChickenOverlord
3mo ago
The X-Games are basically that (but with an alternative rock extreme sport sort of vibe)
ChickenOverlord
3mo ago
I knew Tolkien was a linguist and did a lot of work with Old and Middle English, but for some reason it's only just now that I realized all of the names/words used by Rohan (i.e. Eorlingas) are just thinly veiled Old English.
I imagine it looks more suspicious in an audit to have records (phone, email, etc.) that you performed a job but never got paid for it vs. getting paid (but only recording a fraction of what you were actually paid).
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